Oh, bullshit.
Its easy to become desensitised to special-effects gore. It's also easy to differentiate between real violence and SFX. It takes a serious amount of budget and skill to make on-screen ultra-violence seem even remotely realistic. If an onscreen special-effect causes you to need counselling in this day and age, then you're a fucking infant.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:49, Reply)
Remember, these are the same people who gave the first Spider-Man movie a 12 rating, meaning that kids couldn't watch a movie that was clearly aimed at kids. I was working as a cinema usher at the time; my job became "bouncer" as a result of that absurd ruling. The 12 rating was given because of the big fight at the end, in which Spidey gets battered a bit and some blood is shown. Oh, noes! Who will think of the childrens!
This would have been at least faintly supportable, had there not been a Star Wars movie showing at the same time in which people got their fucking arms cut off, and died through stab-wounds and being FUCKING CUT IN HALF . . . and yet the Phantom Menace was given a PG rating. The so-called "rules" were insupportable bullshit.
I personally complained to the BBFC, because I was fed up with having to physically defend my female, teenaged co-workers from actual violence by parents who thought that it was their decision to smuggle their toddlers into the film, laws be damned, and would turn nasty - i.e., physically violent - whenever we pointed out that precious little Alfie (they're always called Alfie) was barely twelve inches tall, let alone twelve years old.
People have a bizarre notion that cinemas should bend to their will, and that they are completely in charge once they've bought their tickets, regardless of the law.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 1:33, Reply)
Did you think about turning a blind eye?
If you don't agree with the rating system, then don't blindly uphold it's rulings
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 3:01, Reply)
To be fair, it's not just about gore and violence
And watching a film about people being forced to shit into each others mouths wouldn't be a pleasant experience, regardless of how easily you can 'differentiate between real violence and SFX.' If you can't grasp that, then you're worse than a fucking infant (not really, I just felt it appropriate to respond in kind)
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 2:59, Reply)