Age limit, was: I Saw PoA! (Sirius' accent)

[Pernille]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Sara_ELL" <sara1412au at y...> 
wrote:
> Goodness! Children (to use an old cliche) seem to be much more 
> sophisticated in this day and age to be blase about POA. I haven't 
> had the time (or energy)to go through the 1000+ posts that were 
made 
> here last month shortly after POA opened however I'm surprised that 
> not many seemed to think that the film was inappropirate for kids. 
> In my time (the 1970s, mind) thanks to an extremely overactive 
> imagination, I used to imagine ghosts and evil spirits around every 
> corner. I wasn't able to sit through "Raiders of the Lost Ark" with 
> my eyes open for the whole film until I was at least 13 and I would 
> certainly not have been able to watch POA at the age of 10 (though 
> I'm heartened to see the contingencies (flashlights, and the 
> ubiquitous chocolate) taken by some to help their kids out). A bit 
> off-topic but after pestering my parents to take me to see "Jaws" 
at 
> the age of 8, their brilliant strategy was to go to the latest 
> session with the delusion that I'd fall asleep and not see the 
film -
> it was spectacularly unsuccessful, though arguably "Jaws" was 
> certainly not an appropriate film for an 8 year old.

You are making a good point. I guess I didn't really think about it. 
Here in Norway the age limit to see PoA is 11. There was loads of 
talk about raising it even higher, but the next limit is 15, and I 
don't think the Cinema in Norway was willing to loose that many 
viewers in that age group. In my mind, if you can read the book, you 
can see the movie. I think people should give kids some credit. Most 
kids can determine if the movie is too scary or not. I remember when 
I was about, I don't know 12-13 years old, I rented a scary movie 
with an 18 years limit. I learnt my lesson. It wasn't a very good 
movie, but none the less I didn't do it again until I was about 15 I 
think.

Just some thoughts on the matter
Pernille