Comments on: Joining the ‘endless parade of crazed right-wing culture critics…’

By: Kit

Kit — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:54:44 +0000

Do I believe that Warner Bros. was marketing WATCHMEN to kids?
Yes.

Am I shocked or surprised?
No.

By: Gilbert Eaton

Gilbert Eaton — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:54:11 +0000

i looove this song!! it definitly stands out!! i LOVE JB!!

By: Aleric

Aleric — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:44:00 +0000

"At any rate, Schussel is correct, this movie is not for kids and is aimed directly at them in marketing."

You are incorrect in that sentence. This movie was never and has never been aimed at children. I would think the "R" rating would prove that the film makers planned on selling this movie to ADULTS. Currently the legal age to enter an "R" rated movie is 17 so if they are getting in to view it thenthat is the fault of the movie theaters. I bought the Watchmen comic when it came out in the 80's and my current age is 42, most kids today didn't even know what the title was about.

By: Kick the Anthill » Who Blogs The Watchmen?

Kick the Anthill » Who Blogs The Watchmen? — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:21:14 +0000

[...] the time, I thought she was wrong. Until I read John Nolte’s column on the Big Hollywood [...]

By: Synova

Synova — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:42:03 +0000

I don't think you understand babies. Mine tended to sleep if it was loud, particularly when they were very young. (It was the quiet of a nap being interrupted by noise that woke them.) Getting a sitter for a newborn is difficult even when you've got money, and if the mother is nursing there probably isn't a time window big enough to do *anything*. And if you think a mother of an infant has no cause to NEED to get out of the house then you're just a hater. Seriously, maliciously, a premeditated hater.

Toddlers are different. Older babies are different. But neither older babies nor toddlers are going to be traumatized by a movie, crowds, or any of that, though they will probably not want to sit still long enough and will be disruptive.

At about age 2 and 3 they're going to start noticing the movie and at that time they will not sit for a movie and they are likely, from then until quite a bit older, to become traumatized even by rated G flicks because of the noise and the hugeness of the screen.

By: maatkare

maatkare — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:14:18 +0000

People have done this FOREVER, MovieBob. When I worked in a theater in high school, I often picked up (dirty) diapers when we cleaned up the theater after the show. I remember seeing toddlers taken into Terminator. A few years back when my mom and I saw Passion of the Christ, a family had a three year old who became noticeably upset when the first round of beatings started, to the point where he had to be taken out, was brought back in, freaked out screaming when the really awful stuff started happening, and was thankfully taken out and never brought back. There have always been and will be parents with astoundingly bad judgement.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:37:27 +0000

Don't judge the book by its cover, as the saying goes. Debbie's reasons are valid in her blog: she absolutely hates the way Hollywood churning out movies with gratuitous amount of violence, sex, immoral behaviors and anything-goes-attitudes and selling to the audience too oblivious to them. She has the obligation of informing her readers if they wish to spend hard-earned money on movies that may insult their intelligence or violate their sense of dignity.
Most movie critics leaned to the Left and have no problem letting the movie-goers go spend money on movies that insult their intelligence and violate their sense of dignity. Debbie, on the other hand, says, "STOP!"

I'm told that food critics are far more savage or brutally honest in critiquing restaurants and foods than stand-up movie critics like Debbie Schlussel.

By: MovieBob

MovieBob — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:17:04 +0000

Something missing from this particular discussion I think somebody ought to add, regarding children in theatres: THERE IS NO REASON TO BRING A BABY INTO A MOVIE THEATER. NONE.

A movie theater is a giant, dark, scary room with flashing lights, loud noises, a crowd of strange people, innumerable germs and lots of hard surfaces. It's one of the WORST possible environments for a baby, and I can't imagine a movie so vital to being seen that would warrant subjecting a baby to that or an audience to an (innevitably) angry baby. And I don't give me "I can't afford a sitter." If you're budget is such that "sitter or movie ticket" is an all-or-nothing concern, what you "can't afford" is the movie.

By: Tennwriter

Tennwriter — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:42:32 +0000

After reading the CSM article on Limbaugh, and seeing a very long line of Insane Intimidators, I wonder if Debbie is our very own Batman, able to walk through the madness of Arkham Asylum and not be fazed. Or perhaps better yet, she's the Punisher in the crossover Batman/Punisher where the Punisher tells the Joker.

"I've got your medicine right here. A nice .45 pill."

If you're dealing with people who deliberately or naturally ape insanity, then perhaps someone like Debbie is needed.

By: Tennwriter

Tennwriter — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:27:35 +0000

I'm okay with moron if its deserved. One time a fellow wage slave complained to the boss "Boss, TW called me a moron." Boss looked at him and said "If TW called you that, then you deserved it."