Comments on: James Mangold Shares His “Misgivings About Violence And PG Ratings” https://staging2.theplaylist.net/james-mangold-violence-pg-ratings-20180223/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Commenter https://staging2.theplaylist.net/james-mangold-violence-pg-ratings-20180223/#comment-158746 Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:30:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=381215#comment-158746 This was exactly my thought coming away from Black Panther. (SPOILERS, I guess…

There’s people getting run over by cars (as a joke), tons of death, finishing up with the hero straight up stabbing someone in the chest. Because there’s no blood or excessive agony shown, they get a PG rating. But I think this sends the exactly wrong message to the many children seeing the film, that there are no consequences to violence. And we all end up desensitized to the violence.

]]> By: cirkusfolk https://staging2.theplaylist.net/james-mangold-violence-pg-ratings-20180223/#comment-158735 Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:20:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=381215#comment-158735 Okay, first, I don’t know any PG movies post the 80s that show hundreds of people dying or getting mowed down by gunfire. I think he is talking about the PG-13 rating. You would think an actual filmmaker would know something about film ratings. And I agree that the PG-13 rating has gotten more liberal on its violence. Something that has as much gun violence and killing as Black Panther isn’t good for kids to see. You had the white bad guy literally telling a security guard to run and then shoots him in the back and makes a joke. Then you have the black bad guy shoot the white bad guy at point blank range later in the film. So cool right.

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