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'Police' Screen Movies for Parents
posted 11:54 pm Thu November 15, 2007 -
Jim Judy runs the website ScreenIt.com which tells parents exactly what their kids will see. It provides specific details over 15 categories, including alcohol, drugs, nudity, violence, profanity, and inappropriate behavior. "I don't say if it's good or bad, I just say what it is."
Critics and audiences loved "Superbad," the summer comedy about underage kids trying to buy alcohol for a big party. Jim Judy said he found parts of it funny, but "Superbad" scored pretty badly in most ScreenIt.com categories: extreme violence; extreme nudity; 176 uses of the most forbidden word in the English language.
In the ScreenIt.com world, "Superbad" rated as the year's most egregious mainstream movie.Since ScreenIt.com started a decade ago, the website has attracted thousands of subscribers as a cost of $24.95 a year.
On the up side, Jim said "Ratatouille" is this year's most positive mainstream movie. "Charlotte's Web" got the honors last year.
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EdJacks
9:50 am on 05/13/08
You seem confused Tuckmeister. This website does no parenting, it provides parents with information to allow them to be better parents. Knowledge is a good thing. Do you purchase food for your children based on the picture on the label? Or do you ever check the ingredient list? I'm guessing that you expect that parents will go to every movie released so that they can see first-hand whether or not a movie is appropriate and then turnaround and go back to the movie with their children if they deemed it appropriate. Sorry, parents have far too many responsibilities in raising their children to spend hours every week away from them watching children's movies on their behalf. The existing MPAA rating system is so useless that it is wonderful that a tool exists to give a detailed analysis.
And, quite frankly, I use ScreenIt more for myself as an adult to better judge the offensiveness of a movie before wasting my time on it.
And, quite frankly, I use ScreenIt more for myself as an adult to better judge the offensiveness of a movie before wasting my time on it.
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