Well, I might end up with a lot of flack for this post, but oh well. I recently went to see “Batman:The Dark Night.” Ben, John, James, and I all went an hour early so that we could get good seats, so Ben and I brought our books to read while we waited in line. I was pretty excited to see it, since the first one had been such a success. From the previews I could tell it would be kinda dark, but doesn’t every great drama have some darkness to it? Maybe that’s what I thought.
After 20 minutes of previews the movie started. 30 minutes later I was sitting back in the hallway reading my book again.
I know that everyone has been commenting on how it was the best acting ever, and how Heath Ledger stole the show…true, it’s all true. It was fantastic acting, so good that I was convinced that he was the joker and not an actor at all. Here’s the problem. Movies don’t know where to stop. There’s a rumor that the movie was originally going to be rated R (and I wouldn’t blame them!), but you know how Hollywood is, they lowered it to PG-13 so that they could get more people of all ages to see it and make more money. Guess what, it worked. They made the record for most money in shortest amount of time for a new movie. We all pretty much knew that would happen, but here’s what’s worrying me.
Like I said, they don’t know where to stop. They show everything bad and gory, and what is produced in stunts looks so real that in our minds it becomes an action, instead of the movie “illusion.” Some may say, “Well, I know it’s fake”, then why do you cringe and jump when it becomes intense?
I think that it was much too dark and real for it’s rating. If you loved it, great. But I don’t think that it’s appropriate for 13 year olds, and especially not for any younger than that.
