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Originally posted by ScarProphecy@Apr 17 2004, 12:14 PM
I think that the books can be scary depending on how much of an imagination you have.
I completely agree...reading can be much scarier than film if you have a vivid imagination. I have strong feelings about the movies. The books were written to be for adolescents, and the movies need to be appropriate for the same age-range. It is a tribute to J. K. Rowling that the books are creative enough and deep enough to attract older readers as well. As a teacher of 3rd-5th graders and a mother of an 8 year-old, I believe that there are things in the books (particularly books 4 and 5) that a younger child can't appreciate or truly understand. A PG rating, and possibly even a PG-13 rating may be appropriate, but it doesn't need to be scarier than that. I believe that the directors of the movies have a responsibility to be true to the spirit of J. K. Rowling's work and her vision. Anything (at least up to now) more than a PG-13 rating doesn't meet that responsibility.
As to the behavior of children in the theater...it is the responsibility of the parents to make sure that a child younger than 13 attends the movie only if he/she can tolerate it, and if he/she can behave appropriately in a movie theater. "Children" older than the 13 that "parental guidance" suggests should know how to act.