i like that the HP movies are scary,but i dont think it's for a little kids (like age 6-7-8)

What does she mean "By book five with the Dementors sucking the lives out of people" ?

That happens in Book three. This women who claims to have read the books to her five year old must of not have read them to carefully then if she didn't pick up on a key character in the books until the fifth one.

Haha, I liked to see the look on her face when she realizes she has taken her five year old into a movie theater to see POA not realizing the Dementors are actually in this one! haha.

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Well, she got the definition right, but yeah, she should've realised they feature in book 3 moreso than book 5.

That abit stupid warning parents though because alot in england especailly my mam she let me watch anything from grange hill with like teenage stuff in it when i was like 6 and scream and horror movies,but your kids have got to learn that not everything hunky dory in life but i dont think you should let like under 8's maybe in to see the movie without the parents or someone under 16 :sorcerer:

I wont have screaming kids behind me at the cinema cos i'll borrow a copy from somebody or go when all the kids are at school that will mean skipping college for a couple of hours but its worth it

I'm super duper happy that it's scarier because I wasn't too frightened in the 2nd movie, but in this one, I want a scare that will scare my pants off.

Plus I think that the scarier movies will attract new Harry Potter audiences. Like people who think Harry Potter is stupid will see this new scary movie and they'll think more of it... I hope. But get the little pukers out of the theatre. When I went to see CoS, there were 5 7 years olds behind me with no parent eating popcorn as loud as they could and screemed when Ron "belched" slugs.

New audience please.

The movies aren't that scary at all. The books aren't very scary either, but that's probably because you are reading it and not seeing it. I think the movies should be scarier because most of the original HP fans are alot older now and don't want to see a dull movie about their favorite book that was supposed to be exciting but couldn't be because little kids were watching it.

I agree completely. GoF has.... pretty scary scenes. Horntail, Cruciatus Curse... I'd say PG-13 Minimum.

wow, i am a lot more syked to see them now!

I think that the books can be scary depending on how much of an imagination you have. Like when I read any book I can't visulize it as if it were a movie, a lot of other people can too, but some people can't and seeing the movie would be helpful. But whenlike four years ago when I weas reading GoF in the last chapters when Voldy comes back and everything I was shaking when I finished the book. I was a lot younger then. lol. but I think that the fourth movie and the opther ones after it definatley have to be PG-13. And I think that the series has gotten to a part where its more of a teenage book then a children's book, one reason is because the people who were children when the series first came out are now all teenagers or close to it anyway. But it really depends on your imagination because I know some people that think the books are scarier than the movies and then others think that the movies are scarier than the books.

whoopdidoo. they're scarier. that shouldn't matter. mightas well rate it PG-13 or R if its that scary, and then adults can take their kids.

I've seen every trailer for PoA so far, and i see NOTHING scary about it (and 4 a 13 year old i get scared pretty easly). Am I looking at it the wrong way or something????????? :hide_chair:

i think it should be scarier b/c your imagination isnt suposed to be scary and they want it to not be what u expect it to be that way u can get more into the movie

Oh wow, scary lol -_- Like Pg scary...come on now, these are harry potter films about wizards and that battle against ,very real, and very dark evil, If u havent read the books, and have kids, THINK! before taking a 5 yr olds lol. please..These arent baby books, I wouldnt even call them kids books, If u dont understand what your reading it probably means you arent ready for the films..
But..again I will say Pg mean 'parental guidence' and in other places like 12 and under ect..
i'd say not scary but rather a good thrill, some good creeps and your fine. But
PG 13 is the lowest I will go for GOF!

I can relate with you there! I saw the first two films at midnight showings with a group of friends, thinking that the kids would see it at earlier times.....I was wrong! Kids were everywhere. And I mean little kids who are like 5 years old! Way too late for them to be up!

well, i think it's scarier in the movies beacause you don't see the actions in the book but it is still the same thing. however, I don't think the movies are scarier it ia the same as the book no more or less scarier.

i do agree that GoF should be a PG-13 (or 12A for brits) cos its scarier, but i was surprised when USA announced that their rating for PoA was PG-13 cos its scary too, with dementors and everything plus its going to be ahrd for them to understand whats happening with the time-turner thing....but i also know of a 9 year old (a male) and he absolutely loves LOTR and HP and dosent get scared or grossed out, so it may depend on the type of kid you have that inflences parents' decisions....but i would like to go to a screening where there are mostly teenagers upwards, hehe, selfish me.... :whisle:

HAHAHA! Lol like normal, i agree with you Emma!

Obviously you don't know my iamginaton. When i read GoF i was shaking on the bed once i got to the end part of well...you know... :/

Woah, that's rather interesting, and Great that Harry Potter has made children more interested in rats, snakes, etc..., but I, myself will have to disagree with Heavenly Littleton, because the books seem more frightening to me, and they give me goose bumps ocassionaly. lol





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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.

Well if ya think about it, the books are really dark. Or at least the 3rd, 5th, and 5th one are, so the movies have to be a scary too.