Agreed with everyone. It is so much worse for children to hear their adults going into a collective tizzy over breasts than to actually see those breasts.
At second thought, I agree with the censorship. My generation grew up with all of this stuff hidden, and we invented the '60s and free sex. If we hide everything again, maybe kids will grow up so frustrated that they’ll take to the streets again, and we could use that.
For years they let that go. I guess they finally got a Standards and Practices person who knows Yiddish.
I reject the assumption that nudity or other sexually oriented images are “family unfriendly.” I don’t think it is harmful to children in any way whatsoever.
In the movies, tits are likely silicone.
This.
Some of you guys would get the vapors if you ever checked a Danish newspaper.
There is no need for me to explain nudity. My daughter knows what people look like under their clothes already.
Well, it WOULD explain this.
I think you are mistaken about the movie and how most of them were family friendly. The fact of the matter when I was kid, parents didn’t freak out about some boobies. I saw many a PG rated film that had sex and drugs (and rock and roll). Now a days those movies get more restricted ratings because we think differently about that, not that we’ve suddenly added that.
Bingo.
And yet, you still haven’t provided an example that is not 40 years old.
I’m still waiting for an example of a kid’s movie that has gratuitous naked boobies.
God forbid you do anything pro-active yourself to shield your precious, much better whine about it being societies fault on a message board.
Godfather, really!?
The Godfather
Saving Private Ryan
Reservoir Dogs
I can’t imagine what kind of children these movies would be appropriate for who would be damaged by the occasional sex scene, and in The Godfather if I remember correctly there’s not even any nudity. Yeesh.
When Michael gets married in Sicily, there’s a short scene of his wife topless just before they consummate the marriage (this part is not shown). It’s usually edited for TV.
That’s about it, and it’s tame compared to Sonny getting gunned down at the toll plaza, Vito getting gunned down outside his office, Michael gunning down a police captain, Moe Greene getting shot in the eye, or pretty much any of the other examples of violence in the movie.
The horse head is still friggin’ gruesome, 40 years later.
That’s not even to mention the challenging concepts of justice, vengeance, respect, criminality, social class and race just to name a few. If you believe that your child can adequately manage the mixed and confusing nature of these issues in The Godfather, he or she really ought to be quite able to handle the existence of sexual behavior and the viewing of bare breasts.
A part of me almost does want Cosmo magazines restricted, not because the articles are explicit, but because they give moronic advice. Any adult with a halfway healthy idea of sex and the intelligence of a dead possum should know this, but when a kid’s just coming into the idea of sex and relationships, I’d just as soon steer them away.
But, seriously, nothing in Cosmo is going to warp your child. Most children already know that people have genitals and breasts under their clothes, and most children old enough to read Cosmo already have a basic understanding of what those parts are for. It’s been said and said again, but I’d worry more about them sitting down with an Eli Roth movie than skin flick. The only real concern I have with Maxum, Cosmos, and the like is the unrealistic portrayal of body image. My 11 year old nephew already seems convinced that his future girlfriend will look like Megan Fox, and no amount of reasoning will change his mind.
Given the level of photo editing that goes into any major magazine, Megan Fox doesn’t look like Megan Fox. There’s commercial art (the magazine in your checkout line) and there’s reality (the cutie in sweats behind you in the checkout line).
Yep, and yet the subsequent “Mio marito! Look-a me drive-a you car!” <KABLAM!!!> scene is always shown in all its family-friendly, sponsor-approved glory.
(Spoiler alert.)
Heh. That’s not even the worst of them