Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
Per punkdavid's request:
CapAlert is the ChildCare Action Project. From a few years of reading the movie reviews I can tell you this. It's one dude who takes it upon himself to see movies, count up the number of "fucks" and warn parents about anything they might need to discuss with their children. He rates movies based on the WISDOM scale (Wanton Violence/Crime, Impudence/Hate, Sexual Immorality, Drugs/Alcohol, Offense to God, & Murder/Suicide).
From Babe: Pig in the City
# imagery of animal control police as brutal
# adult underwear twice
From Southpark BLU
# 131 uses of the most foul of the foul words by children
# 119 uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary by children
From Napoleon Dynamite
# drawing of flatulence
# five uses of the euphemism for the most foul of the foul words
# ridicule, repeatedly
# crotch injury
# attention to crotch
# retreated attempts to sell breast enlargements to women with suggestive comments, once to a teenager
# pelvic thrusts in dance, repeatedly
I encourage folks to post their favorites!
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:05 am Posts: 8045 Location: Arlington Heights, IL Gender: Male
These are some from Pleasantville:
- 22 additional uses of God's name in vain but without the four letter expletive
- very frequent portrayal of sexual freedom; that sexual aggression by teens is acceptable
- promotion of a psychic TV network in the background
- "Mom's away for the weekend!" planning, twice (no father)
- "You can pin me anytime...maybe I'll just pin you."
- frequent arrogant invasion into other people's lifestyles as needed and for their good
- a mother talking of taking a mud bath with her boyfriend
- revealing dress (female anatomy ghosting through upper garment)
- "He's not coming over to study" by a teen girl about her male visitor while parents are away
- a teen girl with her pants unsnapped
- a "spirit" visitor
- "I bought new underwear" while anticipating a visit by a boyfriend
- an adolescent mentoring his mother
- dragging a boy off to have sex with him
- female underwear visible at least twice
- presenting the HIV virus in a positive light: "Your chance of dying in a car wreck" is much greater than dying from AIDS
- 'You'll thank me when you're older' attitudes
- a mother leaving her husband for selfish reasons
- talk of skinny dipping as acceptable
- violent vigilantism
- camera angle to force observer to view private regions
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:58 am Posts: 2105 Location: Austin
Harry Potter 3
Impudence/Hate (I)
sneaking to avoid discovery
verbal brutality of an adolescent by an adult
suggestion of cane beating of adolescent to control
three uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary, once by an adolescent
adolescent screaming at an adult then throwing a tantrum
running away to solve friction with cinematic "justification"
adolescent's pants pulled down to expose underwear
lie
massive tattoos
Offense to God (O)
sorcery to create light, repeatedly
magic to do harm
apparitions, repeatedly
disembodied talking shrunken heads, repeatedly
moving photographs/posters, many
shape shifting, repeatedly, some graphic
sorcery to move objects, create light, open/close doors/locks, light candles, control phantoms, etc., repeatedly, frequently
unholy manifestations, repeatedly
levitation with witchcraft
one use of God's name in vain without the four letter expletive
use of magic to transform, repeatedly
speaking of witch as being wonderful [Isa.5:20]
floating/flying apparitions to do evil, often
broom riding, repeatedly
invisibility by sorcery
teaching sorcery [Luke 17:2]
evil possession
crystal ball foretelling
moving house/structure
apparitions trying to suck soul out of characters, repeatedly
manipulation of time by witchcraft
incantations to create/control, repeatedly
cheating by using magic
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
The Harry Potter just reminded me of my favorite one. This guy was so offended by Matilda that he walked out.
Quote:
MAR-0060 Matilda (1996) PG CAP Score: Not computed CAP ID: Not computed
Thomas A. Carder CAP President
I apologize that you have come to our site to see a numeric comparative analysis of Matilda (1996) and none is here. I did not complete the analysis. The occurence of unacceptable material was so fast I could not keep up with the rate of examples. In the first twenty or so minutes, I had a full recording page of examples of Impunity/Hate and Wanton Violence/Crime. And it was inaccurate because the rate of presentation of unacceptable material was so fast that by the time I had one recorded, other examples came and went.
Most of the examples of unacceptable behavior were due to portrayal of a father as a very, very caustic and abrasive bum (Danny DeVito). To throw salt in this wound made typical by the entertainment media for kids was a school principal being protrayed as a Nazi-type authority figure using completely inappropriate adolescent control tactics, including physical violence. The school principal also said she was God. Other examples of inappropriate display included an adolescent couseling an adult authority figure. Adolescent revenge by supernatural powers ran rampant in the final half of the show. The producers even had an adolescent handing his father a beer. And the producers encouraged the lowering of the threshold of acceptability to drop yet another notch by having the little girl with an adult accomplice break and enter into private property.
This was by no means a kid's movie. It was a dark and empathic feeding of adolescent wishes for removal of parental and exofamilial controls and for revenge on authority. Some professional mental health people seem to say it is natural for children to want their parents and other authority figures to "get what they have coming to them," in response to resentment of discipline. This movie, albeit a fantasy, does precisely that by displaying example after example of revenge and autonomy. Matilda feeds the innate foolishness of children (recall Proverb 22:15 "Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child..."). And as is typical with "children's movies" from the entertainment industry, Matilda portrayed a little girl from toddler to a ripe and wise age of six and a half years repeatedly being abandoned at home. As she grew, Matilda repeatedly left the home to walk to the inner city. Too many children are ultra-impressionable in this era of constant entertainment and instant gratification. This movie may convince adolescents of the same age that they are old enough to do the same! And all was, of course, culminated in a warm and loving theme which coached the viewer to think the ends justify the means (situational ethics) and that "The bad people got what they deserved." Remember who has the final Authority and Law on vengence.
I recommend you avoid exposing you child(ren) toMatilda if you can. I found this movie to be yet another example of the subliminal style of child abuse from the entertainment media. If this movie makes you as a parent uncomfortable, it should!
I also like his use of "Thomas A. Carder, CAP President." C'mon!!! This is so just one dude with a website!
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
Just a head's up on Star Wars III!
Wanton Violence/Crime (W)
# sustained sci-fi warfare violence with deaths, repeatedly
# threats with weapons, repeatedly
# action peril, repeatedly
# action violence, repeatedly
# order to kill, repeatedly
# double amputation(I THOUGHT THAT SAID "DOUBLE PENETRATION" FOR A MINUTE -B) # physical transformation with gore
# attempted murder, repeatedly, once by choking a woman
# defensive killing, repeatedly
# scenes of many dead bodies, including of children
# combat violence, repeatedly, some intense
# human incineration
# burn gore, repeatedly
# death at childbirth
Impudence/Hate (I)
# sustained anger and hatred, some brutal and vicious
# much effort to coerce to evil with sympathy and temptation with evil
Sexual Immorality (S)
# man and woman in bed
# below navel skin, threatening to expose what follows(SURELY THIS IS WHAT LED TO THE PG-13! -B) # excessive cleavage # camera angle to force viewer on private parts (clothed) # dressing to maximize the human form and/or skin exposure (once)
Drugs/Alcohol (D):
# none noted
Offense to God (O)
# cowardice at the expense of others
# "The Chosen One - the prophecy says"
# lust for power to heal and defeat death
# "You fool!" # use of "magic" to levitate, to control others and to do harm
# using evil for good
# lust for power
# "learned" immortality
Murder/Suicide (M)
# beheading murder (severing unseen)
# weapon fire murder, repeatedly
# murder of multiple children (unseen)
# episodes of multiple murder, some quite brutal and sadistic
# imagery of murdered children
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:54 pm Posts: 12287 Location: Manguetown Gender: Male
auhaueuhauahuahuuheuhaeuha great site!
_________________ There's just no mercy in your eyes There ain't no time to set things right And I'm afraid I've lost the fight I'm just a painful reminder Another day you leave behind
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
I love when he counts curse words.
He breaks out Fuck as "the foulest of foul words," and counts "God"s seperately from "God damnit"s.
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
Tasteless, groundless, and above all just plain nonsense.
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
glorified_version wrote:
Tasteless, groundless, and above all just plain nonsense.
Hey, I think the guy is nuts, but if he's still around when I have kids, I'll use the reviews to prepare for going to a movie w/ my kid.
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
Impudence/Hate (I)
# "child" encouraging another to defy his mother
# playful mischief leading to private property damage
# "child" ignoring his mother's call
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
Ensign9 wrote:
The douchebag himself:
What really got me was the Babe Pig in the City "imagery of animal control police as brutal"
right because, we shouldn't be showing our children negative views of our noble law enforcement.
_________________
LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:58 am Posts: 2105 Location: Austin
I found this funny. Due to insufficent funds, they cannot review a bunch of new releases, including movies that won't be out for awhile. Can't even scrap up the 6 dollar matinee ticket to see Deuce Bigalo?
"SPECIAL NOTE TO PLANNERS: Due to insufficient funds it doesn't look like we will be able to bring you analysis of 2046, Aeon Flux, Asylum, The Constant Gardener, The Devil's Rejects, Broken Flowers, The Brothers Grimm, The Chumscrubber, Four Brothers, The Great Raid, Hustle and Flow, George A. Romero's Land of the Dead, Man with a Screaming Brain, Murderball, Must Love Dogs, My Date with Drew, November, Pretty Persuasion, Romance & Cigarettes, Saint Ralph, or The Transporter 2.
For August 13 through August 19
The Skeleton Key (PG-13 [R-13] - violence, disturbing images, some partial nudity and thematic material. 1h 44m.) -- DONE. See "Select a Title" above
MAYBE Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (R - pervasive strong crude and sexual humor, language, nudity and drug content. 1h 23m.) -- ANALYSIS CANCELED due to insufficient funds."
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
Here you go ... March of the Penguins got a green light, only losing 3 points for:
*death by predator attack (no gore)
*death by freezing
*animal copulation (non-sensuous)
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