Baffling Palace Amusement movie ratings
Published:Saturday | May 10, 2014 | 12:00 AM
Dear Palace Amusement:
Your unique approach never ceases to amaze me. Two movies in two weeks and both of them are 'A-16'?
Captain America I can just barely understand, but clearly the general public needs a high-school diploma to watch The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Obviously, it has adult content intense enough to give most teenagers a bad influence, so much so that they might as well stay home where they can watch more developmentally appropriate series such as Dexter and The Vampire Diaries. Meanwhile, we real adults can enjoy ourselves watching truly great adult-oriented movies like The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Certainly, I can only imagine the sheer trauma my 10-year-old brother would have been put through watching this. Fortunately, thanks to you guys, I couldn't find out because of the crushing news that, after months of looking forward to it, he was six years too young to watch a man swing around in a red and blue spandex costume.
I guess this ought to show him he'd better get those CXCs before he even tries to watch a superhero movie. Those manly flicks are just way too intense for anyone 15 or younger to bear.
And just for the record, warping all of the American ratings for their own movies into your own reflections of what should and should not be public viewing is a pathetic excuse for spreading propaganda. And yes, I'm talking about how two would-be kids movies got bumped up to the A-16 category, while the blatantly Christian drama of Heaven is Real somehow got graced with a Universal rating.
It is beginning to make me wonder whether you have any particular reason for the ratings you employ, or you actually just go around dishing them out to support whatever cockamamie opinions sway you the most right now.
IAN MACLACHLAN