MonsterDad wrote:

Like everyone else here, I am both astonished and impressed with the new Wolf Man makeup. My biggest concern (besides the quality of the story) is the rating. Pretty much everything I had been reading about the new movie indicated it was going for a very serious R which kind of puts the kibosh on taking any pre-teen monster kids for a night at the movies. Any one know if that's still the direction they are taking? I, for one, would rather see a theatrical PG-13 release and then the obligatory unrated, director's cut on DVD. I know that would make my little monsters happy.

I hope not. Let's face it the original Uni monster films were often cut by local censors (Frankenstein) or pre cut by the studios or given the X rating in England and still cut (ie Black Cat). As crazy as it sounds its more in line with history for it to be in R. Granted considering what you can get away with a PG-13 these days I guess its not a huge deal.


Plus why can't you take kids to an R-Rated movie? It's better than most mind numbing teen comedies

From a post I made at DVDmaniacs.net (under the title Why I love my parents)
I want to say that growing up watching violent 80s action films actually left me as a person deeply concerned with the ideas of justice, liberty, and freedom. Yes, this was all the "corny" parts of the movies, but I think it made me a better person in a sense and no it didn't make me start voting Republican either, or the need to own mounds of guns . So I just want to thank my parents for being as cool as they were (dad was an ex-Marine, but they were and are both liberals, not hippies or such, intelligent middle classers, mom's a teacher and dad's a lawyer). My dad took me to see Die Hard 2 when I was only about 7 or 8 (depending on whens it original theatrical run was), first R rated flick I got to see in theaters. Even today they both recall when I had chicken pox that I watched Invasion USA and Delta Force over and over again. Honestly, I think its one of the reason I care about people as much as I do (I know it sounds odd) and in the end I certainly turned out quite well So remember 80s action films are an excellent and important part of a child's development.