Gaevren posted:
graphic death scenes most likely. That being said, just the content alone (kids being forced to kill each other for sport, essentially) could push it over that edge...but since the book's audience is teens/pre-teens I'm sure they did their best to make the movie one that parents would let them see.
I'll be seeing it this weekend and will decide at that point if my 10 year old can watch it just yet. She can handle most stuff pretty well but I always like to pre-screen just in case.
Rhodoman posted:
I can't figure out what, from the book, you'd need to cut to keep it from being rated R.
Rho
I can't figure out what, from the book, you'd need to cut to keep it from being rated R.
Rho
graphic death scenes most likely. That being said, just the content alone (kids being forced to kill each other for sport, essentially) could push it over that edge...but since the book's audience is teens/pre-teens I'm sure they did their best to make the movie one that parents would let them see.
I'll be seeing it this weekend and will decide at that point if my 10 year old can watch it just yet. She can handle most stuff pretty well but I always like to pre-screen just in case.
Have you read the book? And has she? That seems to make the difference between watching and not watching for someone that age. I'd certainly want to pre-screen before letting a child that age watch it, but that's only based on what's in the book at this point. I haven't decided yet whether to see the movie in theaters or not. I'll probably end up watching it, but there is nothing I hate worse than a theater full of pre-teen/teen girls.
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We all enjoyed it too. But there's a difference at times between how your mind interprets what's happening in a book and how a director will choose to portray it on screen. I know for myself, personally, whenever I'm reading anything particularly disturbing and/or gory, my mind tones it down LOTS. Otherwise I get nightmares 
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