In the new Batman movie a bank heist is carried out by men in sinister clown masks.
As each clown completes a task another shoots him point blank in the head.
A clown stuffs a bomb into a wounded bank employee's empty mouth.
A man's face is filleted by a knife.
Another man's face is burned half-off.
A bomb is stitched inside another man's stomach - which subsequently explodes.
Another bound man is tied to a chair and burned alive atop a pile of bank notes.
A child is terrorized at gunpoint by a man with a melted face.
In Daniel Craig's Bond movie, "Casino Royal", a bloodied Bond, stripped naked and tied to a chair, is tortured by having his genitals beaten with a length of rope.
In "Men on Fire", Denzel Washington shoves a bomb up the rectum of a Mexican conspirator, then triggers the bomb's explosion.
In the Batman movie, the Joker describes his penchant for knife killling: "Guns are too quick. You can't savor all the little emotions."
See ya (and your 8 year-olds) at the movies!"
Leni
OMG!!!! It’s even worse than I thought.
I would agree that these movies are probably too intense for younger children; but the Batman movie you are referencing was the last one (Heath's Ledger's Joker), not the current one. The source material in the comic books is often far worse...the Human Torch used to roast Nazis and 'Japs' alive on a routine basis back in the early 40's for Marvel (Timely) Comics. Violence associated with comic characters is nothing new...parents just need to pay attention, and many just don't bother. There are FAR TOO MANY children raising children.
My parents scoped out a few movies when I was growing up - I remember Bonnie And Clyde in particular. They said I couldn't go - the last scene was too gory.
Saw it when I was 17 - didn't think it was a big deal, but now I have kids ...
B & C ws on cable the other day - my 6-yeaar old wanted to watch. I told him in 7 years when he is a teenager.
My parents were right ...