With all due respect, anyone who thinks that millions and millions and millions of children, preteens and young teens will not view "The Watchmen", in the coming years, would, by many responsible adults, be described as unstable.
Adults who frequent such garbage, in the name of being a "free" adult, are contributing to the very serious decline of this nation and other nations........... As we all become more and more desensitized to the vulgar, violent, hedonistic society we are becoming, we invite the chains that encircle us and choke out our real freedoms.
Kinda like the much overweight man who has just eaten another huge meal, and, lying on the ground, expects to be able to jump up and defeat the well trained, agile, physically fit enemy.
We are inviting our ultimate defeat, as a free nation..............
"Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, destroy their ruggedness.Get control of all means of publicity and thereby: Get the peoples' mind off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays, and other trivialities. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance. Destroy the peoples faith in their natural leaders by holding up the latter to ridicule, contempt and obloquy. Always preach true democracy but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible. Encourage government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear with rising prices, inflation and general discontent. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a soft and lenient attitude on the part of government towards such disorders. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues: honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless." Vladimir Ilich Lenin
The purposeful moral decline of a just society is one of the key factors in facilitating it's end.
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So I shouldn’t be allowed to watch a movie I’ve been looking forward to for 20 years because there are bad parents out there that will let their kids watch it?!
Sorry but reality is, at best, R rated. Can’t make the world G, can’t make all the movies G, filtering your kids input is your job not mine. I’m an adult, I get to go see whatever movie I want.
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I have no doubt that kids will see this movie, but to claim that this movie is for kids, is a bit disingenuous.
To believe that because something was a comic book means it must be wholesome and pure is beyond naive. Comic books run the gammit, like all forms of entertainment.
I have a different view on the world than you do in terms of things, I do not think that content that isn’t fully “wholesome” is inately bad. I don’t speak for everyone, but I am damned sure glad that when I do choose to indulge in entertainment, that its not all Bolliwood sunshine and roses.
Now does that mean I don’t believe in good and evil, God and Satan, Christ and Mohammed? Nope, and while obviously making sure content viewed by my kids is age appropriate, I don’t expect or sheild them from things that I don’t agree with, I expect to raise in such a way that when they are exposed to such things they recognize them for what they are.
This is not a movie for kids, though there is no doubt kids will see it when its out on DVD and on Cable... and while I don’t have Cable in my home and would never let my child watch this movie, but I also know sooner or later he will see it, he’s 12, and eventually he’ll see it. I can’t keep him from being exposed to things forever, and I don’t believe I should, I hope hes a bit older when he finally sees this movie, even an edited version, but if he does and I find out about it becomes a teachable moment, if I don’t find out about, hopefully I’ve given him more than enough teachable moments to deal with it.
Do you really need a "Alarmist Buchmanite Source" label to recognize it as crap?
"sexy books and plays" and "ridicule, contempt and obloquy": Reading Level Inconsistency much?
Lenin never wrote that.
Nor can you show that he did.