Flowery Language
Being raised how I was raised we didn't watch movies with a rating above pg-13 but as I got older I noticed mom and dad had a few R rated movies. Movies that have an R rating aren't always awful. Braveheart, Behind Enemy Lines, Black Hawk Down, The Patriot, The Breakfast Club... these are just a few movies that hold that rating but are okay in my book. Sometimes you don't realize a movie holds a particular rating until you've looked at the box, like the Breakfast Club, I had no idea it was rated R. Anyhow, throughout college and my life as an adult I have seen many R rated films that I find without the things that earn them an R rating, they'd not be as good or believeable of a film.
I bring this up because my sister got a recommendation for a movie from a friend of hers. W
e found the movie at the local Blockbuster and rented it. Gone Baby Gone. Within the first 20 minutes of the movie it's fairly obvious that the movie has earned its rating because of really foul language, something that in certain cases doesn't bother me in the least. There are some words (a particular C word I'd rather not mention) that I would prefer not cross my ears often, but others I hear every day and have heard since my youth, so they really don't bother me. I myself have a bad habit of cursing like a sailor, so again, I'm not easily offended. My mother, however, is very easily offended. As we're watching the movie my mother comes up the stairs into my room and proceeds to chastise us for watching such an inappropriate movie.
Here's my thing about movies with language. Sometimes I feel that it's appropriate to make the scene believable. I mean one of my favorite movies is The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler... that movie is a non-stop F-bomb fest. But consider this, the movie is supposed to be about a bunch of modern day men in a prison. What do you expect when you hear that set up? Have you ever been to a prison and heard a guy say, Hey you freaking jerk face! ? Me either. In the movie Gone Baby Gone, they are either in New York or New Jersey... I'm not certain... and these people are dealing with people that are considered the scum of the earth; drug dealers, rogue cops, tough guys in bars, trashy women,etc... so the language is to be expected in my opinion. It just doesn't offend my ears. Plus the movie itself was SO freaking good that I'd recommend it to anyone to see... just so long as they can handle the lingo.
Just as I feel there are movies where it's acceptable for the language to be terrible, I feel there are some that abuse it just because they can. For instance, Detroit Rock City. The first time I saw this movie was on cable so the language had been modified. So when I bought the movie and was watching it at home... I couldn't help but cringe every few seconds. These are supposed to be high school age kids, and while I know they use that type of language, I think it was definitely used in excess in the movie. The Breakfast Club, while one of the greatest movies of all time (in my humble opinion of course) could have done without a lot of the fowl language as well. So really, while I'm very lenient with some movies, there are others where I feel it's just a ridiculous abuse of the ability to use the words.
I bring this up because my sister got a recommendation for a movie from a friend of hers. W
e found the movie at the local Blockbuster and rented it. Gone Baby Gone. Within the first 20 minutes of the movie it's fairly obvious that the movie has earned its rating because of really foul language, something that in certain cases doesn't bother me in the least. There are some words (a particular C word I'd rather not mention) that I would prefer not cross my ears often, but others I hear every day and have heard since my youth, so they really don't bother me. I myself have a bad habit of cursing like a sailor, so again, I'm not easily offended. My mother, however, is very easily offended. As we're watching the movie my mother comes up the stairs into my room and proceeds to chastise us for watching such an inappropriate movie.Here's my thing about movies with language. Sometimes I feel that it's appropriate to make the scene believable. I mean one of my favorite movies is The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler... that movie is a non-stop F-bomb fest. But consider this, the movie is supposed to be about a bunch of modern day men in a prison. What do you expect when you hear that set up? Have you ever been to a prison and heard a guy say, Hey you freaking jerk face! ? Me either. In the movie Gone Baby Gone, they are either in New York or New Jersey... I'm not certain... and these people are dealing with people that are considered the scum of the earth; drug dealers, rogue cops, tough guys in bars, trashy women,etc... so the language is to be expected in my opinion. It just doesn't offend my ears. Plus the movie itself was SO freaking good that I'd recommend it to anyone to see... just so long as they can handle the lingo.
Just as I feel there are movies where it's acceptable for the language to be terrible, I feel there are some that abuse it just because they can. For instance, Detroit Rock City. The first time I saw this movie was on cable so the language had been modified. So when I bought the movie and was watching it at home... I couldn't help but cringe every few seconds. These are supposed to be high school age kids, and while I know they use that type of language, I think it was definitely used in excess in the movie. The Breakfast Club, while one of the greatest movies of all time (in my humble opinion of course) could have done without a lot of the fowl language as well. So really, while I'm very lenient with some movies, there are others where I feel it's just a ridiculous abuse of the ability to use the words.
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