Movie Ratings

I've taken a break from my "Mystical Creatures" series to talk about something that has been really bugging me. Movie Ratings.

Million Dollar Arm is the new Disney movie about two Indians coming to America to make a name in baseball. You may have heard of it. On Saturday, I watched the movie. It is rated PG yet there was mention of sex and beer. Mostly beer.

My first thought is why the heck is this rated PG? I'm sure many parents who took their kids to watch the movie thought the same thing. But then, I thought about it a little more.

On the "Why the Heck?" side, ALL the movies these days that are rated PG are movies such as Frozen. Completely age appropriate for those that are in Kindergarten. Drugs and sex do NOT fit into the age appropriate Frozen-like movies! Not at all. Many parents would agree with me.

On the other hand, PG means "Parental Guidance". My first question is for what ages? Do I need to bring my parents to this movie when I'm thirty? Would they need to bring their parents? But I'm not going into that right now. But technically, the abbreviation would make me think that anyone 17 or under would fit under the category of Parental Guidance, but then wouldn't PG be the equivalent of R?

Whatever happened to the rating of G? Many PG movies these days belong in the rating of G. The only G-rated movies that we have anymore are nature films. Or the coca-cola polar bear movie which hasn't came out yet. Or maybe isn't an actual movie.... But my point is most movies which we rate PG should be G-rated movies.

Ratings have no meaning anymore. All these directors and movie rating people need to get together and decide exactly what movies fall into what rating. I don't know what the process they have for rating movies is now, but I can tell you that it needs adjusting.

Mystical Creatures - part 8

Skeleton

This might have been slightly inspired by the Percy Jackson series but I don't know for sure.

Skeletons get to pick one paranormal activity. Choose from the ones listed in Ghost in an above part.

Skeletons can sense people in danger.

They can make someone ill or hurt.

They can make themselves have flesh, so they appear to be a normal human.

They have the ability to wave their hand over another person and see their skeleton - sort of like an x-ray machine.

Zombie

This one was partly inspired by Wizards of Waverly Place but most of it was just typical Zombie-known stuff.

Zombies have mind control.

They can do three things to people: Make them talk gibberish, make them be very slow, make them look 

ugly.

They can remove their body parts.

They come with two normal possibilities (to be discussed later): Dancing and Spying.

Troll

This one was inspired by American Dragon: Jake Long

Trolls have super strength.

They can change the color of their skin.

They can't go in sunshine, otherwise they turn into stone.

They are known to love chaos.

They can make mountains.

Satyr

This one was definitely inspired by Percy Jackson.

Satyrs can sense others emotions.

They can cause weather phenomenons.

They have forest powers (plant, trees, etc.)

They are talented at playing instruments: Music.

Mystical Creatures - part 7

Genie

This might have been inspired by Wizards of Waverly Place

They can turn tiny, or grant any wishes seen or heard but it is their choice whether they want to grant it and they CAN'T  grant wishes said or written by themselves.

And if someone has their lamps they must do whatever they say, so if you are a Genie lock your lamp up tight.

Gnome

I think part of this was inspired by Gnomeo and Juliet but not a lot.

Can teleport, turn into plastic, make things turn into plastic, make people hear things, and make people not able to move.

Again, a gnome's general appearance is short but can appear tall.

It think this was helped by Liz and Elisha, but most memorably Elisha.

Phoenix

I think this was inspired a little by Harry Potter and maybe Percy Jackson  or something written by Rick Riordan.

Phoenixes can heal, turn into any bird and control fire.

A few thing about phoenixes is they are reborn from ashes, have good eyesight and sharp hearing.

Elisha helped with this one.

Dwarf

Dwarves come with one super power which you can pick from Superhero above.

Dwarves like everyone and loves to work.

Their natural appearance is short, but they can appear tall.

Giant

Giants come with on super power which you can pick from Superhero above.

Giants can either be huge or a normal size.

Giants have super strength.

I think Elisha might have helped with this one.