We all know that Mormons are not supposed to watch R rated movies. We also know that the 3 ways to get an R rating are language, sexuality/nudity and violence. What I find strange is that , in my extended family at least, this rule is most likely to be broken if the movie is rated R for 'just violence'. I don't get it. I really don't see how watching a person get gutted is more acceptable than a few fucks. Is this view common?

Don't believe me? Go into a Blockbuster (if there are any left around you) and see what kind of R-rated movies they have. It'll be all violent ones, I betcha.

Here in America, we glorify violence. There doesn't seem to be a problem with heads flying off bodies or blood squirting everywhere, but by golly, if we see a nipple as the Super Bowl, we're gonna rant and rave about the moral decay our society is infected with!

Kevin Smith, director of movies "Mallrats" and "Clerks" fought really hard to get the NC-17 ban slapped off his movie, Zach and Miri Make a Porno." He asked, why it was ok for eyebalss pulled out and amputations in "Hostel" but not similated sexual acts.



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But I'll watch the occasional porno with DH. Guess I'm in the wrong country.

Mormons just perpetuate that heavily.

Well, my convert daughter and her hubby are big movie goers and see everything. They did tell me that a Mormon relative walked out of a recent movie when an actor was nude but his goods were hidden. How ridiculous. They just up and walked out.

I remember hearing "it's just R for the violence" a lot.

As for me I'm trying to catch up on all the R rated movies I missed out on the past decade+, because I was trying to follow the profit.

Any good suggestions?

The Book of Eli
No Country for Old Men
The Fighter
The Departed

Those are just a few that I can think of off the top of my head.

thanks weaverone I saw The Fighter a couple of weeks ago, that was good! I'll check out the others :)

I certainly noticed this among my TBM family members - especially the male ones I have to add. My dad used to watch all sorts of violent stuff and loved war films, but just a hint of nudity and the tv channel would be changed. And my FIL watches all the godfather movies (18 certificate in the UK - not sure how that equates in the US), and fast forward the sex scenes! ( eg the one against the door at the beginning of the first film) but was quite happy to watch the brains being blown to bits scenes. I never followed the logic.

Nudity is only a big deal if you make it a big deal.

I have two stepsons, and their father and I have been married since they were quite small. They lived with their mother, and she was a very devout Pentecostal type. We lived in different states (my husband was in the military) and when the boys would visit us I tried to adhere to her restrictions on what they could and couldn't watch/read/whatever. I didn't agree with those restrictions necessarily, but she was their primary caregiver and I wanted to respect her rules.

Until I found out that the boys were allowed to watch "Anaconda" (wherein a giant snake swallows, and then barfs up, an entire person in a sequence that gave ME the squirms) -- but they weren't allowed to read Harry Potter because magic was of the devil. She followed that up with a ban on the Lord of the Rings movies (sorcery).

My breaking point came when my older stepson, at 13, with his voice changing and odd things happening to his body, asked his father a lot of questions that we thought he should already have had the answers to. We answered the questions -- and his mother was furious at us for telling him "dirty" things. Like, you know, where babies came from. She was fine with him seeing all manner of violence, but God forbid he should know about S.E.X.

I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

You'd think that Janet Jackson's nipple was nuculer. At least after all the fallout in the news.

My TBM parents have a room full of movies and proudly boast that not one of them has any nudity in it. They have murder, violence, drugs, but absolutely NO sex. I've always thought it was a huge double standard.

When my son was little I made the mistake of taking him to see "Starship Troopers," a movie featuring bloody gore. Some people are ripped into pieces by giant bugs, some have their brains scooped out of their craniums and die screaming. Nasty violence.

I told a Mormon sibling that I regretted taking my son to see it, and she said, "I, know, one girl in the movie showed her boobs."

A colony of saints gets wiped out by the bugs.

the book of MORmON movie / story does NOT meet official professed LDS standards on decency & morality in entertainment.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ktfQ8b_-rs