It was also very dark cinematography, so maybe they figured you'd quickly fall asleep?

Sure; parents, well lots of them, really don't give a shit about their kid's entertainment. They just don't. So if it's talking animals or cartoons or, due to Marvel, superheroes, they just assume "kid's stuff" and Little Billy learns about tentacle porn way too early. But you have to assume those same parents also…

Statistically, that may not be different from a "no anyone" policy.

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Oh sure. I'm not even going to pretend a true-bastard female character would be allowed to carry a series.

If our country wasn't so terrified of sex, we could have actual "adults only" ratings, but every time that just throws the movies into the ghetto. Maybe in another hundred years or so we can figure it out.

But they also spend money and have no taste, and thus keep certain genres in business all by themselves.

Unless you're insane, the only reason to take a small kid to an R-rated film is you don't want to or can't pay a babysitter (or dump them on the grandparents or convenient childless aunt/uncle/neighbor). But movies are hardly the only thing screaming bored kids ruin; the lack of available, safe, short-term childcare…

Chuck seemed to have a "shit, this is really happening, isn't it?" attitude through the whole thing. I've watched a lot of marriages go bad over the years, but to have one that was so doomed at the start just makes me feel bad for both of them. And the eventual kids.

That's even better, knowing we had something going there for awhile. For some reason I keep remembering that one of the big issues with Mork & Mindy was Dawber, being young, was so terrified of seeming unlikable that they ran out of anything for her to do. You don't need to make the main character a good person; you…

No interest, but I'd far prefer to have stuff like this sounds like roaming out there than the limp "preach to the choir" type of religious semi-movies that we seem to keep getting.

Huh. Of all the things that I was hoping Breaking Bad would have taught, is it's okay if your protagonist is a bad person inside. He can still feel duty to family and friends, be good at what he does, be charismatic and effective. But if the story needs him to be a bad guy underneath, you can still tell that story!…

I dunno; it sounds like it sets up a bunch of questions it never answers, implying the questions were never the point in the first place, and is just a generic "you can't go home again" story only not about the mom it sounds like it actually wants to be about.

Why would you do that? Just wait around for someone else to catch it and then hand it to you. Catching is almost like work.

But an off-putting, over-protective, unlikable mother? That's almost an actual role!

I used to, and kept waiting for her to have a career full of movies I wanted to see her in. I've largely given up on that.

So non-verbal is he can talk, but won't? Or that he has an actual condition that makes talking difficult or impossible? I knew a girl who apparently didn't say a word until she was seven, later explaining she "had nothing to say", but she had many other serious problems that happily continued to make it extremely…

If you're going to hide a body, you really have to bury it deeper than that.

Huh; I'm getting a "was Harvey Keitel ever that young?" vibe.

As unfortunate as that is, and it is, I suspect that being a young actress in the current climate means anything political applied to you will only hurt your career. She did it poorly, but she has to play in red states at this point of her career and if she gets a Lena Durham-type label, that could be a real problem.…