Some high school students complain about how they cannot go see rated “R” movies in theaters. Rated “R” movies have strong language, explicit scenes, extensive drug use, sexual scenes, and violence.
This restriction on most high school students makes them mad and annoyed; it definitely makes me annoyed, because we can’t watch the movies that we would really like to watch. Examples are Superbad, Pineapple Express, Burn After Reading, which is coming soon as well as My Best Friend’s Girl.
High school students are mature enough to watch rated “R” movies. We are mature enough to handle the sex scenes or to be surprised when a character drops the “F”- bomb. Teens are not in elementary school or in middle school anymore.
We hear curse words, we see people kissing, and we witness violence everywhere and almost everyday. Would it be any difference if we saw these activities in theaters? It is probably better if we saw it in the movies first, than in person.
Not a lot of high school students want to watch PG-13 movies anymore. They are corny and it is the same things over and over again, girl and boy meet, they hang out, love each other, get married, the end, no matter what type of movie.
And PG-13 scary movies are not even scary, the real scary movies are rated “R,” such as all the Saw movies. We do not want to wait five to six months for the movie to come out on DVD. We can handle the gross scenes in horror movies. We are not brainless enough to go if we can’t handle it, if we can’t take it, we won’t go. It is plain and simple.
Okay, we can watch rated “R” movies in theaters, but we have to have a parent or guardian with us. Why? It is so unnecessary. Teens do not want to watch a movie with their parents. Might as well bring the family to join you in watching Superbad so they can cover your eyes during the inappropriate parts and cover your ears when characters in the movie say curse words.
