[Dean]

I am often frusterated when I go to see a movie without asking someone I know and trust what they thought about the movie. Often times the movie has a great trailer but is filled with filth. The movie ratings just don't cut it anymore. Too much stuff slips by with a PG-13 rating.

I am always on the look out for resources that I feel will give me a heads up about a movie. I found these websites very helpful:

Kids-In-Mind assigns each movie a rating from 1 to 10 in three categories: Sex & Nudity, Violence & Gore, and Profanity. Not only that, but they give a complete run down of what is offensive in each of these areas. It is taken from the perspective of a parent screening the film for their kids. From this you can have the heads up of exactly what content is in the movie. (While the ads are annonying, the content is all free.)

Screen It! also rates movies similarly with a scale of None, Minor, Moderate, Heavy and Extreme in 15 different categories: Alcohol/Drugs, Blood/Gore, Disrespectful/Bad Attitude, Frightening/Tense Scenes, Guns/Weapons, Imitative Behavior, Jump Scenes, Music (Scary/Tense), Music (Inappropriate), Profanity, Sex/Nudity, Smoking, Tense Family Scenes, Topics To Talk About, Violence. The site much more detailed then Kids-In-Mind but it is more difficult to navigate. On the homepage just scroll down to the bottom and click "No Thanks" in order to get to the free section.

Hope these are useful to someone!

Thanks,
Dean

[Nathan]

I really like Clean Films and Family Flix where we can rent or buy movies with the "stuff" edited out. There are so many movies with that one inappropriate scene and it is nice to not have to deal with that.

[Dean]

Yeah, I've heard of them before. I'll have to try them out. Oh, cool, they even ship like netflix.

So I did a search and found another one called Clean Flicks. Between that, Clean Films, and Family Flix, who is the best? Are there some that are more and less conservative? What about prices and speed of shipping?

Dean

[bluetree]

Personally, I like to watch the movies the way the director intended it or not at all. I have found that these editing services actually accentuate a negative..you know what the person said or did..you know what took place in the missing segment most of the time and you get to put the pieces together in your head instead of it being there. Same difference.