10 Problems With The Modern Movie Industry Nobody Ever Admits

9. People Don't Understand What The Certifications Mean Either

Every time a big blockbuster comes out you'll invariably have a bunch of parents ringing up radio stations and posting angry MumsNet forum posts about how they took their little darling along to see it and they were traumatised by the totally unsuitable film. Yeah, sorry, but that's your fault. Just because someone can see a movie doesn't mean they should. 12A (PG-13 in America) means a film is suitable for people over the specified age and that anyone under must be accompanied by a responsible adult who, it's assumed, has assessed the movie's suitability for the child in question. It's not a blanket case of suitability for under 12s or 13s (that's what PG is), and it's not like certificators don't provide detailed guides to what worrying elements may appear in a movie. It's almost like they're there to help protect children. Now there is a clear blurring of the lines when highly marketed movies also being the ones that have merchandising skews towards pre-teen, although the state me have with The Avengers is a lot better than the late-eighties/early-nineties, where the likes of Terminator and RoboCop were the hot toys. And I've not even touched on the side issue of bringing anyone under the age of four into an auditorium - if they can't sit still at home watching an 80 minute cartoon they love, are they going to be OK with a two-and-a-half hour superhero epic? Probably not. Actually...