I mentioned on Twitter a few hours ago that I can’t rely on movie ratings anymore, because I don’t really mind violence in movies, but I want to avoid sexual content. The response was, “that doesn’t seem backwards to you?” Hmm. There were two parts to the question; I answered the first half by linking to… Read More »
I’ve been thinking a lot about rating systems lately. People like to categorize things in neat little boxes. It helps us keep track of things, especially when there are a lot of them, or when they’re complicated. When I was around 10 years old, I had a big plastic box full of Legos. When I… Read More »
Yes, I mean that Twilight. The movie based on the books by Stephenie Meyer. It’s been sitting in our Netflix queue for months now, always getting pushed back in favor of other more interesting things (like my ongoing re-watch of Star Trek: Deep Space 9). Somehow it made it to the top, though, and arrived… Read More »