RATED R MOVIES (page 2)

crownboy

He said he saw it and it was the most shocking movie he had ever seen.

Well, he's either lieing, or he hasn't watched any movies since "talkies" started being made. There are episodes of The Simpsons (a favourite show of mine ) that are way more shocking. Was he offended by a few curse words?

When I was young, my parents wouldn't let me see R rated movies that contained nudity, but they didn't seem to have much problems with violence. Witnesses go way overboard with the R rated stuff, but I found their dislike for Scooby Doo to be far more strange. My parents had no problem with me watching it.

Sassy

I guess I always was a bad girl in this area! I used to watch R movies. I just didn't rent them when other JWs were coming over and I thought it might offend them.

I remember once showing some friends the movie Born in East LA with Cheech Marin. We thought it was really funny.. only a few minutes into it, the JW friends who were staying/visiting with us, apologized but said they would have to go in the other room because all the swearing offended them. I hadn't even noticed.. ooops..

Valis

Ask him if he would go to the Colliseum and watch the gladiators fight...followed by the slaughter of the Christians naturally....but hey, they weren't rated either...and they usually served bread to the audience!

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

SLOAN

Sandy,

Witnesses are sooo frustrating!!! Don't let it get ya down sweetie!!

Euphemism

But, as a witness you better not watch a movie that shows a nipple, it is immoral.

I think that's more specifically American Witnesses. I think that, like Blondie said, European Witnesses tend to be much less uptight.

Gordy

Always remember an Elder giving a talk on what kind of TV shows and not seeing 18 rated films (as R-rated films are called here). The following week he is telling me about this film he watched and enjoyed. It was not until later on I remembered that it was an 18 rated film. Hypocrite

Also I remember visiting an Elders home, the type of Elder who thought he was God's gift to the congregation, if you know what I mean. I was sitting in an armchair next to a cabinet that held quite a few videos, looking at them they were mostly the "family entertainment" type. The Elder had been called to the phone and as I was sitting there one of his children came in and wanted something from a cupboard that was below the video collection. The child got what he wanted but didn't close the cupboard door properly. It slowly swung open, I glanced down and saw more videos in there, thinking they were what he couldn't fit on the cabinet I open the door a bit more to see what he had, expecting more "Disney" stuff. In that cupboard must have been about 20, 18 rated films, a few of the violent type, but mostly sex films. I quietly closed the cupboard door and sat there with a smug smile on my face. From now on anything this Elder said to me could go out the window, because he was nothing more than a big hypocrite. I also used this knowledge sometime later.

jwbot

I had always had issues with this rule and would constantly get into fights with people. Why is there a rule when witnesses in other countries can choose for themselves because they don't have a rating system? Why is it OK to see a man shoot a woman in the chest (violence) but really bad when he is lovingly stroking her chest (sex)?

MegaDude

It's rather funny that JWs avoid R-rated movies. If a film was ever made of the Old Testament, it would be rated X for violence.

czarofmischief

I started breaking this rule when I got to college. I guess it was my first rebellion. I kind of got a high out of sneaking into a rated R movie. It felt good, liberating.

CZAR

Enishi

I actually tried pointing out to other witnesses several times that if certain aspects of the Old Testament were made into a movie and portrayed accurately, they would get an R-rating or worse. Whenever I said that, they would shrug awkwardly and say "well, the context is different". Some parents I knew would have a heart attack if their children saw Shindlers List, but wouldn't think twice about them reading that part in Judges where a prostitute is rapped and cut into little pieces.

Growing up as a dub, I can say that I was far more disturbed by things in the Bible and WTS's intolerant doctrines than any R-rated movie.

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