That’s actually what I’m doing.

My problem with LOTR is they focused on the fights and violence. A lot of those battles take place between chapters in the books. The focus on the horror and totally ignore a kid friendly character like Tom Bombadil. I dread to see what they do with the Hobbit book. Almost all of the violent action takes place between chapters and is only explained after the fact. I mean, the stuff with the Dragon would be super cool so I fully expect them to expand on that but I hope they don’t make up some drawn out monster battles. After LOTR and King Kong, I’m all stocked up on that thanks.

I felt the LOTR movies were true to the books – I made sure to re-read the books before I saw the movies for the first time and everything seemed spot on. I don’t know how to sugarcoat war or the such evil. afaik, The Hobbit was meant to be a children’s story, but I don’t think that was the case for LOTR.

The Brave & the Bold is fun. I do wish all the teens in animated shows weren’t totally impetuous, whiny wiseacres. I suppose that’s my cue to stop complaining and write my own comic :-)

I think you’re a bit off on the Harry Potter books though – the stories got darker and much more mature as the series went on. I think only the first two can really be considered children’s books.

Oh, and to answer Johanna. Yeah, PG is usually fine. (Modern PG is fine. 70′s PG taught me all the best dirty words.) I don’t depend on the ratings though. I watch the stuff myself and decide. My problem is not with the rating, it’s with Warner deciding to pander to one audience at the exclusion of another. But, I guess it pays off for them. This is what Warner is. They take children’s books like Harry Potter and turn them into PG-13 horror movies and make a ton of cash so I guess it’s all good. And it’s not like I think they owe me the parent cartoons I can watch with my daughter. I just think it would be really cool if there was a Wonder Woman cartoon a little girl could watch.

My son watches animated movies that are PG-13 and sometimes I find them a bit too violent. But I’ve spent a LOT of time talking with him about the difference between movies and real life, and how in real life we always try to communicate with words. I watch with him quite frequently, and when the violence makes me squirm a bit, I’ll drop a comment like They could avoid fighting by just trying to talk about it. I do prefer to watch new things together so we can talk about stuff if needed.

I also pay close attention to his behavior and he’s not more aggressive or anything. He gets excited by the movies – just like I did as a kid when watching action films – but he knows the difference between real & not real. We’ve had a lot fun watching superhero stuff together and he’s interested in making his own movies. Involved parenting works :-)

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Jim

Any clues on what the next DCU movie will be?