![]() I think we could very easily create The Parents Guide Game along similar lines. For example: “Xanadu,” “Newspaper,” “Flashback,” “Extramarital Affair,” and “Rosebud” would be…? No, not “The Land Before Time.” Try again. Back when I co-hosted The IFC News Podcast, we used to hold a weekly contest called “The Keyword Game”: we’d present five keywords from a movie’s IMDb Plot Keyword page, and listeners would have to guess what movie they belonged to. You should follow this person right this second.īut I think there’s even more that can be done with this remarkable resource. There’s even a joke Twitter account - that tweets hilarious random excerpts form the IMDb Parents Guides (recent sample: “ALCOHOL & DRUGS: Hulk Hogan at one point drinks anti-freeze to avoid being frozen”). Since discovering the Parents Guide over the course of five non-stop hours of IMDbrowsing, I tweeted about my fascination and learned I’m not alone. “A man is smashed by a steamroller and flattened out (the scene is played for humor).” “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!” “Martin cuts open a man’s butt cheek (shown in graphic close-up) and pulls off a large piece of flesh (the man is shown to have died from this).” “A woman eats a piece of cake which causes her to experience an orgasm.” By describing, sometimes bluntly, sometimes obliquely, a movie’s goriest details, they transform exploitation into beautiful, freeform poetry. Here are a few inspired samples: They’re also an endless sources of entertainment for all movie lovers. But the Parents Guides are more than a tool for parents. When I’m a parent someday, I intend to hold my kids to an incredibly strict and highly arbitrary viewing plan - nudity’s okay, but no images of smoking whatsoever beheadings are out, but gun violence is encouraged - so I absolutely see the value in the weirdly specific, fact-description-oriented Parents Guides. I’m certain that these pages are incredibly useful to parents. TCM Classic Film Festival 2023: Hollywood Titans Support Saving Movie MemoriesĢ023 Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Limited or Anthology SeriesĢ023 Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Scripted Variety Series ![]() Nicholas Hoult Dropped Out of 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning' to Finish 'The Great' ![]() A second disclaimer informs potential commenters to avoid opinions and stick to (bold theirs) “ describing the facts” of relevant scenes in a variety of categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes. As indicated by a disclaimer, these guides are not generated by the IMDb or its staff they’re submitted by users as a service to other users. If you’re still using IMDb’s old school layout like me, you’ll find each movie’s Parents Guide on the IMDb left rail, in the “Awards & Reviews” section (you can also access them by appending “/parentalguide” to the URL of any IMDb movie page). It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it.) ![]() I was studying IMDb’s Parents Guides to find information on movie nudity for work. (NOTE: The rumors that I was studying IMDb’s Parents Guides as a sort-of low-rent alternative to movie nudity encyclopedia Mr. I don’t have any children (I do have a dog, but he’s mature for his age, and he’s allowed to watch R-rated movies) so I’ve never needed help determining whether something is appropriate viewing material for my kids. But now that I’ve found the Parents Guides, I’m totally obsessed. Doing research for an article last night, I stumbled upon a feature of the Internet Movie Database that I’ve never used before: the Parents Guides. ![]()
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