Last movie you saw?

[martin88nyc]

The imdb parental guide is superb. From now on I will always evaluate movies according to this guide. Thanks Jerome.

[PerEvangelicaDicta]

I use the imdb parents guide for tv shows also.  We don't have a television, but download certain shows that are interesting and acceptable  .   As J pointed out, sometimes the guide has not been populated with information however, so you must resort to other sources.  Not easy to find, but worth the effort.

[Bernadette]

If you go to the imdb page (with images disabled of course), you will see a parental guide link if you look closely - it is called Parents Guide: View content advisory » (every film on IMDB has such a link, although, not all of them have something written in it).

If you read it, you will see what kind of nudeness and lascivious scenes this movie contains; since you are a woman, you would probably be less disturbed by even "thinking" or "reading" about it than I am.

Oh yes, if people got more disturbed about these kinds of things, like I do, more people would evidently flee from these kinds of occasions because they would truly fear to fall into sin and and of offending God.

Well, since I don't plan on watching it again, I don't think I really need to find out what kind of nude and lascivious scenes it contains. And if it makes you feel any better, I watch movies while sewing: most of my attention during Lady Jane was focused on sewing darts of even length, with an occasional glance at the movie. I don't like to watch movies without doing some kind of hobby at the same time. I pay more attention to subtitled movies, but then I'm reading the subtitles rather than focusing on what's happening.

And I do fear falling into sin and offending God. But not when I'm not actually sinning.

[clau clau]

Don't mention "The Sound of Music".  I did but I think I got away with it.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0[/yt]

[red solo cup]

Lincoln Lawyer with Mathew McConaughey. Entertaining.

[Jerome]

Lincoln Lawyer with Mathew McConaughey. Entertaining.

Can you please stop writing about the evil and completely lascivious movies you keep sinfully watching (yes, I looked it up) and promoting unto your own judgment? Have you no shame or decency at all? Have your conscience become so seared so that you do not even care anymore what you do or watch or promote?

Oh how I hope this thread could be drowned in the depth of the see and forgotten!

Also, did you miss what I wrote before? Well, now I hope you will not. But perhaps you just don't care? Such a thing would not surprise me also, since according to Jesus, many goes on to broad way down to Hell quite willingly!

Oh you all who keep watching immoral and bad and dangerous movies, you will be judged for your folly. If even every word will be judged, then what with our thoughts and actual deeds?

Many of the films people watch are so horrible and filthy to say the least, and it makes me angry, oh what folly people watch, and still watch!

Yes, you know who you are... and God knows it also.

Even after having seen the Church's teaching, people still just don't care, and this scandalous film thread will continue to be filled with filth, crap, sin, mortal sins, scandals, immoralities, and immodesties, and the people who watch them will, to their own shame, also speak openly about them, thus promoting them. Shame on you!

It is impossible to watch the television or the secular movies, tv series, media etc. in a casual (even if careful) without being exposed to something immodest or worse every day, however careful you think you are. You can't decide what scenes will pop up!

Anyone who has ever watched the television and secular movies and even youtube (and especially when surfing the internet with images on*) knows this. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it.

The Church's teaching as presented in this thread is clear on that:

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0

For those who don't care or care almost nothing, St. Vianney has the perfect words for you:

"There is not a commandment of God which dancing [or media] does not cause men to break! Mothers may indeed say: 'Oh, I keep an eye on their dress [or what they watch (you cannot know all content!)]; [but] you cannot keep guard over their heart.' Go, you wicked parents, go down to Hell where the wrath of God awaits you, because of your conduct when you gave free scope to your children; GO! It will not be long before they join you, seeing that you have shown them the way so well! Then you will see whether your pastor was right in forbidding those Hellish amusements." (The Curé D'Ars, St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney, p. 146)

[martin88nyc]

Any Poirot fans. One of my best long time TV series.
this one:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535120/
is relevant to the current liturgical season, however there are few references to religion. anyhow I love Poirot series and just about any British series. Brits are known for this.

[Bernadette]

Any Poirot fans.

I've just discovered him on Netflix. Not as good as Sherlock Holmes, but the best that I can get, I suppose.

[piabee]

Can you please stop writing about the evil and completely lascivious movies you keep sinfully watching

Can you please stop checking this thread if it's such a problem for you?

[YeOldeFustilarians]

IMDB is often just a slightly more specific MPAA.  The MPAA is worthless.  I've watched movies based on the MPAA advisory of "Rated R for language" and found there to be much more objectionable content within.  And then on the other hand, I could go to another movie rated R for this, that, or the other thing and find nothing objectionable.  By the same token, IMDB frequently fails to mention things that would be found offensive to Catholic eyes.

I cannot recommend more highly the site http://www.kids-in-mind.com/

They are infinitely better than IMDB at providing "parent's guides."  I always check there first.  The only problem is that they are a small operation, so they don't have as many entries as IMDB.

What makes them so reliable is that they basically assume that you'll be offended by anything.  I think they're evangelicals or something.  They rate each movie according to sex, violence, and language (and also include a moral section at the end for philosophical implications of certain movies; e.g., maybe a movie doesn't have any sex, violence, or language but its subject matter is still offense).  For instance, I think they rated Finding Nemo as 3 on a scale of 1-10 measuring the amount of sex involved, because of flirtatious undertones between a couple fish.

[piabee]

I cannot recommend more highly the site kids-in-mind.org

I stopped checking kids-in-mind because their descriptions got too detailed and were frequently worse than the movies.

[Bernadette]

I cannot recommend more highly the site http://www.kids-in-mind.com/

They are infinitely better than IMDB at providing "parent's guides."  I always check there first.  The only problem is that they are a small operation, so they don't have as many entries as IMDB.

What makes them so reliable is that they basically assume that you'll be offended by anything.  I think they're evangelicals or something.  They rate each movie according to sex, violence, and language (and also include a moral section at the end for philosophical implications of certain movies; e.g., maybe a movie doesn't have any sex, violence, or language but its subject matter is still offense). 

Handy. I remember being so disgusted by the second half of Disney's Into the Woods. 

[YeOldeFustilarians]

I cannot recommend more highly the site kids-in-mind.org

I stopped checking kids-in-mind because their descriptions got too detailed and were frequently worse than the movies.

They do get pretty detailed.

So here's the caveat.  Probably don't even bother with a movie, for instance, that's rated a 5 or higher on the sex scale.  Their ratings are very sensitive, their 5 would be most people's 10.

[Jerome]

Can you please stop writing about the evil and completely lascivious movies you keep sinfully watching

Can you please stop checking this thread if it's such a problem for you?

You obviously did not get my point.

My point is not that it is a problem for me first and foremost (even though it could be), but rather that people commit sin by watching sinful movies which they must not do and if they continue to do so, they will not be saved (and it appears many don't care about salvation almost at all); and then on top of this, they write about it ON A TRADITIONAL FORUM and in a way encourages others to watch it as well by their approval.

This I cannot tolerate. Is this a religious forum or not? Why then this impiety and promotion of manifest evil?

Sadly, this kind of work is the devils work and he loves it. Satan loves bad examples, occasions of sinning, scandals, immoralities, lasciviousnesses. This is not of God, but of satan.

St. Alphonsus rightly speaks of such people giving bad examples and scandals when he wrote:

St. Alphonsus Liguori, On Bad Examples and the Sin of Scandal: "Jesus Christ said to the Pharisees, who by their bad example scandalized the people, that they were children of the devil, who was from the beginning a murderer of souls. "You are of your father, the devil: he was a murderer from the beginning." (John 8.44) ... And, in reality, what other office do the authors of scandal perform, than that of a minister of the devil? If he were not assisted by such impious ministers, he certainly would not succeed in gaining so many souls. A scandalous companion does more injury than a hundred devils."
"But the Lord says: "Woe to that man by whom the scandal comes." (Matt. 18.7) Woe to him who gives scandal, and causes others to lose the grace of God. Origen says that "a person who impels another to sin, sins more grievously than the other." ... It is enough to say that they who give scandal rob God of a child, and murder a soul, for whose salvation he has spent his blood and his life. Hence, St. Leo calls the authors of scandals murderers. ... For the sin of scandal hell was created. " (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons (nn. 2-4) taken from Ascetical Works, Volume XVI: Sermons for all Sundays in the Year (1882) pp. 152-173)

I cannot recommend more highly the site kids-in-mind.org

I stopped checking kids-in-mind because their descriptions got too detailed and were frequently worse than the movies.

It is both better and safer to cut of the media completely. One must not put oneself in occasions of sinning.

See this thread talking about this: http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0

The kind of sex descriptions in such film caution websites of today would before in time have been considered by the people and priests an occasion of sinning, and as the porn and lascivious books and magazines of their time.

My advice when advising people to imdb's parental guide was to make people be careful about what they watch, but it is really sad that such sites themselves can be so evil and problematic! Oh what the world has come to just because people refuse to watch this evil media!

"Now, says St. John Chrysostom, if all flesh is grass, it is as foolish for a man who exposes himself to the occasion of sin to hope to preserve the virtue of purity, as to expect that hay, into which a torch has been thrown, will not catch fire. "Put a torch into hay, and then dare to deny that the hay will burn." No, says St. Cyprian; it is impossible to stand in the midst of flames, and not to burn. "Impossibile est flammis circumdari et non ardere." (De Sing. Cler.) "Can a man," says the Holy Spirit, "hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn? or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?" (Prov. 6.27, 28) Not to be burnt in such circumstances would be a miracle. St. Bernard teaches that to preserve chastity, and, at the same time, to expose oneself to the proximate occasion of sin, "is a greater miracle than to raise a dead man to life." In explaining the fifth Psalm, St. Augustine says that "he who is unwilling to fly from danger, wishes to perish in it."" (Hell's Widest Gate: Impurity, by St. Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons (nn. 2-4) taken from Ascetical Works, Volume XVI: Sermons for all Sundays in the Year (1882) pp. 152-173)

[Kaesekopf]

Jerome, please see your PM. 

If you do not cease posting in this manner, you will be permanently banned.