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06-06-2004, 12:02 AM
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I'm a slight bit incensed at the idea of equating witchcraft with "not family friendly", but I do recognize that there are people/parents out there who do (and is their perogative, of course). The Harry Potter series may not be "family friendly" for some reasons (violence and/or its inherently darker narrative could be considered signficant issues), but a positive portrayal of witchcraft is not, in and of itself, a family "unfriendly" issue, any more than any other positive portrayal of something fictitious in a fantasy setting -- it's all about the context, not the device itself.
To your question ... are you asking for films in theatres right now? Personally I don't know of any. Actually, I'd be worried, though, about giving an answer, because the range of issues that any family might deem offensive is extremely broad and various. There are, though, other websites dedicated toward exactly this issue (dove.org, decentfilms.org, etc.). I really don't think this is a good place to get *any* kind of consensus on what constitutes a "family friendly" film, as this forum contains members of all walks of life with differing ideas of what a "family friendly" film means.
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06-06-2004, 01:34 AM
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I don't think kids will become Necromancers and using Goetia just because they watch Harry Potter...!
I don't like when parents control what's the kids watch. Come on, Harry Potter and Shrek are also for the kids... (Okay, they're maybe not a sweet politically correct movie with littles birds who sings some love songs...) but, at least, they're not gorry movies with the magical key for releasing an inexistant devil! 
Garfield will maybe be a cute little movie, but the trailer has nothing to do with the real cat in the comic book... |
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06-06-2004, 02:56 AM
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Do you work for 20th Century Fox or something?
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06-06-2004, 05:38 AM
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I knew this thread was about Garfield the second I saw it. Jacob, if I promise to go see it, will you drop it already??
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06-06-2004, 07:56 AM
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jacob,
I can appreciate where you are coming from. I have a three year old daughter who loves watching movies with her dad, but I will not take her to see Shrek 2. My wife and I let her watch Shrek with us a couple of times and we found ourselves saying things like, "They're not talking very nicely," and "That's mean," just a little too often. Thanks for the heads up on Garfield.
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06-06-2004, 09:32 AM
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so parents with kids, that do not want to expose the kids to shrek or harry potter. I do suggest take the kids to watch garfield the movie.
It's also a very short movie compared to harry potter.
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I concur with an above poster: do you have a vested interest in Garfield?
Garfield looks, and reads not very family friendly. Rewards for a cat that practices gluttony, jealousy, and others of the seven deadlies 
If you're willing to go out and say HP3/Shrek2 aren't very family friendly (I enjoyed both, with HP3 a little more) then may I suggest a true, all ages family friendly film "Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie" ?
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06-06-2004, 09:51 AM
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thank you very much for the kind comments. I do not work for fox. there is a lesson to be learned in garfield which is more or less the toy story plot line.. true that garfield is a selfish cat. He does learn his lesson, to a degree. its also a very funny movie.
JACOB
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06-06-2004, 12:06 PM
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I knew this thread was about Garfield the minute I saw it!
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Ditto! 
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It's also a very funny movie.
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Jacob, Have you even seen Garfield yet? If you have give us a review, if not, why start another thread (You already have a Garfield thread in existence right?).
Your obsession with this film is very amusing, although subtly knocking Shrek and Potter without having seen Garfield yet seems bit strange.
BTW, Everyone that I have spoken to who has seen the Garfield trailer thinks it looks absolutely horrible.
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