I didn't say if either was vulgar or not, just that if I had kids, I'd be more likely to let a younger one read the book than go see the movie (assuming they don't gloss over the violence just to appease the MPAA)
I know people have imaginations, but I also think that your mind will visualize the scene in a way that fits in with what you can handle (emotionally, etc), whereas in a movie the way it's shown is decided for you as far as level of gore, how the violence is played out, how much is shown, etc. Not sure if I'm expressing that quite right, but hopefully you get what I mean.
I think I was in my teens when I read it, and it's still one of my favorite books. I think it's more appropriate for younger readers in book form than it would be in a movie, unless they wanted to gloss over, cut away from, the violent scenes. And I agree about BattleSchool vs Command School, Battle School was more interesting.
So maybe it's not a movie meant for kids? I actually don't think the story is a good one for kids anyway, too much violence, etc. Why do so many people think negatively about a movie if they can't take their kids to it?
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I didn't say if either was vulgar or not, just that if I had kids, I'd be more likely to let a younger one read the book than go see the movie (assuming they don't gloss over the violence just to appease the MPAA)
I know people have imaginations, but I also think that your mind will visualize the scene in a way that fits in with what you can handle (emotionally, etc), whereas in a movie the way it's shown is decided for you as far as level of gore, how the violence is played out, how much is shown, etc. Not sure if I'm expressing that quite right, but hopefully you get what I mean.
I think I was in my teens when I read it, and it's still one of my favorite books. I think it's more appropriate for younger readers in book form than it would be in a movie, unless they wanted to gloss over, cut away from, the violent scenes. And I agree about BattleSchool vs Command School, Battle School was more interesting.
So maybe it's not a movie meant for kids? I actually don't think the story is a good one for kids anyway, too much violence, etc. Why do so many people think negatively about a movie if they can't take their kids to it?
News Corp is Rupert Murdoch's company. They also own DirecTV. Maybe we'll have Eidos games downloadable from satellite now...