Thanks for your answers, everyone, it has been quite enlightening.
The question came up re DD1 watching The Matrix. DD is 15, and tbh hasn't watched a lot of M-rated movies. My recall of the movie is that there are some extremely violent scenes (eg entry into the building using automatic weapons in the foyer shootout) plus some really quite disturbing themes. DH on the other hand considers that she is now 15 (ie as of a month or so ago) and viewing M-ratings at the cinema (in theory) starts at age 15 so all okey dokey there. Interestingly we had an extended conversation last year over DD watching The Hunger Games. Even though the violence is depicted in sanitised ways (eg, blows being suggested not shown, no blood sprays, etc) the actual reality of it being children who are chopping at each other was in itself quite disturbing.
For us, this is because I've always limited viewing movies which use violence to resolve the plot lines, usually because those movies contain extended depictions of violent action and are more likely to include more graphic or detailed violence. In the case of the Hunger Games, we eventually decided she could see it, but only because she had read the book and could, in discussion, identify the point of the depicted violence in what the author was trying to convey. I think the child needs to have a certain level of maturity before they can make these sorts of context-distinctions, and therefore why we have restricted viewing of these types of films.
I suspect we are well out of line with popular opinion on this one! LOL
Nothing wrong with being out of line with popular opinion. Just because an opinion is popular doesn't mean it's right.
The more people out of line with popular opinion the better, because then I feel more normal lol.
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