MZ's Top Ten Films of 2009 (plus six honourable mentions)...

[MinionZombie]

Horror in general shouldn't be PG-13, true, but Drag Me To Hell is the exception to the rule. It truly is.

[bassman]

What does it matter what the rating is? If it's scary, it's scary. Seriously....Jaws is PG.

[AcesandEights]

What does it matter what the rating is? If it's scary, it's scary. Seriously....Jaws is PG. Wise words.

[MinionZombie]

Wise words. Innit just.

[DjfunkmasterG]

I don't consider Jaws horror.

[bassman]

I don't consider Jaws horror. Yeah, you're right. It's actually a romance between Hooper and Quint.

[MinionZombie]

Yeah, you're right. It's actually a romance between Hooper and Quint. That just makes is scarier.

[DubiousComforts]

I don't consider Jaws horror. The original Night of the Living Dead was released without a rating. JAWS is horror.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Gents, you're both (this means you, as well, DJ) letting us down. What about the decade? I expect your picks and observations for top ten films of the decade on my desk by the striking of clock on New Year's Day. Sharpish, now. Of the decade: Lets see Gladiator Training Day Man on Fire 3:10 to Yuma American Gangster Batman Begins American Psycho Planet Terror Sin City Pirates 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl Blow Iron Man Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Gone Baby Gone Million Dollar Baby No COuntry for Old Men There Will be Blood Shooter Frost/Nixon The Wrestler Ratatouille Wall-E Letters From Iwo Jima The Departed The Aviator United 93 The Bourne Supremacy/Ultimatum Chrildren of Men Cinderella Man Walk The line The Cooler Mystic River Gangs of New York Catch Me If you Can Kill Bill Vol 2 Casino Royale (2006) Monsters Inc Good Night and Good Luck Ali Public Enemies Collateral Black Hawk Down The Taking of Pelham 123 Intolerable Cruelty Up The Incredibles Serenity Sorry my brain is mush... but that would be my best of the decade so far. ---------- Post added at 07:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:42 PM ---------- The original Night of the Living Dead was released without a rating. JAWS is horror. Thats because the original NIGHT didn't need a rating. Ratings weren't mandatory like they are today. (Don't let the MPAA fool you, they say its voluntary but without it you will get zero theatrical play) Jaws is not horror... Big solution to the whole Jaws thing... If the news is reporting a giant man eating shark is cruising your local beach.... Guess what, go to another beach some where else. The east cost is what 2000+ miles of beach? I am sure there is a section with no Sharks. Any moron dumb enough to go into the water at a beach with two confirmed shark attacks deserves to get eaten... That isn't horror... thats plain stupidity. The guys on the boat going out to hunt the shark... YOu know what... when someone suggests you go get a bigger boat... go fucking get it. Or when the shark starts damaging your boat... fucking leave and go get a BIGGER STRONGER BOAT, then come back to fight. Jaws is like a dumbass brining a knife to a gunfight. I like the film for its tension, but to me that is not a horror film, it is afilm about what dumb fucking people do because they're too dumb to go to another beach. Hence why I do not consider Jaws horror

[clanglee]

Jaws is not horror... Big solution to the whole Jaws thing... If the news is reporting a giant man eating shark is cruising your local beach.... Guess what, go to another beach some where else. The east cost is what 2000+ miles of beach? I am sure there is a section with no Sharks. Any moron dumb enough to go into the water at a beach with two confirmed shark attacks deserves to get eaten... That isn't horror... thats plain stupidity. The guys on the boat going out to hunt the shark... YOu know what... when someone suggests you go get a bigger boat... go fucking get it. Or when the shark starts damaging your boat... fucking leave and go get a BIGGER STRONGER BOAT, then come back to fight. Jaws is like a dumbass brining a knife to a gunfight. I like the film for its tension, but to me that is not a horror film, it is afilm about what dumb fucking people do because they're too dumb to go to another beach. Hence why I do not consider Jaws horror But change shark around for "serial Killer" or "ghost" and change beach around for "Summer Camp" or "Haunted house" and you have the basic plot for many many "horror" movies as well. Dumb people going where they don't belong and getting killed. . . . . . . Sounds like a horror movie to me.

[DjfunkmasterG]

But the for the sake of argument clang... this is Jaws we're talking about. Hard to subplot a lot of that because other Horror flicks like F13 and ANOES didn't play up the media angle like JAWS did, however, the actions of the people are somewhat similar, but I still do not consider JAWS horror.

[capncnut]

JAWS is not horror in the traditional sense but there are a lot of horror elements to it. When Hooper grabbed the tooth and the head popped out from under boat... that jump is easily on par with the graveyard scene at the end of Carrie.

[clanglee]

I've always seen Jaws as a horror movie, and a smacking good one at that. It's a horror movie with a very large "adventure film" streak through it. As far as PG13 horror goes. . well. . Poltergeist was PG13. . . the Grudge was as well. . . I liked both of those movies and found them both pretty effectively scary. I didn't find DMTH very scary though, but it is a very very fun time.

[LouCipherr]

PG-13 is PISH when it comes to horror. Sorry but any decent horror film worth its weight in salt, sugar or COOVAN shouldn't be rated anything less than an 18 in the Uk or an R in the USA. Umm, let me be the first to call bullshit on this. Dj, how can you say "ALL" PG-13 horror movies are "pish" (hah!) when you haven't seen them all? This one in particular is the exception to the rule. I rest my case. To (partially) quote "The Wolf": Now, pretty please, with sugar on top... go watch the fuckin' movie. Also, Jaws is like a dumbass brining a knife to a gunfight. I like the film for its tension, but to me that is not a horror film, it is afilm about what dumb fucking people do because they're too dumb to go to another beach. That's like saying the Amityville Horror isn't a horror movie because they could've just moved to another house. WTF dude?!

[bassman]

"The media angle"? What exactly are you meaning with that? You should really find another hobby if you don't think Jaws is a horror movie.