- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
What's so crazy about all this is that you Americans have the Halo at M rated (so thats 17 and over right?). Well the film '28 Days Later' is an '18' (the UK is so original, lol), so that's a difference of 1 year between the 2. You'd expect little difference right? WRONG! '28 Days Later' has some of the sickest images I have ever seen on the screen.
Here's just a few:
* At the beginning there is a selection of real life rage and killing. One someone that is hanging and people beating the hell out of the bosy with baseball bats. Another is a person running around with a tyre wrapped round them and coated in petrol; then they are set on fire. Others are simply pure violence, like police on horses beating rioters etc.
* One uninfected person has a large cut on his arm after a battle with some infected neighbours. One of the characters runs at him with a machette and kills him. You see his arm cut get cut clean off.
* The main character, Jim, pushed his thumbs right into the eyes of one of the soldiers. You are actually shown it.
All this violence and horror listed above is in an 18, yet any American under 17 can't buy Halo? That's pure madness!
The fact that 'Halo' is a game, not a real life depiction makes it even softer.
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28 Days Later' makes 'Halo' look like a gentle stroll in the park when talking violence wise.
In the UK, I've seen 10-year-olds buy 'Halo' over the counter in shops like 'GAME' and 'GAMESTATION' without any trouble. Its weird to think that across the Atlantic, there are 14 and 15-year-olds having trouble buying the exact same game from shops like 'WAL-MART'