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Scaling the Amazing Spider-Man poster disclaimers

Last night's football featured a lot of superheroes, especially in the ad breaks. There was the latest spot for The Dark Knight Rises ; the new teaser for The Amazing Spider-Man. I haven't seen Spidey yet, but I'm even keener to now, after reading the trailer-end disclaimer: "Contains moderate violence and injury detail". That's a new one on me. I'm familiar with mild peril , I'm au fait with adult situations , and I'm all for strong language in a speech therapy context . But injury detail? A Google suggests we've had more inflicted upon us than I realised. The Iron Lady, for instance, "contains real images of moderate violence, injury detail and brief nudity" which makes me think I need to re-see it smartish. Leo Benedictus investigated this fully six years ago, grappling with the "comic wrestling violence" in Nacho Libre and the "frequent jousting" of A Knight's Tale. And Kira Cochrane recently went down to the British Board of Film Classification HQ – next month we'll have a full report of her findings. But your thoughts, please, on injury detail or any new qualifications we've missed recently. And which ones need inventing … ?

Source: The Guardian ↗

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