First I want to say that I did not intend to offend anyone. I just wanted to voice my opinion.
I also wanted to clarify that I do not regret my 15 yr old watching the movie. She is in high school and the story line does resemble much of the reading required in high school. However, I remember reading stories such as, The lottery and The Most Dangerous Game in high school/college and still to this day, those stories creep me out!!! So, for me the movie was disturbing.
I cannot agree with others that the movie does "not" glorify murder and power because children are killing children and laughing about it (in the movie).
As far as my friends response, I just wanted to share the perspective from a mom of a 10 yr old that has read the books.
I personally think that if you have children under the age of 14, you may want to go see the movie yourself first.