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MissCrissy
Joined: 04/01/07
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R-Rated Movies
04/07/07 8:26 AM
Why do parents bring children to inappropriate movies? My husband and I prefer to attend R-rated movies because then we don't have to suffer through the PG-13 crowd. But so many R-rated movies are populated with children who should not be there. What are parents thinking?
MrChris and I went to Bad Santa at least three times in the theater. That is definitely an R-rated movie and should not be viewed by children. Yet at each showing there were children there. Just because there are children IN the movie does not mean children should SEE the movie.
Adults brought children to Wedding Crashers, South Park, and others. I expect the theater for Aqua Teen Hunger Force to be child-filled, even though it's R-rated and the Adult Swim show is not for children, because it's animated.
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Mina
Joined: 04/01/07
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RE: R-Rated Movies
04/08/07 9:14 PM
I see that happen often. I just don't get it. I don't want my kids to see that. I went to see Bad Santa with a friend and some of those scenes really shouldn't have been seen by kids.
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MissCrissy
Joined: 04/01/07
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RE: R-Rated Movies
04/10/07 3:57 PM
That was a really funny movie, though, wasn't it? LOL! ;-)
I brought our Little Miss Sunshine DVD down to our friends' house for the four of us to watch. They hadn't seen it and neither had my husband. I told my friend that all the movies I brought her (LMS, The Illusionist, Talladega Nights, Stranger Than Fiction) were not kids' movies. Since her children were next door, it was OK. But then the kids came home. She didn't tell them this wasn't a kids' movie. And after they'd showered she let them watch with us. They're 6 and 7. The movie was almost over, but there was still a lot of content not suited to the girls. I didn't think it was the right thing to do. But while the movie is mine the children and house aren't. sigh
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tater03
Joined: 04/09/07
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RE: R-Rated Movies
04/11/07 2:23 PM
I don't understand this either. I don't let my boys watch movies that I feel are not appropriate. The thing that got me not to long ago is a friend of mine went to see the movie Jackass 2 and took his seven year old son and he seen nothing at all wrong with it. I don't get that way of thinking myself.
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mamab
Joined: 03/31/07
Posts: 17 |
RE: R-Rated Movies
04/12/07 7:28 AM
I don't know what some parents are thinking, either. I thought we were supposed to shield our kids from inappropriate stuff while they were young. Or is that politically incorrect and old-fashioned of me?
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happy2bg33k
Joined: 04/03/07
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RE: R-Rated Movies
04/12/07 8:08 AM
I don't think it's either politically correct or old fashioned of you! The scary thing is that sometimes even PG movies have tones of violence in it which to me is worse then exposing my child to nudity which gets an R rating. It's very messed up.
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tater03
Joined: 04/09/07
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RE: R-Rated Movies
04/12/07 2:21 PM
I would agree that it is important for parents to do this. To extend that though what I don't get is why I see kids going to R rated movies without parents. I am sorry but if it is R rated I would rather that they asked them for an ID or you don't see it. I know alot of people don't agree with that but that is just what I think that the theatres should be doing in the first place.
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