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- jmontes, on 10/11/2007, -4/+198I wish I thought you were exaggerating, but I've also been in the same annoying situation. It really is a form of child abuse.
- yargthepirate, on 10/11/2007, -12/+166when I went to see Passion of the Christ, there were at least 20 children in the theater. I move that all people be required to obtain licenses before they can breed.
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+152There was a baby screaming a few years back while I was watching the re-release of...get this...The Exorcist. I tried to send a "shhhh" back there and the very mature father yelled "***** you". That is some great parenting.
- Easty, on 10/11/2007, -1/+109Is that really how it works in America? You can take a kid to any movie as long as they're accompanied by an adult?
Over here (UK), it's all limited by age (U, PG, 12A, 15, 18). The only concession is 12A movies, where you can bring a child under 12 if accompanied by an adult.
I dugg it anyway - how the hell can you be THAT much of a bad parent short of actually setting your children on fire? - LukasKaiser, on 10/11/2007, -1/+100i live near the infamous movie theater where parents took their newborn son to see alien vs. predator, fed the infant popcorn and then watched as their kid choked to death. i'm not sure if the fact that it was a horror film was to blame at all for the kid's death, but if you're dumb enough to bring the kid to alien vs predator, i guess you're dumb enough to feed em popcorn.
- frenchdiggler, on 10/11/2007, -0/+92I now know I misspelled Horror in the title, please forgive me.
- timpkmn89, on 10/11/2007, -5/+94@Pixelante
No. In a twist, he teams up with the Jews and they all go kick the devil's ass. The new ending seemed sorta rushed to me though. - zyl0x, on 10/11/2007, -2/+86Too bad the idiots who should be reading this CAN'T ***** READ.
- yohnstoppable, on 10/11/2007, -3/+76"My attempts to insert footage of actress Vera Jordanova into my mental spank bank for future reference were constantly thwarted by your child’s frequent sobs and shouts; as a result, I have, at best, three seconds of Jordanova in said bank. And they aren’t even from the scene where she’s in a bikini"
gold - diulei, on 10/11/2007, -0/+69Yup, been there. I've seen parents who have the balls to reprimand their toddlers for being noisy while in the front row at an R-rated movie.
- Pixelante, on 10/11/2007, -9/+72"I didn't see the Passion of Christ. I had already read the book"
Does he die in the movie too? - mrhahn, on 10/11/2007, -3/+61Who can blame em, T3 was terrible...
- Wrathernaut, on 10/11/2007, -2/+56They may be related to the couple I unintentionally watched "Sin City" with, except the boy was about six and the baby about two.
Perhaps the 6-year-old was given up and the 2-year old grew into this moving showing.
I really wish the NC-17 rating would come back. - AXNJAXN, on 10/11/2007, -0/+52One time, I saw Terminator 3 in a theater (regrettably, I might add), and this guy had brought something like ten or twelve kids ranging from a two-year-old to a five-year-old. They were freaking out every time something happened onscreen. Horrible.
- joeyjojo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+55Yea, things are messed up over here.
Also, our rating system is pretty much based entirely on boobs. Apparently, boobs are the most horrific thing and deserve an R rating. Guns and bombs and torture? Eh...not so bad. - idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -1/+44There can be no mercy.
- Nougat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+35I have a one year old and a four year old. We can't take them to a G rated movie, and we've got to be careful about any movies we watch at home.
My four year old understands that things that happen in cartoons aren't real - he doesn't have the same ability when it's live action. He gets freaked out by the live action Power Rangers shows, and he *loves* Power Ranger toys.
My one (almost two) year old probably wouldn't care what was going on on the screen, but has absolutely no patience for being forced to stay in one place for two hours while awake.
Beyond that, both of them are in bed by 8PM, otherwise they're horrible devils the next day.
Those parents are screwing up their kids. I'm disappointed that the theater didn't prevent them from bringing the kids in; if I was working at the theater, and had the authority to do so, I wouldn't have let them in. This is in the case that they bought tickets for the horror flick, and didn't buy tickets for something mild, then just go into the horror flick. - fivestarsoul, on 10/11/2007, -4/+38He already said that, you LOSER!
- bremma, on 10/11/2007, -6/+38I think he intentionally wrote it like that to give himself a high minded tone. I think it worked well.
- badjoke, on 10/11/2007, -1/+30As long as the parents are present, a kid can see anything up to an R-Rated movie. NC-17 is 17+ only. Also, it can't just be an adult with the kid; it has to be a parent.
- Typhoon2009, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25There's something creepy about kids laughing at a human's struggle to fend off zombies...
- ftblstr2319, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25Violence here is like nudity over there... and vice versa
- jaycliche, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25Depends on the theater and who is working the door. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) sets the rating and then the movie houses can (legally) choose to enforce. All aforementioned are private and most theaters follow the standards but don't have to. A great movie on the topic (I think it's online) is called "This Film Is Not Yet Rated". The ratings bored is unknown and appointed by the MPAA.
- TheAkolyte, on 10/11/2007, -4/+28when I went to see black snake moan, there was this one woman in the theater who had 4 ***** babies right in the ***** first row.
- fotd42, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24Went and saw Constantine (free screener passes, wouldn't pay a cent to see that pile again) and me and my buddy sat down behind this woman with a ***** infant in a car seat next to her. Nevermind that the theater actually allowed this to go down, but she brought a baby to a movie with all manner of blood, violence, and scariness. A ***** baby. So, like clockwork, the kid starts screaming it's head off 2 minutes into the movie, she (like the moron she really was) tried to keep the kid calm/ignore the screaming so she could enjoy Keanu Reeves' latest thriller. After about 5 minutes she gave up her futile efforts and packed up to leave. As she left I whispered "thank you" and she responded by staring at me for what felt like a minute then shouting "shove it!". At least she was kind enough to keep things civil in front of her child. I mean seriously, what the ***** is wrong with these people? I understand that when you have a kid you have to give up part of your social life but you know what? The minute you knew you were pregnant (or your wife/girlfriend/mistress knew) you signed an invisible pact forfeiting said social life. Next time get a ***** babysitter.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24These are the kind of parents that Jack Thompson loves to not blame.
- nova912, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24of his own type of people... did you read the last paragraph at all?
- forexproject, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25This is terrible. The thing is, they should not be able to use the "Don't tell me how to raise my kids" excuse. Our kids that are their age are going to be the one's to pay for their ***** upbringing when they start projecting this violence out in school.
- badjoke, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22Well ranted. Everything I've wanted to shout at many parents.
- SnuKs, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23Yea, why can't they make all Rated R movies NC-17 just to block all dumb parents from bringing their kids in.
OH WAIT I FORGOT. Studios do loooove that $$$$$ - Tarl, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22Personally I don't care if I'm watching the new Incredibles movie or Saw 4. Shut your kids up or leave the theater with them.
- bemenaker, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23Synchro, there is a bit of a difference between Conan the Barbarian and Hostile 2. I saw CtB in a drive in at like six. Made me want a sword and steroids :)
Now I'm 33, I have a sword, and fuhq roids. - PGvildys, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22I saw Grindhouse and two seats away was an 8 or something year old with their parent. At one point they were scared and tried to grab the parents arm, who then said, "what're you doing? Get back in your seat".
During Deathproof, after the horrific car accident deaths, he asked, "Are they really dead?" I don't think the kid could differentiate from fiction (the movie) and real life.
It was horrible :P Heck, y father went to see Jurassic Park before he let me or my brother see it, as he had heard on the news that it was quite scary. Luckily he let us see it (I loved dinosaurs as a kid) but at *least* he checked it out first. - zyl0x, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22Did you just compare Hostel to Spiderman??
- Nougat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21@bjornski (#7147504)
It's only a movie/video game to *adults.* The minds of children are not developed enough to understand that what's happening on the screen isn't real.
Parents should not have the right to subject their children to psychological torture. - brstilson, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20NC-17 movies are rarely carried by theaters. The MPAA has a nice racket going on with movie ratings. They claim it's completely voluntary, but very few major theaters in the US will show a movie not submitted to the MPAA for a rating. Very few media outlets (TV stations, newspapers) will promote it. If you want a large-sized audience to see your movies at all, you HAVE to submit them to be rated. The MPAA likes to punish independent filmmakers by giving them NC-17 ratings (a death sentence). Identical scenes in films from major (member) studios will usually only warrant an R rating. Want to appeal the rating? You have to convince them they were wrong in a kangaroo court that contains representatives of the local churches (they DESPERATELY try to keep that a secret).
It basically amounts to artistic feudalism. The MPAA is the lord and has the final say over what movies get distribution in the country. The ratings system is voluntary in the same manner "protection money" for the local mafia is voluntary. - bitterbug, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21I don't even know what the ratings mean here in Canada any more.
When Se7en came out, there was a 5 year old and a two year old sitting by themselves in the row in front of me.
I asked the five year old where his family was. His brother, who looked to be about 15 or 16 (not even old enough to get into the movie himself) was sitting a few rows back with his girlfriend. The five year old was "looking after" the younger one.
Meanwhile when I tried to take my 14 year old stepson to see Resident Evil, the ticket jockey refused him entrance, even though as his guardian I thought it was something he could watch without being scarred for life. He may be a dumbass, but one zombie movie isn't going to shatter his psyche forever.
So it boggles me that pre-schoolers can get into movies that teenagers can't.
On a separate note, now that they have Movies For Mommies and other specialty screenings, I suggest that we have a Movies for Movie-watchers screening each week. No ***** cell phones, chatting, or food in rattly packaging during the movie. And kicking the seat in front of you is grounds for a beating. :) - hfisher, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20I went and saw The Cell when that pile of crap came out. 5 kids sitting behind me ages 5-10 there mother yelling at them the whole time. Of course i got up called her a crack whore breeder and left, havent been to the movies since.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+23Nudity is real. Violence is faked with red paint and rubber.
- Arahka, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19Every set of parents that I've seen that will bring a toddler to a horror movie are just kids themselves, at least mentally and they're usually not making the best home environment for the kids either. More often than not it's just more of the same as home just louder and darker for the poor kid. I second the motion to make people get licenses to have children. Too bad you can't control their reproductive systems.
- cupid311, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20i've had one of these experiences as well unfortunately. Some friends and i went to SAW 3. That movie is down right disturbing. A lady came in with her maybe 6 yr old daughter. Not only did they sit through the whole movie but afterwords the child had to wake the mother up who was completely passed out. then she stumbled out of the Theater. RIDICULOUS! I was completely disgusted and i hope that mother gets the child taken away from her. The kid needs a REAL parent.
- HomerS1, on 10/11/2007, -26/+44yargthepirate -
I didn't see the Passion of Christ. I had already read the book, and movies based on books never translate to the screen very well :-) - joeyjojo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19When our our oldest was 3 we took him to see the Pooh's Heffalump movie. THAT scared him. I'm all for getting kids ready for the real world, but I completely agree...pre-teen in a HORROR movie should just be plain banned. We don't trust kids to drink until they are 21, we don't trust them to have sex until they are 18, we don't trust them to drive unless they're 16, but we're fine letting them in graphic horror movies when they're 5? yeesh.
- Mitchl, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17While I completely agree that I really don't want to see 3-4-5 y/o's in PG-13 or R rated movies-- I remember not being very pleased of a 5 y/o sitting next to me going to the bathroom a thousand times during Matrix Revolutions-- I am about sworn off of movie theaters anyway because of the teenagers from 14 on up. Yapping on cell phones and even talking at the screen, or the audience and generally acting like jackasses. I can no longer enjoy any movie with my wife shown at 7pm on a Friday or Saturday, as the crowd is just too disruptive.
I will still go see an action flick but only the afternoon or late showings. I will go see Die Hard and Transformers, but then am probably done with the movieplex for this year. I would rather spend my money on DVDs and see it in 1080p DLP brilliance at home at an enjoyable volume with pause, rewind, and close captioning. - ryanknapper, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19"Oh, and did you have to be minorities? As a minority myself, I find it irritating that your blatant lack of intelligence perpetuates old stereotypes regarding the way brown people are said to act in movie theaters."
Yay! As a White Dude™ I always look at white idiots and think, 'You are why people expect me to be a bigoted, inbred, homophobic imbecile. They judge based on the imbecile they expect rather than the imbecile I am.' - bemenaker, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17So, what's wrong with nudity? We're all born that way.
- Jacob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16The ratings are set by private industry so the government can't enforce it. Despite what one jackass movie manager told me when this girl I was with forgot her ID, their is no law in the US saying that you have to be a certain age to see a movie. (except nc-17 but that's way to complicated to get into on digg)
- jaycliche, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18"There's something creepy about kids laughing at a human's struggle to fend off zombies..."
There are lots of creepy things in America. - jaycliche, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15PS I think "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" is available for free (legally) on the net.
- SnuKs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15I swear in some of these multi screened mega theaters, they should convert a screen or two [like they do with imax] into a 21 & up showing. Serve some beer like they do at ballparks and have better seats and i'm sure you'll have a hit!
Imagine.. 300, with a cold beer in your hand and no bratty kids whinning! Awesome! -
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