There was a 9 year old!!

What the hell is wrong with people?

I remember when I went to see The Mummy 3 last summer, these stupid parents brought 2 YOUNG kids to a 10pm showing- the oldest couldn't have been more than 5 or 6. Not surprisingly, the movie scared them, they started crying, I had to go get the manager because of the noise complaint and they got kicked out. Morons.

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Jesus! Relax, take it easy... I was twelve and I was watching movies with explicit sex scenes, and I'm not sleeping around or cursing for no reason, and am in no way screwed up in the head. Once my family and I were going to watch a movie and I looked at its box and saw that it said PG18 (I think you say R-rated, right?), and I told my dad, kind of joking, my sister and I weren't supposed to see that movie... and he said "I trust that you are mature enough to realize those are things those people are doing at certain ages and for certain reasons" and he was right to trust me on that. Sheltering 14 yr olds from a world where there's sex and cursing words will only mystify that world and make it sound more appetizing than it really is... Fourteen years is a more than appropriate age to see this movie...! In my country twelve is the minimum age, and it is the PG I'd give this movie, and not because there's sex and swear words I would think it entirely unsuitable for younger kids, but because they wouldn't really get the jokes and get bored!
What I don't agree with is taking small kids that get scared easily to see the mummy or Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, because then they're going to start crying and ruin my experience of the movie...!

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Start having some accountability for how your kids turn out and the kind of people they grow up to be! I have two young girls and my job is to protect everything that they consume, be it what they eat or drink, what they read, what they watch, or what they hear.
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It sounds like you're bit of a controlling mom...
If you're really going to try to protect your children from everything that resembles reality than they're in for a big wake up call the minute they set out for their lives. Your job is to raise them and by doing so to prepare them for what's out there, not protect them from every single thing there's out there so that they'll never really know anything about real life... One thing is to set up a filter on the internet so no porn sites or pedophilia networks can be accessed, another is to deprive them from a romantic comedy that addresses sexual issues that are very current. How else are they supposed to know how to live their sexuality properly if they've never faced the issue at all by the time they start having their first crushes?
This movie is actually a great lesson in that topic, proving that people should go for affection rather than lust - I think that's a message I'd give my kids (if I were old enough to have them).

(And your job is to protect them from everything they consume, not protect everything they consume. forgot your words :P)

I've said this already in another post... in Europe you are allowed to curse on national television. if it is really hardcore the presenters might pretend they are shocked but all the tv stations have the chance to cut it and they didnt (they never do!).

the european movie rating to this movie was that everyone could see it in sweden (& norway i believe), people with 10yo and over (switzerland) and 12 and over (portugal and netherlands). do you think that *beep*, *beep* *beep* cock and all those words, people of 14yo have never heard it or think that they're parents never say it? honestly?...

I guess that i am too liberal then, because I'd prefer (1million times) that my kids would watch a movie full of curses (not horror movies that would scare them) but that they'd hear people laugh about it than to support the «hanah montana-brainwash» and then when she starts collecting boyfriends (like the whole jonas bros & the infinity and beyond) and releases a home-made porn, parents start saying... no honey that has stopped being acceptable.

showing that a certain behaviour can be funny is so much safer than to 'sell' kids to any person (who obviously is capable of being a Saint and the Satan)!

youngsters dont make mistakes, they try new things n besides, brains r overrated!

You people have to be some of the most prudish socially backward people I've ever seen. But then you're probably mostly American which would make sense in a twisted sort of way. America is the biggest cesspool of contradiction you're likely to find. What ever happened to the idea of this so-called American "freedom" that everyone loves to spout off about? Or the right of parents to dictate what is and is not proper for their own children to watch.

If some of you are an example of the kinds of parents out there today....it is no wonder that the age of rebellion is increasingly getting younger and younger. You think watching a movie is going to corrupt children into thinking about what you in your twisted perception is "naughty" or "inappropriate"? I can assure you they don't need movies for that. It's already in their minds and they ARE thinking about things that you couldn't even fathom.

Wake up and stop living in this puritanical delusion that you've seem to have built up around yourselves.

Talk to your kids, find out who they are, you'll be surprised at what they know...and maybe they can even teach you a few things.

/rant mode off

Maximillian

To be honest sometimes I think people need to relax more. Its not what your kids are watching. I can almost promise you that, its how much conversation you have with your kids about what they are watching. I don't think the problem is that parents allow their children to watch questionable selections, its that they do not communicate with their children, beyond barking orders or babying.

My parents were young when I was growing up. They are only in their mid-40s now. I grew up on MTV, 90210 and Melrose Place, later came Friends etc. These programs did not hurt me, nor affect me negatively. To be honest I've re-watched some episodes, and I realized the majority of the material went right over my head.

I think the major difference was, when I had questions, my mother answered them honestly. Sex wasn't taboo. It was a natural part of life, that was going to happen. So we talked about it. My brother is 18months younger, and he would hear it too.

For example I remember catching the waterfalls video on TV by TLC. I liked the song, I had no idea what the song or the video was about. My mom asked if I understood what they were talking about and I of course said "no". That was when she told me about HIV/AIDS and safe sex, the dangers of doing drugs, etc. It wasn't the ONLY time it was talked about, but it was the first. And it wasn't treated as a big deal, like "THE TALK". I think I was maybe 9 or 10. So even though, I wasn't completely sure what sex actually was, but I knew that if you didn't want to get sick from it, you had to use a condom.

My brother and I both grew up to have open relations with our parents. We never got in trouble in high school or college. We were both honor students, and I was a virgin till I got married. So its not necessarily what your kids are watching, its if you're actually being a parent and talking to them.

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You're a brave little boy, aren't ya? Boo boo wah? Gah gah? Want candy?

"Sheltered kids are the ones with the problems. When I was a kid I was allowed to watch whatever I wanted & nothing ever scared me."

Definitely agree. Not saying kids should be allowed to see outright porno....but I see little to no harm in them watching movies that they aren't going to actually understand anyway. It's up to the parents to teach the kids right from wrong, and adult behavior vs child behavior.

It's discomforting to think of what this generation of coddled, over-protected bedwetters are going to grow up to be like as adults. Seriously....everyone knows that person who was way too sheltered growing up, and has trouble dealing with normal situations.....now realize that 80% of kids these days are growing up like that.

Totally agree with you. People need to chill out...

http://www.anticelebrity.net/blog/2009/8/16/film-drought-2-rom-coms-and-a-horror.html

Definitely agree with you. What's wrong with this movie? Someone said "c*ck" couple of times, so what? big deal. 14-years-olds use the same language every day, but not in front your eyes. And definitely have seen muck more "c*cks" than many of the 40-years-olds. Everyone knows it' so admit it. I guess it's the UGLY TRUTH

I agree with you. I'm middle-aged now. When I was a kid, I was allowed to watch whatever I was interested in. I was very young when I saw films like The Exorcist, Don't Look Now, The Devils, Serpico, The Godfather, A Clockwork Orange, etc. at the theater. I think what should make the difference is if the kid is interested in the (type of) film, and whether they've typically enjoyed seeing that type of film--and that should be the case whether parents or guardians are hauling along a six year old or a sixteen year old.


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In France there's no age restriction for that kind of movie. There were no k.unts and no blood, so I don't see why it shouldn't be for all. Anglo-saxons have a weird problem with swearing You people are far too religious.

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What I don't get is why a 14 year old would care about parenting techniques.

I direct your attention towards this charming story, posted on NotAlwaysRight.Com. Yes, people really are THIS stupid.

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Parental Gui-dunce
Movie Theater | Vancouver, BC, Canada
(A woman and her son who looks about 8 storm up to the box office.)

Customer: “I demand my money back for our movie!”

Worker: “Okay, no problem. Because it’s been within the first 30 minutes I can refund you the full price. What movie was it that you went to see?”

Customer: “Sin City!”

Worker: *begins to refund the two tickets*

Customer: “You know, this is ridiculous. You should have told me that this movie was inappropriate for my child. There’s not even a notice anywhere telling me this!”

Worker: “Uh…"

Customer: “How on earth was I supposed to know that this movie is inappropriate? You really should have told me!”

Worker: “Are you serious? The movie is rated 18A, the poster right in front of you has a half naked lady dancing, AND it’s called SIN City! Did you expect it to be about bunnies and rainbows?”

Customer: *grabs her money and storms off with her son*

( http://notalwaysright.com/parental-guidunce/1317 )

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"So are we gonna sit around here crying into our latté's or are we gonna do something about it?!"

At my local cinema in UK no one under 18 is allowed into any late night (after 10pm start time) show, which I personally think is a good idea.

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