Your children and movie ratings

[miraclefan]

This reminds me of when I went to see TDK.

This woman brought her two kids who looked to be between five and nine. She probably thought "Oh. Well it's Batman," without doing any research.

The poor kinds were terrified and the younger one started crying (Only ruining it for the rest of us).

Those guidelines are there for a reason.

You too huh!? there was a young kid at my theater (place was PACKED!)who,at the time of the bank robber scene,I belive had to be taken out when he/she began asking in a LOUD VOICE LIKE THIS- MOMMY I DON'T WAAANT TO SEE THISSS IS THHAATTT THE JOKERR? I DON' LIKE THIS JOKER! I swear I came real close to telling that mother to get the kid outt'a there that stupid! Some ''PARANTS'' just drive me up the WALL!

 

[FrontLine]

I am asking this here rather than General Media because I know there are many parents who post in Miscellaneous and this thread is more about being parents rather than the movies themselves.

On another site a woman complained complained in a thread that she took her 7 year old son to see "Knowing". She said she knew nothing about the movie beforehand having not seen any trailers etc.

During the first intense scene her son was scared and crying. The woman took him outside for a while but she thought that the rest of the movie might be OK so she talked him into going back in.

I commented that she should have taken notice of the PG-13 rating.

She said that many movies with PG-13 ratings are aimed at children (Indiana Jones, Transformers etc).

So I was wondering how many parents here do take notice of ratings of movies, TV shows, games, books etc. Would you ever consider letting a 7 year old watch something with a PG-13 rating?

Smack that parent for being an idiot.

As for me and my brood, I have always checked out any movie prior to letting my kids see them. I make a judgment if I think they are capable of watching it or not.

 

[opali]

the five year olds who didn't understand Hulk and cried all the way through because of it.

That was me.

Incidentally, my eight year old was given permission to watch a video last night. I came up to see what she had picked and there she was eating Doritos and watching Laurel and Hardy, "Flying Deuces" episode from 1939.

Now there's a girl with good taste.

I introduced Flying Deuces to my eight year old niece on our last family vacation.

She loved it.

A most wonderful movie, full of belly laughs.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I restrict movies to my kids based on rating under normal circumstances. However, if there is a PG-13 film that I have seen and consider harmless, then I will occasionally let the kids watch it.

That is how I feel. I let my son see "My Left Foot" when he was under the recommended age. It had a M rating in Australia which I guess is similar to a PG-13 rating (whereas n MA rating means that a child under 15 is not allowed to see it in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult.)

I watched the movie and realised that the rating was as a result of the word 'fuck' being used several times in the movie. There was also a brief glimpse of a dirty magazine that the kids had and of adults drinking.

Now my kids could hear such language by just opening up the window and listening to our next door neighbour working on his car so I didn't think a hearing a few fucks in a movie would really hurt them.

My youngest son has, like Christy Brown (the man the movie was about), cerebral palsy so I thought a movie about what Christy achieved despite his disability would be a good movie for my son to see. He saw the movie when he was about 11 and loved it.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I'm not a parent, but I often take my niece's to the cinema. They're now 11 and 13 so I have no problem taking them to a 12A/PG-13, but I usually if it's a film I don't know a lot about myself I will check out what the movie is about, read some reviews and check the parental advice and tell then my brother/sister-in-law what they can expect from the film and let them decide whether they should see it if there's anything in the advice/reviews I think they may be concerned about.