Bad parents and bad movies
p2pnet.net news:- How many kids are watching adult/scary/near-porno/etc movies they shouldn’t be anywhere near? 
The subject of the NC-17 rating as it applies to youngsters is being examined by Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America)
The “awkwardly named” rating was born in 1990 and, “has become synonymous with tainted goods,” says Variety, the biggest complaint being “with parental permission, children and teenagers can watch R-rated releases” and, “no one under the age of 17 should be allowed to see it at all in theaters,” says the story.
Josh Tyler, writing in Cinema Blend, couldn’t agree more.
“The Hollywood Reporter says they’re adding a new advisory on to the R-rating which says, ‘Generally, it is not appropriate for parents to bring their young children with them to R-rated motion pictures” he says, going on:
Apparently most parents have been completely unable to figure out on their own that this is a bad idea. The MPAA has seen all the same crappy parenting you have. The next time you’re in an R-rated movie look around and count the number of kids under 10 in there with you.
The change comes in response to complaints from moviegoers, who are sick of ‘My Name is Earl’ rejects dragging their brats into movies they’re not old enough to see and thus ruining the experience for everyone else. I’m not talking about crying kids here, I’m talking about trying to enjoy a gloriously dark and disturbed R-rated movie while the little kid next to you asks his mommy why those two women are kissing and wonders out loud what happened to that nice man’s head. Seriously, enough.
Frankly, this isn’t taking it far enough. Most of the parents who insist on bringing their kids into R-rated movies anyway probably won’t even notice the new language attached to the rating and if they do I seriously doubt they’ll care.
Seconded.
Also See:
NC-17 rating – MPAA’s NC-17 concerns, March 12, 2007
Variety – MPAA tries to remove NC-17 stigma, March 10, 2007
Cinema Blend – MPAA Warns Bad Parents With New R, March 15, 2007
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March 16th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Those ratings are posted for a reason but people just do not care.
The other day I went to see the movie 300 and a couple came in with their baby girl (less than a year old). Thankfully she did not make any noises during the movie but she definitely watched and although I think that she will not understand it, those images will be with her forever.
Why some parents can be so selfish is beyond me…
March 16th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
“Why some parents can be so selfish is beyond me…”
Selfish is the right word. Cheap would be another. A lot of parents these days refuse to dish out the cash for a babysitter, opting to take their tots to the theater instead, a real nightmare for most everyone involved. What the cinema needs to start doing is charging full adult admission price for children when the rating is an adult one. That should help a little bit, perhaps even a lot. Then again, what do I care. This is just one of the many reasons the wife and I do not go to the theater anymore. Building a HD home theater system was certainly a god send for us I’ll say.
March 16th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
The same parents let their kids play violent video games “for fun.”
March 16th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
“I’m not talking about crying kids here, I’m talking about trying to enjoy a gloriously dark and disturbed R-rated movie while the little kid next to you asks his mommy why those two women are kissing and wonders out loud what happened to that nice man’s head. Seriously, enough.”
If this is such a problem then why not just not go to the theater at all? Wait until the DVD comes out and rent it.
In my experience, parents pay a lot of attention to the ratings, perhaps even more than they should. For example, there are plenty of children in the 14-17 age group who are MATURE enough to handle at least some R-rated movies, yet their parents refuse to let them see any because they simply haven’t AGED enough. Another problem is that people always tend to lump the movies into their general categories and judge them on the rating alone. What’s more important is WHY it has that rating, which is why there are explanations for why any particular film is rated what it is. Yet most parents only look at the category, and not the reasons, in their evaluation of a movie. This is exactly what is giving the NC-17 rating such a bad reputation; people assume that ALL of the movies in that category are nothing but glorified pornography because they don’t educate themselves about content.
Then again, I grew up in a conservative neighborhood.
March 17th, 2007 at 1:48 am
Agree with you.
Me and a lot of my parents care our children to understated the point, not to hide things from them.
And believe me it helps my son to easy educate himself, reading books, understanding true and comparing learned thin:)gs with movie story. He says “R-Rated is usually more real …”
This is just my experience
March 17th, 2007 at 8:10 am
People interested in this story might want to watch/download “This film is not yet rated” its a documentory on how they rate movies. Really interesting movie.
March 17th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Your son is a LOT smarter than most on this board! I commend you and especially him.
March 17th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated
yeh, it’s wiki, but a good place to START researching this documentary.