Comments on: Bad parents and bad movies

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:45:03 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated

yeh, it’s wiki, but a good place to START researching this documentary.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:38:43 +0000

Your son is a LOT smarter than most on this board! I commend you and especially him.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:10:44 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:48:19 +0000

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

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:47:33 +0000

“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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:52:27 +0000

The same parents let their kids play violent video games “for fun.”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:56:54 +0000

“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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:39:15 +0000

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…