re: Parents who take their kids to R rates movies

If it's horror movie I'm fine with the kids watching it at home. It's straight up good vs evil most the time so easy concepts.


Real R drama, it's a case by case of what books they pull from my shelf for reading.

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I understand if it's a 15 or 16 year old. But when I went and watched Halloween the other night there were maybe a half dozen or more kids no older than 10 years old there with their parents.

So fricking stupid and trashy

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Lol. I was watching The Sopranos with my old man at 8. Stop being a pussy.

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I experienced one yesterday while viewing Halloween. A couple had about a 10 year old special needs child in the theater. He “acted out” during especially tense moments- and of course there were quite a few. Nothing extreme- clapping and speaking out- but noticeable and a bit uncomfortable. I’m not sure how I feel about it.

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You should at least feel annoyed at the parents for not recognizing social boundaries and infringing on everyone else. There are times they can take their kid to the movie that would infringe less on others than opening weekend of this movie.

It sucks that societal norms are no longer what they used to be. People just give zero fricks anymore if they are bothering other people. It's become "I paid my money just like you, so I can do what I want," instead of realizing that just because you paid your money doesn't give you carte blanche to do whatever the frick you want in a theater. Same with the parents with the crying baby in a movie (let alone an R rated one) or with kids running up and down the aisles.

I had to get kinda rude at one lady when the gf and I went and saw Coco. She just kept on talking normal volume to the person next to her all during the previews, and then when the movie started I shot her a few eyes and did the "Can you please keep it down?" routine. She kept at it, and finally I was like you have to stop talking. Her response was "Why are you getting so mad, it's just a cartoon." She literally didn't understand why I'd be mad at her for being loud and obnoxious during a fricking movie in a theater. That's what people think like nowadays...they don't care at all about things like common decency. It's fricking stupid.

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So fricking stupid and trashy

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STTDB!

Oh shut the frick up! I grew up in the 80s, my Dad used to take me to all of the horror classics, pay our way in to get me and a friend in and then if he didnt stay to watch hed leave and come get us when the movies were over.

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Our collective moral compass has been shaped largely by our judeochristian history which vilifies and shuns most aspects of human sexuality. Public displays of sexuality generate feelings of guilt and uneasiness which are often subconscious. Violence and bad language do not carry the same degree of ingrained moral opposition.

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Many people agree and have argued, America still hasn't escaped its Puritan roots.

Compared to Europe's view on sexuality and what you see on TV, it's night and day.

America was founded by Puritans and with regards to sex we still retain that Puritanical ethos as a collective mass.

And we don't even know we're doing it in the slightest bit. It's in our DNA and making a movie R-rated because of a boob shot comes natural...we strangely recoil and see it as inappropriate for certain made up age requirement while extreme horror or violence we no longer recoil - we've become numb.

Puritans didn't mind violence but they hated sex.

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I was born in 86

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Ditto

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growing up those horror icons were just a part of the culture. Even without seeing the movies you knew who they were.

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I had zero interest in the genre growing up. I think growing up the 1st horror/scary movie I saw was Scream. I didnt see it until it had been out a few years, so I was probably 14 or so.

I to this day dont like the genre except a few of the classics.