XPost: rec.arts.movies.current-films
On 2/20/2016 9:12 PM, Lewis wrote:
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Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
Seeing some of the kids made sense, since some kids were in their
mid-teens with their parents. However, I was very caught off guard at
the presence of multiple kids that looked around the age 7! I don't know
what the parents were thinking bringing their kids to see such a
grotesque, adult movie, but I can imagine many kids were rushed out at
the first sound of the F-bomb.
I love how other people think they are the arbiters of how others treat
their children. I saw many R rated movies when I was under the age of
10, and at least two X rated moves before I was 14 (Midnight Cowboy and
Last Tango in Paris). So what?
Show me a 7yo who's not familiar with teh word 'fuck' and I'll show you
a 7yo in a coma.
When I was 9yo I saw Slapshot, Saturday Night Fever, and Eraserhead. SNF
was the first time I heard (or was aware of hearing, at least) the word "cunt" in a movie. Of course, that year I also saw Pete's Dragon and The Rescuers (and Annie Hall and Star Wars, of course).
In 1987 after seeing "RoboCop" with my wife I went back the following
Saturday afternoon and took the kids, who were 13, 11 and 10 at the
time. About as gory and not quite as vulgar as "Deadpool", I didn't see anything in it that would scar them for life and knew they would think
it was a pretty awesome movie. Didn't feed them a steady diet of that
sort of thing but kind of doled it out like ice cream on special
occasions. Two of them are now military veterans, one of whom is a
police officer, and they are all stable, contributing members of
society, so a little bit of exposure to that sort of thing didn't warp
them.
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