Saw Zodiac at the cheapie theater on saturday (DATE NIGHT!). We both really liked it, though it amused me to no end how pissed some people in the theater got at the ending. Like, what do you MEAN they never really caught the guy? what a crap ending?
People, it’s a true story. Did you not see ANY of the press when this movie came out? There is no satisfying ending.
What pissed ME off was the INEVITABLE small children with their parents in the theater. HELLOOOO? This is NOT a kids movie! There are a couple very graphic murder scenes! Also, it’s just not a kids movie! Lots of talking and frantic running around! No cartoon robots or car chases or corny catch phrases.
But it never fails, there are always people there with their gaggle of kids at the very kid-inappropriate movie, always at this specific theater. I would call them white trash, but they’re never white. Is there an equivalent phrase for those of hispanic ancestry? There must be, and it’s probably very offensive but HEY, I CALLS ‘EM LIKES I SEES ‘EM! OK? STOP BRINGING YOUR BRATTY 6 AND 7 YEAR OLDS TO R RATED MOVIES, OK? IT’S NOT RIGHT! TAKE THEM TO SEE THE ANIMATED MOVIE NEXT DOOR, IT MAY BE BORING FOR YOU BUT HEY, YOU’RE THE ONE WITH 3 KIDS!!! ACT LIKE A PARENT!
I’d have thought when they paid to go in, the ticket person would have said “Err ’scuse me your kids are too young to be taken into this film” or something.
I’ve seen that movie, and I liked it. But here were COLLEGE age children talking through ALL the tense parts. I’d get all into the movie, start getting goose bumps, and THEN hear giggling and whispering from the middle front. Took me right out of it. I shushed them once, but it only made it worse! I can’t tell you how many times I started to get UP to get the manager, and they’d suddenly stop.
Now, I do remember the movie, but I mostly remember how PISSED I was! I’ve been to kids movies that were less annoying with a packed house. It was just me, and them in THIS movie.
I think it depends upon the kids and the flick. No, I probably wouldn’t take my kids to a film about a serial killer. However, I do remember going to a lot of R rated films when I was a kid because my mom wanted to see them (my first being “The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas” when I was 2). Her rule was always that I could watch any movie I wanted as long as there was an adult with me so I could ask questions later. This is how I saw “Maximum Overdrive” when I was 9. Babysitter’s husband was watching it on TV and I was interested, so it was okay. But I was never one of those annoying running around, not paying attention to the film kids. I was always completely sucked into it and rapt.
Dude ran around in a hood and shot kids and unsuspecting people. What a fucking coward. Moreover, he didn’t even raise the decennial crime rate all that much in the Bay Area. What a waste of protein.
Now, Ed Gein, or Jeffrey Dahmer… those guys were INNOVATORS….
Weird, in the UK the kids wouldn’t be allowed in. The age limit on a film is there for a reason and anyone obviously too young can’t see the film.
here an “R” rated movie is “no one under 17 allowed without a parent,” so parents just schlep the kids in. this theater is pretty darned ghetto, though, and would probably let 12 year old in by themselves to see an R movie.
When I went to see Silent Hill (ya know, that movie I had to walk out of because it scared me so badly I went into a panic attack), there were 10 and 11 year old girls in the row in front of me, no parents in sight. They were not bothered in the slightest by the horrific and disturbing images on the screen. The apathy was just as unsettling as the movie itself.
There is no WAY I would let my children see a movie with that amount of violence and gore at that age, even if there was a parent present. When I was that age I wasn’t allowed to watch certain movies, and although I pouted about it, I didn’t make that big of a fuss because my friends weren’t allowed either so I never felt left out. Though I later became a horror film buff, there have been plenty of times that I thought “Sheesh, if I had watched this as a kid it would have fucked me up”, or worse, I would now feel nothing at all because of it.
Like Caro said here we have definite age limits on movies. I remember being 15/16 and trying to slap on enough make up to look older so we could get into 18 rated movies.
Ugh, that drives me nuts. Actually any obnoxious talking and what-not at a movie theatre from any age group ticks me off to no end, especially if I get sucked into said movie! That’s part of why I usually wait for ‘em to come out on DVD.
I’d say that’s right up there with when we went to see Borat and the couple next to us brought their 6 year old son, because THAT’s a good idea.