Shooting in Colorado showing of The Dark Knight Rises

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Jimmy Yakapucci wrote:Seeing all these comments about people taking their young children to see possibly improper movies reminds me of something that happened "back in the day". Geez do I sound old. I remember when the movie Porky's had just opened in the theater. At one later showing ~9:00 or so, I saw a man with what had to be a 4 or 5 year old waiting in line for the movie.
:lol: I had to google for the plot of that movie.
Well, I don't think showing horniness would ruin the child. It'd probably think "ooh look, old milk bottles". :lol:
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ZeroAX wrote: It was actually a girl....btw is Batman popular in the states with little girls?
In my experience it isn't popular with little, tween, teenage, adult, nor senior women. They'll go to the movie if their boyfriend/husband really wants to see it.
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ZeroAX wrote: Well, I don't think showing horniness would ruin the child. It'd probably think "ooh look, old milk bottles". :lol:

Lot more than horny stuff going on, it has an very uncomfortable glory hole scene.
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hm so the parents brought her cause they didn't have anywhere to "park her". I am not accusing them, but I can't stop thinking how much this sucks.


And oh dear at your second post. Oh well, I think taking small kids to the movies in general is a bad idea. Loud and all.
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Menegrothx wrote:
AppleQueso wrote: Hi strawman.
How is that a strawman? You said it makes you question if the rating system has any real merit at all, and I asked you if you really think that way even if it's the extreme cases we're talking about. If you question the system as a whole, it shouldn't matter whether it's a harmless action movie or a snuff movie, let the parents decide.
I don't intend for what I was getting at to be taken to that kind of extreme.

Shit I don't think most ADULTs can handle willingly watching some of the stuff you mentioned.
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Don't forget that the ratings system as enforced today merely means that a child cannot see R rated movies without a parent accompanying them. They can get in to G, PG, and PG-13 movies just fine; when I worked at the movie theater we sold to everyone as long as it wasn't R. The rating system is a very rough guideline to help parents make a choice about what movies they allow their children to see. It's up to the parents to decide what movies their children can handle and what ones they need to be older for.
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Luke wrote:
Dave would have been better to say: "You don't know the circumstances."
No. I was as blunt as I was because I am seeing the kind of shit that King posted across the web - comments that directly or indirectly blame the parents that brought their kids to the film for their death.

These are pretty much the most hurtful, offensive, uninformed, and frankly STUPID kind of remarks one could ever conceivably make following something like this. I mean FOR FUCK'S SAKE don't you think that these parents are already anguishing in ways that few people will ever have to know without spreading this hateful rhetoric that questions their parenting choices?

A sleeping three month old or a well-adjusted and well-rested six year old absolutely have every right to be at the film with mom and dad if mom and dad think it is ok for their own kids. Anyone who thinks otherwise should just shut the fuck up unless they know the parents and their kids personally. Even then - given what happened - why would you want to jump to the worst possible explanation (blaming the parents for murder) as one of the causes of the tragedy? Do people really need to be arrogant assholes in order to grant themselves some kind of parenting moral superiority?
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The only thing funnier than movie ratings are videogame ratings :lol:
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dsheinem wrote: (blaming the parents for murder)
I had no clue he was conveying that.
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Luke wrote:
dsheinem wrote: (blaming the parents for murder)
I had no clue he was conveying that.
indirectly, absolutely.

saying it is "terrible parenting" to have the kids there, when knowing they were killed because they were there...it is an offensive insinuation in this context. If you were the parents of the murdered kids, how else could you interpret the comment?
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