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View Poll Results: Do you cover your kids eyes at the movies?
Yes 6 20.69%
No 23 79.31%
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Old 01-03-2012, 09:17 AM
 
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I have read the book and watched the Original version of the movie. The scenes that the OP speaks of, is very violent and even Mr. X and I were closing our eyes through some of it. We are in our early thirties.

If the OP is complaining that her parents forced her to close her eyes during this movie and she is of legal age to watch it then maybe she should speak to her parents about it if she feels that she is (for lack of a better word) strong enough to stomach the scenes.

I kind of agree with AC on this, why did the family go together to see the movie? Its not a movie I would even consider going with parents to see at any age. I know I would never have gone with my mom to see it. She probably would have been covering my eyes too! The first and last movie I ever saw with my mother that was controversial was the movie Kids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_(movie)

It was NC17 when I saw it and even though it was not gory or horrific, my mother was so uneased about it that we never saw another movie again unless it was taking my sister kids to see some Disney movie.
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Old 01-03-2012, 09:20 AM
 
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Being aware that things happen is vastly different from watching those things happen.
So true!!

Its like when my husband watches Law and Order SVU or something along the lines of it and the plot is around children getting murdered or have been raped, I do not want to watch it and absolutely detest it. Yes I know it happens in the real world but lord have mercy can't entertainment lighten up already. I read and see the news every day and when I want to unwind it doesn't have to be all doom, gloom and death.
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Old 01-03-2012, 09:31 AM
 
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I have read the book and watched the Original version of the movie. The scenes that the OP speaks of, is very violent and even Mr. X and I were closing our eyes through some of it. We are in our early thirties.

If the OP is complaining that her parents forced her to close her eyes during this movie and she is of legal age to watch it then maybe she should speak to her parents about it if she feels that she is (for lack of a better word) strong enough to stomach the scenes.

I kind of agree with AC on this, why did the family go together to see the movie? Its not a movie I would even consider going with parents to see at any age. I know I would never have gone with my mom to see it. She probably would have been covering my eyes too! The first and last movie I ever saw with my mother that was controversial was the movie Kids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_(movie)

It was NC17 when I saw it and even though it was not gory or horrific, my mother was so uneased about it that we never saw another movie again unless it was taking my sister kids to see some Disney movie.
Honestly, I have always questioned the mental and instinctive animalist state of people who make such movies. It takes a criminal mind to choreograph such stuff. There's another movie where Monica Bellucci is raped for 20 minutes in an underground tunnel.

They can make all kinds of porn, but families can't see this together.

I don't mind seeing this stuff alone, but I generally abhor sexual violence. There's nothing entertainment-worthy about it. When there is a naked/semi-naked woman and it's not sexually appealing, that tells an awful lot of the violence it portrays.
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Old 01-03-2012, 02:13 PM
 
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What kind of a family goes for this kind of movie as a family??

Am I missing something here? Did you enter the wrong theater? Geez
We honestly didn't know. I read the summary of the movie, but naturally assumed the movie was rated R for violence.
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Old 01-03-2012, 02:29 PM
 
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We honestly didn't know. I read the summary of the movie, but naturally assumed the movie was rated R for violence.
Next time look at the print or televised advertisement for the movie. The Motion Picture Association of America (the group that rates films) now posts three things for every movie they give a rating to:

The rating itself.

A rating definition which explains the what the letter rating means.

and a rating descriptor which explains why the movie has a particular rating. (Language, smoking, extreme violence, etc.)

The rating descriptor for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo says: "Brutal violent content including rape and torture, Strong sexuality, Graphic nudity and language."
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Old 01-03-2012, 03:29 PM
 
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If you have to cover your child's eyes during a movie due to the content, they are not mature enough for that movie and shouldn't be there in the first place!
Either that or the issue lies within the parents who cannot accept their childs age that baby them or coddle them or treat them younger than they really are.
Its not always something the kid has done.
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Old 01-03-2012, 07:15 PM
 
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Do you, as parents have a certain age limit to when you'll stop covering your kids eyes? I'm asking because I'm 17 and went to go to see The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo with my parents. My eyes got covered through the sodomy scene, and other random sex scenes that were in that movie.
17 is old enough to watch a rated R movie. They need to get over it.

they should not have gone to a rated R movie with you if that was going to be there reaction.
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Old 01-03-2012, 07:42 PM
 
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My 73 year old grandmother went with me to see the Hangover 2...not ONCE did she even shield her eyes, didn't even cover hers either.

I have a cool grandmother.
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Old 01-03-2012, 08:01 PM
 
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I have read the book and watched the Original version of the movie. The scenes that the OP speaks of, is very violent and even Mr. X and I were closing our eyes through some of it. We are in our early thirties.

If the OP is complaining that her parents forced her to close her eyes during this movie and she is of legal age to watch it then maybe she should speak to her parents about it if she feels that she is (for lack of a better word) strong enough to stomach the scenes.

I kind of agree with AC on this, why did the family go together to see the movie? Its not a movie I would even consider going with parents to see at any age. I know I would never have gone with my mom to see it. She probably would have been covering my eyes too! The first and last movie I ever saw with my mother that was controversial was the movie Kids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_(movie)

It was NC17 when I saw it and even though it was not gory or horrific, my mother was so uneased about it that we never saw another movie again unless it was taking my sister kids to see some Disney movie.
Funny you should mention that. I saw "Kids" when I was ten with my older sister. I can't imagine watching it with my parent. In fact, we watched it specifically when our mom was asleep and our dad wasn't home. It was turned off right when we heard his key in the door.
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Old 01-04-2012, 04:17 PM
 
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Funny you should mention that. I saw "Kids" when I was ten with my older sister. I can't imagine watching it with my parent. In fact, we watched it specifically when our mom was asleep and our dad wasn't home. It was turned off right when we heard his key in the door.
My friend and I watched the original American Pie movie when we were like 12 or 13 years old and watched it in her room with the volume down.
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