I just saw No Country for Old Men

[alarimer]

Powerful movie but somewhat violent. Which leads to my curiosity as to why parents would bring their 8-9 year old kids to see it. At least two were in the row behind me. Actually I do not know if their parents were there but possibly they were just in another row. I have seen small kids at violent movies before. The first time was with Road to Perdition, which may actually have been more violent than this one, although it has been a long time since I have seen. There were also some much smaller kids there- I heard them crying ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE MOVIE, although probably not because of the movie because they sounded too young to pay much attention.

I don't mean to start a flame war here. I am genuinely curious as to why some people think these movies are appropriate viewing material for small kids.

[lligrd]

1. I'm Curious As To Why They Seem To Be Immune To Their Kids

crying when I certainly am not.

[alarimer]

2. True

These are all reasons I rarely go to the theater anymore. That and cell phones.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

3. Maybe they couldn't find a babysitter

We don't have kids, and it annoys me to have screaming kids at a movie, but I try to understand it. In January I stayed with a friend's 13- and 15-year-old while she was out of town, and they stayed at our house over the weekend. I was very conscious of what they watched on TV. Don't parents check out the subject matter/ratings of the movies they take their kids to?

[alarimer]

4. I guess not. These parents didn't anyway.

I am just annoyed at people in general these days.

[Lorien]

6. I have a (former) friend like that

she has two very young children, and she'll take them to stuff that's as violent as Braveheart, Pulp Fiction or Gladiator. When the little girl gets scared and starts to cry she just says "suck it up! Suck it up! It's just a movie for fuck's sake"!

She and I were friends in High school, but lost touch over the years. When I found her again she had married a RW gun nut. She fights with him constantly, they both swear like sailors around the kids and use the TV as a round the clock baby sitter. That's not the way she was raised, so I'm baffled by her "parenting style", but there's nothing I can say to her about it, of course.

[applegrove]

5. That sounds awful. Little kids should never see violent movies. Are they not rated?

[Longhorn]

7. I won't even take me to that movie and I'm 52!

I'll wait for the edited version on television someday. That's how I saw Fargo and I didn't feel like I missed anything. I know NCOM is an outstanding movie but I just can't handle the graphic violence. Give me Hitchcock any day. :)

[Critters2]

10. The "edited for violence" version of "No Country"

will be about 15 minutes long.

I went to see it, but spent a good amount of time peeking through my fingers, and sitting on the edge of my seat.

And I sure as hell wouldn't take kids to see it!

[DS1]

12. What are you talking about?

There was hardly any violence in that movie. A couple shootouts, and that's about it. I don't see where people get off calling it a violent movie. It's dark, and rough alright, but not that violent.

[Critters2]

13. A couple of shootouts. It was like one long shootout!!

And I'm not all that anti-violence in films. I liked Pulp Fiction and both Kill Bills. But this was too much.

[DS1]

14. that's a really distorted view of the movie

you liked the kill bills, with blood spray everywhere and a body count in the hundreds, but NCFOM with it's lots of talk between action was hardly anything like that. Perhaps you were taken by the build-up between them, instead of the Taratino schlock.

Ridiculous!

[Critters2]

15. Well, the "Tarantino Schlock" was part of it.

I didn't take the violence in his films seriously. This was more disturbing in that regard.

[DS1]

17. and more than 15 minutes long

[alarimer]

18. It's not the most violent movie I have ever seen

But maybe I've become sort of immune to violence. I think the subject matter is inappropriate for children. There was a fair amount of gunplay and some gore (but I have seen more gore in other films).

[MAGICBULLET]

8. I watched all types of movies

except dirty (sexy) movies growing up and nothing seemed to happen to me. My mom just talked to me a lot that's all. Communication is where it's at.

[Lorien]

9. Sexy or X-rated?

It's always amazing to me that Americans embrace extreme violence while shunning lovemaking in films. The MPAA has less trouble with showing a woman having her head blown off than it does with showing her pubic hair.

[Critters2]

11. First R-rate movie I saw was "Love Story". My folks were way more

concerned about violence than sex. My dad didn't allow us to watch the Three Stooges on the cartoon show after school (so we went to friends' houses to watch).

I'd be the same way as a parent. I'd be more than happy to explain sexuality to kids. But how do you explain blowing people's brains out?

[Jade Fox]

16. Small children in very violent movies......

I see it in theaters all the time, and even confronted someone about it once.

It really is shockingly lazy and stupid on the part of parents to drag small children with them to films which the children have no interest in, but will scare them to death. I guess these parents don't want to spring for a babysitter. I wish theaters would have the guts say something to people at the ticket window, something simple like, "This movies is very violent, and not appropriate for a child that age."

[Ava]

19. i won't even take my little sister to see the newest harry potter film

i went to see it before to see if it was ok for her and i decided it was too dark and violent (pg-13).. she's 7.

my friends always act annoyed when i tell them we can't watch rated R movies at my house either until the girls are asleep or if they are gone, but i don't want them sneaking in and peaking at the movie. i know they would because i tried to do the same thing when i was little.

everytime i go into a thread for a rated r movie, especially if it a violent one, i cringe when i see little kids in there. i just have to remember that it is their kids and they can raise them how they so choose, however at the same time that doesn't make me like it anymore.

i want to see no country for old men soon. :hi: