Movie Ratings

[ktheodos]

Do people even care or pay attention? I was amazed at how many young kids were in a rated R movie the other day - not just the fact that parents brought them in but that the movie theaters didn't discourage it...and we wonder why there are so many struggles with children being brought up these days....hm....

[countrygirl12]

It is nothing to the movie theater.  They cannot say anything if a parent wants to allow their child to watch a rated R movie.  If an employee says anything they will end up all over social media and will be fired from their job.

I think watching a rated R movie is the least of the problems with how kids are being brought up.

I use to think you had to be 18 to get in to a movie rated R but as I understand it now as long as you are with a parent age doesn't matter unless there is an age on the movie like PG13.

[alaskah]

I don't think seeing a rated R film is detrimental.

I look at ratings but don't really care; I base my opinion on the trailer.

[UGetPaid]

Any parent (or any adult for that matter) can take a child into an R rated movie, but the theater (hopefully) wouldn't allow a child in by himself/herself to see an R rated movie. Internally, I would personally question any adult who took a child in to an R movie, but I would not outwardly call them out on it because it's none of my business.


The ratings are there for a reason, although they are very subjectively assigned. But most of the crap on network TV today would have been assigned an R rating if it was in the movie theater. About the only thing you don't get on TV is bad language (and that is slowly being whittled away) - but all of the other things that would warrant an R rating are rampant on TV = violence, nudity, sexual situations. And where there used to be a line between network TV and cable - that distinction was blurred a long time ago so you can hardly tell the difference these days.

[alice44]

I totally agree.  The theater doesn't have a say if the parent brings them.  But the parent is the one who needs to THINK before taking them.

[countrygirl12]

Any parent (or any adult for that matter) can take a child into an R rated movie, but the theater (hopefully) wouldn't allow a child in by himself/herself to see an R rated movie. Internally, I would personally question any adult who took a child in to an R movie, but I would not outwardly call them out on it because it's none of my business.


The ratings are there for a reason, although they are very subjectively assigned. But most of the crap on network TV today would have been assigned an R rating if it was in the movie theater. About the only thing you don't get on TV is bad language (and that is slowly being whittled away) - but all of the other things that would warrant an R rating are rampant on TV = violence, nudity, sexual situations. And where there used to be a line between network TV and cable - that distinction was blurred a long time ago so you can hardly tell the difference these days.

It depends on why it is rated R.  I have seen movies that were rated R for stupid reasons.  There was one not too long ago and the reason for the R rating was nothing that should matter if a child saw it.

[darkxtsuna]

No, I do not really pay attention to the ratings unless I take my nieces to the movies to watch something other then that I just watch what looks good.

[mamatygress]

I think some parents are too strict about it, and others are too lenient.  We went by the maturity level of each of our kids.

[gtdoss]

I think a lot of parents put the desires of themselves first, then the needs of their children. I don't quite get why that is. I don't know if it was how they were brought up or something inside their brains or what. I was very careful to make sure that my kids only had age-appropriate entertainment while they were growing up. But then again, I was an older mother who had waited quite a while to have kids. Come to think of it, I might have been much more of a selfish parent if I had had kids when I was a lot younger. Who knows? 

[countrygirl12]

I think a lot of parents put the desires of themselves first, then the needs of their children. I don't quite get why that is. I don't know if it was how they were brought up or something inside their brains or what. I was very careful to make sure that my kids only had age-appropriate entertainment while they were growing up. But then again, I was an older mother who had waited quite a while to have kids. Come to think of it, I might have been much more of a selfish parent if I had had kids when I was a lot younger. Who knows? 

You cannot control every thing your child is exposed to.  Esp if they attend public schools.  All kids have cell phones and can access the internet on that phone.  So you really don't know what all your kid sees.  Or what all they know. Probably a lot more than you about a lot of things. lol

[LaTashaS28]

No I dont pay attention to the ratings

[vickysue]

I believe in   letting the  children movies  that in their age group.  They don't need to  see and X rated,  If an adult wants to see it then  get a baby sitter or family to take care of the kids.  What with  children watching movies at  the theatre or on  TV that are not rated for their age,  they  will take it as it is alright  to do those things andit is not.

[potluck6]

many tv shows nown have swearing and nudity and violence they usually have a warning beforehand . still its tv. hard to not see movies athatbare good many good r rated out nthere

[tantricia44]

Movie ratings are overrated. Now a days ratings don't really matter become flashing *bleep* & butts doesn't matter anymore, that's considered PG 13 since no sexual encounter happened in the scene.

[annadote]

I usually don't go to movies in the theater due to cost. When I do watch movies I tend to watch ones that are PG-13. Sometimes the violence, cussing and inappropriate content are just unneeded to the plot of the story and are just added in to get that higher rating instead of telling a good story.