Posted on 07/21/2012 11:45:25 PM PDT by Lmo56
Out of all of this horrible tragedy - I cannot help but ask myself the question.
The girl who was killed was 6 and there was a couple with 2 children aged 4 and under [thank God they were spared].
Not only was it past the childrens' bedtimes, but the content of the movie was wholly inappropriate for their ages.
If the mother of the 6 year-old had not taken her, she would still be alive. Just sayin' ...
I have a 22 year old niece with 2 toddlers from different fathers. She’s married to a guy who comes around on welfare check day so he can get money to buy video games. Neither parent is adult enough to have kids and from what I can see, its the standard among their friends as well.
Because they can if they want to. You want to outlaw it or something? Grow up.
“Feminism arrived, women went to work, and parents forgot how to raise children.”
Right on, sister. Just look at the number of parenting books. It used to be much easier for moms - just call their mom (grandma), or the guy’s mom. Parents don’t do that now, because they don’t like the answers they get - like “give Little Johnny a whacking for that”.
“So, you wait for it on Netflix and watch it at home - cheaper thanbuying tickets at the theater ...”
Safer too - particularly if you live in Colorado. Perhaps it’s time that the people there get a bit more humble and stop looking down at the rest of the country. When coupled with Columbine, they’ve certainly got their own problems to work out.
I used to go to midnight movies when I was a young 20 something in the 80s. I don’t recall ever seeing young children out in the middle of the night like that.
When I was little there wee occasions when we would be out fairly late with our parents but it was usually because we were visiting family.
I understand being excited by the anticipation to see a movie. I really do. But between 1989 and this past year (when our youngest left for college) my wife and I wanted to do a lot of things that we couldn’t. It’s called being a parent. What is wrong with these idiots?
Kids having kids.
Amen, and you left out “expensive”.
I remember seeing a movie in a theater years ago — I think it was “Presumed Innocent” — and a couple near us had a 4 year old with them. The kid woke up just in time to see the male star (William Hurt?) nail the female star on the desk. I was embarrassed and thought that those people had no business exposing their child to material like that. The movie got worse from there.
In the new Batman movie a bank heist is carried out by men in sinister clown masks.
As each clown completes a task another shoots him point blank in the head.
A clown stuffs a bomb into a wounded bank employee's empty mouth.
A man's face is filleted by a knife.
Another man's face is burned half-off.
A bomb is stitched inside another man's stomach - which subsequently explodes.
Another bound man is tied to a chair and burned alive atop a pile of bank notes.
A child is terrorized at gunpoint by a man with a melted face.
In Daniel Craig's Bond movie, "Casino Royal", a bloodied Bond, stripped naked and tied to a chair, is tortured by having his genitals beaten with a length of rope.
In "Men on Fire", Denzel Washington shoves a bomb up the rectum of a Mexican conspirator, then triggers the bomb's explosion.
In the Batman movie, the Joker describes his penchant for knife killling: "Guns are too quick. You can't savor all the little emotions."
See ya (and your 8 year-olds) at the movies!"
Leni
BINGO!
Feminazism + the phoney “self esteem” movement + anti-father family courts + Gov’t agencies “for the children” (CPS, CSEU, etc) = Non-parenting “free ranging” of children.
First daylight bank robbery was in the 1860s. Why?
First carjackings, at least by that name, were in the 90s. Why?
Who knows? Something just seem to have never been thought of before, and then it becomes common.
I think the case can be made that it is too late for a child to be out, and that the movie is inappropriate for children. But to suggest that it is the cause of the child’d death is probably one of the stupidest things I have seen here on FR lately, and that’s saying something.
Bath Michigan 1927, nearly 50 mostly children killed by Andrew Kehoe.
I can see that you are a great parent.
Three words describe all parents’ priorities, Responsibility, Sacrifice, and Parenting.
Did you read post # 109?
Then, do you still feel the same way?
Leni
OMG!!!! It’s even worse than I thought.
I would agree that these movies are probably too intense for younger children; but the Batman movie you are referencing was the last one (Heath's Ledger's Joker), not the current one. The source material in the comic books is often far worse...the Human Torch used to roast Nazis and 'Japs' alive on a routine basis back in the early 40's for Marvel (Timely) Comics. Violence associated with comic characters is nothing new...parents just need to pay attention, and many just don't bother. There are FAR TOO MANY children raising children.
I wouldn’t take a young kid to see a violent movie, but I wouldn’t have a problem to sometimes do things out of the ordinary. We had a chance to see the Northern Lights before we had our daughter. It meant getting up in the middle of the night and driving an hour or so to get a really good view. I would do it again today with my daughter in a heartbeat.
I don’t blame the parents for the loss of their 6 year old. That blame belongs to 1 person and 1 person only.
It is the standard from coast to coast. Young 'adults' in my neighborhood routinely use words like 'f***' and 'motherf*****' in front of their two and three year-old children. I called them on it once, and now I am routinely 'flipped off' by these same 'adults'.
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