Posted on 09/27/2012 6:27:45 AM PDT by JoeProBono
TIGARD, Ore.,- A Hollywood producer who lives in Oregon said he was outraged to see a woman bring her young son to a violent R-rated movie.
Stephen Simon, whose producing credits include the 1998 film "What Dreams May Come" and the 1989 comedy "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," said he attended a showing of the R-rated film "End of Watch" at the Bridgeport Village Regal Cinema in Tigard and was shocked to see woman viewing it with a boy who appeared to be 4 or 5 years old, KGW-TV, Portland, Ore., reported Wednesday.
"It was very violent and very profane from frame one," Simon said, "there were people getting beat up and shot."
"I thought this is child abuse," he said of the woman who brought the young boy to the movie.
Simon said he confronted the woman before leaving the theater and calling Child Protective Services.
"The woman told me on the phone I was absolutely right and this was a dreadful thing to do but then said there's nothing we can do and suggested I talk to the manager," Simon said.
Simon said he is calling on theater owners to have employees speak with parents who bring their children to R-rated films.
"In the box office, they should ask if parents are aware the movie has very violent or profane content," he said.
This is why we have the NC17 rating. If it’s a R Rated film parents are allowed to bring their children with them. Take it up with the MPAA review board for their inconsistent and major studio-friendly ratings process. Take it up with theater chains that won’t show NC17 films. Don’t blame a parent for following the rules as written.
That's because it is.
So we need more rules instead of a parent with some sense?
No, I will blame the parent. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's a good idea. That's the difference between being a "parent" and being a "mom" or "dad" - exercising wise discretion for the good of your son or daughter. This woman wanted to see this movie and wasn't going to let the inconvenience of a child stop her.
To this day I remember my folks wouldn’t take me along when they went to see “The Hellfighters.” Because it had “hell” in the title.
Then they tormented me afterward by repeatedly telling me “Oh, that movie was OK, we could’ve taken you.”
Never seen it, to this day. Gotta put that on my list now.
TV these days is all R and NC-17 watered down to PG-13
ugh
TV is child abuse
If it was completely inappropriate for kids, the movie should have been rated NC17 not R. If the movie was misrated than why blame the parents for taking their kids to see it? The whole point of the R rating was to give parents the option of deciding whether or not it was good for their children. If the movie was so completely wrong for kids, the the NC17 rating should have been handed out. I can’t blame a parent for exercising an option that was given to them.
Yeah, that seems to be the case. Buying a movie ticket for the pre-schoolers is cheaper than a baby sitter. Try pricing the movie tickets for pre-schoolers going to an R rated movie at double the adult ticket price instead.
R means with an adult. The child was with an adult. Case closed.
We need to enforce the ones we already have. We have a no-kids-allowed rating. It is called NC17. We don’t apply it with any consistency. See the documentary “This Film Has Not Been Rated...”
The name is “This Film is not yet rated”
Because it's not the movie company's responsibility to watch out for her kid - it's her's. And anyone who's watched more than a dozen R rated movies knows you shouldn't take a 5 year old kid to one. Saying "Well, since they don't prohibit my kid then it must be OK for him to see" is a total cop-out to avoid responsibility.
I’ll check it out.
Taking a young child to this kind of movie is wrong. But, to call Child Protective Services if someone does...? He’d better be ready to call CPS on a great number of parents then. There are many young children allowed to watch violent movies and play violent video games by their parents at home. (One I came across was only two years old.) The entertainment industry continues to produce this kind of stuff... Do they really think every parent is going to keep their young children away from it?
I would not doubt; that children of such parents are exposed to real life violence and profanity in there own home, so what they see on the screen is to them the norm.
Again why are you getting involved with what other parents do with their own children. Get out of the business of telling other parents how to raise their children. It is none of your business and certainly not the business of the government. Conservatives should be completely against movies being rated. Let parents decide what is best with their children. It amazes me how you want to have government out of our lives until you don’t.
It’s still nobody’s business but the parents or Mom and Dad. If people would stay out of parents way, we would be much better off. We have too many busy bodies around which is why the government steps in. It is disgusting!!!!
The "Joe Paterno" doctrine."
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