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.
Oh goodness. You socialist are something else. Oh well it is only a matter of time before you won’t have to make a single decision on your own. It will be paradise for you and your supporters. Oh by the way, Go Penn State!!!
Zat you Joe? Don’t worry if would have “socialist” for you to speak up and lot’s of people are apparently down with you on this one.
“It was very violent and very profane from frame one,” Simon said....
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Well, Mr. Simon, I pray this will be your wake-up call to consider the garbage you are producing for human consumption. It withers the soul.
Honestly, once movies became available on videotape, then DVDs and then streaming, children can be exposed to any and all adult messages without any parental supervision simply because children aren’t supervised much of the time and movies/videos that are R, X or NC-17 are probably found lying around a lot of coffee tables and night stands in America.
The age of innocence is over for a lot of children and has been for decades now.
Yet, would we rather show then network television with their pro-gay and anti-conservative biases?
Maybe the R rating should mean no one under 12 in any circumstances, 12 through 16 only with a parent.
If you want to traumatize and coarsen your small children, do it in your own home.
Probably one of the top five John Wayne movies of all time.
My dad took me to see Jaws when I was 10. I spent most of the movie in the ladies room with several older black women who had gathered there, crying and holding hands and praying with them. (MAN!!!! Can they PRAY!!!)
We were all so scared and knew that only God could save those poor swimmers.
Yes I am Joe speaking to you from Heaven...you better behave yourself if you want to make it up here to this beautiful place. lol.
Just wondering what kind of “rating” Some of W. Shakespeare’s works woukld have recieved, such as Titus Andronicus, Othello, or Hamlet? How about John Ford’s Tis pity she’s a whore, which dealt with incest and the resulting pregnancy by murder and suicide?
***TV these days is all R and NC-17 watered down to PG-13***
I remember when the ratings system first came in, in response to the Bobby Kennedy shooting. Everything from comic books, Tv shows, guns, movies were all blamed.
TV dumbed down to kid shows.
Comics cleaned up for a year or two.
The 1968 Gun control act was passed.
But MOVIES were allowed to police themselves with a rating system. With that movies began to produce the most vile movies ever.
Remember these various rating systems?
G M R X.
G GP R X.
G PG PG-13 R NC-17.
Movies rated R in 1969 were recently seen on TV pay channels not rated PG and PG-13.
I saw a Glen Ford western (Heaven with a gun) in 1969 that was so tame kids could go to it.
I saw that same movie not long ago on cable and the show had so much nudity in it I knew it had to be the European release of the same movie. It would have been rated R today and still would have been considered too hot for a release in 1969.
***We were all so scared and knew that only God could save those poor swimmers.***
Yet JAWS II was so bad and the swimmers so stupid the audience was rooting for the shark!
Wait. I advocated government intervention? Really?
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