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.
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.
R means with an adult. The child was with an adult. Case closed.
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.
“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?
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?