I don't want to talk to your parents.

[solidmetalgear19]

So the job search is not going so well. It is harder to get a low level position in a hospital than i origninally thought.

In other news, there have been times at the theatre where I have carded, or kicked out kids of movies due to their age.

Now the munchkins knee-jerk reaction in this situation is to call their parents who inevitably want to talk to me.

A. You're parent has to be with you in the R rated movie

B. They can not say "It is okay for my kid to see the nasty violent piece of cinema" I have no way of knowing who the person on the other end of the line is. And even then, them giving consent does not override the fact that they have to be present. Be a f-ing parent and look after your kids.

C. I am not a manager or supervisor. I just kicked your kids out. I have no say in what happens after that point. Its really up to the managers what happens.


Under no circumstance should you hand me a cell phone to talk to your negligent parent. I'm sorry I interupted their swinger party, but I told you what the situation was. I'm not going to repeat myself. My, nor your parents word is God in overriding a decision.

[Evil Queen]

It used to surprise me to see 8 year olds at R rated movies but not anymore. Adults these days tend to be pretty stupid. Makes me feel sorry for hte human race.

[marasbaras]

It floors me to see kids at those movies.

[spookysonata]

Oh, I know. I had to argue with a woman who wanted to bring her child to the latest nasty R rated piece of gore but DIDN'T want to buy the kid a ticket, because the kid "wouldn't understand it anyway".

Lady! Get a babysitter!

[terana]

Now with some R rated movies I don't see how they got the rating. I let my kids watch an R rated movie, but first I watch it and then decide. If I think its to gory or to scary, then no they don't get to watch it. Of course I can't think of any off the top of my head. Does that make me a bad parent?

[Sarlon]

I used to work in a theater...anywho I digress...when beuwolf came out it was rated PG-13, and I swear to god it raised so many fights with SC's because of the full frontal nudity of Anglina. Never saw the movie myself...liked the book to much. I had a guy drag his kid out complaining about it...never mind that according to some others that watched it (female friends of mine) that there were naked guys in it too...

One the other side of the spectrum however...the genious up in management decied to put Saw 4 in the same theater as Game Plan...the customers had a right to complain, but I mean COME ON!!! if your that far into the movie to see the guy getting his head cut open then it SHOULD be obvious that its not the nice PG movie that you paid for! Humans astound me...but never cease to amaze me on how low their IQ's can get when they leave their house...(its sucked out of thier heads over the phone).

[Sarlon]

Now with some R rated movies I don't see how they got the rating. I let my kids watch an R rated movie, but first I watch it and then decide. If I think its to gory or to scary, then no they don't get to watch it. Of course I can't think of any off the top of my head. Does that make me a bad parent?

no it makes you a better parent then most....you are making an educated decision on wether or not to let you kid watch this R rated movie (which sometimes is only for language and some implications). I wish more were like you.

Course we had to kick some kids out sometimes, because parents bought tickets for X movie for themselves and Y movies (rated R) for their kids, and then complained loudly when we had to drag them out of their movie because their kids (who oddly were being perfect little angels) were in an R rated movie. Normally we catch this at the ticket counter, but we were busy ><

To all you parents out there that take the time to spend it with your kids and the such...I take my hat off to you and thank you from the bottomless region I once called a heart.

[iviles]

It was like that when I worked at a movie store. The parents had to come in person and tell us the kids full name and their restrictions. Also we told them that we resurved the right to deny them any movie we saw as unfit. I had some come in and get into my face about not letting them put their kids on the account over the phone or letting them rent certin movies. When ever this would happen I would take the parents in to the back room and play this one movie called Lie with me. Good movie but the opening scean is a girl masterbating and it gets worse from there. The rating you may ask was R. Lets just say they usally changed the restriction to pg13 after that.

[smileyeagle1021]

Now with some R rated movies I don't see how they got the rating. I let my kids watch an R rated movie, but first I watch it and then decide. If I think its to gory or to scary, then no they don't get to watch it. Of course I can't think of any off the top of my head. Does that make me a bad parent?

actually that makes you a pretty good parent... in fact I'd say that would be good advice for almost any movie... the rating system isn't a solid science, it's all subjective, and just because the rater thought it was R doesn't mean you will agree with them, same goes for pg-13 and pg (i've seen quite a few pg-13 movies that should have been R, and pg movies that should have been pg-13 and the other way around too).

[Hello Kitty]

The San Francisco Chronicle covered this issue last year:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...entry_id=13162
The writer was reviewing 'The Hitcher' and was seated behind a 4 year old and his dad. "It's scary. It's really scary. Can we go and come back when it's not scary?"

[edible_hat]

My God, you mean that whacky website I found a while ago that wanted Pulp Fiction (and other movies) banned for being unsuitable for children may have actually had a point?

[SpyOne]

When he was 16 years old, my brother got admitted to an X rated movie on an Under 12 ticket.

It was a little 2-screen theater at the edge of the college campus, and while one screen ran new movies (from about 6 months ago) the other would run films that tied in to whatever the Film department was teaching. Sometimes it was Casablanca and Gaslight (the Ingrid Bergman festival), sometimes it was two Pink Panther movies, and sometimes it was Valley of the Dolls and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, or Emmannuelle and ... some other artsy soft porn film.
So, while they did run movies that had gotten an X, it wasn't even like The Opening of Misty Beethoven, much less modern XXX DVD fare.


I don't really have a problem with parents who take their kids to R rated films. Heck, you're supposed to be the expert on what your kid can handle, and you're right there to explain things to them. I was 10 when I saw the Blues Brothers (mom knew I could handle swearing), and 11 when I saw S.O.B. (dad knew I could handle the swears, and wouldn't get the stuff about drugs and sex, and that seeing Julie Andrews' boobs would not warp my mind).
After all, R doesn't mean "no kids", it means "no children under 18 without a parent or guardian." No unsupervised kids.
No kids is NC-17. That's the one that is "nobody under 17 gets in, even if their parent came with them."

But don't expect your kids to get let in to an R without a parent. And no a phone call doesn't count. Nor does a note. One physically present adult human is required, and if we want to be dicks about it we can ask for proof of "guardianship".

[Skrae]

I remember my brief stint at the movie theater.

Saw 4 had just came out (I worked during its opening weekend, fun). I'm ripping tickets, we're swamped so I can't exactly read every single ticket for the movie. I barely had enough time to glance at the theatre number and point and do my "Over there enjoy the movie." These kids go in, their mother evidently dropped them off to see Saw 4. I have no clue what's going on till Mama Thang comes in hands on her hips demanding I tell her what's going on. Let's analyze this:

R rated movie. Check.
Kids at said movie. Check.
Pissed off at me for your mistake. Check.
I actually have the authority to do something about it. Not check...

[jaya9581]

The media is not a babysitter. Don't blame it, or those who work in some way tied to it, for your shortcomings as a parent.

My mom loves to tell people how my favorite movie when I was 3 was "the doggy movie" - Cujo. I didn't grow up scared of dogs (although I later became scared of them after multiple dog attacks from a family member's dog).

My parents let me watch anything I wanted that didn't have a lot of sex. My video games were never policed either (granted, most were tamer than now, but there were always some inappropriate ones running around). Books were also not policed - in fact, my mom got into it with a teacher when I was 11 and brought Stephen King's Misery into school to read. Teacher was apalled, but mom said "she's 11 - where do you think she got it? I gave it to her, I'm the parent, and I say what she can and can't read."

I'm now a well-adjusted, happily-married 26-year-old that's never done a single criminal thing. I'm not violent. I don't even smoke. Parents need to stop whining at everyone else because they're too lazy to do their own jobs!

[powerboy]

Jaya, just like you I never that much policed. And I also turned out a normal 26 year old that has never done anything criminal. All it is, is bad parenting. But they will never admit that and rather then blame themselves, they will rather blame everyone and everything else.