| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | Ih8rateitall (5)
03/18/2006 | Who hasn't as a kid seen a r rated movie or gotten a magazine from their dad? It's okay dudes, lighten up. I wouldn't advise watching porn with a kid though, that's disturbing and wrong.
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 | CastleBee (85)
03/15/2006 | When I was a child most of the stuff you see on TV today would have been considered R (some of it X) and I'm not just talking about the late night shows. And though I don't condone taking a child to an R rated movie today (and exception would be in the cases twinmom mentions below), I honestly do not see much difference between the theater and the tube. All things are relative I suppose...or at least, we are conditioned to think so.
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 | CanadaSucks (50)
03/15/2006 | A real strange phenomenon I'm noticing more and more. . .the worst part is how people get really mad at you when you point out how ghetto this behavior is. . .as if I'm the tool (well, sometimes)
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 | DumbBlondeCowgirl (23)
03/15/2006 | I recently was appalled by this one. My husband took me on a date to see the new Hills Have Eyes (remake). It was a late showing. Some idiot family brought their 6 year old son. This was NOT an apropriate movie for a child by any stretch of the imagination. I kept my mouth shut when they walked out of the theater, but I kept thinking how absurd it was. I was creeped out by this movie.......a six year old could be traumatized. Sick!
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 | earthbound (40)
09/02/2005 | Excellent comment by twinmom again and these comments give me a broader perspective on the item than I originally had.
The problem is that the rating 'R' is a bucket for all manner of movies. A man's nipple on a screen could come up in a 'G' rated movie. A woman's nipple makes it 'R' rated. Many younger people can learn from thoughtful, well-made movies which are rated 'R'. I remember as a youngster, making a point of watching 'Je Vous Salue, Marie' by Jean-Luc Goddard precisely because my relatives were campaigning to have it banned in Ireland (pretty dull movie, by the way).
When I suggested this item to the list, I was thinking about a recent experience, sitting through an evening showing of 'The Last Samurai'. A row in front of us there were people with kids who were maybe 5 or 6 and who were clearly terrified of the gory battle scenes. That was pretty classless, I thought.
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 | twinmom101 (33)
08/08/2005 | This is not so clear-cut, black and white as some might think. I met with a group of 13 and 14 year olds who started a local human rights chapter in their school and we had a very engaging conversation about how Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan shaped their views on the Holocaust. Both movies are rated R, however, I believe that the messages of both movies outweighed the R rating for these kids. They were moved by what they saw.
Not all R rated movies are going to have that effect, but before we condemn anyone who allows a minor to see an R rated film, perhaps we should consider the maturity of the kid along with the content of the film. Allowing a reasonably mature 15 year old who is interested in Holocaust history to see The Piano makes sense, while allowing a troubled 10 year old to see House of a 1000 Corpses does not. Common sense is in order.
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 | Gentle Jude (25)
08/08/2005 | This is bad because you are exposing them to things the ought not to be exposed to. I don't even think adults should watch R rated movies, let alone a child. All as it teaches a child is that sex and violence is acceptable behaviour. Jesus tells us concerning children 'It would be better for you to be thrown into the sea with a big stone tied around your neck then to cause one of these little ones to sin' ie it would be better that you hadn't been born compared to what God will do to an adult who teaches a child to sin (that's if the adult doesn't repent).
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 | ClassicTVFan47 (38)
06/18/2005 | These movies are rated R for Restricted for a good reason. Of course, caution should also be taken with PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) and PG-13 movies (Not Suggested for Under 13), but anything rated R should be treated carefully when children are involved. On a personal note, I have yet to truly enjoy an R-rated movie and find myself enjoying a TV-Y tv show ten times more than any R-rated movie I've ever watched.
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 | dpostoskie (7)
06/02/2005 | If by children it's defined as 12 and under, then they should not go to R rated movies in the theater. At home, after the parent has had the opportunity to view the film first, sure.
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 | Randyman (109)
05/27/2005 | I think I may be the dinosaur here on this topic. My kids will tell you, I am a stickler for this. I don't think kids should go see a R rated movie that is too sexual in nature. I just can't get myself to watch these types of movies with my kids, and never will. They very well may have gone to see some of these movies, with their friends, I don't know. Parents have to set the moral compass for children. As they get older the standards that you set will come into play. And they will know were those standards came from. I think this is why so many kids are lost today. Parents want to be cool, to be seen as a friend. My job as a parent is to prepare them for a good, independent and moral life, and sometimes something as seemingly trivial as allowing our children to watch an R rated movie can have a lasting impact. And they can roll their eyes all they want. But they will remember who taught them. Maybe not classless, but not to smart.
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 | Molfan (60)
05/27/2005 | not so bad. If that child is an older teenager.if you have cable there are R rated movies all over. as for language they hear worse in the halls in middle school and high school.
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 | texasyankee (22)
05/27/2005 | I think this depends on your view of children. If it is a considerably young child, no they don't belong there. But if you have a child who is in his or her teens, and you know this child well enough to know that they can handle whatever it is thats up there on the screen, then that's between the parent and the teen, nobody else. Young children generally can't handle something that's considered R rated and I would think that is completely wrong. But what if that child was raised in an environment where some of this stuff was going on in their neighborhood or whatever, would it matter? Maybe certain areas of cities in the USA should be rated r
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 | Jar-Jar Binks (17)
05/27/2005 | Not classless at all. As a kid, dad took me into a few R-rated movies and I had a blast. Besides, children need to watch R-rated films. Maybe they'll learn something new. Movies are just movies.
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