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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simplicity" data-source="post: 3186335" data-attributes="member: 1496">As the father of an almost 2-year-old, I haven't been out to the movies in ...oh... almost 2 years.  Have some sympathy for these parents, they're very likely to be in the same boat.  And they probably didn't expect graphic violence and torture in a Bond movie (the last torture scene I remember in a Bond film had a giant laser in it... hardly unwatchable).There comes a point in every kid's life where you have to say: "Okay, what is this child going to do if we try X like normal human beings."  X may be going to a restaurant, going to see a movie, or whatever.  It may very well be that these people had no idea how their kid was going to react. Taking a toddler to an R-rated movie is probably a bit extreme for me, but I do have every intention of raising my kid on the films I loved as a kid.  Good, old fashioned sci-fi and horror flicks.  I had a Dracula/Frankenstein/Wolfman lunchbox in elementary school.  I watched Aliens in the theater when I was 8.  When one of my friends told me that their parents only let them watch G-rated movies, I felt nothing but pity for them.Personally, I think it's a bigger crime to only allow a child to be exposed to talking animals and feel-good christmas movies than it is to let them watch a good horror movie now and then.Now Hellraiser... maybe they should be a little older for that one.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

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