You let your kid watch all of the Saw movies but not Milk?

[AlCzervik]

does that make any sense at all?

We watched Milk last night and enjoyed it, my friend told her friend she liked it and friend said "My dad won't let me see it" but it's a okay for her to watch the Saw franchise. Apparently her Dad think it has objectionable content and thinks my husband and i "were crazy letting her watch that!".

[no name no slogan]

1. Well, everybody knows watching Milk will give you teh ghey

But watching senseless, violent movies won't. They'll just make you senseless and violent.

It's easy, isn't it?

[AlCzervik]

2. this same girl came over to my house with the unrated version of Forgetting Sarah Marshall

that her dad rented for her. I can't wait to see him when he drops his daughter off at kick boxing on Sunday.

[ThomCat]

16. So, full frontal nudity is okay, and sex is okay

but a movie about an historical person who was gay rights pioneer is not suitable?

:wtf:

I'd really love to hear if there is any way he can justify that without sounding like a homophobic asshole.

[Juche]

12. LMAO

Best quote ever.

Well, everybody knows watching Milk will give you teh ghey

[LynneSin]

32. DAMNIT I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!!

:cry:

I saw "Milk" in the theaters and I've yet to catch teh ghey.

:cry:

[LeftyMom]

3. Hi, welcome to Elk Grove.

:eyes:

[AlCzervik]

6. Huh, not even, he lives in Wilton! Her mom lives off Fair Oaks, i know her mom wouldn't object.

[LeftyMom]

8. That explains everything.

Wilton, I mean.

[AlCzervik]

10. i can't wait to see him sunday morning, i'll be waiting, sneaking so he can't avoid me

and then i'll pop out and start talking to him, really nice and all and i'm bringing it up before he can disappear.

[Danger Mouse]

4. I despise 'Saw' and movies like it. They're vile.

[Initech]

15. Yeah same here.

I refer to the Saw movies and crap like The Hills Have Eyes as "violence porn". There's a fine line between scary movies and shit like that.

[Lil Missy]

17. Good movies if you like thrillers.

[Danger Mouse]

35. I like 'thrillers,' not movies that celebrate cruelty.

[AlCzervik]

36. i haven't seen them but i've read some reviews and some of my friends have told me about them

that's just not my kind of movie, i made the mistake of watching Wolf Creek, wish i could take that one back.

I love ghost stories and monster movies, there's enough human monsters already in society without me seeing them on the big screen as well.

[Danger Mouse]

37. Exactly, that's why I don't care for those sorts of movies.

It's just glorification of the basest of our natures.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

23. Same here.

[Pacifist Patriot]

27. Budge up, I'm joining you on that couch.

[Forkboy]

28. Even worse...tedious.

[Marrah_G]

5. Many parents lack any common sense or reason.

Unfortunately you don't need a license to have a child.

[KitchenWitch]

7. I know WAY too many people like that here.

:eyes:

[AlCzervik]

11. he disappoints me, he seemed pretty normal and i guess before Milk we were good enough parents

to have his daughter over for the weekend and take to San Francisco overnight.

[LeftyMom]

14. San Francisco AND Milk?

Why didn't you just give her a photocopy of The Gay Agenda while you were at it, you secret 'mo recruiter you?

[ghostsofgiants]

9. I've said it before and I'll say it again: People are fucking idiots.

[Initech]

13. Excessive violence is the American way damn it!

:sarcasm:

[Lil Missy]

18. Watching Milk will give you teh gay.

[seemunkee]

19. Maybe he's lactose intolerant

:shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

20. WAIT!!! When did you move here?

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Nooo. I let my kids *act out* all the Saw movies, but not milk.

I don't want my kids growing up to be political agitators.

I do, however, want them to grow up to be clever in devising situations of terror and hopelessness.

[SacredCow]

22. That's just silly....

As an aside, one of my friends is a MAJOR horror-slasher movie buff and he routinely lets his kids watch gore-flicks with him. When I first heard about it, I thought it was a bad idea but his kids seem perfectly fine about it. They knew from the get-go that it was just "play-acting" and it never seemed to bother them. One of them even got interested in the technology of special effects and is hoping to pursue that as a career.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. I've run into similar situations.

I recommended "No Country for Old Men" to someone who wanted to see it with their young-ish child. I said it was very violent and wouldn't recommend that the kid see it, then she asked if there were any sex scenes.

I said no, but reiterated the point about the violence, but it didn't seem to bother her.

[Deep13]

25. I didn't let myself watch the Saw movies.

There's fun horror and then there's just gruesome, frightening, sickening, violence.

[AlCzervik]

26. i didn't see any of them either, my daughter hasn't seen them but that was her choice

and not by my decree.

[Forkboy]

29. Nice mentality. So, yes to the Guinea Pig series, but no to Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?

Check.

:eyes:

Really nothing new though. We've all seen over and over in this country how we accept violence over anything but the most banal takes on sexuality. Our whole American mythology is based on violence for the most part. War, guns, fighting...all glamorized. Sex and sexuality? Oh noes!!! The horror...the horror.

[Nickster]

33. I love Priscilla. "Just what we need, a c*ck, in a frock, on a rock"

[Forkboy]

34. Same here. The movie is hilarious.

:)

[DS1]

30. Caligula must really throw this guy a curveball

[AlCzervik]

31. i'll try and ask him that on Sunday.

[RiffRandell]

38. I know someone who let their 4 year old watch Saw.

I know other people who allow their second grader (when he was in first) to watch Family Guy. We got our son, who's in second grade, th Dark Knight for Christmas. I think he was disappointed (we loved it) because when it came out we told him he wasn't allowed to see it, and then it was all hype. FYI---my son is not a psycho that loves violence---he would not talk to the Family Guy kid for a week for purposely killing a spider in our garage. The kid who can watch Family Guy still isn't allowed to see Dark Knight, but was allowed to watch I Am Legend (which I thought totally sucked, but would scare my son).

Ultimately, it's the parents decision, and I've found they vastly differ.

FYI----we let our son watch the Simpsons, because it's one of our fave shows.

:shrug: