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Movies are very expensive here - we try to limit as much as possible. When two matinee tickets will cost $14-15 (just about a month's subscription to Blockbuster Online), it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
We'll go for the special effects movies that we want to see on a big screen, but really not much else.
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Add in paying for a babysitter, we have not been to movies for a while. Somehow bringing a 19 month old to a movie seems like a bad idea.
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I think taking a 19 month old to the Dark Knight would be a great idea. Everyone loves a crying baby and what better way to start a kid down a horrible road than exposing them to hard R's.
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I was responding to Rodger's "hard R's" remark. I made no statement that The Dark Knight wasn't as intense as all heck.
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Well, the fact that Dark Knight isn't R rated says something about the rating system doesn't it? Why have ratings if you don't use them properly? I couldn't believe it was PG-13. Just because the subject is a superhero, doesn't make it a Pg-13 movie. When "The Hammer," a romantic comedy with one instance of the F word gets an R rating, you can see the disparity.
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I was making a general statement on taking babies to movies not on any specific movie and I was being sarcastic. I think its great when parents make the responsible choice and leave the little ones home.
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Well, to be fair, we did take her to Walle. But I figure the first showing of the day, a movie intended for kids, everyone should be expecting children. And luckily, she was more then happy to crawl into her aunts lap and watch the movie silently.
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*addendum to my post families should of course go to family movies and kids movies with all little ones it is expected.
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Movie ratings aren't exactly an exact science - there are some pretty "out there" ratings from the 80's, and there are some pretty strange ratings today.
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They are also stretched strategically so that a movie that probably should be R rated will just BARELY be PG-13 so that it gets more ticket sales.
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He clearly meant with a responsible trusted adult or hired babysitter. [Hopefully not the $5 an hour 13-year-old-kind, although some of them can be responsible as well.]
I'm terribly afraid I didn't read the entire forum post-is the Dark Knight generally a good movie? [With or without dark themes.]
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Dark themes aside the Dark Knight is one of the best moral films I have ever seen and quite entertaining as well.
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