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Author Topic: Parents taking kiddies to watch Jackass Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 09-29-2006 04:32 PM                     Absolutely. It is a lot like guns. The common attitude these days is to just tell kids that guns are bad. I think if more parents took their kids to gun ranges and showed them how dangerous they can be then the kids would respect them more. No doubt that the number of accidental gun deaths would be reduced.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-29-2006 06:23 PM                     This reminds me of George Carlins joke about how parents coddle their children too much these days, the punchline was : "These kids need a helmet for everything but jerking off!" Lol. I just read an article about how some theater owner shut down rather than show Jackass 2 to send a message on how bad movies are these days. Interesting stand... but there's movies 10 times as worse as Jackass though.  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 09-29-2006 06:31 PM                        quote: Chris Hipp Children should not be allowed to watch anything more vulgar than Mr Rogers or Teletubbies. And you don't consider Teletubbies vulgar? I'm not talking the conspiracies about the purple one being gay, I'm talking about the sheer mindlessness of them is vulgar. I'd so not let my child, if I had one, watch them for fear of lowering his IQ permanently. quote: Chris Hipp Absolutely. It is a lot like guns. The common attitude these days is to just tell kids that guns are bad. I think if more parents took their kids to gun ranges and showed them how dangerous they can be then the kids would respect them more. No doubt that the number of accidental gun deaths would be reduced. Absolutely, and the feel of the power from the gun going off in their hand, will further drive it home. Now is this good for everybody? No, like anything else, there are some that I wouldn't trust with a gun, or I know will still only fail to miss the point. It all goes back to 1 thing "(PG) - Parental Discretion is advised." Parental discretion.  |  IP: Logged Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 09-29-2006 11:21 PM                     We enforce the ratings here for an entirely different reason.. Honestly, if a kid imitates that and dies, well, the defective genes are now out of the gene pool. We enforce it for the fact that kids in R rated films, by and large, do not behave unless there is an adult making them behave. Since beginning strict ratings enforcement shortly after I took over this building noise complaints and rowdy behavior dropped signifigantly - and our grosses verses the competiton are better now than when we let the kids in.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 09-30-2006 11:54 AM                     In the last few days, I have enjoyed throwing kids out that dont have any ID stating that they are old enough to see Jackass 2. Its also fun being cursed by these kids, too. One threatened to see me after work outside. What assholes! From what I've seen of JACK-ASS 2, I dont think I want to see it anyway. Horse semen. Aaraugh.  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 09-30-2006 05:37 PM                     Bruce - You must work for a company that stands behind their managers when they enforce the rules. In the last company I worked for, I got introuble for kicking kids out for sneaking into theaters and causing disturbances (cellphones, laserpointers, climbing over seats, etc). It seemed that some of the parents complained that I was "mean" to their little angels and of course threaten to take their business elsewhere. So I am the one who gets yelled at of course with no explaination as to what I was suppose to have done differently.  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-02-2006 04:51 AM                        While I have stated that shows like Jackass when viewed with parents as an allegory to what not to do, there is another side to this within my extended family. I have three sisters, and they stick together through thick and stupid. The oldest does not let anyone tell her kids what to do. That's her job. She fired herself from that job years ago. She has never disciplined her kids. All three are heavy into drugs, stealing, and the oldest now has a new thing... STEALING GUNS... nice eh? He stole one of my brothers guns, then dumped it in a bush when his mom came calling for him. It was finally found after six weeks, not having been discharged. It was completely locked up, and through misuse of his mothers misguided mothering he ended up with the keys. The gun was just recovered last week. Now my sister is trying to guilt my family into forgiving him and allowing him to the family gatherings this upcoming holiday season. My sisters are ganging up together, and using my mother to pull it together. Sick little bitches should try parenting these kids, not coddling them as buddies. All the kids from the girls in the families are constantly arrested for shoplifting, drugs, and all have been thrown out of school and no school will have them. All the kids from the boys in the family are on the honor rolls in their respective schools, no drugs, no crime, and so on. My sisters cannot properly care for their children, and if asked by a Judge I would say they shouldn't be allowed to keep their own kids. I have tried talking with my sis's over the years, it only leads to them not wanting to talk to me. One of them (the big one taller than me) threatened me earlier this year, and my sister thinks I am taking it too seriously when I threatened to let the police deal with it. He has been arrested seven times for assault and battery. yeah, Im overboard! So it is really up to parents to do more than just decide what they watch, but to actually parent them, all the time, not just when their kid gets arrested. If they did that, they wouldn't let them dress that way, behave that way, or do any of the stupid stuff that gets them in trouble, and so on. Parents people, not restrictions. Ciao  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: California, U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 10-03-2006 02:36 AM                     Since taking over my current location I've begun enforcing the R rating policy, which is fairly lax as it is; we'll allow kids to go in so long as a parent gives verbal consent in person. My reasoning is because some kid could very well come in, watch it, and say or do something stupid from the film, the parent would then come down and start yelling about our lack of morals, etc. Not to mention most kids can't handle themselves in a rated R film. "OOooohooohooo" is usually the response out of adults when "boobies" show up on the screen for crying out loud. What irks me though was the guy who told me he'd take his money to our competition (Regal) since we inconvenienced him since his kid didn't have ID. Movies like Jackass always bring out the kids from the shallow end of the gene pool.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 10-03-2006 03:32 PM                     Interesting, my usual response when I see boobies is "stupid zipper, come on!"  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 10-04-2006 12:22 PM                        I'm not where you are, but I do work for Regal, and we wouldn't let them in either. Not even if the parent, with proof of ID and that it is indeed their shild, etc etc, tells us it's ok. Our policy is rigid. No one under 17, unless accomanied by an adult, period. You can try to have an adult buy you a ticket, but you will be stopped at the door if you're not going in with them.  |  IP: Logged Tom Hayes Film Handler Posts: 21 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Aug 2006 posted 10-22-2006 09:47 AM                     I think JackAss is some of the basest, lowest, vulgar stuff ever filmed. I think we need to ship copies of this film over to Africa and show it to starving families - just so they know where America's priorities are. I honestly hope that many of the people in the JackAss films are killed doing these stunts. I will go see the movie when it turns from base instincts to a plain old snuff film. IMHO.  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-24-2006 12:12 AM                        Wow Tom! That's a pretty brutal view to want these people to die in order to meet what I take is your view of civility. You really beleive that this somehow gives you the higher ground in decorum by calling for the death of others that you despise? Any chance you might possibly see anything of value in what you have said, maybe possible realize you are no better than those in the Jackass films? You really need a life, a clue, and some proper focus. If you really want to send some free copies with some DVD's and TV's and maybe some power generators and some fuel to run them, all so you can personally show them how our priorities here are out of whack, then by all means do so. Of course then that would put your priorities out of whack would it not? Maybe you could put that energy into possibly sending the cost of all that in food stuffs and medical supplies. Maybe you could, just a thought. Then of course you could try and figure out how a rich nation is supposed to have any money to give poor nations if they don't actually spend money on anything, thereby growing their economy, giving them opportunity to have money to give. We could just crash our economy and become third world, that would be fair. Or maybe your statement is just hot water coming from someone that has more time and money to burn than they know what to do with, and perhaps they should donate that time and money to a good cause, instead of bitching and moaning about what you hate. Or... maybe I am just a complete dork for giving more than half a rats ass about the people of Africa and their plight, donating 2% of my crappy annual salary to help support releif programs in Africa, as well as donating an additional 3% of my crappy annual salary to contribute to other causes that help relief organizations dedicated to disease research and relief. And I also donate about 50 hours a year to various local charities to assist with food drives, clothing drives, and fundrasiers.... I could stop that and spend more time bitching instead. But I love bitching anyway, so I make sure I have a few extra hours of my own personal time just for Film Tech... Ciao LOVE YA!!!  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 10-24-2006 09:54 PM                     Tom - Welcome to this forum since I see you are a fairly new member. Not everyone here is callous and narcissistic.  |  IP: Logged

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