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Author Topic: Kids getting into R-rated movies? Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 06-10-2007 02:49 AM                     quote: Pravin Ratnam Have like an R-14, R-15, R-16, R-17, etc. Except that I have no way to verify that a kid really is 14. I've never heard of anyone having a form of ID at that age. Also, I think having this many ratings is simply ridiculous. Seriously, what would define R-14 as opposed to R-15?  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-10-2007 03:12 AM                     Had a couple bring their 4 year old to Hostel 2 the other night. Maybe there should be a legally binding rating system .  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-10-2007 12:34 PM                        There are times when it would be nice if the rating system was really a "law." I mean, it's great for the bars -- it eliminates all guesswork....sorry, you can't have a drink, we could lose our license. It'd be great for a small theater like mine where it's easy to police the whole place. The real problem would come for the multiplexes where kids would sneak into the wrong movie, then the outraged "parents" would sue the theatre chain for morally corrupting their precious offspring by not babysitting them properly.  |  IP: Logged Kamil Jackson-Chaka Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Gainesville, Fl, USA Registered: May 2007 posted 06-10-2007 02:56 PM                     If part of that law would be funding to pay for staff to stand outside of those auditoriums checking IDs I'd say it's a good idea. But there's no way that'd be cost effective for larger theater's otherwise . This weekend we stuck our Hostel 2 prints in a side hallway with Bug and had someone checking IDs, but we can't do that with bigger movies. I'm sure on Monday we won't be able to keep that close and eye on them either. Point being, we enforce the age limit at the box office, but once kids are inside, if they're not completely obvious, they can watch anything they want. I'm not a babysitter, and if a parent wants to complain that I corrupted their kid, good luck.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 06-10-2007 03:23 PM                     One scene in Hostel 2 made me wonder if the movie shouldn't have been NC-17...but I'm likely overreacting to the dismemberment toward the end of the movie. (One of the doggies liked it...)  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-10-2007 04:15 PM                     Yeah, I know a law would be impractical. We try our best two but with 12 screens on two hallways (and two lobbies) its pretty hard.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 06-10-2007 11:42 PM                     I seem to remember Tennessee having such a law for "R" rated films. At least this what I was told when I worked for Regal.  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 06-11-2007 07:50 AM                     quote: A kid could easily buy a ticket for something rated U, and there's nothing to stop them going into one of the other screens where an age-rated movie is showing! Staff should be checking screens every 30 minutes and it isn't difficult to spot a kid even in a dark screen. We had some customers trying to take a baby (under 18months) into a '15' rated film. When confronted they said they would just leave the baby in the buggy outside the screen. Poor kid probably has no chance with parents like that.  |  IP: Logged Luci Reeve Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Telluride, CO, USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 06-25-2007 12:32 PM                        We won't sell a ticket to anyone who says he is under 17 unless he brings a note from a parent saying they permit him to see the R movie. We used to just call the parent but ONE mom complained so we started asking for the permission slip. Then what do you think happened? The kid came to the next movie with a permission slip! It's a small town, we know the kids and their parents, if they behave we don't hassle them too much. What got me last week was an anonomous phone call (female) saying something like " We were in the movie last night and there were alot of unattended kids and we don't think it's right that you let kids into an R movie." It was "The Namesake"! PG-13. A great teen movie and she was there watching it (supposedly) and she still made that anonomous call! What a loser! (The kids were all in a group but a mom was with them.)  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-25-2007 01:49 PM                        We don't take phone calls OR permission slips. (Anybody can write a slip, and anybody can make a phone call.) The parents have to walk up to the ticket window and tell us it's OK for their kid to see the movie. Some parents think that's a hassle, but we don't really have any trouble with it. Personally I wish they'd lower the "R" age to 15 so most kids in high school could attend.  |  IP: Logged Brad Allen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 688 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 06-25-2007 02:05 PM                     20 years ago, I'd get beat up (verbally) by parents over the occasional kid that would sneak into an R film. Now I get beat up because I won't let them in. Most parents don't care. Then they wonder why little Johnny is having night terrors and can't sleep at night. I once had a women chastise me for "allowing" her precious son in to an R rated film.......while she was standing checking out an R rated video rental.....for the same son. He was standing next to her and he's the one that picked it off the shelf. And of course I had to ask, what's the difference?  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 06-25-2007 02:18 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley Personally I wish they'd lower the "R" age to 15 so most kids in high school could attend. I wish they would quit making R-rated movies aimed at 15 year olds!  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-26-2007 10:40 AM                        quote: Dustin Mitchell Had a couple bring their 4 year old to Hostel 2 the other night. Maybe there should be a legally binding rating system Better yet, maybe there should be legally binding system that requires parents to attend 50 hours of parental training before they are allowed to procreate. How about the parents who bring a 4 yr old to HOSTLE 2 need to be dragged into court and fined for child endangerment or something. How about for GPS (Gross Parental Stupidity)?!  |  IP: Logged

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