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I’m glad you have the option to vote for both, though being me , I went for collapse…the collapse is not just evident in the shooter etc….but in other ways. Ina viable society, that “father” who dropped his infant and ran…who drove way…would be up on charges of at least child endangerment…not the subject of touchy-feely press stories about how he’s finally now going to marry the mother of his two chilren, who were saved by someone else …What a stand up guy! /sark And why was the four old even at such a movie ? Please don’t tell me the price of a baby sitter was steeper than 6 months of the child’s nightmares?
…I should not have asked
I cannot fathom why any woman would want to marry a man who left her and her child to die.
here’s what i don’t get: if you can’t afford a sitter….let’s face it, you can’t afford a movie. There are other forms of entertainment believe it or not. Cheaper ones that do not include exposing infants to sadistic violence. If you can’t skip a midnight movie after becoming a parent something is REALLY wrong…. These parents could have skipped the movie entirely. Put the 40 bucks into a fund for the kid’s college….say…for example… these people who bring children to hard R movies at midnight are a huge sign that we’re screwed up
The movie is PG-13, ftr. But I agree about the kids, especially the 4 year old.
The s.o.b. ‘father’ and his now bride to be, are giving interviews everywhere, milking his 15 minutes of fame. The bride should marry the guy who rescued her and her children, and Child Services should pay a call on that piece of cow flop who calls himself a father.
It slays me! Watch him hold on to that kid now! ugh
Watching how this spins on FB, among both left- and right-wing friends. Claims of TP and assuming of the shooter as he’s white from a very upscale suburb in coastal SoCal a GOP-TP mindset emerge rapidly among one faction, eager to blame. Then a counter-claim that he’s Occupy Black Bloc anarchist via San Diego to Denver bubbles up. Will be intriguing as with Jared Laughner, if unfortunate, to see how this plays out as to “place” Holmes ideologically as well as psychologically for his culpability. (BTW speaking of blame, the couple with the two kids, four months and four years old, who were taken to the movie by parents assuming they’d stay asleep was spun sympathetically in today’s LA Times. Sigh.)
I checked ‘both’ for the same reasons as stated above.And probably all three, what kind of culture impels too young parents to take babies to such a movie, at midnight, ? Were they raised by wolves too ?
Movie theaters should ban this practice entirely. Imo, it smacks of child abuse.
I noticed ” Dad of the Year ” was holding on to the infant very tightly…when the camera were rolling. When will thier reality show be announced? The movie is a hymn to sadistic violence and the crowd is extra nuts because it’s a midnight show … At first They thought a guy in a gas mask with guns was part of the show! …sure , I want kids in that. /snark.
My first film originally got an NC17 rating because of the length of the ice cube scene. I told them I’d have to live with it because I couldn’t afford to re-cut the film (which was the truth — it would have cost 30K). They called me later that day to say that one person changed their mind and now I have an R with a funny explanation line that I was thrilled with (‘a scene of aberrant sexuality’).
I still really don’t understand the disparity between ratings given for sexuality and ratings given for brutality.
Damnitt — that comment was meant to nest below Lola’s below. AAAAARRRRGH.
ah, right you are Lola. I assumed it was R with out checking. Admission: I could not get thru the last Batman, which i rented after Heath Ledgers’ death. It’s as malevolent a big summer movie as one can imagine. Ledger is simply too good in it, and it’s very hard to watch. Ledger is not a cartoon, as Nicholson was back in the day. He was complete evil in clown makeup which made it all the more disturbing. I wondered about the power of that performance off and on all day yesterday.
From the description, the movie sounds like it Should have been rated R, what’s up with that ?
We haven’t watched that last Batman either since the one before that, Batman Begins, which we saw on dvd, was too dark. I’ve seen bits of the Heath Ledger movie flipping through channels and it’s never seemed to be to my taste.
I rented TDK based on the rave reviews of Ledger’ performance. He did a good job, which made it all the more sick. I, too, was revolted by the film, and did not finish it.
None of the BATMAN genre appeals to me. All too sadistically violent & vengeful. I remember being trapped watching the first one at a relative’s house — their 4 yo was watching too, and he kept jumping up and trying to punch & kick the TV screen.
I have no idea how the film’s depravity played into the killer’s actions, and will reserve judgement until more information comes out.
I LOVED Ledger’s performance in Batman, and I liked the movie just fine too. I did think it really felt like two movies on one, and the sloppiness of that irked me, but the performances of Ledger and Christian Bale (yummy!), as well as the special effects made it a memorable experience.
BTW, movies like this get a PG-13 rating because the ratings are generally based on profanity and nudity, as well as the volume of blood spatter. I’m not bothered by that. Depravity in fiction doesn’t scare me. It’s been their since fiction was invented, and quite frankly, we used to live with a much more violent dangerous society. I mean, jeebus, there are whole buildings in Europe built of the bones of the dead. We’re actually far more safe living today* than we ever were in the past. People forget that when these kinds of incidents happen.
*Speaking of the “First World” of course.
I strongly suspect video games have something to do with this and acts like this. Unlike in ‘the movies’, horror movies in particular, the killer is usually ‘the bad guy’. In the shoot em up video games, YOU are the killer…. and often the ‘good guy’, while killing. Hours upon countess hours of immersion in this sort of thing has to change a person. And that’s how they’re played — for hour and hours and hours….
My generation played kick the can and hide n’ seek outdoors for fun. When we went to the arcade, we had Pac Man and Asteroids. Those were our primary ‘games’. Now, granted, mine is the generation that’s now parking their kids in front of these murder based games instead of parenting them.
Cheezus. That comment of mine is a museum of grammatical errors and type-o’s. Wasn’t there an ‘edit’ feature for a minute?
Our culture of fear has made parents more afraid to let their kids go outside and play kick the can or hide n’ seek than they are of sitting the kids in front of violence on TV or in a video game. While there are a lot of kids on my small side street the right age to be playing outside after school, this place is a desert. While some of the kids are at after school daycare, most of them aren’t. Occasionally a parent will come out and supervise a game of street ball, and there are enough kids to have a decent game. I have lived in this town for over 25 years, and no child has ever been kidnapped. There has never been a “flasher” wandering around exposing himself to children. No drug dealer hangs on our street corner. But the parents are convinced that it isn’t safe to let their kids play outside unsupervised.
elliesmom…the norm changed in the last two decades. When I asked my harried sister why she didn’t just let the kids play in the back yard while she got things done inside, she said she didn’t have time to sit out there and watch them. I asked why she had to sit out there–our mom never did. She said that if anything happened to them, she would be charged with neglect, endangerment, and a whole slew of other things. Unbelievable. I think kids need to go out and play and I think things happen, like broken arms, and I think that’s part of growing up. I am also not a parent so my opinion may be meaningless.
Jay, This isn’t ‘homework’, if it was, I would be the first to get a Fail.
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Some people should not be allowed to reproduce.
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