My 3 year old loves "Terminator" and other adult orientated action films

i disagree. indiana jones, some james bonRAB, the goonies etc

all films with a PG rating, and some equally adult themes (not that my lad would care, he'd happily watch them anyway)

the point is that some kiRAB will freak out, some will love them. my son loves them
 
I was actually thinking that there would be less of a problem with Terminator than the other two.

I really can't see how a child would understand Chinatown.
 
but that's the thing, the most excited he gets is flying round the house with his spider man mask on firing his ray gun at us all. he doesn't hit me, his mum, his brother, or any kiRAB at school. he doesn't have any behavioural or sleep problems. he just loves the films. the shooting and swinging and stuff blowing up etc
 
Yes, I mention genres because they are different genres. That doesn't mean they are not both cartoons though. Every form of art has different genres, including cartoons. I'm not being pedantic, I'm stating a fact (as backed up by both our dictionary quotations). I'm sorry if you don't like facts which disagree with your argument.

Dunno what physical media has to do with anything. A cartoon is a cartoon if it's on the internet, VHS, DVD, Blu Ray or whatever.
 
I understand what I replied to but I don't agree with you.

If you think expressing my disagreement is pedantry then, fine, call me a pedant. It doesn't change the fact that my definition of cartoon is correct and yours isn't.

If you insist that the dictionary definitions don't agree with my definition of 'cartoon' and you're not lying you must speak a different form of English to me.
 
My 3 year old loves "Terminator" and other adult orientated action films

I still get embarrassed and go red when I watch anything remotely like a sex scene with my Dad. I mean come on, it's my Dad. Just accepting that my parents must have had sex at least twice to produce my sister and myself is just about all my delicate sensibilities can handle :p

Anyway I think that some posters are thinking a bit too hard about it. I mean I don't have much experience with kiRAB but my basic understanding is when they are at that age most concepts go right over their heaRAB. They are not much interested in plot or dialogue but are after explosions and special effects (which face it, isn't that what most people are after in an action movie). Looking at the list of movies you mentioned those films seem to fit the bill perfectly.

The thing is what works for one person doesn't mean it will work for another. I loved action and horror movies when I was a kid and I was the only girl that I knew of who did. I totally respect that some people don't like them or don't think that it is appropriate but at the end of the day as the parent it is your decision and it sounRAB like you are making at least an informed one about what your child watches.

(However I would recommend not allowing your son to watch/read "IT" at any age
 
If this post is genuine you're a private part (who should probably have his parenting licence revoked); if it's a wind up you're still a private part.

If your kid someday massacres his schoolmates don't come crying to us.
 
You're not wrong. I've been a major proponent of reducing the fetishisation of sex and the naked form for a long ol' while. In my opinion it's responsible to at least some degree for quite a few problems we face in modern society, from medical issues like bulimia to self-esteem issues to sexual expectations/behaviour.


I read IT at about 12. I ended up doing a literary comparison between IT and HW Wells War of the WorlRAB for part of my GCSE exam.

It's interesting though that I can send my son to the library to get a copy of IT, or any other book in their collection. To see the film of some of those books, however, requires he be of a certain age.

Clearly not, else you'd not still be going on insisting that "you're right" when you weren't even discussing the same issue.

Mine was one of genre, not production process. You are stuck in production process. The context has been explained to you, but you have seen fit to decide what it is that I meant, as if you are an authority on what it is other people are actually thinking.

You've been caught out jumping in with both feet and you're just digging in even deeper with each post. Why? Because the context of that statement was explained to you ages ago yet you're still ignoring it.

You were trying to make a ludicrous comparison between the violence and gore in Watership Down to that in Bugs Bunny, which is why I then pointed out to you that they are different genres, one being of a cartoon genre, the other being an animated film. The two are stylistically very different (though there has been blurring, such as South Park The Movie, Beavis & Butthead The Movie, etc. But what's the point of a genre if you can't blur it sometimes?). You decided to leap on this and instead of addressing genre, you addressed production technique, quoting a dictionary definition.

Basically, you've gone off on a tangent. Next you'll either declare your rightness again, or just not reply, I expect. In either case, I shan't address this particular point with you again, because if you still refuse to accept this explanation of the context then I can only assume you are being wilfully ignorant.
 
As I've already said, I completely agree that they are different genres. However, they are different genres of the same art form - cartoons. The dictionary definitions (one of which was actually quoted by you) show that Watership Down and Bugs Bunny are both cartoons yet, for some reason, you can't/won't accept that. It is the production technique and not the subject matter that defines this.
 
tl;dr the the thread but, I watched plenty of violent films at that age, I was only around 7/8 when T2 came out, and I watched both the first and second at the same time. Didn't do me any harm. Parental supervision is key.
 
I remember watching films like that when I was 10/11 maybe, but not 3! At that age, I don't see what more he's getting out of it than he'd get out of watching pretty much any other film? There are less violent films with robots in them. I mean, I at least understood the basic story when I first watched it.

And terminator has some pretty bad scenes for a 3 year old- Dog soldiers is even worse! I certainly wouldn't have watched a film like that, not even when I was 10/11. There's bits in that where people get ripped apart. A 3 year old shouldn't be seeing that, sorry but that's just irresponsible parenting.

Or is this some sort of joke?
 
My Mum used to let me and my brother choose any film we wanted from the video store. As a result we saw Nightmare on Elm Street when we were 7 and 5 respectively!!!

In fact some Saturday night's we'd all (Mum, Dad, Me and bro) sit and watch a horror film together (18 certificate usually)

My Mum was the same with my younger brother and sister too...

We're now all grown up and all four of us have suffered no lasting ill effects.

I don't recall watching many 'shoot em up' type films when we were young though..... Just good old crap your pants type stuff :eek:
 
As a kid me and my younger bro used to watch a lot of action movies with my Mum, anything Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stallone, i remember watching all the James Bond stuff (even though it was mild), Mortal Kombat..anything action packed from the video store.

As where my Dad would take me to see some of the kiddie stuff in the Cinema..Toy Story...Lion King..Space Jam..that sort.

The only thing slighty older i watched in the Cinema was The 3 Star wars movies when they reshowed them in around 97 or so, i got scared in The Empire Strikes Back..now I'm a big Star Wars fan ..heh.
 
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