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

S

smellybunnies

New member
he absolutely loves the robots in Terminator and Terminator 2, loves the car in Mad Max, goes nuts when Die Hard is on (jumping across settee with his ray gun!) and thought Dog Soldiers was fab, asking for repeat viewings.

weirdly, i only fast forward any sex scenes, the shooting and explosions i leave on

did you watch stuff like this as a kid, or do you let your kiRAB watch them?
 
...erm... let me get this straight, you censor the scenes which depict pleasure and potentially the start of a new life (something you hope they'll be doing when they grown up), yet are happy to let him watch the scenes which depict horror, pain and the ending of life (things you don't want them doing when they grow up)?

How odd.

Also you mentioned in another thread that it was you swearing at your xbox at night that was the source of your three-year-old's swearing... I think you may have found another likely culprit.

My five-year-old son's viewing is very restricted indeed. He doesn't get to watch any "naughty" content, in games, film or on TV.
 
Your kid enjoys watching them, but does he actually understand them?

Would it be possible that it's actually the flashing lights and soundtrack that accompanies scenes like this?

I'm trying to remember when my cousin was 3 - she hadn't a clue what she was watching (apart from the stuff that was pitched at her level like Tweenies and Teletubbies), but she loved the bright flashing colours and the music. I likened it to her watching fireworks with music in the background.
 
My 3-year-old cousin got upset when he watched Bolt, heh. Cute much. :)

But no, I would not let a 3-year-old watch anything like Terminator or Die Hard. They won't understand what's going on, they'll just see the violence, and they'll have plenty of time to watch things like that when they're older!

We watched American Werewolf in London when we were about 6 or 7, gave my brother nightmares! I wasn't scared by it, but was not interested in it at all either.
 
i know it's weird. i remember that same awkwardness when i used to watch them as a kid with my dad, and the sexy scenes come on, you don't know where to look :D

guns, bullets and explosions though! proper boy's stuff!!
 
That's just it, it doesn't disagree with my argument. What you're talking about is pretty much irrelevant to my argument, which is how I know you don't know what you're talking about. You probably don't even know why it's irrelevant.

Context. You didn't understand the statement's context, and you still don't understand it after it's been explained. So there's not much point discussing your argument, as it's nothing to do with what I was actually saying. My point was about the genre of the production, not the production method.


Which is why I edited and finished the statement correctly before you hit submit.
 
Quite a provocative post there trevalyan - I'd stand well back if I were you.

To answer, no I didn't watch programmes like this when I was a child, in fact, I don't like violent movies now.

I seriously think it's inappropriate viewing for a 3-year old and if I had got children, there's no way on God's earth they would be watching stuff like that. Gives the completely wrong message to small children.

Your choice though.

P.S. I think this is probably a wind-up :rolleyes:
 
100 percent a wind up thread. Some of the violence in the Die Hard films make me recoil. To knowingly allow a child to be subject to violence is IMO child abuse.
 
I used to watch those sorts of films from about 9 or 10.
I was really into horror films around that age too (Nightmare on Elm street, Child's Play etc).
I'm fairly sure they didn't have any negative impact on me.

Not sure why you'd censor sex and not violence though.
 
i watched violent films as a kid and managed to make it through both Primary and Secondary schools without offing my classmates in some copycat killing!
 
I am aware you can have cartoons of an adult nature but that doesn't stop them being, by definition, cartoons regardless of whatever label you want to give them.

From Oxford English Dictionary:



So, is Watership Down a film made from a sequence of drawings, using animation techniques to give the appearance of movement or not?



I'm sure you understand the difference between 'throwing it in kiRAB faces' and allowing kiRAB to view something they feel ready for. If your kid asked to see Watership Down and you allowed them you'd hardly have thrown it in their face would you?
 
Back
Top