Would this upset you?

[Muddled]

Jul 23, 2013 9:48:36 GMT -5 teacup said:

I don't know why I'm bothering to clarify more, because it's just going to add more fuel to your fire, but okay: I don't let my kids watch So You Think You Can Dance. We do, however, have football on because I'm a football widow. We don't watch hockey, usually, and if I could keep my precious snowflakes in a bubble forever, I would ... but I can't and I'm trying to be okay with that.

We're not fundies. We're not helicopters. We're good parents trying to do the best we can, just like every other parent here.

May I suggest a DVR. It will give you all the control you want over commercials and kissing and such.

[thebuddhagouda]

Jul 23, 2013 10:33:08 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

Ok, I don't have a pony in this race so this isn't meant to be taken as my stance on the issue at hand, but I'm loling at "sheltering your kids from the real world!"

Movie previews are not the real world.

Please. My kid is already training for the 85th annual Hunger Games.

[karmasabiotch]

Jul 23, 2013 8:24:42 GMT -5 teacup said:

During our previews for that movie, they showed the new Ryan Reynolds movie, complete with guns, explosions, scary alien faces, etc. I was NOT pleased.

I didn't say anything, because it's not up to the movie house, right?

I also find it annoying when they show scary movie commercials during "family" shows like football. Or when the dancers kiss on So You Think You Can Dance. But I might be 50 inside.

[TrickyBob]

Did you really use the term football widow? As in, during football season your husband spends more time with the tv and therefore you think you are a lonely single woman? Correct me if I'm wrong.



In 8th grade we watched Romeo and Juliet, but it was the newer one and our teacher taped a pair of blue paper pants to the screen on the part where he shows up naked.

[thebuddhagouda]

My husband can probably consider himself a football/basketball/soccer/whathaveyou widower. I get a little obsessed with my sporting activities.

[gretchenindisguise]

I would be annoyed because my kid is easily scared. She's in a phase right now where even movies she's seen 100 times are scaring her. We have to coax her to the movies, which she ends up loving and will talk about for days afterwards.

But we know this, and would likely not bring her into the movie until after previews because if she saw a Hungers Game preview, I can guarantee you that the movie goers 3 theaters away would hear her.

It would be nice to get a preview on the previews - a little heads up on what they're going to be. I wonder if this already exists somewhere on the internets.

[wannabe]

this entire thread = comic gold.

[gretchenindisguise]

Jul 23, 2013 11:23:05 GMT -5 puddleofgrace said:

Jul 23, 2013 11:17:23 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

I would be annoyed because my kid is easily scared. She's in a phase right now where even movies she's seen 100 times are scaring her.

We're going through this too. N saw an episode of Martha Speaks where Martha is having a nightmare about pickles with faces. She was terrified for weeks. About PICKLES WITH FACES.

It's driving me completely insane. She works it up in her head and runs out of the room screaming if I try to watch a legit movie. Only TV shows right now despite my valiant efforts. No wait, I did get her to watch Cars last weekend. :::headbangingintowall:::

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It appears there are quite a few of newbies in this thread... where the hell did they all come from?

[eb777888]

This is so funny. We went and saw DM2 yesterday at 1pm and I was WTFing and one of the previews. I glanced over at S (who is at a very emotional age) and he was fine.

[CurlyQ284]

Jul 23, 2013 11:17:23 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

I would be annoyed because my kid is easily scared. She's in a phase right now where even movies she's seen 100 times are scaring her. We have to coax her to the movies, which she ends up loving and will talk about for days afterwards.

But we know this, and would likely not bring her into the movie until after previews because if she saw a Hungers Game preview, I can guarantee you that the movie goers 3 theaters away would hear her.

It would be nice to get a preview on the previews - a little heads up on what they're going to be. I wonder if this already exists somewhere on the internets.

You can watch trailers on Netflix. We check them out sometimes when we have time to kill. Or you can find them on YouTube. But I don't think it'll help, you don't know which previews will be shown at any given showing. Or is that what you mean? Like a 'set list'

[gretchenindisguise]

Jul 23, 2013 11:35:11 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

Jul 23, 2013 11:17:23 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

I would be annoyed because my kid is easily scared. She's in a phase right now where even movies she's seen 100 times are scaring her. We have to coax her to the movies, which she ends up loving and will talk about for days afterwards.

But we know this, and would likely not bring her into the movie until after previews because if she saw a Hungers Game preview, I can guarantee you that the movie goers 3 theaters away would hear her.

It would be nice to get a preview on the previews - a little heads up on what they're going to be. I wonder if this already exists somewhere on the internets.

You can watch trailers on Netflix. We check them out sometimes when we have time to kill. Or you can find them on YouTube. But I don't think it'll help, you don't know which previews will be shown at any given showing. Or is that what you mean? Like a 'set list'

Yes - I was thinking like a set list - so you know which previews will be shown. I mean the theaters know it, so why not just put a little sign or have it on the internet somewhere before you see the show.

[gretchenindisguise]

Jul 23, 2013 11:40:38 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Don't they show preview ratings before each preview? "The following preview is rated PG-13" etc..? I could have sworn they did, but it's been awhile since I've been to the movies.

Yes, they do. But a Hungers Game preview can be rated PG even though the movie will get a PG-13.

[gretchenindisguise]

Jul 23, 2013 11:49:20 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Jul 23, 2013 11:43:40 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Yes, they do. But a Hungers Game preview can be rated PG even though the movie will get a PG-13.

Well, yeah.. So that means that the HG preview would be suitable for a PG movie (if that's what the preview was rated), no?

Yup.

And I really don't have an issue at all with the rating system. My main point in my posts is that I would love a set list so I can get my kid to watch movies in the theater. There is a palpable difference between a preview for Hunger Games and a preview for Turbo (animated) even if they're both rated PG, kwim? And it has nothing to do with me sheltering my kid, quite the opposite - I want her to be able to sit through all of the movies and I'm trying to get her to watch things that she thinks are scary and I know she'll love. A HG preview that I didn't know about would put a damper on that.

[spellingbea]

Jul 23, 2013 11:05:36 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

Did you really use the term football widow? As in, during football season your husband spends more time with the tv and therefore you think you are a lonely single woman? Correct me if I'm wrong.



In 8th grade we watched Romeo and Juliet, but it was the newer one and our teacher taped a pair of blue paper pants to the screen on the part where he shows up naked.

Forget about the rest, I am dying that your teacher made a tiny pair of movie pants for Romeo.

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::looks up "pussification of America," clicks link to this thread::

[speckledfrog]

Jul 23, 2013 13:27:20 GMT -5 @cse1960 said:

Jul 23, 2013 8:48:52 GMT -5 cville said:

no.

and being annoyed by kissing on sytycd isn't 50.  it's like 113.

  Thank you.I was about to have my nose put out of joint.
lol

I thought of you and flexie when I read that, even though you're both only 35, and knew you wouldn't have an issue with a little bit of smooching.

[redheadk]

Jul 23, 2013 8:24:42 GMT -5 teacup said:

During our previews for that movie, they showed the new Ryan Reynolds movie, complete with guns, explosions, scary alien faces, etc. I was NOT pleased.

I didn't say anything, because it's not up to the movie house, right?

I also find it annoying when they show scary movie commercials during "family" shows like football. Or when the dancers kiss on So You Think You Can Dance. But I might be 50 inside.

LOL. Dancers kissing on SYTYCD is more tame than some of the other things they do on that show.

[messykitchen]

I saw the original Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade English, and we were allowed to see Juliet's boobs!

I am guessing this would never happen now.

As far as I know we all survived.