http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie...NibG9nc3xtb3ZpZXRhbGsEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdl;_ylv=3 Kind of a big fuck up. I wonder if a disgruntled theatre employee did it on purpose? It might have been amusing to see all the screaming kids running out of there though.
Yeah, no. Obviously a major stuff up and someone should get the boot, but that sounds like someone angling for a lawsuit.
Fair enough, she's both a mom and an eyewitness. Yet I agree with Bailey, I'm not seeing the kids being scarred for life. But then again, we haven't seen the first two minutes of Paranormal Activity 4. :haunt:
I think I would have understood I wasn't watching Madagascar when the opening sequence wasn't automated.
This sort of thing will likely be more common because a lot of cinemas are now using digital projectors. The movies are filenames on a computer hard drive. With 35mm film at least a projectionist can look at the frames of the film he's loading in, and see that it's not something out of place, like a flying corpse in a children's movie. You can't do that when all you have is a filename to click.
Nah. Not for life. My butthole first step father thought it would be funny to take me to see JAWS when I was 7 years old. It only scarred me until around 19 or 20. I still don't like being in any body of water that isn't a swimming pool, but I'll do it if there are other people in there with me.
I watched Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one) at a friend's house when I was about 9 or so. I slept with the light on for a few nights after that. But I soon got over it.
Pretty big fuckup from a theatre management perspective. The projectionist should have been watching the first several moments to make sure everything was good. Still, it's kinda hilarious.
Y'know what? As a cultural thing, I love how parents in this country would actually rather their kid be scared of ghosts, than nut up, and tell them "there are no ghosts, when you die, you just die, and you only live on in people's hearts, and memories".
I once went to the theater expecting to see Monsters, Inc but instead it was Monsters Ball. Instead of happy funtimes with colorful, funny animations I got a movie about racism and suicide and dead kids.
If you're going to scar children for life, you gotta be more subtle about it. Like Tyler Durden in Fight Club. Randomly splice frames from pornos into Madagascar 3.
And more! Like her in erotic poses and a sex scene with [spoilers] (here's the downside...) [spoilers]Billy Bob Thorton [/spoilers] [/spoilers]
Fascinating how delicate we think children are. 100 years ago, 8-year-olds were working in factories. 200 years ago, 8-year-olds were working on farms. 2000 years ago, many 8-year-olds were slaves. 50,000 years ago, 8-year-olds were probably helping their tribe survive very hostile conditions. I think a few of 'em will survive a few seconds of a scary movie. I'm sure I would've been a little shaken up in their place, but my parents would've simply said "It's all Hollywood trickery. It's not real." Then I would've gotten over it. Heck, I was REALLY scared watching The Shining when I was 11 or 12...but I LOVED it.
I ranted this on the blog, but the actual cure, is MORE exposure. Movies that messed me up as a kid, I've tracked 'em all down, and watched 'em, and the trauma evaporated. Human Centipede messed me up a little first time I saw it. By the 3rd viewing (second is always for commentary), it was almost funny to me. MORE is what's good for kids, not less. These christian, and/or hippie-liberal parents have it all ass-backwards.
I can see how the kids would be scared shitless, and how for the next month or two they'd be sleeping with the lights on, but eventually that will fade. Hopefully nothing bad will come of it. I mean, when you see a horror movie, you know what you're going in to see. These children (and parents) were totally caught unaware, and to see something that shocking and frightening without a single iota of preparation, that can leave a mark. Like I said, while I hope nothing bad comes of it, there's always going to be that one kid who takes it to heart.
Absolutely. What some call "de-sensitization," I call developing the coping mechanisms to deal with materials that are shocking, scary, unpleasant, etc. You SHOULD get to a point where horror movies don't shock you beyond your ability to cope; they're just MOVIES, after all. But somewhere along the line, the idea of making your kid worldproof turned into making the world kidproof. A personal anecdote: a few years back, I was at a friends' house and a mutual friend (and co-worker) showed up with his wife and we all sat down to watch a DVD together. The film was Batman Begins, a film that has quite a lot of action, but not very much graphic violence. A little bit of "scary stuff" pops up in the third act (when people are hallucinating because of a drug) if we had gotten that far. But it's something your average 10-year-old would enjoy, no problem. Well, my friend's wife ABSOLUTELY LOST IT during the scene Bruce is being tested by hiding from Ras' among the ninjas. Apparently, the suspense was too much for the poor dear and, when Bruce gave one of the ninjas a slight cut with his sword (to match his own wound), she was DRIVEN from the room. That was it. No more of that. Completely traumatized. If that was too much, I imagine life around their house is pretty damned dull...
I *insisted* my dad take me to see Jaws when I was about 7, and he did so (I think he didn't know what we were in for). Absolutely loved it (and I think dad liked it, too), but it made me wary of the swimming pool for a long, long time. Even at 7, I knew there COULDN'T be a shark down in the dark of the deep end. But what if there was?
Children have powerful imaginations. Those same imaginations can run away with them. One of the roots of my severe arachnophobia is something my cousin (he was 20 at the time) did when I was very little. As a "joke", he threw ants and worms on my bare feet, and it terrified me. That must have happened some 28-30 years ago, and it's still just as vivid as the day it happened.
Huge difference between Jaws and Nightmare on Elm Street... Giant animatronic great white sharks are REAL.
Nah, this movie won't scar them for life. You want to fuck up a kid for life, you gun his parents down in front of him in an alley holdup.
i regularly have pretty intense nightmares, so i don't watch horror, don't go to haunted houses, etc. i wouldn't be filing a lawsuit or anything, but i'd be pissed.
I remember my parents let me see Tremors as a kid. I didn't freak out or anything, but I had trouble getting to sleep that night, because I kept thinking about graboids attacking the house. The best part, though, is that when I went to go bug my parents about it, instead of just sighing and telling me to go back to bed, they instead explained in a quasi-scientific way that the graboids wouldn't be able to move through the thicker soil of the area we lived in, only in loose sandy areas like the desert the movie took place in. Sounded plausible enough for me, so I went to bed and was able to fall asleep with no problem after that.
