Autobot032 wrote:RhA wrote:deathy wrote:JetOptimus23 wrote:Lastjustice wrote:5150 Cruiser wrote:Scatterlung wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:Honest question: What's the worst that could happen if a kid sees someone die in a movie?
They start to believe that its okay.
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And this is were the parents need to step in and teach the kid thats its not okay. Thats its a movie. Just because they saw it happen on screen, or TV, doesn't make it ok. I've said it before, and i'll say it again...
The day i let a TV character raise my child, is the day i have failed as a partent.
No, we need be like Decepticons and decide for the people what's ok. It's what Megatron would want, relieve you of the burden of freewill heh. j/k
Anyone who thinks seeign violence or messages make people turn out a certain way damages them or turns them into murderers is flat out wrong. I mean during the 60s there wa snothing but songs about peace and love, and world peace didn't happen. The bad enws is happy messages won't get us world peace, but violent games and movies won't turn kids into monsters either.
I watched movies like Predator, Terminator, and aliens as a kid. Granted was usually the TV edits of the films, but my father believed I was mature enough to see it. He'd explain things to me all the time.
He taught me there was consequences to violence, as I feel thats one thing comics,and alot of kid focused entertain fails to convey. We can have fantastic battles, and long as it's a blunt object you strike your foe with you will never kill them. People can be knocked down or out without any serious ill effects. Everyone rides off to the sunset. (which is one of the reasons Alan Moore made the watchemen.) That's usually when kids hurt each other emulating something they see, and they don't realize how badly it can hurt someone. (like some kids rock bottomed his lil sister thru the front room coffee table and killed her.) Understanding violence is a valueable lesson, as you understand why not to use excessive force on others.
The things other kids did to me growing up goofed me up a heck of alot more than anything I ever saw on TV or in video games ever did. Ultimately humans are far less violent than we ever were for most part. You think kids see bad things now...people used watch gladitorial battles where people fought to the death for sport. We have people fight it out now days, but it's usually with rules in an attempt to not kill the fighters involved. We've come a long way all in all. Life and death isn't as much of a day to day thing as it was hundreds of years ago in majority of the USA. It's not like the old west where the fastest gun ruled.
I ultimately think the bay films are meant get the widest audience possible. While kids will likely watch them, (I took my sisters kids with me.We always talk about the films and what lessons to take from them. My nephew had a discussion of why the autobots just don't give up to the decepticons so they don't get killed.) I never saw anything that terrible in them that made me think oh they can't see this. Granted some of the things that happen are brutal as robots lose limbs, but it conveys that war is hell without using people. ( imagine how graphical what they do to each other would be if they did have people instead.) I think there's a lesson to be had without sugar coating things entirely.(as my father said you want it sugar coated...talk to your mother haha.)
This. The responsibility of not only making sure what they see is alright for them, but also explaining the line between fantasy & reality. Or else they'll all try to emulate Superman and...well. So please explain to your kids why Que's spark don't shine anymore.
man was that a bad joke.
It's the parents responsibilty to pre-screen & test everything out before they let their kids see/play with it.
Everything? That's a lot of work. Kids tend to be all over the place.
It doesn't have to be.
They want a game? Rent it first, play it.
They want a movie? Rent it/go see it first.
If you can't spend 1-3 hours once every two years (for the movies) to help your kids stay safe, then what else are you doing with your time? Neglectful parents can be as much of a problem as "The Man".
Always find time for your kids, even if that means doing a safety check once in a blue.
And ask around to the parents on here, they'll said they've done it.
exactly THIS times one billion to the tenth power.