11-08-2006, 08:20 PM
I think that the way this kid has come across in the thread is grounds enough for him to be allowed to watch such movies. He seems itelligent enough to understand this IS A MOVIE, not real and its actions should not be duplicated.
In todays society, children are exposed to an amazing amount of violence from others meadiums such as the news, I am currently in a Sociology class in college, it was reported that somthing along the lines of children will witness over 5,000 murders on tv beforet he age of 10. Because He knows the differeance and understand that this is just a movie I belive is grounds enough to allow him to watch it. Of cource parenting, or in this case our older members intervention is in fact nessecarry he should know that at his age he is an impressionabe young adult and that there are reason that children in his age group should not view these types of things as fact.
To those who where " Getting laid" before he was even born. You have to realize in most cases you didnt have these kinds of mediums in your day and age. As hard as it is to belive, and as cautios as i am in saying this children today weather or not they are becoming more and more mature earlier or just have to adapt to the type of world we live in they are infact having to deal with these types of things on a daily basis.
I\'m hard pressed to say that at 13 most of the users here would have seen some form of gory movie, had some nightmares and then that would be the extent of entire process. This young adult has the intelligence to not only watch a film, then come onto his computer, enter an online community of others that share his interests, be computer literate enough to post a topic on a little known mask website, discuss it reasonably with others and in a timly manner. these are all qualities of someone who should be able to dicern movies from fact.
If he had not told his age im sure no one here would have questioned his maturity level. As hard as it is to say he is one of our PEERS.
Me being just 19 i too and a young guy. I started watching horror probably around 15 and was seriously interested in the mask scene by 16, owning and maksing several masks of my own(hockey). I dont feel that he is too young . For god sakes we\'re a bunch of old men(and woman) with large toy collections running around like its halloween every day. Give him a chance dont take things so seriously
In todays society, children are exposed to an amazing amount of violence from others meadiums such as the news, I am currently in a Sociology class in college, it was reported that somthing along the lines of children will witness over 5,000 murders on tv beforet he age of 10. Because He knows the differeance and understand that this is just a movie I belive is grounds enough to allow him to watch it. Of cource parenting, or in this case our older members intervention is in fact nessecarry he should know that at his age he is an impressionabe young adult and that there are reason that children in his age group should not view these types of things as fact.
To those who where " Getting laid" before he was even born. You have to realize in most cases you didnt have these kinds of mediums in your day and age. As hard as it is to belive, and as cautios as i am in saying this children today weather or not they are becoming more and more mature earlier or just have to adapt to the type of world we live in they are infact having to deal with these types of things on a daily basis.
I\'m hard pressed to say that at 13 most of the users here would have seen some form of gory movie, had some nightmares and then that would be the extent of entire process. This young adult has the intelligence to not only watch a film, then come onto his computer, enter an online community of others that share his interests, be computer literate enough to post a topic on a little known mask website, discuss it reasonably with others and in a timly manner. these are all qualities of someone who should be able to dicern movies from fact.
If he had not told his age im sure no one here would have questioned his maturity level. As hard as it is to say he is one of our PEERS.
Me being just 19 i too and a young guy. I started watching horror probably around 15 and was seriously interested in the mask scene by 16, owning and maksing several masks of my own(hockey). I dont feel that he is too young . For god sakes we\'re a bunch of old men(and woman) with large toy collections running around like its halloween every day. Give him a chance dont take things so seriously