Rumors have started going around the high school that your daughter is a huge slut. For the record, she's actually a virgin. A friend didn't believe her when she said she did nothing for the weekend, so she made up a story about a boy. Someone over heard and passed it on ( Read more... )

your child is high school aged. for the sake of this scenario, you do not approve of and do not allow your children to watch certain types of R-rated movies (in this case, gross/sexist humor ( Read more... )

There's a TV show or a movie filming in your area, and somehow you ended up lucky enough to get a role as a minor character: you have maybe two lines and then you die, with maybe a nice closeup of your corpse. The film/TV show itself is rated approximately MA15+ (which I think is probably a US R, or thereabouts: rating systems confuse me). Assuming ( Read more... )

 i was at the movies on Friday, and as we walked past the ticket collecting guy up the front, a woman came up to him with her young son who looked to be about 3 or 4. She asked if they could turn on some of the lights in their cinema, because her son was scared of the dark. The guy said no, but I didn't hear why or what the woman's reaction was. So ( Read more... )

What movie did you see as a child that you would like your own child(ren) to see?

What movie did you see as a child that you would recommend your children pass up? (Because I know we don't ban in the Booj.)

let's say you have a 5 year old child. do you introduce him to star wars with episode 1 or eposide 4? neither? something else? why?

ETA: at what point do you show The Ewok Adventure? after ep 6 but before ep 1?

We just got back from seeing Knowing, and my daughter commented that she cried a little at the end because it was very sad.  That reminded me of a discussion on another board when Marley & Me came out, so I figured I would propose it here . . .

A mom on another board commented that she would not have brought her children to see Marley & Me because ( Read more... )

The Backstory.
I took my 4 year old to see Twilight in the theater at her request.  She loved it, thought the fight scene at the end was "WIIIIILD".  The baseball scene is her all time favorite, I'm quite sick of it now !  My MIL had a minor freak out when she found out.  I don't see a problem with my daughter watching a movie, especially if she ( Read more... )

Forgive me if this has already been posted somewhere. I was quite surprised to hear on the radio this morning that children had been instructed to watch Brokeback Mountain in class as part of their education. Supposedly they shut the door and the teacher said "What happens in Ms. Buford's class stays in Ms. Buford's class." A 12 year old girl's ( Read more... )

Your fifteen year old expresses an interest in seeing the film American Psycho (or some other film of equivalent content), and ask if they can see it, on the basis of being a big fan of one of the actors in the film ( Read more... )