Reading and watching roundup with Deadpool & Wolverine, + Hugos

[hamsterwoman]

On Sunday O and I (and cousin D, who joined us at the last minute) went to see Deadpool & Wolverine. Two movies in theaters in two months after 2.5 years of not going to a movie theater at all -- amazing XD The benefit of seeing a movie a month after it came out is that there were like 10 people in our theater, and at first nobody but us in our

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[hamsterwoman]

Has he(/they) seen the first two Deadpools? This one's on a similar level, I would say.

IIRC we let O watch the first Deadpool at that age, but at home, and also we've let O watch movies he was officially too young for since he was very small, because I'm of the belief that children can figure out their own level for that kind of thing.

I would say there are two things to be concerned about with D&W -- violence and swearing/"mature subjects" -- and both I think are well deserving of the R rating. (And at least in our theaters, they would not let unsupervised 12-year-olds into an R-rated movie.)

There is A LOT of graphic violence, but it is fairly cartoonish, so I think would probably be OK for a 12-year-old as long as they're not particularly sensitive. But as an example, there's an extended sequence (it plays over the rather long credits) of Deadpool killing a bunch of people with the adamantium bones of Wolverine's exhumed corpse. So, fairly disturbing premise, lots of blood, and you get to see a lot of the kills.

Besides violence, there is a lot of swearing -- lots of F bombs, a fair bit of talk about drugs (under the guise of "cocaine is the one thing we can't talk about in a Disney movie"), and a lot of innuendo (which I think a 12-year-old would pick up on a lot of it), including mentions of (off the top of my head) necrophilia, pegging, strippers, etc.

[zvuv]

Hm. So basically all the stuff that he's exposed to already on YouTube, but in a movie format. I'm definitely not chaperoning that movie trip though, so we'll see...

[hamsterwoman]

So basically all the stuff that he's exposed to already on YouTube

Heh, yeah, probably.

Unless your theaters are more lax tha ours, I suspect there would at least need to be a ticketed adult who walks into the theater with them (I'm sure no-one would police whether they stay or not, unless someone complains, I guess). Or I suspect what the kids in our theater probably did, since random unused tickets are not cheap, is that they bought tickets for a different movie and snuck into this theater counting on it being pretty empty at a matinee a month after release.

[zvuv]

I'm not sure, but last time we went to see Inside Out 2, I did notice an employee kind of monitoring the audience. Probably not specifically (or only) for this particular compliance, but I guess they'd probably question it. Alik looks younger than his age.

[hamsterwoman]

This is so weird -- for some reason LJ will occasionally just not send me your comments while sending me other comments. WEIRD.

I'm glad to hear someone is keeping an eye on your theaters -- nobody seems to be doing that in ours XD But yeah, would probably be harder for Alik and friend to attend an R-rated movie unsupervised in that case.

[zvuv]

Boo to LJ! :)

So yeah, they attempted and were thwarted, and instead watched a PG-13 movie about AI. Eric also declined the request to watch "Deadpool" with them (though he's more not up for the movie theater experience, vs. not interested in the movie, as I am).

[hamsterwoman]

Alas for the boys... Hope they enjoyed the AI movie, and maybe they'll find someone else's parent more interested in seeing Deadpool with them? (I imagine it'll show up on Disney Plus at some point anyway, though it might take a while, as it still seems to be bringing in pretty good bank in theaters.)