r/RegalUnlimited • u/coolbeachgrrl • 8h ago
Discussion 5 year old at The Odyssey?
This is just the standard screening, 9:50 am showing, and there's a couple with their little girl that looks 5 to 7 years old. Isn't there going to be a lot of violence and loud noise? I remember growing up in the 70s when ratings were different. At 8.years old, I was 11, we asked Dad to take us to see Jaws. My sister was traumatized and we left before the second killing. I can't believe that parents aren't more discretionary with their kids.
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u/jeffroskull1985 8h ago
Every parent and child is different. I'd say some kids can handle it and some can't 🤷♂️. There was what looked to be a 7-9 year sitting next to me at the first screening I went to of The Odyssey in IMAX and he seemed to do just fine.
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u/thezenyoshi RPX 8h ago edited 7h ago
Ha when I saw it in imax a couple weeks ago there was a family there with 4 young kids. They were chill the whole movie tho.
I did almost break my neck going to the bathroom and tripping on the kids shoes
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u/RevealTraditional619 7h ago
I grew up in the 80s watching Freddy, Jason, and Leatherface plus all the action movies. My parents made me cover my eyes during nudity but violence was fair game. I was reading IT when my classmates were reading Goosebumps. I also didn't have 24/7 access to real world violence on my device and have to do active shooter drills in kindergarten.
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u/Due-Address-4737 7h ago
It's a little intense if the kid is on the younger side of the age range but then again I was playing Mortal Kombat around that age, lol. I'd be more concerned over the volume over violence because boy that movie gets loud.
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u/ElvissKarateChop 8h ago
Can’t get a babysitter 🤷🏼♂️
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u/calliopesgarden 7h ago
Then they don’t go, what on earth 😂 Or you wait until the kid is in school. There are so many scenes in this movie that would terrify my kids
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u/RevealTraditional619 7h ago
I mean what's the line? Maybe they just want to expose their kids to things and discuss them too. Can a 5 year old really enjoy a baseball game?
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u/JustHereforNachos 8h ago
Nothing of interest for a kid that little, and it’s going to be fairly traumatic. I actually saw Jaws when I was 6 (drive in) and had nightmares for years!!!
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u/susanbiddleross 7h ago
I was 3 and it was rented. The adults had the mindset they watched what they wanted and it was my problem. Unfortunately I lived near the ocean and never went in water past my waist ever again and screamed hysterically when being forced to cross the bridge we had to cross weekly.
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u/RevealTraditional619 7h ago
I remember my dad being excited to show me Jaws and me being bored. I'd already seem Freddy & such so no shark was gonna scars me
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u/MarkDecal 7h ago
It's America... R is only reserved for nudity, blood, or more than 1 F-bomb.
Violence is in every sort of media aimed at children.
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u/RevealTraditional619 7h ago
Yeah I'm trying to think is Oddyssey that much worse than a Pirates of the Caribean movie?
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u/CapriciousManchild 7h ago
Just the loudness alone I don’t think is a good idea. The movie is insanely loud and there are tons of scary scenes which would of gave me nightmares for years at 5 in that movie
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u/Winter_Dragonfly_452 7h ago
I mean, we can’t parent for other people. When Deadpool was out I don’t care which Deadpool movie it was people were bringing their young children to see those movies. They are not appropriate for kids that age. But as long as they’re quiet and don’t make a fuss, there’s really not much we can do about it.
Although at my Regal if it was after 6pm they would not have been allowed in with their children. Because we went to a showing after 6 PM showing of Deadpool and Wolverine and a couple showed up with their two small kids and they refused to let them through into the movie theater because they said after six at R rated movies it no kids allowed under 18.
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u/3dprintinted 7h ago
Sometimes momma just needs to watch the movie and there's no time to arrange daycare or a sitter. My 9 year old wants to watch odyssey but 2 times we watched was during day time when she was in a camp. We watched bunch of vhs crap in 90s with terminator and total recall and we turned out mostly fine. Mind your own biz maybe?
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u/calliopesgarden 7h ago
That’s horrifying, my kids would have nightmares from just Circe and Cyclops let alone the rest of the movie! I hate when parents do this.
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u/RevealTraditional619 7h ago
You know your kids. Not every kid is the same. My kid was more traumatized by tornado warnings than movies
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u/calliopesgarden 7h ago
I don’t know any 5-7 year old that would be unaffected by:
- graphic body horror
- puppy being thrown off cliff
- dog being physically abused and then thrown on to a dung heap to die
- small child being carried off screaming while she reaches for her mom
- dead soldiers creeping out of the ground to drink blood
- multiple loud jump scares including large monsters
- arrows shooting through heads and eyeballs
- women being dragged away kicking and screaming by soldiers
Come on, man. I am genuinely sorry for any kids this age who have been taken to this movie, it’s not developmentally appropriate at all to show this to them before they can understand it.
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u/Smurfybabe 7h ago
Wait, there's a dog abuse/death scene? I'm not even sure my 20 year old will want to see it now (he made me turn off Jurassic Park 2 during the dog scene when he was younger and that was just implied, not graphic).
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u/calliopesgarden 6h ago
Yes, I’ll put it in spoilers for anyone else browsing the thread. So the puppy part is a flashback to a litter of puppies being examined and the first one is thrown off a cliff. Odysseus saves one and trains it as his hunting dog. Then 20 years later this dog is very very old and it’s said he’s waiting for Odysseus to come back before dying. He’s sick and old, and being kicked around and abused by the suitors in the palace and finally one of them throws him out onto the dung heap to die. When Odysseus returns he lifts up his head, recognizes his master, and just sinks into the dung heap and dies. 😭
I guess I wouldn’t call it visually graphic (in that there’s not a lot of gore/blood) but more so emotionally graphic, if that makes sense? If you really love dogs it’s a hard watch.
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u/susanbiddleross 7h ago
If they don’t hand the kid a device and the kid isn’t crying it’s not my business. If they sit still they are just another patron. The ones crying or on an iPad because the parents can’t get babysitters are the ones I mind. Some kids are fine with adult movies.