Which of the following movies would you let your 10 year old watch?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Departed
Superbad
The Matrix
Saw I, II, III, IV
Hostel
Alpha Dog
Garden State
American Pie
Jackass: The Movie
Jackass: Number Two
Caligula
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
Sin City
300
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill
Irréversible
The Dreamers
Titanic
The Notebook
Donnie Darko

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

My answers:

Yes:
The Departed
Superbad
The Matrix
Saw I, II, III, IV
Alpha Dog
Garden State
American Pie
Jackass: The Movie
Jackass: Number Two
Sin City
300
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill
The Dreamers
Donnie Darko

No:
Hostel
Caligula
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
Irréversible
Titanic
The Notebook

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

All of them

[Friz]

None of them, because they're all fairly awful.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

None of them, because they're all fairly awful.

Pulp Fiction and The Departed are awful? Your taste sucks.

[Friz]

None of them, because they're all fairly awful.

Pulp Fiction and The Departed are awful? Your taste sucks.

Wow what a faux paux on my part.  Pulp Fiction is quite excellent.  The Departed is really good.

[Tory]

The Departed: yes
Superbad: yes
The Matrix: yes
Saw I, II, III, IV: no, for reasons of taste
Hostel: no
Alpha Dog: no
Garden State: yes
American Pie: yes
Jackass: The Movie: yes, but I'd talk to him/her and tell them not to replicate anything in the movie
Jackass: Number Two: see above
Caligula: no
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma: no
Sin City: yes
300: no, it's a dumb movie
Pulp Fiction: yes
Reservoir Dogs: yes
Kill Bill: yes
Irréversible: no
The Dreamers: no
Titanic: yes
The Notebook: yes
Donnie Darko: yes

[The Man From G.O.P.]

The Departed-No
Superbad-No
The Matrix-No
Saw I, II, III, IV-No
Hostel-No
Alpha Dog-No
Garden State-No
American Pie-No
Jackass: The Movie-No
Jackass: Number Two-No
Sin City-No
300-No
Pulp Fiction-No
Reservoir Dogs-No
Kill Bill-No
Titanic-No
The Notebook-No, I would avoid ever showing this to anyone.
Donnie Darko-No
[/quote]

Ten year olds have no business watching these, in 3 or 4 years, I could show most but not all of them, and if I were a parent I don't think I'd actually sit the kid down and show any of these.

[Eraserhead]

Basically any of them although I would encourage him not to watch some of them because of their suck factor being too high.

Even I would have to take Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom off the table though. Has anyone here actually seen that?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Now the question is would anyone let their kid watch Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom?

Straha apparentely.

I'd also say that anyone willing to let their kid watch Irréversible better be prepared to shell big bucks for a child therapist.

As for anyone having actually seen it, I've seen parts but have not gathered the courage to watch the whole thing. Rob has seen the whole thing though.

[Eraserhead]

Now the question is would anyone let their kid watch Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom?

Straha apparentely.

I'd also say that anyone willing to let their kid watch Irréversible better be prepared to shell big bucks for a child therapist.

As for anyone having actually seen it, I've seen parts but have not gathered the courage to watch the whole thing. Rob has seen the whole thing though.

I have seen clips also and I would watch the whole thing if I had it or could find it. I haven't seen Irreversible so I can't speak to that.

[Person Man]

Ehhh... Rosie is 6 and she has watched like half of them. She thinks pinhead is her friend.

[Inverted Things]

"Officially" speaking, my daughter won't be allowed to watch very many of these. I won't make an exhaustive list because I've only heard of 50% of them.

Off the record, she can sneak whatever she wants. I really don't mind too much about that. I just don't want to be endorsing bad behavior by sitting her down to watch a movie that glorifies said behavior (such as American Pie).

[Gustaf]

I would agree with Yak. A 10-year old should probably not watch many of these. Titanic wouldn't be very harmful though. But most of the others are too violent or sex-obsessed for someone that age.

[dead0man]

I'd only let my kids watch these few:
The Matrix
Jackass: The Movie
Jackass: Number Two
Titanic and Donnie Darko-I think they would be bored by both though

Maybe, depending on the kid:
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill

I think The Matrix and Kill Bill suck so I wouldn't encourage either of those, but I'd let them watch them if they wanted to.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I wouldn't let my kid watch Titanic not because of any of the content, but because it's a horrible horrible movie. That's the reason I wouldn't let them watch Hostel either, not the violence. And if my kid was a girl and wanted to see The Notebook (since obviously no male would want to see that movie), I'd force her to watch Alpha Dog instead and say "see, it's the same director, so it's basically the same thing."

BTW, can anyone explain what is innapropiate about Superbad?

[Friz]

BTW, can anyone explain what is innapropiate about Superbad?

Other than the incredibly lame cop characters taking up so much screen time, nothing really.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

There's people who wouldn't let their kids watch Salo or 120 days of sodom?

[Eraserhead]

There's people who wouldn't let their kids watch Salo or 120 days of sodom?

Yes and have you actually seen it by the way?

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

I haven't seen either.

[Eraserhead]

I haven't seen either.

Its one movie.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

*sigh*

Straha was brilliant here.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Very few of them *Officially*.

But if a 10 year old wanted to watch, say, Salo then I would be more intrigued than worried.

[Gabu]

*sigh*

Straha was brilliant here.

Well, he did indeed make a lot of posts that I've never read.

[angus]

I don't have a ten-year-old, but I have a three-year-old.  I look into my DVD collection and see Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Reflections of Evil, and Truth or Consequences.  I consider them all to be good movies, but obviously they were all bought by me some years ago.  I never realized how violent my tastes were in movies till he was born.  Nowadays, we buy Dora and Diego and animated Dinosaurs.  My wife won't even let me watch Family Guy in front of my son.  In all honesty, it's a good call.  Glad she's around.  I haven't seen many of the movies you have mentioned, but here are those that I have seen:


The Matrix
Alpha Dog
American Pie
Caligula
Sin City
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Titanic

Of those, I think only American Pie and Titanic are appropriate for my son to watch, although I have no doubt he'd be bored to tears within the first three minutes and want to watch something else.  In fact, I cannot imagine any ten-year-old wanting to sit through Titanic.  I was 29 when I watched it and could barely contain my boredom even at that age.  American Pie, on the other hand, was hilarious for me (who can't help but remember the many uses for tube socks?), but I'm not sure a ten-year-old would really appreciate the humor.  The others are too violent, imho, or have scenes that I just don't care to explain.