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'Musical' switched for 'Sex' in Megaplex mix-up
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(and yes, I'm a mother of 3 and definitely a protective parent. Don't let my kids watch films with excessive violence in it, of course I wouldn't want them to actually watch porn either, but come on! a bit of moving under covers and a naked male backside, I really don't see what harm there is in that).
What I see is that (while I'm certain that it was accidental) when the cinema broke the law by showing an R-rated film to preadolescent children without the prior permission of the parents, and broke the implicit contract with the parents since they didn't show the G-rated film that had been paid for, many of the comment posters are blaming the PARENTS.
Why is this?
Just boycot the merchants of smut.
Why should decent people give their dollars to business that are polluting our culture?"
Yeah.... Like High School Musical 3!!!
I would be extremely upset by this if my 5 or 8 yo saw this, but the theater did try to right the wrong and has put new policies in place to keep this from happening again.
Parents should be responsible for their kids but if you pay for something and do not get what you paid for, there is a problem.
And for the porn lovers, what if they accidently switched your "Sex Drive" movie for HSM3?????
Yeah, what happened was wrong. The theater made a mistake. They took responsibility for it. But some of the damage control is up to you - that's part of what you signed up for when next to "position desired", you wrote 'parent'. They don't have mind erasing machines at the movies. (This is the part where you come in)
Be good parents. talk to your kids openly and honestly about what happened...and move on. Calling a lawyer and (this is a BIG maybe) winning some money in a lawsuit will not save/protect/purify your children. Being a good parent will.
I am a mother who has seen the devastation that meth and heroine can do to people and to families. Seeing 10 mins of "Sex Drive" is nothing compared to accidentally sticking a kid with heroine or handing him meth and a lighter.
Pornography isn't a substance and it isn't the most addictive thing we've got. What about Sugar? Wait never mind, a little Ritalin counteracts that one in children. Too bad we can�t give a pill to counteract parental ignorance.
Get off your righteous high horse... it must be nice to be so perfect and so utterly ignorant all at the same time.
Moving on to the most ridiculous comment you made: Pornography is NOT, in any way, shape or form, in the same league as addictive substances. Nicotine and alcohol stats will disagree with you, to name but a few. If you believe that exposing a child to a few minutes of nudity (which is not pornography) is equal to putting a child in a drug-filled environment for a whole day then I would argue that you have some serious mental scarring yourself and should attend counselling before you pass on your damaging opinions to your kids. The human body is a natural thing and should be celebrated, not demonised. Would you take your kids to see the Venus de Milo? She's nude and regarded as a timeless masterpiece and there is no sexual context.
Your kids are exposed to worse things in the 30 minutes before school starts every day than was seen in the first few minutes of this movie.
When did we all become so easily offended ?
I'm not sure, but we better get those bonfires stoked up just in case it happens again. . .
And, about the lawsuit comments...for what? It was a mistake...teach your children well and laugh about it in a few years.
The theater made a mistake. Get over it.
Please, let me help you down off your high horse.
Don't be dense. Kids can get in to see R-rated movies, so long as they are accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
"...it can even lead to future addictions and fetishes."
What's wrong with a fetish? Lots of normal, healthy people have them.
"I've had to learn about these studies repeatedly over the course of my college education"
Oh, a college student! You must be very wise.
"Strange how pornography is more addictive than any substance in existence."
That's even funnier than the article. Does that mean people have withdrawal symptoms when coming down off porn? Seriously, that's the dumbest thing I've seen all week, and I've watched two Sarah Palin speeches!
And as for the people who suggested boycotting smut, please do. Start with theaters and move down to retailers like Target who sell the DVDs. That way, I should be able to avoid having contact with people like you.
Be a parent and explain to the kids that it was a mistake. If the parents don't make a big deal of it neither will the kids. Then again this is the lawsuit happy generation. The courts don't have enough guts to say that things have gotten out of hand and that frivalous suits should penalize the lawyer as well as the people filing it.
Might have been a prank to get the election off the front page.
The trailers did seem to be not of the same content that a Disney movie would have, but the seemed to have children actors in them and I assumed that they were trying to hit a high school aged audience which all of these films seemed to hit. No once did it say that the previews were R or anything. So the preview began me to wonder but never having heard of such an accident I did not necessarily run out of the theaters at that time.
Then the showed started with no credits and it appeared to me that it was another preview and if it was not it started with a high school student IM a girl that he was a football player. Then it went wrong and at that point I took my 8 year old out of the movie. It portrayed this high school student having a girl perform sex acts on him then turned to masturbation and then the title started and the credits thereafter.
I don't condone abusing the courts with frivolous lawsuits, but if this had happened to me, I would absolutely pursue legal channels, if anything, to make sure laws haven't been violated; that's what our court system is here for...to protect us fromt he negligence and potentially intentional harm by others. Good day all----it's about time we stop accepting things like this.
Ahhhhhhh, yes.
If someone showed a racist film or a film against Islam everyone would be up in arms. But they show indecent trash instead. It is time to stand up and be counted. Sue them and make an example to them.
I guess my grasp of language is not too great because the story said that "nudity was shown". Well I guess to some the nude body is obscene and it is Utah.
Yes it sounds like a mistake which could have been avoided but perhaps some parents should reconsider their parenting skill also. Perhaps the mere sight of God's greatest creation, without man's puritan coverings, should not condemn one to a life of lust and debauchery. Perhaps if our children would be taught the naked truth about humans and our God given sexuality, there would not be such demand for smut.
There certainly is a large difference between porn and nudity, just as there is between good judgment and over reaction. I would suggest that all involved step back and eith take a deep breath or cold shower.
Jeez, I'm glad that if these kids had ran out of the theatre and got hit by a bus it really wouldn't have been all THAT bad. The worst would have already been over!
Give 'em a break...
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