Thanks. The girl recently dumped me and broke my heart, and now she keeps getting things that make her happy. Grrrrr!

that bites Ron!!!!!!!!!!!!!


My philosophy with movies are, if they come out on a weeknight, wait till the weekend to go as it is cheaper and less crowds! Or I wait till they come out on dvd!

I'm not sure I agree with you there. The weekends are the busier times because of so many people being off work. When Star Wars I was scheduled to open on the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend, they moved it back to Wendsday to enable more people to see before the weekend crowds filled the theatres.


Thanks about the "bites" statement. :)

around here there isn't much of a crowd on a weekend for a summer movie, as people have various plans.

My 6yo has been soaking up the buzz about Ep III, but with the PG13 rating I'm having second thoughts about taking him.

cranky, I probably would be doing the same thing if it was me.

Maybe just see it for yourself first and see if it's something you are comfortable letting him see.

That's a good thought. My wife has heard similar stories so we're starting to talk about it. I never go to an opening week show of these big blockbusters, too much of a crowd, so we still have time. I may listen through the school grapevine for what other parents think too.

In the mean time my son's content to challenge me to duels with our toy light sabers. He acts like Yoda and tells me I'm Darth Vader.

The Oedipal implications of this are pretty amusing :LOL: ....

(BTW the new helmets rock)

eh ? What does this mean. Please forgive an ignorant young man !

When I was a kid, my father would watch a film them make the decision himself. Or in one case, go to a local rock concert to see how the crowd outside was behaving then ask mum to bring me (then 6 years old) along.

Interestingly though, my father was more liberal that my mother because he was a fan of such things himself (concerts and sci-fi) I wonder if being a fan will make it more likely for a parent to consider it ok for a child to see ?

You know always before I have avoided the big crowds and waited till things have calmed down but this time I want to be a part of the excitement, feel and share the energy of the crowd. I'm in the mood for sharing that this time :D

Since this will probably be the last Star Wars movie, I'm feeling very much the same way.

But I'll probably still go to the first showing Sunday morning rather than the 1st night. This Dawg's not fond of big crowds, most of the time. Unless they come to see me.

;)

I am
Dawg
:warrior:

Not ignorant at all, just not steeped in arcane psych theory, there are far worse fates. ;)

In a small nutshell, in psychoanalytic developmental theory, children are thought to go through a stage where they begin to resent and challenge their same sex parent for the affection of their opposite sex parent. This is thought to manifest as giving the same sex parent a hard time for a while. The child is thought to eventually identify with the same sex parent which has implications for personality development. It's called the Oedipus complex because of the Greek play in which the character Oedipus unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. Of all the critique directed at Freud's psychoanalytic theory, this part is a regular favorite. The joke was that my 6 year old casts me as the big bad jedi/sith while casting himself as the little jedi master, very much a fantasy with Oedipal overtones.

We have things like them in the Uk, to collect tickets you've bought online from the cinemas website

Cranky........
good explaination of the oedipal complex..........I have tried to explain it to hubby before and he always looks at me like..............."HUH"????? :wtf: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: I am going to the show before you it seems so I will give you feedback.........it is of course up to each parent to decide. But knowing what I do know about it, it may be best to wait to let him see it. Actually, the advice to see it first yourselves is the best, then you can decide.

Let me just add this one little thing to the question of whether to let your kid see the movie or not. If they've watched and are fans of the other Star Wars movies, and you don't let them see this one. They will always remember that. You may not think something like that would carry on with a kid, but whether you ever find out about it or not, I assure you they will remember that for the rest of their lives.

I plan on letting them see it .....when they are older.......after I see it I will know better......

I know how I would feel if I were a kid who was a big Star Wars Fan and couldn't see the new movie.

Julix and others.....

I saw this page and thought it might be of interest to you.......

http://www.theforce.net/topstory/sto...Sith_92098.asp

Hope that helps.....

Thanks for the link Ernie........that is so sweet!

That was funny about the Kid being freaket out by Lilo and Stitch (a Kids Movie).

I'm seeing the movie on the thursday with friends, and then I'll be taking my Little Brother and Sister (9 and 13 respectfully) during the weekend

Kids have access to far worse movies than Star Wars anyway