Spectre with my 8 year old

fatsmoker
fatsmoker Posts: 585
edited October 2015 in The cake stop
So, we ususally go to the cinema on Halloween, just to avoid the bulls**t of trick or treat. The kids love the Bond films when they're on TV. The old Roger Moore and Sean Connery ones are PG rated. I want to see Spectre and so do the kids, but it's a 12A. Would I scar my little 'un for life?

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Nah. Just be prepared to explain some of it.
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,107
    Depends on the 8 year old to be honest - would someone getting their eyes gouged out and then the perpetrator wiping the blood on a tissue scare them ? Personally I don't think my daughters would have liked it when they were 8 - my son would probably have been OK with it.

    It isn't a great film anyway - the action and the special effects save it and the overall premise of the threat that Bond tackles is quite promising but it lacks a decent plot. If Skyfall was a 5/5 this is a 3.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19733291#p19733291]DeVlaeminck[/url] wrote:
    Depends on the 8 year old to be honest - would someone getting their eyes gouged out and then the perpetrator wiping the blood on a tissue scare them ? Personally I don't think my daughters would have liked it when they were 8 - my son would probably have been OK with it.

    It isn't a great film anyway - the action and the special effects save it and the overall premise of the threat that Bond tackles is quite promising but it lacks a decent plot. If Skyfall was a 5/5 this is a 3.

    I disagree, I don't like action films for instance but I'd say it was at least as good as Skyfall, maybe a touch better.

    Having seen it I would not take an 8 year old to see it.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,425
    The reviews that I have heard/read, say that it is a 12A. For a reason.
    Probably not, but you would be the better judge.
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  • debeli
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    I wouldn't, but that doesn't make it wrong.

    My first Bond film was Diamonds are Forever, when I was 8 - but is was a fairly cartoonish Bond film. This one is rather more jarring and bloody.

    Having said that, my kids watched (endlessly) The Blues Brothers as little mites - for the musical content - and one of them shocked us at a family gathering with a loud and expletive quote from the film. That was in 1996 and we've got over it now... Just.

    Daniel Craig is not as Moore and Connery were. I recall being shocked that my neice was encouraged to sit through Saving Private Ryan at ten.... but she seems well-enough adjusted now. She hasn't shot anyone yet...

    But on balance I'd advise against it. There are so many films that will suit a kid that age...

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