Eh, the kids will get over it. They'll grow up and tell the story about what happened, and probably laugh about it. I know I saw some messed up stuff when I was that young, and it didn't permanently scar me or anything.
Then you have serious issues thinking little kids being scared and in pain is funny or filled with a sense of "wonder."
Yup, you're right. But at least you won't have to try and explain to them what was going on and stay up with them at night (for the next few days or weeks) because they're so scared.
You'll get over it. Not everyone raises thier kids the same way. Not everyone feels their kids need sheltered from the real world all the time.
I'm shocked and saddened that a mother would use the term "pansy kids" to describe children (3 year olds!) who are scared by scenes from The Hills Have Eyes 2. I'm shocked and saddened that a mother would find it funny or find some sense of "wonder" in a situation where many young children are accidentally scared shitless. How you choose to raise your children is your business. But don't for a second think that exposing little kids to material such as this as "real world" because it isn't. Teenagers...sure, I could see it. Little kids, no. I'm not sure what you think "I'll get over," but thanks. Now, as I said before, I'm done.
Wow. You know... I read that article and I had to laugh. It amuses me that parents think their children need to be sheltered from things in life all the time. Sure, you might not want your children to see something like that and, to be honest, they probably don't need to see something like that at such a young age. However, the parents should be able to put that into perspective. And that's the real issue here... is that the parents are upset, not because their child saw something they shouldn't, but because they'll have to actually act like a parent for a change and explain something to their child instead of letting them "figure things out in school". It's been my experience, as a parent, that while talking with other parents I find that they really don't know how to explain things like that to a child. If you teach your child from an early age the difference between reality and fiction the only thing you'd need say is that "It's a movie and it's not real". Done. As for the screw up in general, yeah, I can see it happening. Like Joe said, it shouldn't have, but it did and if it's the guy's first offense he should get a written reprimand or -if this has happened before- he should get fired for something like this. Of course, if this were a couple of friends of mine that worked in movie theatres for awhile, it would have been done on purpose. In that case go directly to your next job. Still funny as hell when my High School buddy did something similar deliberately during a Disney film -honestly forget which one-, but I do remember that he started showing the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake. He didn't stop either until the management beat the door down and kicked him out of the theatre. Damn, that was funny. On a side note; I've been watching horror flicks like these sense I was four or five -yes, with my parents- and my mother was always capable of putting it in context for me. To this day Exorcist -my first-, Poltergeist & AmityVille Horror -my second- are three of my favorite horror films. And, once my one year old girl is old enough she'll watch them with me... how old totally depends on her. She already watches the LotR trilogy with me among other things.
It's not as bad as when this family went to rent a kids movie and the movie turned out to be pron. The movie started out as a kids movie (some sort of cartoon as I recall from the article) and towards the middle of the movie it had scenes from a pron.
