Rate+R+movies+and+its+effects



=//**Rated R Movies**//= ====R-Rated Movies are usually not meant for the general public. It has decided that R-rated movies are not appropriate for viewing by people under the age of 17. Cable television is viewed by a majority of the entire population. With such a diverse audience of cablevision viewers, uncut R-rated movies are not shown on cable, because of the probability of an R-rated movie being viewed by an inappropriate audience. R-rated movies often contain foul language, nudity, and excessive violence. Components of R-rated movies are at the center of controversial disputes such as pornography on the internet, and violence on television and in video games, and cable providers have been pushing the issue of what they can show on television for years. As of right now, edited R-rated movies are fair game on television, because the foul language, nudity, and some of the violence have been cut out but as for Movies like in Movie theatres we still have the problem of kids sneaking in and watching the movie, and movies from places such as blockbuster, Netflix, Ondemand, or online, that the kids may watch on their own. Kids under 17 enjoy watching rated R movies because it entertains them more then a PG rated movie such as horror and a lot of action movies. I know when I was 16 I preferred a rated R movie over anything because I felt like it was the cool thing to do. In an article I found on a [|USATODAY.COM] Worth and colleagues asked 6,522 children if they had seen movies from a list of 534 released in the past few years. Researchers plucked 40 R-rated movies with "the most extreme examples of graphic violence" and found that, on average, 12.5% of kids had seen each movie. They don't know where they saw it if it was online, movies, or at home, but 1 out of 3 kids stated that their parents help them get them into rated R movies. This really does not matter if they can go to the movies or not because with technology rapidly growing kids do not need to go to the movies to watch them. Now we have internet sites such as hulu where kids can watch whatever they want, whenever they want, and even things such as Netflix where they do not need an I.D to get a movie. The security of checking I.D's may have tighten at places such as the movies or when a child goes to check out at movie at Blockbuster, but there are still ways for them to get a hold of that rated R movie they crave, even though it is not good for them to watch because they get influenced to participate in bad habits. Another article I found at [|abc news] says that studies have indicated that showing adult content to children can increase violent behavior, but recent investigations have also revealed that showing R-rated movies to children can encourage them to experiment with drinking and smoking and even gang fights, and potential murderers or serial killers. I immediately had a flashback when I read this article. Movies are not the only thing promoting things such as violents if you really think about it, cartoons are as well. I remember I would watch cartoons such as Bugs Bunny and bugs would be smoking a cigar shooting guns at Elmer Fudd and those are cartoons! Also I saw on the News a while ago that a girl had went to go see the Spongebob movie and went on a cruise the following week and she was so infatuated with spongebob that she attempted, but failed, to jump off the cruise ship to "go find spongebob at the bottom of the sea" like in the movies. She was a 5 year old girl who clearly had a very wide imagination after seeing this movie. I personally think that no matter what movies will always influence kids unless parents step up and do their homework and find away to block out this from their kids. In the article by abc news it also talks about what parents should do to not let their children get into rated R movies. First, know every site and device and internet toy that your child has access to and uses. Then, put locks on the ones you are worried about. Most On-Demand services allow passcodes to be set and you can block many internet sites. Second, educate yourself. Really study the content. "You actually have to go to places like commonsense.org or other places that really rate content and find out what's in it. You need to get down and do your homework and find out what your kids are surfing or what movies and video games their interested in. So there's a homework requirement for parents today that's really important,". Third, communicate. Start a dialogue with your children about all of this very early. Talk to them about what they are watching, or what they want to watch and why. Getting them in the habit of talking to you will help you understand what your child may be ready for. In this youtube video====

====My personal opinion with Rated R movies is that, everyone watches them. No matter if you tell your kid not to watch a Rated R movie they will somehow get to it. People are influenced by other things as well besides movies, I mean I know they play a big role but kids, unless they are scared of horror movies will have the curiousity of what a rated R movie is. I do believe that they do influence kids with things such as voilence because if a kid sees lets say Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie fighting like they did in Mr. and Mrs. Smith they are going to think that it is cool to shoot guns, and fight. Kids will watch rated R movies unless strict measures are enforced. I can speak for myself that I know when I was not old enough to watch rated R movies and I saw that everyone was talking about the new hit movie coming out that year and that it was rated R that I would pretend I was basically in a movie scene trying to dodge the ticket person at the front of the movies and back just to get into that rated R movie or else I would be stuck watching Horton hears a who with a bunch of 3 year olds. Its like an adrenaline rush when you watch a rated R movie, Its like you are a criminal but you like it. I use to love watching rated R movies whether my parents allowed it or not and I felt so cool doing it. Now I look at it and reading articles about how kids are starting to smoke, drink, and get involved in gangs, and I feel that maybe something should be done because I would hate for my children to be 13 drink and smoking because they saw that in a rated R movie it was okay for them to drink and smoke, or even get pregnant. Atleast if something is attempted to fix society and rated R movies at least something was done, now to say that it will officially make changes is not guaranteed, unless rated R movies no longer existed but on the business perspective, movies, actors, producers and etc, have to make a living as well.====

-Roberto Centeno