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Parents should be more careful reguarding the media they select for their children
Us parents, tend to be too liberal when it comes to making decisions reguarding movies our children should watch. I have noticed a reviewer ( even though he/she is only twelve) saying: " I've seen more violent movies than this", as if this argument makes it ok to go against what the experts say regarding violence for young children. Before being informed about ratings and age appropriate media for children, I let my 7 year old watch this movie.
Now that I am informed ( after a huge amount of research) I can say that I regret letting my son watch it.
I don't care what a turn around "Playboy" tony had towards the end of a movie. He is shown in bed with a stranger ( and I don't want anyone giving me ANY crap that they did not show anything. REGARDLESS, you do not need to show the whole sex scene for the child to subconsciously comprehend that tony just had an "adventure" with that reporter only to have left her dumped in his room to be escorted by his secretary and to make things worse, to not even have remembered her name when he encountered her again. Parents, may I remind you not to judge the sexual and violent scenes according to the 30+ years you have been living, but, instead, according to the kind of scenes a child should be exposed to?
May I remind parents that children MUST be exposed to good role models of masculine and femenine behavior.
It doesn't matter that Tony had a turnaround in his life. The problems he had were on an adult level.
Problems should be more at the child's reality. If it does not, I think that is a clear indicator that the movie is inappropriate. For example, can it be possibly good for an 8 or 9 year old to learn from a Playboy bandit turn good?
The problem he turned away from is by far, ages away from youngsters realities.
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Too Intense and Violent
I took my 3 kids 14, 12, 8 to see it thinking it would be somewhat like Transformers. Much more of a older teen movie!! My two younger ones and older daughter watched the movie with their eyes covered through many of the blow up scenes. One scene shows a middle eastern soldier holding a gun to a father and the kids begging for him not to be killed. That was barely a second in the beginning but I thought was awful. Too much violence and too intense for little kids I think. This movie is better for 15-17 year olds. I hate how the trailers make it look so "cool" and then you get there and it is much more violent than you would expect.
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Best special effects for the almost perfect superhero movie.
This movie has the best special effects but the hero tells everyone he's Iron Man. There is only one scene where to people make out in bed for a few seconds and that's just it.
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I liked this movie. Mostly fluff and good hearty action. Oldest enjoyed it. Good fun.
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Very upsetting
I completely disagree with the reviews of this movie in the press. I am 37 and I found it very upsetting. The first part of the movie has an incredible body count - perhaps 100 Afghanis. Part of my reaction may also have been disgust with the audience I saw it with. Violence is never funny, yet they took every Afghani death as a punchline, especially the one who is killed by his own ricocheting bullet. (Had I been on my own, I was ready to leave at that point.) The audience seemed to feel Afghani deaths were funny, but when white people die - now that's serious! Until the scene later in the movie where a father is almost shot in front of his wife and kids. Then they got it. There are many parts of the movie that seem to be a comment on the Iraq war; one of the very first scenes is an IED attack on a convoy. We get to see this from within and without - wrenching either way. This movie contains the sort of violence you would only encounter in a war zone. There is no way our children should become accustomed to this level of violence. Do not take kids to see this. If I could erase it from my head, I would.
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Enjoyable movie with some troubling violent scenes
I really enjoyed the movie. The story and special effects were excellent though the body count was fairly high.
There was really no need for the bedroom scene - though brief, it was not innocent nor necessary for the story. I was kind of surprised that there wasn't some product placement at that point though - it seems like a missed opportunity (grin).
The violence was excessive, though not from Iron Man himself. A disturbing violent scene occurred in a village where a group of armed thugs was conducting what could only be identified as terrorist activities. In this particular scene unarmed civilians were chased down and murdered in their homes by gunfire and explosives. Another scene occurs when a group of men, belonging to the aforementioned thugs, are gunned down by a security force while they were unarmed and on their knees.
I agree with the age recommendation as long as the child is watching it with a parent.
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It took me two hours to calm down after watching this intensely violent and disturbing film and I usually like action films. I certainly would not allow my 6 or 8-year old to watch it. I follow the MPAA ratings and always check commonsensemedia.org, but in this case, I would wait until they are 17.
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unexpected scene
there is a part in the beginning of the movie that jumps out at you from nowhere. it is a passionate love scene. the reporter is talking to downey jr. and thenall of the sudden they are in bed together making out with barely any clothes on. i was upset because i had my 8 year old boy with me and i did not expect this scene.
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great if you want to teach your kids to swear and have explicit sex with strangers
within the first 10 minutes the main character and "role model" ends up in bed with someone he just met and didn't even like. They're all over each other in bed, the scene lasted way too long for me, and was too explicit even though she still had her panties on at that point. I actually walked out of the high end expensive theater. The swearing in the first ten minutes was almost constant. My husband watched it at his parents and I guess after the first ten min it's much better, but I still don't support it. It may get better, but I can't recommend it to anyone let alone kids.
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Horrible Violence
Horrible violence. This film had advertisement directed at children. I saw 3 and 4 year old children hiding under their seats. My own 7 year old was terrified at the violence and embarassed by the sex and alcohol drinking. Terrible, terrible, movie.
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Loved it
Oh, come on people. Geez. Most of these people are all freaked out about a 6 second long scene where a man and a woman are kissing on a bed. You didn't see anything at all that was nasty or graphic. You really think that a 12 year old hasn't seen movies that are more risque than this? This is a great movie, lots of humor and action. Robert Downey Jr. was amazing as Tony Stark, and will be the same in Iron Man 2!
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cool high-tech stuff, violent action
This movie was full of violence, but the evil characters were clearly evil, and the main character gets the message of not wanting to feed a war machine. Kids will love all of the high-tech stuff Tony uses throughout the film (and I'll admit it was pretty appealing to the adult too, if unrealistic). The main character can be hard to read, even when he says what he thinks, and he is quite extravagant in many ways. His house is very cool, and an excuse to explore many high-tech gadgets.
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Another adult movie targeted to little ones
Not appropriate for the under 10 crowd, and questionable for pre-teens. A good adult movie, very entertaining, but frustrating for parents as all of the marketing is directed toward the little ones and yet they cannot watch it.
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family fave in our house
even though the war material may be violent at times, it is reflective of the times we lie in. it reaffirms the message that we all make mistakes and sometimes take the long way around, but the good guys usually win, and everyone needs someone - even if "Pepper" is the only one "Tony" has!
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Some "real life" violence, but a very intense movie with a good underlying message
As with my general train of thought, you know your kids, you decide. My 8 year old loves this movie. some parts of it hit alittle to close to home, regarding the terrorists, but on the other hand, I feel thats what made this movie something "deeper" then other "out there" sci fi movies.
Mild sexual references, some language and smoking/drinking..nothing more then kids see nowadays.
I clicked good role models, as Tony Stark turns his life around from a boozing womanizer to someone intent on helping others.
Robert Downey Jr. was excellent in this movie..
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very good movie buy it if u don't have it an A+ movie
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Great action hero movie for ages 7+
Despite having a few scenes that are violent or have slight sexual content, this movie is awesome for ages 7 and up.
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