Do you think The Titanic movie (with Decaprio), would be ok for my DD to watch?

[beansricerevolt]

She is 8 and really loves anything to do with the Titanic. She wants to watch it soo bad I remember some of the parts but not all. She has seen some pg-13 movies before, even some R but I always watch them first to see if she can handle it. I guess im more concerned with the sex in this movie. Is there any parts that you feel an 8 yrold shouldn't see. I kinda forgot and I really don't have time to watch the 4 hour movie myself with a 15 mo. old.
I do remember the ending was very emotional but i feel she would be ok with this part, might make her cry, but who didn't watching it the first time?

What do ya think?

[Bartock]

I would say go for it, depending on how she is with sad stuff like that, it's a true story and IMHO I don't think it is graphic, just sad it still makes me cry. The sex scene as I recall shows not parts and is not to sexy.

[beansricerevolt]

Originally Posted by ilovemy2ds

I would say go for it, depending on how she is with sad stuff like that, it's a true story and IMHO I don't think it is graphic, just sad it still makes me cry. The sex scene as I recall shows not parts and is not to sexy.

Thanks for the reply! I think we are going to watch it together tonight. Dh is away and it'll be great bonding time

[maxmama]

Besides the fact that it's the worst movie ever and the acting is so bad it may scar her for life, it should be fine.

[talk de jour]

I think it would be ok. The actual sex is only implied, and the nudity that appears is artistic/erotic, not pornographic.

[UUMom]

Originally Posted by maxmama

Besides the fact that it's the worst movie ever and the acting is so bad it may scar her for life, it should be fine.

Dang, no kidding.

That movie could *not* be more horrible. I saw it once, and that was a trial. I was very interested in the story of the titanic, but that movie. Oy. What a horror. : There are so many better ways for kids to be interested in historical hapenings, kwim? There are so many books, fi. I have two hs'd kids who are interested in the story, but this 'film' is not on my enrichment list!

I nearly died laughing watching two of the characters wading through the **sub zero* temps looking for a key. (?? or something? Despite poor memory, I know the duo would have been long dead before they fund squat).

Now, if you want to use the book to discuss Romeo And Juliet, ok. But to use it as a Titantic lesson? LOL Nope.

[Bartock]

WHAT are you moms def and blind : it was an awesome movie, OP don't listen to them :

[mata]

I'm on maxmama's team! No way I would subject my child to that movie. I've only just gotten that horrible song out of my head!

[unfrozncavegrl]

I also am one that thinks the acting was terrible!

There were some very terrifying scenes iin it as well. The one with the elderly couple on their bed with the water rushing in comes to mind.

[beansricerevolt]

The acting isn't all that bad.
Plus the movie isn't any worse than the Nickelodian/Disney channel movies, like cheetah girls or High School musical. Those are the movies I try to keep my Dd away from I usually give in We are TV free except for movies on the Computer so it's pretty easy to keep her hidden from the bad stuff.

You know, I never would have thought that she would be interested in this
Titanic movie but she is. Shes a girl! Walking through the movie store she saw the title (I can't get Titanic books out of her hands!) and the girl and Guy all lovey eyed, swooning over eachother. She had to see it! I think she might be a romantic at heart. In a few years she going to want to read those sappy romance novels. I can already see it coming Shes just like her grandma.

[NiteNicole]

As much as I know it was a super sappy horrible movie, the part where the ship was actually going down was hard to watch. You can't, or I couldn't anyway, help but think about how horrible it must've been to die like that...esp the mom with her children, and the older couple. I just found that really difficult to think about.

[Autumn Breeze]

Yeah some of the scenes with the people you know are about to drown are very difficult to watch, the old couple laying in bed holding hands, and the mother putting her children to sleep. Thoes kill me.

I agree the acting is cheesy, but part of me loves this movie anyway.

I may make my dd wait until she's around 12. I never saw the origional Titanic movie, only parts of it. I saw Titanic the year it was released, I think I was 15. Bawled my eyes out. I was so annoyed that they both didn't get on the door, at least their upper bodies, one on either side, arg! :

and dh just hates the whole thing

[beansricerevolt]

Speaking of Dh, He called tonight (hes out of town for work) and was like
"Please don't Let DD watch that yet". So now Im debating. If he thinks she can't handle it than i might have to wait till shes a little older.

I think I might watch it first. Thats really the only way I'll know for sure. Im just going to have to watch it while they are sleeping.

[Irishmommy]

My dd wanted to watch it last year (when she was 11). She is obsessed with the Titanic (has a huge print in her room of it - not a movie poster). The VHS version that we own is on two tapes. The first one ends with (iirc) the captain acknowledging that it's going down. She only got about five minutes into the second tape (the actual sinking stuff), and couldn't take any more.

[Verity]

Originally Posted by NiteNicole

As much as I know it was a super sappy horrible movie, the part where the ship was actually going down was hard to watch. You can't, or I couldn't anyway, help but think about how horrible it must've been to die like that...esp the mom with her children, and the older couple. I just found that really difficult to think about.

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I wouldn't let an 8-year-old watch it.

[lorijds]

My 7 yo dd was studying the titanic, and several in the class had mentioned that they had seen the movie. No one in our family had seen it, so I rented it.

10 yo dd and I watched it all the way through, though I think I bawled for the last 30-45 minutes. I think the scenes when the boat goes down are well done and scary as heck. The people in the bottom of the ship being locked in; as others have said, the children and the elderly people in their beds. When the boat is on one end and there is that moment of silence and stillness before it plunges--everyone is just looking at each other in the eyes and waiting.

7 yo DD couldn't watch it once the boat started to sink, and I would have never offered to let her watch it if I had seen it before. A couple of friends had seen it, and they didnt' think it was so bad. DD knew the details. But it was too visceral for her.

It was difficult enough for me. My 11 yo actually handled it the best. She wants to see it again, but I dont' want her too see it alone, and I'm not watching it again. I think the acting was fine; not exceptional, not wretched. But it was gut-wrenching, I thought, and isn't something I want to see again.

Lori

[CrazyCatLady]

I saw the movie in the theater at 15 years old. Some of those scenes previously mentioned still get to me when I think about them. And I'm a person who was watching Freddy Krueger movies at 5 years old with my dad. So it's not that I'm over sensitive or anything. But the scenes with the boat going down do feel realistic and can be hard to stomach. I guess for me it would depend on how mature my 8 year old was and what kind of things she's already been exposed too.

[Arduinna]

I wouldn't, my sister made the mistake of taking her son when it came out he was about that age and he couldn't stop talking about the dead bodies and the boat sinking. I didn't take my daughter who was that age because I thought it would haunt her. She saw it on video at our house when she was older and likes the movie.

[UnschoolnMa]

It really would depend on the child in question I think. My kids watched it when they were really little (let's see they must have been around 5 and 7 at the time) and it was largely alright. The hardest issue was the scenes of death during/after the sinking. The brief nudity and sex was no big deal for us.

[candipooh]

Originally Posted by ilovemy2ds

WHAT are you moms def and blind : it was an awesome movie, OP don't listen to them :

I like it too. ANd I usually pick apart movies. I don't hold back when I think soething is bad. (had a lot of theatre experience) But I liked it.

It really would depend on the child in question I think. My kids watched it when they were really little (let's see they must have been around 5 and 7 at the time) and it was largely alright. The hardest issue was the scenes of death during/after the sinking. The brief nudity and sex was no big deal for us.

I agree with this. My children watch a lot of what most on MDC think it "too much" for their kids (I think unschoolenma and I have chatted about this before, haven't we?) My kids are 3, 5 and 7. If they are not feeling comfortable then they close their eyes. If we ask them "do you want us to turn it off?" it is always "NO!" I do the same thing when I am watching movies...

They have all watched the Titanic movie. They mostly get board and end up in their room playing. It did not scar them or cause nightmares. (even the acting, )

Oh...there is some movies that I will wait till they come to DVD before they watch them (Lord of the Rings etc) because it seems more intence/real/scary if it is in the theatre.