[rant]

[ShadowHM]

Someone had taken their young, couldn't have been more than 5 or 6 years old, child to this movie.

I know that many parents make distressingly bad decisions about their children, but there is a fault on the theatre operator's side too.

Here, an R rating means:

Film restricted to persons 18 years of age or older. No one under age 18 will be admitted to this film.

I am advised by my 16 year old that popular R rated movies will have two people posted at the entry to that theatre room checking both for tickets and proof of age. Further, just before the movie starts, quite often there will be a walk-through by theatre personnel looking for and ejecting those who are too young. Recently, they have also started to send people in during the movie, as apparently as soon as the movie began and the 'bouncers at the door' left, the teenagers would sneak in.

(And yes, he knows this because he has circumvented the rules. Yes, he did see Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and hopes to get to see Kill Bill: Vol. 2., once the initial fuss dies down. And yes, I am going to let this slide - there are more important worries for me than what violence he sees in a move at this age.)

I would also like to offer this comment from him: "The violence in Kill Bill Vol. 1 was not much different than in Monty Python's 'The Holy Grail' where the Black Knight gets his limbs chopped off and the blood spurts out wildly. You let me watch Monty Python when I was about 6 and I knew it was not real."