I grew up in the 90s and we easily watched R-rated movies in the theater without our parents. We were usually sold tickets to the movies but if not, we would buy tickets for a different movie and then go to the R-rated movie instead. Do kids still get away with that? It seems even easier now with digital tickets.
Can kids still get into R-rated movies?
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Dude it’s probably easier now, everything’s online. I remember I had to buy tickets to fucken SpongeBob so I could sneak into dawn of the dead. I think I was old enough but I didn’t have a license yet. I probably got thrown out of that move like 3 times before I finally got to sit through it. It’s think what gave me away was the popcorn.
Half the time when I buy tickets online now, there’s not even a person to check that I have a ticket when I arrive
I was 15 and couldn’t get in to “Purple Rain” and no. My son couldn’t get into r-rated movies in the 2010s. And not sure, but I doubt my 7 yr old granddaughter could get in to a pg movie alone.
Depends on the theater, the movie and the time of day. If you buy an early matinee ticket online (or even at the kiosk) at either of the theater to most movies probably wouldn’t be an issue. No one is checking ticket stub most of the time. In the evening when they are busy, there is a ticket taker and they do as for ID on occasion.
And then for the more “notorious” movies, they check regardless. I took my 14 year old to see Deadpool & Wolverine and they asked for his ID, I told them he was 14 and I was his mom, and they asked for my ID.
It was like that too when I was a kid even buying tickets in person. My mom didn’t care if I watched R movies and would usually send me in by myself to buy a ticket to whatever I wanted to see on a Saturday afternoon, only walking in to buy my ticket if they wouldn’t let me — they never made her actually watch the movie with me and 75% of the time I was able to get my own ticket. But if you tried to go on a Friday or Saturday night, they were checking IDs.
My kids have convinced me that they can do absolutely anything they set their minds to…
… Until I tell them that they can do it…
And then they can’t do it.
My son got into a R rated movie at 7 with both his mom & I. The rule is under 17 has to have a parent or guardian. So one more good reason to make it a “Family Movie Night”!
Yes and no. I went to packed house for a film, three younger people were in two of my assigned seats and the theater had no room.fornusnto sit elsewhere together. So I asked them to move. They didn’t. Theatre staff came and removed them, and the manager had said out loud to them ‘My Little Pony’ is the next auditorium. I would have died.
When I worked at the theatre (Kerasotes), Scary Movie was the first one we started carding for. Dunno about other establishments.