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R movie age restriction.
2006-05-12, 8:07 AM #1
First let me start out by saying I almost never go to movies. Besides nothing good ever being on, the picture quality is horrible in most theaters. But my question is about getting into R rated movies. How hard would it to be just to buy tickets for one movie and see another if your are under aged? Why do they even bother selling tickets for individual movies?
2006-05-12, 8:09 AM #2
It's called trust. Businesses put a certain level of trust in their customers to not be complete *******s and rip them off.
2006-05-12, 8:16 AM #3
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
First let me start out by saying I almost never go to movies. Besides nothing good ever being on, the picture quality is horrible in most theaters.


A little off-topic but with that attitude pretty much anything will seem bad.

As for sneaking around, most of the cinemas here have staff showing you what aisle to go down to get to your seat and while they're there they check you're in the right theatre. To see another film you'd have to wait till the movie starts in the other screen room, which is when the staff leave and make sure any staff in the corridor don't see you just wandering straight from one room to the other. Frankly if a kid will go to those lengths to see something, they're likely to see it one way or another.
2006-05-12, 8:26 AM #4
I've never been to a theater where they check my ticket beyond the front door.
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2006-05-12, 8:30 AM #5
Originally posted by Avenger:
I've never been to a theater where they check my ticket beyond the front door.


Me either. I just bought tickets for rated R movies when I was 15 and 16 anyway because I could always pass. But that might not be the case for everyone.
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2006-05-12, 8:31 AM #6
[QUOTE=Cool Matty]It's called trust. Businesses put a certain level of trust in their customers to not be complete *******s and rip them off.[/QUOTE]


Movie tickets are the same price for all movies.
2006-05-12, 8:32 AM #7
I think it largely depends on how big/small the theater is and how it's run. My local theater has teenagers on the staff who don't give a rat's a** about underaged people going into R movies.
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2006-05-12, 8:33 AM #8
I think he means the fact that once youre in there technically you could sneak into more than one movie.

They trust youre going to the movie you paid to see and thats it.
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2006-05-12, 8:34 AM #9
Originally posted by MBeggar:
I think he means the fact that once youre in there technically you could sneak into more than one movie.

They trust youre going to the movie you paid to see and thats it.


Ticket revenue from one movie helps them pay the fee for showing said movie. If all these kids are buying tickets for some G rated teletubbies movie but going to V for vendetta they are getting ripped off.
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2006-05-12, 8:35 AM #10
When I worked at the theater:

You are carded at the box office.

You are carded at the pole (where they tear your ticket).

You are carded at the door to the movie.

If you look to be under the age of 27, official policy was that you were carded. Unofficially, for Hostel, if you looked below 35, you were carded.

Consequently, R-rated movies didn't sell too well at the theater I worked at.
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2006-05-12, 8:38 AM #11
Remind me to never go to your theater. Not that there's anything fundamentally wrong with carding people, but thrice? That's incredibly annoying and inconvenient.
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2006-05-12, 8:40 AM #12
I hardly ever went to movies until I was 18. Then it seemed I was going to them every other week. So you could just wait, silly young person.

Although I do remember getting into an 18A (R) movie when I was 15. Not much of a point, it was a crappy movie anyways (Thirteen Ghosts).
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2006-05-12, 8:45 AM #13
Before I was 17, I'd often just buy any ticket with a convenient time and then go to the movie I wanted -- regardless of whether or not it was R.

Ironically, now, I haven't seen a single R movie since I've turned 17.
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2006-05-12, 9:34 AM #14
Yeah, the few times there was an R-rated movie worth seeing we just bought tickets to a different movie.
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2006-05-12, 10:59 AM #15
I always sneak into other movies. Its so frikkin easy. I watched like 6 movies in one day and payed the price of just 1 ticket.
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2006-05-12, 11:06 AM #16
...congratulations on wasting 12 hours of your life.

In Boston, I tried to buy tickets to see SAW II or some other cool movie on opening night but it was sold out, so we bought tickets to see some (according to me) crappy like DOOM, with the understanding that since both were playing at the same time, we'd just walk over to the SAW II theater. When we got to the ticket checker, however, he said, "SIR, Doom is THAT way." and pointed his meaty finger in the direction of a completely different side of the theater with a different, scrawnier ticket-checker, where I assume they played all the unpopular movies.
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2006-05-12, 11:07 AM #17
That sucks because SAW II was the best movie ever!
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2006-05-12, 11:10 AM #18
We ended up seeing it on opening night anyway, though I forget how. It was admittedly a great start to Halloween night.
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2006-05-12, 11:28 AM #19
I remember back when I was a youngin' I bought tickets to the new Asterix movie but decided to go watch American Pie instead.

"I'm gonna see her boobs." was all I remember from the day and age really...
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2006-05-12, 11:29 AM #20
Doom is so horribly bad it goes straight through the end of the spectrum and shows up at good again. But only if you're really high or drunk.
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2006-05-12, 11:32 AM #21
When I worked at the movie theatre, they carded you at the ticket counter 50% of the time, carded you at the ticket getty guy 50% of the time, and about 10% of the movies they walked in the theatre and carded people inside.
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2006-05-12, 12:14 PM #22
The regulations are bull**** anyway. When we were under 17, my friends and I would just walk into the R movies.
2006-05-12, 12:22 PM #23
Originally posted by fishstickz:
When I worked at the movie theatre, they carded you at the ticket counter 50% of the time, carded you at the ticket getty guy 50% of the time, and about 10% of the movies they walked in the theatre and carded people inside.


I can understand carding up front, but at the ticket guy or IN the theater is pure idiocy. You made the people pay for their tickets, I hope they don't throw the kids out anyways??
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2006-05-12, 12:29 PM #24
i never buy a ticket for a movie i dont intend to see. plus, i'm over-age, so it doesnt really matter.
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2006-05-12, 12:33 PM #25
I've bought a ticket to one movie and went and saw a completly different movie when I was under the age limit. They came and tried to find me in the theatre but they couldn't because they're blind.
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2006-05-12, 12:54 PM #26
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
Movie tickets are the same price for all movies.


Isn't ticket price based on age, and not the movie?

Cool Matty: It's not ripping them off. See above.



The age restrictions are a little unfair, and are basically assuming that anyone under 18, or 21 (or whatever it is) can't see a movie because it's "too scary" or "too violent" or has nudity, or whatever. It's just a generalization. What if, in reality, some 14-year-old really is mature enough to see an R-rated movie? They should be allowed, but they aren't.
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2006-05-12, 1:12 PM #27
The secret is to move to a country or state where the age restrictions are much lower. For instance:
Episode 3 was PG:13 in U.S.
Here any kid over 12 could see it alone, and most kids below 12 saw it anyways.

American Pie was 15+ and still 13-14 year olds saw it.
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2006-05-12, 1:13 PM #28
It's potentially "ripping them off" because different movies sometimes have different royalty obligations towards the movie's producing company .. so if someone buys a ticket for movie A and sees movie B, where movie B demands less royalty, the theater will be paying more for showing movie A a number of times disproportionate to the number of times it was actually watched
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2006-05-12, 1:17 PM #29
Originally posted by Matterialize:
The age restrictions are a little unfair, and are basically assuming that anyone under 18, or 21 (or whatever it is) can't see a movie because it's "too scary" or "too violent" or has nudity, or whatever. It's just a generalization. What if, in reality, some 14-year-old really is mature enough to see an R-rated movie? They should be allowed, but they aren't.


And you would enforce this rule how? Make them take a maturity quiz to see the movie?

Quote:
If you look to be under the age of 27, official policy was that you were carded. Unofficially, for Hostel, if you looked below 35, you were carded.


That movie was terrible if you wanted to see a horror movie, but pretty good if you wanted to see a softcore porn.
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2006-05-12, 1:23 PM #30
Originally posted by Pommy:
It's potentially "ripping them off" because different movies sometimes have different royalty obligations towards the movie's producing company .. so if someone buys a ticket for movie A and sees movie B, where movie B demands less royalty, the theater will be paying more for showing movie A a number of times disproportionate to the number of times it was actually watched


I dont think its ripping them off at all. If they're showing the movie, then they're showing it and they're paying the same royalty regardless of how many people show up.

Even if it does rip them off, then good. They dont make profit off the movies anyway. They make profit off selling 10 cents worth of soda for $3.50
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2006-05-12, 1:39 PM #31
Originally posted by KOP_Snake:
I dont think its ripping them off at all. If they're showing the movie, then they're showing it and they're paying the same royalty regardless of how many people show up.

Even if it does rip them off, then good. They dont make profit off the movies anyway. They make profit off selling 10 cents worth of soda for $3.50


Soda is more expensive than you think. Also, you can see rated R movies if you are underage and accompanies by a parent or guardian. And they don't check for that. So snag someone and ask them to be your godfather for the day.,
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2006-05-12, 1:55 PM #32
Originally posted by KOP_Snake:
I dont think its ripping them off at all. If they're showing the movie, then they're showing it and they're paying the same royalty regardless of how many people show up.

Even if it does rip them off, then good. They dont make profit off the movies anyway. They make profit off selling 10 cents worth of soda for $3.50


It rips off the people who actually produced the movie. Most of the ticket money goes to the studios. Consequently, thats why the soda is $3.50.

Not that it really matters though. It's totaly bogus that most theaters have an age restriction anyways.
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2006-05-12, 2:03 PM #33
Theaters don't lose that much money from buying tickets for movie A seeing movie B. They make most of their money on the concessions.

Also, don't walk into a sold-out movie that you don't have a ticket to. You're taking the seat that someone else has paid for, and that's just asinine and self-centered.

By the way, if you're with a legal guardian (and NOT just an adult), you can see an R-rated movie and be underage.
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2006-05-12, 2:06 PM #34
Originally posted by Wolfy:
When I worked at the theater:

You are carded at the box office.

You are carded at the pole (where they tear your ticket).

You are carded at the door to the movie.

If you look to be under the age of 27, official policy was that you were carded. Unofficially, for Hostel, if you looked below 35, you were carded.

Consequently, R-rated movies didn't sell too well at the theater I worked at.


The Wherenberg theater here does that too...that's why I go to another movie theater called Springfield 8.

When I was 16.
2006-05-12, 2:27 PM #35
Originally posted by Lord_Grismath:
...congratulations on wasting 12 hours of your life.

In Boston, I tried to buy tickets to see SAW II or some other cool movie on opening night but it was sold out, so we bought tickets to see some (according to me) crappy like DOOM, with the understanding that since both were playing at the same time, we'd just walk over to the SAW II theater. When we got to the ticket checker, however, he said, "SIR, Doom is THAT way." and pointed his meaty finger in the direction of a completely different side of the theater with a different, scrawnier ticket-checker, where I assume they played all the unpopular movies.



If you had kept going I wonder if he would have done any thing. You could have said that you were going to the bathroom or something.
2006-05-12, 2:28 PM #36
I asked them if they ever wanted me to see a movie at their theatre again. We were in a large group to see V for Vendetta, and 2 or 3 of the kids weren't 17 yet. All 12 of us threatened to refuse to see the movie. We got all loud and angry, and I was the head-of-the-pack. Eventually, because one of our friends was working, and was the most senior employee working, she got us in. It rocked, though. 12 people worth of cash down the drain because you won't let 2 in. They got smart.
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2006-05-12, 2:41 PM #37
No, they didn't feel like dealing with [richards] who want exceptions to the rule for no reason.

Screaming and *****ing at the staff is like yelling at the person at the register because breakfast time is over; they don't make the policy, and you're only making their job worse for them. Congratulations, you're a jerk and self-absorbed.
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2006-05-12, 2:42 PM #38
Originally posted by JediKirby:
I asked them if they ever wanted me to see a movie at their theatre again. We were in a large group to see V for Vendetta, and 2 or 3 of the kids weren't 17 yet. All 12 of us threatened to refuse to see the movie. We got all loud and angry, and I was the head-of-the-pack. Eventually, because one of our friends was working, and was the most senior employee working, she got us in. It rocked, though. 12 people worth of cash down the drain because you won't let 2 in. They got smart.


you could've just gotten a hobo to come along
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2006-05-12, 2:47 PM #39
At a couple of my theatres, I've had many different experiences. It just has to do with the different people. I got into Matrix Reloaded at 14 just fine, got sent out of Matrix Revolutions at the same age (had to get a note from my mom, and even then they almost didn't let me in). Went to see Doom at age 17 (forgot my wallet), didn't get carded. Went to see SAW II, got carded. Went to see V for Vendetta, didn't get carded. Went to see United 93, no card either.

Every theater is different. As to restrictions, I am totally against banning people under 17 from seeing R rated movies. Those ratings should just be guidelines, that's all. If we got rid of those restrictions, parents might actually start taking responsibility for their kids and what they do. I might be going into a bit more of a video-games related rant though here...
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2006-05-12, 3:25 PM #40
V for Vendetta was the first time I got any experience with this situation. My friend and his brother were a lot younger than me, and I just bought the tickets for them. I didn't really see a point, though. No one ever did ask to see my ID, which made me mad. I wanted to feel important for being 17.
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