6 years old too young for Terminator 2?

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6 and a half technically.

If I maybe don't let him watch the bits where the liquid metal terminator stabs the foster father/mental hospital secretary guard.

Acceptable, or too young still?
 
BUDFORCE said:
6 and a half technically.

If I maybe don't let him watch the bits where the liquid metal terminator stabs the foster father/mental hospital secretary guard.

Acceptable, or too young still?
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Up to you and depends on the child in question. My 3 year old watches some other pretty scary stuff and had never had any nightmares.
 
I saw loads of movies when I was really young.

Sitting in the living room playing lego or whatever toys, whilst aliens, terminator, rambo or whatever were on the TV being watched by the rest of the family.
Never did me any harm.


I'm not sure how old I was but I was born in 1981 so probably about 6-8 when most of these films were on VHS, weren't we all watching WWF as a family back then too, seeing blokes getting beaten up all the time.

Never phased me, and I don't remember nay kids in the street wanting to do play wrestling where anyone got hurt.


movies don't ruin your concentration span, unlike thicktok and emptytube 2-3minute videos some people let their kids watch for hours on end.
 
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My dad let me and my brother watch anything apart from the obvious pornos and banned video nasties. He bought GTA for my brother when he was just 8. We both had no ill effects and turned out fine, so I’d probably just follow his example if I had kids tbh.
 
I still remember when my dad took us to see Ben-Hur at the cinema when I was five and I absolutely loved it, blood and gore and all! :D
 
I asked my parents why some films are 15 and 18? They said it's because they can give you nightmares as per @BUDFORCE post. I was 13 at the time in 1991, but the parents did let me rent T2 on tape in 1992 (still age 13) as I had already seen T1 anyway. T2 became one of my all-time favourite films :-)

At age 14, the whole family (2 parents and 2 kids including me) watched Alien together and we were all fine with it and enjoyed it.

At age 15, a mate and I watched Nightmare on Elm Street and that was too much for me. I know it's meant to be more of a comedy film than horror but it was too graphic for me and it gave me nightmares.

The worst film for nightmares for me though was Cube Zero. That's only a 15 rating and I was 29 when I saw it!

Edit: missed out a word.
 
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Actually I reckon must have been younger for Aliens, maybe 7.

Bloody Mrs decided she's on her way home so won't have time now anyway.

I reckon I will let him watch it soon though, it's my favourite movie.

I possibly expected a different reaction but you guys are all spot on, all the absolute crap that kids are looking at on the internet these days.
 
If you need to ask then you probably already know it's not. It's a 15 certificate for a reason. Might give them nightmares and there would some scenes which could be upsetting for a six year old. Better off watching the Despicable Me films or similar.
 
There are funny bits in it, but I wouldn't let my 11 year old watch it because even though Arnie spends most of the film deliberately NOT terminating people, there are some scenes definitely not for kids, like the one hornetstinger posted
 
What's the point? He won't understand the story or themes, and will probably be adversely affected by quite a few of the scenes.

I am having a lol after looking at the usernames of some of the "it did me no harm" brigade.

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no. not at all.

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I had watched T2 some time in the early 90s when I was about 8 or 9. That scene was imprinted in my memory, but it became permanently carved in there when shortly after watching the movie, we had a bomb in the building next to our school. Whilst we were under the desks waiting to be evacuated I was fully expecting that exact scene to happen to me.
 
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