What age would you show ‘your kids’ Robocop?

[arknor]

Rambo even had story cassettes for kids, I remember my mum buying me one, to go with my roald dahl collection of audio books.

Yea I guess that was the one I previously mentioned in the thread then

The turn a page after the chime jogs my memory.

 

[Ninco!]

I winced reading this thread, seeing ages quoted.

Then again, I watched Robocop aged 14. Two years after release. Robocop and Terminator were two of the most violent films of the eighties, and the best because they had brilliant and convincing plots.

Both films remain the best films ever. You know your kids, judge accordingly.

 

[LeoP]

The thing nowadays kids have access to a plethora of messed up videos and media online which we didn't have when we were kids.

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

Thinking back to all the other films my parents let me watch, Event Horizon is the only one that actually scared me, must have been about 11 when that came out.

 

[hairyfeet]

I saw it at 11 about 3 years after it came out. Great film, aged well.. I understand them doing the second one, it wasn't that bad but the third one?
Awful.. though presumably this was because they had a cartoon out and just wanted to maximise "demographics"
The toys were cool!

Spoiler

Think compared to what kids see these days its not that bad, there are a couple dodgy scenes in the first half hour (Murphy and Ed209 fail)
Then not much to write home about till bad guy drives into toxic waste (I am guilty of laughing at his "end")
Other than that its mostly the adult language/themes and obviously the scenes with drugs involved etc

Shout out whoever mentioned Aliens.. the special/director cut is mint its one of those films which lives proudly on the shelf
Its too bad the direction they went with 3, I listened to a really cool audio book narrated by the lad who played Bishop which focuses on the events between 2 and 3

Don't make them like that anymore.. I think the last thing which sort of disturbed me slightly was human centipede but in my defence we made the mistake of watching it during a meal

 

[D-Ranged]

Going off what my parents let me watch when I was a kid. I think I was around 8-10 when I had seen

Terminator 1/2
Alien/Aliens
Predator 1/2
Robocop

But for some reason, my mum wouldn't let me watch the second RoboCop....

I never really got scared at all of horror films or anything of the like when I was a kid and still don't now. However, I had already seen the alien films, but playing alien 3 on the mega drive gave me some real nasty nightmares!! Games always scare me, films, not at all.

 

[Showboat]

They had a version of robocop on tv last week at 6pm. I’d imagine that was cut a fair bit and appropriate for kids!

 

[dave28]

Robocop 1 has a couple of particularly gritty scenes and a ton of Cigarette product placement as usual for movies of that period.

 

[im4gine3]

hmm i watched these when i was pretty young too. I'd probs say early teens for Robocop 1 (can't remember if that one was with his hand blown off)

Gore doesn't affect me though i did have issues with Candyman and the original IT.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

I winced reading this thread, seeing ages quoted.

Then again, I watched Robocop aged 14. Two years after release. Robocop and Terminator were two of the most violent films of the eighties, and the best because they had brilliant and convincing plots.

Both films remain the best films ever. You know your kids, judge accordingly.

same...8 years old watching some of these films? mental.
I think 14 is about right and even then some scenes I would absolutely be skipping. Murphy's execution in Robocop being the one thats stands out as a big no-no.