Children see Saw 3D By Mistake

[B.A. Baracus]

Awesome story on todays yahoo news-

Families taking their children to see animated hit 'Megamind' in a US cinema were given a nasty shock when 'Saw 3D' was accidentally screened instead.
A theatre in Massachusetts unfortunately played the brutal horror film instead of the animated adventure, leaving kids screaming at the screen. The children were told to cover their eyes as cinema bosses tried to correct their mistake.

It took several minutes before the right film was shown, and so the children would have seen graphic images of a man with his foot cut off, and a woman killed by a buzz saw. An upset father told WHDH of his traumatised son, "He came and slept with us and we thought we had gotten past that years ago. He said that he had a few nightmares."
Free tickets were handed out by red-faced cinema employees as compensation.


http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/17112010/5/children-3d-mistake-0.html

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

Fail!!

 

[Harls]

HAAHAHAHAHAHAAHA !! xD


Hey, I was shown a million scary/gory movies as a young child and I turned out just fine. Pfft, kids today are lame.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Those poor kids having to sit through such an awful movie. No wonder they had nightmares. The quality of the Saw sequels should frighten anybody.

 

[Donut]

Those poor kids having to sit through such an awful movie. No wonder they had nightmares. The quality of the Saw sequels should frighten anybody.

Identity gave one of my cousins nightmares back in the day

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Someone should hang this in the movie theater.

 

[doih]

Those poor kids having to sit through such an awful movie. No wonder they had nightmares. The quality of the Saw sequels should frighten anybody.

Agreed. Being forced to endure Saw 3D should be classified as cruel and unusual punishment.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Someone should hang this in the movie theater.

 

[AndThePickles]

I'm not a fan of children in general, but that IS an incredibly graphic film for children to have to see. I'm sure there were a lot of nightmares!

 

[AllyBabble]

I don't know, when I was a kid and went to the local playpark all the see saws were 3 dimensional in construction, so I don't know why this would be a mistake, any 2 dimensional constuction of such a device would surely create sharp edges that might damage their wee backsides when the device touched the ground.


edit: ok, i just read the OP. shocking.

 

[bored]

Funny, since the act of making "Saw 3D" was a mistake.

 

[SuperFerret]

One: How does a mistake like this happen?
Two: What were the parents doing?
Three: Aren't the theater employees able to, I dunno, STOP the movie?

 

[enterthemadness]

Why all the saw 3d hate? Kids seeing scary film? Worse things than that...

 

[SuperFerret]

The Saw series is the worst thing to happen since that time I fell down the stairs as a child, except that the Saw series is completely unwatchable and nobody can derive entertainment from it, unlike childhood tumble, which I'm sure was entirely funny in all the wrong ways.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I remember when I was 5 or 6 my parents got our first VCR. My mom went to the only video tape rental place around at the time, Winn Dixie, and rented Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jaws, and Walt Disney's Pinnochio. I got nightmares from watching Pinnochio.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

The Saw series is the worst thing to happen since that time I fell down the stairs as a child, except that the Saw series is completely unwatchable and nobody can derive entertainment from it, unlike childhood tumble, which I'm sure was entirely funny in all the wrong ways.

I fell walking up the stairs at school one time.

 

[SuperFerret]

I fell walking up the stairs at school one time.

I've fallen up stairs too. It takes real talent.

 

[enterthemadness]

The Saw series is the worst thing to happen since that time I fell down the stairs as a child, except that the Saw series is completely unwatchable and nobody can derive entertainment from it, unlike childhood tumble, which I'm sure was entirely funny in all the wrong ways.

Saw 1-3 are fantastic! Saw 3 started the too much gore aspect. All 3 fantastic scripts.

 

[SuperFerret]

I can't quite place my finger on why, but your endorsement makes me doubt that very much.

 

[enterthemadness]

I can't quite place my finger on why, but your endorsement makes me doubt that very much.

It's because I'm a rare young viewer of two and a half men. Really don't know why I watch it....

 

[AllyBabble]

I remember when I was 5 or 6 my parents got our first VCR. My mom went to the only video tape rental place around at the time, Winn Dixie, and rented Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jaws, and Walt Disney's Pinnochio. I got nightmares from watching Pinnochio.

I think this is actually quite a common phenomenon, if you look at the statistics...

in the years 1980-2010 there have been around 3,450,0000,000 nose jobs sold to the public.

456 shark attacks(according to Aquafacts a divison of A.Curry industries)

and 2.3 people were attacked by chainsaws

I am not sure on the statistics of donkeys smoking cigars and whether Pinocchio's video rental sales had an actual impact upon that phenomena.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

The Saw series is the worst thing to happen since that time I fell down the stairs as a child, except that the Saw series is completely unwatchable and nobody can derive entertainment from it, unlike childhood tumble, which I'm sure was entirely funny in all the wrong ways.

Watch Disaster Movie. It's like falling down the stairs everyday until the day you die from brain trauma.

 

[B.A. Baracus]

I love the idea of these small children sitting staring at the screen as the asian girlfriend lowers onto a saw, Her 3d blood splattering the screen.

It's so wrong yet so right (i say this as a father of 3).

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I don't know about American theaters, but here, before the film begins, you'll have the title and rating appearing first. If that's they case in the U.S, then why not get your kids out of there asap?

 

[AndThePickles]

I don't know about American theaters, but here, before the film begins, you'll have the title and rating appearing first. If that's they case in the U.S, then why not get your kids out of there asap?

Not the case.