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Iron Man TDK too dark for kids??? Iron Man... good for kids???

Yeah, when I think about it again, Iron Man wasn't family friendly AT ALL. Maybe a few fun scenes here in there with Tony playing around in the lab, but other than the action scenes, this movie would bore typical kids to sleep and confuse the rest.

-TNC

Yeah, personally, I thought that Iron Man is fairly vicious in killing his enemies. Much more adult than Spider-Man. I just had very bright cinematography.
 
but other than the action scenes, this movie would bore typical kids to sleep and confuse the rest.

I actually saw that reaction from one kid today. Interest immediately peaked during action sequence or funny scene and then back to boredom when the dramatic scenes came.
 
Actually...I was watching Burton's Batman films when I was a little kid and didn't have any big issues with them. I didn't even get how dark they are until many years later :woot:
 
Darkness sells sometimes. Look at Revenge of the Sith which was much more well received than Attack of The Clones and Phantom Menace and was pretty bleak for the most part.

Also, the 1989 Batman was pretty dark and violent to for its content, but that didn't keep kids out of theatres.

That said, I don't think its a valid argument against the movie.

This is Batman vs. The Joker. That's going to get butts in the seats.
 
Darkness sells sometimes. Look at Revenge of the Sith which was much more well received than Attack of The Clones and Phantom Menace and was pretty bleak for the most part.

Also, the 1989 Batman was pretty dark and violent to for its content, but that didn't keep kids out of theatres.

That said, I don't think its a valid argument against the movie.

This is Batman vs. The Joker. That's going to get butts in the seats.

Agreed! :up:
 
I prefer no kids when I go to the movies, but I don't think the tone of the movie will hold back parents from bringing their kids anyway.
 
While seeing the movie, I was thinking about how it really wasn't kid-friendly ... Especially the first half.

I'll just say that Iron Man earned its PG-13 rating. I can't imagine anyone younger than 12 or 13 liking this film.
 
There 's is a vast difference between a 'dark' movie and a 'scary' movie when it come to kids.

As people have mention that the Tim Butron Batman was considered 'dark' and yet families brought ther kids to see it.

And yet it was 'Batman Returns' that got the parents in an uproar because it was considered 'too dark' for smaller kids and the penguin was considered too scary (his image was even banned on t-shirts in some schools.

But that was 20 years ago and and what kids are exposed to today is a lot more 'darker' imaging in TV and movies than 20 years ago.

Iron man certainly have elements that may be considered 'dark' (images of war, captured and tortured by terroist) but not in the same sense that Batman has darkness in his movies (at least the Burton and the Nolan ones) because dark images and themes are the prevailing environment of Batman in general (parents murdered in fron of him, the hero is a creature of the night, homicidal maniac villians).

Some kids will be able to take the prevailing darkness of Batman movies and shrug it off, some won't. I told some friends of mine with kids who are a little more sensitve nature NOT to see 'Batman Begins' because of some of the imagetry in it particularly the scenes of people under Scarecrow influence.

So is Batman Darkness "bad" for kids and Iron man 'lighter' Darkness "good" for kids?

Deepends on the kid.
 
I can't imagine anyone younger than 12 or 13 liking this film.

This is the crux of it with Iron Man I thought, it's not if kids can handle it, it's should they bother watching it. Are kids going to think it's funny that Tony brought a big high tech cooler full of booze to the desert? Are they going to appreciate that he's acting really oddly for someone making a press conference? Know what war profiteering is? Humdrumvee?

Like I said before, it's nothing worse than what's in a James Bond movie (hell, a lot more people would have died and there would have been more, more suggestive sex scenes) but the issue of intended audience is more important to plot and humor than to content. You could see if you're 9 without getting scared or disturbed, but you'd probably need to be at least 12 or 13 to appreciate what's going on.
 
the dark knight has two face and we dont really know how his face will look like when you see it in full.

iron man is not dark imo
 
Part of it is that TDK is going to be a large exploration of the nature of the Joker, and how he embodies these unstoppable forces of nature like chaos, anarchy, death, and insanity. True, there were a lot of adult themes in Iron Man, like how Stark is a womanizer and borderline alcoholic. But there's also an uplifting and moral lesson in it. The Dark Knight is going to show us a world without those kinds of ideals and structure of good and evil. It's a far more complex story line than any other comic book film has ever tackled, because its not just about Batman having to deal with the Joker, its about the nature of their conflict and how it challenges all of Batman's principles. Batman has always had a strict rule about not killing his enemies, even when things get desperate. The Joker is someone has has no idea how to fight because there's no way to stop a man who doesn't see the world in absolutes. The Joker is probably the most complex and dark character in comic book history because not only is he the antithesis of everything Batman represents, but he's also the only villain who can never truly be understood. He does things with no cause or larger goal. As Alfred pointed out the in the teaser trailer, "Some men just want to watch the world burn." That in itself is something that younger audiences may not be able to grasp, especially if they were never old enough to fully witness the rise of terrorism in the last couple of decades. The Joker's actions make sense only to the Joker, and no matter how much analysis anyone does into his psyche, he always manages to do something to completely discredit any theory on the nature of his psychopathology. He has no real motive for his actions, and kills without cause or hesitation. Not only are his actions going to be gruesome and psychotic, but will call into question the idea of a villain with a goal in mind. All Joker wants to do is create chaos and suffering, and he gets a good laugh out of it. This Joker is going to give Jack Nicholson's Joker nightmare, because he's not funny. He's the only one laughing. Nicholson's Joker had a somewhat sick sense of humor that was funny because it was silly. Ledger's Joker is just sick, and he's not laughing at his own jokes, but rather, the idea that human actions are one big joke, and that we as a society are so helplessly beyond logic that we start world wars over things like trade disputes and a flock of geese on a radar that looks like an air raid formation.
 
I prefer no kids when I go to the movies, but I don't think the tone of the movie will hold back parents from bringing their kids anyway.

Have to admit I'm with you. Or at least have some sense about what movies you're taking your kids to. I remember going to Gladiator a few yrs ago. There was a little bitty kid with his very young parents there. The scene at the beginning when the guy rides up with no head...the little boy said "what is is Daddy?' I said ,..."uh it's a movie your parents should know better than to take you to."

Iron Man was fun but it's not a little bitty kid movie. That's why it'll endure through this summer.
 
Little kids shouldn't be exposed to Maggie Gyllenhall's face.
It's cruel and they will suffer nightmares. :(
 
Point blank, when a movie is released based on a comic book, or is sci-fi/fantasy based in nature, and isn't rated R, Hollywood wants to get those kids in there. Iron Man himself has been advertised on so much kiddy crap it ain't funny...the Burger King kids meal commercials, the slurpees, and so on. Kids are a HUGE part of the movie biz, and no matter how many times we go, they will always have disposable income, courtesy of their parents and not having to pay bills.
 
People said that Batman and Batman Returns were too dark for kids. I digged the hell outta them when I was a kid!

Btw, the friend I went with to see IM said afterwards: "It's kinda funny that the comics are for kids and this movie had booze and hookers all over it!" I was like "Err, no. Not all comics are for kids." Some people just wont never learn.
 
Funny, I didn´t perceive IM as a "kiddie" film. It´s not particularly brooding, but it has some pretty intense moments and deals with very adult subjects like militarism, war, weapons, etc. Tony is definitely not a "kid-friendly" character, he drinks, he´s a womanizer...
 
People said that Batman and Batman Returns were too dark for kids. I digged the hell outta them when I was a kid!

Yeah, I´m sick of this kinda argument, it´s pretty patronizing to assume kids can´t take anything dark or intense, I remember reading my first darker Batman or Hulk comics when I was a kid, and digging the hell outta them.
 
Hi, my kids really enjoyed this movie, their ages are 7, 11 & 13 and I wouldn't have gone to see it without them! just an indication of how much kids loved this film, the toys in the local toy store have all but sold out (just the large Mk III talking IM left) I live in Limerick, Ireland. Though I do feel that Batman Begins was too much for my young fella's at the time, they are still looking forward to Dark Knight, just to see the Joker.
 
Little kids shouldn't be exposed to Maggie Gyllenhall's face.
It's cruel and they will suffer nightmares. :(

Wow,taking it personal,don't you think? Why doe's it matter if you don't like like women? If you don't then it shouldn't matter.
If you're one of those ladies who likes going to the movies when there is a guy you think who is hot in it then you should look forward to that you know.
 
You said " i dont think even Batman would SHOW kids getting killed"...

Iron Man didnt either. It's barely implied, if that scene you describe even happened at all. ( i didnt notice it in three viewings)

Fair enough. And I've seen it twice, it's there.
 
With the success of Iron Man, there´s no excuse left to not make movies based on Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern... .

Your quote doesn't make any sense. The difference is Iron Man doesn't suck as a character.
 

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