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i am 14 years old but very very mature for my age..i get very upset because all of my friends can see rated R movies and i cant. i am in all honors classes going into my first year of high school including honors geomtry(skipped 7th grade math). i have seen very mature movies such as RENT Memoirs of a Geisha and such. seen the play RENT and most of avenue q. read books wayyyyy above my level angels and demons the da vinci code deception point digital fortress memoirs of a geisha numerous laci peterson books misery salems lot the color purple the shining etc. i am just wondering wat age you first saw a rated R movie and if you beleive that i am mature enough to see a rated R movie..

I think I was 14 or 15 when I was first allowed to start watching R movies. I'd seen a few before then, but only in edited form.

-Aaron

I cannot recall when I first watched it, but I do remember my first R-rated film being National Lampoon's Vacation. Great film, one of the funniest of all time.

probably over 30 years ago for me, I had HBO back in the 70's and saw movies on there

I'd have to say that it was around the age of 14 or 15 that I was able to watch them at my own will, yet my very first was at 11 (my parents felt I was capable of handling the violence of Deep Blue Sea, I suppose).

However (not to sound rude), if I were your parents I wouldn't find it very impressive that you've read a few popular novels by the likes of Dan Brown and have viewed various PG-13 films. In your argument with the "mature" books they (particularly those of King's) leave much room for your own interpretation than actually seeing something on screen.

Either way I think you should simply have a chat with your parents and try to calmly reason with them. The worst they could do is say "Not yet."

I saw a few when I was young, some were edited for TV others were on HBO.

Went to several of them once I turned 16 and started to go to the movies with friends, etc... They didn't enforce the age limit at our local theaters until I was already over the age required.

Age: 4 (so circa 1989)
Movie: James Cameron's Aliens
How: parents rented the VHS. I have to say, I remember my first viewing of it vividly, and to this day, I don't know how my four-year-old self wasn't completely terrified of the movie. It's since become one of my favorite scifi/action/horror films.

I also remember my uncle bringing Silence of the Lambs on VHS to our house for him and my dad to watch (while us kids played Nintendo in one of our rooms), and I got bored with Nintendo so I went downstairs to watch the movie with them.

Escapay

I think I was 16, but only because I don't watch that many films.

I think my first R-rated film was Carrie.

I don't remember watching Aliens with Escapay (I was probably still playing Nintendo ), but I do remember watching The Craft on Christmas Day when I was in 2nd grade (1994). I have no idea why they decided to watch that movie on Christmas when most of the cousins were still little. I think I sat through the whole thing and I was terrified for weeks! Watching it now, it's a stupid movie, but I was still terrified for weeks! Several years later, we watched The Blair Witch Project on Halloween night with my cousins and I was terrified for months.

I'm not sure if my parents or family knew they were supposed to keep us from watching R rated movies at home. I guess they trusted us enough to not repeat the obscene language. I know I still don't use expletives in my daily vocabulary. I guess since we never showed interest in seeing an R-rated movie in the theater, they weren't really worried. Then again, we hardly went to the theater when we were younger except for a Disney movie or Titanic (Mom knew to put my hat on my face when Jack was drawing the portrait of Rose).

What's odd though, is the first time I did see an R rated film in the theaters, it was this past Thanksgiving to see Bobby. I went with my siblings and parents. I'm 20 years old now, and the youngest of the family, and the ticket-stub taker guy, stopped us to make sure we were with a responsible adult. I guess we should be flattered, lol.

Anyhow, I think you should talk to your parents first if there is a movie you really want to see in theaters that's rated R. Sometimes it's rated R because of language and nudity or whatever and that usually ends up being a stupid movie. If it's rated R for other reasons, make sure you let your parents know that you want to see it because you're mature enough to handle what this movie rated it R for.

I don’t remember when exactly but I remember it was Pretty Woman. I think I was about 7 or 8. LOL, I recall going through our VHS collection determined to watch an R rated movie and it was the first one I found. I also remember I found it really boring at that age. haha

I've had cable since when I was a kid so I'm guessing around 4 or 5.

I want to say 9...ish. I have no clue really. Never gave a rats behind about ratings.

Kram Nebuer wrote:I don't remember watching Aliens with Escapay (I was probably still playing Nintendo ), but I do remember watching The Craft on Christmas Day when I was in 2nd grade (1994).

You must have seen a very early, pre-production version of <i>The Craft</i>, as it didn't come out for close to another two years and in fact didn't even begin filming til May 1995!

I swear I remember a thread like this from a couple of weeks ago! Anyhow, I think I was around 8 or 10, watched a movie called Toy Soldiers with my parents. By the time I was a teenager I was watching pretty much anything I wanted at home, as long as there was no sexual content (I remember being sent to the Nintendo as well when they were watching 9 1/2 weeks).

Unfortunately until you turn 18 it's up to your parents whether or not you're allowed to watch them I suppose. I doubt that saying "but all the people on the Disney message board said I should watch them!" is going to help matters.

P.S. Escapay, how could you get bored of Nintendo!?!?! Silence of the Lambs isn't THAT long of a movie

Does Madonna's "Erotica" video count as R-rated (or even X-rated)? I was 12! I saw it six years after its first release.

I don't know. Probably 8 or 9. My father used to watch a lot of action movies. So I saw Steven Seagal's Hard to Kill at a very young age. Then I saw Children of the Corn with my mother at maybe 11. But I seem to remember Hard to Kill being my first R-rated movie.

Kram Nebuer wrote:I do remember watching The Craft on Christmas Day when I was in 2nd grade (1994). I have no idea why they decided to watch that movie on Christmas when most of the cousins were still little. I think I sat through the whole thing and I was terrified for weeks! Watching it now, it's a stupid movie, but I was still terrified for weeks!

The Craft was not a stupid movie.

I saw Terminator 2 when I was 4 or 5, My parents never really enforced an age limit with me or my brother but they have with my sister.

Probably 7-ish. I can't really remember, but it might have been something like Die Hard. I didn't really watch those movies, but my parents watched them.

On the other hand, some movies that are rated R in the US are rated "12" or "16" here, without being edited, "American Pie" for example was rated "12".

Cant really remember any certain age or movie, but I remember seeing rated R movies at a very early age.

The first one I saw was "Child's Play" at age five, which scared the crap out of me. I finally saw it again two years ago, and I couldn't stop laughing at how goofy it actually was.

The first one I really remember was "Air Force One", which my mom rented when it came out on VHS and watched with me. The first I saw in theatres was "Fahrenheit 9/11", which was an apt choice for me.