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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to tape jurassic park for my DS ?

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Hoebag · 15/04/2012 10:03

who is 3 ?
I'm in 2 minds about it
he saw an advert a while back an keeps going on about it and is in a 'phase'
about dinosaurs.
I saw it when I was four and was not affected but am fully prepared for a flaming.

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virgil · 15/04/2012 21:47

We're going to universal this year and I've been toying with the idea of letting DS1 (7) watch it. Think I will give it a go and be prepared to turn it off but DS2 (4) will definitely not be allowed other than maybe a couple of non scary scenes. I think it's too scary. What's the rating does anyone know?

virgil · 15/04/2012 21:49

Just googled and Stephen Spielberg wouldn't let his eight year old watch it because it's too intense. It is pg in the uk but was given a 13 certificate in the US.

modelesque · 15/04/2012 21:49

I saw it at the cinema when I was about 14 and have had t Rex nightmares ever since. I wouldn't even consider it for my 4 yo but then I'm still to scared to go into the water.

virgil · 15/04/2012 21:50

So for me that's made up my mind and neither of mine are watching it. Sorry for the hijack!!

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Hoebag · 15/04/2012 22:06

Oh its not that bad.

the dark crystal..thats scary.

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StellaNova · 15/04/2012 22:08

When I was an usherette we had Jurassic Park and I had to watch it THIRTY TWO TIMES. 32. So on that basis YABU just for reminding me of it.

It is a bit scary, I don't think my 4 year old would like it but he was scared by the Magic Roundabout film so I wouldn't take him as a benchmark.

Kayano · 15/04/2012 22:12

I could not watch Jurassic park with a young child.

Not because I wouldn't let them watch it... but because I could not physically stop the following words
From escaping my lips:

'Phwoooorrr Sam Neil I definitely would. Giggidy'

Possibly Richard attinbrough too... I do like older gentlemen lol

Duckypoohs · 15/04/2012 22:15

I think it depends on the child, dd hates anything scary/supernatural, won't watch Dr Who or Harry Potter (8), ds1(5) loves both, he by accident saw the start of the Lost Boys and had a tantrum when I turned it off. They recently watched Jurassic Park and weren't bothered by it, although they didn't pay much attention to it.

They both freaked out at Labyrinth though, no taste.

Moln · 15/04/2012 22:18

It's a difficult one to call really I have an 5 year old who loves it and a 8 year old nephew who saw it (thanks to his 5 year old cousin!) who found parts of it frightening

My (then) 4 year old watch it and he wasn't scared - I let him watch it due to giving into nagging and held my figure over the stop button on the remote.

He has seen all three - he wasn't scared but has told me he doesn't want to go to Jurassic Park (sensible decision really).

I think I might be around the 32 viewings too now Stella

Madeyemoodysmum · 15/04/2012 22:21

Disney have a movie called "dinosaur" which is really good and cgi animated. The dinos look very real but it's not over scary like JP And more for younger kids. Also he may like ice age the Dawn of the dinosaurs also a cartoon my two like.
I saw JP as a 20 yo and crapped myself. My dd 6 yo is very sensitive so she won't be seeing it yet.

StellaNova · 15/04/2012 22:21

Moln, the only thing that sustained me was trying to work out what on earth Jeff Goldblum was saying for most of the film.

sweetkitty · 15/04/2012 22:35

DD2 saw them all when she was about 5, she is crazy about dinosaurs and loved it, she was firmly on the dinos side, she understood it wasn't real though.

Would second the Disney film Dinosaur DD2s fab film.

OAM2009 · 15/04/2012 22:43

DH and I saw it in the cinema when it came out and when the T-Rex kicked off, a little voice whimpered "Daddy, I don't want to see the dinosaurs any more!" Didn't hear Daddy's response but no one left the screening!

Want to giggle and did at the time but I'm a proper grown-up mummy now so I shouldn't.

gobbledegook1 · 15/04/2012 22:49

Its not something I'd let my 3yr old watch. Why not try get hold of the land before time films they are good for kids and all about dinosaurs.

Kayano · 15/04/2012 22:54

THE LAND BEFORE TIME

Just the first one... I'm pretty sure they made 56 of them...

zanz1bar · 15/04/2012 22:57

Think your dc may be more confused that you have 'tapped' a film on DVD. His generation are going to look at us sad oldies 'tapping' 'rewinding' with horror.

Pumpster · 15/04/2012 23:00

I watched it with 18mo and 3yo dd's, they ran around growling at each other!

Joolyjoolyjoo · 15/04/2012 23:06

I relented and let my 4yo (dino mad) ds watch it, on the caveat that I was watching it with him and if it got scary, I would fast-forward/ stop it.

He loved it and has watched it several times since (starting to know how StellaNova must have felt as that usherette!)

But ds does have a pretty good grip on the fact that "that couldn't happen, mum- dinosaurs are extinct" (a fact which makes him very sad, as his chosen profession was going to be "dinosaur vet"! He has now reluctantly settled on paleontology instead..)

calculatrice · 15/04/2012 23:17

My 3 yr old got it this Christmas when just turned 3. He'd exhausted all the other dinosaur films (the Disney one is as scary if you ask me) and all episodes of dinosaur planet which are also bloody scary and more in your face dinosaurs eating each other. Jurassic park is very much "unseen" violence, so the man killed at the start - you don't see it, the cow eaten, you don't see it. That said, he does know they're being eaten. Anyway, he loves it - his favourite dinosaur is the velociraptor (spelling?) though so maybe not surprising. Closely followed by the t Rex. I also have to be the a herbivore in his role play dinosaur games so he can "eat" me.
Scariest thing in Jurassic park is the double denim going on.

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