To let DD watch Titanic

[SooticaTheWitchesCat]

She is 8 and is really interested in anything Titanic at the moment. She was watching the beginning of the film the other day but it was bed time so we turned it off.

She has asked if she can watch but I know it is a 12 rating. I think it is ok but DH thinks it isn't suitable.

Would you let a 8 year old watch it? I would watch with her, not leave to to watch alone.

YANBU - My DS has seen it...it is a 12A anyway so your DH is wrong....I took my DS (9) to see the 3d version at the cinema.

yes i would...the love scene is imo quite tame or you could say close your eyes

as for when the ship goes down, i think it is amazing to watch..ds3 is 11 and loves watching it everytime it comes on....he asks questions like why did they do this etc....i answer him as i can for his age...and he has an understnading of fairness and justice xxx

i think it will be fine, she obviously knows about the story and will not be shocked by the ending, it is sad in parts (the elderly couple snuggling into bed together as the ship goes down ) but if you are watching it with her you can 'manage' that.

I told DD1 (8.5) that i'd let her watch the ship sinking, but she'd be bored silly with the rest of it!

DS8 very interested as well, same as your DD, he has seen some of the first half.

But I'm not going to let him watch the rest, I just think that knowing all those people died is very different to being confronted with it on screen.

Far too sad and disturbing, he has watched other 12 films, but not Titanic.

I think she will be fine. We watched it on Saturday with my ds who is 9. He did look away at the kissing scenes but he does that on any programme, kissing in his words is "yuk"!

Its over sentimental rubbish about a real life shipping diaster.
DS is fascinated by the Titanic, we watch the Documentaries about it.

Obviously it's your call - just my thoughts on it.

disaster

We watched this at the weekend. DS was still up when it started and was interested in the boat. He's only three but is ill with the chicken pox at the moment so had napped earlier and not ready for bed.

DH was on about it being before the watershed so what would they do about the Kate Winslet naked bits of the film (to his disappointment he says they edited, I don't remember them as being any different).

I was more worried about the bit where the man shoots two people and then himself and then the bits with all the people in the water, first shouting for help and then frozen to death.

DS actually asked to go to bed before all of that but I think if he had been awake I would have turned over or distracted him in some way. Obviously your daughter is older but how will she feel about seeing all that? It makes me cry every time, usually at the point it shows you that old couple laid on the bed together waiting to die as the water surrounds them. Would your daughter be sensitive to seeing all that? Knowing about it can be very different to seeing it.

I'd let her watch it but I would watch it with her to answer any questions and because there are some upsetting parts (made me cry at times )

There aren't any inapropriate things in the movie (other than a few details not adding up....). yes there's a nude scene but hey, it's just breasts and the sex scene isn't graphic.

Go for it.

My godson was very small when it first came out on video, about 4 I think. He loved it, it was his favourite film for years, I hate to think how many times he watched it. He certainly wasn't traumatised by any of it

I asked my DD whether she wanted to see it. She said no thank goodness. I saw it when it was released. I thought it the biggest load of twaddle.

I wouldn't let my 8 year old watch it. It wouldn't be because of the sex scene - I am more concerned about some of the scenes of people dying, which I found slightly disturbing.

My DS is 5 and watched a bit of it with me. I made him go up to bed though when it got a bit hairy.

I knew about the Titanic by the time I was about 6 by reading my dad's book on it.

My DD went through an obsessive stage of Titanic watching at 7ish and it is still her fave film now at 10.

i would find a good documentary more factual

i could not sit through the boredom, the terrible acting and that awful song again once was more than enough

I wouldn't even have thought not to let my 7 year old watch it, tbh. I'd forgot about the sex scene, but thinking about it it isn't particularly graphic, is it?

I'd watch it with her, and try my best to answer the (hours, possibly weeks' worth of) questions that came from it.

If she can get to the end of it without falling asleep or chewing her own eyeballs out, fair play to her.

What Northumberlandlass and FreudianSlipper said.

6 YO DD watched this at the weekend. She loved it, but said she was scared going to bed afterwards (thought the house might flood whilst she was asleep )

I was more disturbed by DD watching the fucked-up mother/daughter relationship on Disneys 'Tangled', all the play-violence on superhero programmes, and scarey ghost stuff on Scooby Doo and the like.

at Freudian

Yes I'd forgotten how disturbing that was too.

All 3 of mine have watched it when they were about the same age. The 2 DD's loved it the DS hated the water coming in bits so we stopped it. it just depends on the kind of thing that your children are frightened of really. as far as love scenes go we either fast forward if we are watching with them or they watch it and generally dont know what is going on so arent bothered.

my dts (7) watched the first half yesterday. I think they must have heard quite a lot about it, and were very keen to see it after it was shown on tv recently/. DT1 is more sensitive and keeps saying about the sad bits coming up. It does go a bit over the heads. We had to correct dt2 that the salvage vessel was NOT the Titanic!

I FF through the 'sex' scene, and there was lots of giggling at the boobies!