to think these film's aren't suitable for a 3 year old?

[TiredyCustards]

Blues Brothers
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones

DH thinks otherwise.

Errant apostrophe in the title there!

First two no, although can't really recall blues brothers

Indiana Jones not too bad, I'd skip past a few scenes

Blues brothers is a 15 isn't it? We've watched extracts from Jurassic Park with 4yo DS (just the cute dinosaur bits so about 2mins worth). Personally I think it's a bit little.

Children's concepts of fear though are very naive at that age, I doubt much on the TV would scare them because to their innocent little minds it simply isn't real. My sister has got 2 children and when her youngest was about 4 he absolutely loved watching scary movies, especially the Jurassic Park Films - he would watch them for hours and squeal with laughter! However, he is now 9 and won't watch any of them because they frighten him. Their perceptions only change as their brains mature.

What's so bad about Indianna Jones that you don't want your child to see it? I ask this genuinely as I have never seen the film

Nope. None of them are suitable.

According to dh it's only a 15 because of all the swearing

He's turned it off now - thanks MumsNet!

Not very suitable, no. But if the child was a young 3, nearer to 2, then to be honest most of it would go over their heads anyway. Doesn't mean it's the right thing to watch though.

Can't imagine a 3yo that would sit through any of those - why would a 3yo want to watch Blues Brothers? - but in the event that he would, I don't think those films are suitable. Know my SIL would disagree, though - her DS was watching that sort of thing v young and seems unscathed.

I never understand why you would want to show children these sorts of films when Disney and Pixar are what childhood films should be about. Disclaimer on UP though as I cry like a baby.

Indiana Jones has Nazis with melting faces, hearts being ripped out, eating monkey brains, etc etc...

writer I agree, but dd is frightened by the land before time and some episodes of Abney + Teal.

The bit at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark when the nasty Germans face's melt is horrible, and the nice ghost faces suddenly going all evil-dead. Otherwise it'd be fine.

"I doubt much on the TV would scare them because to their innocent little minds it simply isn't real" - I really don't agree with that at all. IME small children assume that everything thing is real, doubly so if they can actually see it on a TV screen.

Yes exactly, I was saying to him - just put a children's film on fgs!

my kids have watched jurrasic park and loved it,they were 3,4 and 5 at the time,it depends on the kids,mine arent scared of much,the only things i wouldnt let them watch would be things that were sexual or violent.

disney and pixar films are utter shite!

Jurassic Park terrified me aged 12

Lol ringaringarosy - maybe there is only so much Disney a parent can watch?

Mind you, even though I'm 29 I still love watching all the Disney Films that were made during my childhood! You can't beat Sleeping beauty and Snow White In fact, my Hen Night was a Disney Themed Fancy Dress night

tiredycustard - I remember the Land Before Time films, bless your daughter. You're right about Jurassic park in your case then

To be fair to dh, he just showed dd the bit in Blues Brothers with James Brown singing, the bit where they first see the brontosaurus in Jurassic Park, and the very beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I think he would have left them on if I hadn't moaned at him though.

Both ds's saw Jurassic park at 3. They both loved dinosaurs and watched more with wide eyed wonder rather than fear. I couldn't comment on the other two.

Now watching Star Wars - nearly bathtime!

Jurassic Park fine, the other 2 no. Indiana Jones is awful misogynistic stereotypical horseshite, for a start.

I fast forward to the songs in blues brothers and boogie with my now 2 year old but not the whole film.

YANBU, none of them are suitable.

Star Wars! I was mid twenties before I realised my parents had edited my much loved childhood video of Star Wars - they recorded it off the tv and paused it just before the arm gets cut off in the cantina and then started the recording again :o