To think it's a bit early for Jurassic World to be on TV?

[JewelGarden]

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has been on ITV2 since 5pm. Now I'm not particularly concerned about this, I'm not going to start emailing ITV to complain or anything, but I do think it's a wee bit early in the day.

Jurassic Park came out when I was about 7 and I remember being really scared and having nightmares. The Jurassic World films are even more scary! Because I've seen them I know not to put them on for DS but it's not beyond the realms of imagining that someone who hasn't seen it might think oh a nice family film about dinosaurs and put it on for their young children only to frighten the life out of them?

Am I being precious? Are Jurassic World films fine for the whole family on a wet Saturday afternoon?

You’re being precious.

You are being precious

You can turn it off if you don’t want to watch it

@PerditaCambellBlack

You are being precious

You can turn it off if you don’t want to watch it

I did say I haven't turned it on

No one has to watch it. I think most people know what the films are about by now and its easy to check the age rating if you have a sensitive child.

It’s a 12, isn’t it? Most people would check that before putting it on for young children

I did say I haven't turned it on

With the greatest of respect, OP, what’s the point of the post then? Most parents are capable of policing what their kids watch, much like you’ve policed yourself by not switching it on. Also, what scared you as a seven year old may have a completely different effect on today’s kids 🤷🏼‍♀️

unless you've been under a rock most people know of the jurassic world films and their content

My 4 year old loves these films 🙈

@Hadjab

I did say I haven't turned it on

With the greatest of respect, OP, what’s the point of the post then? Most parents are capable of policing what their kids watch, much like you’ve policed yourself by not switching it on. Also, what scared you as a seven year old may have a completely different effect on today’s kids 🤷🏼‍♀️

Just interested in what other people thought! Seems I'm the only one who was terrified by these films as a child. Which is weird because we used to watch nightmare on elm street and stuff when we were ridiculously young and I was fine with that.

@Feelingbad2

My 4 year old loves these films 🙈

I think I might be a massive scaredy fanny if your 4 year old is braver than me

@JewelGarden 😂😂😂

He’s a strange child his favourite film when he was 2 was Nightmare Before Christmas 💀

It’s my favourite film and has been since young.

You don’t have to watch it, and like you say you didn’t turn it on. So why ruin the fun for the other people who aren’t such a wuss over prehistoric animals l?

Are you the same poster who moaned about the love honey advent on after the watershed, after deciding to let her children stay up past this time watching TV?

Ds watched it at 3yrs

Actually as a general rule I think little ones find scary quite funny! It’s when you get to the middling age that they don’t like it. My 5 year old nephew adores ‘jumpy’ movies but they can’t put them on because his 10 year old sister will have nightmares.

I think YABU. Maybe back in the day before we had the ability to look stuff up but it’s so easy to check the content of a film before putting it on now, with a quick Google, it’s on the parents.

@MyMabel

It’s my favourite film and has been since young.

You don’t have to watch it, and like you say you didn’t turn it on. So why ruin the fun for the other people who aren’t such a wuss over prehistoric animals l?

Are you the same poster who moaned about the love honey advent on after the watershed, after deciding to let her children stay up past this time watching TV?

Lol no that wasn't me although that advert does make me a cringe a bit

My five year old loves all the Jurassic park films, hes probably watching right now with Grandma.

Lots of things on TV would be a 12 rating if you think about it, lots of early TV shows have violence, disasters etc.

Our 3 year old loves all the Jurassic Park/ World films.

Edited versions of films can go on before watershed. So a 12 can be edited to a pg or sometimes just parts of it. Titanic is sometimes shown early and it’s sans Kate Winslet’s breasts - they all and sink and die after kids have gone to bed though.

@Pinkblueberry

Edited versions of films can go on before watershed. So a 12 can be edited to a pg or sometimes just parts of it. Titanic is sometimes shown early and it’s sans Kate Winslet’s breasts - they all and sink and die after kids have gone to bed though.

This really made me laugh
Actually now you mention it I think I've seen Harry Potter on at this time of the day with a bit of the darker stuff edited out of the later films.

My 2 year old is dinosaur mad and won’t watch cartoon dinosaurs. She asked for Jurassic world most days 🤦🏼‍♀️

I agree. I hate those films anyway. Too gory and sensationalist, I found them disturbing tbh.

Just interested in what other people thought! Seems I'm the only one who was terrified by these films as a child. Which is weird because we used to watch nightmare on elm street and stuff when we were ridiculously young and I was fine with that.

Your perspective is really screwed up if you were scared by JP but fine with Nightmare on Elm Street.

YABU. It’s called Parental Guidance for a reason!

ITV often edit a lot of the scary / rude stuff out of films so they can show them earlier. This and the constant adverts make them unwatchable anyway!

I always thought those films were mainly aimed at 8 year old boys ! Great fun tho

It’s a PG13/12A and is probably the TV edited version.