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?

@TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum

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 had no idea! That's actually wrong. Some people want to watch the movie in the afternoon with all the bits. Agree on the ads though🙄

IMDB lists it as 2hrs 8 minutes, it's on ITV2 for 2hrs 20 including all the adverts so it's definitely been cut.

@DenimDrift

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

I know of the Jurassic Park films, first one being 1993, but this thread is the first time I've heard of Jurassic World which I presume is the same franchise?

Ds6 has grown up loving all the films.
He loves Blue!

There was
Jurassic Park 1993
The Lost world
Jurassic Park
New-
Jurassic World
Jurassic World
I think it would be clear from the name what it is.

I hlcan highly recommend Triassic World 😁 Great Mockbuster

Camp Cretaceous is fab on Netflix for dc...

If I saw it on, I'd probably change the channel as DD is definitely too young for that but I wouldn't immediately think it's on too early.

The only thing that annoys me about the films is Jurassic World's not so subtle message of 'women should be motherly and caring', aka Bryce Dallas Howard's character being an ice cold woman boss who clearly comes out softer and caring and more motherly at the end, awww.

And then her poor assistant who gets 2 kids dumped on her, gets the most ridiculous drawn out gruesome death in the film, when all you see of her previous to that is being on her phone and clearly annoyed at childcare being fobbed off onto her. It just seemed to me like a parable for women and annoyed me no end.

Although I did enjoy the pisstake Jurassic World - Heels Edition

I am 39yo and I too am terrified of Jurassic Park.

I still have T-rex and raptor nightmares (although I have nightmare disorder, so it doesn't take much, lol)

Feels a bit early, but I'd just change the channel. Whilst squealing about seeing raptors

I wish they wouldn’t show it when they edit out all the violence. The other day Jurassic park was on and they didn’t show the bit when the T. rex ate the lawyer off the bog. Bloody waste of time.
ITV always does this. It does my head in. I want the blood.

This is absolutely bonkers.

Would happily let 7yo DD watch this. Cannot believe anyone would think it's scary wtf

It's dinosaurs...........

My 4yo DS and 7yo DD love that film, we have to watch it most days. DS is Dino mad though and runs round the house pretending he's Owen

Who even watches films when they are actually screened

Take some responsibility for controlling what your kids watch instead of making TV channels do it

@Queenoftheashes

I wish they wouldn’t show it when they edit out all the violence. The other day Jurassic park was on and they didn’t show the bit when the T. rex ate the lawyer off the bog. Bloody waste of time. ITV always does this. It does my head in. I want the blood.

Noooooo

Blasphemy that

They made them seem very real at a time when I was impressionable. Then my brain made them even more scary because it's great at nightmares.

Is an embarrassing fear to have as a grown adult. Haha

You're being precious.

Even if it is the 12A rated version there's hundreds of other channels (not to mention Netflix/prime/iPlayer) and hundreds of other things kids could be doing on a Saturday afternoon. Not everything had to be 100% child friendly all of the time.

I remember watching one of the newer Jurassic Park films (can’t remember which one) on Christmas morning a couple of years back.

So well before the watershed. Pretty sure that was ITV too

They edit them to be appropriate for the time of day.
To PG I think. Wet afternoons are made for dinosaurs! Some nonsense peril does a little one no harm!

Are you troubled by watching nature programs as well OP? I've seen walruses throwing themselves to their deaths off cliffs, zebra being eaten and baby animals being hunted by a pack of wild dogs. All before the watershed, but people call that family entertainment.

The only thing disturbing about jurrasic world is the inaccurate depictions of dinosaurs. Bloody velociraptors don't even have feathers FFS.

It’s 12A, they cut the bad bits before 9

O and I was terrified at the first one as a kid both my 8 and 10 year old love it!

My 6 and 3 year old love them haha. They are some of my favourite films. Not at all scary although I do love horror. When I was a kid I hated Disney Princess etc films and would always ask for nightmare before Christmas and the black cauldron.

The Jurassic movies have been my 3yr olds favourites since he was 2. He can name about 40 different types of Dinosaur, the different ages, how DNA works, extinction, carnivores/herbivores etc It's given him a genuine interest and love for learning. (Not a stealth boast - was stuck in Lockdown wfh with very limited options) but now I'm pleased he loves them so much. Better than watching Peppa Pig etc (again Lockdown meant TV was necessary unfortunately)

I was scared by Bedknobs and broomsticks at 3yo.
Dd was traumatised by Finding Nemo at 5yo.

I think it's a perfectly acceptable film, perhaps you was a sensitive child?

@StormcloakNord

This is absolutely bonkers.

Would happily let 7yo DD watch this. Cannot believe anyone would think it's scary wtf

It's dinosaurs...........

Have you seen a T Rex?! They're bloody terrifying. When I watched the original JP I thought scientists would actually manage to clone dinosaurs and had dreams that the T Rex was chasing me round the school playground.