Spectre (latest James Bond film) Post Reply

[Goldhawk]

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/spectre-2015

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I haven't seen it myself but my mother mentioned the eye gouging and felt my 10 year old shouldn't see it

[SomethingToSay]

I would go for the babysitter option: the eye-gouging scene is pretty gross. When we saw it there were some older children in the audience who found it very hard to sit through - I think I would have done at that age too; the action bits are great but there is a lot of talking in between!

[dudette]

We took our nine year old. He loved it. There's a bit of kissing and the usual Bond violence/explosions but no worse than the Avengers movies.

[Pashazade]

I would say absolutely not.

The eye gouging scene is the obvious issue but I would say that the sheer brutality of the fight scenes is more problematic. They are not fun, cartoonish fights that kids would enjoy, but extremely vicious and nasty scenes.

I watched the film sitting next to a family who had brought two young boys (about 7 & 9) who seemed unaffected by the violence, too me that was worrying.

[jafina]

We took my 8 year old despite my misgivings, my husband said it would be "fine".

My 8 year old is quite sensitive and I spent all the violent scenes with my hand clapped over her eyes! Luckily she hasn't had any nightmares but she really didn't enjoy it and I won't be taking her to another 12A film for a very long time.

[dudette]

You could try showing him Skyfall at home and then if he doesn't like it you can switch it off. And if he does like it then you could take him to Spectre. Most of my son's friends seem to have seen it. I think the violence is very cartoonish, but maybe that's just me - I love James Bond films. Have seen them all.

[Pashazade]

I really wouldn't advise showing Skyfall to kids either!

All the Daniel Craig Bond films are too violent for kids!

[Pashazade]

Gets worse and worse - you've convinced me! Not sure even I want to see it now.

It's fine for adults, just not for kids. I'm just surprised it got a 12 certificate - the eye-gouging scene alone should have made it a 15.

It's not actually that good though o not a patch on Skyfall

[dudette]

Needless to say I loved it! The chases are spectacular.

[leapyearbaby]

I think a definite no no for the kids. The fight scenes are nasty and I think a far cry from the marvel films. There's context too. Marvel films are by their very nature 'unreal'. The Daniel Craig bond films not.
And violence aside they are very talky.