Cinema age ratings ...

[PizzaDentist]

If anything I think they should be MORE strict. There's nothing more annoying that going to the cinema and having a bunch of retarded 14 year olds making noise and ruining the film you paid like 7 or 8 pounds to watch... and then having acid thrown in your face.

Thank god Vue have 18 only screenings for all the popular films these days. Kids are assholes... present company accepted.

 

[ninja steve]

in australia there is no 18 rating for games and we get the dumbed down shitand the movies arent always as strict

i was laughing on imdb seeing 15 movies rated 18-up in america

 

[LopezMeister]

The Metrocentre cinema is crap like that.

Ah the metrocentre, it's been so long since I went there.

Most of the cinema's I go to these days don't really ID anymore (or at least not when I go). I went to see Inglourious Basterds the other day and none of my group got asked for ID (admittedly we were all 18 but most of us don't look it). This could be because we used student cards to get cheaper tickets but that doesn't say your age.

That said, it's been a long time since I haven't been allowed into a film. When I went to see Watchmen I just got someone else to buy the tickets in advance (who was 18) and then we just went and met him at the cinema. I get the idea that people who work at cinemas, game shops etc just like to ruin your day by turning you down (even more-so when you are the right age to buy something but not at an age where you have any ID).

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I just use my student card. For some reason people assume your 18 if you go to college.

 

[vickyyfar]

I'm sixteen but I look older, so I haven't had really any problem getting into movies. If I can't get in, I just wait for the DVD to come out or go watch on the Internet.

An easy way in is to buy a ticket for a different movie and walk into the other screen. It works, as long as the two screens aren't in opposite directions from the ticket ripper.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

My Dad just buys my friends and I tickets to R movies, all theaters around here ID...

 

[MentalBakura]

I don't get IDed quite as much now as I used to. I'm 19, but I still get IDed sometimes. When I went to see Bruno recently, they were really strict about that though. My friend is 16, so we had to see the 15 snipped version instead. The 15 version cost £2.20 more per ticket than the 18 version, which sucked, but oh well.

I think the most ridiculous thing I ever got IDed for was Call of Duty 4, back when I was 17. It was a PEGI 16+, and I've never seen anyone take the PEGI ratings so seriously.

 

[PureChaos]

i work in a cinema and getting in underage is all down to the individual that seres you. some people are really hot on it and other are a little more carefree. with some people it is obvious they are too young. in order to get as child ticket they have to be 14 or under but it's surprising how many parent want to take their children to a 15 rated film then say their child is 14 so get a cheaper price. then, when they are told they can't go on say 'you didn't hear me say he was 14, did you' and try to buy a ticket anyway then get annoyed when you refuse. it's so funny.

 

[Pickel Surprise]

It really depends, and I'm never going to have any personal experience with rating issues again. I'm 17 and I have an ID, and that's enough to get into an R rated movie (such as Inglorious Basterds) in the United States.

Most of the time, I've had no trouble getting into movies like that. The only time there've been any problems is when some of my friends try to buy tickets when they're not old enough or don't have an ID.

Even still, some box office workers won't play by the rules and will sell them anyway, and some will get pretty pissed if minors try to get them. It's never the same from one day to the next.

 

[Hookman]

I'm 14 and I can get into 15 and 16-rated films easily. Thats probably because the cinema I go to is usually to busy to bother with checking ages.

 

[kickin wiing]

I don't get stopped from buying tickets to R rated movies because I don't. I once bought a ticket to see the "Hannah Montana Movie", only to walk into "Observe and Report."

 

[BarkBark]

Never in my life have I seen anyone that got stopped to see a movie because they are too
young. I have a lot of friends that work at the theater, and I think they just don't care
enough to ask for someones ID.

[On a side note]
When it comes to getting games, they can be hardcore.
I don't look my age apparently so they constantly ask
for proper identification.

 

[electric_warrior]

i've been over 6ft tall since i was 13, so i've been able to get into 18's since i was 14. not that i really ever wanted to that badly, but i did get to go see apocalypto when i was 15 and it was an 18

 

[Golden Gryphon]

I've been asked a couple times but even if I've forgotten my ID they usually let me in if I tell them my birthday. I'm never asked when I'm with people who look over 18.

 

[AvsJoe]

Most of Canada's ratings aren't strict. When I was 16 I was getting into 18A movies (Ontario), and I've heard similar stories about Quebec. The only rating Canada's really strict on is the R rating, which forbids anyone under 18 to go see it. The R rating in Canada is equivalent to America's NC-17 rating, I don't know what other countries have a similar rating.

 

[Apathetic Flamingo]

Here, there's a theater where if they card you, they tell you to pick another movie. (I was quite baffled the first time they carded me. I was 15, and looked like I was 19.) But, since I was so baffled, the ticket person told me and my date, that we can go into any theater once we have the tickets. I was embarrassed in front of my date for being speechless, but it was quite a funny tale to tell others. So... around where I live, the they don't inforce them... at all. (I think we were there to see The 40yr Old Virgin... Her idea to see it!)

 

[G1eet]

Until December 27, I can't legally see a rated R movie. Figures that the best movies I'd want to see this year are all rated R.

But I'll try my best to get in until then. And with a week's worth of scruff, I think I can pull it off.

 

[GruntOwner]

I remeber being asked for proof of age one time for a 15. Not entirely sure what proof of age you can actually carry when you're 15, but I think it was just because the ticket guy was being an arse, seeing I was getting served at bars when I was 15... Well, it was 2 days away from 16 and the lighting was bad, but the barkeep did ask my friend his age even though he looks older than me. Turns out my confident *indicate towards beer and hold 2 fingers up* is more successful than damn near stuttering and saying 1986 when asked for your date of birth.

 

[Tyrant T100]

I had a big problem with the Odeon cinemas in the UK. Me and my friend went to go watch Lesbian vampire killers in Oxford. First the guy at the desk asked for ID and as we were 15 we obviously had nothing photographic so I gave him a photocopy of my birth certificate. The guy said it was fine for me but my friend had no id so the guy asked him his birth date and my friend told him. He said that was fine and sold us the tickets, however when we gave them to the guy who rips the tickets we were asked yet again how old we were and I had to show the ID. Once we were inside waiting for the trailers to start the same staff member comes in to double check. It's like these people have nothing better to do then to repeatedly check ID.