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To those who took children to see Infinity War (unmarked spoiler thread)

MasterYoshi

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How did your children/younger siblings handle so much loss throughout the movie? I'm a 28 year old man and this movie just delivered gut punch after gut punch from the opening scene. My 8 year old stepson has never been so quiet during a movie, and so close to tears after the end. We had agreed to go see the film again for his birthday, but the first thing he said on the car ride home was that he had no desire to watch everyone die again.

Tell me, ERA, what was your experience like? Is Marvel using the Infinity Gauntlet to snatch the souls out of an entire generation of kids with this film?
 
Anth0ny

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I have younger family members who will be scarred for life, no doubt.

they love these characters.

these same family members were fucking BAWLING at the end of rogue one. ROGUE ONE. FOR THOSE SHIT CHARACTERS

tl;dr dying is scary
 
Skinny Pete

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My kids are too young for this but if they get upset just let them know there is a part 4 next year and their heroes may be back.
 
Nikus

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Yeah this topic interests me too. I've read comics all my life and it hit hard.
I'm curious about the impact on children and people who were 8 or 10 years old when the MCU started. It's crazy, what Marvel accomplished.
 
Leona Lewis

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Oct 25, 2017
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Eh, they'll be fine. Nothing all that different from Dragon Ball Z's "all is lost" conga line from our childhoods.
 
Hassel

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Fuck now I am spoiled.



I missed the brackets.

Gawd damn you op, you took an 8 year old to a pg 13 movie?

Clearly you make irresponsible choices, enjoy your week of no sleep due to giving your child nightmares.

8 years old ? Wtf is wrong with you
 
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BWoog

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The first thought I had in my head after the credits rolled was "Damn this movie is NOT for kids"
 
SmokingBun

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Infinity War Spoiler below!!

How many of you would sacrifice your children for ultimate power? I would!
 
Landy828

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I screen PG-13 movies myself before I take my 11 year old. Why aren't you doing this when they're 8?

I mean...there's a huge gap in maturity just from 8 to 11.
 
TheRuralJuror

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Oct 25, 2017
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My son is 10 now, but I asked him when he was nine if stuff in movies ever bothered him. His reply, “no, it’s not real”. Even looked a bit insulted. That said, I still use my own judgement depending on the content.
 
Mushroomer25

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The number of people in this thread acting like a PG-13 movie is 'obviously' too much for an eight year old is wild to me. Raimi's Spiderman trilogy was PG-13. As were Temple of Doom, The Fellowship of the Ring, and Jurrassic Park.

Are you all honestly saying you hadn't seen any of those movies at that age? That's not to say they're as devastating as Infinity War, but parents aren't irresponsible for assuming their kids can handle it. Especially if they handled the rest of the MCU.
 
Jeenaud

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Honestly, not being allowed to watch any kind of violent media as a kid fucked my perception of morality, filtering kids content does more harm than good, please don't do that.
 
Bronx-Man

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I’m 21 and I was in tears watching what happened to Spidey, I can’t even imagine what would be going through my mind if I was 10.
 
AleeN634

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There was an adult with child at my screening. I remember someone saying 'Oh no' when Tony got stabbed but I think that some was someone behind us.
He did have to take the kid out during Vision's first death. They came back a bit after the snap. Our audience was mostly dead silent during that sequence.
 
Kater

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I was crushed when I saw characters in DBZ die at the same age as your stepson. The thing with those comic universes is that death is not always the end and they always got tricks to get back popular characters. You can tell them that or they will learn it by themselves.
 
Strangelove_77

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Its a very bummer of a movie. So much dead silence from the audience during the few last parts.
 
Tagyhag

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If you want to be cynical, just tell them that the end is just a cop out. All those characters that died will be back.

Now when the OG Avengers permanently die in the next movie, hopefully the kid is ready lol.
 
GameShrink

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Tagyhag said:
If you want to be cynical, just tell them that the end is just a cop out. All those characters that died will be back.

Now when the OG Avengers permanently die in the next movie, hopefully the kid is ready lol.
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Or go a step further and tell them that all comic book continuities are basically soap operas, where nothing is really permanent and there will never be a true conclusion to anything.
 

Slacker247

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Oct 27, 2017
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Throw in non active comic readers here too. I feel like those guys will also have plenty of reactions. It's hard, growing up reading comics and the constant retcons and stuff to have as much of an impact on me (I'm a hardass you see), but at the same time acting like Tom Holland's dash that out the window.

Definitely seeing kids and non engaged/movie only fans' reactions is quite interesting. Sometimes I don't even want to explain they always die in comics and come back just so it doesn't deflate their feelings you know? And not to sour/skew potential feelings of the following movie either.
 
Heisenberg726

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Oct 28, 2017
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Birdseye said:
Why are you taking a child to a PG-13 movie?
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I’m sorry, if you don’t allow your kids above the age of 7 or 8 to watch a MCU movie, you’re an overprotective parent.

Moving on to OP’s post:

Ehh, kids generally can handle this sort of thing pretty well. Yeah, some little guys I knew were kinda bummed out, but they’ll get over it soon.
 
RedStep

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Oct 27, 2017
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I’ve taken my kids (now 9 and 10) to most of the Marvel movies since the first Avengers. They’ve done fine with all of them. My daughter gets sad when sad things are drawn out (she was crying at the end of Godzilla, for example) but they had no problem with the mostly “quick” deaths at the end of IW. Gamora’s death was the only upsetting one because my daughter worships her (even dressed up in green paint for last Halloween), but she loved the movie overall.
 
Budi

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Ummmm... really interested to hear some experiences too. Couldn't have imagined this would be an issue.
 
chairhome

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I wouldn't bring my kids to Deadpool, but this movie was fine. I've let my kids see tons of pg13 movies (they're now 8 and 10) and my kids are fine.
My daughter has cried at a few movies (like Force Awakens) but she only mildly teared up here. I don't think my 8 y.o. had a strong reaction.
They both really liked the movie overall.
I think they already have a grasp on the concept of death, but maybe they didn't think too much in terms of relating the disappearance of heroes to actual death. Spidey was the one for me that really made me think about it.
 
Pau

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I felt so bad for all the little kids dressed up as Spider-Man or wearing Spider-Man t-shirts. :(
 
Soj

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At my screening, a couple of families left with their young children around the time Thanos strangled Loki to death.

Movie lets you know up front how it's gonna be.
 
Erik Twice

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There were some children at my screening. Nothing out of the ordinary, they had fun, were well-behaved and were probably a bit naïve in their comments about the plot after the film ended but that's it.
 

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Someone want to give the death list? I'm not going to watch it (Or if I do it won't be for a loooong time) but am mildly curious on who got the ax.)
 
vanmardigan

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My daughter had tears in her eyes. My other kids were stunned. By this morning tho, they were all outside pretending to be avengers. Not even they believe that BP and Spiderman are gone for good. The characters that REALLY died weren't a big deal for them.
 
H2intensity

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I plan to take my wife and kids (11& 8 yo) today. I'll already watched it myself on day one so i think its pretty safe for them. I'll let you know later about their reaction.
 
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