Kids in movies

[Paquita]

i HATE them!! Don't get me wrong i love kids! but i kNOw kids! but kids aren't sweet or cute! theyre cute and loud until they learn how to talk and then they go between being obnoxious and funny! but NOT sweet or cute! unless theyre sad or scared.. i know that sounds psycho but its true! Kids are also really dumb! theyre KIDS! theyre learning! theyre not supposed to be smart! they might be smart for their age but theyre not scientists! if they are REALLY REALLY smart they usually are really cocky about it or they dont talk at all!
but kids in movies are NOT real kids!! im so SICK of it! every time there's a kid in a movie they act like a fat overly sensitive 40 year old lesbian poet genius golden child! They all have deep soulful understandings of life that the adults just can't grasp and they always make the kid have intellectual insight on situations and the solutions to every problem that arises!  This is just a recent thing too! its mostly Haley Joel Osment and Miko Hughes that are fueling my hatefire! they arent real! their love may be real! but they are NOT! ever since they came around EVERY kid in EVERY movie has to be smart and SPECIAL goddamnit! i hate it! THEYRE RUINING MOVIES! its so obviously fake i cant even pretend!  kids never used to ruin movies! the omen was good! so was the exorcist and the shining! because the kids had very little speaking parts and did what they do best!: Whine, throw tantrums, cry, and pee!
and dont get me started on teenagers! they ruin movies more! because they dont even look cute! im sick of movies about school! i went to school! i hated it when i was there and i dont want to see it on tv all the damn time!
The way i sees it  if youre not at least 25 you dont belong in any movie that wants to be good unless your part is really small and you keep your mouth shut! or youre a hot chick (dont make any pedophile jokes i MEAN at least 18) and gonna show your boobies but then you should soon after die. because blood and boobs are cool.

love colleen

p.s. in nightmare on elmstreet 1 after nancy doesnt sleep for days she says "I feel 20 years old!" IM OLD!!!!!!!

[Mr. Muddang]

I think most people who make kids act like sensitive adults with a golden heart are deep inside strongly pedophile. All this anti-pedophile and child abuse that's filling US media and D- movies is betraying a great lust for underage butt. Add to this the so-called "concerned parents", so willing to make Internet a Soviet dreamworld, where EVERYTHING is censored, with reasons one more idiotic than another.

[Deej]

yeah, kids suck, it's a truism. Always have, always will. Not only are they stupid, they smell funny, and sometimes they're just plain  creepy. And it's not only in movies. Every time I like a tv show, they gotta go and bring in some damned ass kid. Usually the kid is supposed to be super smart. See, it's a kid, but he's acting like a grown-up...get it? Yeah, I get it...and it sucks! If you want another character that acts like an adult, GET AN ADULT!!! Kids are NOT cute. And unless they're falling down or getting hit with thrown objects, they're not funny

The only exception to the kid rule is horror movies, and only then sometimes. The kid in The Omen was creepy, the kid in The Excorcist was creepy(although puking and acting like an ass is really just normal kid-behavior), the vampire kid in 'Salems Lot creeped me out, so did the little blue eyed-devil kid in the Bank of America commercials. So in summation, kids are not cute, rarely funny, and only good in horror movies(especially if they get killed in the end). Thanks for your time.

[Dolph Lundgren]

I agree completely.  Kids in movie = bad idea.  They tend to simply slow the movie down, for the most part.  I especially hate it when they try to act all cutesy and crack stupid little jokes.  The only exception to this role is Sho Kosugi's kids, primarily because they can barely speak english, AND kick ass.  

Nick

[Evan3]

I think kids are fine as long as they dont
A) THink they are good actors, they dont have enough experience to be good actors. This is Hayley Joel Osmet's downfall
B) They dont try to act innocent or cute. Thats revolting. Especially if they have a lisp, or emphasize their punchline, like when they say "Oh daaaaaaaaady, I didnt mean it" with a toothy grin

Deej, all of your choices were right on the mark. Especially Omen boy. Notice he didnt say anything. You did leave out the boy from the Ring though and that kid was good.

[Fearless Freep]

I don't find kids in movies any less realistic than cops, the military,romance, politicians, scientists. or attempts at serious dialogue.

One reason I like B-Movies is that they usually know "look, this ain't real, just suspend disbelief for a few hours and follow along".  Too many 'serious' main stream movies actually try to be real, but real life-life dialogue has a lot more dead air, pauses, non-verbal communication, etc...that's just never captured in on-screen conversations.  So I have a hard tim etaking a movie seriously that wants to be taken seriously because too me it just seems fake.  When the premise of your movie is "Viking lander returns from Mars with an alien cocoon attached" ("Lifeform"), I already know we're in fantasy land so the fact that the dlaiog, the military, the scientists, etc...are just about as (un)realistic as the plot doesn't really phase me.  

So, heck, throw in an obnoxious kid who's wise beyond his years.  Won't bother me any more than an abondoned military installation in the desert with full computer network capability and power grid still in operation

[raj]

It's even worse on tv, where every kid is cute and precocious, invariably wiser than dad.  I don't know when it started (Different Strokes?), but it isn't funny.

[Paquita]

butt! no! meee!! i said it first!! *I'M* right! meeeeee!!!!

as for the kid in the ring and any other foreign kid.. they dont count.. foreign kids have no feelings and are like little warlords. so they can be in movies! theyre cute!

love colleen

[Drezzy]

The only kids I've ever seen in a movie or on TV that are almost EXACTLY how kids these days act/talk/think are the South Park gang. 9-year-old's these days are almost EXACTLY like Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and the other kids. They're cute until they leave their parents' watchful eyes.

More reasons I absolutely adore Trey Parker and Matt Stone as artists. They've created something that we can all sit back and laugh at while making a legitimate statement at the same time (usually more than one statement, as well).

[Scott0]

I love you Colleen. Let us all go lobby in front of a movie studio and form a picket line where no child can cross without being confronted by an angry mob from the front, and stones and rocks from behind. I remember the second in my life when I realized that kids are a mistake to the film industry. I was watching Troll 2, and that FREAKIN' KID, the WORST ACTOR TO EVER APPEAR IN A MOVIE said outloud "No! Don't eat me" to the trolls in the most gut wrenchingly awful acting possible. It was at that point that I took it upon myself never to EVER cast anyone without a sense of self awareness in anything I ever filmed for ALL OF ETERNITY. I will rewrite scripts to create the absence of children. I will do everything in my power to delete their existence in my creations. They have no influence in creating a BETTER movie.

Scottie

[mo'lock]

I would have agreed before Frailty.  Both kids were amazing actors.