Movie Review: Zodiac

March 6, 2007 in Movie Reviews with 4 Comments

Dear Guy in the faded FX Toughman shirt,

What in the name of all good sense are you doing taking a young girl (was she eight?!) to a rated R movie like “Zodiac”?  Are you insane?  Or just selfish?  Or stupid?

The previews alone for half a dozen gory horror films would have given me lifelong nightmares had I seen them when I was an eight year old girl.  What were you thinking?  Do you think?

And furthermore, Tuesday night is a SCHOOL NIGHT, dude!  The movie ended at 10 p.m. . . . isn’t that way past an 8-year old child’s bedtime?  Plan ahead, pal!  Get a babysitter!

What an idiot you are.  When I saw that child ALONE in the bathroom, I wanted to casually ask her if she liked the movie, but I was afraid she might talk to a stranger (ME!), thus giving her the idea that it’s completely fine to talk to strangers in the bathroom at the movie theater.

Honestly.  What is wrong with you? 

Signed,

Mel

p.s.  I liked the movie.  But I would NEVER in a MILLION years take a child to see it. 

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4 Responses to “Movie Review: Zodiac”

  1. Adventures In Babywearing March 7, 2007 at 9:40 am #

    Wow!!! The previews for that movie alone freak me out… I can’t imagine!! (But I do really want to see it when it comes to cable…)

  2. Sue March 7, 2007 at 3:49 pm #

    I actually knew one of the murder victims as this took place in my town. Two of the murder sites are less than a mile from my home. (The movie was not filmed here.)
    We haven’t seen the movie, and I’m not sure we will.
    What are they thinking taking a child to see that type of movie!!

  3. ann adams March 11, 2007 at 3:57 pm #

    Sue, it was my town too. San Francisco.

    I’m not sure if I want to see it and I darn sure wouldn’t take the kids.

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