I'll admit, it was my own error. I didn't do the research; I made an assumption. The price paid: complete and utter embarrassment for myself and my son.
I enjoy going to the movies. My companions are usually my S.O. or my eldest son. The weekend before last I broke down and took my 16 year old son to see a movie he had been bugging me to go see with him ever since he first saw the previews several months ago. The movie he was so anixous to see was "The Watchmen" and I soon learned a whole new reason to be anxious over a movie. I knew it was a movie based on a graphic novel, but so was the latest Batman movies. Without delving into it much more than that, I figured how bad could this R rated movie be. It's not like the kid hasn't seen or heard his fair share of dirty words, violent gunfire and the ugly and humorous side of drug use in other R rated movies he's had the privilege of viewing (not to mention video games). What neither one of us were expecting was the graphic sex scenes, nor the completely naked blue man floating about throughout the entire movie.