Parents in Australia complain 'It: Chapter Two' billboard is terrorising children
 

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/pare...150409285.html

https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/...5-fa837c5cd6f6

Queensland was pretty notorious for banning films during the VHS days. Guess it's still pretty conservative.

https://letterboxd.com/bosch/list/on...and-australia/

I think it's precious actually. If it scares young children and gives them nightmares, and it's in their face... this giant billboard, then I support taking it down. It's not like there isn't other ways to advertise, and other billboard illustrations they could do. Protect some children's innocence for awhile, especially at this very small inconvenience.

I liked it better when they had the last terminator movie advertised on a billboard outside of an abortion clinic. 🤣

Has the blood been added to the mouth?
I'm in Sydney Australia, and I'm pretty sure I've never seen this poster with the blood even on it. In fact, I've never actually seen this poster here at all...perhaps only in QLD?

Though doesn't surprise that someone up there is trying to ban something else...it's hotter up there, they're all baked in the head.

All this "afraid of clowns" shit needs to stop anyway.

It's like kids not liking pickles, or having the passionate hatred for nickelback they needed to to tell everyone about.

Some 20 years ago there was that one episode of the Simpsons...from then on, it's every second attention seeker saying they're afraid of clowns.
Wasn't a thing before then.
Pop culture driven bullshit that's become part of our collective psychology, it's ridiculous.

It was the popular thing to hate for a little bit, and it stuck.
Stupid.

Teach your kids that movies are movies...and don't TAKE THEM to the movie.
Don't expect the world to become marshmallows when your kid walks through it, or they'll just become intolerable whiny little nutsacks.

Personally, for the record I think this poster was way better anyway:

That is a better poster (above).

The other one looks like Kiefer Sutherland out of The Lost Boys to me:

https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/...5-fa837c5cd6f6

And anyway, I don't think you can blame these little kids for the 'hip to be afraid of clowns' thing that happened a decade before they were born. Or for it being cool to hate Nickelback. And everything else we hate about people, er, I mean, that we hate about people a gen younger than ourselves.

Young children will have time to learn life is difficult. We all do. Maybe a giant billboard staring evil bloody murder at them, against their will, giving them nightmares, doesn't make this world a better place, or teaching them anything good. But like I said, it's not like the It producers can't advertise without that particular billboard shoved in little kids' faces. Just my opinion. But I don't even live in AU. ::cool::

You're right.
I blame the parents, and/or whoever keeps carrying the concept.

We live in a time where people just WANTS to get pissed off.

Or has it always been like that?

People just suck. I say we need more horror oriented billboards. In my opinion Australian parents are acting like boomers.😂
No offense to any bommers on here.

My post is seemingly ironic, as I'm a very dedicated free speech protector. I meant I think the film distributor should voluntarily replace that It billboard (that has been singled out as giving children nightmares), not be forced to. It goes along way to respond to and please your customers, and future customers. The whole issue was good free advertising, now the co can be good citizens about it too, put up a very cool billboard that's different than that one.

In ten years those kids will look back on that fear they had of this billboard and wish they could feel it again. Oh, they will watch horror films and such but they will never be able to find that feeling.

Say more tusk. Do you think fear has a positive purpose?

Well it's just a billboard but i can see that little kids would be afraid of something like that

Kids are stupid

My youngest grandchild (6) freaks when he sees the dvd cover of Annabelle or a pic of her.
Like, we have to leave the store and he's sure she is following us.

Blood. The only cure for your grandkid's condition is....
To put an Annabelle doll in his favorite toy chest.

All the stuff that scared me when I was little is stuff I look back on fondly now, I think they need to chill out and remember a little fear is nice and normal.