To not keep my mouth shut..

YANBU. The Two Ronnies was on this morning and whilst they've got some classic sketches there are some that are shockingly sexist joking about men with their secretaries, size of women's breasts etc etc. Our culture has progressed so much in just a few decades.

Definitely with you on the psychological dramas

I much prefer a crime drama / psychological thriller over stuff like rom coms.

My DP likes anything about Vikings, Knights Templar and WW2. We have VERY different tastes 🤣🤣

My dh and I watch so very different programs so I don’t think you are being unreasonable. It’s very much horses for courses in our household.

You used to say live and let live......

They’re old fashioned films and attitudes were different.

Just because you had a thought you dont have to share it

Love Actually is actually one of the worst films ever and I would LTB for even watching it.

I think I would tell him why you have no interest in watching them but leave him to it if he still wants to watch.

I still love watching Carry On films

I quite agree

I totally agree

I never thought she was portrayed as being overweight. More that she was an average sized 10-12 woman, but she herself was comparing herself to the stick thin models of that time.

I honestly wouldn’t even think of getting worked up about stuff like this. They were films of their time and they can still carry important messages about being comfortable in yourself if you want to look at it more deeply. (I don’t).

Certain ‘societal standards’ maybe different now, but that doesn’t mean these films are bad/offensive. I certainly don’t find anything offensive about them. I enjoy them for what they are and don’t think anymore about it.

We watched "room with a view" and DD (age 15) declared that love interest boy was an awful predator who should be dumped.

It's suffocating when someone does a critical analysis when you just want to chill. I wouldn't want to stay around someone like this.

I love k-dramas.

Lots of 'problematic' elements, and all the better for them! It's just a bit if fun and fantasy, no one is taking life lessons from a rom com!

Hasn't been a decent romcom for years in western media, sanitised = boring.

You are right that they have aged very poorly, wrong to insist on 'educating' a grown adult.
Leave the room if you can't be quiet

Watching any film from a different era, means it's based on the attitudes of that particular time. Those attitudes may not be so acceptable nowadays but you can't erase the past. You don't have to watch the films, your husband doesn't need a lecture from you, he's a grown adult with his own mind and opinions.

Not sure which way to vote . DD and I can’t bear to watch early Bond movies because of the roles of women in the films. I wouldn’t ever watch most of them again but ExDP wouldn’t even notice second class treatment of women in these films.

Think I’d have to be in another room. Watching Pretty Woman now, I just think the internet would have a field day when they found out the past life of the Julia Roberts character. And why insist on someone eating snails if you knew they had no experience of them? Different world.

You sound like the type of person who wants to ban "Baby it's Cold Outside" from being played on the radio because it's about a sexual predator spiking a younger woman's drink and trying to make her stop with him to get his wicked way. When actually it's about a Woman desperate to overcome social boundaries and looking for excuses to stay, pretending the small amount of alcohol has gone to her head so it would actually be acceptable and safer to stay, so she can instead be sexually liberated and enjoy getting it on with someone she's clearly into.

Things are a product of their time. No point arguing with the past!

Jesus, just STFU and let the man enjoy the movie. Nobody wants a lecturer next to them when they are attempting to relax while watching a flick.

Agree on Sean Connery's James Bond - that is pretty bad!

You sound like a nightmare.

It's Hollywood. It's not real.

You could critique every car chase and fight scene for being over the top and unrealistic.

Maybe just stick to watching the news

Dirty Dancing?!

"There are a few but the massive age gap - she's 15!!!! is the most obvious one."

She is definitely not 15, it says at the start she is going to Mount Holyoke college "in the fall" suggesting she has finished high school and is 18 , or at least about to turn 18.
Johnny is supposed to be early 20s, although Patrick Swayze was older.

Pretty woman I agree hasn't aged that well but I still enjoy watching it.

Bridget Jones is not my favourite movie anyway but I agree with PP that the whole point (especially in the books) is that she is a perfectly healthy weight but wants to be super skinny because of the pressures put on women to be thin in the 90s (ironically when she does lose weight after being in prison everyone says she is too thin)

The only thing I have refused to watch with DH is a Sean Connery James Bond - just couldn't stay silent! Otherwise I think he is an adult and can watch what he wants. If it isn't my taste I will read or watch something else in another room.

I don't quite agree with defining age gaps amongst adults in movies (or life) as automatically problematic. When I was 19, I went out with a guy who was 20 years older, and I most definitely wasn't groomed and frankly did most of the chasing.

Personally, I find the Pretty Woman's fairytale treatment of prostitution much more difficult to accept. Saying that, I still quote: "Big mistake, huge!" when an opportunity presents itself.

We were chatting in work about favourite TV shows and a few of us said Friends. Cue an up their own arse terminally offended colleague lecturing us about how awful it is, anyone who likes it is likely a bigot in denial, they liked it until they saw the error of their ways etc....honestly bore off.

We just pretended she wasnt there and carried on, thankfully the misery got the strong hint and left shaking and crying no doubt