To be shocked watching back kids movies from my childhood with DD

But surely you'd agree that death needs to be presented more gently to kids (smaller kids, at any rate) than to adults? Bambi and Black Beauty aren't too upsetting from what I can remember, ditto Big Bird having death explained to him on Sesame Street (totally showing my age now 😄), but some of the stuff deemed suitable for kids is certainly too upsetting for some of them imo.

Off topic

My cat went missing for two days this week, she was found and looked after by someone and I got her back because the nice person took her to a vet to check for a microchip.

But she visits all my neighbours but one particular neighbour's grand daughter is about 7 and loves the cat.

I was obviously worried about the cat, but also about how to explain to the child if the worst happened. Obviously it would be her grandma doing the explaining.

Back on topic.

Apaches - shown in schools has multiple deaths it's probably on YouTube if you didn't see it at school.

😮 Admittedly I've only seen the first one with Tilda Swinton but still... WTAF!

Get yourself a drink and dive in…some of them are wild. Like she drowned on the beach and the whole thing isn’t real, just how she imagined it would be. I think a lot of them have been debunked though, which is a bit boring.

@namechangeGOT well that night after watching IT I obviously had a nightmare of penjywise at the bottom of the bed screamed the house down 😂 I will admit that drains in the street were scary incase he was down there 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Rape scene in Narnia?! I think the PP may have watched a different version 😄

Wha-a-t?! I've literally never heard about that! Oh dear, I can see hours being lost to this...

Tbf, she does slam the door on his nuts at the drive-in, so that evens the score a little. 😄

Vince Fontaine leching after Marty though... gross, I agree (even though the actors were probably a similar age irl)

@brunettemic the mannequins bug me now (never queried them as a kid) I mean who has them laying around their house!

I loved Ace Ventura as a child, I even got it for Christmas and annoyed my parents so much watching on their tv I got my own video recorder for my room asap. But I never even clicked to a blow job at the start!

They were meant to be at high school not even college. 17/18 year olds.

I love the pink elephants sequence and the baby of mine 🎧 but I completely agree with you. As a child it outraged me that the cute baby elephant was treated so cruelly by everyone (obviously didn’t pick up the Jim Crow references or would have been pretty unimpressed too). I did say upthread I was as sanctimonious as a child as I am now!

Some of them were! Stockard Channing was 33.

@pebbles8811 After we watched it, when I didn't manage to drop off I used to have a recurring dream of being laid in bed and Pennywise would be looking through my bedroom window and I'd wake up! God it frightened me to death for so long! Loved Edward Scissorhands though!

The biggest plot hole being Kevin knows how to use a phone and that he should call the police because he does it at the end. So that tells us he planned the entire thing purely for his own pleasure and enjoyment 😂

Well they both completely change themselves and then the message at the end is just be yourself and be open with your feelings.

The best thing about Grease is all the conspiracy theories around it like how Sandy is dead and the ending is ascending to heaven or it’s a coma dream. There’s lots of rabbit holes you can go down on the internet with it.

Watched it at age 4 as I wanted to see it and it terrified me for 30 YEARS 🤦🏻‍♀️ watched it quite recently and was like wtf was I scared of 😂 the newer version of it is more scary than the Tim curry version. I also watched Edward scissorhands at the same age and to this day I can’t watch it or even see a pic of him Johnny depp in that movie its terrifying

You can keep your ET's, Gremlins and all the rest - I had a movie night at my friends house when we were about 9 and guess what family favourite we watched?

IT.

I didn't sleep for years and my mother was furious!

It was rough 😂

There was no rape scene.

But surely you'd agree that death needs to be presented more gently to kids (smaller kids, at any rate) than to adults? Bambi and Black Beauty aren't too upsetting from what I can remember, ditto Big Bird having death explained to him on Sesame Street (totally showing my age now 😄), but some of the stuff deemed suitable for kids is certainly too upsetting for some of them imo.

We all know some kids are more sensitive and easily upset than others, and while that doesn't mean they should be wrapped in cotton wool, I do think parents and other caregivers need to know the child and know how they typically react to things. I remember finding all sorts of random things upsetting when I was a young child, including things that were actually aimed at children. My parents didn't wrap me in cotton wool as a result, but I definitely think they took it into account in terms of what I was and wasn't allowed to watch, and I remember having potentially upsetting stuff explained to me quite carefully at times. I think they got it right tbh, for me anyway, other kids were probably more robust than me and could cope with upsetting content more easily.

I remember the 'rape' scene in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe was quite shocking

Aslam on the stone table etc

It's almost the opposite really. He had to join a sports team and work to get that jacket. She changed her outfit. She might have gone home that night, brushed her hair & put on her other clothes. Who knows.

But they both changed for the other person. Not just her

Reminds me of Phoebe in Friends' innocent memories of that film."Babies. The dog had babies!"