Page 14 | To be shocked watching back kids movies from my childhood with DD

Picklepower · 2025-02-17T17:10:43+00:00

DD is 6 and we watch quite a few films together, mixture of old and new. Last Halloween I was so excited to watch a film from my childhood, decided against hocus pocus but went with Casper. Well, turns out not once but TWICE Eric idle's character shouts BITCH at Carrigan. (She's is tbf but a bit much for a Pg film). Just sat down to watch Charlie and the chocolate factory (from 2005!) and mike teevee says 'even a retard could figure it out'. What the hell! Any other corkers you've come across watching back your childhood films?

meganorks · 17/02/2025 19:37

alittlebitofcake · 17/02/2025 19:33

Made the mistake of trying to watch Weird Science with 11yo the other week.

I'd forgotten how rude it was!

I'm not sure how you forgot that to be honest! The plot is pretty much: 'teenage boys want to get laid so create a living sex doll!'

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 19:37

Wintershealing · 17/02/2025 19:32

Wolf of wall street is one of my dds (18) favourite films so the woke brigade isn't totally alive amongst the young!

Tbf that's based on a true life story in an autobiography isn't it?

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DopeyS · 17/02/2025 19:36

BurntBroccoli · 17/02/2025 19:19

I saw Towering inferno when I was about 8 at the cinema. Nightmares for years afterwards! Goodness knows why my mother took us to see that!

Mind you, I have always had to have a fire escape plan whenever I stay anywhere.

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I do actually love dinosaurs now and have a 🦖 🦕 tattoo. I still have the odd anxiety dream where a Dino is trying to get me though. I'm just not a scary movie person at all. If I ever watch one now I end up having nightmares and I'm nearly 40 😂

An escape plan is always good. I have the same but for zombies...just in case.

Mumtobabyhavoc · 17/02/2025 19:35

@KimGa how did you discuss the songs?
(excerpts from Summer Nights)
Tell me more, tell me more
Did you get very far?
...
Tell me more, tell me more
Did she put up a fight?
...
Well, she got friendly down in the sand...
Well, she was good, you know what I mean
...

I'd be like 😵‍💫🙉🙈

alittlebitofcake · 17/02/2025 19:33

Made the mistake of trying to watch Weird Science with 11yo the other week.

I'd forgotten how rude it was!

Heatherjayne1972 · 17/02/2025 19:33

I think some of these films have been re rated to a lower category.
I wasn’t allowed to go to the cinema to see ghostbusters or back to the future as I wasn’t 15 at the time

annoyed me a lot at the time

JandamiHash · 17/02/2025 19:32

meganorks · 17/02/2025 19:30

Not quite in the same vein, but recently thought DDs might like Shaun of the Dead. Its a 15 (they are 11 and 13) but we thought it's funny rather than scary and we like a bit of zombie chat in this house.

About 5 mins in: "Any of you cunts want a drink" 🙈
To be fair, I think it completely went ovwr their heads, so I suppose that is reasuring!

I let my 11yo watch this with me as she’s fairly mature and has a strong stomach for swearing and gore and I forget about the party where Simon Pegg says “Get fucked four eyes” - I thought DD was gonna burst a spleen she laughed so hard

Wintershealing · 17/02/2025 19:32

Wolf of wall street is one of my dds (18) favourite films so the woke brigade isn't totally alive amongst the young!

fatandtrying · 17/02/2025 19:32

Horriblevirusagain · 17/02/2025 18:06

I grew up watching horror movies and still love them. Am now 54 and never traumatized. My kids grew up with all Disney movies and Simpsons , sadly for me don't like horrors. I don't remember any movie in childhood where I was shocked with language. Us 54 year olds are hardcore because we were raised in the 70s 👍

I watched horrors from a young age! and still love them.... especially love the looks when i walk into the cinema alone to watch one. sadly my kids are all dosney and musicals even now they're older

FiveWhatByFiveWhat · 17/02/2025 19:31

BurntBroccoli · 17/02/2025 19:19

I saw Towering inferno when I was about 8 at the cinema. Nightmares for years afterwards! Goodness knows why my mother took us to see that!

Mind you, I have always had to have a fire escape plan whenever I stay anywhere.

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My mum and dad saw Towering Inferno as one of their first dates over 50 years ago - my dad hates heights and apparently spent so long in the toilet that my mum thought he'd ran out on her 🤣

JandamiHash · 17/02/2025 19:31

MirrorMirror70 · 17/02/2025 19:25

I watched Dirty Dancing for the first time when I was about 7-8 and I remember thinking Penny was “a bit poorly” and Baby’s dad made her feel better. The whole botched abortion thing totally flew over my head, thankfully!

Also, I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that despite watching Forrest Gump at least 30 times over the years since it first came out, it was only about 3-4 years ago that I realised Forrest’s mum has sex with the principal to get Forrest a place in the mainstream school 😶I was in my mid-30s!

Someone pointed out to me that Jenny probably died from AIDS. I never thought much about her sickness!

meganorks · 17/02/2025 19:30

Not quite in the same vein, but recently thought DDs might like Shaun of the Dead. Its a 15 (they are 11 and 13) but we thought it's funny rather than scary and we like a bit of zombie chat in this house.

About 5 mins in: "Any of you cunts want a drink" 🙈
To be fair, I think it completely went ovwr their heads, so I suppose that is reasuring!

Redheadedstepchild · 17/02/2025 19:29

ChompandaGrazia · 17/02/2025 18:28

The exact same day to be exact!

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This marketing tactic intrigues me. On the face of it, you'd halve your profits by releasing films with similar target audiences on the same day but it doesn't work like that. Is it just, "I can't decide, so I'll have both?"

I wonder this in a lot of situations. I was stuck in Marseille airport for several hours recently and there were three or four different food outlets selling the same thing. All sandwiches, all more or less cold, bit of coffee, bit of cake, that was it.

I have watched a few youtube shorts of Rory Sutherland explaining how selling the same thing, close together works and I kind of half understand it.

ChessorBuckaroo · 17/02/2025 19:28

Picklepower · 17/02/2025 18:03

Well obviously. The problem is the word retard not that his character isn't nice. The children in Charlie and the chocolate factory aren't nice, that's why the all end up the way they do

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Apart from Charlie.

All of Dahl's books have a good child who contrasts with the others. For Charlie see James, Matilda, Sophie, George, Danny etc.

Most good stories have that protagonist (usually good)/antagonist angle.

Youremylobster86 · 17/02/2025 19:28

OP I think it's the way you have worded the original post, sounds more like you're pearl clutching than it being light hearted.

'Pissworm" in Matilda, me and my brother would roll around laughing. Nothing in these films though would put me off showing age appropriate children, movies today don't even compare.

Superhansrantowindsor · 17/02/2025 19:28

Goonies not goodies.

Superhansrantowindsor · 17/02/2025 19:28

Goodies has a dodgy bit when mouth is translating packing instructions to the Spanish speaking lady. That made me wince when I showed dc.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 17/02/2025 19:27

JandamiHash · 17/02/2025 19:24

I know I’m only joking! In reality they’d have split up by August 🤣

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And he was definitely shit at athletics, considering he didn't even look where he was running 🤦.

MirrorMirror70 · 17/02/2025 19:25

I watched Dirty Dancing for the first time when I was about 7-8 and I remember thinking Penny was “a bit poorly” and Baby’s dad made her feel better. The whole botched abortion thing totally flew over my head, thankfully!

Also, I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that despite watching Forrest Gump at least 30 times over the years since it first came out, it was only about 3-4 years ago that I realised Forrest’s mum has sex with the principal to get Forrest a place in the mainstream school 😶I was in my mid-30s!

JandamiHash · 17/02/2025 19:25

Picklepower · 17/02/2025 19:23

So why are you telling me what my intentions behind starting a thread were? As you can see, I ask for examples of when other people have found this and many people have given great examples, and managed to do so without being miserable sods

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Didn’t you know OP it’s Mumsnet Law that you have to put LIGHTHEARTED in a thread title otherwise posters must think you’re being Very Serious Indeed

PS - for the avoidance of doubt this post is LIGHTHEARTED

Knackered1 · 17/02/2025 19:25

Exactly this!

JandamiHash · 17/02/2025 19:24

TempestTost · 17/02/2025 19:08

You can hardly criticize the film for plot points you've totally made up.

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I know I’m only joking! In reality they’d have split up by August 🤣

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 19:23

Wintershealing · 17/02/2025 19:14

I know, hence why I quoted you

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So why are you telling me what my intentions behind starting a thread were? As you can see, I ask for examples of when other people have found this and many people have given great examples, and managed to do so without being miserable sods

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Oldglasses · 17/02/2025 19:22

ItGhoul · 17/02/2025 17:50

Gremlins was a 15 when it was originally released. It’s now a 12A so certainly not intended as a film for young kids.

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We went to see it for a classmate's 11th birthday in the early 80s!!

NoseyFarkers · 17/02/2025 19:20

Try Watership Down op, you'll realise how tame your previous watches have been then 😂

*Still shudder at WSD, decades later. Anyone else?