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

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 17:10

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?

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BurntBroccoli · 17/02/2025 19:19

DopeyS · 17/02/2025 17:51

My parents took me to watch Jurassic Park when it came out. I worked it out the other day and I was 6 when I saw it in the cinema. I didn't sleep for a good few months after that. The kitchen scene was what did it for me. I was a sensitive kid though.

It very much depends on the kids. I found the Neverending Story scary too and still can't watch it with the swamp scene. Think it traumatised a generation 😂😂

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.

Goodnurseorgremlin · 17/02/2025 19:19

I've rewatched a few 80s films lately.

Both Teenwolf and Bill and Ted's excellent adventure use the word fag as an insult

Back to the future. When Biff has Marty's mum in the back of the car and is sexually assaulting her!

Still great films though.

ReadingParty · 17/02/2025 19:17

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'm 52 and watched a pirate copy of Driller Killer when on a sleepover in 1982, and haven't watched a horror film since!

Suzuki76 · 17/02/2025 19:16

There's a bit in Octopussy where Bond gives an Indian man a tip and says "That'll keep you in curry for a few weeks." DH and I were so shocked we laughed!

BurntBroccoli · 17/02/2025 19:15

@ItGhoul
Yes described as a comedy horror usually.

RafaistheKingofClay · 17/02/2025 19:15

TheChosenTwo · 17/02/2025 17:28

My youngest is now a teenager (13) and it’s a minefield sitting down to watch some of the old classics with him.
I went for a safe option the other night, trains planes and automobiles - all fine pretty much until Steve Martin goes off on a rampage and uses the word fucking about 20 times in a minute 😂
to be fair I don’t mind the odd bit of swearing in stuff and it was a 15 so my own fault!
But I do agree, and if anyone has any recommendations for any old classics to watch with nothing too hardcore I’m all ears.

I’d give four weddings a miss then although that’s a 15 too. 😂

Lemonyyy · 17/02/2025 19:14

My mum was a guide leader and did a movie night where they watched grease (having not watched it for ages and assumed it was as they remembered from their kid’s childhoods) and she was utterly mortified by the time the film finished! I honestly think a lot of stuff that would’ve gone over my head as a child does not go over the head of a 10 year old today either which makes watching a different experience….

thank you to the poster who suggested the film fly away home - I adored that movie when it came out and might watch it with my kids this weekend!

Wintershealing · 17/02/2025 19:14

Picklepower · 17/02/2025 19:12

I'm the op, so I very much know my intentions.

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I know, hence why I quoted you

Jellyfishnchips · 17/02/2025 19:13

Redheadedstepchild · 17/02/2025 18:20

I wonder what rating, "When The Wind Blows" had in the UK? Google is not being very helpful. That could have turned into a very distressing evening for those who tuned in or rented it from the video shop thinking it was similar to, "The Snowman."

Absolutely harrowing film (incredible but harrowing!) DEF not for kids! ☢️ 😵 💀

BurntBroccoli · 17/02/2025 19:12

TheChosenTwo · 17/02/2025 17:28

My youngest is now a teenager (13) and it’s a minefield sitting down to watch some of the old classics with him.
I went for a safe option the other night, trains planes and automobiles - all fine pretty much until Steve Martin goes off on a rampage and uses the word fucking about 20 times in a minute 😂
to be fair I don’t mind the odd bit of swearing in stuff and it was a 15 so my own fault!
But I do agree, and if anyone has any recommendations for any old classics to watch with nothing too hardcore I’m all ears.

Oh DS and I I just rewatched that just before Christmas! That scene is hilarious! Love the whole film.

SquawkerTexasRanger · 17/02/2025 19:12

Duckswaddle · 17/02/2025 17:47

🤣🤣🤣 I remember screeching “she’s a real pussy wagon” around the house when I was around 10 after watching Grease. I loved that film, didn’t even occur to me that it was rude.

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See also “you are supreme, the chicks’ll cream for grease lightning!” 🤣

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 19:12

Wintershealing · 17/02/2025 19:01

This thread wasn't intended to be light-hearted though going by the op and first posts. It's only "light-hearted" in retrospect when people disagree and they get called humourless, which is ironic because the "humourless found Home Alone funny/silly rather than "too much". 🤔

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I'm the op, so I very much know my intentions.

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alibongo5 · 17/02/2025 19:09

gettingtothebottomofit · 17/02/2025 18:23

All the sexual innuendo in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. There is an awful lot of children being instructed to rub knobs in that film.

😂😂

TempestTost · 17/02/2025 19:08

JandamiHash · 17/02/2025 19:03

I bet he just nicked it off someone. He was shit at the sports

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

ReadingParty · 17/02/2025 19:08

Cupcakes2035 · 17/02/2025 18:44

the goonies should be a safer one,
that said i was watching the terminator ones, Robocop, mortal Kombat, universal soldier in my early teens

Is the Goonies the one where they won't let the fat kid ('Chunk', predictably) come inside the house unless he pulls up his top and does a dance that makes all his torso fat wobble?

TempestTost · 17/02/2025 19:05

KimGa · 17/02/2025 18:52

Just rewatched Grease for the first time in years with my dd. There’s a lot wrong with it much as we love the songs.

Danny trying out school sports and getting a cardigan to get Sandy to notice him again is not comparable to the changes Sandy has to make for him. He’s embarrassed to be seen with her in front of his mates (because he thinks she’s uncool/uptight). She has to change everything about the way she dresses and acts (becoming racy and suggestive) to get him to be ok with being seen with him publicly.

He tries to push her further than she wants to go with him at the drive in. His gang of mates are constantly looking up girls skirts and being generally leacherous. Vince Fontain is a middle aged man and all over one of the school girls at the dance with no suggestion that it isn’t fine. I could go on!

You are supposed to think Vince is a lech, what do you mean you are supposed to think it is fine? Do you need the film to spell it out for you?

meganorks · 17/02/2025 19:05

Splash! Absolutely love it and thought DD would love a mermaid film.

Very first shot is a chubby boy looking up girls skirts on a boat (bad enough!). This opening bit is all in black and white and is where Tom Hanks' character is a kid and sees a mermaid. So to show the transition to current day? Now in colour, John Caddy's character is looking up womens skirts!!! A grown ass adult male!

Funkyslippers · 17/02/2025 19:03

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 👍

Yeah I grew up watching horrors too. Nothing really phases me on TV or film. My friend was telling me not to watch The Substance as apparently it's sick and disgusting. I want to watch it even more now!

I remember when I was around 10 in primary school the teacher was telling us about a film called Midnight Express that was very violent, shocking and totally unsuitable for children. I piped up "I've seen it!" My parents and I didn't know about age certificates for films!

JandamiHash · 17/02/2025 19:03

TempestTost · 17/02/2025 19:02

He earned a letter for being on a sports team. Usually that means you have to participate in a good number of the years games or competitions for whatever your sport is.

That was the point of all the scenes where he's trying to figure out what sport to do.

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I bet he just nicked it off someone. He was shit at the sports

TempestTost · 17/02/2025 19:02

JandamiHash · 17/02/2025 18:47

Does he though? He puts a new jacket on and says he’ll stop being a dick. Hardly a huge change

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He earned a letter for being on a sports team. Usually that means you have to participate in a good number of the years games or competitions for whatever your sport is.

That was the point of all the scenes where he's trying to figure out what sport to do.

KimGa · 17/02/2025 19:01

Wintershealing · 17/02/2025 18:55

But Grease was set in the 50s where this would have been normal. It's just different times I guess

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True, but when watching with my son and daughter now, there was so much that was wrong by todays standards and unchecked that it had to be followed by me delivering an impromptu pre lesson afterwards.

HardenYourHeart · 17/02/2025 19:01

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Oh, get a grip yourself. How much of a special snowflake are you, that you can't appreciate a bit of humor?

Wintershealing · 17/02/2025 19:01

Picklepower · 17/02/2025 18:01

Wow, I forgot it's MN so I have put light-hearted in the title to keep the no-sense-of-humour Mnetters out

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This thread wasn't intended to be light-hearted though going by the op and first posts. It's only "light-hearted" in retrospect when people disagree and they get called humourless, which is ironic because the "humourless found Home Alone funny/silly rather than "too much". 🤔

Alltheyearround · 17/02/2025 18:58

AInightingale · 17/02/2025 18:16

TV but Grange Hill was bloody shocking back in the day with the kids throwing racist insults at each other, at shopkeepers etc.

It was one we were forbidden from watching as school age kids. Mum thought it was dire, and would pollute our minds and tbf it probably would have done.

Redheadedstepchild · 17/02/2025 18:57

JC03745 · 17/02/2025 18:47

-Dark Crystal

-Never Ending Story was the 1st film I recall seeing in a cinema when I was about 6 and absolutely loved it. Watching it as an adult, the laser eyes which can kill you and Artax, the horse dying in the swamp of sadness were really traumatic!

-Return to Oz. The weird talking heads in jars and the women replacing her head all the time, planning electrotherapy on Dorothy and those creepy wheeler things 😱

Ah, poor Artex. I think Noah Hathaway as Atreyu was my first childhood crush. Very strange film all round but intelligent, I'll give it that. I tried to read the original novel translated from German but I think I gave up. It was sort of in the same category as trying to read the original Wizard of Oz book.