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

Before Joe Pesci dies, I'd give absolutely anything for an 18-rated Home Alone sequel where the Wet Bandits have one more shot at Kevin, and he rigs that massive house up with a bunch of Saw-esque deathtraps.

DS7 LOVES all the 80's stuff...his favourite ever movies are Never Ending Story, Labyrinth, Ghostbusters, Tron, Back to the Future, he watched all the Jurrasic Park/World movies from about 3, plus all the Harry Potters. He loves movies and theatre though and has never been scared as he knows they're not real. DD4 also asks for Labyrinth (Baby and the Goblins movie) They saw Wicked at the cinema at Christmas at 6 and 3, sat beautifully and neither of them phased in the slightest. I just think different kids...I would never watch a horror/scary movie but we all love fantasy.

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

We all survived, and no one was shocked or traumatised.

We've gone way too far and treat all the kids like babies until they are 18.

My son asked me that when he was about 7 on the bus! I cheated and told him it was an airline!

I kind of think this is true about kids films now. A lot of them are really bad.

He earned a letterman jacket that could only be given through hard work when he joined the track team. He even said that he’d been running while the rest of the t birds were out stealing hubcaps. So I’ve always viewed it that he was the one who put the effort in, which she literally just changed clothes

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!

He changes himself to get the girl too.

Lots of delicate sensitivities on this thread! Huge issues with Grease 😂😂😂 Home Alone too violent 🤭 And there's me taking Grease to be a fun film with fabulous music depicting a former era, and Home Alone as farce. Some people appear to have no joy in their souls! Must be awful to see problems wherever you look.

I used to watch Grease loads as a kid/teen.

Most of it went completely over my head. As it would anyone else under a certain age.

Therefore in that respect, they're all harmless.
It only becomes disturbing when you watch it all as an adult and realise what some of it actually meant.

It might have been because his whole personality involved being a dick. But the change only last for 2.5 seconds so we'll never know.

The mum was great in Schitt's Creek though. 😃

fair points

I know but as an adult I struggle to find one likeable character in HA, other than Marley.

-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 😱

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

gremlins, father gets stuck down the chimney, so my dc realised there was no father christmas

I think it's a bit deeper than that really - Which I realized sounds crazy for a bit of a silly movie but I think it's true.

Danny also makes changes to be with Sandy - more substantial ones in some ways, he does a lot of work joining a sports team to earn a letter. Rather than just a change of clothes.

Ultimately I think the point was, when they met, they were outside all of the social conventions, they really connected as individuals. But when they were back in normal society, all the expectations of their cliques became an issue - Sandy's take on things is in it's own way as distorted as Danny's, her version of the story isn't totally reliable either.

In the end, they both decide in their own way that they can live within the social conventions they can't change, in part because those aren't really the important thing.

You get a similar theme of outward presentation vs inward truth with the pregnancy story, and Rizzo's attitude in general - she puts on an act but is also trying hard to be authentic and hates others being inauthentic.

but he was trying to be the good one

Yes we do. Dont we?! Mandela effect?

Actually I do have a bit of sympathy with them because I now find Kevin to be a pain in the arse 😬.

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

Drop Dead Fred was my absolute favourite film when I was about 6. I watched it all the time. I've no idea what my mum was thinking!

The only one that shocked me was rewatching The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I loved it when I was little. I hadn't remembered how dark it was. That totally went over my head when I was a kid.

That is one of my favourite movies scenes. DH and I often refer to cars as “4 fucking wheels and a seat”