Page 17 | To be shocked watching back kids movies from my childhood with DD

cheseandme · 17/02/2025 18:44

NovemberMorn · 17/02/2025 18:39

It's a great film with great music.
If you dissect almost any film, nursery rhyme, fairy story, cartoon, and you are looking to be offended, you will always find something to offend.🙄

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Totally agree 👍

Redheadedstepchild · 17/02/2025 18:44

Orangebadger · 17/02/2025 18:29

@Redheadedstepchild I have never watched Gremlins bizarrely!

Oh please do! It's rather good! Although when I got my chihuahua puppy the, "Don't get it wet!" jokes were a plenty.

Porcelainpig · 17/02/2025 18:43

SunsetCocktails · 17/02/2025 18:32

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

I was 9 when it was released on video, I remember the Friday night excitement when we went to Blockbuster and it was in stock 😆 Can't beat being a child of the 80s. There were no boundaries 😂

Some of the shit you could rent from the video shop was nuts abd really depraved. I was subjected to all sorts of horror movies at a young age and hate them now. Nobody cared about the age certifications. Never understood slasher movies.

Of course there used to be things like the joy of sex/how to shag films and soft porn disguised at a movie (that Michael Douglas used to always get his arse out on) that a lot of the older looking kids would rent out for a viewing and everyone used to collectively laugh at.

Dizzybob · 17/02/2025 18:43

In Beethoven where the mum just point blank refuses to rejoin the workforce. It just seemed really dated.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 17/02/2025 18:43

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.

Grange Hill put the far of god into me over going to big school. I was convinced I would be beaten up daily and become a prolific shoplifter/heroin addict all before half term. Even if all I had to do was Just Say No.

TheNinny · 17/02/2025 18:43

MsAnnFrope · 17/02/2025 18:41

Watched Ghostbusters with DD - the scary bits were fine but keeping a straight face when the ghost starts going down on one of the ghostbusters is as a struggle. I don’t remember that at all but honestly I probably didn’t realise what a blowjob was when I watched it last! Dd11 was delightfully oblivious

Same! watched it recently and cringed at that bit as well. Think it was only a PG when released in the cinema

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 18:42

Pedallleur · 17/02/2025 18:32

The nail through the foot of the thief who may kill the boy in the house they are trying to rob? My sympathy is not with the Wet Bandits.

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I don't think anyone was talking about sympathy

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MsAnnFrope · 17/02/2025 18:41

Watched Ghostbusters with DD - the scary bits were fine but keeping a straight face when the ghost starts going down on one of the ghostbusters is as a struggle. I don’t remember that at all but honestly I probably didn’t realise what a blowjob was when I watched it last! Dd11 was delightfully oblivious

DreamySloth · 17/02/2025 18:41

NovemberMorn · 17/02/2025 18:39

It's a great film with great music.
If you dissect almost any film, nursery rhyme, fairy story, cartoon, and you are looking to be offended, you will always find something to offend.🙄

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Oh haha I said the same thing. Didn’t read full thread. Sorry!

User79853257976 · 17/02/2025 18:41

Yeah it’s sad because I look forward to the nostalgia and then notice all the bits I don’t want kids exposed to. There is racism in the original Aladdin, in Toy Story they are always telling each other to shut up and saying stupid etc.

JandamiHash · 17/02/2025 18:41

I rewatched Pinocchio with DD when she was a toddler. I hadn’t realised that it was basically about child sex trafficking!!

DreamySloth · 17/02/2025 18:40

Hazel665 · 17/02/2025 17:25

When I watched Grease for the first time in about 30 years, I was horrified by the way they treated Eugene.

I love Grease but the whole moral of the story of changing who you are (smoking, becoming promiscuous) to get a man is abysmal. And definitely agree, hopefully Eugene wound up being their boss somehow.

InWalksBarberalla · 17/02/2025 18:40

I do wonder if the children being shielded from the horrors of the films we watched regularly in our childhood will grow up to be more or less tedious than their parents.

DurinsBane · 17/02/2025 18:39

InvisibilityCloakActivated · 17/02/2025 18:07

Not a kiddie film, but Ace Ventura hasn't aged well. I loved it as a teen, but watched it a while ago and thought the end was quite shocking - Ace (& the entire police force) vomiting and crying at the thought of kissing a man!

That is most of MN though, they react the same way to a trans person 😁

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 18:39

BusyExpert · 17/02/2025 18:33

you watched these films with such truly appalling language and yet you grew up to be a truly fine person. How did you manage it? You must have an exceptionally strong moral compass.
what a star you are!

I've repeatedly said I don't have a problem with it and it's a light-hearted thread.

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NovemberMorn · 17/02/2025 18:39

Justploddingonandon · 17/02/2025 17:30

I never understood why people thing Greese is a family show. Quite apart from the whole teenage pregnancy storyline, I hate the message it gives when Sandy basically totally changes herself to get the boy.

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It's a great film with great music.
If you dissect almost any film, nursery rhyme, fairy story, cartoon, and you are looking to be offended, you will always find something to offend.🙄

DurinsBane · 17/02/2025 18:37

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?

The rumour is that a PG is allowed one F bomb, so it could have been worse than Bitch 🤣

localnotail · 17/02/2025 18:35

Hahahahaaa when I was little (around 4-5 maybe?) my mum took me to watch Italian film called Bingo Bongo with Adriano Celentano. He was playing this guy who was raised by monkeys in the jungle, and fell in love (mutually, of course) with this hot scientist researching him. Lots of innuendo and even one scene where he is breastfeeding (yes, really). Highly inappropriate, my dad was furious. I still remember bits of it! Cant bring myself to watch it though, love Celentano but most of his films are crap.

Jennyathemall · 17/02/2025 18:34

H34th · 17/02/2025 18:19

We watched Honey I shrank the Kids. Pretty sure the rating was U as I always check.
The teenagers were properly kissing and flirting throughout.
And the neighbour dad was berating his child all the time.

Gosh!

BusyExpert · 17/02/2025 18:33

you watched these films with such truly appalling language and yet you grew up to be a truly fine person. How did you manage it? You must have an exceptionally strong moral compass.
what a star you are!

JudgeJ · 17/02/2025 18:33

GingerLiberalFeminist · 17/02/2025 17:15

I rewatched Home Alone last year and frankly found myself shocked and wincing at the amount of violence inflicted on the wet bandits 😂

Sadly, I watched Home Alone 2, the one in New York, and Donald Trump actually speaks to Kevin in a hotel, poor child was probably traumatised!
I wonder how many children watch these films without noticing these things that offend 21st century adults,

Pedallleur · 17/02/2025 18:32

Picklepower · 17/02/2025 17:25

Yes, the nail through the foot!

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The nail through the foot of the thief who may kill the boy in the house they are trying to rob? My sympathy is not with the Wet Bandits.

SunsetCocktails · 17/02/2025 18:32

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

I was 9 when it was released on video, I remember the Friday night excitement when we went to Blockbuster and it was in stock 😆 Can't beat being a child of the 80s. There were no boundaries 😂

Orangebadger · 17/02/2025 18:29

@Redheadedstepchild I have never watched Gremlins bizarrely!

Vimaybe · 17/02/2025 18:28

I watched Snow White (the original animated Disney version) with my 3yo. How did I not remember the bit about the Queen requesting her heart in a box as evidence of her death or when she's cakling about Snow White being buried alive 🤔