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

Also, I remember I sent my little brother (around 11 I think) to go and rent The Lost Boys for me from the local video shop (was called Marchesi). They called the house to check with me if it was ok. Of course I said yes! 😂 The answer would have been very different had my parents answered!

My DS and friend watched the original Ghostbusters while friend was playing over. They were about 7. I did check with the mum and she said there was a suspect scene with Sigourney Weaver but on the whole she was happy for him to watch it. There was a bit of swearing here and there but the scene the mum was referring to was when Weaver's character gets possessed and is writhing about in a black negligee demanding that Bill Murray's character is "in" her! 🤦🏿‍♀️😂 Thankfully it went right over the boys' head!
My DP is desperate to get DS to see films that he enjoyed as a child. I think they also started on Trains, Planes and Automobiles but the swearing was a bit much. He also tried The Woman in Black when DS was about 8/9 and the poor boy was traumatised! He also wanted him to watch Trading Places - I think I watched this when I was in junior school 😳 - my mum wasn't that fussed with ratings but I put my foot down with that one. I haven't seen it for years, I wonder if it's aged well - I doubt it! Now we tend to stick with anime - although some are highly sexualised!
My DP has also suggested Grease but he's not allowed to suggest films anymore 😂

This country is regressing into Victorian times.
How uptight some are. Should we be allowing women to work in case they are exposed to swearing? Should we allow men to see our ankles?
It's rather pathetically sad

They were of their time. Things have moved on. 😊

Why were you watching it at 5 years old?

@Washinghanginginthesun thank you yes that's a good point!

Yeah, I'm not sure how that translates into it hasn't "aged well". It's a quite nice film about a dark subject that it treats realistically.

Reading threads like this my impression is a lot of people don't want bad things to happen in films unless the villain is cartoonishly 100% a baddie, and is punished by getting struck by lightening or something.

You are right PG did not exist.
The ratings were U, A, AA and X.

Grease was given an A category which meant children from 5 years old could legally see the film, but it was not recommended viewing for anyone under 14 years of age.

Not wanting to derail your thread, but I'm sure that when I was about 8 my Mum took me to our nearest city to see a film about the Black Death, where they were going round painting crosses on doors and shouting "Bring out your dead"! I'm over eighty now and still remember bits of it. What was she thinking?

It’s a PG and still is.

the 12 classification didn’t even exist till 1989 and has never applied to Grease

I went to the cinema to see it when I was 4. My little sister was 2.

Probably 15+. Apart from anything else I think a younger age might find it a bit dull.

What age?

What she would you say Forrest Gump is suitable for? Great film but I've forgotten a lot of it.

Oh dear, I was a rebel when I was a child in 80s Ireland with 2 channels 😂. I was 10 when I first watched Jaws on tv, apart from it being scary I was fascinated by sharks. To this day my old childhood friends won’t swim in the sea, I scuba dive intentionally with sharks 😊

We have all turned out alright after watching all of these films haven’t we... so what makes you now think our kids won’t?

The world really has gone WOKE!

Just enjoy it for what it is and was and don’t watch it if you don’t like it, it’s simple as, it was innocent back then and we didn’t think twice, don’t pick every single thing out and try and dissect it and I’m sure everyone will be fine…. :)

Even more inappropriately, I was 14 or 15 when that film came out and massively fancied the Sheriff (and still do to be honest) despite that!

I remember being terrified watching Ghostbusters in the late 80s - that bloody ghost in the library! For years I’d leave the room when I knew that scene was coming.

We tentatively showed the film to our 2 (10 and 8) last year. I warned them and said if they wanted to stop at any stage we could. Well the little feckers just laughed at that scene and said “Was that it?!”. I guess the special effects don’t hold up that well 🤣

DD and her friend used to recite Misery word for word.
DD did a brilliant Kathy Bates impression 😂
They were about 13

Me & my friend were 13 too.

Wow I never knew this! My parents were quite strict with films and ratings when I was a kid, but I remember watching gremlins when I was primary school aged. I thought Gizmo was adorable but when the evil gremlins emerged I was terrified and crying.

Mum and dad seemed to think this was hilarious. It was a family joke for years. I'm actually really shocked they let me watch it now that I know it was a 15 at the time. I wonder if they knew it was a 15?

You can check why a film has a certain rating on the Certification site. I'd also recommend looking on IMDB as it will have parental advice about content. Also watch movies on a Sunday afternoon CH5 is best. They cut scenes to make them U. We watched Three Men and a Little Lady without the penis scene and other dubious references such as "not so fine as your mighty erections I'd imagine".

One of my standout memories of my late dad, is buying a video player (I'm circa 1975) probably in the late 80s. Taking me, I was about 13 at the time and my younger brother, to the video rental shop. Renting out Robocop and letting us watch it. He had no idea about video certificates and a 15 rated Horror as well. My mum wasn't too chuffed 😂

When my daughters were 16 they wanted to watch The Exorcist.
Was happy for them to see it (let’s face it I saw it in the cinema aged 14 🙄) so I bough a dvd on EBay.
The ONLY thing they complained about was the bad language ….

Gremlins is not a children's film. I thought it was too and then rewatched it recently, and realised it definitely isn't, it's quite scary and very violent! I forgot!!!!