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

Teenagers swearing and drinking bothered you?

What did you think about the naked teenage girl being eaten by a shark and her naked body being found bitten in half and the description?

In a film about a killer shark on the loose, eating people.

It was rated as an "A" when it came out - a PG today

"Jaws was classified ‘A’, uncut, by the BBFC in 1975. This was the equivalent of ‘PG’ today, and was the subject of some debate at the BBFC at the time, as it was recognised that the work contained some intense and frightening ‘horror‘ moments. The BBFC considered that the film would have an enormous appeal to boys of 10 or 11 upwards, and it consulted child psychiatrists and showed the film to test audiences of children before deciding on the ‘A‘ category. Also, Jaws was one of the first films to be given content advice. Part of the terms of its classification was that a sign should be displayed in cinema foyers, saying 'Parents are warned that this film contains sequences which may be particularly disturbing to younger unaccompanied children"

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/centre-for-law-society-and-popular-culture/projects/classified/the-exhibits/jaws

We tried to watch Home Alone 2 this Christmas and had to turn off. It wasn't the slapstick violence as such but the language- too many insults and name calling. Also the movie clip where a man kills a woman and calls her a filthy animal, the general lying, the sibling fighting.
Not our idea of fun.

lol me and my brother used to quote this to each other when I was younger! Too young 😂

I find the violence in Home Alone to be like cartoon Tom and Jerry violence. I grew up watching Tom and Jerry, and Bottom, so I loved comedy violence

It was a PG when on VHS. It used to be shown on the TV afternoon or early evening.

@StMarie4me completely appreciate that and I didn't except all sunshine and rainbows. I was shocked as I was a huge Disney fan as a child but clearly some of these finer details had gone over me. That or I'm made of stone 😂

OMG began watching Raiders of the Lost Ark with my teens. First they were disgusted by the racist portrayal of 'natives' . Then Marion says he took advantage of her when she was a child. And we switched it off.

I rewatched Liar Liar the other day as I remember loving it as a 9/10 year old. I have no idea why 😂 the first thing Jim Carey does when he can't lie is tell a woman she's got big jugs he wants to squeeze, not Tom mention he calls his ex wife to say he can't come to their son's birthday as a woman is on top undressing him.

I wanted to try The Mask or Ace Ventura with my primary age kids but think I may hold off!

The Steve Martin many fucks scene in Planes, Trains and Automobiles is an excellent scene for children, within reason. They almost certainly know of the word anyway whether you like it or not. Don't forget the end of the scene, where the airport woman says, "oh dear... You're fucked".

It is a good example of suffering the consequence of one's actions as the woman would probably been more inclined to help him if he had kept a civil tongue in his head. That's a teaching moment.

Plus, it's really fucking funny.

Can’t speak as to the UK, but in the US, at least, “retard” has never been a correct term and has always been considered insulting, though “retarded” hasn’t (provided it was being used to describe a person actually diagnosed with mental retardation).

(points to username)

It’s definitely a slur in the US, though it was considered less so during the 2000s. That was the same era when people said “that’s so gay” to mean “that’s so stupid.”

I’ve never heard anyone use “crippled” for a living person. Maybe for fictional characters like Tiny Tim.

My kids just got into the movie “Ratatouille.” I forgot that Remy (the rat) literally gets shot at by an old lady. Also, I feel like the whole plotline of Linguini being the son Gusteau never knew he had is kind of adult. They literally collect hair samples and run a paternity test.

Re: ET and “penis breath” - my husband and I talked once about how we interpreted that line as kids. I just thought, “Why would someone’s breath smell like a penis? That doesn’t make sense. Huh.” My husband thought it meant someone’s breath smelling like sweaty genitals, because sweat smells bad.

Honestly, try Thumbelina. I remembered it so fondly then I played it for DD. Talk about problematic...

Blue lagoon, we had it on tape such a weird disturbing movie

NRTFT but I remember some years ago an MNer being utterly horrified when she was reading the Harry Potters to her child when the word "Git" was said by Ron.

I remember posting that she should stop now as the language would get worse, not least Ron calling Malfoy a bastard in the final book!

Kids are better hearing this stuff and being taught context at home than when they are at school.

The first f-word broadcast on UK TV was Kenneth Tynan in 1963 (although Miriam Margoles said it by accident earlier).

Ok I just had to double check and Snopes say it is definitely is
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-rescuers-topless/

Yep the pussy wagon in grease went over my head until I was an adult.Watership down was really bloody scary!! The flasher gremlin!! David Bowie wanting a child bride in labyrinth,legend and never ending story traumatised some kids lol.
Andre is a lovely film about a girl and a seal we all loved as a family.

The scene where Elliot says it was an unexpected surprise for the lady who plays his mum. I remember seeing an interview with her (think it was an anniversary event). Rather than reshooting the scene Spielberg loved the way she looked and was indeed very shocked but also how she kept her composure and finished the scene 😆

I remember it being shown at school and one of the kids saying there was a naked woman in one scene for a split second and no one believed her. But it turned out to be true 😆

Omg! A 5 year-old drew barrymore says penis-breath in the first 5 minutes of e.t. I took my kids to see this wholesome u at the cinema for it's anniversary age 5 and 7. I nearly choked and was so stressed the rest of the film. Can't believe they allowed this on a u. Super shocking.

What about Top Gun, where he follows her into the toilets like a stalker?

My kids adored Grease. It was the dancing. They had a sound track tape and played it every lunch time at school and made up dances - to be put forward for performances at school assembly. Ha ha ha.
They did the same with Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid.
They loved Little Rascals, The Simpsons.

I liked The Sound of Music, Kimba the White Lion and Snow White. I also loved Lassie and ALL the DisneyLand films like - The Three Lives of Thomasina and Pollyanna.

Another one I watched and realised Peter was a total cunt. If he was my kid I’d tell him to fuck off to never never land as well

Disney’s Peter Pan.

The sexism, the way all the female characters want Peters attention and are all jealous of each other.

The creepiness of Peter sneaking into children’s bedrooms at night to kidnap them.

The way Tinkerbell is portrayed in general.

And of course the racism.