Well, Big has not aged that well…

[Cotherstone]

Watching it with DD(10) after finding it in a charity shop, and I do NOT remember half of the stuff in it 😮

The casual use of “bullshit”, comment on a woman that “If you even say hello to her, she’ll wrap her legs around you so tight you’ll beg for mercy”, not to mention the female lead asking for a sleepover and Tom Hanks’ character saying “Sure, but I want to be on top…”

Any other films ruined introducing them to your kids?

Aw I have fond memories of Big. Its a film of its time though I guess.

Also, the small detail that a fully grown woman shags a 12 year old in it! And she isn't even that traumatised when she finds out, she just says something like 'that explains it', presumably in reference to his poor performance!

Still a great film though, I must have watched it hundreds of times as a kid!

Yes, that's the bit that has stopped me showing it to my kids (who otherwise are pretty well versed in 80s and 90s classics).

I remembered that bit but the rest is pretty surprising! Luckily most of it is going over DD’s head

Grease is a good example of a film that has themes that haven’t aged well, for sure!

We did Retro Sunday during lockdown and introduced our kids to loads of 'classics', I think Moneypit shocked me most, horrible rapey stuff, passed off as humour.

I thought that Grease was questionable when I saw it first time around. I never understood why no-one else could see how problematic it was. Not many 80s films have aged well at all.

I watched Grease at Christmas. I loved that film as a teenager! Now I think its..."problematic".

I'll add Love Actually.

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Tom cruise has aged a heck of a lot better than top gun has…

I used to love Big but we watched it a few years ago as DH had never seen it. I had somehow forgotten a child sleeps with a grown woman - can't watch it now.

DH and I watched Top Gun a few nights ago too. I'd never seen it before and DH hasn't watched it for years. We were about halfway through when he realised there's only 1 woman in it which was a bit surprising.

I think a lot of 80s films have aged badly but they're also good to show to kids (of an appropriate age) the way things have moved on.

I remembered the Moneypit as being one of the funniest films ever, but watched it a few months back and it was… OK.

Well in defence of Big she doesn't know he's 12 till further in.

There's another 80s film that I can't think of the name of.
He basically gets her drunk and has sex ( rape) with her.
I think it's Anthony Michael Hall and it happens in a car.

Isn’t the ‘I’ll be on top’ reference to bunk beds?

I thought this was going to be about Big Cook, Little Cook.

The film was 16 candles,and that part was seen as funny and ok.
he even got hi fived from other characters.

He means the bunk beds, but the joke is that she thinks he means during sex.

Does anyone know what age Grease was aimed at originally? We watched it while waiting to perform at a school concert with lots of small acts (bit like a talent show). I’d have been about 12. I

I've never liked Big, even as a child I found it really creepy.

I think Dirty Dancing is one people view differently as they age.

That's sixteen candles. Definitely hasn't aged well

Wait wtf???

DH and I watched High Fidelity last night.

We we’re both shocked at what a total arsehole John Cusack’s character has become since we last saw it, and what a rapey little bastard he was as a teenager. Awful.

I never liked Grease but I always felt like the weirdo at school. I’m glad the world has caught up.

I watched Big with my DC who are 12 and 9. It didn't age well at all.

Top gun, on the other hand, they found hilarious. All that men covered in oil under orange lighting. They just laughed at it.
(And I noticed that the only woman in it has a man's name, Charlie! It's a seriously homoerotic film)