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?

Agreed it was always pretty grim.

I watched it with ds the other day and he genuinely thought it was going to be a gay romance film.

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.

It's surprising that an '80s film set in an elite U.S Navy pilot training school has only one woman? (Although aren't there at least two? Meg Ryan plays Goose's wife? And I think there might be another wife shown. It's been a while, but if I'd expect any film to be very much male dominated, it's Top Gun)

I think the woman in the film coped very well on discovering his age. You'd imagine sick and traumatised.

Grease has always been a bit off. And I think, for example, some of the lyrics must be ignored. For example Greased Lightning I've seen many times in gymnastic routines and displays!

Big is pretty hideous on rewatching.

Many 80s and 90s films are sadly.

I saw Grease when it came out in 1978 - I was 11 and I think it was a PG or an A?

A lot of it went completely over my head tbh, the pregnancy scare, Marty and pervy Vince Fontaine… Sandy’s leather outfit at the end. I just loved the songs and was in love with John Travolta.

Big now sits as a film that had a funny idea and was absolutely ruined by the need to put a romance into it.

They couldn't possibly remake it with the romance now. At least I doubt it!

Love actually and Bridget Jones

My ballet school did a Grease medley when I was about 7 or 8 (I'm nearly 36).

I found the video the other week and was gobsmacked at the fact that my (straight laced and upstanding community leader type) parents were not in the slightest bit arsed about their little girl high kicking about on a stage singing about pussy wagons and chicks creaming! 😱🙈😂

They revived it in 2019 as a musical, I remember it being talked about and I'm sure they kept the 'romance'

theatrevibe.co.uk/2019/09/19/review-big-the-musical-dominion-theatre/

We watched the nutty professor a couple of nights ago and it was awful the humour is very dated! Lots of awful 'jokes' about being overweight and the buddy love character is horrific!

And I turned off Basil the great mouse detective when in the first 15 seconds there was a vole doing burlesque. Which is not something I recall from childhood!

@AllPlayedOut

If I'd expect any film to be very much male dominated, it's Top Gun.

Exactly, the film is of it's time - US Navy didn't have a woman qualify to fly fighters off carriers until the mid-nineties, (and sadly she had a very short career).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Hultgreen#:~:text=Kara%20S.,to%20die%20in%20a%20crash.

@AllPlayedOut I didn't give Top Gun much thought before watching but assumed as there were so many men in it, there'd be more than 1 love interest.
Goose's wife is a minor character who's only on screen for a few minutes.
Overall I thought the film was rubbish tbh, but my point was more that DH watched it when a teen and didn't even notice that there's only 1 real female character until we watched it together.

Dirty Dancing is another that gets worse as you get older.
I remember watching it as a young teen and thought it was so romantic etc, then realised as I got older that the age difference alone made it gross.

Op, I thought you were talking about Big in SATC!

It was on TV the other day and I had the same kind of reactions! I loved it at the time, but found it really disturbing, especially here reaction to finding out he was really 12! Just shows how time moves on.

Grease was late 70s and when watching as a kid went over my head but yes it's pretty awful

Plus she asks hopefully if he’s about 16, suggesting that would be much better

Yes so did I, I’m bitterly disappointed now

But Big on SATC has also not aged well!

Anyone seen the Dirty Dancing last dance with the muppet theme behind it? I found it funny(did not spit out my tea or anything)

there's a really good article discussing how watching Big from his mum's POV bascially turns it into a horror movie:

www.theringer.com/2016/9/28/16045542/big-is-secretly-a-horror-movie-95d766715a7b

I love that! It means boys today can see what should be obvious 30 years ago but for some reason was not.

Why has Dirty Dancing aged badly? Ok, there's the age gap. But the film is about a woman's desire, and the man is the object of this desire. That's pretty refreshing.
And also about women helping each other.