Films you see differently as an adult...

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I presume this has been done before but fuck it, it's Saturday night and I'm bored. So I'll start...

Mrs Doubtfire. As a child I saw Miranda as a boring, stuck up cow. As an adult I see her as a successful, independent woman exasperated with her man child husband who gives me The Ultimate Ick. And then some. I'm gobsmacked she ever married him. Stuart was a capable, equal partner not the villain I once thought him to be. Anyone else?

Completely agree! I loved the theme music (brass band, but just voices), and Geraldine James was perfect as Lady Maude. “Yes Blott - I’m telling you orph!”

The book is definitely a laugh-out-loud one too 😂

I watched as a teenager, but I’d watch it all over again now for sure - and hopefully it wouldn’t feel too dated 🤞

Oops should have used “quote” not “reply” 🤦🏻‍♀️
That Blot on the Landscspe reference was for @TomPinch

The parent trap shocked me as an adult, I just couldn’t get over how you could leave one of your children, to never see them again and be pretty blase when they turn up at your house having switched with their sister.

the hunch back of Norte Dame, the Disney version is gross how much it refers to sex and Frollo just being a total creep to Esmeralda.

Absolutely hilarious book - and there series was great too 👌

I loved the ending,"Thank you Adolf"!

Annie - I feel sorry for Mrs. Hannigan with all of those girls. I'd be a raging alcoholic too.

Beethoven - as a child I thought that the dad was so unreasonable for not wanting the dog. As an adult there's no bloody way! He gave in far too easily ha ha!

Once more, a film set in the early 60s (Dirty Dancing) or the 1950s (Grease) is not a film about NOW. A sixteen year old half a century ago is NOT like a teenager now.

In the US median age of marriage in 1960 was 20. Aretha Franklin had two children by the age of sixteen. Jerry Lee Lewis married a 13 year old and Elvis met Priscilla when she was 14. Whether this is right or not, it is a fact that teenagers marrying and giving birth was widespread and socially accepted in most countries fifty years ago.

When I was born in the 1970s well over half of my peers had teenage mothers almost all of whom were married when they gave birth. My mother was told she was over the hill when still single at 21. One in 4 women in the UK in the mid 70s was married by 20.

Nobody making a film about the 50s/60s in the 70s/80s would have considered a 16/17 year old a minor in the way we do now.

Also want to point out that the DD writer Eleanor Bergstein based the story on her own childhood dancing in holiday camps like the one in DD so it's hardly a flight of fantasy.

I loved that film as a teenager, I found it disturbing and erotic (teenage girl hormones). I must make a point of watching it again to see how I’d view it now.

God me too. As a teen I thought Pattie was totally unfair for wanting to know who her 15 year old was seeing and where she was going. Now as a mum, my perspective has completely changed.

She's 18. Mount Holyoke is a university, which is where she was due to start after the holiday.

Also, it's funny no one ever mentions Neil when they discuss inappropriateness. He's as old as Johnny and given the green light by her parents to pursue Baby. Simply because he's from the 'right' kind of family and has the 'right' job.

Exactly this. Team Miranda as an adult.

Although this may all be true, it doesn’t make it right or ok. Yes we can judge it less harshly, but we can still discuss how crazy it seems and makes us feel. It also used to be more acceptable to make racist jokes. People didn’t mean to be nasty, but it did still upset people. 16 year olds are still vulnerable and there’s a reason there were moves to try and stop teenager motherhood.

No, she says the worst thing she could do is 'cry in front of you'

@badbaduncle
That's a heartbreaking life.

Risky Business!

Growing up in the 80s I thought this film was about as cool as you could get. Loved itZ

As the Mum of teens where do I begin?!

yeh that was my understanding. He saved her after a badly performed abortion.

Splash - John Candy’s character looking up women’s skirts. Yuck!

Also, it's funny no one ever mentions Neil when they discuss inappropriateness. He's as old as Johnny and given the green light by her parents to pursue Baby. Simply because he's from the 'right' kind of family and has the 'right' job.

Exactly. The Hausmans didn't mind Baby having feelings as long as it was for the 'right' type - not the hired help.

Has anybody mentioned ''falling down'' with michael douglas. saw it at about 20 or whenever it came out, i was young and free and thought he was a cantankerous asshole. Maybe he was. But I saw the film twenty years later and I suddenly got it.

Also, East is East. I laughed so much the first time I saw it but the second time I saw it I thought wow, jokes aside this is really sad, one tyrant ruining all of his children's lives.

My aunt married in the 50s when she was seventeen (and not pregnant). That would be almost unheard of today.

Not read the whole thread so sorry if this has been said.

But, Willy and Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, the original film. Man oh man, Grandpa Joe.

Seeing it as an adult I'm like Grandpa Joe, you are a scumbag. The fact he only comes to the realisation that buying himself pipe tobacco is selfish after his grandson has to get a job and buy a loaf of bread to have with their daily bowl of cabbage water.

The audacity at not saying to the poor, slaving mum "no, honestly, you work really hard at the laundry and looking after all of us, you take the +1 and go to the Chocolate factory. Have a lovely day, you deserve it." No, suddenly the malingerer jumps out of bed and starts dancing about claiming it's his golden ticket.

Then, THEN, they're at the factory and he encourages his grandson to drink the fizzy lifiting drink, not only jeopardising Charlie's chance at winning the Grand Prize, but also putting his life in danger and potentially starting Charlie off on a life of crime.

Then right at the end when Willy Wonka confronts Charlie about his theft of fizzy lifting drink, does Grandpa Joe encourage Charlie to apologise??? NO HE DOESN'T. He tells him to betray Willy and take his everlasting gobstopper (which was a kind gift from Mr Wonka) to his rival, Slugworth.

Pure scumbag.

I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned Leon: The professional. Just thinking about how inappropriate it is gives me the creeps.

It is now illegal - or at least it will be from February 2023.

Totally agree about Love, Actually. I am perplexed by people who love it. I find it so depressing. All the realistic relationships end up in disaster and the ones that are ridiculous are unrealistic are the ones where everyone is 'happy'
Blurgh!

Willy Wonka is such a great film. I love all the little bits where everyone is going crazy trying to find the golden tickets, and the