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?

Definitely agree about Grandpa @HoldMyLatte.

Rewatching Grease I also realised how the t birds were horrible bullies to Eugene. (As well as misogynistic and rapey).

Can't believe no one has never been kissed. Where Josie's brother pretends to be a teenager so he can join high school and ends up dating another student. And then gets a job as a coach at the end.

Definitely bend it like Beckham too.

Dead Poets Society

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.

Yes, it was very mixed indeed - some parts hilarious and others appallingly sad. If the mum hadn't been so strong, the dad would have had carte blanche to completely take over.

That said, we first saw it at the cinema and, right at the very end, the (grown) man in front of us stood up to go and we saw to our great amusement that he was wearing a scruffy old parka, pretty much exactly like Sajid wore in the film!!

Mary Poppins is a lovely film. It was interesting to see Saving Mr Banks and then seeing Mary Poppins again - to think about what the actual films is about. Definitely different perspective compared to being young.

He actually gets to spend time with his family instead of just thinking about work. Mary Poppins does indeed save Mr Banks.

@anonacfr There was an article someone posted on this thread that shows Baby was 18, and Jonny 24.

How old are Baby and Johnny in Dirty Dancing?
The movie is set in 1963, and Baby is 18, while Jonny is 24.

www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11613719/dirty-dancing-baby-age-facts/

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit Re the band thing and the racism - totally correct for the period in the 1950's in which it was set. See also the worker in the diner who ends up becoming Mayor Goldie Wilson. Neither integral to the plot, but both included to show just how far things had changed in the 30 years between 1955 and 1985.

A shorter time, in fact, than between 1985 and now. So it is hardly surprising that things have moved on further still.

I love Sleepless in Seattle - but I think that nowadays, someone would be sacked for what Annie did.

She used her contacts to get his name, address and phone number. Definite break of data protection law. (maybe even in the USA?)

Uses her work to get a private investigator to take pictures.

Oh - and if my underage DS took a flight to New York, I would try to contact the airline to hold him at New York and then go and get him. And there would be consequences for the mum who allowed her daughter to hack the booking system.

However, the ending is great though.

No. It wasn’t. It was just that we took things at face value in some of the wonderful 80s films. We didn’t set out to find something sinister or nasty, misogynistic, or as one poster put it ‘rapey’. FFS we just enjoyed them for what they were. Why can’t others ?

Not a film, but the TV series "Bewitched". I used to love it. I remember my dad saying to me that if he was married to someone with magical powers he would think it was amazing, and wouldn't try to stop her doing magic. I didn't really get what he meant.

Watched it recently, and I just couldn't believe the misogyny of it. Samantha can do amazing things, and her horrible husband spends his time repressing her for no good reason whatsoever, telling her off for this and that. He discourages her from being with her mum. And the really sad thing is Samantha adores him. Then they have a child and the dick head husband sets about repressing her too.

Agree re Brief Encounter, Trevor Howards character comes across as a man with the eye for the main chance rather than someone who fell hopelessly in love.

What I've noticed in a lot of 80s/90s films like basic instinct, fatal attraction, single white female, disclosure, the temp etc is that whenever they want to portray a "psycho" woman, they always portray her as being very sexual. As if only psychotic, crazy women enjoy no holds barred sex. In both SWF and the temp they shock horror showed them masturbating, as if only mentally unhinged women do that. On the other hand, the sane, "good girls" are far more reserved and would never do anything like that! Of course, men in films who embrace their sexuality are lauded as heroes eg. James Bond. I wonder why they are so utterly terrified of women who enjoy sex?

That's the whole point of the story.

Another “team husband in Brief Encounter” here.

very few more grown-up lines than “Thank you for coming back to me”

I could flirt with all the guys, smile at them and bat my eyes, press against them when we dance, make them think they stand a chance then refuse to see it through, that's a thing I'd never do...

Do you think he knew 'where she went"?

Or did he have no idea?

Jaws….those two blokes who try and catch the stark with his wife’s Sunday roast joint from the pier. The chain is really long, yet by the time they get the the shore the pier is just behind them, meaning the stark would be in front of them….

*shark

Romeo and Juliet… romantic?

now I think: those poor parents

Ted.
Thought it was hilarious when I first saw it but watched it again and omg the misogyny!
And "Ted" groping a woman's breast and she laughs as if its the most hilarious thing ever.
Grim.

Grease
Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman
Back to the future
Rocky

Saturday night fever . I d never seen it until last year as a musical at the theatre.
I came out and said wow:
gang rape of Angie which is brushed aside as she is friend zoned. Then Tony rapes Stephanie she runs away and at the end he comes to her door and she shrugs her shoulders and lets him in .

It is a me too movement, film would never get made now

“Do you think he knew 'where she went"?
Or did he have no idea?”

it’s that ambiguity that makes it such a great line I think.

Greased was always my fave film but i didnt understand it-full of sexist idiots and the moral is yo9u have to change yourself i mean wtf

baby is mean to be 17 in dd and johnny 25

SNF s quite awful isnt it
great songs though

Definitely Grease. Danny treats Sandy appallingly and the happy ending is that she changes everything about herself to please him.

They were both prepared to change to please each other - he turned up in a jock-style cardigan then took it off after he saw her and realised he was going to get a better deal!