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?

Bugsy Malone... fun caper as a kid... as an adult I find the sexualisation really troubling.

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I think Francis' dad saved Penny's life after an illegal abortion, he didn't perform the abortion afaic

He gave Baby the money for an illegal abortion without knowing what the money was paying for - he didn't do it himself!

Grease. He tries to rape her in the car FFS.
Rita Sue. Bob is such a predator.
Definitely Mrs Doubtfire!

Grease. He tries to rape her in the car FFS

Does he? At the drive in? With everyone watching? 🤔

Definitely Grease. Danny treats Sandy appallingly and the happy ending is that she changes everything about herself to please him. Oh and Rizzo sings a song about how the worst thing you can do is flirt with a man then not give him sex 🙄

Big. How on earth did the producers/director/actors think that was an ok storyline?

St Elmo’s Fire. I thought they were all so glamorous first time round, watched it a few years ago - what a load of arseholes!

Hocus Pocus,
The way the little girl keeps calling her brother a virgin.

Brief Encounter. Cried buckets as a teen, thought Trevor Howard was the most romantic person ever.

Now happily married I honestly think he's a seedy little shit. Celia's Johnson's husband is lovely and caring rather than dull and boring and definitely a lot better bet than manipulative Trevor.

Oh and Rizzo sings a song about how the worst thing you can do is flirt with a man then not give him sex 🙄

She doesn't, she sings about there being worse things she can do.

But yes Greece was problematic on may levels. Frenchy dropping out of school and then beauty school,she could have had a bit of guidance....

Gilmore Girls. When I was a child, I was on Rory's side always when she fell out with her mum, and thought that Lorelai was just the coolest mum. Now I think that Rory is unsufferable and that Lorelai is mainly a sad person trying her best, that she fucks up loads, that it would not at all be great to have a mum like that.

Beaty and the Beast. Thought it was romantic. Now I think it's er..... very questionable, on so many levels.

The Little Mermaid, used to love it watched with my nieces a few years back and was angry by the end. Ariel had to lose her voice, home and family to be with a man!!

Oh gosh, yes, I'd forgotten this one. How on earth was it ever considered acceptable or fun viewing !

Big, yes loved it as a teen but he was 12 !

Pretty Woman didn't like it at the time and it's not aged well.

I'm recently rewatching Gilmore girls and cannot stand Lorelai- she's constantly boycotting with her mother like some frozen in time teenager.🙄

Since being widowed I've felt differently about Sleepless in Seattle. The thought of my daughter getting involved in my love life at any stage never mind a year in...the weirdness of all the women finding Sam's widowerhood attractive...the way they're convinced they're destined to be together despite barely having met. I'm absolutely not averse to widows finding love again but it's so much more complicated.

Frenchy's nickname. Ick.

I watched the first Ghostbusters film with DCs for halloween remebering from my own childhood a silly family movie, but and there were bits that made me quite uncomfortable. The harassment of Dana by Murray's character was maybe funny in 1982 but now seems sleezy and misogynistic. Also the bit when the guy is lying in bed and the ghost undoes his belt and (heavily implies) gives him a bl#w j#b. DCs were like "what's happening?" I'm like "it's ok, the ghost is just helping him put his pajamas on!". Why put that in a kids movie? Why?

St Elmo’s Fire. I thought they were all so glamorous first time round, watched it a few years ago - what a load of arseholes!

I agree but it's still one of my favourites. Rob Lowe looks mighty fine in it. But his character Billy asking for Wendy's virginity as a 'going away present' and all that Kirby stalkery stuff. And no idea what Jules was playing at when Billy had to break in and save her from the wind it seems. Alec was an arsehole the whole way through.

A few films have made me really sad as an adult.

Ace Ventura and the terrible homophobia at the end makes a very funny film (for me - I know I have niche tastes) unwatchable now.

Last night I watched a bit of Wayne's World whilst scrolling and trying to find something to watch. Bits of it had me crying with laughter, but there's that awful sexism in there as there was in so many films from years ago.

Bend it Like Beckham. Saw it first as a teen and then when middle aged. Second time around my sympathies were with the parents.

Most of the Disney. Films

Tangled - child abduction
Most of them are abused as a child in some way

Slightly different, butI used to read the Grimm fairly takes as a child. I re read them recently and cried at the Little Match Girl, horrified at Rapunzel and as for the ugly sisters cutting their toes off - just urghh

Agree

I never liked Grease! Even as a teen I found it messed up but I always felt alone in that.

I don't know if this counts but when watching Three Men And A Baby recently I was disturbed by how much of the naked baby was shown.

I find her relationship with Rory so unhealthy