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?

Ok, I will, as you are so angry about it.:) I stick to my argument though.

And, I never saw Baby & Johnny as a sweet love story. Ultimately, Baby is just another privileged, white, middle class woman who uses Johnny for sex - and then sashays away to her elite university and a professional career.

And A Handful of Dust which is one big pisstake out of the aristocracy from start to finish due to (on my reading) what they've become, which is a bunch of self-absorbed spare parts. Even Tony Last is hopeless, a well-meaning relic and a cuckold. The most you can say is that Waugh yearned for an aristocracy that no longer existed.

Waugh would have had an absolute field day lampooning Trump, Musk, Insta influencers and clicktivism if he'd been alive today.

😂I'm not at all angry. Just pointing out that she looked older than him, at the bare minimum the same age as him. Sorry you took offence at that.

How is this hinted at?

I studied JE at A-level and remembering us all sniggering at 'Down Pilot'. But that's a reference to Mr Rochester's own virilityv and nothing to do with Bertha.

THIS ^^^^

God, it's been years since I studied Jane Eyre, but I'm vaguely remembering Bertha being compared to 'the blood red moon' and something about her being unchaste? She was sexy and earthy, which Rochester found exciting during their courtship - but once she was his wife he expected her to change and be the Angel in the House, etc.

Interesting take on it. Yes, I can see where you are coming from and you could be right.

Genuine chivalry has been around, not always everywhere. They never wrote LTB in those days. It would at least be a few sentences of considered prose then.

I always thought the ending to Fatal Attraction was ridiculous. What was she Rasputin or something?
Nobody is saying what her character did was great but MD’s character gets away lightly. He was the married one. He helped to cause the pain and damage and what punishment did he receive whilst GC’s character ended up dead?
My fair lady. Watched this a a child but now I don’t like it.

Grease … Why did sandy have to change everything about herself to impress some guy?? 🤨

Willy wonka and the chocolate factory, loved it as a child, recently rewatched it as an adult and now I think Willy wonka was some sort of psychopath, he just seems to enjoy when bad things happen to the children in his factory lol…

Also most Disney films, even though I still totally adore all things Disney, the feminist in me wonders if it’s a good message to teach little girls that a princess needs to wait around for a Prince to rescue them 🙄

Grease again. Even as a child my friend and I always said how could Sandy forgive Danny for dancing with Cha Cha? We were furious on her behalf. I felt then that he was a shit. He could have refused point blank to dance with her and he could have gone and looked for Sandy.
Message in lots of these films seemed to be: man is a jerk but it’s ok because he is great looking and can dance!

The man in Grease did some attempt to change as well, but it was half hearted in my opinion. He just tossed the jacket off for the final dance, and he was wearing his usual outfit underneath.

The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022 received Royal Assent in April this year. It is planned to come into effect on Monday 27 February 2023. The Act will raise the age of marriage and civil partnership to 18 in England and Wales to protect children from the scourge of forced marriage

Very good news.
I don't know how the pp knows that forced marriages don't happen here.

Grease again. Even as a child my friend and I always said how could Sandy forgive Danny for dancing with Cha Cha? We were furious on her behalf.

To be fair, that scene was put in because the dance moves were too advanced for Olivia Newton John. I agree it didn't work.

Daniel invaded his ex's home under false pretences, again and again. That trumps everything!

I would never get over that.

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Willy wonka and the chocolate factory, loved it as a child, recently rewatched it as an adult and now I think Willy wonka was some sort of psychopath, he just seems to enjoy when bad things happen to the children in his factory lol…
Ha, yes ...
"stop, no come back .."
At least pretend to sound like you mean it 😁
Also Grandpa Joe.
Bedridden for 20 years, gets a ticket to the local chocolate factory and suddenly he can jump out and do a dance? 🙄😁
All his staff seemingly being laid off overnight too (one night they just didn't go in) so he could use Oompa Loompas he'd found on his travels as mini slave labourers by paying them in chocolate lol.
I still love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, just have a bad habit as an adult as overthinking things 🤣

There's a couple of Grandpa Joe posts I see

You probably know there are actual large groups online dedicated to Grandpa Joe hate? Fascinating stuff! I'm not in them but had a look the last time they were mentioned on a similar thread.

Drop Dead Fred!!!

I've just gone down a rabbit hole and read the the writer for this movie died of suspected alcohol abuse at 29. She had a stillborn baby at 16, then 3 more kids by different fathers. She never left her estate even when she became an acclaimed writer.

What's worse, in 2007 her drug addict daughter (only 11 when mum died) living in hostels was convicted of manslaughter for the death of her 2 year old by giving him methadone bottles to play with. Apparently toddler was addicted to drugs and had cocaine and crack in his system.

Absolutely awful 😢

@Ineedtorunaway SNF has had several mentions on this thread....

icelolly99 how did I miss that doh :)

Have you read the thread?

Saturday Night Fever does feature rape and suicide. But I never thought of it as a feel-good movie. It was originally an 18 cert as has been pointed out many times.

I always thought it showed the great dichotomy of the highs and low/good and bad sides of living in New York at that time. Literally moving up in the world (over the Brooklyn Bridge) is a huge theme.

It was also made before Grease so anyone expecting something moderately bland like that (although very questionable now) was watching in the wrong order.

Nobody is saying what her character did was great but MD’s character gets away lightly. He was the married one. He helped to cause the pain and damage and what punishment did he receive whilst GC’s character ended up dead

oh ffs if this was reverse gender you'd not say this. So if a woman ends it with a man and he acid attacks her or tries to kill her is it her fault for ending it and causing him pain?

Top Gun

You don't buzz the tower. There are rules for a reason and controlled airspace. It's how people get injured.