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?

This thread would have a field day with Greco-Roman gods. Incest, rape, bestiality, child abuse and abandonment, murder, war…

In fact, never mind classical gods, how about the Bible?

Definitely mrs doubtfire for me as well. Even ds sees it totally differently now at 16 to what he did at 10..
Bridget Jones is another one that hasn’t aged well, but some bits probably accurately portray the time. (And actually, Bridget Jones baby is more recent, and parts of that are way worse).

From a comedy standpoint I think he's actually a clown. Kind of a child, sometimes innocent but also self-centered in the way a child can be.

We're supposed to see him as a part of ourselves that we need to recognize and laugh at, not as a man with special needs.

I think it's pretty clear he wasn't a cuddly nice type. He's a very Roald Dahl kind of character.

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He's an alien. 😂Have you never watched the opening credits?
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Ok, that's never occurred to me and I bloody love Mr Bean!!!
That'd explain why he fell to the ground from a "beam" if so
Jeez I'm slow 😁

I don't think 'Disney Dad' has anything remotely to do with this as Daniel never changed who he was all along. And the children related much better to him as their father, from the start, probably because he was more of a parent to them than Miranda was.

He didn't change? What about creating an entire alter ego in order to infiltrate his wife's home?

If that's what he was like all along (because he didn't change) then she was definitely right to dump him!

Take robin williams out of the film, because everyone will forgive him anything, and it becomes a story about a controlling man child who can't face up to his ex moving on so tried to break up her new relationship... By invading her home and lying to her and her children - and getting the children to lie to their mother. He treated her like absolute shit. She's not the bad guy.

I loved the original willy wonka. Yes he's a bit of a shit but it was quite refreshing to see an adult not treating all children as though they're wonderful. He steps back and let's them make their own mistakes (and then they get punished horribly for them). Charlie is a wet blanket and his grandpa is a bloody waste of space.

You might want to rewatch. Penny had a back street abortion which Baby borrowed the money for from her father. Baby then got him to give emergency medical care when Penny was haemorrhaging because of the way she'd been "butchered"

@CeCeDrake Rik was hilarious. But yes, her emotionally abusive mum, cheating gaslighting husband and bullying mental health nurse

To all the people calling out Dirty Dancing because of the age difference why is nobody calling out The Graduate or Water for Elephants? Both movies about older women seducing/sleeping with much younger men.

The graduate was, as the name suggest, at least at the age of graduating from college, not a high school leaver!
Though I never remember thinking the age gap in DD was problematic.

I’d suggest you rewatch it if you don’t think it’s that bad

This is a great summary!!

Complained to the cinema about Back To The Future 😂
Great Scott, could you be more heavy?! 😁
I've watched it so many times I've lost count and the bit with Lorraine and Biff in the car definitely went over my head at that age, like others have said it did with them too

Yes, yes of course I would. 🙄

FFS, it was a bit of a joke about a musical that I was OBSESSED with as a child. I hated Miss. Hannigan! There have been days when being tested by my own girls where I have thought that living in an orphanage full of them would drive me insane.

I worked with children for years and they can be testing. I just saw it from her side as an adult 😂.

I do actually know quite a few teachers who drink wine every night though. Never pissed at work though.

Nope. Not in the text. It was about the fear of genetic madness. Mr Rochester is meant to stand out as a human being because he does look after her not condenm her to an asylum (which often be very abusive places for women) . He's a shit in many respects but is does take care and responsibility for people he could easily have abandoned.

I've always liked Jane Eyre, but since having a violently psychotic son and "nurses" in the house, I have renewed respect for Mr Rochester. And in a way Bertha portrayal too.

Agree @Icedlatteplease

Rochester could have also hastened her death by housing her elsewhere in damp, less than ideal conditions, as he said in the novel, but chose not to.

Well, Dustin Hoffmann’s character was in his 20s so it’s not really the same thing.

But the main point - which it can of baffles me that people don’t get - is that the problem is not that bad/dodgy things are depicted in movies - it would be pretty dull if they never were - but that they are often glamourised. The age-gap relationship in the Graduate is clearly messed up and unhealthy, whereas DD is a romantic film that wants us to buy into that relationship.

Sometimes they work out-sometimes they don't.

Didn't care for her -or for his not letting them watch Dick Van Dyke. Homework can be done at any time.

And what a complete cunt Paulie is to his sister??

The way he talks to her and about her is just awful.

@Ameanstreakamilewide he was also creepily too interested in her sex life. Was especially disgusting when he yells that she's "busted".
Also racist towards Apollo

Absolutely this! It's depicted as a very unhealthy co-dependent relationship (and an affair on the part of Mrs Robinson.)

Anyway, the point of the thread is films that you see differently now. I notice that just about no one has mentioned a film that they see more positively now.

This is more or less what I remember about the book too. Not that Mrs Rochester simply had a healthy interest in sex.

There is a really good re-imagining of Mrs Rochester's life called Wide Sargasso Sea. I think anyone interested in Mrs Rochester's character would enjoy it. Mr Rochester doesn't come out very well in that.

Yes, true. I was always aware of that, though. But it didn’t hit me until recently that Rocky basically ground her down until she dated him, and then at least sexually assaulted her. Awful.