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Films you see differently as an adult...

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LoveShitJokes · 19/11/2022 18:45

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?

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BiscuitLover3678 · 19/11/2022 20:47

Sweet Home Alabama. She definitely chose the wrong guy!

Needsomezzzz · 19/11/2022 20:52

Big
Grease
Home Alone

Mythril · 19/11/2022 20:52

Stepmom with Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts. It seemed a heartwarming story when I was younger but now I judge the adults - Julia's character goes through all this shite to be with this much older man, what is she thinking? She loses her job because she keeps having to watch/pick up his kids!

ehb102 · 19/11/2022 20:52

Grease 2 - super rapey!

BiscuitLover3678 · 19/11/2022 20:55

You’ve got mail. Loved it and still love it, but you have to ignore how awful the Tom hanks character is. Soooo creepy if you think about it.

purpleme12 · 19/11/2022 20:58

No I still see Mrs Doubtfire as I did then.
The shul sadness of parents separating and not being with your dad.
I still see it from my point of view as the child

purpleme12 · 19/11/2022 20:58

No I still see Mrs Doubtfire as I did then.
The shul sadness of parents separating and not being with your dad.
I still see it from my point of view as the child

Sarahcoggles · 19/11/2022 21:00

SuperlativeOxymoron · 19/11/2022 20:30

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....

She does say it's a bad thing to do.

"Press against them when we dance, make them think they stood a chance, then refuse to see it though...that's a thing I'd never do"

nowgoingout · 19/11/2022 21:00

Dirty Dancing. Then: Watched it dozens of times as a teenager, loved it, wanted to be her.

Now: I see an underage innocent teen girl groomed by a much older and sexually experienced teacher. And her parents end up supporting the relationship because they did a nice dance at the end?

If this was at a (dance) school in the UK today, he'd be fired.

username8888 · 19/11/2022 21:01

Never liked Pretty Woman, then or now. Buying sex!
Never liked any jim Carey films. He gives me the creeps. You mark my words, one day something nasty will come out.

Sarahcoggles · 19/11/2022 21:02

An Officer and A Gentleman

As a dizzy teen I thought it was all so romantic, how she thinks he's dumped her and then he carries her off into the sunset.
Now I think he treated her like shit and she should have told him to fuck off, that he'd had his chance and blown it!

Babochan88 · 19/11/2022 21:03

Parent trap!!!!!

  • they separate twins
  • each parent goes no contact with one twin
  • that don’t tell the twins about each other
  • the twins then bullied Meredith

I actually feel sorry for poor Meredith. She’s engaged to a man who’s still in love with his ex. He reconnects with the ex a few days before the wedding, and surprises her with another child (the twin)…and then they bully her. He then gets back with the ex…and he has to be 20 years older than her. Poor girl

Meredith wasn’t the villain

lindaha · 19/11/2022 21:04

Now: I see an underage innocent teen girl groomed by a much older and sexually experienced teacher. And her parents end up supporting the relationship because they did a nice dance at the end

she's supposed to be 18, he's supposed to be mid 20s.

shinynewapple22 · 19/11/2022 21:04

Savvet · 19/11/2022 20:19

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 🙄

To cry in front of you ..... that's the worst thing I could do

Neodymium · 19/11/2022 21:04

Trainspotting.

when I saw it as a teen and the baby died I didn’t really think much of it.

when I saw it again post having children I was so upset by that scene I couldn’t keep watching.

not a movie - but friends. it is so inappropriate. Eg Joey mentions having sex with his teacher in year 7. And Ross. I hate Ross now. He was so controlling to Rachel when she was pregnant. He was off dating Mona but got mad when she wanted to date anyone. And he got in the way of her and Joey due to his issues. And pretending he did the divorce when they were still married and not telling her. Plus I think Monica should have ended up with Richard not chandler. And Rachel should have ended up with Joey. He actually treated her well and cared about her.

CarefreeMe · 19/11/2022 21:05

As others have said pretty women and dirty dancing.

I loved the films but I can’t watch them in the same way now.

I was also watching mr bean and thinking it was hilarious as always but I thought how it would not be allowed today as it is obviously about a man with special needs.

purpleme12 · 19/11/2022 21:05

BiscuitLover3678 · 19/11/2022 20:44

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

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I always liked it but I did think it had an odd message, that you needed to change yourself.
I always thought that.
But you obviously can't take it seriously!

lindaha · 19/11/2022 21:05

If this was at a (dance) school in the UK today, he'd be fired

he got fired in the movie

Sparklingbrook · 19/11/2022 21:06

lindaha · 19/11/2022 21:04

Now: I see an underage innocent teen girl groomed by a much older and sexually experienced teacher. And her parents end up supporting the relationship because they did a nice dance at the end

she's supposed to be 18, he's supposed to be mid 20s.

So she's an innocent teen girl and he's much older and sexually experienced then.

CarefreeMe · 19/11/2022 21:06

As the pp said I also cringe at some of the things Joey says and find some of what he says really disrespectful now.

Friends would definitely be cancelled in this day and age.

Sparklingbrook · 19/11/2022 21:07

lindaha · 19/11/2022 21:05

If this was at a (dance) school in the UK today, he'd be fired

he got fired in the movie

Yes and why he didn't get removed from the place when he hijacked the end of the season show remains a mystery.

thebestcestmoi · 19/11/2022 21:07

I wasn’t alive in the 1980s but a lot of the 80s ‘teen classics’ I’ve tried to watch on Netflix have been questionable.. Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club have not aged well

VisitingThem · 19/11/2022 21:07

FleecyBlanketPerson · 19/11/2022 19:08

Home Alone.

As a kid. One big awesome adventure with some scary bits.

As an adult: utterly anxiety Inducing, disbelief through out. Constantly check listing safeguarding issues.

We put this on one Christmas and I couldn't see the screen (not bothered tbh) but when its just the sound you could easily be watching some kind of slasher movie there is so much screaming.

lindaha · 19/11/2022 21:08

I wasn’t alive in the 1980s but a lot of the 80s ‘teen classics’ I’ve tried to watch on Netflix have been questionable.. Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club have not aged well

how exactly?

lindaha · 19/11/2022 21:09

Yes and why he didn't get removed from the place when he hijacked the end of the season show remains a mystery

they were both adults, he wasn't her teacher. You are thinking wayyy to much into this.

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