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?

Rizzo is basically being called a slut and sings the song as a reaction to that. It's a very sad song.

Meredith is the villain because she wants his money.

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit she had already had an abortion that hadn’t gone well. He treated her afterwards.

Shirley Valentine. I thought she was a bit of a sad case when I first watched it. Now I understand what she's lived through and can empathise more.

Bridges over Madison County. Read the book as a teenager and then again as an adult, as well as watching the film fairly recently.
It was just a well written love story first time around. The next time I read it, I felt the emotion and passion much more, probably because I had never been in love when I read it the first time.

Big.

He's 13 and sleeps with a grown woman. Yuk.

Omg I completely agree with you. As a kid I thought she was a complete killjoy ending the birthday party. As an adult I would flip if I came home and saw a bloody pony in my house!

Rizzo's song in the original musical is addressed to Sandy and works much better.
Big - wtf
Breakfast Club - under the table wtf

Weirdly I still love DD and Grease.

Muriel’s Wedding - thought it was funnier when I saw it when it first came out. It’s much sadder

I think that’s a great example. I feel the same way now as you OP but it reminds me of being a very Randy teenager, utterly obsessed by sex (but still able to work hard at school and uni)…
I still like the film though.

i have only recently noticed in grease that Danny actually changes too. At the end of the film he’s wearing a letterman jacket because of what he did in the athletics team. He worked hard all year to impress sandy and show her he was committed and would work hard. She put on some tight trousers and lipstick. He changed way more than her but it’s not as obvious.

Basic Buttstink Instinct

Horrible sleazy predatory men in positions of power (police) and it seems Sharon Stone was just trying to advance her career and being used as a sex object - awful film
cant stand the horrible sleazy look on michael douglas face when he is being a voyeur
(though It is an adult film not a childs film)

The Breakfast Club have not aged well

Why do you say that?
Obviously a lot of things are just out of date, but as movie about teenage angst I think it's still pretty good now.
I was 15 when it came out and watched it with my adult son a few years ago. Still really enjoyed it.

This isn’t a film but Brideshead Revisited. As a 12 year old I was blown away by the glamour, decadence and beauty. As an adult I just think Sebastian and Charles (and Evelyn Waugh) are twats.

Lots of the above
no one so far mentioned Weird Science

basically any John Hughes films

Breakfast Club - under the table wtf

But that was always awful, whether you saw it as a teenager or an adult. I don't think a younger person watching it now would think anything about that was OK, or funny.

This! One of my favourites as a kid but see it completely differently now!

You forget *lousy with virginity^ in the Sandra Dee song. I honestly think most posters are overthinking most of these films.

Nope, can't speak for anyone else but it didn't strike me as assault when I watched it as a teen

I remember watching Drop Dead Fred at a friend's birthday party in primary school. I rewatched it the other day and despite being a PG it really is not a kid's film.

I was also disillusioned to realise Ferris B is actually a complete dick.

The scene in Grease about "doing it for our country" and her transformation to get a man I always thought was off. But I don't share the issues about Dirty Dancing. Yet. Ask my in 10 years when my daughter is a teenager!

I have been told a few times that Labyrinth is off too for the age but I'm not sold on that.

I agree @Mirabai I wouldn't want to hang out with either of them.

I think any film (and there were many) when the 'love interest' initially hates the guy and at some point he just grabs her and kisses her and she gets into it is just... no. Like, thanks for reinforcing this idea that women can't possible admit they fancy you so they'll pretend to hate you so if she doesn't like you just keep assuming she does really, it's just her weird ladybrain! No wonder so many men don't understand consent...

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit but I don't think he does, I think he takes care of Penny after a botched back street abortion

I felt a bit sorry for Emily when I rewatched the Gilmore Girls. Yes she was a bit demanding and annoying, but Lorelai acts like she was abusive or something. Nobody would deal well with their teenager getting pregnant, and then running off to live in a shed and going no contact. The spa episode makes me particularly sad.

Agree with OP about Mrs Doubtfire. Their house is bloody gorgeous though.

You'd all love bedtime stories and films round mine. I take all the fun out. "What do you think about Cinderella marrying him? Only, she doesn't really know him, does she?" "The Beast wasn't actually very nice to Beauty though, he locked her up. And he was very mean to the old lady at the start..." Just waiting for my daughter to start rolling her eyes 😆

'Doing it for our country' was in Grease 2.