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?

I went out with someone in their mid twenties when I'd just turned 18. I never felt he was too old for me so have never seen the issue with Dirty Dancing age gap. Loved it when I first watched it and still do (though the Penny storyline is a tough one to watch[.

Same here; as a teen I thought it was lovely; now I see the scenes where he's getting kind of grimly threatening about her reluctance to sleep with him.

Pretty Woman, always awful.
Sleeping with the Enemy could have been good but that wimpy guy she takes up with and that totally cringe scene where she is trying on costumes just no.

Gone with the Wind -- I'm embarrassed that I ever liked it.

Breakfast at Tiffany's -- another one that seemed glamorous as a teenager but just plain stupid as an adult. Audrey Hepburn wore clothing well but her simpering is cloying.

He didn't perform an abortion. She went for an illegal one and had complications; he came to save her.

I don't think he was that much older. Maybe seven or eight years.

When I was 18 or so, I dated guys in their late 20s; always have had a thing for older men.

Dirty Dancing is cringe on any number of levels but to me that is not one of them.

To be fair though Weird Science was WTF???? At the time. It was just so wrong.

There's a John Cusack film where's he's outside with the boombox being as creepy as fuck, was that a John Hughes film? My memory is shit with this stuff

I was thinking about Bend it Like Beckham the other day, coach falling for Jess. Er... position of power or authority and safeguarding all that.

I'm not offended. But today's society is very disapproving.

About the Breakfast Club (which teen DD loved a few years ago): I still have a thing for Emilio Estevez, but as for the movie, it wasn't All That any more.

I watched for 1st time Lost in Translation the other day. Fine, good flick. But ... the Melancholy Romance: Murray was 52 & his opposite (SJ) was 18 (!). Not in movie but yes in real life. 17 when they started rehearsing. Just ugh.

Exactly!

The whole "16 going on 17" song where the girl is so submissive also irks me.

@nowgoingout If this was at a (dance) school in the UK today, he'd be fired
They did fire him as soon as they found out about them.

Clueless. Though feminist in some ways. She gets off with her stepbrother. And her dad approves.

But he just strolled back in for the end of the season thing, and nobody kicked him out, as he was no longer an employee.

I used to love Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, until I watched it as a grown up and was horrified at the whole marriage by abduction scenario. With the jolly song about how the kidnapped Sabine women were sobbin’, sobbin’, sobbin’.

There's a scene in A Bugs Life when Hopper grabs little Dot and threatens to feed her to Thumper whilst her mother and sister do absolutely nothing but stand there watching leaving Flick to intervene he gets no thanks for it but instead the ant council decides how they should punish him for the food incident and ridicule him every chance they get. After watching it as an adult I think that's a dark scene where the Queen does nothing to protect her young daughter.

The Little Mermaid. I honestly loved it as a kid and watched it so many times. I watched it recently after not seeing it for years, and there's so much wrong with it!

The entire premise basically boils down to a 16 year spoiled brat falling in love with a man she's only ever looked at, and then rebelling in the most selfishly destructive way when her father tries to put his foot (fin?tail?) down. She has no redeeming character traits, and is ultimately a rather insipid character who needs to be rescued by a man at the end. It's a terrible example of a leading female character.

I used to be a journalist and actually interviewed Tim Allen once, about 16 or 17 years ago. The word asshole springs to mind. He was curt, begrudging, ungracious, disingenuous in a mean way. (And this was a puff piece that his reps WANTED him to do!)

I can't enjoy him in anything, esp Christmas with the Kranks, knowing what a grinch he is in real life.

There's a scene I love in Ferris Bueller where they're in class together. I teach the same subject as the teacher in that scene and I always get the giggles thinking about it when we get to that part of the syllabus. The students look so bored and the teacher looks so fed up!

Freaky Friday - the first time I saw it I identified with the teenager (Lindsay Lohan). Saw it recently and identified with the mum (Jamie Lee Curtis). Although I also noticed it was a wee bit racist.

I agree about Home Alone and Harry Potter. Mind you Home Alone still grips people. I watched it with a class of sixthformers a few years back and after grumbling about the production values for a while, it was fascinating watching them getting sucked in.

When I was 18 or so, I dated guys in their late 20s; always have had a thing for older men.

There's been loads of threads on here discussing this, and the consensus is generally that the older men are taking advantage, wondering what they see in a teenager and how they wouldn't be happy if it was their DD.

When my DSs get to their late 20s if they were to bring home an 18 year old I would not be impressed.

Labyrinth! A pedo steals a baby to lure his underage teenage sister to him.

Meh. Depends on the people involved. I've always been an old soul and found guys my age boring. No regrets here.

I'm amazed nobody has mentioned Love Actually! Every single storyline is sexist and misogynistic. I can't watch it anymore.

I still love Pretty woman and Dirty Dancing but only because I was a romantic teenager when they came out and have loved them ever since. Rationally I see that they are incredibly problematic. Not sure I want to watch either again to be honest.

An Officer and a Gentleman: I don't agree actually. I think it's a very good, realistic depiction of what life is/was like for people in these communities. There's a difference between promoting a misogynistic message and exposing it.

The ending of Officer and a Gentleman is so cringeworthy it makes my face red to watch even if I'm alone. Everyone cheering like she'd accomplished some great feat. Even for the 80s that was bad.

Imagine if it had ended with HER signing up to be an aviator, or something like that, instead of just marrying her meal ticket.

I like other bits of the movie though.

Not RTFT so apologies if this has been mentioned but I loved Bridget Jones' Diary when it first came out. Rewatched it recently and well....

Bridget has a flat of her own in London, a great job, friends whom she sees weekly and we are supposed to think of her as pathetic?
Daniel Cleaver was a creepy sexual harasser, as were most of her bosses
Mark Darcy was ok but what a stuffed shirt.

Bridget would have been best off with Tom if he wasn't gay. Or single.

I want to join in, but I think I actually must have had good judgement even when I was a child / teen.

Although as a child I did find Born Free very sad and haven't watched it since, but it occurs to me now that they were releasing the lions back into the wild from captivity!

Oh also Pretty Woman! Yes, of course sex workers are just dying to be rescued by clients riding in on white horses.

I loved Pretty in Pink back in the day, but now I see she would have been better off with Duckie than drippy Blane, Duckie was way more fun.

But if I was her I'd have been after Steff.

dirty dancing baby was 18
grease- onj was actually 30 yr old
john t was 18