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?

Peter pan

Agreed!

I meant him being removed because he was no longer an employee nothing to do with being adults or teachers or whatever.
Can ex employees just do that?

No, she mentions at the beginning something about recently being 16 so I think she'd just turned 17. Johnny was well into his 20s

No she didn't mention her age. Her father said she was attending mount holyoke in the fall which which infer she's at least 17 or 18 as she was going to 3rd level. Swayze's character was supposed to be 24/25. He was even referred to as the ''dance kid Johnny''. Swayze though was nearly 35 when the film was made.

i remember watching that scene - where he tells baby he was fired and his dad has got him into the painters and plasterers union. I thought that was the worst thing ever - like what a cruel punishment. Now it seems like probably what he needs, a proper job and some direction in his life instead of scraping by teaching dancing during the summer. What does he do for the rest of the year? Plus quite reasonable he would be fired - I’m pretty sure most places like that would have rules against that. He also admits to baby that he’s slept with a bunch of other patrons too slipping their keys in his pocket and paying him. And then tells her ‘but they were using me’ 🙄 seems like he was a serial offender and management had enough of his antics.

www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11613719/dirty-dancing-baby-age-facts/

Swayze though was nearly 35 when the film was made.

And she was 26.

Fatal Attraction. We're supposed to feel sorry for Dan? He should have kept it in his pants

oh ffs would you say the same if it was reverse gender?? Him having an affair does not in any way excuse/justify her psychotic behaviour.

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

Because…nobody puts Baby in a corner!

The opening scene implies she is young and naive. ‘Everyone called me baby and it didn’t occur to me to mind’

even if she was meant to be 18 she was portrayed as young and innocent.

Ghostbusters really wasn't a kids movie.

Travolta was 24.

I guess if someone had turned him away at the door it would have been a somewhat different ending. 😂
But we would have been saved the cringey dance. 👍

I was going to say Rita Sue and Bob too. Thought it funny at the time. But horrific as a mum.

Just read that link about the author. Incredible and sad.

Really ?. I thought “The Truman Show” was an amazing film. It showed remarkable imagination and a protest against all reality shows. Carey has also made some notable stuff on depression ( he had a tough upbringing and suffered from quite severe depression himself ) and some of the appalling aspects of Hollywood. He came across of an intelligent and sensitive man.

Cher's dad isn't Josh's dad - he was just married to Josh's mum for a while.

Yes this one too! I loved it as a child.

Started to watch it with my dds hoping they’d love it too and had to turn over as an adult.

Beauty and the Beast. Basically a story of a woman kidnapped, abused and suffering with Stockholm syndrome.

Sleepless and Seattle and While you were sleeping have 2 young attractive women doing stalkerish stuff men would be crucified for.

In While You Were Sleeping the original screenplay was about a woman in a coma and a man pretending to be her fiancé. Many studio executives thought this to be too predatory, but one suggested reversing the roles. Once the script was rewritten, the movie was picked up by Hollywood Pictures.

40 days and 40 nights and Desperate Housewives both have male characters getting raped by women and it's supposed to be seen as funny.

Never seen 40 nights so can't comment on that one but Desperate Housewives wasn't supposed to be seen as funny if you're referring to Orson?
Can't think who else you mean if so.
It was quite a serious plotline, his ex wife was collaborating with his mum to drug and rape him so she could get the grandchild she always wanted.
Wasn't depicted as funny in any way?

Watching Ferris Bueller as an adult is a bit like reading that last Wimpy Kid book.

I've been rewatching Desperate Housewives and found it to be surprisingly problematic for such a recent show, relative to the films discussed.

Bree when she finds the neighbours son under Danielle's bed.. "Danielle is there a black man under your bed?!" Wouldn't "man" have sufficed? Bree hadn't shown signs of racism before so it wasn't as if it was just in character. Seemed an odd way to phrase it from the scriptwriters.

Lynette.... just bloody awful to Tom. She used to be my favourite but now I can't stand her.

Orson's rape was portrayed as just a bit mortifying and silly at points.

Don't get me started on Susan.

So agree with Friends (except for Monica and Chandler) I’m watching season 10 right now and the bond and care between Joey and Rachel is amazing and Ross was always controlling and demeaning about Rachel’s job

?? So when you first watched it you thought David Bowie was playing the good guy?