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 think that John Cusack movie is The Sure Thing which I can barely remember but is definitely mega wrong by today's standards.

I saw 40 Days again quite recently and it was awful. So much stuff that wouldn’t fly today. It’s so dated it’s like watching a sex comedy from the 70s. And yes, the rape plot point is just horrible and is brushed off, and this is supposed to be a romcom. What the fuck.

I think the success of American Pie made producers think they needed to make comedies as gross as possible, while also putting in lots of gratuitous sex and nudity. The early noughts reached the peak of hot girl and slobby, dumb guy movies.

chutty chutty bang bang and that scary childsnatcher and his van, never get away with that now

Ummm weird science!!

Literally teenagers wanking over making a woman. And the shower scene!

Not a good example perhaps but when O was about ten my parents let me watch a series called ^Blott on the Landscape". The plot is complicated but fundamentally it's about a member of the aristocracy, Lady Maud who wants to stop her house being demolished to make way for a motorway.

Thing I dimly remember but made nothing of at the time (but were very obvious on rewatching):

• a civil servant being blackmailed with compromising photographs.
• Lady Maud locking same civil servant into her house and attempting to sexually assaul him.
• Lady Maid's husband and his BDSM mistress.

Same with Ghostbusters. It's only when rewatched it that I realised what a creep Peter Venkman is.

I think the child catcher is one of the best things I've seen in cinema. Apparently Roald Dahl's idea, which wouldn't surprise me at all.

Does anyone remember Wish You Were Here with Emily Lloyd (saying 'Up your bum' a lot). When I first watched it I thought it was quite funny in an 'on the buses' kind of way. Watched again as an adult and it's a dark and harrowing tale of sexual abuse. Apparently based loosely on the early life of Cynthia Payne.

Not from when I was a child. But Frozen. The parents are so disturbing. And those song lyrics - ‘don’t let them in, don’t let them see, be the good girl you always have to be. Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let it show, make one wrong move and everyone will now.’
It sounds like an abused child to me; I find it really disturbing.
My daughter didn’t agree when she was 4!

@SlashBeef I didn’t think Bree’s comment was that out of character. She was very judgemental and no one she found in Danielle’s room would have been good enough for her, either because they didn’t have a good enough job or they were too poor. Although Bree had some good character development in later seasons, I don’t think she would have wanted her daughter with a black man at that point in the series. She might not have been overly racist herself, but she would have been worried about what the neighbours would have said/done.

@SlashBeef 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?
Yes man would have sufficed but this is Bree we're talking about.
Ultra conservative, extremely and vocally homophobic so not surprising she might come out with something racist too.... she's not exactly liberal

I agree with 'any John Hughes film' and Ioved them in the 1980's. Also Rita Sue and Bob too was never meant to be funny.

Although Bree had some good character development in later seasons, I don’t think she would have wanted her daughter with a black man at that point in the series. She might not have been overly racist herself, but she would have been worried about what the neighbours would have said/done.
That too, she cared far too much about what she would see as "appearances."

I don’t think it was originally billed as a kids movie, definitely adult themes going on in it
it was rated PG, and later re registered 12A, according to Wiki.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Heroine is a fascist sympathiser and the dashing "lovable rogue" art teacher is sleeping with one of his students who looks what - about 15? 😮

This scene from Family Guy always makes me laugh 😂

Sorry if this has been mentioned as haven’t read them all but Labyrinth…David Bowie steals a baby as he loves her older step sister (also a child), tries to lure older sister to be with him…so inappropriate now but I still love the film!

Pretty Woman. I re-watched it yesterday. She literally tells him she just has to go into robot mode to get through the fact she's selling her body. It doesn't put him off expecting her to 'perform' a couple of hours later. Nasty pervert.

Also, her Dad is made out to be awful as he doesn't want her going up to the surface and marrying a stranger as a human... she's 16! Absolutely she shouldn't be going off and marrying anyone! King Triton 🧜🏼‍♂️ for the win!

"Blott on the landscape "is one of the funniest books ever written. I'm getting despairing that nothing can be funny anymore.

Dr Zhivago.
Watched it as a teen - beautiful romantic love story.
Watched it as an adult - he cheated on his wife and showed zero empathy for poor people who had nothing.

I thought the lyrics were a metaphor for being gay and concealing it, then coming out. It’s often been implied that Elsa is a lesbian.

I've never read the book but the dramatisation is laugh-out-loud funny!

Absolutely. Though the funny narrative was always helped and perpetuated by them only clipping in the funnier bits in the trailer. Even the the voiceover states "you'll laugh at what Rita and Sue do to stay one "jump" ahead" FFS

BFI original trailer;

It was and still is grim and reminds me all too much of the same kind of stuff that was going on in the town I grew up in and people turning a blind eye to what was, quite clearly, grooming. Worst was, it was always the girls in that situation that were bad mouthed about. Never once heard anyone comment about why the hell men in their 20s/30s were knocking about with school aged girls, picking them up after school etc..
I could tell you of dozens of girls from that time I knew or knew of that went through it, some even involving teachers, some were girls quietly married off age 16/17 to "save face" who just weren't at school the next term and another who hid her pregnancy until she literally couldn't.

"Different time" my backside. It was never right and people knew it then too.

Hilarious! I forgot about that!

This is true. I'd love to have seen a cut where the Head of HR stops the music and has him marched of the premises 😂