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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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2Hot2Handle · 19/11/2022 19:04

I feel exactly the same way about Mrs Doubtfire! There are so many films that I see differently now!

Star Wars episodes 1-3, I really questioned the wisdom of the Jedi, who decided that Anakin wasn’t worth listening to, or worthy of any praise or recognition for his exceptional achievements. They took him away from love and comfort, in the form of his mum and insisted he love his life without these core requirements in raising a stable person. So he went and found someone that told him all the things he wanted to hear, gave him “support” and corrupted his mind. I lost a lot of respect for the Jedi at that point!

2Hot2Handle · 19/11/2022 19:08

Ooh forgot to say that I feel this way about Star Wars 1-3 after becoming a parent. Before that, I saw Anakin as a spoilt, ungrateful brat, who just wanted to inflict pain. I mean, I don’t agree with him slaughtering men, women and children, but I can see more now why he went that way…

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.

2Hot2Handle · 19/11/2022 19:11

@FleecyBlanketPerson Home Alone 2 was even worse. How did they manage to lose him AGAIN?!? Surely Social Services should have been involved! And the hotel sends them a bill for his room service and the dad is mad about it!

LemonDrizzles · 19/11/2022 19:12

Mary poppins

When the dad literally says "fox hunting is good"

What? How did I miss that

SeptemberSon · 19/11/2022 19:13

Pretty Woman. Just.so.problematic.

FleecyBlanketPerson · 19/11/2022 19:14

2Hot2Handle · 19/11/2022 19:11

@FleecyBlanketPerson Home Alone 2 was even worse. How did they manage to lose him AGAIN?!? Surely Social Services should have been involved! And the hotel sends them a bill for his room service and the dad is mad about it!

I know I know 😂befriending tramps and old men who own toy shops!

badbaduncle · 19/11/2022 19:17

Dirty Dancing!
Big!

BiscuitLover3678 · 19/11/2022 19:17

More the books but I find Harry Potter much sadder as an adult. Not the deaths and big events but the way the dursleys treated him and all the pain he was in during OOTP. As a teen I found him so grumpy. As an adult I felt so sorry for him.

Also all the dead mums in films!

The Parent Trap is so messed up!

BiscuitLover3678 · 19/11/2022 19:19

I watched liar liar recently. I actually couldn’t stand Carey’s character at all. I really, really hated him. As a teen I knew he did the wrong thing but still found him funny. He’s such an arse!

Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 19/11/2022 19:20

Mary Poppins. Mother was demonised for being a suffragette. Father was demonised for working long hours to pay for the Regent’s Park mansion. I know he did get his job back in the end, but was flying a kite really going to solve his employment crisis.

nophonesonbed · 19/11/2022 19:21

Rita sue and Bob too. A fun film about people enjoying themselves. Or teens being sexually abused???

SecretVictoria · 19/11/2022 19:21

Dirty Dancing.
Grease.
Pretty Woman.

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LoveShitJokes · 19/11/2022 19:27

Home Alone? Shittest parents ever!!! I actually thought this as a child too.

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bonnielochs · 19/11/2022 19:29

"That Touch of Mink" with Doris Day and Cary Grant. As a youth I thought it was very glamorous and a bit of a love story. Watching it with adult eyes, the Cary Grant character was essentially a predator.

badbaduncle · 19/11/2022 19:30

nophonesonbed · 19/11/2022 19:21

Rita sue and Bob too. A fun film about people enjoying themselves. Or teens being sexually abused???

Yeah, read about the amazing and tragic woman who wrote it. Heartbreaking. She knew EXACTLY what she was writing and she lived on the hell hole estate it is set on.
So so sad: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dunbar

dropthevipers · 19/11/2022 19:31

All Hollywood westerns. Being a stupid kid I thought the Indians were blood thirsty savages rather than people defending themselves against genocidal headbangers.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 19/11/2022 19:43

There are some very dodgy bits in the first Back To The Future.

Racist comment/slur against the band

The way young Lorraine is basically sexually assaulted and it's all glossed over

Then, the fact that young Lorraine is coming on to her own son.

Claudia84 · 19/11/2022 19:44

Completely agree re Harry Potter. I find it a lot sadder now. The Dursleys completely fucked him up.
Also Snape is horrible throughout and not the hero he is made out to be at the end. Dumbledore is a master manipulator

I still love the books - it hasn't turned me off them - just they're not the swashbuckling tales I thought they were.

Sparklingbrook · 19/11/2022 19:46

Dirty Dancing.
Loved it as a teen. As a parent all I can think is ‘we took you on a nice family holiday and you sneak off to sleep with the sleazy been around the block older dance teacher’. Eww. And we’re going home right now, via the STD clinic.

DuncanBiscuits · 19/11/2022 19:48

Rocky. It breaks my heart because it’s been my all-time favourite film for decades, but the last time I watched it I realised that consent wasn’t very high on his priority list when it came to Adrian Sad

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 19/11/2022 19:51

Sparklingbrook · 19/11/2022 19:46

Dirty Dancing.
Loved it as a teen. As a parent all I can think is ‘we took you on a nice family holiday and you sneak off to sleep with the sleazy been around the block older dance teacher’. Eww. And we’re going home right now, via the STD clinic.

The bit that gets me now is her Dad having to give Penny an abortion. He literally broke the law for them and could have lost his medical licence.

Pinkittens · 19/11/2022 19:52

nophonesonbed · 19/11/2022 19:21

Rita sue and Bob too. A fun film about people enjoying themselves. Or teens being sexually abused???

I didn't ever think this was a fun film about people enjoying themselves, I'm not sure it was meant to be either. It was always depressing.

nophonesonbed · 19/11/2022 19:53

@badbaduncle oh my gosh so sad 😞

Jb2182 · 19/11/2022 19:56

She's All That. I used to love it then watched it a couple of months ago. They basically take a really pretty girl, call her plain and ugly, cut her hair and say "oh she's beautiful now!" Then later in the film completely gloss over the fact that Paul Walkers character tried to rape her! Literally have a little chuckle about it!!!!!! Mental!