To think that ageing influences your view of films?

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When I watched top gun as a teen I thought tom cruise was the height of cool. Watching it as a much older person I think he's an arsehole who should just follow the rules.

Same with the breakfast club. Just do your detention and stop whining.

Is it just me who's a cranky old bat or does anyone else suffer from this?

Oh absolutely. It also changes who you sympathise with. Now, watching The Breakfast Club I feel for the headmaster! Poor man. :D

Bugger Ally Sheedy and her angsty, nail bitten weirdness...bugger that sod Judd Nelson...he needs a good talking to!

I'm a cranky old bat too.

Grease? How sad that she feels she has to change.

Pretty Woman? Needs no elaboration.

Any film at all where a man won't take no for an answer and eventually the woman falls in love with him? Creepy...

Dirty Dancing? Still love the music but some old geezer who works at a summer camp having sex with very young camper? Bleagh.

Oh totally! Definitely have to agree with PP about Pretty Woman and Grease. Watch them again and their fundamental message is pretty terrible.

Not a film, but I watched My So-Called Life again and felt so sorry for the mother. I loved Angela when I first saw it, thought she was so cool and misunderstood. Now I'm definitely on the mam's side - she was only doing her best with a suddenly hormonal teen.

Definitely. I shout at Grease now when it comes on

DON'T CHANGE FOR HIM YOU NINNY!!

Yup.

Romeo and Juliet - the silly little pair of buggers.

It's A Wonderful Life - yeah, let's all blackmail poor George into having a boring little life. And why does not marrying George mean his wife would have ended up wearing glasses? Did she have to wank herself blind without him?

Dirty Dancing - 'You let me down, daddy!' Yeah, that would have washed with my dad if he'd found me out for shagging a redcoat at Butlins.

Pretty In Pink - Andie, that dress is totally shit. And tell your friend that any man who wants her to throw away all her vintage stuff and dress like a receptionist is not worth it.

I absolutely think this, illustrated by the following examples:

Ferris Bueller is an awful, entitled little shit, and Mr. Rooney was doing his job (and upholding moral and ethical standards) by trying to track him down.

Mayor Vaughn's position regarding closing the Amity beaches is actually quite defensible, if somewhat cavalier.

John Keating's students would have learned f- all except what a hoot John Keating is.

Watership Down is not a children's film.

It also changes who you sympathise with.

That's so true. When I watch a film with teens having fun, I just think 'the poor mother'.

Disney's the Little Mermaid. No you don't love him. You don't know him. And turn up to where you agreed to be. (In fact most Disney films now)

Agree with all previous posters.

Am very glad it is just not me! 😂

And Disney; men who kiss unconscious women aren't lovely, they're sexual predators.

Not a film, but I watched My So-Called Life again and felt so sorry for the mother. I loved Angela when I first saw it, thought she was so cool and misunderstood. Now I'm definitely on the mam's side - she was only doing her best with a suddenly hormonal teen.

I have just watched the first 5 minutes of 'My So-Called Life' on youtube. Angela is such a horrible little brat! I remember being that age though

To be fair in grease Danny changes too. He says so to his mates when he turns up in that jacket right before sexy sandy comes along.

I think that about Sex and the City when I watch it now. I'm the age now which they were in the show and although I love the episodes and love watching re-runs, but they all seem rather sad now! When I watched it in my teens when it was on I thought they were all really cool 30 somethings but they just don't appeal to me now I'm in my 30s. Maybe it's a generational thing?

Totally re sex and the city. I watch them now and cringe. Friends is also a bit disturbing. Lots of gay jokes etc.

It's all a bit sad! Childhood ruined!

Poltergeist is far too distressing now I'm a parent of small children.

How could Darth Vader even do that? I just want to give Luke a bowl of soup and sit him in front of the tv with a blanket.

No Steven Spielberg. I will not be emotionally manipulated by that child with huge eyes gulping into the camera.

Friends is also a bit disturbing. Lots of gay jokes etc.

You notice that with Frasier, too.

I've not watched friends in a long time do I might just watch some re-runs of it. I used to watch Ally Mcbeal too which I loved and they all looked and sounded like proper grown ups in it but they were only 28-30! I don't think I looked that "old" at 28/30 and still looked girlish rather than womanly iyswim. Maybe people just look younger nowadays compared to then?

Yes to all these but my bugbear is loud persistent swearing in a movie. I was brought up in a non swearing home and while i don't mind a few fucks being thrown about its the non stop effing and blinding that bothers me, especially when its really loud, its so aggressive or something. Ok i admit it i am officially an old gimmer.

Yes to SATC. They're all so whiney and self-obsessed. And boring! "I'm really into him but I feel like he just doesn't get me because I love me so let's go to that new bar and shoes! Oh and men! But no I want that one again. But does he get me? But a new bar!"

Inexplicably, I enjoyed it the first time.

More and more, to the point of feeling guilty about thinking of Mary Whitehouse as an interfering old busy-body when I was young. Some sex scenes on TV and film are now as graphic as soft porn used to be. Is it really necessary? Then there's the excessive violence and offering up criminals as heroes. How can we hope that people will choose not to carry knifes or empty an AK47 into their classroom when they're being encouraged by the entertainment industry to idolise guns and violence? Why all the gratuitous nudity? If it's really necessary for the plot then maybe but there's far too many instances of actresses having to get their bits out on screen just for the sake of it. How about some realistic nudity? Less of the perfectly toned and tanned and more lumps, bumps, c-section scars, uneven boobs and cellulite. Might do something to reduce the number of people with body confidence issues.

I recently watched Erin Brockovich again recently after having a child and was so fucking annoyed at how much time she spent at work and how she replied on pretty much a total stranger to babysit her children.

I keep wanting to shout "go bloody home, please!!"

But I don't because she's also pretty awesome too.

Lethal weapon as well. As much as I loved the character, just follow the fucking rules of being a police officer and do your job. 🙄

Yes and "I really want a boyfriend/when will I find the "one"" then when they get a boyfriend they pick it apart and it's all "he's to obsessive/doesn't pay me enough attention/he's too nice/he's a bastard. The men could never win! The only one I can relate to is Miranda I think!