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to think that there are certain films you should NEVER rewatch?

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PyongyangKipperbang · 09/07/2021 21:32

For it was The Breakfast Club.

I was the perfect age for it when it came out, mid teens. OMG they GOT me! Their parents were arses too, they understood what it was like. Loved it my whole life.

Watched it again at 40 with teens and just thought "What a bunch of whining little shits" It is now my least favourite film of all time! It should have stayed in my memory as once you are the parent of the "misunderstood" teen you realise what an utter prat you were when you were 15!

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BillyRaywasapreachersson · 09/07/2021 22:37

I watched a Celebrity Gogglebox last night and they watched the scene in Back to the Future where Biff is about to 'have his way' with Marty's mum and everyone said (very rightly so) that that hasn't raised an eyebrow 30 years ago, but was v uncomfortable watching now.

Sparklingbrook · 09/07/2021 22:39

@BillyRaywasapreachersson

I watched a Celebrity Gogglebox last night and they watched the scene in Back to the Future where Biff is about to 'have his way' with Marty's mum and everyone said (very rightly so) that that hasn't raised an eyebrow 30 years ago, but was v uncomfortable watching now.
Especially when Martin Kemp was trying to tell Roman that he would have fancied Shirlie. Shock
Ratalie · 09/07/2021 22:42

Marley and Me. 90 minutes of tedium and then a dog does.

Fiddliestofsticks · 09/07/2021 22:42

@Sparklingbrook

My heart sort of dropped at the sequel announcement. The original has it's problems, but I love it and really dont want to see them force another story from it. Even worse with Swayze being gone!

slashlover · 09/07/2021 22:42

@BillyRaywasapreachersson

I watched a Celebrity Gogglebox last night and they watched the scene in Back to the Future where Biff is about to 'have his way' with Marty's mum and everyone said (very rightly so) that that hasn't raised an eyebrow 30 years ago, but was v uncomfortable watching now.
Also, Biff attacking her is what leads to Marty's dad standing up to him and the future where Biff is waxing his car. Why did Marty's dad employ someone who previously sexually assaulted his wife?
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PyongyangKipperbang · 09/07/2021 22:42

Totally agree about Blane V Steff.

Hated James Spader for years after PiP but then saw Stargate where he was the sexy geek.....what a revelation!!!

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Sparklingbrook · 09/07/2021 22:43

[quote Fiddliestofsticks]@Sparklingbrook

My heart sort of dropped at the sequel announcement. The original has it's problems, but I love it and really dont want to see them force another story from it. Even worse with Swayze being gone![/quote]
I think it's best left alone. I'm not sure people would want to see it.

LunaNorth · 09/07/2021 22:43

Big. She shags a 12 year old. Yuk.

BillyRaywasapreachersson · 09/07/2021 22:44

Sparklingbrook that was totally cringeworthy, good for Roman for walking off.

Cowbells · 09/07/2021 22:45

We watched The History Boys and Withnail and I with our DTeens, remembering them as funny interesting films about growing up. Both teens were genuinely disturbed that we were encouraging them to watch films with predatory paedophiles/letching fat old men preying on younger men in them. We'd forgotten that key aspect of both films because in those days it was laughed off and not treated seriously.

I watched a lot of Alan Bennet's Talking heads over lockdown too and came to the conclusion he is really creepy and weird about sex. The one where the mother falls in lust with her own teenage son has to be his own projected fantasy.

goose1964 · 09/07/2021 22:46

The deer Hunter and apocalypse now. Too distressing

grapewine · 09/07/2021 22:46

Any film by Richard Curtis.

Sparklingbrook · 09/07/2021 22:47

@BillyRaywasapreachersson

Sparklingbrook that was totally cringeworthy, good for Roman for walking off.
Yes, I mean Shirlie was hot as Martin said but so weird to say your son would have fancied his Mum Confused Bet the editors of the show couldn't believe their luck when he said it.
Cowbells · 09/07/2021 22:50

@DrSbaitso

We studied A View From the Bridge at school and were encouraged to see all the characters, especially the women, as instrumental and partly to blame for Eddie's weapon level shithousery.

Fuck you, Eddie, you homophobic, misogynistic, lying, racist, controlling bag of shit. Marco is a hero.

Really? Who encouraged that? I teach AVFTB and teach that the tragedy is entirely of Eddie's making for all the reasons you say. He is a self-deceiving, lustful, bitter, jealous, sour, deceitful, violent, homophobic misogynist.
elp30 · 09/07/2021 22:50

@PyongyangKipperbang

Totally agree about Blane V Steff.

Hated James Spader for years after PiP but then saw Stargate where he was the sexy geek.....what a revelation!!!

Omg, yes!!

The sexy geek does it for me, every.single.time!

Sparklingbrook · 09/07/2021 22:51

Steff
Duckie
Blane

Snog, marry, avoid?

DrSbaitso · 09/07/2021 22:53

Really? Who encouraged that? I teach AVFTB and teach that the tragedy is entirely of Eddie's making for all the reasons you say. He is a self-deceiving, lustful, bitter, jealous, sour, deceitful, violent, homophobic misogynist.

My school in the 90s. It was the general approach, from what I could tell from those who learned it at other schools.

Certainly Bea claimed that they were all to blame and nobody really seemed to argue with her from what I recall.

I'm glad the reading has changed. I'm not sure what Miller intended.

isthismylifenow · 09/07/2021 22:53

The Outsiders. I think I wore out the VHS of this movie as a teen. I can still reel off Nature's first green is gold.. It embedded in the brain.

Watched it a few weeks ago. What a load of shite.... They all have silly names, they can't act at all and worst of all, why did they all walk so strangely.

I said to teen dd, ooh we need to watch this, it's a classic and excellent etc. After wards she just looked at me with 🤔 this look. And said, what was that...

😂

Quaggars · 09/07/2021 22:53

Yes, Dirty Dancing is an iconic film, but pick it apart and you have teenage girl on a family holiday sleeping with sleazy been around the block older dance instructor.
As her parent not sure I'd be happy with that. Baby's Dad should have punched Johnny's lights out really

iI was going to say Dirty Dancing.
I still love the film (and the abortion storyline went straight over my head when younger!) thought she was just sick Blush
Totally on Baby's Dad's side now as an adult, I mean she was just turning 16, and he was tons older and sleeping about.
Why does getting old suck the joy out of everything lol

Sparklingbrook · 09/07/2021 22:56

Considering Dirty Dancing had abortion as part of the story you would have thought when they were having sex for the first time a nod to using protection might have been a good call.

Fiddliestofsticks · 09/07/2021 22:56

@Quaggars

Baby was 18. Johnny was 24. Not that bad. But he was sleeping with the older women!

DrSbaitso · 09/07/2021 22:59

I never got on with DD. Baby? They called her Baby? I did pick up that it was intended to highlight her youth and inexperience, but still. Baby? A teenage girl, through puberty, on the cusp of womanhood? Baby? It just squicked me out even as a 14 year old. She was clearly older than I was, and everyone was calling her Baby?

Plus she was a very boring character, although Jennifer Gray played it well.

PurpleParrotfish · 09/07/2021 22:59

Oh I still enjoy Dirty Dancing. No way did they stay together though, she went off and joined the Peace Corps I think.
There’s an interesting article here about how the writer fought to keep in the illegal abortion. It’s properly feminist. qz.com/quartzy/1576857/dirty-dancing-started-a-dialogue-about-reproductive-rights/

Quaggars · 09/07/2021 23:00

@fiddliestofsticks I'm sure she was 16 or about to turn 16?
Admittedly it's ages since I watched it but right at the beginning of the film when they're driving up to the mountains, isn't there some kind of voice over thing by Baby that says "that was the summer I turned 16?" or something like that?
Could be wrong though, if 18 not bad but the fact he shagged about I wou;dn't be pleased at as a parent lol

MrsMop1964 · 09/07/2021 23:00

I'd forgotten the film P'tang Yang Kipperbang 1982) till I saw the OP's name.
Re Breakfast Club, my 17 year old loves it.
I recently rewatched Pretty Woman with her and realised through her 21st century eyes that what I once saw as a romantic movie was all about prostitution and being 'saved' by a man. Took the shine right off it!