To ask what films you see differently now than when you watched them as a kid/teenager?

[Pandaparty]

We rewatched Mrs Doubtfire last night. As a kid, I was so on Daniel's side and didn't have much sympathy for Miranda (Sally Field), and couldn't warm to Stu (Pierce Brosnan) at all. Now though, I'm with Miranda all the way. She traded in a husband-child for a man who she can depend on and who loves her kids. Daniel's such a sleaze when they're at the pool too, making the women feel uncomfortable.
(I suppose our outgoing Prime Minister is a good example of people being prepared to overlook huge personal failings if someone is charismatic/"fun" enough.)
Anyway. What other films do you look at completely differently now than when you first watched them?

Ashamed to say it but Jane Eyre. Watched it as a teenager and didn't see any issue with Rochester lying about being married and locking up the mad wife! He wasn't two-timing Jane so the dishonesty went right over my head. His deviousness in general worries me now, but I get the impression Jane liked being kept on her toes so shrugs shoulders

Most 90s films! Ace Ventura and nutty professor are two we watched recently with the kids and they were so dated. Very sexist and crude jokes that are just totally inappropriate!

Things like 16 Candles etc have aged very badly.

Loved it at the time but it's a film about date rape being funny and awesome 😱

Pretty woman ...
Young me... Nice romance film, bit of comedy, woman gets lifted from poverty by rich older bloke.
Mid 50s me... omg what a horrid film, she'd be round the bins giving blow jobs to sleazy businessmen for 10bucks a pop. Romanticising prostitution. What message does it send.. you'll be rescued from sleaze when some entitled rich older bloke buys your services and then your life.
Eww.

Not a film but DH and I were amazed when we watched the old TV series of Batman made in the 60's we had watched it as children and had no idea that it was loaded with innuendo which had previously gone right over our heads. The not so special affects were also really funny but we had lapped them up originally, who knew batman didn't really walk up walls it was just the camera turned sideways.🤣

My thought was immediately Mrs Doubtfire before I even read the OP! Watching that as a divorced mum made me so uncomfortable about how many boundaries he crossed.

Dirty Dancing. Watching it as a teen was all about the dance routines and seeing Baby go from being an awkward teen to being a sophisticated woman (in my 13 year old eyes).

Watching it was an adult, Dr Houseman’s compassionate treatment of Penny after her abortion (and his anger at whoever is responsible) is something that didn’t stand out for me before, but does now.

I also agree with Baby’s parents that the relationship with Johnny isn’t really appropriate!

Grease - the way the boys treat Eugene would be classed as bullying these days. Not funny at all.

All of the American Pie films. And anything that was similar. They haven't dated well.

I came in to say Grease, Pretty Woman and Dirty Dancing.

Friends too.

Agree with Mrs Doubtfire.

Also Pretty Woman. Glossing over something where the reality (she was an 'ordinary' street prostitute I think) would have quite different. And not a good basis for a relationship with the character Richard Gere played. Better for her to have gone off without him at the end I think.

The Graduate… watching it as a teenager: how retro and sophisticated and all about 1960s ennui and breaking out of the stultification of middle class American values, etc etc.
Watching it a couple of weeks ago when it happened to be on the telly: god; his parents are really nice and are so proud of him; and he’s a shitty narcissistic ungrateful lazy manchild who treats women like dirt, and thinks it’s okay to throw over his lover for her actual daughter without the daughter ever knowing that he’s slept with her mum.

(See also: any film involving Woody Allen, whose characters even in the 90s seemed a little bit funny and charming, but now look like the epitome of sleazy selfish entitled sexist boomer arseholes who treat women like rubbish.)

Also agree re Dirty Dancing. We were meant to think the parents are repressive meanies and the sister is an idiot; but now they just seem really nice and caring people, and Baby and Johnny look like selfish idiots who are both not only vain, but also have temper/sulking issues.

Weird Science.

I thought it was funny when I saw it as a teenager, but watched it again recently and it made me feel so ill to see the boys ‘creating’ their ideal woman, enhancing her boobs etc.

I was really uncomfortable when they started perving over her lathering up in the shower too.

100% agree with Mrs Doubtfire. If I found out my husband was having a birthday party for our child without me, all the while wrecking the house, expecting me to clear up after and then made out I was the problem I'd have equally lost my shit.

Agree with all the above.
Big, really creeped me out watching it recently and that poor mother, JFC.
Also Ghostbusters, Venkman is such a sleazy pig and he's supposed to be likeable and charming.

Splash. It was a few years ago that I watched it again as an adult so I can't remember the specific details but I can remember that I was surprised that what I'd thought was a sweet love story between a man and a mermaid actually came across as a man being emotionally abusive to said mermaid to get his own way.

Desperate Housewives, I was a teenager when it came out and recently rewatched it all. I see every character through different eyes now I am older.

Also agree with Mrs Doubtfire, I used to think the mum was a cow but she is completely in the right.

I saw Sliding Doors the other night. Loved it as a late teen. Now I’m just baffled why the two gorgeous successful lead women are fighting over a man child. He must be something in the sack because he’s a failing writer and not even that nice. Though the apartment in South Ken is lovely, so maybe that was it.

ferris beuller, what a hideous shit head

The devil wears Prada. I now hate the way that Andy isn't allow to grow or change, not only by Nate, but her friends. I would have liked her to outgrow her relationship. The same with Emma in Brideswars.
Loads of films were the career driven female is portrayed as selfish etc and it ends were she sees the error of her ways and settles for red flag behaviour in the hope of becoming a housewife (for that reason I struggle with Christmas films from the US).

16 Candles reminded me of the scene in The Breakfast Club where Bender tries to put his head up Claire's skirt and it's played for laughs.

Gerry in Sliding Doors wasn’t even attractive-I never saw the appeal at all! Bad casting!

Mrs Doubtfire, especially the scene where the son catches him at the toilet.And then he swears him to secrecy.

Saying that i dont like Robin Williams anyway.

Breakfast at tiffinys - so so bad for about a million and one reasons 😖.

I watched the original ghostbusters recently and one of the characters gets a blow job off a ghost. Completely went over my head as a kid. Casper has quite abit of swearing which is unheard of now in kids films. The witches has a scene where a baby in a pram is pushed down a cliff