Storylines in mainstream films which are morally wild

[HairdryerMary]

Big Daddy
Overboard
While you were sleeping

‘Adore’ (Naomi Watts, Robin Wright)

I’ll have sex with your teenage son, and you have sex with mine….
Their marriages won’t stop us!

Awful.

Big, when '12 year old' tom hanks has sex with his colleague

Grease

Gone girl

In fairness, though, we’re supposed to find it awful though, aren’t we? The parents are dreadful, and we’re not supposed to think it’s an ok thing to do to hire someone to be a ‘girlfriend experience’ for a shy school-leaver, and the son is crushed when he finds out.

Are there any fictional films with storylines or plots that make complete sense logically or morally?

Barmecide, I agree its meant to be morally dubious, but it kinda grossed me out rather than entertained ne, you can tell it was written by 2 men

But they don’t both change. Danny bins the sports jacket as soon as Sandy rocks up in improbably tight black trousers with a fag in her mouth.

I thought you were talking about Annie!

Clicked now 🤣 WW

But bloody hell Mrs Hannigan...

Yeah I don't doubt it! It just irritates me tbh.

I think it’s less that than some films (often comedies or romcoms) normalise, romanticise or play for laughs fairly dubious stuff.

Mrs Doubtfire is a kind of comic take on Mrs Henry Wood’s 1861 sensation novel East Lynne where an adulterous ex-wife thought to be dead in a train crash returns to her former family home as a governess to her children, helped by disfiguring scars, blue glasses and a fake foreign accent — but she’s punished by the plot, finding governessing her children unacknowledged miserable, and losing two children to the train crash and TB, and dies broken. (Sensation novels loved people breaking the rules and punishing them thoroughly, to make sure the reader grasped this was Not Ok).

OK, the films we’re talking about aren’t from the mid-19thc, but there’s often a fairly disturbing subtext to the happy ending.

Big is horrific.
I watched it with DD2 who was 😮that I chose it for her

@rocket74 did Charlie even want the chocolate factory? I don't think he did. He wanted a bedroom and some protein. Having to get that through taking on a huge business like the chocolate factory seemed like a big compromise. What if he had said no? Wonka would have just been like 'off you fuck then'. Does Charlie have any business acumen?
Don't even get me started on the first film version where Charlie drinks the fizzy lifting drink thus making him as bad as all the other children. Charlie is supposed to be Christ like and selfless, HE WOULD NOT HAVE STOLEN THE FIZZY LIFTING DRINK. It defeats the whole purpose of the tasks which Wonka sets to find the child worthy of the factory.

@Barmecide Ah I didn't know that. Interesting. The older I get the more I relate to Sally Fields' character. Daniel is a PITA.

Pretty woman is the worst - never liked it

Any pre-frozen Disney movie where the princess is gifted to the hero as a reward by the king.

Big
Sixteen candles
Pretty in pink
Breakfast club

Basically anything that treats women like meat

@MissBuffyAnneSummers my memory is hazy but why breakfast club?

Hairdryer Mary, Really loved Mrs Doubtfire ,however now it just seems a bit sad,like you say Daniel is a typical Disney Dad ,all big gestures (Petting zoo) and walking out of his job . Poor Miranda is left holding the fort .when she comes and says how many times she got home early to spend time with the children ,but ended up cleaning up again very poignant

Claire is sexually harassed throughout including sticking his head up her skirt to teach her to find herself

Pretty Woman and Dirty Dancing make me wince now. Especially when I remember how soppy I was about them as a teenager
I feel the same about Grease.

I had a summer romance with this boy. We've bumped into each other again at school and he's decided to give me the cold shoulder because he's embarrassed by me, but I really like him. I know, I should change everything about myself and my style and start smoking so he'll want to date me.

Ooh I've watched all them films. Overboard is morally wild 😂lol. Good film though I haven't seen it for ages. Loads of films are morally wild lets be honest.

Pretty Woman and Dirty Dancing make me wince at the time. Grease went over my head - I think I just enjoyed the songs

Very funny. 😅

Although I always thought the moral message was about not making assumptions about people, and about how “more innocent times” weren’t necessarily as innocent as all that.

Yes!
I'm a parent of identical twins and we've enjoyed and watched these films numerous times over the years. However, the twins don't seem remotely cross about it, as you'd expect them to be. Lied to for their entire lives the existence of their sibling kept from them. Also doesn't treat them as individuals as the parents take one each and off they go. Would that have happened with different age siblings...

The Thorn Birds - creepy and grooming

Big

Grease

Pretty Woman

Run Fat boy Run (I’m looking at you Simon Pegg).
Where a man does a quest (run a marathon) and it rewarded with woman as prize (the woman he previously jilted at the altar).