To be shocked watching back kids movies from my childhood with DD

[Picklepower]

DD is 6 and we watch quite a few films together, mixture of old and new. Last Halloween I was so excited to watch a film from my childhood, decided against hocus pocus but went with Casper. Well, turns out not once but TWICE Eric idle's character shouts BITCH at Carrigan. (She's is tbf but a bit much for a Pg film).

Just sat down to watch Charlie and the chocolate factory (from 2005!) and mike teevee says 'even a retard could figure it out'. What the hell!

Any other corkers you've come across watching back your childhood films?

Return to Oz!!! One of the truly most horrifying children’s films ever made!

Saturday Night Fever hasn’t aged well either.

Hahahaha

I remember watching one where Bottom is fucking her on a swing and making donkey noises. Bloody weird

Other than my deep fear of going to prison or being framed 😂

The point is that back in the day 'retard' was an acceptable insult. We've changed our standards (for the better) but the movies still stand

If you want no swearing, stick to U.

But then you watch Watership Down….

That's the one, I think! He was certainly yelling "Heehaw!" while he did it...

I stand corrected - thank you.

When The Wind Blows is deeply upsetting. But absolutely wonderful.

Haven't rtft so apologies if I'm repeating... but Back to the future when the Mum fancies him. I thought at first it was like a soul mate connection thing which would be kind of sweet but it was actually quite sexual.

Also Hocus Pocus the little girl repeatedly teasing her brother who was 15 or 16 about still being a virgin. He was just a kid! And she was literally a little girl joking about it. That surprised me. Also it caused very awkward conversations with my family.

It's full of homophobia. The F word is dropped regularly.

*Might be the sequel that I'm thinking of.

That’s hilarious. 🤣

Yes that's my memory of hocus pocus too. Also the zombie ex boyfriend 😂

Also back to the future while the bully tries to rape a woman in a car. My local cinema showed this in their “family classics” slot and I took my kids as none of us had ever seen it. I was horrified!

It was the 2005 version, so that's what surprised me. DD was talking and didn't notice, and I wouldn't stop her watching it again, it was just surprising

Animations can be very deceiving. Watership Down, When The Wind Blows, our parents thought, "It's a cartoon, it'll be alright."

Animal Farm: When Boxer gets taken away to the glue factory. Benjamin the donkey! Let's all relive the horror and make ourselves cry:

I remember Geordie Racer and Dark Towers.

There was another programme about the same time where they went to the Isle of Wight to visit "Cows that you cannot milk", "Needles that you cannot sew" etc.etc. and the (genuine - I am not lying here) cliffhanger at the end of one episode was that the guy got his bike wheel stuck in the tracks on a railway crossing with a train coming. The episode switched to the credits whilst he was trying to free his bike!)

I was about 10 years old and had nightmares about that for months too!

(Genuinely I promise everything I had said is 100% true - this was at my primary school in Ipswich in the late 1980s / early 90s)

When I was a young teen I was really in to Bad Girls

I watched it the whole way through with my mum. I must have been about 11 when it started.

Watched a random clip recently which was the 'Am I a dirty slut Mr Fenner?' call to his wife sex scene 😱 Don't know what my mother was thinking 😂

That and Wizard of Oz.

Creeped out by both of them.

The wheelers and Zombi with her many heads. Loved it though.

Yep. I met Oliver Postgate (I have held Bagpuss and Professor Yaffle, bow down to me).
He said that a lot of what the Clangers is saying is swearing. There is one bit where they can’t get the door open and the Clanger says ‘oh sod it, the fucking thing is stuck again’. In the 90s they made toys of the Clangers and this was the sound sample they used.

Agree grease hasn't aged well, but I realised when I was older that the versions we saw on TV were cut depending on the time of day. Never saw the sex in the car scene until I had it on video as a teen. Sure there were a few other bits clipped out too.

Saturday night fever was the one that shocked me when I saw it as a teen in the 90s. I'm sure my mum thought of it as a fun dancing film as everyone loved John Travolta at the time, but it was fecking dark.
The worse thing I found, if I recall correctly is that the main character rapes a girl, and at the end she is COMFORTING him as he is upset about the death of his friend.
I can accept the rape not being considered a big deal/likely to be reported by the victim or punished as depressingly realistic, but way it was presented as the MC still being someone we were supposed to feel sorry for and her not hating his guts made my skin crawl.

Grease was an 18 certicate though....

@RJ2023 god kids TV in the 90s loved a scary, dark cliffhanger. I remember an episode of Grange Hill where a girl got a new bike for her birthday and the next day didn't turn up for school, worrying her friends a bit. The episode ended with her friends finding it in the canal and the police retrieving it as the credits silently rolled just to add to the sense of doom.

What 😂

In the rescuers, bianca wasn't allowed to go off on her own to do a rescue mission and had to take a man mouse with her (Bernard) because she's a woman.