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

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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?

I'm watching classics with dd 16 and I'm absolutely gobsmacked at the depth and breadth of misogyny in the films, I've been cringing and embarrassed. It's brilliant that she can call it out.

I think it’s positive that times have moved on and some of the things that happened in films like Grease etc aren’t acceptable any more. I still watch them with my 10 yo daughter and it gives us a good discussion around all the issues.

I was on a Disney cruise last summer where they didn’t control admission to a showing of that film, with the net result of young children (were talking 5 year olds) going into the showing for something that is really not appropriate. So they end up having to set the bar high, because when they go low people abuse it. That sadly means more mature kids such as your son miss out!

Danny totally changes himself too?

Gremlins was originally classified as a 15! It was changed to a 12A later when the new classification came in.

It's not really a slur in the US, it's seen the same way as idiot is here.

Same way they happily say crippled to refer to a disabled person.

@InWalksBarberalla not a joke, no. I was always under the impression that turd was a rude word. I, personally, wouldn't use it around children. On the day, both DH, my sister and another mum also picked up on the word and felt it was inappropriate so I didn't think it was controversial to think that it wasn't OK in front of young children.

I’m right there with you on that one sister. Horrifying

Don't get the objection to the word 'virgin' in Grease. Didn't anyone here go to a Catholic school? And even if you didn't 'virgins' seemed to be mentioned in every other Christmas carol we sang from about the age of seven onward. Hymn writers seemed to have a fixation on 'virgins' wombs' for some reason.

I once took the DCs to see the original Disney Pinocchio. The negative stereotyping of Italians was awful, so crass ... salami, garlic, violent temper ... I was dying inside. Can only hope they were too young to really take it in

Presumably they use whatever the Indian word for curry is, obviously! Or if curry isn't an Indian dish, then there are a few thousand Indian restaurants in Britain you need to write to. 😂

When I was at Uni in the 80s Monty Python Life of Brian was banned by the local council for being blasphemous.

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Jaws is a good one. I sat down to watch it with my 10 year old son, thinking that as it was a PG it would be fine. Lots of swearing, teenagers drinking, smoking weed and heavy petting in the sand dunes. I couldn't believe that it was a PG.

Grease was a 12, so 5 year olds should not have been watching it

Yes, but you can't beat the 'truffle shuffle' not to mention 'one eyed willy'.

Jaws is a 12A

I recall that a second, expurgated version was edited in order to capture the teen market.

Yup. This confirms it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076666/alternateversions/

Well it’s not really aimed at 5 year olds, is it? 🤷‍♀️

First Harry Potter was banned in our house for a while as even though it’s a U draco uses the words ‘fat arse’
Back to future is a PG but has swearing including ‘shit’ I was shocked seeing it on sky/cable asi had previously only seen the edited ITV version. Also questionable storyline of mum fancying and kissing her son !

Shirt circuit, ‘piss off’ I’m sure is used in it.

I think with the easy accessibility of virtually every film ever made lots of kids are watching stuff much too young. I mean lots of kids start loving dinosaurs at 4 years old and Jurassic Park is just a few clicks away so it’s kind of understandable so many parents put it on when they’re 5-8 years old. But probably not a good idea as it wasn’t designed as a young kids movie.

Meanwhile, the latest Bridget Jones is a 15! Ridiculous!

I re watched bugsy malone recently and I as a total prude am looking forward to watching it with my children.

Flight of the navigator was good too.

As someone said many films that we grew up loving were shown on terrestrial TV which would have beeped out or chopped out the swearing. Back to the future is a very good example of that, it doesn't have beeps, they just chop it out so you can't even tell. And then you go and buy the video and it's got the swearing in it. Shame dvds don't come with an option in the menu to have the "family" cut.

My elder DSC (9) said she was watching Squid Games at her mum’s house. I don’t think it is appropriate.

My DM is a nursery teacher and there were kids in her nursery(!!!!) who watched Squid Games!