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 rewatched Liar Liar the other day as I remember loving it as a 9/10 year old. I have no idea why 😂 the first thing Jim Carey does when he can't lie is tell a woman she's got big jugs he wants to squeeze, not Tom mention he calls his ex wife to say he can't come to their son's birthday as a woman is on top undressing him.

I wanted to try The Mask or Ace Ventura with my primary age kids but think I may hold off!

OMG began watching Raiders of the Lost Ark with my teens. First they were disgusted by the racist portrayal of 'natives' . Then Marion says he took advantage of her when she was a child. And we switched it off.

@StMarie4me completely appreciate that and I didn't except all sunshine and rainbows. I was shocked as I was a huge Disney fan as a child but clearly some of these finer details had gone over me. That or I'm made of stone 😂

It was a PG when on VHS. It used to be shown on the TV afternoon or early evening.

I find the violence in Home Alone to be like cartoon Tom and Jerry violence. I grew up watching Tom and Jerry, and Bottom, so I loved comedy violence

lol me and my brother used to quote this to each other when I was younger! Too young 😂

We tried to watch Home Alone 2 this Christmas and had to turn off. It wasn't the slapstick violence as such but the language- too many insults and name calling. Also the movie clip where a man kills a woman and calls her a filthy animal, the general lying, the sibling fighting.
Not our idea of fun.

Teenagers swearing and drinking bothered you?

What did you think about the naked teenage girl being eaten by a shark and her naked body being found bitten in half and the description?

In a film about a killer shark on the loose, eating people.

It was rated as an "A" when it came out - a PG today

"Jaws was classified ‘A’, uncut, by the BBFC in 1975. This was the equivalent of ‘PG’ today, and was the subject of some debate at the BBFC at the time, as it was recognised that the work contained some intense and frightening ‘horror‘ moments. The BBFC considered that the film would have an enormous appeal to boys of 10 or 11 upwards, and it consulted child psychiatrists and showed the film to test audiences of children before deciding on the ‘A‘ category. Also, Jaws was one of the first films to be given content advice. Part of the terms of its classification was that a sign should be displayed in cinema foyers, saying 'Parents are warned that this film contains sequences which may be particularly disturbing to younger unaccompanied children"

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/centre-for-law-society-and-popular-culture/projects/classified/the-exhibits/jaws

Love LOB. The scene with Michael Palin as the ex leper is one of my favourite things in life.

I do actually love Greese ( though had forgotten about Danny also changing himself), just don't think it's appropriate for pre-teens.

Problem Child.

I loved it as a kid! Watched it with my two and was horrified when the the 'baddie' broke into the kid's house and raped his step mom...but she liked it, fell in love with him and they ran away together 🥴

I remembered that when my dc asked to watch it and said no. It is a shame as I know the older would love it, but I am preserving that as long as possible.

That was a product of its time though. It's one of my favourite ever films. I think the message in it goes over most people's heads, they just assume it's some disco dancing movie when it's so much more than that - it's about escapism from the dead end life and fucked up place New York was in the 70s, with its racism, sexism, homophobia, violence etc. It was always meant to be a dark movie, and definitely not for kids.

I vividly recall going to see a modern interpretation of the Canterbury Tales in Leeds, a school party arrived just as it was starting, accompanied by the Nuns from their school. In one story, can't recall which one, a couple are in bed, shown as a sheet held vertically with much action going on behind it. The school party all stood up, led by the Nuns, and left, as noisily as they'd arrived. The Nuns clearly didn't know the Canterbury Tales!

Speaking of Eddie Murphy, another film I would recommend is "Trading Places" (1983) with Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. A really great film.

One of my favourite films of all time, I seem to find something new every time I watch it.
All those people pearly clutching about various films, I wonder how many of you saw these films as young teens etc and noticed what you're now complaining about? An adult sees far more, especially if they're forensically looking for it, than a young viewer.

Well quiet but I remember watching it and thinking it was all about dancing. Only watching it years later I realised it wasn’t. Can’t remember how old I was the first time I saw it at the cinema definitely not 18.

Just googled 1977 I was 13 so not sure how I managed to watch it at cinema.

Saturday Night Fever was originally an art house movie and was meant to be gritty. But it was re released after the success off Grease.
Some small local cinemas back then were staffed by young adults who did not care much about age restrictions. I saw Midnight Express at 15 in the cinema and I looked about 12. The young guy in the box office did not care.

Well quiet but I remember watching it and thinking it was all about dancing. Only watching it years later I realised it wasn’t. Can’t remember how old I was the first time I saw it at the cinema definitely not 18.

I remember going to watch so many 18 movies from about 15 onwards. They'd just ask you your age at the ticket desk and you'd pipe up "I'm 18" and job done!

Yes, our local cinema was as lax at the ticket booth as it was at its bar. Different times.

The big cinemas in cities were not lax in my experience back then. It was small local cinemas that had a couple of teenagers or early twenties staff working there at night. Once the manager had gone home, they did not care who they let in.

@Minimili Thelma and Louise: on the first night of their trip someone tries to rape Louise so Thelma shoots him, thus prompting the running away and the eventual drive into the canyon.

It's a great film, but not for kids.

With the notable exception of the infamously rated U watership down, where the seagull tells one of the rabbits to "piss off" 😂

Our local cinema up until quite recently would put an intermission into films to sell ice cream and cups of tea (with cups and saucers from a big teapot).

The Brave Little Toaster terrified my little ones some years ago!
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjxDSPts89cjoBQX59H7PVpGHvJ_Zp1aMD1Cx9Pm6-VUMdi8Cz Bit dark..

Not a film but I hated Tracy Beaker when my kids were young. They got threatened that if they EVER spoke to me like that little shouty madam, I wouldn't be responsible for my actions..