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?

Only got this far. They both did

You're correct. There was a section in a documentary a while back & it showed how the whistle sound matched the script - "sod it, the bloody thing's stuck again" 😆

There's other stuff too that comes up when you Google it 🙂

I loved Jim Carey in The Truman Show which he plays much straighter than his other characters. I can’t stand his gurning in pretty much anything else. Wish he had done more non-comedic/only light-touch comedy stuff.

Tried watching Liar Liar with my daughter but gave up after fifteen minutes.

I loved robocop and the running man as a kid and I’m talking under age 10 were they in appropriate of course but I still love those movies and watch them whenever they are on. As adults we see the nostalgia in the movies we watched as kids we don’t remember the bad stuff or things we shouldn’t have been watching (not meaning the movies I’ve mentioned) it’s not u til we watch it back as an adult we’re like wtf were we watching. I will throw Addams family values In to the mix uncle fester and Debbie getting jiggy no idea as a kid as an adult I get it shouldn’t have been allowed but still love it and let me kids watch it because they don’t get it either like we never at that age.
we watch these films and love them for the story and adventures, give me an 80’s 90’s or early 2000 movie any day most movies made these days are shit

We recently watched Mrs Doubtfire and there are a lot of Bastards and Assholes in the first half hour

My 6 year old hasnt heard these words before

the goonies should be a safer one

You'd think so, but when I watched it the other day I cringed at the upskirting scenes

I remember writing my film review on Misery in primary school 😂😂 i bloody loved it. Could have only been about p6! My Personal reading review in p7 was on silence of the lambs 🙈.
So a film with the word bitch in it wouldnt have phased younger me at all i suppose.
Still a disney girl at heart though!

I went to find the lyrics to prove you wrong! Turned out you’re right and they don’t scream. 😂🤯

Gremlins is not a children's film. I thought it was too and then rewatched it recently, and realised it definitely isn't, it's quite scary and very violent! I forgot!!!!

When my daughters were 16 they wanted to watch The Exorcist.
Was happy for them to see it (let’s face it I saw it in the cinema aged 14 🙄) so I bough a dvd on EBay.
The ONLY thing they complained about was the bad language ….

One of my standout memories of my late dad, is buying a video player (I'm circa 1975) probably in the late 80s. Taking me, I was about 13 at the time and my younger brother, to the video rental shop. Renting out Robocop and letting us watch it. He had no idea about video certificates and a 15 rated Horror as well. My mum wasn't too chuffed 😂

You can check why a film has a certain rating on the Certification site. I'd also recommend looking on IMDB as it will have parental advice about content. Also watch movies on a Sunday afternoon CH5 is best. They cut scenes to make them U. We watched Three Men and a Little Lady without the penis scene and other dubious references such as "not so fine as your mighty erections I'd imagine".

Wow I never knew this! My parents were quite strict with films and ratings when I was a kid, but I remember watching gremlins when I was primary school aged. I thought Gizmo was adorable but when the evil gremlins emerged I was terrified and crying.

Mum and dad seemed to think this was hilarious. It was a family joke for years. I'm actually really shocked they let me watch it now that I know it was a 15 at the time. I wonder if they knew it was a 15?

Me & my friend were 13 too.

DD and her friend used to recite Misery word for word.
DD did a brilliant Kathy Bates impression 😂
They were about 13

I remember being terrified watching Ghostbusters in the late 80s - that bloody ghost in the library! For years I’d leave the room when I knew that scene was coming.

We tentatively showed the film to our 2 (10 and 8) last year. I warned them and said if they wanted to stop at any stage we could. Well the little feckers just laughed at that scene and said “Was that it?!”. I guess the special effects don’t hold up that well 🤣

Even more inappropriately, I was 14 or 15 when that film came out and massively fancied the Sheriff (and still do to be honest) despite that!

We have all turned out alright after watching all of these films haven’t we... so what makes you now think our kids won’t?

The world really has gone WOKE!

Just enjoy it for what it is and was and don’t watch it if you don’t like it, it’s simple as, it was innocent back then and we didn’t think twice, don’t pick every single thing out and try and dissect it and I’m sure everyone will be fine…. :)

Oh dear, I was a rebel when I was a child in 80s Ireland with 2 channels 😂. I was 10 when I first watched Jaws on tv, apart from it being scary I was fascinated by sharks. To this day my old childhood friends won’t swim in the sea, I scuba dive intentionally with sharks 😊

What she would you say Forrest Gump is suitable for? Great film but I've forgotten a lot of it.

What age?

Probably 15+. Apart from anything else I think a younger age might find it a bit dull.

I went to the cinema to see it when I was 4. My little sister was 2.

It’s a PG and still is.

the 12 classification didn’t even exist till 1989 and has never applied to Grease

Not wanting to derail your thread, but I'm sure that when I was about 8 my Mum took me to our nearest city to see a film about the Black Death, where they were going round painting crosses on doors and shouting "Bring out your dead"! I'm over eighty now and still remember bits of it. What was she thinking?