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?

That's as maybe but he forgot the golden rule in running...always look where you are going and don't get distracted by your ex going for a walk with a new bloke.

Yes, it definately depends on the child or even adult.

DD watched The Shining at a friends house, she must’ve been about 15. I told her that it was very scary and not to watch, but they did. She was fine and said I’d built it up too much and it wasn’t that bad 😱😂
I do love that film myself though, seems like I’ve seen it a hundred times, but it always scares me!

Not read the whole thread, but has anyone mentioned Howard The Duck yet?

This is the thing though, everyone is shocked, don't be its needed my children have always watched horrors with me and action movies with lots of swearing and I swear but they have never swore infront of me because they have respect and if they do swear infront of you the respect has gone.

I need to watch The Shining again. I persuaded my friend to watch Midsommar with me a few months back, a film i really like. Afterwards she was like "wtf have I just watched?" I felt really bad! She's now watched The Substance & says it's much more disturbing so I think I'm off the hook 🤣

Haha. I was bored once and decided (for some reason I can't remember) to watch Gremlins. Holy crap 😳 I'd totally forgotten how much violence there is and I've watched it, and the sequel, loads of times. I ended up turning it off 😆

Well I watched Home alone with my 5yo, he found all the brutal scenes funny but he was shocked how horrible was Kevin’s mum to him when sent him to the attic even though he was scared and how she spoke to him. Also the horrible language used by his siblings and cousins. That’s what I found shocking when re watching it!
on another note - my kids (5&3 yo) after watching Sing walk around singing - oh my gosh look at her but ! 🤯

I watched it with my 11 yr old twins recently, I fast forwarded the one sexual scene where Jenny takes off her top and asks Forrest if he was ever with a girl. He says yes he was because he sat beside them in home economics, bless him.The rest of it is OK though, she plays guitar on stage naked but it's not sexual. To be honest it was just too adult themed and i wished I held off a bit because i love the movie and would like them to like it. They didn't get the comedy elements like the smiley face or apple investments. One was very upset about Bubba.

@TheEveningSun yes what surprised me was the extent of how Kevin's brother bullies him and no one intervenes. I hate the movie, can't cope with the violence and the tarantula but the kids love it!

I loved Robin hood Prince of theives as a young teen.
Went several times to see it at the cinema.
I remember the scene with Marion and the sheriff got lots of laughs.
I never saw it as shocking, more a comedy scene like most of his were.

It is strange to look back at movies (or TV series) that you enjoyed in the past, and you understand it very differently at some point later. Saturday Night Fever is one prime example for me. As a teen I went to see it and really enjoyed it, the feel of the movie, the music, the dancing, it felt very "real". However, the rape element went totally over my head. It's not that I was not aware of it, I was, it just didn't seem a big deal to me at the time. Someone was raped, I knew what it meant, but clearly I did not "get" it.

Later, as an adult, working in police and then later in legal area, this movie came up in discussion and books. I re-watched it and was appalled. I turned it off.

I recently re-watched it with DH (who likes the music, had never seen it and it would not be his "cup of tea"). Now as mid-50s person, I see it as low budget, gritty, unknown actors, very much of it's time. I enjoyed it again. It's probably a good document of it's time? Including the sexual violence, language, music, etc.

There is an interesting article here on Grease, which changed lyrics www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/01/grease-live-lyric-change-greased-lightning?srsltid=AfmBOopYvKCWOAANLksknOsE5hnqG4ts0o8OOMVRr4UHLQs3_PSMwpcX

I think that young people just look at movies in a very different way to older adults. Things take on a different meaning and can have more significance as we develop a more mature perspective on life. There are also some things that younger kids don't really understand.

I remember going to see Pleasantville movie. I didn't know anything about it in advance, it just was on the time we were there, and it was a rainy day, and there were a lot of kids at the movie. I was surprised at (Joan Allen’s) Betty masturbation scene, but I'm sure it didn't register with most people there?

It's not just movies though, you could say the same about books and media in general. I grew up in a very conservative (and sheltered!) home. That changed when my mother passed, and I went to boarding school. I remember the girls reading "Flowers in the Attic", I didn't read it but have heard it's awful and yet that seemed to be a popular book at the time.

Im so glad this thread popped up - so many golden oldies I’d not thought about in years!

Today I took a risk and watched a movie with my 6yo thy I’d never seen before myself…. FLUBBER! We both really enjoyed it 😂

@wizzbitt With the Woman in Black, was that the old one with Adrian Rawlins from about 1990, that not many people know exists, because it's been overshadowed by the Daniel Radcliffe one? I've not the seen the Daniel Radclifffe one, but the old one is terrifying, especially when the woman appears in the bedroom. And one reason that old one was so scary was the music, and the lack of special effects: it was the suggestion of things that happened, proper storytelling.

Bugsy Malone anyone? And then my primary school doing a production of it!?

I put the Santa clause on once and instantly regretted it!
Tim Allen in his underpants and quite a few references to Santa not being real! 🙈

My high school did!
when I was at primary school we rehashed the thriller video! I remember at the time thinking it was super old (must have been about 10-12 years old at the time) but it wasn’t really! My parents still had a video of when it first aired on terrestrial television and had ‘hired’ a video recorder to specifically record it! Madness when you think about it now!

I loved Labyrinth as I am a David Bowie fan

It's not just kids films or old films.

When my dad comes to stay we watch a couple of films but I find I'm needing to vet then. I thought 'Operation Mincemeat' would be a good choice but watched just to check.

Nope, two sex scenes. My dad is mid 80s I don't want to watch sex scenes with him.

Although my carer was traumatised by the old B and W version of 'The picture of Dorian Grey' the 1945 one.

Spoiler alert

Although the film is in B and W until the end when the picture is in colour.

The whole point of the film is that he is sceptical and then he literally becomes Santa Clause, so I don't think you have to worry about beliefs too much there!

Howard the Duck anyone?

I watched this loads as a kid and loved it. How crazy is that film? Duck boobs! 😂 I think the lead actress invites Howard to bed , loads of sexualised content really. Tim Robbins performance is hilarious though!

It's kind of sickening the teachers thinking it was appropriate for year 6 girls to be dressed in fishnets and acting sexy isn't it? And all the parents going along with it.

My secondary school did, we were about 12. Nothing whatsoever to be shocked about

@KnutonHardz flowers in the attic is an incestuous story but it is actually a really good series it’s very well written and they have made tv movies for all the books definitely worth a watch or read