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?

Fox and hounds! Water ship down. I know they don't have swearing but still....

Yeah, had a pang of nostalgia and fired up Flash Gordon with my kids only to be slack jawed at the level of sexism.

My parents took me to watch Jurassic Park when it came out. I worked it out the other day and I was 6 when I saw it in the cinema. I didn't sleep for a good few months after that. The kitchen scene was what did it for me. I was a sensitive kid though.

It very much depends on the kids. I found the Neverending Story scary too and still can't watch it with the swamp scene. Think it traumatised a generation 😂😂

Ha ha, we watched Big with our eight year old a couple of days ago. Didn't check the rating as assumed it was (still) a PG... Nope! It wasn't horrendous but I wouldn't have watched it with her if I'd known about (remembered) the swearing and (very tame) sex scenes. Not to mention the dodgy aspect of the thirteen year old in a man's body hooking up with an adult woman 😂 Thankfully I think it passed her by.

Dark crystal, labyrinth!

I know that on one level that it's just a plot device to enable children to have adventures on their own but why do so many children's stories have protagonists who are orphans?

I only really like "Finding Nemo." His mum was brutally dispatched in the opening scene which always causes a bad case of kid's eyes going the size of saucers and a bit of a collywobble but at least his Dad was looking for him.

Teen Wolf. It's really not a fun basketball movie!

DD wanted to watch the old James Bond movies. I've told her the misogyny will infuriate her too much.

Labyrinth was a very weird movie when you think about the storyline and her getting drugged. And the tights warranted an 18 cert pretty much 😂

There are some pretty odd sexual scenes in the Ghostbusters films iirc. I just sat there hoping it would go over DD1s head.

I think a lot of young kids had their first confusing sexual awakenings upon seeing Bowie’s tights in that film 🤣

But so does Danny
I think it's standard teenage behaviour...part of finding out who you are
Although granted in Grease they appear to be early 30'd

Just to clarify DD is not phased by any of this in the slightest and I don't react. She has never repeated bitch or retard. This is more for fun than a moan, a bit of inappropriate nostalgia

I put ET on for my class to watch years ago. It’s a U so that’s fine, right?
One kid calls another ‘penis breath’…..

Watching films again from the 80s is so different now. When they were on BBC or ITV some scenes were deleted or the words dubbed over so there was no swearing in the films when we were younger.
I can remember watching Beverly Hills Cop in later years and being shocked with all the swearing fairly near the beginning when the boss has a go at Axel. That wasn’t what was on the TV when I was younger.
but I’m of the era when Relax was banned and fuck was said on Channel 4 for the first time on British TV.
I still feel uncomfortable with people using the word fuck - especially non-English mother tounge people that don’t really know it is pretty bad in English.

Oh wow yes I had forgotten about this film. The way the sheriff of Nottingham is trying to force himself on Maid Marian and he forces her legs open at one point 😬I remember watching it at the time and wondering why people were finding that scene a bit amusing when he is literally trying to rape her.

I remember LOVING Drop Dead Fred as a child. My sisters and I used to act it out constantly and it was almost always chosen when we were allowed to choose a movie to rent.

I watched it again recently with my kids with my mouth on the floor. Nothing that made me regret watching it with them but my god it was vulgar 🤣

Robin Hood Prince of thieves was my bday gift around age 8, interesting viewing with a torture chamber in the middle of it.

Never ending story as the film of choice at school before Xmas holidays, 7 year olds, some kids were screaming 😆.

Good times 🫣

Wow, I forgot it's MN so I have put light-hearted in the title to keep the no-sense-of-humour Mnetters out

@Picklepower mike teevee says 'even a retard could figure it out'. What the hell!

Mike Teevee is a horrible character. He’s not supposed to be one of the good guys.

But Danny changed too! Ditched the leather jacket and got a cardy.
I just thought the casting was all wrong they looked like adults in their 30s not college kids.

I loved drop dead Fred too!

🤣🤣 my friend and I had a song sheet with the lyrics on from somewhere and asked her mum what the "chicks will cream" line meant. She told us that must have been a misprint as it was actually "dream" as in the girls would all dream about being lucky enough to have a drive in Danny's car!

Well obviously. The problem is the word retard not that his character isn't nice. The children in Charlie and the chocolate factory aren't nice, that's why the all end up the way they do