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?

Oh totally! And real life Mufasa… RIP James Earl Jones you absolute legend 😢 💐

Speaking of the late great JEJ, Coming to America anyone? Loved that growing up (and beyond) all the sexual jokes went over our heads I think! 😂

I’ve never recovered from the Disney film Old Yeller. The film depicts the relationship between a boy and his dog - which he ends up having to shoot in the end because it has rabies. Brutal. Also Bambi. The fawn is orphaned when his mother dies in a forest fire. Dumbo - loses his mum in circus cruelty. The list goes on……………….

Sorry to make it worse but Bambi's mother was shot by hunters.....

The thing is with Plague Dogs that it is fiction but obviously experimental animal testing of this type is/was not. The beginning upset me rather than the end.

Yeah you know what I noticed in a rewatch with Dumbo, aside from the disgusting racism at the start (the faceless black circus labourers) and later with the ‘crows’ 🤨 it also has an awful message behind it too. Basically Dumbo is continuously bullied and abused because of his appearance, he is brutally rejected by the elephant troop who should have looked after him after he is cut off from his mum. Only at the end is he accepted and ONLY because he can fly, what kind of stupid message is that? You’re not ok Dumbo no, we don’t like you oh wait you can FLY?! Ok then we love you now! Wtf 😡 sorry this film incites an unnecessary level of rage in me! 😆 and the pink elephant sequence, flippin horrific.

Ghostbusters!! When he gets a blowjob off a ghost!!

Yes was v nasty animal cruelty, all the more reason you root hard for the dogs to get away, somewhere safe and be cared for somewhere. The writer/s decided that wasn’t edgy enough I guess 🙄

Ha ha yes! So many watched Ace Ventura Pet Detective with kids as remembers it being family film - first seen he is getting a blow job!

Reminds me of Phoebe in Friends' innocent memories of that film."Babies. The dog had babies!"

It's almost the opposite really. He had to join a sports team and work to get that jacket. She changed her outfit. She might have gone home that night, brushed her hair & put on her other clothes. Who knows.

But they both changed for the other person. Not just her

I remember the 'rape' scene in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe was quite shocking

Aslam on the stone table etc

But surely you'd agree that death needs to be presented more gently to kids (smaller kids, at any rate) than to adults? Bambi and Black Beauty aren't too upsetting from what I can remember, ditto Big Bird having death explained to him on Sesame Street (totally showing my age now 😄), but some of the stuff deemed suitable for kids is certainly too upsetting for some of them imo.

We all know some kids are more sensitive and easily upset than others, and while that doesn't mean they should be wrapped in cotton wool, I do think parents and other caregivers need to know the child and know how they typically react to things. I remember finding all sorts of random things upsetting when I was a young child, including things that were actually aimed at children. My parents didn't wrap me in cotton wool as a result, but I definitely think they took it into account in terms of what I was and wasn't allowed to watch, and I remember having potentially upsetting stuff explained to me quite carefully at times. I think they got it right tbh, for me anyway, other kids were probably more robust than me and could cope with upsetting content more easily.

What rape scene?!

There was no rape scene.

No I didn't think so, that was my favourite book when I was younger

It was rough 😂

You can keep your ET's, Gremlins and all the rest - I had a movie night at my friends house when we were about 9 and guess what family favourite we watched?

IT.

I didn't sleep for years and my mother was furious!

Watched it at age 4 as I wanted to see it and it terrified me for 30 YEARS 🤦🏻‍♀️ watched it quite recently and was like wtf was I scared of 😂 the newer version of it is more scary than the Tim curry version. I also watched Edward scissorhands at the same age and to this day I can’t watch it or even see a pic of him Johnny depp in that movie its terrifying

Well they both completely change themselves and then the message at the end is just be yourself and be open with your feelings.

The best thing about Grease is all the conspiracy theories around it like how Sandy is dead and the ending is ascending to heaven or it’s a coma dream. There’s lots of rabbit holes you can go down on the internet with it.

The biggest plot hole being Kevin knows how to use a phone and that he should call the police because he does it at the end. So that tells us he planned the entire thing purely for his own pleasure and enjoyment 😂

@pebbles8811 After we watched it, when I didn't manage to drop off I used to have a recurring dream of being laid in bed and Pennywise would be looking through my bedroom window and I'd wake up! God it frightened me to death for so long! Loved Edward Scissorhands though!

Some of them were! Stockard Channing was 33.

I love the pink elephants sequence and the baby of mine 🎧 but I completely agree with you. As a child it outraged me that the cute baby elephant was treated so cruelly by everyone (obviously didn’t pick up the Jim Crow references or would have been pretty unimpressed too). I did say upthread I was as sanctimonious as a child as I am now!

They were meant to be at high school not even college. 17/18 year olds.

I loved Ace Ventura as a child, I even got it for Christmas and annoyed my parents so much watching on their tv I got my own video recorder for my room asap. But I never even clicked to a blow job at the start!