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To be shocked watching back kids movies from my childhood with DD

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 17:10

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?

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AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 27/02/2025 21:32

@brunettemic the mannequins bug me now (never queried them as a kid) I mean who has them laying around their house!

ruethewhirl · 27/02/2025 21:54

KimGa · 17/02/2025 18:52

Just rewatched Grease for the first time in years with my dd. There’s a lot wrong with it much as we love the songs.

Danny trying out school sports and getting a cardigan to get Sandy to notice him again is not comparable to the changes Sandy has to make for him. He’s embarrassed to be seen with her in front of his mates (because he thinks she’s uncool/uptight). She has to change everything about the way she dresses and acts (becoming racy and suggestive) to get him to be ok with being seen with him publicly.

He tries to push her further than she wants to go with him at the drive in. His gang of mates are constantly looking up girls skirts and being generally leacherous. Vince Fontain is a middle aged man and all over one of the school girls at the dance with no suggestion that it isn’t fine. I could go on!

Tbf, she does slam the door on his nuts at the drive-in, so that evens the score a little. 😄

Vince Fontaine leching after Marty though... gross, I agree (even though the actors were probably a similar age irl)

ruethewhirl · 27/02/2025 21:58

brunettemic · 27/02/2025 19:28

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.

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Wha-a-t?! I've literally never heard about that! Oh dear, I can see hours being lost to this...

DurinsBane · 27/02/2025 22:54

Rape scene in Narnia?! I think the PP may have watched a different version 😄

pebbles8811 · 28/02/2025 06:25

@namechangeGOT well that night after watching IT I obviously had a nightmare of penjywise at the bottom of the bed screamed the house down 😂 I will admit that drains in the street were scary incase he was down there 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

brunettemic · 28/02/2025 08:10

ruethewhirl · 27/02/2025 21:58

Wha-a-t?! I've literally never heard about that! Oh dear, I can see hours being lost to this...

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Get yourself a drink and dive in…some of them are wild. Like she drowned on the beach and the whole thing isn’t real, just how she imagined it would be. I think a lot of them have been debunked though, which is a bit boring.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 28/02/2025 09:20

DurinsBane · 27/02/2025 22:54

Rape scene in Narnia?! I think the PP may have watched a different version 😄

😮 Admittedly I've only seen the first one with Tilda Swinton but still... WTAF!

sashh · 01/03/2025 02:45

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.

Off topic

My cat went missing for two days this week, she was found and looked after by someone and I got her back because the nice person took her to a vet to check for a microchip.

But she visits all my neighbours but one particular neighbour's grand daughter is about 7 and loves the cat.

I was obviously worried about the cat, but also about how to explain to the child if the worst happened. Obviously it would be her grandma doing the explaining.

Back on topic.

Apaches - shown in schools has multiple deaths it's probably on YouTube if you didn't see it at school.

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