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?

I know, hence why I quoted you

My mum was a guide leader and did a movie night where they watched grease (having not watched it for ages and assumed it was as they remembered from their kid’s childhoods) and she was utterly mortified by the time the film finished! I honestly think a lot of stuff that would’ve gone over my head as a child does not go over the head of a 10 year old today either which makes watching a different experience….

thank you to the poster who suggested the film fly away home - I adored that movie when it came out and might watch it with my kids this weekend!

I’d give four weddings a miss then although that’s a 15 too. 😂

@ItGhoul
Yes described as a comedy horror usually.

There's a bit in Octopussy where Bond gives an Indian man a tip and says "That'll keep you in curry for a few weeks." DH and I were so shocked we laughed!

I'm 52 and watched a pirate copy of Driller Killer when on a sleepover in 1982, and haven't watched a horror film since!

I've rewatched a few 80s films lately.

Both Teenwolf and Bill and Ted's excellent adventure use the word fag as an insult

Back to the future. When Biff has Marty's mum in the back of the car and is sexually assaulting her!

Still great films though.

I saw Towering inferno when I was about 8 at the cinema. Nightmares for years afterwards! Goodness knows why my mother took us to see that!

Mind you, I have always had to have a fire escape plan whenever I stay anywhere.

Try Watership Down op, you'll realise how tame your previous watches have been then 😂

*Still shudder at WSD, decades later. Anyone else?

We went to see it for a classmate's 11th birthday in the early 80s!!

So why are you telling me what my intentions behind starting a thread were? As you can see, I ask for examples of when other people have found this and many people have given great examples, and managed to do so without being miserable sods

I know I’m only joking! In reality they’d have split up by August 🤣

Exactly this!

Didn’t you know OP it’s Mumsnet Law that you have to put LIGHTHEARTED in a thread title otherwise posters must think you’re being Very Serious Indeed

PS - for the avoidance of doubt this post is LIGHTHEARTED

I watched Dirty Dancing for the first time when I was about 7-8 and I remember thinking Penny was “a bit poorly” and Baby’s dad made her feel better. The whole botched abortion thing totally flew over my head, thankfully!

Also, I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that despite watching Forrest Gump at least 30 times over the years since it first came out, it was only about 3-4 years ago that I realised Forrest’s mum has sex with the principal to get Forrest a place in the mainstream school 😶I was in my mid-30s!

And he was definitely shit at athletics, considering he didn't even look where he was running 🤦.

Goodies has a dodgy bit when mouth is translating packing instructions to the Spanish speaking lady. That made me wince when I showed dc.

Goonies not goodies.

OP I think it's the way you have worded the original post, sounds more like you're pearl clutching than it being light hearted.

'Pissworm" in Matilda, me and my brother would roll around laughing. Nothing in these films though would put me off showing age appropriate children, movies today don't even compare.

Apart from Charlie.

All of Dahl's books have a good child who contrasts with the others. For Charlie see James, Matilda, Sophie, George, Danny etc.

Most good stories have that protagonist (usually good)/antagonist angle.

This marketing tactic intrigues me. On the face of it, you'd halve your profits by releasing films with similar target audiences on the same day but it doesn't work like that. Is it just, "I can't decide, so I'll have both?"

I wonder this in a lot of situations. I was stuck in Marseille airport for several hours recently and there were three or four different food outlets selling the same thing. All sandwiches, all more or less cold, bit of coffee, bit of cake, that was it.

I have watched a few youtube shorts of Rory Sutherland explaining how selling the same thing, close together works and I kind of half understand it.

Not quite in the same vein, but recently thought DDs might like Shaun of the Dead. Its a 15 (they are 11 and 13) but we thought it's funny rather than scary and we like a bit of zombie chat in this house.

About 5 mins in: "Any of you cunts want a drink" 🙈
To be fair, I think it completely went ovwr their heads, so I suppose that is reasuring!

Someone pointed out to me that Jenny probably died from AIDS. I never thought much about her sickness!

My mum and dad saw Towering Inferno as one of their first dates over 50 years ago - my dad hates heights and apparently spent so long in the toilet that my mum thought he'd ran out on her 🤣

Wolf of wall street is one of my dds (18) favourite films so the woke brigade isn't totally alive amongst the young!