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?

Is blasphemous that same as swearing?

I remember this! Some parents had to ask for their children to be sat away from the tv and given something else to do they found it so scary!

Yeah I was about 14 when I managed to get into the cinema to see it & still didn't get the abortion storyline. I obviously didn't understand what "knocked up" meant

Ghostbusters blowjob scene😂

No, that's a misconception

www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095513828#:~:text=The%20adjective%20is%20used%20informally,17th%20and%20early%2018th%20centuries.

Yup. The buckets of gore in that end sequence with the baddie rabbit o__O
and those freaky ghost bunnies when they all get intombed in the burrow

< shudders >

"From the mid 18th century until quite recently, bloody used as a swear word was regarded as unprintable, probably from the mistaken belief that it implied a blasphemous reference to the blood of Christ, or that the word was an alteration of ‘by Our Lady’; hence the shock occasioned in Shaw's play when Eliza uses the words ‘Not bloody likely’ (see Pygmalion)."

Source: Oxford Reference Dictionary

In the same vein, "Mannequin." Probably unwatchable now and I've veered off the subject of children's films into teen films but anyway...

@RJ2023 you inspired me to look at Through The Dragons Eye on YouTube. It might scare me now due to the terrible set design (like Eldarado for kids) and acting. The dragon looks like he was made on Blue Peter!

Bill and ted.

Not a movie but me and my siblings loved WWE as children. Watching back now it's crazy the things they got away with!

I LOVED through the dragon's eye. Scary in a good way.

As a teen, i genuinely thought the line from Grease "wont go to bed til im legally wed" meant that sandy desperately wanted a husband so much that she would spend all night looking for one

When I was a young teen I was really in to Bad Girls, and footballers wives. No idea what my mum was thinking

Found this re the rating of the film:

www.bbfc.co.uk/education/case-studies/grease-1978

Anyone remember Elador too? I still have nightmares about that

I do remember watching Back to the Future with my kids when they were maybe 8 and 6 and thinking there was a lot more ‘language’ in it than I remembered but no one was traumatized by it.

What happened in Bill and Ted? My DS loved it. "Be excellent to one another!" I may well have missed something so tell me, please.

I think it was the way Charn was dressed that scared me the most and the way he almost defeated Gorwen (sorry - spoiler alert!) - but also the music. It was like a horror film for me at 10 years old. I genuinely had nightmares for months!

Remember The Clangers? I met an actor / musician years ago who was one of the people using a slide whistle to make the Clangers' voices. He said they needed a script to work from, otherwise the whistles didn't sound like real language. He also said that the scripts were filthy and liberally peppered with swearing but only they knew that!

There's something to share with your tots when watching it! 😂

I'm sure it did no harm in the long run 😆

I used the National Theatre "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with an S2/Y9 class.

PG, NT - so now worries, eh? The one time in my life I didn't check out the video beforehand.

Then Bottom took Titania from behind. I leapt at the machine in an attempt to switch it off - and accidentally hit the (VHS) fast forward, thereby making the movements look even more obscene.

Kids were still laughing about it when they bid me farewell at the end of 6th Year.

When I was 11 one of the kids in my drama class was bragging to the teacher they were allowed to watch Thelma and Louise that had been released a couple of years before.

The teacher was visibly shocked so I asked what it was about. She obviously didn’t want to go into details but said it was about two best friends who went on a road trip together and had adventures.

I told my mum it sounded great when I finished school and begged to watch it, I assumed the teacher had been shocked at my classmate watching it because it was such a good film and had FOMO.

My mum borrowed it off her friend who was a neighbour who brought her daughter round for a video night, it had been recorded off the tv onto video so had nothing showing age rating on the case, I think the very beginning had been missed with the rating as well.

We settled down with our popcorn and I can’t remember how far until the film we got but I remember my mum wrenching the video out in shock and asking why on earth Mrs Smith would possibly recommend it to kids?!

My mum cleared up the misunderstanding that Mrs Smith had just been trying to avoid the kids chatting about the film in lessons and had just been shutting the conversation down by giving a brief synopsis. Luckily my mum found the whole thing funny but I could imagine some parents believing that she’d been trying to sell it to a group of 11 year olds.

Our neighbour wasn’t impressed, her daughter was younger and she believed we were going to watch an age appropriate film about best friends having adventures like the famous five 😂.
There wasn’t the internet around to quickly google the film back in the olden days of the 90s.

I’ve still never seen the film so no idea how inappropriate it actually was, I wonder if that kid in my class bragging about watching it had actually seen it, they were nodding along with Mrs Smiths tame description so I’m guessing they were just showing off. They were a bit of a Jay from the inbetweeners!

yea, i forgot that part, the truffle shuffle

Also, if you think about it, Shrek was a pretty shameless copy of "Fungus The Bogeyman."

Do you remember the other Look & Read shows, Earthwarp and Geordie Racer? I still remember the music to both of those too. Which is crazy when most days I can't remember where I put my keys!