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Films that you loved as a child but view slightly differently now! (Light hearted)

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fastingmum123 · 11/02/2016 00:47

Was watching Mrs Doubtfire a film I've always loved with my dcs the other day and looking at it now it's pretty creepy. Maybe I'm just looking into it to much.

I also never realised that grease was about teenage pregnancy ect.

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fastingmum123 · 11/02/2016 18:46

The child catcher never bothered me either. As for et I just found it boring. I loved the never ending story which looking back the horse dying in the swamp of depression or whatever it was is pretty dark.

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EponasWildDaughter · 11/02/2016 18:55

The older James Bond films and the Carry On films.

Loved them as a kid. Now realise they're 90% sexist crap!

KatsutheClockworkOctopus · 11/02/2016 19:00

Ferris Bueller. Soooo cool when I was younger - soooo annoying now.

Also, as a young girl I had a crush on Atreyu from Neverending Story. Now I'm old I find myself thinking he will catch his death in that vestSmile

ClariceBeanthatsme · 11/02/2016 19:02

Snow white and the Seven dwarfs. She's 14 Shock

elspethmcgillicuddy · 11/02/2016 19:11

Mamamia always gets me.

Gee Mum, you don't know who my father is? Three men in one month? What fun you must have had! Hmm

I don't get how the daughter thinks this is so funny and doesn't have any issues from it or about it.

ThreeGoldStars · 11/02/2016 20:59

Ian Wright tried to put Grease into Room 101, when he went on the show but Frank Skinner wasn't having any of it.

ThreeGoldStars · 12/02/2016 14:27

There is a 1987 version of Hansel and Gretel on Youtube. It frightened me as a child...and even as an adult, I can see why. I am surprised it was made tbh.

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SandyMumsnet · 25/02/2016 15:38

Hi everyone,

Just sweeping up this great thread into films, OP please do shout if this is a problem. Flowers

ClaudiaApfelstrudel · 28/02/2016 22:21

one of my favourite films as a child was 'Stand By Me' but I watched it recently and thought the ending about Chris getting stabbed was completely unnecessary

NurseRosie · 03/03/2016 20:48

Apparently I couldn't understand why Belle didn't love the Beast because he was lovely. WTF!!!

PennyHasNoSurname · 03/03/2016 20:51

Watching Little.Mermaid at 10 - "gosh her dad is so unreasonable! Let the woman love the human fgs"

Watching Little Mermaid at 26 - 《shakes head》 poor King Tritan

ifcatscouldtalk · 03/03/2016 21:01

My absolute favourite was Mary Poppins. Still love the film but when watching with dd many years later I wondered how i'd never noticed what an absolute control freak Mary Poppins was.

Tigresswoods · 03/03/2016 21:09

If you thought Mrs Doubtfire was creepy before watch THIS!!!

Blerg · 03/03/2016 21:22

Yy to Ferris Beuller! I used to really like it but now I have children the whole 'everyone needs a day off now and again' thing makes me want to scream 'fuck off! You're a teenager - wait til you have children, then you can't even go to the toilet without someone drying to put a dinosaur figure in your pants or similar!'

HarrysMummy17 · 03/03/2016 21:38

Watership down, I hated it. My brother would taunt me with it. I one threw the video out of the window to smash it so it couldn't be watched!

Also return to oz. Really creepy. The wheelers. The queen with all of the chopped of heads, the gnome King?! Used to love it though!

CallousAndStrange · 22/03/2016 21:20

I loved Watership Down from the age of 2, it was the first film I would watch all the way through over and over. One of the first singles (on VINYL! I am so oldSad) I had was Bright Eyes, the classic funeral song. Only when I cheerfully told people this when I was older, to people who still couldn't watch it because they found it too disturbing, did I realise this may have been a little odd. In retrospect I was quite a dark child...

tictactoad · 22/03/2016 21:43

Gremlins.

I wasn't a child when I watched it but I remembered it as a fairly lighthearted rompfest and was quite keen for the kids to enjoy it once they were of an age. Bit surprised to find it was a 15 but stuck it on anyway and was Shock at how dark it actually was.

Still a great watch though Grin

SausageSmuggler · 27/03/2016 22:52

I used to watch Ghostbusters religiously as a child but only appreciated how inappropriate it is when I put it on for my young DC's Blush. Same goes for The Goonies. I'm sure the version I had as a kid didn't have any swearing in it!

twilightcafe · 27/03/2016 23:01

I loved the 'forbidden love' aspect of The Thorn Birds when I was 14.
I tried to read it again 30 years later and I couldn't finish it. It made my skin crawl.
That priest groomed from when she was a little girl, right up until he tracked her down to the desert island.

buntymo · 27/03/2016 23:03

After watching an old James Bond today I was a bit Confused I loved them when younger and didn't pick up on the innuendo but there's a lot of ooeer, dd did ask if they were in love at one point, are we all a bit prudish now?
Loved the old superman films but they are a bit shit now, kids don't like them either, still love original Jurassic park Grin

notquitehuman · 28/03/2016 17:54

Mary Poppins is pretty harsh about the suffragettes too. The mum is portrayed as a bit flighty and glory seeking. It's pretty disrespectful to the memory of those women.

Watching Toy Story as an adult just made me wonder what happened to Andy's dad. He's never mentioned. Was he an anonymous sperm donor? Did he run off with the OW?

Also you know you're getting old when you side with the parents in a film. The dad from Beethoven was quite right to not want that slobbering dog in the house!

stugtank · 13/04/2016 09:14

I put Dumbo on for my dd last year (she was 6) but didn't watch it with her as had stuff to do. I remembered it as a harmless Disney classic.

She was utterly distraught at the end. She kept going on about a dream and pink elephants. Now I know and I feel very guilty. Some of those old Disney films are very sad and strange.

Jungle Book is very sexist and arguably racist.

stopfuckingshoutingatme · 15/04/2016 15:29

The Parent Trap.

yes!!!!! the most fucked up custody agreement ever

BowChickaBowWow · 15/04/2016 15:40

My DH had never seen The Little Mermaid so I made him watch it with me last year and he was just like Hmm all the way through because she was totally obsessed with some bloke that she'd just seen once from a distance! I had never even considered how odd that was when I was singing along to the awesome soundtrack as a child!

Dirty Dancing - I just loved the music and the dancing and the love story. I was about 17 when it finally clicked that Penny was pregnant and had an abortion!

Notquite - I wonder if the house move in Toy Story was because Andy's Mum and Dad were divorcing so she was having to downsize?!

The80sweregreat · 15/04/2016 15:41

Grease is a terrible film really 'hey, girls, ditch the pretty dress's and hair band and put on tight trousers and a lower cut top. that's how to get a man and get laid' is the message there. I didn't ditch the nerdy look so I didn't get a boyfriend for years! thanks to grease no doubt..
Rizzo ( the leader of the pink ladies?) thinks she is pregnant and sings about not being a 'prick tease' ,I hate Doubtfire too, that accent is odd and agree, its just creepy.
The goonies is another that puts my teeth on edge, really trashy.