My personal one was the shining. I ended up watching it over 20 times before I was 12.
Iâm spending a lot of time babysitting my nieces (9 & 11). Iâm cis male and I would love to hear what women would answer or suggest for me to show them in a cool uncle role.
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Spaceballs! When I was maybe 8 or 9.
I asked my mom âWhatâs a âvirgin alarmâ and what does it mean that it is programmed to go off before you do?â and she said ask me again in thirty years.
Reminds me, I forgot to ask her.
I miss the days when silly slapstick was mixed with subtle adult humor to make a family film for all ages.
My youngest introduction to Mel Brooks was Robin Hood: Men in Tights. I never fully understood the chastity belt bits at first. Call the locksmith!
Your familyâs name is Latrine. We changed it, it used to be shithouse!
Thatâs a good change. đ Thatâs a gooood change.
The Big Lebowski. I wasnât a teenager yet, barely understood why anything was happening but damned if it wasnât the hardest Iâd seen my dad laugh.
This one ^
The physical comedy alone is gold, Also you wonât leave their parents dealing with the nightmares like some of these moviesâŚunless they really fear someone breaking in to piss on their rug.
Generally agree though I suppose it depends on how the parents feel about swearing and how likely the youngins are to repeat the approximately 700 fucks in the movie.
âDo you have to use so many cuss words?â âThe fuck you talking about?â
That nightmare really tied the room together, man.
I watched that as a kid with my brother!
Awesome brother!
Probably Monty Pythonâs Life of Brian
I was one of those Holy Grail kids, I loved the movie and memorized the lines. Wanting more, I looked up other Monty Python works
I was in 7th grade or something, raised in a very religious home. I was not expecting what Life of Brian was, and I know I wasnât old enough to understand all of the jokes they made
Hilarious movie
Nightmare on Elm Street. Donât think I was quite 10 yet.
Same age, buying a Freddy glove for Halloween, asked my dad if we could rent it and he said yes. I was scared when the boyfriend pranked them in the backyard, but I thought the scene where she got cut to shreds and floated was awesome. I wanted to rewind and see it again and this time Dad said no. Wisely.
Same, asked my mom if Freddy Krueger was real and she said " I guess he isâŚ" She had no idea who that was and I lost my sleep for who knows how long :D
I thought Nancy was so hot!
Gremlins! Loved that movie as a kid haha đ
I second this. Itâs lightly gory and morbid but mostly a comedy. And a cult classic that will help them feel âinâ when itâs referenced. But not too inappropriate for kids that age, in my opinion.
Oh theyâre way beyond that lmao. They both watched it 5 years ago and like it but they LOVE gremlins 2.
Theyâve seen It and the newer Halloween movies. I want to show them stuff that will challenge them intellectually, without being too far over their heads. With minimal sexual content.
That was one of the movies that led to the creation of the PG13 rating, wasnât it?
I saw Event Horizon on my 13th birthday in theaters with some of my friends.
Damn, that would have been a hell of film at that age.
Cheesus Ricest dude! I watched it as a 30 something year old and I felt disturbed with scenes in the third act.
Now you have to fill us in. Did you have nightmares and for how long?
Earlier that summer my father had made me clean a deer that had been shot in the gut and he did some hollywood style child abuse when I barfed about it, so I was pretty numb to the gore. What really bothered me was some of the dialog. I shudder 30 years later when I think about the line, âwhere weâre going we donât need eyes to see.â
My stepdad was horrified heâd taken his stepdaughter to see something so graphic and made me and my friends promise not to tell anyone what we saw and to downplay the gore.
Panâs Labyrinth
Way too many to list. It was the era of VHS and my father had a very large tape collection. I definitely saw movies I was not supposed to see.
Letâs try a short listâŚ
Emmanuelle
The Story of O
The Empire of Senses
Black Rain
The Rambo Trilogy
The Alien Trilogy
The Predator (1 & 2)
The Bridges of Maddison County
The Blue Lagoon
That will doâŚ
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Shit, that was a Brazilian afternoon staple for the whole 90s. No idea how much the tv channel censored/cut for the afternoon, but considering we had âbanheira do guguâ during sunday afternoons⌠(if you donât wanna look for it on youtube, it was a piece where 2 celebrities, a man and a woman, would get in a bathtub and try to get as many soaps out. One of them would be tasked with getting the soap, the other was tasked with not letting the other do so. All of that live for the whole country, of course)
Ei, quem nĂŁo viu o Emmanuelle, tem de ver. Ă um clĂĄssico.
Mas hoje em dia nĂŁo ĂŠ que nem no inĂcio dos anos 2000, ter que ficar acordado 2, 3 da madrugada, na expectativa q passasse emanuelle e nĂŁo uma merda de culto da fĂŠ đđ¤Ł
Em Portugal chegåmos a ter uma rúbrica especial, num canal público, que tinha semanas temåticas de cinema. Começava às 22h. Teve uma semana dedicada ao cinema erótico.
Passaram a Emmanuelle, O ImpĂŠrio dos Sentidos, A HistĂłria de O (tenho de escrever o artigo em portuguĂŞs), o Kamasutra (outro para escrever) e nĂŁo me lembro do que falta.
Ăpico!
I read the Godfather when I was about 10. My shoebox diorama was the horse head on the bed. It was frowning because it didnât like having its head cut off.
RoboCop, the Alien movies, Hellraiser. Honestly a lot of the old Jean Claude van Damme movies are fairly hardcore for kids, looking back. Probably a lot of movies because I was allowed to stay up until whenever on weekends from pretty young.
I didnât realize it until now, but same for me. That scene where the toxic sludge man disintegrated after being hit by a car haunted me. Actually, it was how he was calling for help that did it. I realize this is counter to OPâs question, haha.
Yeah, same lol. My dad liked to rebel against my mom by letting me get movies he knew sheâd hate from the [ancient wheezing] brick and mortar VHS rental store so I saw, like, the Alien series, Terminator and T2, and so on
Re: Shining
Mom dropped me off at the movies to see Star wars (again). As I walk in the screen showed elevators doors open and a waterfall of blood pour out. I found an usher because I thought I was in the wrong room.
Trailers, man.
They put that scene in the trailer? Man, way to blow your load early trailer people.
I remember a trailer where they show you the elevator doors and a narrator talks about Stephen King and the genius of Kubrick and then the doors open. Nothing else.
Same. I thought it was some stupid art film hahaha
Pink Flamingos.
What the fuck.
I wasnât old enough but am glad I saw it (kinda). What is old enough for that movie anyway? Has anybody lived that long?
Lol, youâre glad about it?
Trainspotting. I do feel like it kept me away from drugs though.
Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers⌠Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life⌠But why would I want to do a thing like that?
âItâs shite being Scottish. Weâre the lowest of the low. Some people hate the English. The English are just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers. We canât even find a decent civilization to be colonised by. Itâs a shite state of affairs and all the fresh air isnât going to change any of that, Tommy.â
That was from memory, letâs see how I did!
âItâs shite being Scottish! Weâre the lowest of the low! The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash, that was shat into civilisation! Some people hate the English, I donât! Theyâre just wankers! We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers! Canât even find a decent culture to be colonised by! Weâre ruled by effete assholes! Itâs a shite state of affairs to be in Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world wonât make any fucking difference!â
Not too bad after a few decades.
Defiantly not bad from memory.
Mine was a cut and paste, I tried from memory but got so much wrong, mostly out of order and forgot a few lines.
It wasnât too early for me to see it but Requiem for a Dream is also an excellent cautionary movie about heroin, addiction, and mental health.
I saw this one in my late teens, and it was good, but it was way better as an adult.
Trainspotting at 11
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I was in kindergarten and had a very inattentive babysitter.
Boy, that movie will seriously stick with you when your typical fare was Barney related. Itâs really the grounding for me having any memories of that period of my life at this point, lol.