Inappropriate Movies Your Parents Took You To See

I was only 5 when I saw ****ing ***** ****s

 

"Zardoz". I was embarrassed for my parents because of the nudity, sex and general goofy nature but I loved the film.

 

That's not inappropriate to see due to age - it's just inappropriate for any sentient beings!

 

I think "Robocop" got a lot of "too young" kids because it looked like a kiddie movie in so many ways: the lead character, the title, etc...

That was my stepmother!

I'm tempted to ask her what she was thinking, but it was so long ago I doubt she'd remember...

 

"SatB" is only "PG"!

 

I was 6 when my parents took me to see Jaws at a drive in.Also Freebie and the bean and the End(Burt Reynolds).All were R rated I believe.

 

I don't remember my parents taking me to any inappropriate movies. Unless Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' counts.

 

Jaws was rated PG.

 

A buddy of mine has told me many times about how his dad took him to see Predator when he was only about 6 or 7 years old. Couldn't have scarred him too seriously, though, because to this day it's one of his all-time favourite movies.

 

It is kind of amusing how lax my generation (born 79) had it vs. the one that followed. I remember when I was eight, EVERYONE had seen Nightmare On Elm Street in my class, everyone loved the slasher flicks and knew exactly what they were. Yet none of my classmates turned out bad. It wasn't just my class but I've seen it many different places on the net where a lot of people born circa 1975-1981 give or take had seen many of these hard R movies for the first time before age 10.

Then I look at my brothers kids who were roughly ten years my junior and how they were forbidden to watch Jurassic Park, Austin Powers, The Simpsons, etc... even when they were into their teens compared to our generation which had seen far worse at a younger age. Not a surprise this also turned into the participation trophy generation.

 

@Bowieboy Your brother's children aren't allowed to watch these things? Hmm...I suspect there are many parents today who react to questionable and/or violent content in this manner. Which isn't a bad thing.....
Participation Trophy generation? I haven't heard of that description before. What is it?

 

It's a concept that seems to have arisen within the past several years in which people (especially kids) are rewarded or acknowledged for merely participating (just "being there") in activities such as sports or schoolwork, regardless of whether they actually did anything significant to deserve the recognition. I think the idea is to ensure that no one feels left out and to preserve kids' self-esteem, but in reality all it does is give kids a false sense of entitlement and a completely warped view of how the real world actually works. They grow up with the concept that just "showing up" is good enough and that they deserve to be rewarded for doing so, instead of striving to go beyond the bare minimum, and to better themselves and stand out among their peers. As someone mentioned earlier, it's just another example of the continuing pussification of the country.

Further info:
Participation Trophies Are Ruining Our Generation's Ambition »

 

well, his kids are 25 and 27 now, I'm sure by now they have been able to watch these things. But I remember being shocked when they were circa 13 and hearing this stuff. I mean, The Simpsons were big when I was 10 and everyone in my class watched it, yet they were around 12-13 and not able to watch it a decade later? I could see why he wouldn't have wanted his kids watching South Park or The Sopranos or something, but The Simpsons!?!?!?

 

Perfect example of my generation vs. the kids ten years later. Most of us LOVED Robocop as kids, same with Aliens and Terminator. I was 11 when T2 came out and when school started back up that August, if you somehow hadn't seen T2 over the summer, you were in the minority.

This whole thread and about much more protective parents got after that 80s/early 90s wave of kids who watched action and slasher flicks reminds me of this girl in our class who was a bit of an outcast and was overly babied compared to the rest of us. I'll never forget her saying that (we were 13-14 mind you) she was forbidden from watching "The Bodyguard" because her mom said it was a porno.... she was mocked mercilessly for that . Yet it was a sign of a generation who would be taught that The Simpsons is too vulgar to watch as a teen.

 

My parents took the whole family to see a drive-in showing of Midnight Cowboy when I was about ten. Of course I knew the Nilsson song, but other than that, most of it pretty much went over my head. I was sad at the end when Ratso died, so Hoffman's performance still impressed me on some level. When I watched the movie years later, I was surprised at how little nudity was actually in the film. Most of the "situations" are implied or talked about instead.

 

Shortly after I turned 3 my parents took me to see Night of the Living Dead. I spent almost the whole movie facing away from the screen crying that I wanted to go home. I could still hear it though. I still remember the bits I saw. I guess it wasn't that unusual of an occurrence. I read something Roger Ebert wrote about matinees of the movie filled with kids.

Another time I went to see a movie and my mom went into see Clockwork Orange. My movie got out first and I walked up to the door of the theater and told the girl watching the door that my mom was in there so she let me into the movie. I only saw that last few minutes of that movie.

But that was the late 60s for you.

For my 13th birthday my parents took me and some friends to see Animal House. That might have been in appropriate but we sure enjoyed it.

Chad

 

Bart's rebellious attitude I suppose. Not a good thing for kids to see glorified It was dissected by every psychologist and tv critic this side of the Pacific Ocean!
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A dysfunctional clown and principals getting it on with teachers in the school's broom closet?? Never!

 

My Mother took me with her to see Psycho when I was 3 years old (almost 4). I didn't think it was inappropriate, but I remember people telling my mother it was, after the fact.

I was a big fan of Hitchcock from watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV. It is my first memory of going to a movie theatre and I enjoyed the whole experience. Nothing it the movie frightened me. (I had a strong sense of things happening on a screen can't hurt me.) My Mom was really scared, off and on, though.

There were quite a few things in the movie that confused me. The biggest one was the psychiatric evaluation of Norman at the end. I couldn't make heads or tails out of that part. After the movie was over, I asked my Mother "What's a transvestite?". She said "Don't worry about it!".

 

Pieces in 1983 or 84-ish. It would have been NC-17 if the rating was around then. Instead, the poster carried a warning on it saying something like "absolutely no one under 17 will be admitted"; I was 13 or 14 at the time. My mother was friends with the owner of the theater and she bought me and a friend our tickets and saw us off to the cinema. It was wholesome family entertainment that I recommend to anyone looking for a "nice" movie.

 

Aliens

I was 10 and my brother 7. My dad did hide my brother's eyes during the woman's chest buster scene. He took us to see Robocop a year later.

 

My Dad tried to bring me (10) & my brother (8) to see Commando in the mid 80's.
They wouldn't let us in. They were probably right. I think he kills a small army in it.

 

My oldest brother took me to all kinds of movies: foreign classics at the Pacific Film Archive, at least one underground short fest and Medium Cool at around 13. I wasn't any more ready for Medium Cool than I was for Children Of Paradise but all of this certainly expanded my cinema vocabulary. I became a precocious enough fan that I once selected A Woman Under The Influence for movie night with Mom & little sister. Mom hated it but I was into edgier stuff and if Cassavetes went past me all the better.

 

My mom and I were at the movies to see Orca The Killer Whale, but it was playing with Lifeguard.
I guess Lifeguard was supposed to be rated PG--About 15 minutes in or so is a nude scene--A woman is showering, and Sam Elliott screws around and turns the cold water on in the shower, leading to the woman running out of the shower and jumping on top of him on the bed to sort of get back at him through horseplay.
My mother was mortified. I was just sort of shell-shocked and trying to process what I just saw. My mother dragged me out of the theater.

 

Saw Sleeper at age 8 but found it hilarious and the inappropriate parts went over my head.

On the flip side, just watched Roots with my 9 year old kids, but we made ample use of Fast Forward.