My youth minister took me to see Exit Wounds starring Steven Seagal. Boob scenes and all.

Jack Klompus said:

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My youth minister took me to see Exit Wounds starring Steven Seagal. Boob scenes and all.

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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For some reason, our go-to theater in those days was the old Palms Twin in Sugar Land (across from the Imperial Sugar plant, now an empty field).

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Oh, man ... I loved that place. Saw many movies there. Shame it got torn down. Beautiful theater from what I remember.

Sitting in my living room with a bunch of 16 and 17 year olds. Male and female.

Deadpool was the choice. I had to leave the room I got so uncomfortable.

Annual family gathering and all the kids (9) were young. We all sat down to watch a movie and someone put in Something about Mary.

Nope! Got up and walked away before the hair gel scene or the naked old lady.

EclipseAg said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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For some reason, our go-to theater in those days was the old Palms Twin in Sugar Land (across from the Imperial Sugar plant, now an empty field).

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Oh, man ... I loved that place. Saw many movies there. Shame it got torn down. Beautiful theater from what I remember.

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Yeah, it is a shame. Every time I pass by that location (used to be every day when I worked in Sugar Land), I just kinda shake my head. I don't know how old the building was, and I get that the type of theater it was was generally left in the rear view mirror in large cities like Houston with the emergence of all these mega-theaters with auditorium seating and such, but damn, it was such a fine example of architectural features that we don't see that much of any more. (Unless I'm mis-remembering the art deco stuff inside as belonging to a different theater, entirely possible).

Saw many movies in that building - Star Wars, Alien, Friday the 13th, Smokey and the Bandit II (The Empire Strikes Back was playing on the other screen, and I really wanted to go in there after Bandit finished, but Dad was having none of that), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Continental Divide, The Boogens, I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of titles but those are the ones that I recall the most.

Nightmare on Elm Street messed me up man. All I heard as I was trying to go to sleep for months was "One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock your door. Five, six, grab your crucifix. Seven, eight, gonna stay up late. Nine, ten, never sleep again." And I didn't for a while.

I took my kids to see American Sniper when they were like 8 and 9 because Merica!!! The wife was not thrilled.

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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I learned what not to do from my dad, who took me to see Alien when I was 12. That movie messed me up. Scariest movie I have ever seen. Generated many sleepless nights over the next couple of years after I saw it, and I even continued to have the occasional nightmare even into adulthood.

So I have never taken either of my kids to any movies they weren't ready for.

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I was 17 when I saw it on HBO and I couldn't sleep that night!

EclipseAg said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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For some reason, our go-to theater in those days was the old Palms Twin in Sugar Land (across from the Imperial Sugar plant, now an empty field).

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Oh, man ... I loved that place. Saw many movies there. Shame it got torn down. Beautiful theater from what I remember.

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I lived in Sugar Land 1975-78, only 4/5 years old so I don't remember the place but I do remember the teenage girls next door took me to see Grease in a theater - maybe that was the one?

Some people sharing memories:

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/15583

Random find:

Im pretty selective but I do have teenagers I let watch some R rated movies. The only one my wife got upset with was No Country for Old Men which is incredibly tame compared to John Wick or Matrix that she was fine with them seeing.

My bigger mistakes when they were younger were House with the Clock in the wall and Miss Perrigine's Home for Peculiar Children both got me in trouble.

Family used to go camping quite often. Dad took us to see Brokeback Mountain around 2005. I've been uncomfortable with camping ever since…..hard to even sit around a fire pit since then.

Didn't take my kids but was taken by my older cousins.....When I was 6 years old my teenage cousins took me to see a monster movie so I'm thinking cool it's like Godzilla or King Kong which I was familiar with and liked but no it was ALIEN. I like the movie a lot now but back then when that alien burst out of that person's chest I was like "what the heck" and I shut my eyes so long I fell asleep lol. At the time I didn't even know movies were capable of that type of stuff! My Mom about killed my cousins lol.

Oh… I forgot one. Rambo II when I was about 4. "Mr. bear" my stuffed animal wrestling opponent lost his head in the middle of the night via a steak knife after watching that movie. My parents were like, "Yikes."