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11:28p, 4/21/23
When I was 7 my dad took me with him to see the original Airplane! Movie. When the flight is getting crazy and the large bare breasted woman appeared all a-jiggle, my dad busted a gut. Really loud. I wondered, why was that so funny?

Ruined my dating life, laughter in moments of undress is not what women want to hear.
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7:55a, 4/22/23
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even freaking swimming pools
I kid you not, I once mentioned to a colleague that I didn't go to any of my neighborhood pools before work for my daily exercise because I was afraid there could be an alligator in there (and there are in fact lots of alligator sightings here in Cinco Ranch, believe it or not). My reasoning for this was not so much Jaws, but the movie Alligator that came out in about 1980, where that big ass gator did get into a pool and ate a kid.

Couple that with an alligator that was pulled out of the Cinco Ranch water park pool. Can't find the video of that right now.
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9:33a, 4/22/23
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A little different but still classic…my wife and I went to see American pie when it hit the theaters. My wife was a junior high counselor (the ONLY one) at the local school. Empty theater except the row behind us that was full of her students. Awesome experience.
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In reply to Bazooka Joe • 10:48a, 4/22/23
My wife, as a HS student, saw it with her father.....neither knew what to expect and it was the most uncomfortable experience for her ever. I can't even imagine what it was like for him.
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12:06p, 4/22/23
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Some just weren't raised right

My favorite movie when I was 6 or 7 was The Shining.

Whenever it would air on ?The Movie Channel? or ?Showtime", whatever my parents had, they'd wake me on a Saturday at 6am knowing I wanted to watch it again. This was probably '82 or '83?

I grew up above a funeral home. It's a wonder I'm not an ax murderer. If I were, you can bet your ass I would do it like Jack Torrance did to Dick Hallorann.

Edit to add: the only thing my parents tries to keep me from watching was sex/nudity. They were fine with a random boob and language didn't really bother them, but a lot of the 70s and early 80s movies seemed to show a lot more gratuitous nakedness than what I see in the average flick today.
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1:18p, 4/22/23
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What? No one took their kids to see Bone Tomahawk?

Edit: I watched it with my 30 year old son. We looked at each other and were, like WTF?
The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But, it's still on the list.
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2:35p, 4/22/23
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I'm of the opinion that as long as a movie doesn't have sex or a lot of rough language it's probably ok to show the kids, because I watched a lot of such movies growing up. I don't find most gore/violence anything too crazy for kids, but my wife definitely doesn't like that I've let my girls watch movies like Tremors and Dances with Wolves (skipped the romantic teepee scenes). My girls love stuff like that but the Mrs thinks it's inappropriate and that I'm warping their minds.
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2:39p, 4/22/23
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I watched The Exorcist when I was 7 or 8. And my family was very Catholic.

Didn't really get over it until high school.
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In reply to Teacher_Ag • 2:59p, 4/22/23
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Teacher_Ag said:
I'm of the opinion that as long as a movie doesn't have sex or a lot of rough language it's probably ok to show the kids, because I watched a lot of such movies growing up. I don't find most gore/violence anything too crazy for kids, but my wife definitely doesn't like that I've let my girls watch movies like Tremors and Dances with Wolves (skipped the romantic teepee scenes). My girls love stuff like that but the Mrs thinks it's inappropriate and that I'm warping their minds.


The tough part is that you can only tell a mind is warped after the fact.
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In reply to jeffk • 3:04p, 4/22/23
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jeffk said:
Teacher_Ag said:
I'm of the opinion that as long as a movie doesn't have sex or a lot of rough language it's probably ok to show the kids, because I watched a lot of such movies growing up. I don't find most gore/violence anything too crazy for kids, but my wife definitely doesn't like that I've let my girls watch movies like Tremors and Dances with Wolves (skipped the romantic teepee scenes). My girls love stuff like that but the Mrs thinks it's inappropriate and that I'm warping their minds.


The tough part is that you can only tell a mind is warped after the fact.
Guessing she just realized a long time ago something went wrong with me and doesn't want it repeated on our two.
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3:18p, 4/22/23
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I remember my Mom taking me to see Brewster's Millions when I was six years old because she loved Richard Pryor and John Candy. She yanked me out of the theater within the first five minutes because of the language.

Now that I look back on it, it's rated PG. What in the hell?
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In reply to johnnyblaze36 • 3:41p, 4/22/23
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Old PG ain't the same as current PG.
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In reply to jeffk • 4:09p, 4/22/23
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jeffk said:
Old PG ain't the same as current PG.


True. Sixteen Candles was rated PG.
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5:43p, 4/22/23
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Ha!!!

The first PG-13 movie we took my daughter (8) to was Blades of Glory - so inappropriate. Wife was mortified.

The first R rated we took my son (13) to Was Tropic Thunder. Wasn't too bad for most of it... until Jack Black was chained to a tree.


Side story:

My parents took me to Jaws when I was 9. I spent 50% of the movie under my seat. We lived in S Korea at the time and by the time the movie got there (on the army base) it was February and winter. We stood outside in freezing temps through 2 showings, barely got in the 3rd showing and I ended up having to sit alone. Between Korean ajimas (women who worked as maids on base). They screamed bloody murder which did not help.

A few months later I was sent off to boy scout camp for 2 weeks - literally on the coast of the yellow sea which is infested with sharks. I kid you not. We had a shark sighting the first day within 10 minutes and nobody ever got in the water again. PS - the buddy system was a complete failure, when the warning sounded it was every kid for himself.


My parents seemed to like torturing me and my sister. When we were younger before moving to Korea we stayed in a tall hotel in downtown SF and my parents decided it was a good idea to watch Towering Inferno on the pay per view. Needless to say I did not sleep. And when I was 12 they took me to Alien.

So I paid it forward with my kids and made them watch Jaws when we went to Padre one year. Of course they just ran screaming from the room and only saw about 5 minutes of it.
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6:01p, 4/22/23
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My mom wanted to see Vanilla Sky while my wife and I were visiting her and my dad. We had only been married less than two years and were mid 20's.

The moment Cameron Diaz made the comment about Cruise's character dropping a money shot in her mouth, and I was sitting between my mom and my wife, I said "I'm out meet you in the lobby" and I got up and walked out.
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In reply to JCA1 • 6:38p, 4/22/23
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I was 4 at the old Astro drive thru with my parents for a double feature of Cat People and Psycho 2. I had nightmares for a week.
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In reply to 00 • 8:04p, 4/22/23
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I went to see Cat People and I had dreams about Annette O'toole for a week
The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But, it's still on the list.
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8:12p, 4/22/23
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Still waiting on someone to post about taking their kid to go see Deadpool thinking it was "just another comic book movie"
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In reply to jokershady • 8:17p, 4/22/23
There were people with little kids there when we saw it.
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9:22p, 4/22/23
We saw a family with toddlers at the last Rambo movie
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In reply to JCA1 • 9:39p, 4/22/23
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JCA1 said:
My dad took me to see The Shining when I was 6 and An American Werewolf in London when I was 7. I challenge anyone to top that.


My dad let me watch Wolfen with him when I was 6. Still have visions of the wolf tearing that guys head clean off over 4 decades later….
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9:45p, 4/22/23
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I got some grief in the late 90s when my sister in law had her 12-year old brother in Houston for a few weeks. My brother had to work so we thought we'd rent a movie at Blockbuster. She wanted to see Casino but figured that'd be a bit much for her brother. I, genius that I am, suggested what I thought was a similar movie and recall it got a lot of award nominations.

That was Leaving Las Vegas.
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In reply to jokershady • 12:00a, 4/23/23
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jokershady said:
Still waiting on someone to post about taking their kid to go see Deadpool thinking it was "just another comic book movie"
I took my oldest son who was 11 at the time. I am not proud of it. But he begged and begged me to do it. My wife finally said "well if you think he can handle it".

I embarrassed the sh** out of him laughing as hard as I did but we both loved it.
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In reply to maroon barchetta • 3:19p, 4/23/23
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maroon barchetta said:
There were people with little kids there when we saw it.
There were people with four and six year old kids when I saw Jackass Forever in 3D. Definitely not kid friendly.
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5:33p, 4/23/23
I'm always a little baffled that parents can still unknowingly take kids to these movies in the age of the internet.

That being said, these stories are great so thanks haha.
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In reply to jokershady • 5:45p, 4/23/23
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My dad took me to go see Starship Troopers when I was 12.

I got to hear, "Look down!" on those 2 occasions.
This is the proper technique
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In reply to mslags97 • 5:53p, 4/23/23
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mslags97 said:
JCA1 said:
My dad took me to see The Shining when I was 6 and An American Werewolf in London when I was 7. I challenge anyone to top that.


My dad let me watch Wolfen with him when I was 6. Still have visions of the wolf tearing that guys head clean off over 4 decades later….


I actually didn't make it through An American Werewolf in London. When the werewolf attacked them on the moors in the opening scene, I took off running. My dad finally caught me in the parking lot.
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In reply to JCA1 • 7:27p, 4/23/23
Probably just as well.

The decaying corpses giving the main character tips on how to kill himself would have freaked you out worse.
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7:59p, 4/23/23
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When I was a kid, my mother took me and a bunch of friends to see the Howard stern movie. She had major regrets, we were 13. That scene with that woman on the speaker, been stuck in my memory since then.
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8:01a, 4/24/23
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My mom took my best friend and me to the big Lebowski when it hit theaters. We were in 8th grade. She saw it had Jeff Bridges and John Goodman and didn't know anything else about it. Nor did she see it was rated R.
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In reply to maroon barchetta • 8:06a, 4/24/23
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maroon barchetta said:
Probably just as well.

The decaying corpses giving the main character tips on how to kill himself would have freaked you out worse.
holy crap I need to see this movie!!
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In reply to jokershady • 8:07a, 4/24/23
jokershady said:
maroon barchetta said:
Probably just as well.

The decaying corpses giving the main character tips on how to kill himself would have freaked you out worse.
holy crap I need to see this movie!!


They keep rotting away a little more with every scene they are in!!!
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In reply to jokershady • 8:13a, 4/24/23
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jokershady said:
maroon barchetta said:
Probably just as well.

The decaying corpses giving the main character tips on how to kill himself would have freaked you out worse.
holy crap I need to see this movie!!


It's the best werewolf movie of all time IMO. Scary but with some legit humor. And the scene where he transforms into the werewolf is incredible.
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In reply to Mathguy64 • 8:45a, 4/24/23
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Jaws in 75 messed up 12 year old Mathguy in a bad bad way. I did not like getting in the water at a beach for a very long time.


I still hate the ocean because of that movie
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