Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children

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I haven't read this whole thread, but I wanted to throw in a warning about "Beethoven" if you have small dog-loving kids.

You'd think it'd be great, right? Big dog, Charles Grodin? But the plot centers on an "evil scientist" who wants to experiment with weapons that blow up dogs' brains, and thinks big ol' Beethoven would be a good subject. I'd missed this when it first came out, and picked it to watch with a six-year-old ... big mistake!!

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Anonymous wrote:Gone With the Wind. My mom hadn't seen it since the 1950s and suggested watching it with my kids. Everybody was horrified.

One of the best movies ever made.

Scarlett O'Hara is the epitome of a Pick Me Girl.

But I agree, many scenes are cringe inducing.

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Here’s the Sixteen Candles scene for everyone who is arguing, starts about four minutes in.

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Anonymous wrote:Beside the nude scenes, what’s wrong with 16 Candles? The Donger?

Um, the main love interest giving away his drunk girlfriend to a kid who did him a favor so the kid can rape her?

C’mon. Everyone loved Jake!

I loved Jake when I was in middle school. Now I understand that he gave his girlfriend to a dweeb to rape. The rapey-ness makes him far less hot

Except that at the time it wasn't considered rape, although it was considered assholish behavior.

Yea it was considered date rape.

Date rape wasn’t a term in 1984 when this movie came out.

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Anonymous wrote:Beside the nude scenes, what’s wrong with 16 Candles? The Donger?

Um, the main love interest giving away his drunk girlfriend to a kid who did him a favor so the kid can rape her?

C’mon. Everyone loved Jake!

That is, quite literally, one of the things that is troubling about it. We love Jake, yet he is TERRIBLE and lets his gf get date raped! Gross.

I never took it that anything actually happened between Anthony M-H’s character and the girlfriend…it’s not like they were undressed or anything. What made the scene funny was that nothing probably did happen, but they sort of decided to believe it did and were happy about it (despite being a dorky freshman and beautiful senior). Also, of course in real life Jake should not have sent his drunk girlfriend off with AMH (though I believe he just asked him to drive her home and not to ‘rape her’); but even as a teen in the 80s I knew it was wrong and silly, which again, is partially what made it funny. I mean, a grandmother feeling up a grandchild is also wrong and ridiculous, and that is why it is funny.

Watch the scene again. It’s clear that he raped her. Of course, 80’s being the 80’s, she’s not feeling at all bothered and basically assures him that she probably liked it.

Just watched it on youtube. They just sit in the car. Nothing happens

I think the movie is fairly ambiguous about both Jake’s intentions for Ted and what happened between Ted and Jake’s girlfriend. I mean, sure you could interpret it in the worst possible way and, who knows, maybe that’s what the director intended. But I think a reasonable person could fairly argue that Jake just wanted Ted to take his girlfriend back home because he didn’t want her around any more and that nothing actually happened in the car.

You need to rewatch he clearly gave her over to have sex.

I have rewatched it. I honestly don’t think so. I think Jake was tired of her and wanted Ted to take her home and to make sure she got home and not do something stupid like leave her in a parking lot somewhere. He never tells Ted to “have fun” with her or anything.

Correction: Jake does say “have fun” as they are about to leave in the car together, but he doesn’t say “have fun with her”.

My interpretation as a kid watching this movie, and I think it holds up, is that Jake let Ted drive his girlfriend home because it would improve his reputation to be seen with the most popular girl in school. That’s it. And Ted did take her to his friend’s house to get a picture of them together. I don’t think it makes sense that Jake would talk about valuing real love, and then basically giving his girlfriend over for sex in the next breath. That’s the way I see it, but everyone is entitled to their own interpretation obviously.

Bruh. This movie is one of my faves, but it’s obvious he’s handing her over so that Farmer Ted can have sex with her. I always thought Jake was quite the assails for that, but I still love the movie.

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Last Tango in Paris.

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Anonymous wrote:Last Tango in Paris.

You really shouldn’t be showing that to your kids in the first place 😬

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Anonymous wrote:Beside the nude scenes, what’s wrong with 16 Candles? The Donger?

Um, the main love interest giving away his drunk girlfriend to a kid who did him a favor so the kid can rape her?

C’mon. Everyone loved Jake!

That is, quite literally, one of the things that is troubling about it. We love Jake, yet he is TERRIBLE and lets his gf get date raped! Gross.

I never took it that anything actually happened between Anthony M-H’s character and the girlfriend…it’s not like they were undressed or anything. What made the scene funny was that nothing probably did happen, but they sort of decided to believe it did and were happy about it (despite being a dorky freshman and beautiful senior). Also, of course in real life Jake should not have sent his drunk girlfriend off with AMH (though I believe he just asked him to drive her home and not to ‘rape her’); but even as a teen in the 80s I knew it was wrong and silly, which again, is partially what made it funny. I mean, a grandmother feeling up a grandchild is also wrong and ridiculous, and that is why it is funny.

Watch the scene again. It’s clear that he raped her. Of course, 80’s being the 80’s, she’s not feeling at all bothered and basically assures him that she probably liked it.

Just watched it on youtube. They just sit in the car. Nothing happens

I think the movie is fairly ambiguous about both Jake’s intentions for Ted and what happened between Ted and Jake’s girlfriend. I mean, sure you could interpret it in the worst possible way and, who knows, maybe that’s what the director intended. But I think a reasonable person could fairly argue that Jake just wanted Ted to take his girlfriend back home because he didn’t want her around any more and that nothing actually happened in the car.

You need to rewatch he clearly gave her over to have sex.

I have rewatched it. I honestly don’t think so. I think Jake was tired of her and wanted Ted to take her home and to make sure she got home and not do something stupid like leave her in a parking lot somewhere. He never tells Ted to “have fun” with her or anything.

Correction: Jake does say “have fun” as they are about to leave in the car together, but he doesn’t say “have fun with her”.

My interpretation as a kid watching this movie, and I think it holds up, is that Jake let Ted drive his girlfriend home because it would improve his reputation to be seen with the most popular girl in school. That’s it. And Ted did take her to his friend’s house to get a picture of them together. I don’t think it makes sense that Jake would talk about valuing real love, and then basically giving his girlfriend over for sex in the next breath. That’s the way I see it, but everyone is entitled to their own interpretation obviously.

Bruh. This movie is one of my faves, but it’s obvious he’s handing her over so that Farmer Ted can have sex with her. I always thought Jake was quite the assails for that, but I still love the movie.

If Jake just wanted Ted to have sex with his girlfriend, why go through all the trouble of arranging this drive home when she was passed out in the bedroom?

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Anonymous wrote:Beside the nude scenes, what’s wrong with 16 Candles? The Donger?

Um, the main love interest giving away his drunk girlfriend to a kid who did him a favor so the kid can rape her?

C’mon. Everyone loved Jake!

I loved Jake when I was in middle school. Now I understand that he gave his girlfriend to a dweeb to rape. The rapey-ness makes him far less hot

Except that at the time it wasn't considered rape, although it was considered assholish behavior.

Yea it was considered date rape.

Date rape wasn’t a term in 1984 when this movie came out.

Date rape was definitely a term in the 80s.
- 50-year-old

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Anonymous wrote:Beside the nude scenes, what’s wrong with 16 Candles? The Donger?

Um, the main love interest giving away his drunk girlfriend to a kid who did him a favor so the kid can rape her?

C’mon. Everyone loved Jake!

I loved Jake when I was in middle school. Now I understand that he gave his girlfriend to a dweeb to rape. The rapey-ness makes him far less hot

Except that at the time it wasn't considered rape, although it was considered assholish behavior.

Yea it was considered date rape.

Date rape wasn’t a term in 1984 when this movie came out.

Date rape was definitely a term in the 80s.
- 50-year-old

54 year old here and can also confirm date rape was a term before 1984.

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I am female and have a young teen daughter. I often marvel at how much better things are for girls her age than they were for me. Watching some of these movies with her has been helpful in explaining what was considered ok then and now is not.
But… what’s wrong with Better off Dead?? Very strong female main character there.

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Pink Panther
And, unsurprisingly, Animal House

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Soul Man - In order to win a scholarship, Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell), the white son of an affluent psychiatrist, pretends to be black on his application form. When he's accepted, he alters his hair, skin and speech to conceal his true identity. At first Mark believes that going through law school as a minority will be a breeze, but he soon begins experiencing racism. Eventually, Mark falls in love with Sarah Walker (Rae Dawn Chong), a black student, and begins to feel guilty about his ruse.

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Another huge knock on 16 Candles is how the ring a gong every time the Asian character appears

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The Jerk.