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

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman was stupid when it came out. Didn't need to wait 30 years for it to become stupid.

Thank you. I'm not a fan. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who sees it.

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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.

I disagree. I think Jake was telling Farmer Ted to have fun being seen with the most popular girl in school and to have fun driving Jake’s expensive car. Ted was an unpopular nerdy freshman who couldn’t drive yet.

They had sex so yes it was rape.

Do we know that they actually had sex? I remember the movie was pretty ambiguous about it.

Yes they say it the next morning in the car.

Doesn’t Ted *ask* if they had sex and she says yes. I always thought they didn’t and they both just assumed they did because they assume Ted would’ve wanted to because of how popular she is - like neither could imagine that he wouldn’t have tried to put the moves on her. Instead, he passed out and doesn’t even know if they had sex.

Yes, I think Ted says, “Did we…” and she says “I’m pretty sure.”—but they both wake up fully clothed and I think Ted is even wearing his mouth piece, so it seems pretty dubious.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Fast Times at Ridgemont High was on the boring side. But I'm surprised at the pearl clutching. It was a very realistic portrayal of lower middle class high school life. Including the sex, which turned out to be rather anticlimactic. Which it often is!

I am intrigued by this creeping return to prudery and censorship of our current times. The whole 70s-90s was a revolt against the censorship and prudery of previous generations.

It's really something, isn't it! Only now it's kids censoring themselves and dragging us olds into it, too.

I mean it's hard to complain that kids today aren't smoking, drinking, using drugs, or having s*x the way we degenerates did in the 80s and 90s - but also, yeah, there's a prudishness that seems really anti-LIFE. Not life in the abortion sense but life in the aren't we here to experience some things and make some mistakes and see what's out there?!

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Anonymous wrote:Airplane!

I would never deprive my kids of the joys of Airplane!

I picked the wrong day to quit watching Airplane!

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman was stupid when it came out. Didn't need to wait 30 years for it to become stupid.

Thank you. I'm not a fan. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who sees it.

You're not. Merrill Markoe wrote a hilarious essay about it years ago

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Anonymous wrote:Airplane!

I would never deprive my kids of the joys of Airplane!

Surely, you wouldn’t show a movie that inappropriate to your kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Fast Times at Ridgemont High was on the boring side. But I'm surprised at the pearl clutching. It was a very realistic portrayal of lower middle class high school life. Including the sex, which turned out to be rather anticlimactic. Which it often is!

I am intrigued by this creeping return to prudery and censorship of our current times. The whole 70s-90s was a revolt against the censorship and prudery of previous generations.

It's really something, isn't it! Only now it's kids censoring themselves and dragging us olds into it, too.

I mean it's hard to complain that kids today aren't smoking, drinking, using drugs, or having s*x the way we degenerates did in the 80s and 90s - but also, yeah, there's a prudishness that seems really anti-LIFE. Not life in the abortion sense but life in the aren't we here to experience some things and make some mistakes and see what's out there?!

Exactly this.

But I think it’s only a brief blip affecting “kids” who are college age through mid 20s right now. It’s going to be a weird fad like the kids who got really devoted to being depressed and cutting themselves to grunge in the early 90s.

Our younger kids and their friends (late ES through HS) know all the liberal/woke values, the coded terminology, the mantra of health and safety and carbon footprints and always being kind to everyone in all circumstances, never getting in trouble. But they use it all in a sarcastic, mocking way. “You’re so cancelled!” That sort of thing.

Thankfully rebellion for them is going to look like actual rebellion… not a tedious game of who can virtue signal the hardest.

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Anonymous wrote:Airplane!

I would never deprive my kids of the joys of Airplane!

Surely, you wouldn’t show a movie that inappropriate to your kids.

Don't call me Shirley

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Howard the Duck

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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.

It also doesn’t matter if it was a term, it happened.

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Anonymous wrote:Airplane!

I would never deprive my kids of the joys of Airplane!

Surely, you wouldn’t show a movie that inappropriate to your kids.

I saw that movie when I was a kid and it remains the foundation of what I find funny. Surely you wouldn't deprive your kids the joy of that kind of humor?

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Dumb and Dumber. I remember it being so funny but we went to watch it together recently and it just felt kinda mean. Like the two main characters are really not bad people and they are well meaning but not intelligent. The movie just felt kinda mean to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman was stupid when it came out. Didn't need to wait 30 years for it to become stupid.

Thank you. I'm not a fan. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who sees it.

Oh no, you are not alone. It's so so stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:Airplane!

I would never deprive my kids of the joys of Airplane!

Surely, you wouldn’t show a movie that inappropriate to your kids.

I saw that movie when I was a kid and it remains the foundation of what I find funny. Surely you wouldn't deprive your kids the joy of that kind of humor?

Girl. PP is teeing up a “Don’t Call me Shirley” joke…like from the movie.

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Back to the Future