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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that the only art or entertainment fit for consumption is that which meets some narrow set of political or moral criteria. So, I’d let them watch pretty much anything (excluding the obvious, ie truly obscene material, pornography, etc).

I know, casual racism and misogny definitely is "art".

It can be. And even if not “art,” there is casual racism and misogyny in a lot of comic entertainment.

So what? If I watch a movie or a standup act, that doesn’t mean my moral universe is defined by the jokes I’m watching. It must be freaking miserable to be some consumed by politics that your entire life is filtered through that lens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Police Academy
Revenge of the Nerds
Better Off Dead

These are classics!

Wait why cant we like Better Off Dead now?! Is One Crazy Summer out now, too???

Along with Police Academy, Porky's and Meatball's are out. Revenge of the Nerds for sure.

Man, we grew up with a lot of weird and troubling - but funny, at the time - stuff, us 80s kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Police Academy
Revenge of the Nerds
Better Off Dead

These are classics!

Wait why cant we like Better Off Dead now?! Is One Crazy Summer out now, too???

Along with Police Academy, Porky's and Meatball's are out. Revenge of the Nerds for sure.

Man, we grew up with a lot of weird and troubling - but funny, at the time - stuff, us 80s kids.

(I don't know why I put an apostrophe in Meatballs.)

[Anonymous]

I agree with the PP who said it’s about the age when you show it. If it’s part fun, part history lesson and they’ll understand when to cringe, go for it.

[Anonymous]

I don't show them anything from my childhood. But we like to watch Dave Chappelle together as a family.

[Anonymous]

Elizabeth Perkins as a rapist pedophile in Big is pretty rough.

[Anonymous]

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.

We watched this during Covid with DC. They were horrified and I have to admit that it was cringy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that the only art or entertainment fit for consumption is that which meets some narrow set of political or moral criteria. So, I’d let them watch pretty much anything (excluding the obvious, ie truly obscene material, pornography, etc).

I know, casual racism and misogny definitely is "art".

It can be. And even if not “art,” there is casual racism and misogyny in a lot of comic entertainment.

So what? If I watch a movie or a standup act, that doesn’t mean my moral universe is defined by the jokes I’m watching. It must be freaking miserable to be some consumed by politics that your entire life is filtered through that lens.

It's not politics, it's morals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there's anything wrong at all with showing kids movies made during a different time. It shows how things have changed (or not). I mean, I watched Dirty Dancing when I was 11 and abortions were legal. I learned a lot about what it was like before they were legal from watching and talking to my mom and dad, and grandma. In my 20's, I caught an episode of Leave it to Beaver and my dad and I talked about all the differences between then and "now".

I remember my mom being adamant I not watch Dirty Dancing. I think I was about 19 before it dawned on me that it was about abortion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that the only art or entertainment fit for consumption is that which meets some narrow set of political or moral criteria. So, I’d let them watch pretty much anything (excluding the obvious, ie truly obscene material, pornography, etc).

I know, casual racism and misogny definitely is "art".

It can be. And even if not “art,” there is casual racism and misogyny in a lot of comic entertainment.

So what? If I watch a movie or a standup act, that doesn’t mean my moral universe is defined by the jokes I’m watching. It must be freaking miserable to be some consumed by politics that your entire life is filtered through that lens.

I think it is miserable to care so little about your children that you would let them consume something so harmful. Racism is bad for everyone. I am sorry you are so blinded by politics you can't see that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would show anything from my childhood era to my kids so long as it wasn’t rated R like the Texas chainsaw massacre, Poltergeist movies etc.

Again, rated PG when it came out. They wanted to give it an R but Spielberg appealed and it got the PG.

And then I watched it in the theater when I was 10 and didn't sleep for a week!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elizabeth Perkins as a rapist pedophile in Big is pretty rough.

I mean…she thought he was an adult.

[Anonymous]

Peter Pan the animated version

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that the only art or entertainment fit for consumption is that which meets some narrow set of political or moral criteria. So, I’d let them watch pretty much anything (excluding the obvious, ie truly obscene material, pornography, etc).

I know, casual racism and misogny definitely is "art".

It can be. And even if not “art,” there is casual racism and misogyny in a lot of comic entertainment.

So what? If I watch a movie or a standup act, that doesn’t mean my moral universe is defined by the jokes I’m watching. It must be freaking miserable to be some consumed by politics that your entire life is filtered through that lens.

I think it is miserable to care so little about your children that you would let them consume something so harmful. Racism is bad for everyone. I am sorry you are so blinded by politics you can't see that.

meh - we all watched these movies and we seem to have turned out fine. you can watch a movie and then talk about how we dont make fun of chinese people by putting on squinty eyes or that the south was often romanticised, ignoring the real horrors of slavery. give your kids some credit, helicopter momma!