Gone With the Wind. My mom hadn't seen it since the 1950s and suggested watching it with my kids. Everybody was horrified. |
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. |
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.) |
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. |
I don't show them anything from my childhood. But we like to watch Dave Chappelle together as a family. |
Elizabeth Perkins as a rapist pedophile in Big is pretty rough. |
We watched this during Covid with DC. They were horrified and I have to admit that it was cringy. |
It's not politics, it's morals. |
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. |
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. |
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! |
I mean…she thought he was an adult. |
Peter Pan the animated version |
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! |