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

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Anonymous wrote:Blazing Saddles.

Disagree. It's a classic that remains very funny and relevant.

I tried to watch it with my young adult kids and they were horrified. It’s amazing how we were socializing to overlook so much.

We turned it off after 20 minutes.

You missed the best parts!

My kids said wow you really needed to be hit over the head back with “a message” in the 80’s to see how insane racism is. We get it racist are stupid.

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We’ve become so humorless.

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

I mean…she thought he was an adult.

It’s such a shame that they had to include all of the sex stuff. It’s an otherwise classic movie that kids would love.

The 80s were horrible for oversexualizing everything. Even Ghostbusters would have been a much better movie without all the ghost BJ and sex with demons stuff. For a movie that otherwise would be great for kids --- why??

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Anonymous wrote:Airplane. I thought that movie was so funny when it came out but when my teens and I watched it, they were horrified. They were like, there are people storming the plane and running all over the place and this is awful they were just horrified.

It is still a family favorite. We quote it all the time too. I am laughing now just thinking of the autopilot.

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Anonymous wrote:Back to the Future

Why?

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Anonymous wrote:Blazing Saddles.

Disagree. It's a classic that remains very funny and relevant.

+ 1. Richard Pryor was a national treasure.

16 Candles was gross when it came out, and it's gross now. Older kids can watch it to see how f#@&ed up it is/was, and how that mindset contributed to the emergence of the Brocks, Weineteins, and their ilk.

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Anonymous wrote:Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Absolutely racist bs.

Indy has nothing on Richard Pryor

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What ever happened to “boys will be boys”?

I really don’t get some of you people. Much prefer “80s values” to whatever it is that leads you all to be so joyless and annoying about virtually every facet of life.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe the number of people who wouldn’t let their kids watch Blazing Saddles!

How about All in the Family or The Jeffersons?

A wed wose, how womantic

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Most movies don't age well.

The only ones I wouldn't show to kids are ones with lots of violence or inappropriate sex scenes.

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Gremlins is just off, so off. To market to young families.

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We also allow anything that isn't way over the top with sex and violence. My kids point out things to me that I just accept in the move and let ME know it hasn't aged well. There's some value in knowing where we were 30-40 years ago and how we got where we are, and how values change.

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve become so humorless.

Humor is not timeless. It depends heavily on the era and civilization it was created in.

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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!

Would you still find squinty eyes funny if you were Asian? (No, you most likely wouldn’t.). That’s the thing - it’s funny only to white people.

exactly my point. its not funny and it wasn't funny then. and it could be a teachable moment.

Use a production that actually uses Asians encountering racism if you want a teachable moment.

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Anonymous wrote:Blazing Saddles.

Disagree. It's a classic that remains very funny and relevant.

I tried to watch it with my young adult kids and they were horrified. It’s amazing how we were socializing to overlook so much.

We turned it off after 20 minutes.

You missed the best parts!

come on this movie is a national treasure!


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