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Post 06/09/2023 13:08     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
The original Adventures in Babysitting

(the remake is sweet though)
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2023 12:26     Subject: Re:Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Not sure it was any better in the 80s but my brother and I used to watch Howard the Duck all the time as kids. I saw it as an adult and was pretty horrified. Not to mention it was just a bad movie!
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2023 12:10     Subject: Re:Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Big. Essentially a 12 year old has sex.
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Post 06/09/2023 11:04     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
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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.


I mean … every generation of the last 70 years (until about 5 minutes ago) had a mantra about teens getting wasted and making bad decisions. It *was* fun.

Kids today,,, can’t drive, don’t have sex, can’t talk to another human, are scared to death of everything from the sun to the food they eat to the shows they watch, resolve every dispute or hardship through tranquillizing medication or litigation, and live at home until they’re 30.

Give me the 16 Candles kids any day.


Yeah - things did feel a lot more HUMAN back in the day even if we got some messed up messages, too
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Post 06/09/2023 10:55     Subject: Re:Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Anonymous wrote:Strange things are afoot at the Circle K!

I showed this to my kid when she was like 12. Nothing bad in there at all.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2023 07:02     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
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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.


Poltergeist is rated PG.

Was it really!? That movie scared the crap out of me as a kid. Maybe the rating system from the 80s isn’t a good judge of fear/violence in movies from that era then.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2023 01:44     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Most humor doesn't age well.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2023 00:39     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Anonymous wrote: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.


And we don't get how someone like you just never gets it, never evolves, never understands how harmful these messages are. And that we don't find joy in harming others or being nasty.

Sorry you've never experienced real joy. You must be a very small person.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 23:28     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
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Anonymous wrote: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.


A lot of these movies I loved as teenager back in the 80s are completely cringey now. I would let kids watch them, but they are dated even to me.


Yeah but we remember them, don’t we? I mean, has any teen romance movie in the last 20 years produced a scene as iconic as this:

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Post 06/08/2023 23:18     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Anonymous wrote: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.


A lot of these movies I loved as teenager back in the 80s are completely cringey now. I would let kids watch them, but they are dated even to me.
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Post 06/08/2023 21:40     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
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Anonymous wrote:Elizabeth Perkins as a rapist pedophile in Big is pretty rough.


That’s ridiculous. A pedophile is someone who is sexually attracted to children. She had sex with a consenting person with an adult body. And when she found out he was an actually a child, she did not have sex with him any longer.

The fact that he could not legally consent is mitigated by the fact that actual magic occurred, placing an actual child in a fully grown man’s body. It is not akin to actual cases of statutory rape.


Officer, I swear, she looked 18!
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 21:40     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Grease
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Post 06/08/2023 21:24     Subject: Re: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!


come on this movie is a national treasure!


"i didnt get a harumph outta that guy!"


That's literally one of our family sayings when we all agree but one person.

Also, "howard Johnson is right" kills me every time.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 21:22     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Sorry her grandmother
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 21:21     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
“. Last night at the dance, my little brother paid a buck to see your underwear.“

I cannot believe no one is talking about Samantha being felt up by her grandfather!