Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 10:16     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Blazing Saddles
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 10:15     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
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.


What’s wrong with poltergeist?
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 10:14     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Meatballs

SA, bullying
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 10:13     Subject: Re:Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Anonymous wrote:Pretty Woman


Why?
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 10:13     Subject: Re:Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 10:09     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
One of the older articles about this:

"It's okay to like problematic things"
https://urge.org/its-okay-to-like-problematic-things/
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 09:56     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 09:33     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Anonymous wrote:Seven brides for seven brothers. But I’d still let them watch just for the barn raising scene alone. Don’t take yourself so seriously!


I've very purposely avoided rewatching this movie as an adult. My family used to watch the VHS often and I have fond memories of it...but I know that it must have aged horribly. The barn raising scene was great though.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 09:27     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 09:02     Subject: Re:Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Anonymous wrote:There is nothing I wouldn’t let my kid watch from my youth. She can quote My Cousin Vinny and do Olive’s dance from Little Miss Sunshine.

She knows they are just movies from a different time.

She loves Blazing Saddles and we talk about it being co written by Richard Pryor. When you watch the movie, all the racists are the idiots.

We had watch Rear Window and she was so bored but got invested when Raymond Burr came back to his apartment when Grace Kelly was snooping.


The entire point of having a more critical view of these older movies is that we absorb an ENORMOUS amount of racism subconsciously. So if you notice the cringy parts, ok. But you are still probably absorbing damaging cultural messaging.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 08:58     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 08:56     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
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".

Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 08:52     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Anonymous wrote:Police Academy
Revenge of the Nerds
Better Off Dead


These are classics!
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 08:50     Subject: Re:Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
Anonymous wrote:Ace Ventura. We thought it would be dated and stupid, but funny. Instead, there was a lot of cringworthy homophobia and transphobia.


It was a joke but now it's a 2023 dating documentary
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2023 08:49     Subject: Movies that don’t age well and you wouldn’t show your children
The Toy