Anonymous wrote:I watched ALL of these movies as a kid with little to no parental supervision and I turned out normal enough to spend all my free time hanging out here at DCUM, so maybe our collective fears are a little overblown.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman was stupid when it came out. Didn't need to wait 30 years for it to become stupid.

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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.

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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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:Grease... I watched it on a plane and it didn't age well at all.

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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.

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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!

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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.