Wildest movie that you watched in grade school?

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bcentsale@reddit

Also in fifth grade - my teacher put on 'Christmas Vacation' on the last day before Christmas vacation.

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In actual school? Probably nothing because I went to a Christian school. My 2nd grade teacher had us watch Old Yeller or Where the Red Fern Grows. I can’t remember which. Perhaps wildest in a traumatizing way?

Outside of school and just grade school age? lol. I saw everything my dad wanted to see. He took me to the theater and just covered my eyes/ears during “inappropriate” parts. Sometimes he wasn’t quick enough, like with Made in America (1993). I saw some bouncing tits on top of Ted Danson before my dad covered my eyes in time. I was 9.

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Every-Touch-2051@reddit

Not a movie but my entire 5th grade class sat in the auditorium of the school to watch oj’s verdict on a small tv. Everyone in that auditorium cheered when he was found not guilty. I still find it wild we watched it in elementary school. lol.

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sporkily@reddit

My 4th grade music class was listening to the car chase on the radio. Then the teacher realized it probably wasn’t appropriate and went back to whatever lesson had been going on. We were very vocal about our disappointment.

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neoistheone79@reddit (OP)

5th? lol I was a junior in high school

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jmurph180@reddit

My dad showed me alien when I was 4, first movie I really remember

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sporkily@reddit

My uncle showed it to me around the same age. Maybe 3. Traumatized the shit out of me and I avoided that franchise like the plague. Senior year of high school I took a film appreciation class, and Alien was one of the movies we watched. I was so scared but it was a good movie and I found Aliens to watch on my own.

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

"Can we watch the sequel, dad?"

"Not until you're at least five!"

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Wonderful_Growth255@reddit

I remember watching robocop as a kid with my Cub Scout troop at the troop leader’s house.

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delicious_pancakes@reddit

I’d buy that for a dollar!

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sdouble@reddit

I wasn’t even a big fan of rococo, but this phrase stuck with me forever. I still use it and “I’m gonna take you to the bank” from Hard to Kill w/ Steven seagal

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Khajiit_Has_Upvotes@reddit

6000 SUX. An American tradition.

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siobhanenator@reddit

I loved Robocop when I was a little kid lol

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SuperB7896@reddit

My parents took me to see Platoon when I was 8. We had family members who served in Vietnam and they wanted me to understand…don’t think they thought that one through all the way. 😮

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KS-G441@reddit

Platoon was on damn near every weekend at my house growing up. It was my dad’s favorite movie.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

My dad uses to sit me down and have me watch Tour of Duty

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neoistheone79@reddit (OP)

Well shit! I get what they were going for, but that’ll give a kid nightmares

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SuperB7896@reddit

Also, I learned the word motherfu--er too…they say that a lot in that movie!

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Swamp_Donkey_7@reddit

We watched Schindlers List in 8th grade. Had to get a permission slip signed for that one.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

Surprised no one brought up

Jaws
Nightmare On Elm Street
Friday the Thirteenth

Everyone above the age of 7 swore up and down they saw thise movies.

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Rainin3sfromthetrees@reddit

Goodfellas. First sleepover birthday party. 5th grade

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bcentsale@reddit

I had seen Goodfellas, Godfather, A Bronx Tale, and My Cousin Vinnie, all as they were available to rent. They were actually tamer than a lot of the people we knew.

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neoistheone79@reddit (OP)

I mean, there are a lot of lessons to learn from that movie haha.

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UltraMechaPunk@reddit

Don’t rat on your friends
Keep your mouth shut

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bcentsale@reddit

My kids know what snitches get...

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

Did it "amuse" you?

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taleofbenji@reddit

In sixth grade we watched Glory (1989) in school for its historical depictions.

Even though it has lines like "Stripes on a n----r? That's like tits on a bull!"

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toejampotpourri@reddit

I also saw Glory in middle school.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

We all did!

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boywonderrrrrrrrrr@reddit

Total Recall. The lady with three boobs was seared into my 11-year-old brain.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

Cuato Lives

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DockEllis@reddit

My dad let me watch that movie when I was 9 and my mom walked in at exactly that scene. I never got to watch the rest.

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Expensive-Day-3551@reddit

My grandma had us watch this when I was 8 lol

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Sighlina@reddit

You been chasing that dragon ever since…

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

Terminator 2. Parents would rent that movie like it wad Aladdin and walk away as you shoved it into the VCR.

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poindxtrwv@reddit

Probably Big Trouble in Little China. I just gave it a rewatch last weekend, actually.

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phillysleuther@reddit

With grade school? Nothing inappropriate. I went to Catholic school. I got out of there before they made the abortion video mandatory.

For high school? All girls Catholic academy. Romeo and Juliet. And on my singing group’s trip, Legends of the Fall and Last of the Mohicans.

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piscian19@reddit

My parents were pretty artsy and openminded when I was a kid so like the first film I ever remember seeing was The Seventh Seal (1957) when I was a toddler. That said if you mean actual school. I imagine ours was the last generation to watch Romeo & Juliet in school with actual nudity.

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Mindless-Stuff2771k@reddit

And under age nudity at that.

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Purple-flying-dog@reddit

I remember watching bram stokers Dracula with my parents when I was maybe 12 or 13 and was so mortified by the sexual scenes.

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Ok-Cartographer-4226@reddit

Silence of the lambs. The relatives in charge of babysitting me that night didn’t choose it for us kids, but they def didn’t make us leave the room while they watched it.

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Shatterstar23@reddit

National Lampoon’s vacation. I don’t remember it, but my friend said the teacher forgot about the nudity and had to fast-forward.

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subvial@reddit

Faces of death when i was like 8

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Clear-Journalist3095@reddit

I'm pretty sure people were allowed to bring VHS tapes and we watched Pulp Fiction on the coach bus ride from Pennsylvania down to Disney world when I was a senior. That was in '05. Surely not, though, right? That's got to be a false memory...

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desertdweller2011@reddit

oh people bringing vhs tapes on the bus is a thing i totally forgot about! growing up there was a kid in my class whose dad was a member of “the academy” and got sent vhs tapes of all the films nominated for oscar’s and he’d bring them on the ski bus. i had a xopy of titanic on vhs while it was still in theatres bc we all passed it around and made copies 😂

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Middle_Bison47@reddit

1987 is firmly millennial territory

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therealpopkiller@reddit

Saw RoboCop for the first time when I was around seven or eight. I don’t remember how, could’ve been at a friend’s, but definitely should not have watched it that young. Even though I loved it.

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ohio2az@reddit

I remember watching a video about how to spot a child molester in like 1st grade in the 80s. Pretty much said any neighbor that is nice to you is a pedophile.

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donmayo@reddit

Ok some of y'all have some seriously heavy movies.

I want to throw a curve ball.

Day of the Beast

Ever see a movie about a priest trying to track down Satan by going to metal concerts? Then eventually having a claymation fight on top of buildings.

It's better than it sounds, but it's 100% bonkers.

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Transgojoebot@reddit

Grade 3, Escape from Alcatraz. The scene with Doc and the hatchet messed me up for a long time.

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ReiperXHC@reddit

Pretty much everything lol for me

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ladyeclectic79@reddit

Lol my fourth grade class SOMEHOW managed to convince the teacher to show us “Killer Clowns from Outer Space.” Still can’t believe it happened but yay the 80s! 😂🤣😂

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ESLcroooow@reddit

Terminator 2.

I was 10

I felt so cool

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Hairlineextreme@reddit

Beastmaster in 3rd grade

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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

On the last day of 5th grade, they gathered us up and played 'Gone with the wind' and didn't censor the end of it. They were done with us.

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Themoosemingled@reddit

Last day of grade 7 and our cool hippie teacher put on Aliens.

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Roderto@reddit

I watched tons of old comedies from the 70’s and 80’s that I was probably too young for. I think I watched The Kentucky Fried Movie when I was like 11 or 12 and it has topless women throughout. But it also has a segment that was arguably the beginning of the entire concept of a film parody (“A Fistful of Yen”). Which led to Airplane and the Naked Gun movies, and eventually Scary Movie, etc.

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Adventurous_Cloud_20@reddit

Not an actual movie, but in 6th grade, we got to watch a Vietnam era film about STD's. It could have been made for the military, I can't remember. They showed everything you can think of. The horrors of end stage syphilis? Yep. Gonorrhea at its absolute worst??? You betcha! The effects of the clap untreated on the male reproductive organ??? I don't know why, but we saw it!

Looking back, it was a lot like that episode of South Park where they try to scare the kids away from sex with diseases.

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adelaidepdx@reddit

I don’t remember what it was called, but we watched a filmstrip in 5th grade (1987) that used animation to depict how the sun was going to get bigger and bigger and turn into a supernova and scorch everything on earth

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TransportationOk657@reddit

I don't remember watching anything inappropriate in school. But in my free time, I certainly watched all kinds of rated R movies.

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neoistheone79@reddit (OP)

Oh yeah absolutely, I’m moreso talking about in school, field trips, etc. We’re the generation that watched porn thru the static lol.

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TransportationOk657@reddit

Lol, yeah, we were corrupted early, even with porn! My best friend's dad had a massive nudie mag stash. We would sneak them out as early as 8 or 9 😆

His dad also let us watch Heavy Metal when we were around the same age!

As for school and field trips, I just remember watching Disney stuff (like the Donald Duck math short) and PBS style nature and documentary stuff. In a 6th grade field trip to the zoo, we watched a National Geographic movie in a 3d theater. That was cool. Some kids got motion sickness from it.

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mistersongbird@reddit

Peanut Butter Solution

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balconylibrary1978@reddit

The Day After.... movie still scares the shit out of me

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balconylibrary1978@reddit

We watched it in 8th grade for a social studies class

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whyneedaname77@reddit

I saw Clockworrk Orange in high school. I got in trouble for look Peg, hooters

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davooooo0@reddit

had a substitute teacher in the 9th or 10th grade roll out the TV cart and show us Faces of Death.

I'm permanently scarred. 😭

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neoistheone79@reddit (OP)

Ok that’s insane!

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Krazylegz1485@reddit

Specifically in school? Labyrinth. I've had a lifelong crush on Jennifer Connelly because of it. My god she's attractive. Still.

Movies I saw way too young in general? Pretty much the entire Stephen King library from the late 80's, Friday the 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street series, one random awesome one I remember called Rolling Vengeance, and probably many others. Oh yeah, and my friend's parent's porn stash... Haha.

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RestlessTortoise@reddit

Candyman

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night-swimming704@reddit

We watched Dazed and Confused in an elective class my sophomore year of high school. Our teacher would let us bring movies in to watch while we were doing our work as long as they weren’t worse than PG-13. One of the guys brought the movie in and assured the teacher it was PG-13. Several times during the film, the teacher looked at him and goes “are you sure this is PG-13?” I think he was enjoying it too much at that point to actually turn it off.

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CalamityClambake@reddit

It's a tie.

Watership Down when I was 7, in a basement with a bunch of other little kids. Our parents were upstairs playing cards. They thought it was a fun kids cartoon when they put it on for us.

The Day After Tomorrow as part of Reagan's war propaganda in 4th grade. It's a movie about a family that lives in a bomb shelter after a thermonuclear war. We watched it in school.

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

I'm not sure if I'd call The Day After Tomorrow war propaganda. Kind of "anti-war," if you ask me. And, from what I've heard... it actually had an effect on Regan himself. After he watched it, he began to tone down a lot on the "Evil Empire" sabre-rattling he'd been doing in his first term.

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neoistheone79@reddit (OP)

Yeah it was one of those “only in the 80s moments” where like 1/3 of the country watched the tv movie.

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Practical_Agent2828@reddit

Omg watched Johnny got his gun in school (may have been middle school) and it SCARRED me. Soldier loses all senses and his arms and legs and it’s told from his internal monologue and flashbacks. Horrifying!

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Ok_Researcher_9796@reddit

Metallica One

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

The music video is great, however.

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Practical_Agent2828@reddit

Totally associate it with Metallica forever

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t00_much_caffeine@reddit

Watership Down scarred me. I saw it once at like 7 or 8 and still vividly remember that opening fight scene!

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Impossible-Taco-769@reddit

Less Than Zero. Completely clueless 6th grade teacher at a Catholic school. Yeah that didn’t go over well.

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neoistheone79@reddit (OP)

Haven’t seen that one, what was the big inappropriate thing?

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Impossible-Taco-769@reddit

The whole movie is inappropriate. Especially for 12yos. Typical 80s movie about trust fund babies home for xmas their east coast colleges. Parties fueled with booze and cocaine. But the male on male blowjob scene was one step too far for him.

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neoistheone79@reddit (OP)

Wow! Yep not appropriate lmao

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

Should have shown Catholic High School Girls in Trouble instead.

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neoistheone79@reddit (OP)

🤣

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SlavaSobov@reddit

We watched Glory in 5th grade.

Became one of my favorite movies.

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Lord_Wicki@reddit

In Junior High we watched the original "Stephen King's It", I can't remember any "wild" movies in elementary school.

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omelatk@reddit

Pet Sematary. Zelda haunted me for years.

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Generny2001@reddit

Fast Times at Richmond High.

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therobotscott@reddit

My junior year in high school the movie Saving Private Ryan just came out on video. My history teacher basically said that he didn't want to go through the whole permission slip thing, so if we didn't say anything to anyone about it then he would show it to us. He also showed us Schindler's List under the same conditions.

Also, in my freshman biology class we had a substitute who showed us the films Dante's Peak and Outbreak. He said "I'm showing these for the science. I'm not showing you this for the swearing."

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Ok_Researcher_9796@reddit

I was 21 when saving private Ryan came out.

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

"We're only watching Backdoor Sluts 9 for the science, not the fucking." - the Anatomy teacher

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Ok_Researcher_9796@reddit

Saw The Howling(the orbit) when I was 6 or 7. Scared me half to death.

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Basic-Biscotti-2375@reddit

8th grade social studies teacher showed us Full Metal Jacket. It was awesome but totally inappropriate for a bunch of kids lol

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bassman314@reddit

5th grade, we watched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure for some reason.

Including Bonaparte Bowling... Merde!

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Feenixy@reddit

I don't think I ever saw anything inappropriate in school until middle school, but at that point I feel like they just didn't care what was age appropriate so much as what was subject appropriate: Glory, the Color Purple, Jean de Floret/Manon of the Spring, the Olivia Hussy version of Romeo & Juliet, etc. Not saying any of these weren't educational or even appropriate subject matter, just that all of them had things about them that weren't appropriate for middle school students.

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Financial-Yak-4172@reddit

Salem's Lot as a 2nd grader with my parents. My mom loves monster movies.

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NoNotTheBoreWorms@reddit

My mom took me to 7/11 to rent movies because that was a thing for a second. She wanted me to pick something, and I wasn’t picking fast enough, so she picked for me. She chose “A Boy and His Dog.”

If you know anything about this film, you know it is not for an 8 year old.

I was traumatized.

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toejampotpourri@reddit

Major Payne

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Dry_Inspection_4583@reddit

The seventh sign. My parents were very religious and as such I was horrified

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481126@reddit

This movie where the husband became an alcoholic and began beating his wife and kids but then he found Jesus and repented and the wife welcomed him back with open arms and all was forgiven bc he was SAVED. He didn't even have to apologize for all he'd done because it wasn't his fault he was filled with Satan but now he's filled with the Holy Spirit. Apparently the criminal charges he faced all seemed to go away because the judge is like BUT HE FOUND JESUS!

I wasn't raised Christian so I was side eyeing this the entire time and the teacher and some of the students decided this was completely normal.

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lifeat24fps@reddit

The lunch lady furiously trying to blocking Daryl Hannah’s ass during a rain day recess viewing of Splash.

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Calm-Ad-4409@reddit

I don’t remember grade school making us watch movies, but my mother was a horror movie fiend. I had to watch so many scary and inappropriate movies that I can’t even recall what they were. However, in my Catholic high school our deacon taught us in a religion class. He always put on movies with a man exposing his naked butt. I thought that was kinda weird being that we were learning about stuffy religion. Years later this deacon was discovered as a pedo for having sexual relations with one of the male students. All of a sudden those movies made sense.

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neoistheone79@reddit (OP)

I’d have been in the back to make myself take a nap during that lol

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join-the-line@reddit

5th-8th grade, every year, The Miracle of Life 🤢

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Comfortable-nerve78@reddit

Eddie Murphy’s Delirious. I had it memorized by the time I was six. 😂 my parents didn’t give two shits about me. 😂

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neoistheone79@reddit (OP)

Yeah I definitely remember seeing Raw on HBO and would watch Def Comedy Jam with my mom.