What's the first movie that your parents took you to, that you realized you shouldn't have been at?

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sumo_calm_loudly@reddit

Lone Wolf and Cub… a Ronin samurai travels the country side with his small child while decapitating the emperor’s warriors

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My parents had friends over and they were watching a movie on tv, had to be mid/late mid 80s, I was a youngin. There was a guy driving around in a car in I think a parking lot, looked like he was trying to get out of a situation. Suddenly a girl sits up from I think her face in his lap and she's top less. I was like 5 or 6 so it caught me way off guard. I made some kind of noise showing my shock and disapproval. Everyone laughed lol.

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No-Time5706@reddit

Jaws,Halloween,and alien All at the drive in while eating Arby’s in our red van with no back seats

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wardamann@reddit

Cactus Flower and then Two Mules for Sister Sarah

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FiddleStrum@reddit

Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was 6

SallyJane5555@reddit

Jaws 3 because it was 3 D. I was 10.

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Harrison63225@reddit

The Road Warrior

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“2001: A Space Odyssey”. I was 10 when it came out and we saw it in the theatre. Not inappropriate in any way, just way over my head and looong.

Some scenes kept me very interested because I was a space nut, and it was amazing eye candy, but as far as what the hell was actually going on….no clue. The long, psychedelic sequence at the end representing Dave’s evolution into the “Star Child” was excruciating and incomprehensible.

Mysterious-Call-245@reddit

Just experiencing a theater for the first time was enough, so it being for ET easily sent me.

Grandma took me to see Star Wars with the Hardware Wars parody in front of it, and somehow we went to Hair instead.

The age of Aquarius started for me at 8

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idiot_sauvage@reddit

My mom took me to the theatre to see a movie about the 70’s, since that’s when she grew up.

The movie?

Lyrkalas@reddit

Our older brother was 13/11 years older than my younger brother and me. He worked as an usher at the Uptown Theater in Chicago, back in the day when they still showed movies.

Exit to Eden with Rosie playing a dominatrix.

Maybe not the first time, but certainly the most horrifying.

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ConstructionKey1752@reddit (OP)

You know the weirdest thing about that movie? It's a novel by Anne Rice, I've Vampire fame. The whole thing is about the characters at the resort, the undercover cops are a complete weird, made up add-on to an erotic discovery book. Yeah, no thanks on the parental watching.

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sasquatchfuntimes@reddit

My Dad took me to see Jaws. I was 8. It’s still my favorite movie.

Jaws 3-D

wordxer@reddit

The Who’s Tommy, when I was 9. My older brother convinced my clueless Dad. Acid Queen did me in and we had to bolt.

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roorick@reddit

I was 8

The Hand

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AnyaSatana@reddit

Jaws. At the time I didn't realise though.

I would have been 3 or 4, with my baby brother in the back seat of the car with pillows and blankets. it was at a drive in, and I clearly remember a moment where Robert Shaw is on the boat.

Arachnikat@reddit

OMG, me too! I was 9 when my Dad took me to see it in the theatre. He covered my eyes during the scene where the father ripped his own face off in the mirror, but I was more scared about what the tree right outside my window would do in a storm. I’m thankful I didn’t have any clown dolls!

Fast forward, I now work in film, and am excited to sponsor a screening of Poltergeist at my local theatre this Halloween, because it’s my OG fave horror movie. 🍿 🎃💜👻🎬

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iamjaidan@reddit

I was in Colorado at the time, that night there was a thunder storm and I was terrified. It’s where I created my childhood techniques for dealing with Scary movies. I’d picture the scary scene then zoom out in my imagination so I could see the cameras and directors and all the production staff, and would rewatch that scene in my mind with my imagined production crew

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Uhtreduhtredson@reddit

This was mine, i was 7. I would not sleep for weeks without my closet door barracaded shut. Like chair up against it, piles of stuff. Holy crap that movie scarred me.

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Upnatom617@reddit

Saw both one and two by age eight. Still adore the first one.

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Honeybee3674@reddit

Our babysitter let us watch this one. Terrifying.

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ColdHandGee@reddit

Exorcist.

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Complete_Aerie_6908@reddit

Jaws. 😂

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Commercial_Mess_5227@reddit

Jaws/2 Minute Warning -Double feature at the drive in

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hyst0rica1_29@reddit

Not my parents, lol. My older half-siblings. Back in the 70s there was a drive in about a half mile from our place. We used to watch a lot of Godzilla flicks there. This one time, for some reason (maybe my folks saddled them with 6 year old me & my 4 year old younger sister) the older siblings took us to see a horror movie: The Sentinel from 1977. Nudity up the ying-yang, implied sex, blood, Satanism, etc. Six year old me is watching this flick totally baffled! “WTF is going on!!?”

I was cool about it & didn’t say a thing to my folks when we went home. But if there are “glitches” to my being, lol that was probably where they began.

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Inattendue@reddit

My mom took me to see the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers when I was …. 7.

She let me pick: Superman with Christopher Reeve or IOTBS. I picked wrong and sat in the lobby. At 7 years old. While she watched the rest of the movie.

My mom was not a terrible person, but DAMN, her own trauma caused her to make some really fucking questionable decisions.

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Alive_Book_6725@reddit

The Godfather

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SomeDudeNamedRik@reddit

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Zealousideal-Fix-968@reddit

Jaws. At 8. I STILL need therapy from that damn movie.

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jasonshomejournal@reddit

10 with Bo Derek. I must've been 7 or 8. My parents were so stupid about sex stuff.

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Some-Collection320@reddit

Jaws

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manawydan-fab-llyr@reddit

My parents were the strict kind of people over certain kinds of things, so even though I was in my late teens, my mother wanted to see, and took my sister and I to see Tarantino's Dusk til Dawn. She was more than embarrassed at certain points, tried to send us out.

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Professional_Rate852@reddit

My parents took me to drive in with them to see Smokey & the Bandit. I was 5 or 6 lol

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HRKatinhell@reddit

My parents took me to Animal House. I was 10.

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Ladybeetus@reddit

I saw Jaws when it came out I was not yet in kindergarten. I watched all the scary parts in the reflection of my mom's glasses. She would say "ok you can look now." And EVERY Time that's when the scary part happened.

I was pretty little, around 10, and talked my gramma into taking me to a crappy sci-fi movie called Krull.

Alien. At one point, my mom took me to the back of the theater, but we never left. I was 5 years old.

Fit-Apricot-2951@reddit

The godfather at the drive in. I think my parents thought I would be asleep. The horse head in the bed was too much. I think I was 7 or 8

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Michellenjon_2010@reddit

When I was about 6-7 yrs old, my aunt and uncle took me to see.....

Flashdance 🤣

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MJ95B@reddit

The Exorcist - I was 7

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BeautifulPainz@reddit

I was 3. I don’t know what my mother was thinking.

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borisdidnothingwrong@reddit

I was 10. I've had insomnia since I was a kid, and one night when I couldn't sleep I was watching TV and the local independent TV station was going to play The Exorcist without commercials, so I had it tuned in.

My mom came out to check on me, and saw the commercial announcement that it was going to play starting at Midnight. She didn't say anything, she just went in the kitchen and made some popcorn and came out and watched it with me.

This was Mom doing three things at once: she made sure that I was okay, she had a one on one bonding moment with me as my siblings were all asleep, and she was tacitly acknowledging that my childhood trauma induced insomnia was something that was okay to live with.

Mom told my siblings the next day and they were envious! We were raised Mormon and watching rated R movies was verboten! Mom retold the story leaving out all the really bad stuff, and still managed to keep it captivating. My horror movie obsessed older brother sulked for a week.

It's one of my treasured memories.

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croissant_and_cafe@reddit

I wish I could be that mom, that could casually hang w my daughter through her insomnia, I have to get up at 6:30 for a demanding job, and at 47 I already easily suffer from fatigue and brain fog. I had to call in sick Monday because Sunday she was up till 3am. I try so hard to not add on to her feelings about insomnia but I feel like her never sleeping has taken years off my life.

…MERRRIIINNNNN!

DancingWithMyshelf@reddit

My dad took me to see Heavy Metal. When I was 8 or 9. Didn't realize that cartoons aren't always for kids. Still one of my all time favorites and helped awaken my love for horror.

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_Chemistry_@reddit

Watership Down (1978) - I was eight in 1980 when My parents rented the VHS cassette for me thinking it was about bunny rabbits.

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ThisCromulentLife@reddit

My parents were the opposite of this. I was not allowed to watch a rated R movie that they did not preview first until I was 17 and could go get in to the movies myself, and we rarely saw movies at home or went out to the movies in general. I had to see a lot of things much later than my friends!

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NotAFanOfLeonMusk@reddit

Drive-in situation and the movie was "The Sting". I didn't unserstand it at all🤣

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bigwilliesty1e@reddit

Poltergeist.

My mom went out with friends and got home early to catch us watching it. She flipped her shit and creamed at my dad, saying we were going to have nightmares for a week.

My mom dropped my sister and me off at the mall theater to see "The Black Cauldron."

calrammer@reddit

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. We rented it, but still. Family movie night?!

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desertskyxxx@reddit

Dragnet. I was 7 and my mom brought me and some of the other kids around the same age on my block. There were boobs and we were all laughing and my mom was dying inside that she brought children to see this 😂

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Fantastic-Welder-322@reddit

Logan’s Run. I was 11 or 12 and with my mom. Almost died of embarrassment!

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Willowrosephoenix@reddit

Getting dropped off at the theater for the original Gremlins. My parents told us to go see that specific movie. I was nine. My brother was six. I don’t know what the ticket taker/sales counter was thinking even letting us buy those tickets and especially go in without even an adult with us.

Hifi-Cat@reddit

None.

My dad ,who had the patience of a nat, stood with us for more than an hour (likely ducking into a local bar..). And we saw Star wars for the first time in 1975? Popcorn everywhere. F* amazing. I think that was the only time we ever saw a movie together. I was 10.

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aurora_rosealis@reddit

My small preschool took our class on a field trip to see it when it came out. That was really fun.

Beverly Hills Cop.

A Clockwork Orange on the Movie Channel. When the main character is arrested and fully naked, I almost died seeing my first penis in front of my dad.

Omg

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Substantial_Share102@reddit

The shinning

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MollyWhoppy@reddit

poltergeist.

fyi: real skeletons in that pool (didn't know this at the time ofc)

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largos7289@reddit

Jaws... having a kid watching a shark attack at beaches... I didn't go near water for years.

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venerablem0m@reddit

ET. I was seven, and my mom left me alone in the theater to go get popcorn. No idea what she was thinking, or why she didn't bring me with her. She defends herself that she left me next to another mom with her kids- all of whom were strangers to us.

The result is that I was petrified during the opening scene where ET is screaming in the fog and dark. I remember it vividly to this day, forty two years later.

Get the the book. There is another book.

ET, the Book of the Green Planet

I recall reading it as a kid. I though it was pretty cool. I honestly don't remember the plot, except it is set on ET's planet.

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MountainMixture9645@reddit

Looking back, I was too young to see Jaws. I had just turned 7 years old.

TheCheat-@reddit

When I was a very young kid my parents took me to the drive in to see Fritz the Cat. According to them they thought it was just a cartoon.

The other one was Phantom of the Paradise when I was about 5. That one absolutely terrified me, but the most GenX thing about both of these experiences is that they stayed to watch both of them even after realizing how not kid friendly they were. I’m so grateful for that 🥰

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crxdc0113@reddit

Parents took me to? Im sorry but my parents were working. I was home alone from age 5 and up. Had a job at 8.

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Strict_Individual_22@reddit

First set of boobs ever saw - on vacation rainy day…

National Lampoons European Vacation

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itaintme99@reddit

A neighbor kid’s dad took all us boys to see Animal House when we were 12.

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Puzzled_State2658@reddit

My mom was watching Audrey Rose on TV - I was 7.

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Kitchen-Witching@reddit

Ghostbusters at the drive-in. I wouldn't open the refrigerator by myself at night for years.

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Fritzo2162@reddit

My parents didn't really take me to anything that wasn't G rated.

I couldn't have been more than 5 or 6. My parents would grill some burgers, load up the van, & go to the drive-in on the regular. I was generally expected to go to sleep sometime during the movie (custom van, bed in the back). I remember my Mom putting her hands over my eyes and ears on a semi-regular basis. I couldn't really tell you wich movie was first - Two Mules for Sister Sarah? The Godfather?

Was way too young to see Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

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xxlifelinexx@reddit

None. I never thought 'gee, I shouldn't be watching this'. I saw Jaws, Carrie...Eddie Murphy...Richard Pryor. Even in retrospect, I see nothing wrong with watching these things at a young age. I mean, it's life...it was life. Why shouldn't I have watched that stuff?

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rangerm2@reddit

I'd expect if my parents knew that Airplane or Kramer vs Kramer had nudity in it, they would not have taken me.

2boredtocare@reddit

Cujo. I was 9. Mostly I just remember being bored

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Somebodysmom78@reddit

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That's it!! Much more tame than my 6year old ass remembered. Thanks, I have remembered it all these years but never knew the movie.

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rapiertwit@reddit

Not the movie theater but I watched a lot of inappropriate stuff after the watershed (British people will know what I mean… the time after which they showed unedited films on TV) with my dad. My mom worked nights and dad grew up without television so he didn’t really have a concept of curating it for kids….plus he just wanted to watch that stuff and wasn’t going to let pesky kids stop him LOL.

Alien at 6 was a lot, especially because my dad liked to create accentuated experiences…at the facehugger jump-out scene he threw a floppy black rubber toy (Sucker-Man if you remember those) at the back of my head. No regrets on that movie though, I loved it once I climbed down off the ceiling.

Children of the Corn

I was like 10.

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fry-something@reddit

The Towering Inferno. 1970s. Luxury High Rise Fire Disaster flick.

Starring … OJ Simpson.

Oy.

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Any_Fish1004@reddit

Bambi - I was just a little kid and that hunter scared me for life

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cavalier78@reddit

Supergirl. It was terrible.

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Dxbr72@reddit

James Bond - Live and Let Die

I was 6 and had nightmares about that flaming skull for weeks. Thanks dad!! 😂😂😂

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Plastic-Sentence9429@reddit

Fame. I was 9.

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Buck-Stallion@reddit

1982 - 'The World According To Garp'. 'Mork & Mindy' it was not.

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Last-Relationship166@reddit

I saw a ton of movies at my neighbors' place. They had premium channels, and their eldest son was 2 years my senior. We watched The Exorcist, Full Metal Jacket, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, various 80s TnA flicks, some stupid cult horror, etc.

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pplatt69@reddit

I've never thought there was something I shouldn't see.

And I raised my kids the same way. We didn't put things on high shelves to make them more alluring and likely to be sampled without our input. We gave our kids a full picture of the world, without holes to fill with bullshit, and were there to explain and put things into perspective and to guide them to the best stuff.

I managed bookstore and an arthouse theater my girls' whole young lives. Nothing on my shelves was forbidden, and we worked hard to stay abreast of and discuss what they found interesting. They grew up readers because they were allowed to see that there was wild stuff in books, they grew up recognizing good film for the same reasons. As they aged, because they had narrative examples of all of the good and bad in the world, they made good decisions. They didn't need to sneak anything, so they didn't need to lie. They came to us with their concerns and troubles because we never made anything out to be overblown and worrisome without explanation.

Their friends with parents who hid things and freaked out about certain subjects and whose reading and viewing were curtailed and who didn't get to see the juicy stuff and adult ideas? They didn't keep coming to my bookstores. They didn't become readers. They had to go into every new life experience without examples and lessons.

This instant assumption that there are things kids shouldn't see is ridiculous and unhealthy. There is no magical list of "appropriate" topics except that list of things which you've prepared them for. You haven't allowed them to consider some subjects? Your fault when they come to that in life and make poor decisions.

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Enough-Variety-8468@reddit

I've seen toddlers literally clawing at cinema seat backs screaming in fear at a Jurassic Park movie

Younger kids don't know it's all fake, murders, rapes, scalping etc isn't content for kids.

Lots of comments here about years of nightmares after seeing "adult" content too young

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pplatt69@reddit

Bullshit.

Those kids don't know it isn't real because they haven't been raised with it. Period.

My girls and I sat and watched Romero zombie films while they drank from their sippy cups. We talked about the FXs and the makeup and talked about Voodun zombie mythology and how they'd write the story. They saw that the monsters always lose and the good guys always win. We watched the DVD extras and they had years of entertaining education on how movies are made and stories are written.

If you spend all of your time being the stuff at home, yes, when you take them to a theater you've set them up for a surprise.

I have a BS in Psych, and their mother has degrees in Edu and Child Dev. We talked about how we'd go about all of this before we had kids. It all went exactly as we thought it would.

The one thing one of them had a nightmare about was a Scooby Doo mummy. Not Romero zombies or the Xenomorph. A kids "horror" character in a cartoon.

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Enough-Variety-8468@reddit

That's great for your family but it's clearly not the norm.

Kids were and are parked in front of the TV without adults interacting with them in any way

Did my mother explain that the numerous scalping scenes I watched were portrayed by actors using fake blood, yes but did it terrify me that humans could behave that way to each other in real life?

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pplatt69@reddit

And I condemn letting kids watch whatever without supervision, guidance, and conversation. You aren't addressing what I've said at all.

I laid out how we raised them, and why, and how it turned out. I pointed out that the kids who weren't given whole worldviews and examples and GUIDANCE didn't turn out as strong and intelligent and grounded.

I never said sit them down and let them do whatever, or take them to the theater and spring it on them after hiding it all their young lives.

Nothing you've said addressed what I said at all. You just want to speak out against it and are doing it by saying "other people don't put in that effort."

I was talking about how WE did it and how it turned out. My kids weren't clawing at the seatbacks crying. And I told you why those kids you mentioned were. It's their parents' fault, not the media.

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Enough-Variety-8468@reddit

That's great for your family but it's clearly not the norm.

Kids were and are parked in front of the TV without adults interacting with them in any way

It wasn't my parents, but my grandmother. I was about 5 years old, and she saw that a new Spielberg movie was at the theater. She was excited to take me, and I was excited to go. We watched the first part of the movie, and then it suddenly became clear she made a mistake and we were not watching a Spielberg movie. Unfortunately for me, she was really enjoying it, so we stayed. I slept on my parents floor for the next 2 years.

Turns out the movie was indeed written by Spielberg, but my grandmother had no idea who the director, Tobe Hooper was.

So thats how I saw Poltergeist at 5 years old.

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DustyBottomsRidesOn@reddit

Alien - 6 years old. Messed me up for a while.

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CoreyKoehlerMusic@reddit

Bachelor Party. Not sure what my mom was thinking.

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King_of_Lunch223@reddit

I remember my mom renting Heavy Metal from the video store when I was a kid. Harmless cartoon, right?? I started watching it while she unloaded groceries and began to cook dinner.

Let's just say that the rewind button got a lot of action.

Of course, Dad thought it would be funny to do the pod people pointing and making that awful noise in the parking lot before getting to the car and laughing himself silly.

Didn't sleep for a week.

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Ferdiesflowers@reddit

ET- when he “died”, it really traumatized me

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Joe702614@reddit

Probably Jaws. Original release at the drive-in. I was born in '69. So whatever that works out to. And my two sisters ('72 and '73) were there, too.

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MisfitWitch@reddit

Coming to America. I was 9. Not only did my dad take me, he also took my best friend.

1Pip1Der@reddit

"Damnation Alley" (1977)

I wan not ready for those cockroaches.

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kraftymiles@reddit

Your parents took you to movies?

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Haunt_Fox@reddit

Tenth birthday, my mom takes me to two great movies she wanted to see.

The first one was _Firce Yen from Navarone. War movie, that's fine, I was used to those.

The other one was the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers ....

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kr0mag@reddit

An Officer and A Gentleman

teaandviolets@reddit

John Carpenter’s The Thing. My Mom loved monster movies and would let us watch monster horror when we were others strictly limited to G and maaaaybe PG movies. I don’t know what age, but I was definitely too young for it!

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eastbaypluviophile@reddit

I was 17 when i saw that shit and I was STILL too young.

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spintool1995@reddit

Midnight Express when I was 4. To be fair, it was a double feature with 101 Dalmatians. Ya, someone thought that would be a good family combo.

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jwwetz@reddit

We went & saw the original "Amityville horror." I literally did NOT sleep for a week and, to this day, cannot do horror films or anything gory at all. War movies, action & thrillers I'm good with, but Amityville & Alien killed Horror & gore flicks for me.

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transdermalcelebrity@reddit

Watership Down

then… All That Jazz

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Blazing Saddles at the drive-in. I was 6 and mom and dad just thought it was a western. rofl

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aconsul73@reddit

At furst babysitters but later on I would go to adult movies and just sleep through them.

Star Wars - just too young Jaws II (drive in) - shark was robotic so not too scary - the original is scarier. Mad Max - loved the kid with the boomerang Popeye - loved the cartoon couldn't care less for the live action one

Kramer versus Kramer - yay, two parents getting mad and sad on the screen. Just what every young kid wants to watch.

The giant 🥚 eggs

Giant skeleton

Jump scares, face huggers

But the kitchen chest bursting scene almost had me in tears running put, was so horrified i froze in silence…

My parents should have been jailed for that shit!

Was rated ‘M’ for mature 15+ recommended

Oil rain

No 8 year old should be seeing that 💩 EVER

Saturday Night Fever. I was 9. Years tits. Didn’t get the whole abortion bit. Suicide and group sex were a bit much.

A man called Horse and the Six wives of Henry the eight.

We lived very remote outback Australia. Once a month, an outdoor cinema turned up, but you never knew what the film would be.

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UnicornFarts1111@reddit

I don't recall my parents ever taking me to a movie. They dropped me off with friends, but I don't recall ever going to the movies with them as kids.

We did all go one Christmas day to see Michael, but I was an adult when that movie came out.

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Cool-Group-9471@reddit

I am obviously old enough to be all of your grandmothers.

My older siblings were six to 10 years older than me. I was an accident. My parents had to go into the city one Sunday for some business. We were sent to the movies for the day, just a couple blocks away.

So they bring me with them. The movie starts and it's not very nice. As it goes on, there's this long scene with a whip and a half naked man tied to a mount. Later on there is a poor woman buried in the ground where she's alive, but everyone's throwing rocks at her. She's screaming and crying, I think she's asking them to stop. A few people in the crowd are upset and yelling for people to stop. But they don't stop. Then finally she's kind of all bloody and torn up, and she puts her head down and she dies. She's dead.

Then later, a hut of a house starts to burn, and there's danger. Then there's a whole bunch of crucifixion slow deaths. There's close shots of nails being hammered into the palms of the hands of these men to these crosses, the sound of the hammer, the red blood dripping out, the screams of the men.

The next scenes were of these men getting pounded into the ground at the base of these crosses where apparently they are going to die a slow death hanging from the palms of their bloody hands nailed to the boards.

I don't know if I kept my eyes open the whole time but it wasn't fun.

Billy Jack.

I was only a few years old (3 or 4?) But I definitely remembered him kicking around guys with his socked feet, and the theme song.

For me, it was The Lone Ranger with Christopher Lloyd as the Bad guy!

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MisterSandKing@reddit

Heavy Metal. Pretty sure it was at a drive in, with my mom, and her boyfriend. I think we watched that, and Creep Show or something. I’d never watched anything like either of those before!

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Physical_Ad5135@reddit

My husband’s grandparents took him and his little brother to Harper valley pta. Grandma covered their eyes periodically and would tell them to cover their ears. They had no idea.

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Cultural-Pea-1516@reddit

I was six years old when I saw Grease and Saturday Night Fever as a double feature with my older brother and sister.

My dad took me to drive in. Expected I would fall asleep in backseat after the initial family-friendly movie. He didn’t realize I would be wide awake and hanging onto the back of the front seat for dear life as I watched the entirety of Damien Omen 2. Let’s just say I was barely in 1st grade.

Alien. The first one, I was 10, I think.

I struggled to go to sleep for days, I thought the alien was going to burst through my closet every night.

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Lost-in-EDH@reddit

Big Bad Momma with Angie Dickinson and Deathrace 2000.

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JaninthePan@reddit

Your parents get a gold star. That’s what I call raising ‘em right.

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StunGod@reddit

My dad dropped a couple of friends and me off at the theater to go see Alien. He bought the tickets since it was rated R. He knew it wasn't a bunch of boobs, so he was ok with it

Witness. I was 8.

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pickleball_bender@reddit

I was 10 and my little brother was six. We sat through "The Entity" with our mom. We were with her friends, I think, and my poor brother sat there with his hood over his face for so long he was soaking wet with sweat.

Sooo many, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t know I shouldn’t be watching them. My family were movie buffs, so I was 5 when I saw Star Wars in 1977. That’s the first movie I remember vividly.

The first movie I knew for sure was inappropriate was An Officer and a Gentleman (July 1982). I was 10 and I was … fascinated and somewhat disturbed.

No clue. My bio-father & step mom took is to the drive in all the time. I was only there every other weekend & we went at least once a month.

Well, I remember when I was 14, we watched Schindler's List in history class. It was rated R, so I had to get my parents to sign a permission slip to allow me to watch. I couldn't handle the embarrassment of being escorted out of the room during the movie, so I forged the signature because I knew they would not sign. So that was my first rated R movie :). It's so ridiculous now that I think about it. My parents were doing too much lol

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Cattle-egret@reddit

Two things are somehow both true

No one should watch Schindler’s list
Everyone should watch Schindler’s list.

Beneficial_Cicada573@reddit

Ghandi when I was a 6th grader and had a nasty case of the flu. Sitting through 3 hours with my very bones aching, and at that age the movie bored me to death. Almost the longest 3 hours of my life.

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NoNameNeeded4321@reddit

Ghostbusters

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Years later, a family outing to see Modern Problems left me with unanswered questions.

The earliest ones I can remember are either Big Bad Momma with Angie Dickinson or Freebie and the Bean. Both were really sexual.

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shotsallover@reddit

Jaws.

And then a couple of years later, Body Heat.

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