Worst or Embarrassing Films you asked your Parents/Guardian or Older Family Member to take you to see it in Theaters back in 1965-1996?

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Dear-Discussion2841@reddit

1965? Is this a generic question or do you not understand the demographic of this sub?

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Dear-Discussion2841@reddit

I figured, I was just super annoyed. Still am now that I've come back to this. 😂

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sweetnsalty24@reddit

My cousin told my grandma to take me to see American Pie...

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_NoleFan6@reddit

Dad took us to see The Rocketeer when we were 8 & 10…. Pfffft 😒😆

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Sounded like a slightly more adult Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It was a bit more adult and a lot less funny than I was expecting. My daddy and I sat there staring straight ahead and didn't talk about what we saw afterwards.

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Video-More@reddit

Mum rented- flesh Gordon- rather than flash Gordon- - I will never forget a penisasaurus. Nor Dale hardon. Mt 2 if I remember correctly. Not 1965 < ' but rather > VHS-I'm old...

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queenofcaffeine76@reddit

I took a friend to see Legends of the Fall. Lmaooo I think he only went because I got us in free (I worked there) and he used to have a crush on me. Omg I had no idea!

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Akiranar@reddit

Not that it's embarrassing... but I got my grandmother to take 10 year old me to see Batman. And she didn't hate it.

I think the most embarrassing one looking back for me is Mac and Me.

Mom and I embarrassed my sister by forcing her to come with us to see TMNT II. And then mom started shouting Cowabunga before the movie even started and my sister was like "Mom?!"

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seriouslysocks@reddit

I remember being in my late teens, and renting the movie Threesome. It never occurred to me that it would have an actual threesome scene in it.

I invited two guy friends over to watch it with me, and suddenly we were watching the threesome sex scene, and I was like “Well this is awkward, I’m sure it’ll be over in a second!”

Then my mother came home, and stoped dead in her tracks when she saw the tv, and I was like, “Well this is even more awkward, but don’t worry, I’m sure it’ll be over in a second- not a big deal!”

The scene went on foreverrrrrrrr and I gave up and turned the movie off. So embarrassing.

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wheniwaswheniwas@reddit

I took a date to see Eyes Wide Shut at 17 or so. Not a great date movie.

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Comprehensive-Fact94@reddit

I did the same thing with a re-showing of Taxi Driver. Forgot how nuts it was. She was traumatized, but was surprisingly down for a second date.

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Comprehensive-Fact94@reddit

Mom took me to see Double Impact. Jean Claude Van Damme playing two of the main characters. She was a saint for sitting through that.

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GalaxyRedRanger@reddit

Didn’t that have a nude scene too? I remember my older adult female cousin taking me to that movie as a kid and being super embarrassed when at a topless sex scene.

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Comprehensive-Fact94@reddit

Yep. The mean JCVD was slamming booze while imagining the nice JCVD going at it with his girl on his boat. If I remember right, it went on for several minutes.

Just remembered a friend had his mom rent this for his 6th birthday party sleepover. This scene popped up and it was Disney the rest of the night 🤣

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

I like that movie lol

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Booji-Boy@reddit

My very proper Great Grandma took me to the movies, and I chose Beetlejuice. It wasn't the worst or embarrassing for me, and Lydia Deetz turned me into a goth, but oh gawd Great Granny was fuming for weeks and I can still see and hear her "that was the dumbest thing I've ever seen and I don't know why on Earth you'd put me through that!"

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

lol. My grandma loved Beetlejuice. Of course she also played video games.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

lol

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CharliePinglass@reddit

My parents took me to see Species thinking it was just a run of the mill sci fi movie.

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Aware_Policy_9174@reddit

I convinced my daycare to rent Spies Like Us when I was 7 or 8. I either saw an edited version on TV or my parents made me cover my eyes because I did not remember there being boobs. There were boobs and I could feel the daycare teachers glaring at me.

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

My dad took me to see Money Train in 1995 and Jackie Brown on my 13th birthday (1997).

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unlovelyladybartleby@reddit

My parents were really overprotective when it came to tv/movies. They somehow missed the implications of the film "Threesome" when I bought it and even got me the soundtrack for Christmas

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GalaxyRedRanger@reddit

Spaceballs.

My mom and the neighbor’s mom took us to see it. I remember my mom hated it and everyone being super embarrassed when Darth Helmet starts comparing light saber sizes. My mom told us repeatedly that she would have grabbed us and walked out if we hadn’t been the neighbors ride home.

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esdguisd1@reddit

Something About Mary with my mom. Quest For Fire, with my dad. I still remember him trying to do damage control and feebly saying that Rae Dawn Chong was "putting medicine" on Ron Pearlman. As soon as he said it you could see him realize he'd of been better just not even acknowledging what was going on. We all silently agreed to not even further acknowledge it and have never spoken of it since. I am waiting for the optimal moment to throw that one out there to achieve maximum awkwardness. Thanksgiving at the table for instance.

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FaceRockerMD@reddit

My mom intended to take me at 8 years old to see the Bill Cosby comedy Ghost Dad and instead we saw the Romance/drama Ghost starring Patrick Swayze. It was a weird experience.

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

A little later and at home, but my 78 year old very proper miss manners etiquette school grandmother was in town and me and her watched Election 😬 i wanted to die and I’m sure she did too

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Traumagatchi@reddit

OMG I saw it with my whole family at home, it was SO EMBARRASSING

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77evens@reddit

Haha! “Fill me up!”

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Intelligent-Camera90@reddit

My mom has always liked going to the movies, regardless of what’s she’s seeing, so never had an issue taking us to the movies when we were little. My dad would volunteer to take us when it was something that sounded fun to him. I remember him taking us to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Newsies.

Even I to my teenage years, I never really go embarrassed to watch movies with my parents. My dad fell off he couch watching There’s Something About Mary and we took him to go see Beavis and Butthead for his birthday the year it came out. My mom thought some of these movies were dumb, but never made us feel bad about it.

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WhiskyStandard@reddit

I asked my dad to drop me off to see Chasing Amy and he decided he wanted see it too. That was fun.

Also, they both took me to see The Crying Game and Farinelli (a movie about a castrati) at the same art house theater.

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Shugoseru@reddit

NGL I'm sure "That" seen in The Crying Game fucked with a lot of our generation

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WhiskyStandard@reddit

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OTOH, maybe we’re less prudish because of it.

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toomanyusesforaname@reddit

Begged my mom to take me to see Robocop as an eight year old. She assumed (correctly) that it would be too violent for me, and that any of the satirical subtext would go over my head anyway, so she resisted. After about two weeks of constant begging, she relented. Well, in one of tbe very first scenes of the movie, a terrifying robotic prototype malfunctions, menaces a group of city officials trapped in a boardroom, and kills one of them. I immediately began crying and forced my mom to leave.

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moles-on-parade@reddit

Grandma took six-year-old me to watch my heroes die on the big screen.

https://i.redd.it/uha2lr0lukug1.gif

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Impossible_Diet6992@reddit

I came here to say the same. Years of watching Transformers and they were getting killed so easily. Then when Optimus faded into gray, I almost lost it.

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corvus_wulf@reddit

Ironhide got done dirty

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Impossible_Diet6992@reddit

Point blank too

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Mudcreek47@reddit

My mom took my sister and I and we loved it!

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Edge_of_the_Wall@reddit

This isn’t quite what you’re asking for, but my friend group went to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The neighbor’s parents loaded a group of us into their van, and while the kids were watching TMNT, the adults were watching The Hunt For Red October. I pretended to go to the bathroom, and snuck into the back of the theater to watch Red October. When the parents found out, they were NOT amused that I had crashed their date.

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RanklesTheOtter@reddit

My mom, younger brother, and me went to see Krippindorf's tribe thinking it was some funny family comedy movie like Jungle 2 Jungle. But it was more like "WTF are you doing Richard Dreyfuss?" 😂

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BooBeeAttack@reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaked

I was 11 and my grandmother took me.

She slept through the movie thankfully.

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Longjumping-Air1489@reddit

My grandmother took me to see The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training.

The kids lied, smoked, drank beer, and ran away from home to go to a baseball championship game.

If that was today, adults would be in jail.

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CaptPotter47@reddit

1965??? That way before any Xennial was born….

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

My aunt and grandma took me to see Silence of the Lambs in the theater when I was 12.

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sravll@reddit

Nobody here was a kid in 1965...

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CalgaryChris77@reddit

Air America was the last movie I saw with a parent, I was 13 when it came out. But pretty much every movie we watched in the 80’s when I was a kid was all boobs.

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Sensitive_Pianist777@reddit

My friend's dad took him and I to watch No Holds Barred (1988). Hulk Hogan's movie. We loved it. His dad was just complaining after what a horrible movie it was.

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-Odi-Et-Amo-@reddit

Not in the theater, and def not the target demographic, but I made my parents rent Silent Night Deadly Night. I was 8 or 9 at the time.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

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MusicalTourettes@reddit

I saw There's Something About Mary with my mom. Oops.

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atlmobs@reddit

It was embarrassing to me when s as a 17 year old HS student, my parents and I all went to see Pulp Fiction. Bring out the gimp!

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dis690640450cc@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop. Went with my grandparents, my grandma was a very conservative and uptight woman who would constantly criticize everyone for their inappropriate conduct. The first 10 minutes of that movie is just Axle saying “fuck”. I really thought she was going to make us get up and leave. I think if it had continued for another 2 minutes I would have missed the rest of the movie. We stayed and she laughed and enjoyed most of the rest of the movie. Then there was the time my girlfriend and I went to visit a friend of my girlfriend on the reservation and he couldn’t run the heat very much because he was on propane/ couldn’t afford it so we would all sit in his living room with blankets piled on us. He rented Wild Orchid to watch the second night we were there and in order to see the tv we all had to squeeze onto the loveseat again with blankets piled on us.

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-threefeetoffun@reddit

My uncle took me to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. First showing at 930am on June 30th.

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Dazzling-Pace-7134@reddit

Leonard Part 6, back in 1987. Walked out of the theater, before it ended. Never found out how it ended.

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tribbleorlfl@reddit

The Carebears Movie

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GoldTreasureFinder@reddit

Not in theaters but my grandma and I watched Training Day, my grandma never saw anything like that before or after.😂

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That-Jeweler-Girl@reddit

My Dad took me and a friend to see Joe's apartment when it first came out in the theaters. We were in seventh grade, I'm sure he wished we picked another movie!

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scifithighs@reddit

I apologized to my Dad after we went to see Dick Tracy; I was a Madonna fangirl and I guess I thought the movie would be more... good?

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Grammarhead-Shark@reddit

We got dad to take us to see 'Tank Girl' (1994).

I think we all walked out of that cinema wondering what the heck we just saw.

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dbzmah@reddit

Girl on Roo beastiality. That's what you saw. Also, Jet Girl is best girl

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Available-Crow-3442@reddit

I only just saw it after having it in my Tubi to-watch list Fieber. Fucken loved it.

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LineImpossible3958@reddit

Not me, but a good friend. His step dad took the entire family, mom and two boys 14 and 11, to see Pulp Fiction.

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ChippewaChieftan@reddit

Grandma took me and the neighbor kid to the cinema in the next town over. First movie she had gone to since the 70s it was pretty stupid as well Gremlin’s. All she said was after a decade away from theatre’s it had to be that?

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maggie320@reddit

I guess Roger Rabbit was the worst of them all. My mom somehow got fooled into it being a cartoon rabbit not knowing there was a lot of double entendre.

Also not embarrassing, but I think the last movie we all saw together as a family was The Bear. I couldn’t wait for that movie to be over.

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imsometimesfun@reddit

My dad took me to see From Dusk til Dawn in 96 because I was so in love with George Clooney. He was mortified when Cheech came on the screen.

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sageamericanidiot@reddit

I honestly can't think of one. We were a movie family and my mom and uncles enjoyed watching the silly stuff with us, just like I enjoy taking my kids to see films that aren't my first, second or even third choice.