My personal one was the shining. I ended up watching it over 20 times before I was 12.
I’m spending a lot of time babysitting my nieces (9 & 11). I’m cis male and I would love to hear what women would answer or suggest for me to show them in a cool uncle role.
Saving private ryan at 13 was a bit horrific. The slow knife scene…
I’ll always have a hard time watching the knife scene.
I saw Event Horizon on my 13th birthday in theaters with some of my friends.
Damn, that would have been a hell of film at that age.
Cheesus Ricest dude! I watched it as a 30 something year old and I felt disturbed with scenes in the third act.
Now you have to fill us in. Did you have nightmares and for how long?
Earlier that summer my father had made me clean a deer that had been shot in the gut and he did some hollywood style child abuse when I barfed about it, so I was pretty numb to the gore. What really bothered me was some of the dialog. I shudder 30 years later when I think about the line, “where we’re going we don’t need eyes to see.”
My stepdad was horrified he’d taken his stepdaughter to see something so graphic and made me and my friends promise not to tell anyone what we saw and to downplay the gore.
A fish called Wanda
How old were you when you watched it?
I think I was six and saw it in the theatre. Some adult themes for sure.
Fantastic movie though!!
Life long favourite!
Pink Flamingos.
What the fuck.
I wasn’t old enough but am glad I saw it (kinda). What is old enough for that movie anyway? Has anybody lived that long?
Lol, you’re glad about it?
Spaceballs! When I was maybe 8 or 9.
I asked my mom “What’s a ‘virgin alarm’ and what does it mean that it is programmed to go off before you do?” and she said ask me again in thirty years.
Reminds me, I forgot to ask her.
I miss the days when silly slapstick was mixed with subtle adult humor to make a family film for all ages.
My youngest introduction to Mel Brooks was Robin Hood: Men in Tights. I never fully understood the chastity belt bits at first. Call the locksmith!
Your family’s name is Latrine. We changed it, it used to be shithouse!
That’s a good change. 👌 That’s a gooood change.
The Big Lebowski. I wasn’t a teenager yet, barely understood why anything was happening but damned if it wasn’t the hardest I’d seen my dad laugh.
This one ^
The physical comedy alone is gold, Also you won’t leave their parents dealing with the nightmares like some of these movies…unless they really fear someone breaking in to piss on their rug.
Generally agree though I suppose it depends on how the parents feel about swearing and how likely the youngins are to repeat the approximately 700 fucks in the movie.
“Do you have to use so many cuss words?” “The fuck you talking about?”
That nightmare really tied the room together, man.
I watched that as a kid with my brother!
Awesome brother!
Trainspotting. I do feel like it kept me away from drugs though.
I saw this one in my late teens, and it was good, but it was way better as an adult.
It wasn’t too early for me to see it but Requiem for a Dream is also an excellent cautionary movie about heroin, addiction, and mental health.
Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers… Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that?
“It’s shite being Scottish. We’re the lowest of the low. Some people hate the English. The English are just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers. We can’t even find a decent civilization to be colonised by. It’s a shite state of affairs and all the fresh air isn’t going to change any of that, Tommy.”
That was from memory, let’s see how I did!
“It’s shite being Scottish! We’re the lowest of the low! The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash, that was shat into civilisation! Some people hate the English, I don’t! They’re just wankers! We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers! Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonised by! We’re ruled by effete assholes! It’s a shite state of affairs to be in Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference!”
Not too bad after a few decades.
Defiantly not bad from memory.
Mine was a cut and paste, I tried from memory but got so much wrong, mostly out of order and forgot a few lines.
Probably Monty Python’s Life of Brian
I was one of those Holy Grail kids, I loved the movie and memorized the lines. Wanting more, I looked up other Monty Python works
I was in 7th grade or something, raised in a very religious home. I was not expecting what Life of Brian was, and I know I wasn’t old enough to understand all of the jokes they made
Hilarious movie
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I was in kindergarten and had a very inattentive babysitter.
Boy, that movie will seriously stick with you when your typical fare was Barney related. It’s really the grounding for me having any memories of that period of my life at this point, lol.
Gremlins! Loved that movie as a kid haha 😂
That was one of the movies that led to the creation of the PG13 rating, wasn’t it?
I second this. It’s lightly gory and morbid but mostly a comedy. And a cult classic that will help them feel “in” when it’s referenced. But not too inappropriate for kids that age, in my opinion.
Oh they’re way beyond that lmao. They both watched it 5 years ago and like it but they LOVE gremlins 2.
They’ve seen It and the newer Halloween movies. I want to show them stuff that will challenge them intellectually, without being too far over their heads. With minimal sexual content.
Nightmare on Elm Street. Don’t think I was quite 10 yet.
I thought Nancy was so hot!
Same age, buying a Freddy glove for Halloween, asked my dad if we could rent it and he said yes. I was scared when the boyfriend pranked them in the backyard, but I thought the scene where she got cut to shreds and floated was awesome. I wanted to rewind and see it again and this time Dad said no. Wisely.
Same, asked my mom if Freddy Krueger was real and she said " I guess he is…" She had no idea who that was and I lost my sleep for who knows how long :D
Pan’s Labyrinth
I read the Godfather when I was about 10. My shoebox diorama was the horse head on the bed. It was frowning because it didn’t like having its head cut off.
The Blood on Satan’s Claw
Why? A nude Linda Hayden.
Is it any good?
I was gonna answer Grave of the fireflies, which I watched in my twenties. Then I read the ‘but you’re glad that you did’ so I can’t say that movie.
But maybe Fullmetal Jacket? Tough movie for a 14 year old
Fun fact: Grave Of The Fireflies was originally a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro.
OG Barbenheimer
Interesting note. Thanks for this! :)
What the fuck, that had to be a trip! Either watch order would suck: ruin your mood before Totoro or get blindsided by the second feature.
I watched Full Metal Jacket this year at 34 and it was still pretty rough.
