Mistake... Showing your Kids Movies you Grew Up With

[Mike]

My parents apparently had little regard for movies they took me to see.

So I had fond memories of certain movies I saw as a kid and seem to have forgotten much of the content.

Bad News Bears (the original) - I thought my son who loves baseball would love it. I sure did. So, we rented the DVD before I realized this is no kids movie. It lasted 5 minutes.

Smokey and the Bandit - ok, another mistake.

Grease - good grief!

I thought I had more examples when I started this thread, but this has happened to me a number of times. What were my parents thinking?

Anyone have a similar experience?

 

[PouringRain]

My parents were very strict with what we could watch and would even walk out of movie theaters at times........ we even grew up a great deal of the time with no tv at all in the house. So, imagine my surprise at the language when I popped "Short Circuit" in for the kids to watch one day. :o Oh my! Even my mom was shocked and said she didn't recall the movie being like that at all.

 

[Free]

Smokey and the Bandit - ok, another mistake.

lol!

 

[Guest]

My grandson will be 3 at the end of the summer and he LOVES the Smurfs !
I got the first season and some of the second.
I had him for the day last week and when we got to my place the first thing he said was that he wanted to watch 'papa smurf'.

I guess it depends on the show as much as the kid.

 

[jasoncran]

papa smurf,lol

i was called brainy smurf at times

lol gargamel. i haven't thought of those things in yrs.

 

[PouringRain]

The smurfs was one of the shows that was forbidden in my home when I was a child.

 

[Mike]

The smurfs was one of the shows that was forbidden in my home when I was a child.

The Smurfs? Are you kidding me? Boy, we were on opposite ends of the spectrum. My parents let me watch just about anything on TV and go to see anything at the movies. They took me to see:
"Blue Lagoon" when I was 13. A lot of 13 y.o. boys wouldn't mind seeing it, but sitting next to their mother?
"Smokey and the Bandit" when I was 10. As a parent, I wince when someone would slip in a "d" word.
"Dressed to Kill" when I was 13. The movie starts with a shower scene with Angie Dickenson. It wasn't enough that she was shown cleaning her top. They showed her cleaning her frontal bottom. I remember specifically sitting next to my mother! I'm surprised I'm not in therapy to this day from that inner-conflict! ed!

They didn't think about anything. My sister followed suit, and her 6 year old's favorite movie was "Grease". Not exactly a bunch of roll-models in that movie for kids. In the end, the lesson is: It's good to sacrifice your values to get the guy - just what a 6 y.o. girl should be learning. My family thinks we're such prudes. 2

I went off in another direction the the OP's original thought, but he never presents interesting topics of discussion anyway.

 

[Free]

The worst I remember watching was Aliens at about age 12. Hadn't even seen the first one. lol Nothing with sex or nudity.

 

[jasoncran]

try the movie " heavy metal" cartoon porn and drug use. my parents didnt know that me and my bro watched that one. my bro most certainly wont allow his kids to see that.

 

[LostSoul]

I truly believe it varies from household to household. My parents were very observant and strict about what I could or could not watch for the longest time. They have slackened much since on my younger siblings.....

I may be wrong but I do not see anything wrong with having my little boy one day watch some of these programs/movies that I watched:

Curious George
Thomas The Tank Engine
Scooby Doo

There may be more....but those three are the first that come to mind. Some shows I know my little one WILL NOT be watching are:

Family Guy
American Dad
Simpsons
Fairly Odd Parents
Spongebob
South Park

 

[jasoncran]

i can see that list.

 

[Guest]

The worst I remember watching was Aliens at about age 12. Hadn't even seen the first one. lol Nothing with sex or nudity.

At 12 I was allowed to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show....90 some odd times.
Parents shouldnt allow kids to decide what theyre watching.

 

[jasoncran]

The worst I remember watching was Aliens at about age 12. Hadn't even seen the first one. lol Nothing with sex or nudity.

At 12 I was allowed to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show....90 some odd times.
Parents shouldnt allow kids to decide what theyre watching.

well that will warp your mind

 

[Guest]

The smurfs was one of the shows that was forbidden in my home when I was a child.

The Smurfs? Are you kidding me? Boy, we were on opposite ends of the spectrum. My parents let me watch just about anything on TV and go to see anything at the movies. They took me to see:
"Blue Lagoon" when I was 13. A lot of 13 y.o. boys wouldn't mind seeing it, but sitting next to their mother?

I watched the Blue Lagoon a few times.
Did you see the knock off/copy "Paradise" with Pheobe Cates ?
Blue Lagoon was suggestive enough. And teenage boys generally arent going to willingly look away when the nudity starts.
When I look back I think that we were definitely allowed to watch things that we shouldnt have been.

 

[Guest]

The worst I remember watching was Aliens at about age 12. Hadn't even seen the first one. lol Nothing with sex or nudity.

At 12 I was allowed to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show....90 some odd times.
Parents shouldnt allow kids to decide what theyre watching.

well that will warp your mind

Definitely wasnt the Waltons
Parents need to make sure that power to the TV is cut when theyve left the building

 

[Guest]

papa smurf,lol

i was called brainy smurf at times

lol gargamel. i haven't thought of those things in yrs.

I guess theyre doing a Smurf movie in CGI (yuck..smurfs and CGI dont mix) and Im hoping it will spur them on to put out the entire run of 400+ episodes on DVD.
Right now the first season and about 15 episodes of season 2 are about all that is out there (other than bootleg that I wouldnt touch)

 

[Mike]

I watched the Blue Lagoon a few times.
Did you see the knock off/copy "Paradise" with Pheobe Cates ?
Blue Lagoon was suggestive enough. And teenage boys generally arent going to willingly look away when the nudity starts.
When I look back I think that we were definitely allowed to watch things that we shouldnt have been.

No, I never even heard of a movie like that.

 

[jasoncran]

papa smurf,lol

i was called brainy smurf at times

lol gargamel. i haven't thought of those things in yrs.

I guess theyre doing a Smurf movie in CGI (yuck..smurfs and CGI dont mix) and Im hoping it will spur them on to put out the entire run of 400+ episodes on DVD.
Right now the first season and about 15 episodes of season 2 are about all that is out there (other than bootleg that I wouldnt touch)

this is how desperate the movie industry has become and they will make smurfette some gangsta chick most likely with an attitude.
btw the smurfs have been around long before the cartoon. peyo was dead when they made the cartoon.
btw what of howard the duck?

 

[Guest]

btw what of howard the duck?

eh...he went the same route as Ross Perot

 

[LaMexicana]

Yeah, my parents didn't let me watch Smurfs, Rainbow Brite, Care Bears...pretty much all 80's shows. She didn't like the "magic" in it...oh well...I don't think I'd let my daughter watch them either. Transfomers were pretty awesome though...we were allowed to watch that...though I don't she liked that either. There were a lot of anime cartoons in Mexico so those were actually pretty safe...like Speed Racer...he was so cool.

I do let my daughter watch "Little Orphan Annie" because it was one of my favorite movies as a child and we both love musicals but some parts in there do make me a little uncomfortable. They're slightly sexual. And she likes Selena as well who does show a lot skin but is a good family movie in general. And she likes West Side Story which has some uncomfortable parts as well.

Grease is off limits! I like it myself but she's going to have to wait a while to watch that one.