Comments on: Million Dollar Movie

By: Boatzilla

Boatzilla — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:55:37 +0000

Darn! Maybe this thread is dead and you’re all in bed, but I love this topic. My old man would take me to any movie that he wanted to see. He never took me to a kids movies, Mom did that. So I saw Serpico when I was 7 (the rape scene rattled me, but I understood what corruption was) and I believe I saw Day of The Jackal around the same time (the Jackal murders a girl with a kiss after making love to her. That freaked me out) , and The Night They Raided Minsky’s when I was about 5. I remember when they flashed the boobs in that film, I became very interested in the floor of the theater. For some reason I couldn’t watch it.

By: Raf

Raf — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:32:46 +0000

We didn’t go to the theaters much to see movies, between cable and video rentals, my family got their movie fix. Chances are, my first r-rated flick that I managed to sneak watching was probably “Bachelor Party.”

I seem to remember there being a lot of sex comedies on HBO or Showtime at the time (early-mid 80′s)

By: Hank Waddles

Hank Waddles — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:39:45 +0000

It’s interesting that while my parents were very liberal politically, they were terribly uptight when it came to my movie watching. They simply couldn’t understand how other parents would allow their children to watch R rated films, and they even restricted a lot of the television we watched — seemingly innocuous shows like Three’s Company and Charlie’s Angels were deemed sexist (and, of course, they were) and declared off limits.

Even so, they somehow broke down and took me to see Trading Places when I was about thirteen or so — and they had even seen it themselves ahead of time to preview it. Nothing terrible, just a lot of language, some drug use, and just a bit of nudity (“Been waitin’ for you Billy Ray…”), but I’m still surprized they allowed it. A bit later my dad took us to see National Lampoon’s Vacation, but these were clearly one-time exceptions to the rule. Even in high school I’d to have to give them the name of a PG film to cover for the R film I had actually seen the night before.

The interesting thing is that out here in California we never needed an adult to take us to a R rated film. You could just buy a ticket for something else, then sneak into the picture you wanted to see, probably because even thirty years ago all the theaters out here were multiplexes.

By: kenboyer made me cry

kenboyer made me cry — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:47:19 +0000

[33] Ribs! Bacon! Who needs candy?

By: Diane Firstman

Diane Firstman — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:34:54 +0000

[0]

and speaking of pork …
http://www.npr.org/blogs/waitwait/2010/06/14/127834838/pick-pork-s-new-slogan

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:18:20 +0000

31) Booger had it going on…he knew what time it was. So did Wormser.

By: bp1

bp1 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:01:29 +0000

After I read this, I was sure – positively sure – that Jaws was the first R-rated movie I ever saw. My sister took me to see it when we were kids up in the Adirondacks. I was twelve, she was “of age”. On the walk home we were dead quiet until she roared and came at my like a shark and I shrieked like someone cut my arm off. 32 years later I remember that vividly. I had dreams about the movie all night long, especially the part where the head comes out of the hole in the boat with the dangling eyeball. It took awhile before I felt comfortable jumping into the dark water of the lake.

I just googled and it was only PG? Wow.

No idea what my first R movie was, but no movie ever left such an impression as Jaws. Maybe first R rated was Friday the 13th, the original, which I watched across the street at my friends house. I remember sprinting home as fast as my legs would carry me, looking around wildly in all directions. Certainly saw some boobage in that movie.

[14] Ha! I remember that. Too freakin funny. Yeah – and who doesn’t?!?

By: WestCoastYank

WestCoastYank — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:01:03 +0000

I was 11 and my cousin took me to see National Lampoons Vacation. I think half of the inneundos went over my head.

By: ms october

ms october — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:17:35 +0000

[26] :}

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:17:25 +0000

God, Straw Dogs…grueling.

By: kenboyer made me cry

kenboyer made me cry — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:12:52 +0000

And…about that time, A Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs were released. Seriously adult films with sex, violence, and debasement that every 14 year old at the time had to see. Somehow we all got in to the theaters to see it, and at the time the “generation gap” prevented any discussions about these films with your parents.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:10:01 +0000

24) Well, I knew it was dirty, especially the way Cathy Moriarty said it. But I thought it was something more kinky and outlandish than just bonin’. LOL

By: kenboyer made me cry

kenboyer made me cry — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:50:53 +0000

I also saw Bonnie and Clyde sometime around 14. This film was forever in the theaters, and became the blockbuster years after it was first released. I don’t know if it was rated R, but there were some very adult scenes.

in the beginning of the film, the image of a young Faye Dunaway walking down a stairway with sunlight behind her showing every curve in her body through sheer clothing stayed with me for years.

By: ms october

ms october — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:38:38 +0000

[0] haha, how long did it take you to find out what pork someone meant?

mine was revenge of the nerds. my brother and i had a filed day with that movie.

my dad was fairly liberal with letting us watch movies because he wanted to see r rated movies. however, though my day curses up a storm he wasn’t a fan of excessive movie cursing. my mom was slightly more uptight, but this was one of those times when having an immigrant parent who didn’t understand some of the american nonsense allowed my brother and i to have my mom rent movies from the movie store that we really had no business seeing.

By: rbj

rbj — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:37:28 +0000

[19] Yup. Big controversy in the day. No boobage or cussing, but some of the scenes were intense, PG meant family friendly, but R was a hard cutoff on ticket sales. I didn’t think it was all that violent, just that some scenes were well done enough to frighten some kids. But Alien had intense enough scenes such that I had to walk out a couple of times.

Then again, there was a Disney movie in the early 1970s (probably wasn’t even ten yet) that was about a pack of coyotes or wolves and some ranchers who were killing them. Given that I’ve always been a canine-ophile, I was bawling during that movie.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:36:05 +0000

21) Classic!

By: kenboyer made me cry

kenboyer made me cry — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:34:44 +0000

I remember somehow getting in to see the movie Joe when I was 13 or 14. It starred Peter Boyle as a bigoted hard hat hippie hater, and was a heavy handed morality play of rich v working class and establishment v counter-culture. There were scenes of drugging, sex, and gun violence, and this movie was had long term effects on my tender psyche. One scene I recall was that Peter Boyle would not take his socks off while hooking up with a hippie siren. I also remember a young hot Susan Sarandon who played the daughter of the rich guy who Peter Boyle and he were looking for. It ended quite tragically.

By: Just Fair

Just Fair — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:24:48 +0000

I think Friday the 13th party IV was it for me. My folks pawned me off on their friends while they went on vaction. Sneaking down the steps to catch glimpses of Porky’s while my dad cracked up is also burned in my mind. Although that was at home and not in the theater. : )

By: Shaun P.

Shaun P. — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:57:55 +0000

[11] Possibly. Sometimes, very violent movies are rated just PG-13 or even PG. Batman Begins, for example. Wasn’t Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (a PG IIRC) one of the movies that prompted the creation of PG-13 back in the 80s?

My first R-rated movie was Terminator 2: Judgment Day. My dad’s cousin brought my brother, me, and a couple of my second cousins. My parents didn’t care, but I never really cared to see many R-rated movies as a kid either.

I’m pretty sure “Wild Things” was the first time I saw nudity on the big screen. Talk about your unexpected surprises!

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:49:03 +0000

my first encounter with screen boobage was either Revenge of the Nerds or Linda Hamilton in The Terminator. I saw them both uncut for the first time around the time I was 8, but on VHS.

In the theater it was probably some random Seagal or Van Damme movie. Under Siege maybe.

as you can tell my parents kept a real tight rein on what I watched.