Did you watch R rated movies before you were 17? If you did, do you remember what your first R rated movie was?
Mine was Starship Troopers. Not sure exactly how old I was but I couldn't have been older than 11 based on where we lived
Mine was Starship Troopers. Not sure exactly how old I was but I couldn't have been older than 11 based on where we lived
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Apparently they made a good impression on a smol dragon
Most of the shark movies I watch are veeeery B movies though
Like... Sharks in the Corn
My daughter also watched horror movies since she was preschool age. Not sure which were R & which were PG-13, but that kid has seen Smile, so… 💀
My dad rented the VHS and invited us kids to gather 'round.
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Honestly I think I was probably 8 when I watched Starship Troopers? But my early years are a blur because of ✨ trauma ✨ so all I know for sure is what apartment I watched it in
Luckily i knew enough about lions to know it wasnt real 😅
The family used to go to the drive in for the double feature. Disney for the kids then we were expected to go to sleep in the back of the station wagon. We didn't.
There's *a lot* of sex and a lot of nudity in that movie.
Totally uncomfortable watch.
Nightmare on Elm St, Halloween, Friday the 13th, etc
First one though I have no idea.
As a bonus, these were the amazing ITV UK versions that had a lot of the violence removed and the worst of the swearing replaced with comically bad voice acting.
I’ve still never gone back to rewatch it.
Snuck in the emergency exit.
I loved it so much that my parents got concerned
I'm pretty sure my first was Dario Fulci's Zombi 2 at a 3rd grade sleepover. I was 7 😬
https://kvltofbrewtality.wordpress.com/2019/08/25/lucio-fulcis-zombi-2-zombie-bites-off-40-years-of-graphic-flesh-eating-violence/
Happier note, a local TV station when I was a kid played R rated movies w/the sex, violence, & curse words edited out. We watched that station all the time!
I was *this* close to sitting down to watch it with my 7 y/o… he’ll just have to learn about grits the old fashioned way
Age 9.
I’ve been watching that movie for longer then i can remember (thanks WGN for playing it like every weekend!)
My brother had the movie poster on his door in jr high lol
I can recite some whole musicals too 😅 (OK really just CATS... And Once More With Feeling)
And Cinemax existed
Another one watched far too young was Alien, yet I was fine with that. Go figure
First cinema cert 18 (as we say in UK) was Roadhouse when I was 15 years old. I remember we put shirts and ties on to appear older. I think the ticket guy just didn't care lol
The werewolf transformation in American Werewolf in London freaked me out good and proper tho
https://youtu.be/XjdG6A4PjWo?si=PbOd5hii_9UgJWgB
Also Se7en is an amazing movie
Genuinely, I can't believe how many adults were just letting us watch these movies unsupervised.
But the first one I can remember seeing in a theater is The Big Chill. I would have been eleven.
I loved it. I was a strange child.
https://youtu.be/X9FJiDFVoOo?si=0K7KnDPi2FQgMSOM
We had to sneak in.
I saw a TON of R-rated movies as a youngin; thought it was because parents were cool, learned it was cheaper than a babysitter 🤷🏻♂️
I was maybe 5 and my aunt who was babysitting me rented both from some hole in the wall video rental store.
Hell even Die Hard got shown here. We did not care about violence on TV.
Always amused me that the network pushing radical conservative agenda was the raunchiest on broadcast.
Point being Murdoch was happy to make money off the rauchiest, most transgressive programming on network TV, even while pushing a radical conservative agenda.
I mean to be fair, ive seen FAR worse in the video games i played. I was playing Halo when I was 6 and Gears of War when i was like 10, so it really wasnt that much
But it was about a guy being stuck inside a very realistic simulation and he had to beat the simulation to escape! They even sent in someone else to help him out. I always wanted what movie that was, but turns out it wasnt
My mother gave his father an earful.
It was a learning experience for sure.
In a first run theater
(Kind of dates me, huh?)
I've actually never seen that movie 😂
My parents took me to see that when I was 3 Because they couldn't get a babysitter that night. LOL
Please don’t tell my parents.
https://youtu.be/0JNlOTccdck?si=3FAQJWyPUA_v38pe
https://youtu.be/7ZEqMqBLOOI?si=8bjOQWd3xNbSX3v4
I didn’t sleep for a week
I avoided Horror like the plague (& also had nightmares) cuz i was like FUCKING SEVEN YEARS OLD
Found this out the hard way when I showed my kid Princess Bride and had completely forgotten about Inigo getting gut-stabbed. PG today is basically G.
(I thought at the time that it was a ridiculous “double standard”)
Fun fact: It initially did receive an R rating from the MPAA, but Spielberg convinced them to give it a PG.
Now i wanna watch Scooby & the Harlem globetrotters
It was *not* a Disney film.
Hard to believe it wasn't PG-13, but fuck was (is?) a hard line
If Lost Boys were made today, I could see them dubbing over a couple to get that sweet PG-13 scratch.
IIRC, not much bloodier or violent than a Buffy episode
(I saw it in the theater when I was 11.)
(I don't know what kind of rule this was but in Canada at the time if you said 'motherfucker' they'd drop the audio on 'mother' and leave the 'fucker')
Oh, and I suppose there’s the part where QUINT GETS EATEN ON SCREEN.
Spoiler alert.
First one I remember my parents actually letting me watch was 8 Mile, would have been around 10.
Maybe I should