What's a movie that you were probably "too young" to see, when you first watched it, but you're glad you did?
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I won tickets from the radio to see the premiere of Seven when I was 12. Glad I saw such a high quality high impact thriller so early. Watching Pitts character struggle with his decision at the end and trying to work out if his choice was right. Or consider the possibility there was no such a thing as a right choice. Amazing experience.
That being said, I wouldn't recommend that 12 year olds go see Seven.
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I watched that as a kid with my brother!
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Good recc! Yeah they're both pretty morbid. The older one is going to have a goth phase, no doubt. The younger one wants as many details as she can get on whatever true crime stories I know.
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Little Shop of Horrors and Beetlejuice.
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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
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Terminator 2 was fucking sick. I was like ten. It raised my standards for how cool a movie could be.
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Gremlins! Loved that movie as a kid haha
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Pan's Labyrinth
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[off topic?]
Ever seen 'Time Bandits?' The original, not the one with Kudrow
There's nothing particularly nsfw in it, but I think a couple of young girls would find it very cool.
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Requiem for a dream. I have still not used opiates.
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Way too many to list. It was the era of VHS and my father had a very large tape collection. I definitely saw movies I was not supposed to see.
Let's try a short list...
Emmanuelle
The Story of O
The Empire of Senses
Black Rain
The Rambo Trilogy
The Alien Trilogy
The Predator (1 & 2)
The Bridges of Maddison County
The Blue Lagoon
That will do....
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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.
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That nightmare really tied the room together, man.
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I love Terry Gilliam, I've tried time bandits with them but they check out pretty early.
12 monkeys though.....
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They put that scene in the trailer? Man, way to blow your load early trailer people.
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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.
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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
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RoboCop, the Alien movies, Hellraiser. Honestly a lot of the old Jean Claude van Damme movies are fairly hardcore for kids, looking back. Probably a lot of movies because I was allowed to stay up until whenever on weekends from pretty young.
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Spaceballs, The Matrix trilogy (I was born in 1996), What Dreams May Come (possibly; I was too young to realize that he was dead and in the afterlife for the entire thing)
Honestly I can't think of any from my childhood other than those that might have been "bad" for a kid, other than shows that went right over my head like Family Guy and the like. I know I wasn't allowed to watch South Park until I just decided to start watching it when I was around 13.
Other movies that I really liked as a kid (other than Spaceballs cause it was kinda like Star Wars, and The Matrix) that may be kinda suggestive were Mystery Men, Galaxy Quest, and Titan A.E. They may like Lord of The Rings (Arwen and Eowyn + magic and swords) and possibly Star Wars (Padmé and Princess Leia, plus Ahsoka from Clone Wars and Hera from Rebels). Although I'm a man and had an older brother that liked a lot of this stuff, so I ended up liking a lot of it too, you may get better results from other people.
