What's a movie that you were probably "too young" to see, when you first watched it, but you're glad you did?

[bemorecareful@lemmy.world]

Lol, you're glad about it?

[stringere@sh.itjust.works]

"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.

[stringere@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[maiq@lemy.lol]

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.

[hugin@lemmy.world]

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?

[hamburgers@lemmy.world]

That's a good change. That's a gooood change.

[beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I saw Event Horizon on my 13th birthday in theaters with some of my friends.

[trijste@lemmy.world]

A fish called Wanda

[tehbamski@lemmy.world]

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?

[tehbamski@lemmy.world]

How old were you when you watched it?

[braininabox@lemmy.ml]

Damn, that would have been a hell of film at that age.

[braininabox@lemmy.ml]

That was one of the movies that led to the creation of the PG13 rating, wasn't it?

[surp@lemmy.world]

Saving private ryan at 13 was a bit horrific. The slow knife scene....

[ourkaos@lemmy.today]

I swore off Tylenol for a bit after watching that...

[trijste@lemmy.world]

I think I was six and saw it in the theatre. Some adult themes for sure.

[friend_of_satan@lemmy.world]

I saw this one in my late teens, and it was good, but it was way better as an adult.

[nailbar@sopuli.xyz]

I'll always have a hard time watching the knife scene.

[lowtiercomputer@lemmy.world]

Fantastic movie though!!

[beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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.

[icastfist@programming.dev]

Emmanuelle

The Blue Lagoon

Shit, that was a Brazilian afternoon staple for the whole 90s. No idea how much the tv channel censored/cut for the afternoon, but considering we had "banheira do gugu" during sunday afternoons... (if you don't wanna look for it on youtube, it was a piece where 2 celebrities, a man and a woman, would get in a bathtub and try to get as many soaps out. One of them would be tasked with getting the soap, the other was tasked with not letting the other do so. All of that live for the whole country, of course)