My personal one was the shining. I ended up watching it over 20 times before I was 12.
I’m spending a lot of time babysitting my nieces (9 & 11). I’m cis male and I would love to hear what women would answer or suggest for me to show them in a cool uncle role.
I saw Midnight Cowboy when I was a little kid at the drive in theater with my parents. Didn’t really understand it and I was unsettling, but I lived the song and Dustin Hoffman’s “I’m walking here!”
I saw Event Horizon on my 13th birthday in theaters with some of my friends.
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?
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.
Damn, that would have been a hell of film at that age.
Gremlins! Loved that movie as a kid haha 😂
That was one of the movies that led to the creation of the PG13 rating, wasn’t it?
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.
Oh they’re way beyond that lmao. They both watched it 5 years ago and like it but they LOVE gremlins 2.
They’ve seen It and the newer Halloween movies. I want to show them stuff that will challenge them intellectually, without being too far over their heads. With minimal sexual content.
Fire in the Sky. Oh wait, maybe I shouldn’t have. I haven’t watched it again since because I was so traumatized as a kid watching it. Maybe I have the guts to watch it now decades later.
I read the Godfather when I was about 10. My shoebox diorama was the horse head on the bed. It was frowning because it didn’t like having its head cut off.
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
The Big Lebowski. I wasn’t a teenager yet, barely understood why anything was happening but damned if it wasn’t the hardest I’d seen my dad laugh.
I watched that as a kid with my brother!
Awesome brother!
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.
Generally agree though I suppose it depends on how the parents feel about swearing and how likely the youngins are to repeat the approximately 700 fucks in the movie.
“Do you have to use so many cuss words?” “The fuck you talking about?”
That nightmare really tied the room together, man.
Trainspotting at 11
Saving private ryan at 13 was a bit horrific. The slow knife scene…
I’ll always have a hard time watching the knife scene.
Re: Shining
Mom dropped me off at the movies to see Star wars (again). As I walk in the screen showed elevators doors open and a waterfall of blood pour out. I found an usher because I thought I was in the wrong room.
Trailers, man.
They put that scene in the trailer? Man, way to blow your load early trailer people.
I remember a trailer where they show you the elevator doors and a narrator talks about Stephen King and the genius of Kubrick and then the doors open. Nothing else.
Same. I thought it was some stupid art film hahaha
I was gonna answer Grave of the fireflies, which I watched in my twenties. Then I read the ‘but you’re glad that you did’ so I can’t say that movie.
But maybe Fullmetal Jacket? Tough movie for a 14 year old
Fun fact: Grave Of The Fireflies was originally a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro.
Interesting note. Thanks for this! :)
OG Barbenheimer
What the fuck, that had to be a trip! Either watch order would suck: ruin your mood before Totoro or get blindsided by the second feature.
I watched Full Metal Jacket this year at 34 and it was still pretty rough.
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.
What’s in the box?
Lettuce
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Trainspotting. I do feel like it kept me away from drugs though.
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.
Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers… Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that?
“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.
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.
I saw this one in my late teens, and it was good, but it was way better as an adult.
Requiem for a dream. I have still not used opiates.
I swore off Tylenol for a bit after watching that…
This was a tough one to watch.
Hellraiser? Phantasm?
