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1 minute ago, Street2Peschel said:

I went and saw Carrie when I was 8 and was scarred for years.  However, I saw My Bloody Valentine when I was 12 and thought it was ridiculous.  I miss being able to actually sneak into movies. 

My parents didn't know what they were getting everyone into when they took us to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. My little brother was like 5 or 6. The sacrifice scene turned him white as a ghost and I'll never be able to get the dinner scene out of my head. Hollywood was going insane around that time and one thing the Karens of the 80's got right was the PG 13 rating due to that movie and, I think, Ghostbusters and Gremlins. 

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42 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Second, who the FUCK says Octopuses? It's fucking octopi. Anyone saying Octopuses should be corrected and violently mocked. 

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40 minutes ago, Felix said:

Very similar to the way Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a real Nimrod (referring to the legendary hunter) and we all context clued out the sarcasm and assumed it meant "moron".  To this day most people think a Nimrod is a moron.

39 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Octopuses is correct. You don’t use a Latin plural for a Greek root word. 

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10 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

My parents didn't know what they were getting everyone into when they took us to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. My little brother was like 5 or 6. The sacrifice scene turned him white as a ghost and I'll never be able to get the dinner scene out of my head. Hollywood was going insane around that time and one thing the Karens of the 80's got right was the PG 13 rating due to that movie and, I think, Ghostbusters and Gremlins. 

Movies I definitely realized after the fact I was too young for were Princess Mononoke (the corrupted boar was a problem for my nightmares) and The Patriot (all those people getting burned alive in the church was an eye opener), and later but a much more adult movie - 28 Days Later fuuuucked me up.

1 hour ago, Felix said:

Very similar to the way Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a real Nimrod (referring to the legendary hunter) and we all context clued out the sarcasm and assumed it meant "moron".  To this day most people think a Nimrod is a moron.

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The actual kid movies they were making were things like fantasia and Willy wonka, and as added bonuses the fish chase scene in sword and the stone, and some of the things in the black cauldron, just to stick with Disney. 
 

I seem to recall the last unicorn being pretty frightening for a non-Disney cartoon. 

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1 hour ago, Not a cat said:

You're being a real trouper about this.  A lot of people have a deep-seated resistance to accept they're using wrong terms in idioms.

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1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

I was like 7 when Octopussy came out and my dad took me and my brothers to see it. I remember, even at that age, waiting to see the pussy. Very disappointing. 

Lucky you. I was waiting to see eight of them.

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Buncha whippersnappers in here. Back in my day, those flying monkeys were genuine nightmare fuel.  

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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Octopuses is correct. You don’t use a Latin plural for a Greek root word. 

Well…..shazaam!

19 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

The actual kid movies they were making were things like fantasia and Willy wonka, and as added bonuses the fish chase scene in sword and the stone, and some of the things in the black cauldron, just to stick with Disney. 
 

I seem to recall the last unicorn being pretty frightening for a non-Disney cartoon. 

Fuck whatever these things are from Labyrinth

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15 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

Buncha whippersnappers in here. Back in my day, those flying monkeys were genuine nightmare fuel.  

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Yep, those damn things were scary as shit.

The only movies I had a hard time with as a kid were Jurassic Park and Aliens. Once I got old enough, none of that stuff was believable enough to bother me anymore.

image.png.6c3b3843b9a29712e1ae424ea92ba165.pngThe cast of this show knew that octopodes was always the Latin (nominative) plural of octopus.

Is it not posssible that we can, with out farther adieu, get onto the other seven pussies?

If any kids of the 80s remembers the original “Watcher in the Woods” - which was also Disney - holy shit.

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22 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

Is it not posssible that we can, with out farther adieu, get onto the other seven pussies?

lol there’s no steering wheel on this ship

Since we're doing this.

Before my time, but as a 5 year-old my mom was kind enough to share the death scene from Darby O'Gille and the Little People.

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By the age of 8, I snuck downstairs just in time to see the babysitter put on an animated movie.  Wizards.

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First PG13 movie.  Dreamscape.

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7 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Since we're doing this.

Before my time, but as a 5 year-old my mom was kind enough to share the death scene from Darby O'Gille and the Little People.

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By the age of 8, I snuck downstairs just in time to see the babysitter put on an animated movie.  Wizards.

Film Purgatory | Wizards (1977): Trippy and Violent…Perfect for Families!

First PG13 movie.  Dreamscape.

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1 minute ago, Red Five said:

Face ripping kitchen scene in Poltergeist did a number on me when I was about 7.

Get out of my head! All of these. I watched Poltergeist at a friend’s house whose parents were mostly absent. I had nightmares every night for like a month straight and my parents were furious. 

Also watched “Heavy Metal” because it was animated and on cable and so my parents just assumed it was fine for a 6-7 year old. Whoops. 

2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Face ripping kitchen scene in Poltergeist did a number on me when I was about 7.

PG 13 wasn't a thing until the mid 80s.  Jaws and Poltergeist are both PG movies.

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PG 13 wasn't a thing until the mid 80s.  Jaws and Poltergeist are both PG movies.

Hate to say it, but the MPAA may have been right when it initially rated Poltergeist R. Not sure how Spielberg got it dropped to PG. 

11 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

 

Also watched “Heavy Metal” because it was animated and on cable and so my parents just assumed it was fine for a 6-7 year old. Whoops. 

During COVID my buddies and I started getting together remotely to watch movies and talk about whatever. We had a zoom room open and would all rent a movie individually on Prime and watch it simultaneously. First movie, Heavy Metal. What a great fucking movie. And soundtrack. 

“you must be dreaming, to think I love you!!!”

No way my parents knew I was watching that back when it came out, but thankfully my friend in Lakeway had cable w HBO so it was definitely on the menu. Shit, we rearranged entire weekends to accommodate viewings of HM. 

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16 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Also watched “Heavy Metal” because it was animated and on cable and so my parents just assumed it was fine for a 6-7 year old. Whoops. 

Explains a lot.

My parents loaded up the entire brood when I was 5 and took us to see 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and whew boy, that giant squid made my sleep pure torture for several weeks.  Seeing Old Yeller for the first time was traumatic too, albeit in a different way.

So this is the Movies and TV section? I thought it was the UT Recruiting News. 

2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

My parents didn't know what they were getting everyone into when they took us to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. My little brother was like 5 or 6. The sacrifice scene turned him white as a ghost and I'll never be able to get the dinner scene out of my head. Hollywood was going insane around that time and one thing the Karens of the 80's got right was the PG 13 rating due to that movie and, I think, Ghostbusters and Gremlins. 

Gremlins never scared me, but I was like 6 or 7 and tagged along with my cousin and his girlfriend to see Predator....let's just say the walk hone through the woods that night may have been the scariest walk I ever took home....

2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

My parents didn't know what they were getting everyone into when they took us to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. My little brother was like 5 or 6. 

Ha I did the same shit with my oldest boy around that age when World War Z came out.  The initial zombie scene with all the cars freaked his ass out.  Left immediately.  

7 minutes ago, Brandywine said:

So this is the Movies and TV section? I thought it was the UT Recruiting News. 

When there is recruiting news, we post it and discuss it. We are in the doldrums until 8/2 or Kreul does something. 

13 minutes ago, Brandywine said:

So this is the Movies and TV section? I thought it was the UT Recruiting News. 

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2 hours ago, texifornia said:

Movies I definitely realized after the fact I was too young for were Princess Mononoke (the corrupted boar was a problem for my nightmares) and The Patriot (all those people getting burned alive in the church was an eye opener), and later but a much more adult movie - 28 Days Later fuuuucked me up.

My parents figured Watership Down was a kids' movie about a bunch of fluffy bunny rabbits.

It was not a kids' movie about fluffy bunny rabbits.

 

I remember being young and seeing Cinderella coming on Cinemax at 10 pm and thought, why so late but I’m gonna watch it. Mind you I was young. I learned about skinamax that night. At least before my parents figured it out lmao

3 minutes ago, satyanash said:

My parents figured Watership Down was a kids' movie about a bunch of fluffy bunny rabbits.

It was not a kids' movie about fluffy bunny rabbits.

 

Swap "my parents" with "I" and you've got my most egregious parenting blunder. I knew what it wasn't, but boy were my 5yo and I surprised to learn what it was.

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I hope you all forgive me for cross-posting this ... fun watch.  Got me excited for the season.  Note - first stop, Texas.

(Not a horror movie, though.)

 

 

Only two movies that ever fucked me up were The Exorcist, which I saw for the first time when I was 8 or 9, and Prince of Darkness. The latter doesn't review well, but it's an older (1987) John Carpenter film that's just full of fucked up scenes. Oh, and Alice Cooper has a cameo role.

On 7/25/2025 at 12:18 PM, Teamdirtyleg said:

This is absolutely correct.  Most of the wealthier, selfmade people I know did not attend college.  They grinded in a trade and built up.  A couple of Welders, an electricians,  and electrical lineman, all multimillionaires, mostly finding niches within the oil and gas service industry.  I tell all the young people who will listen that to be successful you don't have to be the smartest, you just have to work hard and be disciplined.

There are no stupid Electricians. 

Darwin takes care of that pretty well.

2 hours ago, Atticus said:

The only movies I had a hard time with as a kid were Jurassic Park and Aliens. Once I got old enough, none of that stuff was believable enough to bother me anymore.

 

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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, The Blob, and The Swarm would've given you really bad nightmares had you seen them as a child.

OR, maybe just seeing Donald Sutherland with a perm would give you nightmares.  Lulz.

The. Exorcist is a great mind fuck, good choice.

I’m older than most here, so I saw The Shining first run in a movie theater, and it was one of those classic old ones with the high ceilings and blood-red curtains. I’ve never wanted an experience to be over as much as wanting that fucking movie to end. Kubrick kicked my ass. 

On the subject of movie ratings, I’m still baffled how James Cameron was able to show Kate Winslett’s tits in a PG-13. Not that I’m upset about it.

27 minutes ago, billy_bats said:

Only two movies that ever fucked me up were The Exorcist, which I saw for the first time when I was 8 or 9, and Prince of Darkness. The latter doesn't review well, but it's an older (1987) John Carpenter film that's just full of fucked up scenes. Oh, and Alice Cooper has a cameo role.

Mom loved Horror movies.  Early dose of Exorcist, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead.  Wizard of Oz is pretty mind-bending for a 5 year old.  Didn't care for the flying Monkeys.  

1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

 

Get out of my head! All of these. I watched Poltergeist at a friend’s house whose parents were mostly absent. I had nightmares every night for like a month straight and my parents were furious. 

Also watched “Heavy Metal” because it was animated and on cable and so my parents just assumed it was fine for a 6-7 year old. Whoops. 

My mom rented Halloween when they were going out to dinner.  Think I was seven.  She thought it was benign.  That white masked bastard chased me with his slow walk in my dreams for years.  

3 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

My mom rented Halloween when they were going out to dinner.  Think I was seven.  She thought it was benign.  That white masked bastard chased me with his slow walk in my dreams for years.  

An odd fact is there was no blood in Halloween. 

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I had two older sisters that loved animated and fantasy movies in the 80s that had some borderline shit for kids.

Wizards, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Return to Oz, Watership Down, The Rats of NIMH were all in heavy rotation when I was 5-7 and all the creepiest parts stuck with me. My 8yo daughter has seen all of them already other than Wizards and Watership Down.

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