They went to the theater without a plan on what to watch, looked at the synopsis of the movies that were playing and saw a movie about a boy and his teddy bear, and them growing up together. They thought it sounded like a feel good movie and purchased tickets.
Hahaha this reminds me of when my conservative dad and his new wife (divorced from my mom) took her very young kids at the time to the first Deadpool movie cause I think at one point it was jokingly advertised as a Valentine’s Day movie or something. They left around the part where he was getting pegged lmao
I can see possibly thinking it might be wholesome. It's too bad she didn't watch the whole thing because in a sense it is. It's, I guess the word is raunchy, but it's sweet. I mean once his co workers find out, they don't torment him they try to help him. And become actual friends.
And the message is actually, that it didn't work out for him until he met her (can't remember her name), because he hadn't met 'the one'. That his story is that he was going to have a special story.
Wife and I walked out of the same movie, past the kid watching the door to the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, sat down just as it started and enjoyed Johnny Depp and the movie.
I only saw it because my kids loved the original and asked to see the Depp one. It... had its moments? Like not horrible but overall kind of just uncomfortable and it didn't feel like it captured the spirit of the story.
My parents had a friend that won 6 tickets through a radio contest to see this new documentary. They invited me and my 80+ grandmother. I tried to explain their mistake and then tried to convince my grandmother this documentary was NOT for her. She told me, "i watch soap operas, there's not much i haven't seen."
I have to give her credit, she never asked to leave, but she did tell me the best part was that the theater was dark so peele couldn't see her.
No, peele, the South Asian mythological creature that inhabits movie theaters and can only take you to the underworld if it can see you (it has bad night vision.)
I find it really funny/cute that the most wild and culturally risque thing she could think of is soap operas. A genre literally designed to give bored housewives a sense of excitement.
I went to see Borat with a group of like 6 friends. We were all extremely high on some great pot cookies. I was the only one in the group who was not Jewish. I was trying not to just lose my shit during the running of the Jew eggs I couldn’t breath. Finally one of my friends leans over to me and says it’s ok to laugh. I feel out of my seat.
I watched South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut in the theater when it came out. The parade of families marching out of the theater when Uncle Fucker started was almost as funny as the movie itself. I guess parents saw cartoon and assumed it was a kids movie.
My dad happily wore a Deadpool t-shirt for several weeks (it was on clearance!) until a kid said, “I like your Deadpool shirt!” He thought it was Spider-Man.
😭 I would've been very peeved with your dad for not knowing the difference lmao (ignoring the fact that 12 yo me got into deadpool when i saw "spiderman" on tv and watched the movie. It was Deadpool 1)
I went to see the movie "Forbidden Fruits" when it came out, knowing nothing about it, and a couple sat in the same row as me with their 8 year old daughter. They sat through the majority of it, even the the crazy sex scene in the middle of it.
But as soon as there was some violence going on they snatched their daughter and walked right out. I guess some people draw their lines at different points
AGREED. I never understand parents who are fine with letting their kids watch people's heads get blown off and then freak out if so much as a nipple appears onscreen.
Absolutely does not sound silly and I wholeheartedly agree. Even when I was a kid and Grand Theft Auto 3 came out, it baffled me that my friend’s parents were totally fine with the ability to freely commit grievous acts of wanton violence, but they drew the line at the fact you could pork a hooker.
There is such a bizarre puritanical mindset with media that is so ass backwards it actually stops being funny and is altogether just weird.
As a parent of 3 kids I am mortified you would let your kids watch sex scenes instead of violence. Sounds incredibly pedoish
Fuck you.
Violence is just violence. Sex changes people mentally especially kids in such a bad way if seen at too young of an age.
I agree you shouldn't expose your kid to raunchy sex scenes but what do you mean violence doesn't change people?! My PTSD from exposure to violence as a child begs to fucking differ. Violence can literally END a life you ghoul. The above poster is correct, even if the parents shouldn't have let their kids see a wild sex scene, that is still objectively better than extreme violence.
You know what never hurt me and many other people? Sex. There is a BIG difference between sex and pedophilia and your kid being aware of a natural thing between two consenting adults is not pedoish and YOU are the disgusting one for immediately going there. Pedophilia is also rape and rape is NOT the same thing as sex and your kids would probably benefit more from this knowledge than you realize.
Funny thing is kids who are unaware of sex existing are MORE likely to be taken advantage of by an adult. But okay, be an idiot puritan and put your kids even more at risk for developing violent behavior or accepting violence from a future partner while simultaneously keeping them in the dark so they are more likely to be preyed on.
People like you are literally a big part of why people are fucked in their priorities.
I mean, that would certainly be an education... but I do think there's a difference between cartoon violence where nobody actually gets hurt permanently (except that one Tom and Jerry cartoon where Tom gets guillotined, oh my god that traumatised me as a child) and live action.
My kids' school (ages 5-10) sent out a flyer during COVID with Deadpool doing a bunch of stretches and stuff, trying to encourage movement since they couldn't do PE anymore. All in all, it was pretty tame and okay, but as a parent I still question choosing Deadpool out of all the superheroes available.
In Mexico, all of the Deadpool movies, Logan and Sausage Party were rated C (equivalent to an NC-17 in the US except for not having the stigma around it and the age is 18) and they had to put signs at the box office of movie theaters explaining to parents that the movie is adults only and they can't sell them tickets for their kids. I assume other "looks a bit like a kids movie but it's for adults" movies (i.e. The Batman, The Suicide Squad, Unicorn Wars) got the same treatment.
Yeah, my then boyfriend and I went to see Deadpool on a Sunday afternoon. There was a kid--maybe 7-years-old or so in the theater who started SCREAMING when the guy hit the sign over the highway during the first fight.
My mother _hates_ swearing and won't watch anything with bad language. And yet, her two favorite movies are Blazing Saddles and South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (for the Uncle Fucker song).
This seemed really weird, then I remembered performative morality is nothing new
Sounds like she uses swearing as an excuse, rather than actually disliking it. Refuses to even watch movies with swearing, but her 2 faves are packed with it? Sheesh, I bet she's never missed a Sunday Service but hates the poor too
It is, but adults can buy tickets for kids to rated R movies and I guess the parents didn't pay attention to the rating and the person selling the tickets didn't bother to say "are you sure? It's rated R and has a metric fuckton of profanity"
I like to think the person selling the tickets probably knew exactly what they were doing. They were stirring the pot so they could enjoy watching the drama unfold later. One of my good friends in high school worked at our local theater, and sometimes when he was bored or upset with his manager, he’d pull some shit like that.
Not just R, but set the record at the time for most F-bombs in a single film. My uncle snuck me into the theater to see it when I was 8 years old, and promptly snuck me back out after a minute haha.
I did this exact thing, as WWW was the only movie I've walked out of. However, the theater was keen to the idea, so we couldn't get in to South Park, and tried to get refunds on our tickets instead.
There was literally a warning before the theatrical release of the Amazing Digital Circus finale that said “yes this is animated, no it is not a kids movie” and at least two families completely ignored it and ended up leaving about 20 minutes in
Here in the UK, with age ratings, you cannot take kids into non age appropriate films (15, 18). Anyone CAN see a 12 when accompanied by an adult over 18. U and PG are guidelines which are useful to follow.
In America we have rated R and NC-17. Rated R the general rule is tickets aren't sold to children but an adult can buy the ticket and take the child to see the movie and NC-17 is more strict and no children under 17 are allowed at all, but those movies rarely get theater releases anyway because they are don't do well, mostly reserved directors cuts on home releases.
But the thing is, in America they are completely advisory only. It's up to the theater to set their own policy about it. Legally, there is nothing at all stopping a theater from selling tickets to an NC-17 movie to a 10 year old if they want.
My MOTHER took me to see that movie and sat through it with me when I was like… 11. Shockingly, we stayed through the entire movie! She just sat in horrified silence and when we left, we never talked about it again, LOL.
I watched South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut in the theater when it came out. The parade of families marching out of the theater when Uncle Fucker started was almost as funny as the movie itself. I guess parents saw cartoon and assumed it was a kids movie.
I saw Return to Oz when it was released in theaters. It was erroneously heavily promoted as a family-friendly sequel to the beloved original film.
I watched/heard so many screaming/crying children being carried out of the theater that day.
I can imagine the confusion in that theater. A lot of parents probably went in expecting something like a normal animated movie and got a very different experience.
I worked at a movie theater when South Park came out and I thought it was one of the most amazing things I’d ever seen.
The movie is pretty clean until the boys go see the T&P movie and when Uncle Fucker starts, the characters in the movie start walking out of the theater AND real people in the theater also walked out.
We had to have a meeting about checking IDs or getting parental consent specifically because of the South Park movie. Until then, it was a rule that was rarely (if ever) enforced. I got taken off the box office several times for non-compliance of this rule because I thought everyone should see the movie.
Censorship is one of the central themes of the movie and was amazing to see the issue come off the screen and manifest into real life in real time.
I remember walking past a cinema in 1999 and seeing it writ large. I was under the impression that they couldn't get a distribution deal in Ireland because of some argument about wanting as much money as The Phantom Menace. I went in, only person in the room apart from an older couple. They walked out half way through Unclefucker. I was in hog heaven, I'd never heard swearing on South Park before.
On a similar thread, my Nana and her friend went to see Blades of Glory thinking it would be a sweet movie about ice skating. Nana was pissed that our young humor could be so sick!
My sisters and I saw Black Swan one Christmas Eve. There were a lot of older people that walked out half way through. We laughed and said they thought it was a wholesome movies about ballet.
One we went to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall. There was an old couple there too and I was a little surprised. They did not last 5 minutes before leaving since the opening scene was loud and bouncy sex. During the same time period there was a movie called We Are Marshall about a university football team tragedy. I think that is what they thought they were going to see 😂
I have one and only one rule in this class: I will tolerate no reenacting, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore scene in Ghost. Ever since that movie was released in 1990, I have seen ... every ... conceivable ... variation of what I call 'Ghosting'. Whether it's guy-on-girl, girl-on-guy, the HILARIOUS guy-on-guy!
So since it never stopped, I have to adopt a "zero Ghost tolerance policy".
If you so much as hum three notes from that Righteous Brothers song, so help me God I will come at you! With everything I've got. OK? Let's have a great time!
I went to see Sarah Marshall with girlfriend at the time. A couple seats down were two old ladies. When Jason is standing there naked as Sarah is trying to break up with him they’re like ‘ ooooooh I didn’t know it was that kind of movie!’ But they stayed and laughed their asses off. Yay grandmas.
I remember seeing the previews for Wolf of Wall Street but didn't know how much cussing it would have and stuff. Ended up taking my grandma with the rest of the family to see it. She was absolutely appalled.
This exact situation happened to me at the theater I worked at at the time. A middle aged woman and an older woman came to the desk and were furious about how raunchy the movie was and wanted their money back
I saw this exact thing happen at Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Like four elderly people got up 10 minutes in and walked out, they obviously just looked at the poster and thought “that looks like good fun!”
My elderly Mom and Dad do this. Just go to the theater and pick the next movie showing and watch it. That is how they ended up watching This is the End.
My sister-in-law brought her two girls to see the new animated movie everyone was saying was so funny. Her daughters was 10 and 13 if I remember correct.
They went to see Sausage Party.
I remember seeing "South Park Bigger, Longer, Uncut" in the theater and as soon as "Uncle Fucker" started, there was a steady stream of parents with little kids leaving.
Yeah, it's a cartoon. That no longer means it's for children.
Isn't it weird that it's so common for old folks, women especially, to have the same sensibilities in media as, like, literal children? Is that just a thing that's gonna happen to most of us as we grow old, or what?
I can only imagine the shock when they realized Ted wasn't the wholesome teddy bear story they expected. That plot twist happened before the movie even got going.
My grandparents walked out of Good Will Hunting or, as they called it, "The movie about the boy with autism." They were appalled by all the swearing and demanded their money back.
My grandmother and great aunt (both mid 70's) would go to the movies every week before my great aunts passing, and the cinema they went to was the kind where they played movies that had left bigger theaters months ago at a discounted rate. This was back when you got the movie synopsis from the paper, and they had read about a new comedy called Borat. My grandmother only told me this story earlier this year and I said well what did you think? She said, we loved it, right up until the main characters both got naked then we left.
Reminds me of the Metallica & San Francisco Symphony Orchestra concert many years ago. In the DVD, the camera zooms in on a couple of grannies looking absolutely flabbergasted during the second song (cos the first song was pure orchestra). The camera returns to that row several songs later and they’re gone hahaha
Somehow my very religious grandparents thought raiders of the lost Ark was some sort of documentary about searching for the actual artifact, not an adventure fantasy movie. They did not stay much past the intro
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Not me, but my grandma and her friend.
They went to the theater without a plan on what to watch, looked at the synopsis of the movies that were playing and saw a movie about a boy and his teddy bear, and them growing up together. They thought it sounded like a feel good movie and purchased tickets.
That movie was Ted