Overboard with Goldie Hawn, goonies, dirty dancing were all some of my favorite movies. Looking back I realized how much it was not appropriate for 12yr olds
@@homethatilove4595 Right?? I think I was 12 or 13 watching that. My grandparents even took me to Lake Lure, NC where 1/2 of the movie was filmed. I got to stand in Johnny’s cabin where he stood butt naked! 😂
Just watched Grease with my 15 year old daughter, she said “so the point of the story is to change yourself for a boy you love? REALLY?!” OK fair enough I said… “well I always viewed it as do what makes you happy” but I think my daughter’s interpretation is more spot on 😂
She was smoking at the end which was totally acceptable back then… and wearing skin tight pants. Rizzo thinking she was pregnant and the scene with Kenicke in the back seat. Remember watching this movie and my friend’s Mom came in the room and stood in front of the TV in her big old bathrobe blocking our view fast forwarding the VCR so we couldn’t see the big make out/sex scene or whatever lpl. Every time we rented a movie she was like “there better not be any smut in it!” Lolol Violence was ok but noooo sex lmao 😂
I'm 17 and I LOVE '80s movies. I also love watching the movies with my mom. The look on her face when scenes she forgot about come on 😭. Btw one of my favorites is "Adventures in Babysitting".
In Three Men and a Baby the bachelors hide heroin in a diaper from some gangsters. I was left having to explain what they were trying to hide from the bad men and why to a four and six year old. I remembered it being a sweet kids movie about some dads and a baby😂
Yes, my husband and I rewatched this for the first time in probably 30 years before we had our daughter and I realized it’s basically just a drug heist movie! Totally disguised as a cute baby movie!
I rewatched it later and during the OPENING CREDITS (bachelors sleeping with toooons of women), I was like “WHY WAS I ALLOWED TO WATCH THIS?!” (Answer: my parents weren’t paying attention)
Agreed, on a first time viewing, you'd be surprised by the inclusion of the gangster subplot, since it seems to come from a completely different movie than the gentler things with the baby. And then, with about half an hour to go, they immediately resolve the gangster subplot, and it's never mentioned again.
Or the premise itself. Three men get a baby dropped in their doorstep because one of them had a one night stand with some random actress he had a hard time remembering. Very wholesome family viewing. 🤣
@@paulthenerdycat4139 My parents would cover my eyes during sex scenes, but they were okay with me watching death, murder, nudity, and swearing after the age of 7.
I traumatized my kids when I decided they needed to watch Gremlins in the minivan as we toodled around. I just remembered the cute little fuzzy things. Totally forgot about the terror they caused - needless to say my kids were not enjoying themselves. 😂
Came in here to comment that! Lol I remember being like “oh look, this one’s only rated PG!” and then midway through had to pick my jaw up off the floor when they flashed a couple of perfect knockers in my face 😅
Totally agree about 80’s movies. Sometimes I wonder why I was even allowed to watch some of them. Loved Princess Bride though, still do. Certainly some darkness, but all wrapped up in humour. Mind you I was probably older when I first watched it.
I absolutely adored Labyrinth. Like, to the point where when I grew up I named one of my sons after the Goblin King. Seriously, I have a son named Jareth and it is 100% because of David Bowie.
I loved the "ratings scale in the 80s....little different" line. That both made me laugh and was never truer. I love the Back to the Future Trilogy, but the first movie would be a PG13 movie today. The "PG" rating was.....definitely scaled differently back then lol😅
My sister and I watched Short Circuit a lot when we were kids. My husband and I rented it when our kids were little and we were shocked by how much language was is in it.
Yeah, when my boys were little, we hosted outdoor movie nights with their friends, and since I had loved the whole concept of Short Circuit when I was a kid, I thought of showing them that. Good thing I watched it again myself myself first!!! =(
Except for - he goes back in time to save his parents marriage and gets hit on by his mom, his dad gets bullied daily & Marty does not know the meaning of "low-profile"... That said it is a fun movie lol :)
I watched The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth in the theater (yes, I'm a raging Jim Henson fan. 😁). Cried uncontrollably during Never Ending Story (animal person over here as well). We all thought Greased Lightning was a great song about the car.. Good times.. 😁😉
Jim Henson movies were amazing, though. Labyrinth is still one of my favorite movies to this day. And I, too, sobbed during Never Ending Story. Seriously, that poor horse. That little kid who played Atreyu was such a good actor. And I remember thinking the Child-like Empress really looked like a fantasy doll, she was so pretty.
Yeah, I actually really hate it when everyone insists on telling everyone else about the extremely well hidden innuendos. Those who like that sort of thing will get it; let the rest of us just enjoy the surface fun without telling us it's supposed to mean something else! (I feel the same way about Shakespeare lol)
It's like you guys were secretly making a video about our family! We are parents in our early 40's and we decided a few months ago to start watching our favorite "classics" with our kids now that they are 6 and 8. The first one we watched was Space Balls. Through the entire movie my husband was under his breath mumbling to me, "this was such a mistake... such a mistake... oh my god... such a mistake..." To his dismay my daughter LOVED it and literally asks to watch all the time! We always change the subject when she asks. Then literally two nights ago(!) we watched Goonies as a family. We couldn't believe how much the kids in the movie cursed! And the dead guy in the freezer! And the penis on the statue!!! And you guys mentioning Grease is hilarious because I had a run-in with that one too! As a toddler, my daughter LOVED musicals. Like Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang were her favorites. I decided to watch Grease with her and I was like "WOOOOOOAH! I don't remember this stuff! Let's not watch this again for another 12 years, sweetie!" The Princess Bride is pretty much the ONLY one so far that wasn't making us cringe and go "why are we showing this to our young children?!?!"
Thank you for covering that part in “Big,” especially-so appalling. “How is this okay” is right! And Kim, you really do a great job on these! I forget that you’re not actually two different people! 😂
We learned the real lyrics to "Greased Lightning" during Karaoke Night -- with some church friends! 🤣 There are so many 80's and 90's movies that I want to show my kids, but thinking back or re-watching them now, I don't know if any of them are "safe". At least in NeverEnding Story, Artax and everyone else comes back at the end, but I bawled my eyes out as a kid.
The Last Unicorn was one of my childhood favorites! Rewatched it as an adult and was a little shocked lol. That extremely horny and busty tree, the harpy that straight up ate its evil owner, the drunk skeleton, the terrifying red flaming bull and the super creepy wizard that controls it. The singing butterfly in the beginning does not prepare one for this movie 🤣. Still an amazing animation film in its own way though!
All of the works of John Hughes. Great movies but some moments you look back on in "Sixteen Candles" or "The Breakfast Club" and realize how horrified you'd be if your kids watched them at the same age you did. Still going to show them to my kids at some point though. Lol
@@guitargrin right?! I swear I don't remember half of the problematic lines that I find now. I think some of them got edited for TV and it changed some of the meaning.
❤ Breakfast Club. The "wacky tabacky" scene isn't as shocking any more. I heard recently that Johnny finally finished his run of Saturday morning detentions.
@@Joy21090 the thigh biting scene is worse than I remember. Mostly because I didn't remember it until it came upon a list discussing unacceptable things in 80's movies.
LOL! I've had this exact issue every time I try to pull up old movie for my kids to watch lol! I'm down to 1940s black and white at this point and even then....😅
I loved that movie as a child. A favorite. Bought it for my daughter. Watched it once and threw it away. What in the world?! The creepy witch woman and her vulture! 😳 The whole film was depressing, too.
It's my all time favorite flick! I even had it for my kids. They liked it too but not nearly like me. The Red Bull etc. Fortunately it never did traumatize me.
“Where were you 20 years ago, 10 years ago, when I was one of those beautiful maidens you always come to?! How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am This!” Yep, saw that traumatic movie a few dozen times as a kid!
@@Respectreality7 Yes, we do too! My daughter was 9 when that came out in 83, and we watched it together and we loved it, and to this day it is still special! 👍
When my dad was in the 4th grade he got his eye shot out by a BB gun…yes he has a glass eye now and loves to use A Christmas Story as a “teaching example” lol 😆
The Neverending Story was one of my most fave movies as a child. Every time I watched it though, my parents would have to console me when Artex dies by saying, “he comes back!” But honestly, SO many children movies, new and old, have a sad or sinister undertone. I’ve become keenly aware of it since my husband passed away in 2020, as almost every movie is triggering for my children. They played Finding Nemo to my son in kindergarten and it re-traumatised him (that opening scene is brutal). And when we watched Frozen together when they were young, I had to say that the parents didn’t die, they just swam to another island when their ship sunk 😅🥺
Ha! I love when you compare generations and decades. 😊 I remember watching Stand by me. Honestly, i feel like back then it wasn't as shielded, but in a good way.
Even as a kid, I was uncomfortable with Big. Lol! Later on though, I loved 13 Going On 30 but it had similar issues. They were a little more careful though.
Yes, it’s definitely a shock going back and rewatching childhood movies through adult eyes. I mean Watership Down was advertised as a kids movie! Talk about repressed trauma. As for Neverending Story, that is still one of my favorites, along with Last Unicorn, Princess Bride.
I was traumatized by Watership Down when I saw it as a child. I had such nightmares from that and couldn't understand why they were making us watch it at my summer camp.
Not a movie, but my husband had NO idea that Olivia Newton John’s “Physical” was not about working out. He was literally in his 30’s or 40’s when I rocked his world with that information.
I only found that out around age 30, when I read a comic strip in which a character accidentally attracted sexual attention by singing this song that was stuck in her head.
Yep, watched The Neverending Story sitting on the floor in my elementary school library in I think 4th grade. I was traumatized by the Gmork, though, not Artex (though it was still sad). I had nightmares about the Gmork.
We watched a lot of those movies on TV. Um, they cut out a LOT for commercials and dubbed over a LOT of language. Grease is a whole different movie uncut! LOL
OMG I let my kids watch Goonies and Back to the Future and I couldn't believe how much different it is to watch it with kids! I watched Poltergeist, The Omen, and other terrifying movies when I was 12. I can't unsee the head rolling down the hill. My sons are 12 now and I can't imagine them ever sleeping again! 😂 Puts hair on your chest!! 😂😂
At my 11 year old birthday/slumber party, we watched Poltergeist and Pet Semetary. I am still in shock my parents thought that was okay! There’s no way that would fly in my house now. It was a different time, that’s for sure!
That was my favorite movie for a long time. I actually had a nightmare of ET when I was pregnant, he was waddling up to my door and my cats were freaked out and darting to peek out the window like there was a massive monster. No joke, I've been terrified on ET since lol.
😂 My husband wanted to watch it with our 7 year old. I was like let's watch it first. We decided to hold off until she is a bit older after watching the first 5 minutes ...haha
Don’t forget: -“Tell me more, tell me more/Did she put up a fight?” -The fat kid turning into a rat in The Witches -Jennifer Connelly was 16 in Labyrinth
Omg, that line from Summer Nights is my go-to when people try to argue that there's no such thing as r*** culture! Well, there are so many possible r-words, but you know which one I'm talking about!
@@mamatay7 I always heard that line as meaning 'did she play hard to get' in context. After all, it's clear from Sandy's lyrics that she was just as interested as Danny, so I'm not sure how that interpretation really works. Plenty of other problematic stuff in Grease, though.
I don’t know how you are able to act against yourself. It’s got to be so hard to do. Your editor deserves kudos too. That’s a lot of cuts in this type of video. Great job, as always, by you and the team. Also, Sunny needs a raise; she played her part beautifully. 😂
My mom was never worried about language in movies and I, as a parent, also have a high tolerance for it since my boys knew they were not to use it. A lot things just went over my head. I was in high school when I saw "Bill and Ted`s Excellent Adventure" but it wasn't until much later that I realized why "69" was their favorite number. I would do "Mom Cinema" with my boys but always rewatched first. Some of my favorite 80s movies are "The Princess Bride" "Ferris Bueller" "E.T" "Star Wars" movies ""Back to the Future" "Dirty Dancing" and the aforementioned "Bill and Ted." My kids watched a lot of "scary" movies but the only one that freaked my son out was "Twister" because it was about something that COULD happen. I couldn't tell him a tornado would never hit our house. Similarly the only movie/tv show that ever gave me nightmares was "Little House on the Prairie" when the blind school burned because it was a realistic event.
90s baby with older siblings who grew up in the 80s and 90s here 🙋♀️ to my memory, I can't recall Neverending Story but I know I've seen it with my brother at least twice, probably more. Definitely repressed the whole thing. My parents thought Goonies was cute until about midway through, so they would fastforward through all scenes that involved the cruel and unusual mistreatment of a man with disabilities until I was old enough to comprehend abuse. The Princess Bride was just about the only (mostly) wholesome 80s movie I was exposed to. any violence, guts/gore, intimacy, and/or foul language were so heavily laden with comedy that they weren't traumatizing. it was safe enough to watch that it was the only movie in my middle school's library that wasn't educational.
My parents made me watch the entire mini series of North and South at 10 years old because they said it would teach me about history. I still think someone should have reported them to DSS.😂
I saw One Magic Christmas in the theater in 1985, and remember loving it! Showed it to my kids Christmas 2020. Somehow I forgot that the dad gets shot, the kids get kidnapped, and then the car they are in plummets into a river! Merry Christmas, y'all!! (It all works out in the end...)
1987. The greatest movie of all time came out. The story doesn't have overly explicit or graphic nature. It has action, adventure, Pirates, giants, sword fights, true love, ROUSs. THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
kidnapping and trafficing young girls, , murder by poison, animal abuse (poor ROUS), stalking some girl for years, violent sword fights, forced marriage (or mawwage ) , bullying, ..... 🤣🤣😅
Can we just take a second to appreciate the sharp editing? You know, plus accurate and hilarious!😂 Also I survived 80’s movies. I’m throwing The Breakfast Club out there!
And there is some sadness, generally speaking.. 😂 I remember the good old blockbuster days ..! It was an event- I would go with my girlfriend and we had so much fun picking out a movie. Then we would head back and make popcorn … Now I wonder… where did all my friends go? It’s kind of an isolation nation now
Goonies! You should have added Goonies!!! I thought it was such an innocent movie when I was a kid, but I watched it with my nephews and realized it was quite inappropriate lol
Times have definitely changed! I remember my dad took my brother and me to see The Terminator when I was around 11. I won't say it traumatized me or maybe I just blocked it out. Who knows?!
And those are just the PG movies. I remember watching hard R movies like it was no big thing, watching Robocop at my dad's place, going to the theater with my mom to see Rambo FBP2, talking with the kids on the school bus about Nightmare on Elm St., and holy shit, how did Revenge of the Nerds even get made! Those R-ratings did not stop any kid from seeing any movie.
When I was a kid I was super into Greek mythology. One day, when we were visiting my aunt, my mom told me that my cousins were watching a musical called Grease. I thought "Oh cool, a musical about Greek mythology..." 😲
16 Candles and Ferris Bueller are two of my favs. Looking back it was so bad how they made the "dong" noise whenever long duck dong came into the scene. And they use the R word when the grandpa is describing his outfit to the police. I know. Grease I never realized all the words in the songs. I used to perform them all the time as a child. Dirty Dancing too! I never understood what Penny did and why she was in such pain. That one hit me hard when I realized what was going on
Goonies? That was wholesome I think 😂 My mom also said "it will put a hair on your chest". Grossed me out but I have 2 brothers so I'm thinking maybe it was for them.
I remember in my 20s my roommate wanting to watch an innocent Disney princess movie so she asked the pastor of our church if we could watch the little mermaid and I was horrified I was like she sells her soul to the devil inorder to get a guy to kiss her and she is trying to get him to like her without being able to talk. My friend and this teen girl she was mentoring were like no your wrong so we watched it and I was actually kinda surprised how well it worked for an allegory for sin and salvation. My friends were horrified that they remembered wrong. Ariel has like no redeeming qualities she is a hoarder she is constantly disobeying her father. Seeking trouble she signs a contract giving up her voice to be with some hot guy she doesn't know but also he is a different species so that's kinda bestiality we don't think about it reversed like that. At the end her Dad gives his life in payment for hers and while she is on her power trip the prince stabs her with the boat and she dies and the crown and scepter go back to king Triton. And I was like in context of religious allegory not the way I watched it at 4/5 years old it's not bad. My friend was too much in shock that it wasn't innocent to see what I saw. I saw big for the first time as an adult and I was not ok with that. You are absolutely right the technology quality makes things more realistic but a lot of the stories were a lot darker in the 80s and early 90s.
I felt the same way about The Little Mermaid. I had Ariel paper dolls and knew the storyline and songs from a sing-along VHS, but my parents never bought or borrowed it for us. Saw a bit at a friends' house at about age nine and decided 'I'm not okay with this' - told my parents later I didn't think it was one for our family! I got and liked the religious allegory when I was older - with a little help from reading the Hans Christian Anderson original - but no, Ariel's no innocent. Aurora is probably the best Disney princess for that, and she has less screen time than Maleficent, which probably means something. 😂
Me reminiscing about 80's movies: "So cool!" Me seeing Sunny in the video: "I'm sorry, what other movies were mentioned?? I was distracted by Sunny being cute and cuddly with her mommy and I had to restart the video". 😆😆😆😆😆
I fell in LOVE with River Phoenix in Stand By Me, Matthew Broderick in Ferris Beuler’s Day Off, and Andrew McCarthy in St. Elmo’s Fire. Andrew telling Allie Sheedy that he’s always loved her was epic! ❤️🔥
I was born in '66 and was more of a '70s kid. The movies I grew up with were The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Cat from Outer Space, Charlotte's Web, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Slavery and OSHA violations galore!), Witch Mountain, and Escape to Witch Mountain. My favorite '80s movies were: Ghost Busters 1 & 2, National Lampoon's Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Gremlins, and A Christmas Story,. I was also a HUGE fan of all the "Brat Pack" movies. I had a blast being a teenager in the '80s!
I loved Sixteen Candles as a teen. I was turning 15 when it came out. I've seen it over 30 times. Watched it as an adult and WOW! Sex, drinking, drugs, nudity, inappropriate references, and so many other things. Luckily my teens wouldn't be interested in a movie from the 80s.
Yeahhhh, it's got a lot of problematic stuff in it. Unfortunately I still find the overall movie quite humorous. Some of it was endearing too, oddly enough. John Hughes always managed to work an emotional scene or two into his movies; leave you a little teary-eyed.
"Sex, drinking, drugs, nudity, inappropriate references, and so many other things." In other words, a typical teen movie aimed at teenagers. I'm not sure what the issue is. When you watch a movie from a different time period (or set in a different decade) you just have to roll with the social norms of the time. Most people won't even stop to think about something that's "inappropriate" anyway since they'll be more involved in the story and characters.
When I was growing up in the 80's, we watched these movies, because our parents did not shield us from the harsh realities of life. They knew that we needed to learn in order to be resilient to live thru hard times. These movies helped us to learn to cope. They brought us together. Hard times make strong people, sheltered times make soft people. Thank you for helping me to remember that and for being grateful for growing up when I did.
We watched those movies because "parental supervision" wasn't really a thing. And I honestly see nothing wrong with growing up seeing all that stuff. First of all, as a kid you either don't understand or don't deeply appreciate what you're seeing. Also, before you're a parent, most of the really traumatic things in movies just wash over you. It's only as an adult (and parent) that you cry your eyes out during "Forrest Gump." As a kid it was just a "good movie."
@@ShawnMilo Oh no, that's not true for everyone! I cried my eyes out over E.T. by the age of 8. Unconsolably. Had nightmares for weeks. Parents didn't know what to do. It was a real mess.
Tried to watch The Goonies with our kids - all-time classic, I still love that movie to death!! Speaking of death, my kids got spooked the second the frozen corpse fell out of the fridge. I thought maybe Sloth or all the skeletons in the cave tunnels would be a bit scary for them, but we didn't even get to these parts. What's up with kids today? A corpse never hurt anyone :-)
Most of my childhood fears came from 80s movies/tv: 1. The clown truck on Maximum Overdrive mowing people down (it was a TOY COMPANY!!) 2. Gremlins popping out of the toilet 3. The Burger King king *shudders*
I was a kid when I saw Maximum Overdrive and thought that was one of the coolest movies ever. My Mom had no problem with me borrowing my brother's Stephen King books she was just happy that I loved to read.
💯 !!! Showing my daughter movies from my childhood when I was her age that were my favorite , had me doing lots of pausing , stopping, explaining in which I had no explanation and it confused the both of us ....and always ending that talk with " It was in the 80s, sweetie . It was different for some unknown reason" 🤫🙃🤔🤔🤔🤷♀️ But, I will ALWAYS be grateful that I grew up in an era before the internet , before Streaming took over going to the movies, the fact that I worked at Blcockbuster I wear that like a badge and always will . A different world entirely now and I do love sharing my experiences with her , because she loves to hear about it and always says " You're so lucky you were born I'm the 80s Mama " Gen X Mama and Proud 😎
Mine was probably Pocahontas. They had it all figured out and lived in an idyllic world with no problems, enjoying themselves in the beautiful nature, jumping off waterfalls with their best friends and pet racoons. For all the problematic-ness of cultural appropriation, etc, Pocahontas heavily inspired the stories I wrote throughout my childhood (usually involving a parallel universe).
@@ambermac77 When the film came out my parents used it as an excuse to read us the REAL story of Pochahontas. Still haven't seen the movie, even though 'Colours of the Wind' is probably my favourite Disney song!
Favorites from that age: Steel Magnolias, Dances With Wolves, ET (I obviously loved crying at movies), Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Princess Bride, Big, Say Anything, and Cinema Paradiso (another tearjerker). At home my younger siblings and I watched a VHS tape with a recording off the TV of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels over 70 times. 😂 We thought it was hilarious.
I distintly remember how dark that Care Bears movie was, I saw it a single time and in the theater. No one can forget about that scene in My Girl, it would be like forgetting about Ryan White.
I remembered as a little kid being so mad at my father for taking my brother to see Jaws and The Blues Brothers. I wasn't allowed to go because I was too little. Then in the fourth grade, I remember the Blues Brothers was going to be shown on TV and I was so excited to see it. I was in school waiting to go on stage for our Christmas Pageant and the teachers were going to let us watch The Blues Brothers while we waited to go on stage. I was really excited because if the teachers were going to let us watch it, my parents couldn't stop them.... The TV interrupted the movie, to tell us John Lennon had been shot! I did not see the Blues Brothers until I was in my 20s, because I connected the news with the movie.
Christmas Vacation, Dirty Dancing, Risky Business, etc. As a parent they all shocked me so much more than when I was a kid. Also, Smokey and the Bandit, which we went to see as a family movie when I was 7. 😳
When I think of the movies I saw in the 80's as a tween...Breakfast Club and 16 Candles is definitely problematic and all the horror movies...(My sisters were in High School and we had hours of unsupervised time on our hands so... Blockbuster!)
I loved this so much! I tried watching Short Circut with my kiddos when they were like 3 and 4. I forgot how much cussing there was, lol. Incidentally, though, my 5-year-old daughter's favorite movie is The Labyrinth. She's also a huge Tim Burton fan, though, so 🤷♀️
No one rocks 80's fashions like you Kim! 😃But this is like so totally relatable. 😁 We say this generation missed out (which they did) but we think they would be better off watching these 80s/90s movies until we start breaking them down. I listened to a song from "The Saddle Club" the other day and... But go back to the 60s family entertainment! It doesn't get much better 😆It's not our generation's fault.
While we DID get one of the greatest movies of all time in the 80s - The Princess Bride - yeah... There were many questionable things in most movies lol. Grease has a LOT of stuff😵💫🤦♀️, and omg I forgot that Neverending Story scene! I keep telling my kids about that movie and want them to watch it... They'll be traumatized! Not an 80s, but a 90s PG movie they just watched, The Adventures of Huck Finn, with Elijah Wood & Courtney Vance, deals with an abusive dad who tries to kill his kid with a knife, family feuds where a boy watches his family get killed then gets shot by vengeful adults, slavery and the near-lynching of Vance's character... Yeah, my kids were a little shocked, to say the least! 😵💫😵💫🤦♀️🤦♀️
I remember putting on Uncle Buck for my kids when they were little because, you know--it's PG! I couldn't have run any faster from kitchen to living room trying to stop it for the language. Funny what we forget. 🙂
Omg, I am LITERALLY taking a break from scrolling through 80s movies I loved as a teen in anticipation of my kids saying "Let's watch a movie! What should we watch?" But every time I'm like "ooh, I LOVED this one!!! ... oh, wait..." Like, EXACTLY what's in this video!!! Too hilarious, and scarily timely! 🤣🤣🤣
Ok, I've met kids who didn't get to see anything die. Their parents protected them from any talk of death. So when death did come up, they were scared. They didn't get it. Meanwhile, I grew up with all the movies where people died and I feel like it prepared me for reality, not scarred me.
I agree. I volunteer for a summer camp as the Bible teacher, but it's usually very generic - not all the kids who come are Christians and it's mostly about them having fun. But one year the theme was 'Easter Week', so I was telling them the story and wondering to myself, 'Are their parents going to be okay with me telling six-year-olds about Jesus' death? The story KINDA doesn't work without it! Will they even get it?' Then I reminded myself I learned about the Crucifixion and death and heaven at age four, and it kept me from ever being scared of death in my life, so I just told them what happened without any graphic details, and they all eagerly chimed in to say how it helped them to understand where 'Grandma is now' and it was an astonishingly happy session!
watching Jurassic Park when I was 3 to 4 and loving it, thinking it's just Barney playing with his friends and legit loving the movie throughout my whole childhood. Watership Down traumatized me as a kid with the scene of the dog near the end and the fight with General Woundwart (only got over that in the last 10 yrs), TMNT 1 and 2, Sister Act, The Cutting Edge, Short Circuit, Never Ending Story got me every time with the Swamp of Sadness, Goonies, Little Shop of Horrors, Dark Crystal, Princess Bride, Lady Hawk, Cool Runnings, Ghost with Whoopi Goldberg, Casper, Major Payne. Oh man, Sybil movie from 1975 traumatized me while growing up in the 90s and still does to this day regarding the decapitated cat scene
Absolutely love this video! You just had to be a bit tougher in the 80s, or if your parents are from the 80s and they treat you like it’s still the 80s lol! Where you learn to suck all of your emotions into your soul, and it’s amazing! But also, my dad forces me to watch movies from the 80s, and some of them are bad, I love most of the cartoons from the 80s! But labyrinth was a terrible movie!
Ok, but I think the Princess Bride generally remains an unproblematic fave. To make up for all the stuff in the Goonies. 😂
The Princess Bride is precious and completely pure and I will die on this hill!!! lol
What's wrong with Goonies? Such a great movie!!!
Princess Bride of course is one of the pinnacles of 80's movies.
My favorite movie ever!!!
Okay hear something problematic you don't really want a kid to try to become immune to Poison by drinking poison
@@crocketgsxr6 your fun at parties.
80s movies are why Gen X are so strong! 👍🏻👍🏻
Word.
Totally
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Exactly. I'm a 90s kid but like for real 😂
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Overboard with Goldie Hawn, goonies, dirty dancing were all some of my favorite movies. Looking back I realized how much it was not appropriate for 12yr olds
Love all of those…
Little Darlings. My mom would NOT let me see that one.
Definite Favorite Dirty Dancing (had assumed "medical procedure" 😒)
@@homethatilove4595 Right?? I think I was 12 or 13 watching that. My grandparents even took me to Lake Lure, NC where 1/2 of the movie was filmed. I got to stand in Johnny’s cabin where he stood butt naked! 😂
Goonies has foul language! I tried to get my 9-year-old to watch it. 🤦🏼♀️ I had forgotten over the years. It was one of my faves.
Just watched Grease with my 15 year old daughter, she said “so the point of the story is to change yourself for a boy you love? REALLY?!” OK fair enough I said… “well I always viewed it as do what makes you happy” but I think my daughter’s interpretation is more spot on 😂
There is hope for the future when teens see right through it!
I think.... they both changed for the other? Anyway, Grease 2 was always the better movie.
Also, The Little Mermaid.
And Danny lettered in track and quit the gang for Sandy.
She was smoking at the end which was totally acceptable back then… and wearing skin tight pants. Rizzo thinking she was pregnant and the scene with Kenicke in the back seat. Remember watching this movie and my friend’s Mom came in the room and stood in front of the TV in her big old bathrobe blocking our view fast forwarding the VCR so we couldn’t see the big make out/sex scene or whatever lpl. Every time we rented a movie she was like “there better not be any smut in it!” Lolol Violence was ok but noooo sex lmao 😂
I'm 17 and I LOVE '80s movies. I also love watching the movies with my mom. The look on her face when scenes she forgot about come on 😭. Btw one of my favorites is "Adventures in Babysitting".
Oh yes. Teenagers going to all kinds of bads areas and the "Don't f%&@ with the babysitter"
Ain't nobody leaves here without singing the blues!
My favorite movie too when I was 17!
love love love that movie
Yes one of my faves too - and when I re-watched it a few years ago I could not believe all the racial stereotypes
In Three Men and a Baby the bachelors hide heroin in a diaper from some gangsters. I was left having to explain what they were trying to hide from the bad men and why to a four and six year old. I remembered it being a sweet kids movie about some dads and a baby😂
Yes, my husband and I rewatched this for the first time in probably 30 years before we had our daughter and I realized it’s basically just a drug heist movie! Totally disguised as a cute baby movie!
I rewatched it later and during the OPENING CREDITS (bachelors sleeping with toooons of women), I was like “WHY WAS I ALLOWED TO WATCH THIS?!” (Answer: my parents weren’t paying attention)
Agreed, on a first time viewing, you'd be surprised by the inclusion of the gangster subplot, since it seems to come from a completely different movie than the gentler things with the baby. And then, with about half an hour to go, they immediately resolve the gangster subplot, and it's never mentioned again.
Or the premise itself. Three men get a baby dropped in their doorstep because one of them had a one night stand with some random actress he had a hard time remembering. Very wholesome family viewing. 🤣
Thanks for that heads up, havent seen it yet
A common phrase in our house is "Is it PG or 80's PG?" FYI Space Balls 1000% 80's PG but Clue wasn't too bad 😂
Oh god LOLOL Space Balls was HUGE in my house growing up. Totally inappropriate for young kids, but sooo freakin funny.
My parents took us to see that as kids and we ended up leaving the theater!
R or 80s R?
@@paulthenerdycat4139 My parents would cover my eyes during sex scenes, but they were okay with me watching death, murder, nudity, and swearing after the age of 7.
Real PG or post 80's "practically G" lol
I traumatized my kids when I decided they needed to watch Gremlins in the minivan as we toodled around. I just remembered the cute little fuzzy things. Totally forgot about the terror they caused - needless to say my kids were not enjoying themselves. 😂
and Christmas isn't real!
LOL, that's hilarious. That movie has some genuinely terrifying scenes.
I started that movie a long time ago, still havent finished it
Haha yes, and the old lady on her chairlift DIED and it was meant to be funny? What??
That film gave me nightmares as a kid
Every time I want to show my kids an old movie I watch it first and reconsider. 😂
So true! I learned that after thinking I’d show my kids “Harry & the Henderson”. I definitely didn’t remember some things
Amen lol
Absolutely
Yes…Back to the Future was one I was glad I screened first!
You are a wise parent. Praise God for that. ❤
You can't forget about Sixteen Candles! You don't even have to pick a place to start, it's just the whole movie.
Right? Date rape is soooooo funny!
I was just thinking of that too lmao😂
Don't forget the borrowed underware!
Came in here to comment that! Lol I remember being like “oh look, this one’s only rated PG!” and then midway through had to pick my jaw up off the floor when they flashed a couple of perfect knockers in my face 😅
Or WeirdScience. They literally froze their grandparents in the fridge, had a rager and maniuplated the girls into hooking up.
Totally agree about 80’s movies. Sometimes I wonder why I was even allowed to watch some of them. Loved Princess Bride though, still do. Certainly some darkness, but all wrapped up in humour. Mind you I was probably older when I first watched it.
As you wish
Yes, that one survived the time test well.
I just introduced my 6 year old daughter to it. She loves it!!
If you haven't read the book.... It is fabulous! It is a little different, but love both the book and movie and have shared them with my kids.
❤
I absolutely adored Labyrinth. Like, to the point where when I grew up I named one of my sons after the Goblin King. Seriously, I have a son named Jareth and it is 100% because of David Bowie.
It's such a great film. I watch clips of those Firey's song and dance often.
Yes, Labyrinth ❤
Respect ❤
Still a good name
❤️
😂 so funny! Kim is so good at being 2 people, it’s like she’s really talking to another person!
I agree! I have no idea how she splits herself so well, but she is amazing at this!
I loved the "ratings scale in the 80s....little different" line. That both made me laugh and was never truer. I love the Back to the Future Trilogy, but the first movie would be a PG13 movie today. The "PG" rating was.....definitely scaled differently back then lol😅
My uncle took all the kids to see Poltegeist when it came out. I was seven! Ah, the 80s
PG 13 didn't even become a thing until mid-year 1984
Why on earth would "Back to the Future" be PG 13?
I own all the Back to the Future movies! I love them and watch on a regular basis.
@@nula14 his mom was trying to sleep with him
My sister and I watched Short Circuit a lot when we were kids. My husband and I rented it when our kids were little and we were shocked by how much language was is in it.
Same with Goonies and A Christmas Story for my kid. 🤦🏼♀️
Exactly, I loved Short Circuit and The Goonies, but they are FULL of cussing that we just forgot about.
Yeah, when my boys were little, we hosted outdoor movie nights with their friends, and since I had loved the whole concept of Short Circuit when I was a kid, I thought of showing them that. Good thing I watched it again myself myself first!!! =(
My dad would tape the TV versions for us with the bad language dubbed over.
@@joshuaburba1048 shit is allowed in PG movies today, just not frequent, just like fuck can appear in a PG-13, but it has to be a rare one.
Can't go wrong with Back to the Future 😆
Except for - he goes back in time to save his parents marriage and gets hit on by his mom, his dad gets bullied daily & Marty does not know the meaning of "low-profile"...
That said it is a fun movie lol :)
Apart from the date rape scene in the car
Don't forget that Doc dies by being gunned down by terrorists.
Lol, except for the whole thing with his mom. Yikes!
Also the language. My parents tried to get us kids to watch it, but when we started calling each other names, they decided to stop lol
Born in 1975. Grew up in 80s on cable TV. OMG no wonder we are so confused and crazy
I watched The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth in the theater (yes, I'm a raging Jim Henson fan. 😁). Cried uncontrollably during Never Ending Story (animal person over here as well).
We all thought Greased Lightning was a great song about the car.. Good times.. 😁😉
I cannot believe I watched The Dark Crystal as a kid. 😮
Jim Henson movies were amazing, though. Labyrinth is still one of my favorite movies to this day. And I, too, sobbed during Never Ending Story. Seriously, that poor horse. That little kid who played Atreyu was such a good actor. And I remember thinking the Child-like Empress really looked like a fantasy doll, she was so pretty.
Yeah, I actually really hate it when everyone insists on telling everyone else about the extremely well hidden innuendos. Those who like that sort of thing will get it; let the rest of us just enjoy the surface fun without telling us it's supposed to mean something else! (I feel the same way about Shakespeare lol)
It's like you guys were secretly making a video about our family! We are parents in our early 40's and we decided a few months ago to start watching our favorite "classics" with our kids now that they are 6 and 8. The first one we watched was Space Balls. Through the entire movie my husband was under his breath mumbling to me, "this was such a mistake... such a mistake... oh my god... such a mistake..." To his dismay my daughter LOVED it and literally asks to watch all the time! We always change the subject when she asks. Then literally two nights ago(!) we watched Goonies as a family. We couldn't believe how much the kids in the movie cursed! And the dead guy in the freezer! And the penis on the statue!!!
And you guys mentioning Grease is hilarious because I had a run-in with that one too! As a toddler, my daughter LOVED musicals. Like Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang were her favorites. I decided to watch Grease with her and I was like "WOOOOOOAH! I don't remember this stuff! Let's not watch this again for another 12 years, sweetie!"
The Princess Bride is pretty much the ONLY one so far that wasn't making us cringe and go "why are we showing this to our young children?!?!"
Thank you for covering that part in “Big,” especially-so appalling. “How is this okay” is right! And Kim, you really do a great job on these! I forget that you’re not actually two different people! 😂
We learned the real lyrics to "Greased Lightning" during Karaoke Night -- with some church friends! 🤣 There are so many 80's and 90's movies that I want to show my kids, but thinking back or re-watching them now, I don't know if any of them are "safe".
At least in NeverEnding Story, Artax and everyone else comes back at the end, but I bawled my eyes out as a kid.
The Last Unicorn was one of my childhood favorites! Rewatched it as an adult and was a little shocked lol. That extremely horny and busty tree, the harpy that straight up ate its evil owner, the drunk skeleton, the terrifying red flaming bull and the super creepy wizard that controls it. The singing butterfly in the beginning does not prepare one for this movie 🤣. Still an amazing animation film in its own way though!
Right! Crazy how much I loved that movie when I was little. Rewatched it… it’s awful! 😳
I absolutely love that movie still. I got them all tattooed on me.
Love this creepy acid trip!!!!
Incredible movie
Disney Dumbo... and snow white.. scary scary 😨
All of the works of John Hughes. Great movies but some moments you look back on in "Sixteen Candles" or "The Breakfast Club" and realize how horrified you'd be if your kids watched them at the same age you did. Still going to show them to my kids at some point though. Lol
Sixteen candles has definitely not aged well.
@@guitargrin right?! I swear I don't remember half of the problematic lines that I find now. I think some of them got edited for TV and it changed some of the meaning.
I like Molly Ringwald movies! ❤️ she was in The Secret life of the american teenager. Last time I saw her act.
❤ Breakfast Club. The "wacky tabacky" scene isn't as shocking any more.
I heard recently that Johnny finally finished his run of Saturday morning detentions.
@@Joy21090 the thigh biting scene is worse than I remember. Mostly because I didn't remember it until it came upon a list discussing unacceptable things in 80's movies.
LOL! I've had this exact issue every time I try to pull up old movie for my kids to watch lol! I'm down to 1940s black and white at this point and even then....😅
Just watched Gilda for the first time. I hear you. 😆
Show them “Flight of the Navigator “ totally holds up!
The bad creature from The Last Unicorn still haunts me 😂 I had nightmares about that fireball bull thing for YEARS!
I loved that movie as a child. A favorite. Bought it for my daughter. Watched it once and threw it away. What in the world?! The creepy witch woman and her vulture! 😳 The whole film was depressing, too.
The weird tree with boobs?!?!
It's my all time favorite flick! I even had it for my kids. They liked it too but not nearly like me.
The Red Bull etc. Fortunately it never did traumatize me.
“Where were you 20 years ago, 10 years ago, when I was one of those beautiful maidens you always come to?! How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am This!”
Yep, saw that traumatic movie a few dozen times as a kid!
Wait are you talking about Legend with that huge devil guy??? Here I was just enamored with young Tom Cruise and the girl from Ferris Bueller!!!
My favorite 80’s movie, and also my daughters favorite, is, A Christmas Story, featuring Ralphie, and the Red Ryder BB rifle.
A true classic!👍
I still watch it as a mom! It passed the test!
@@Respectreality7
Yes, we do too!
My daughter was 9 when that came out in 83, and we watched it together and we loved it, and to this day it is still special! 👍
When my dad was in the 4th grade he got his eye shot out by a BB gun…yes he has a glass eye now and loves to use A Christmas Story as a “teaching example” lol 😆
The Neverending Story was one of my most fave movies as a child. Every time I watched it though, my parents would have to console me when Artex dies by saying, “he comes back!” But honestly, SO many children movies, new and old, have a sad or sinister undertone. I’ve become keenly aware of it since my husband passed away in 2020, as almost every movie is triggering for my children. They played Finding Nemo to my son in kindergarten and it re-traumatised him (that opening scene is brutal). And when we watched Frozen together when they were young, I had to say that the parents didn’t die, they just swam to another island when their ship sunk 😅🥺
Ha! I love when you compare generations and decades. 😊
I remember watching Stand by me.
Honestly, i feel like back then it wasn't as shielded, but in a good way.
Sixteen Candles! It was PG! I really can't believe my my mom let me see this movie! 😮
I know! Poor Anthony Michael Hall! Statutory raped by that blonde senior.
My roommate showed it to her youth group at church, not actually realizing what it was about.
PG 13 wasn't a rating until mid-1984, so everything between G and R was PG
I watched it at a sleepover birthday party when I was 12 😬
@@PookysMom6 'Parental Guidance' must have required real parental effort in that case!
“BETTER OFF DEAD”with John Cusack was so funny! But i have a hard time finding it now. 1985 film.
Princess bride was awesome! Return to Oz was traumatic
Return to Oz was so traumatic. I remember watching it as an adult and I still will randomly remember creepy things from that movie. Why?!?
@@carolinasagent THE HEADS!!!
@@annetteatwood8272 loved the heads!!!
I adore the 80s and 90s compared to now videos! Please keep making them!
Even as a kid, I was uncomfortable with Big. Lol! Later on though, I loved 13 Going On 30 but it had similar issues. They were a little more careful though.
Yes, it’s definitely a shock going back and rewatching childhood movies through adult eyes. I mean Watership Down was advertised as a kids movie! Talk about repressed trauma.
As for Neverending Story, that is still one of my favorites, along with Last Unicorn, Princess Bride.
Oooh yeah, Last Unicorn! Come on, it's a kid's movie about a unicorn, animated even. That can impossibly be traumatizing in any way, right? RIGHT??? 😀
Oh my god, Watership Down. Major trauma.
I was traumatized by Watership Down when I saw it as a child. I had such nightmares from that and couldn't understand why they were making us watch it at my summer camp.
Still have nightmares about Watership Down!
Watership Down trauma lives rent free in my head…
We watched Mrs. Doubtfire with our kids. There were a couple of parts we forgot about and had to fast forward through
Not a movie, but my husband had NO idea that Olivia Newton John’s “Physical” was not about working out. He was literally in his 30’s or 40’s when I rocked his world with that information.
I only found that out around age 30, when I read a comic strip in which a character accidentally attracted sexual attention by singing this song that was stuck in her head.
I remember watching The Neverending Story AT Elementary School!! 😂 In the gym, sitting on the floor..😮 Times have definitely changed.
I watched Nightmare on Elm Street Pt 3 in middle school in my science class. Talk about different times.
Interesting.
Yep, watched The Neverending Story sitting on the floor in my elementary school library in I think 4th grade. I was traumatized by the Gmork, though, not Artex (though it was still sad). I had nightmares about the Gmork.
We watched a lot of those movies on TV. Um, they cut out a LOT for commercials and dubbed over a LOT of language. Grease is a whole different movie uncut! LOL
Been a fan for years now...but the fact that you're wearing a Salt-n-Pepa shirt makes me love you guys even more!
When "rap" music was looming on the horizon 🤣
OMG I let my kids watch Goonies and Back to the Future and I couldn't believe how much different it is to watch it with kids! I watched Poltergeist, The Omen, and other terrifying movies when I was 12. I can't unsee the head rolling down the hill. My sons are 12 now and I can't imagine them ever sleeping again! 😂 Puts hair on your chest!! 😂😂
At my 11 year old birthday/slumber party, we watched Poltergeist and Pet Semetary. I am still in shock my parents thought that was okay! There’s no way that would fly in my house now. It was a different time, that’s for sure!
Or the Exorcist- yikes!
“There is some sadness, generally speaking.” So true.
Dirty Dancing and Pretty Woman for sure. They hit way differently now as an adult than when I was a teenager!!
All the OG Indiana Jones were PG with their decapitations, tortures and people liquefied to death. Good ol' days 😂
Start watching some 80's PG movies with your kids and you quickly realize how much swearing there was back then.
ET was the first movie my parents took me too. Ah the vintage creepy animatronics and puppeteering
That was my favorite movie for a long time. I actually had a nightmare of ET when I was pregnant, he was waddling up to my door and my cats were freaked out and darting to peek out the window like there was a massive monster. No joke, I've been terrified on ET since lol.
I remember showing my kids TMNT and the first line of dialogue was Raphael swearing and I realized maybe this wasn't the best choice
I remember going to see that in theaters with my girlfriends because Vanilla Ice was in it…. Yeah… for the last 5 minutes! 🤦🏼♀️🙄
Same! 😂
😂 My husband wanted to watch it with our 7 year old. I was like let's watch it first. We decided to hold off until she is a bit older after watching the first 5 minutes ...haha
Don’t forget:
-“Tell me more, tell me more/Did she put up a fight?”
-The fat kid turning into a rat in The Witches
-Jennifer Connelly was 16 in Labyrinth
Omg, that line from Summer Nights is my go-to when people try to argue that there's no such thing as r*** culture! Well, there are so many possible r-words, but you know which one I'm talking about!
@@mamatay7 I always heard that line as meaning 'did she play hard to get' in context. After all, it's clear from Sandy's lyrics that she was just as interested as Danny, so I'm not sure how that interpretation really works.
Plenty of other problematic stuff in Grease, though.
Roger Rabbit and Return to Oz also scared me as a child. They got away with the darkest material in 80's Childhood movies!
I really want to watch Roger Rabbit with my kids, but there were so many adult topics that just went over my head as a kid
I watched "Saturday Night Fever" again a few years back. Could not believe how much of it went over my head as a kid.
I don’t know how you are able to act against yourself. It’s got to be so hard to do.
Your editor deserves kudos too. That’s a lot of cuts in this type of video.
Great job, as always, by you and the team. Also, Sunny needs a raise; she played her part beautifully. 😂
My mom was never worried about language in movies and I, as a parent, also have a high tolerance for it since my boys knew they were not to use it. A lot things just went over my head. I was in high school when I saw "Bill and Ted`s Excellent Adventure" but it wasn't until much later that I realized why "69" was their favorite number. I would do "Mom Cinema" with my boys but always rewatched first. Some of my favorite 80s movies are "The Princess Bride" "Ferris Bueller" "E.T" "Star Wars" movies ""Back to the Future" "Dirty Dancing" and the aforementioned "Bill and Ted." My kids watched a lot of "scary" movies but the only one that freaked my son out was "Twister" because it was about something that COULD happen. I couldn't tell him a tornado would never hit our house. Similarly the only movie/tv show that ever gave me nightmares was "Little House on the Prairie" when the blind school burned because it was a realistic event.
90s baby with older siblings who grew up in the 80s and 90s here 🙋♀️
to my memory, I can't recall Neverending Story but I know I've seen it with my brother at least twice, probably more. Definitely repressed the whole thing. My parents thought Goonies was cute until about midway through, so they would fastforward through all scenes that involved the cruel and unusual mistreatment of a man with disabilities until I was old enough to comprehend abuse. The Princess Bride was just about the only (mostly) wholesome 80s movie I was exposed to. any violence, guts/gore, intimacy, and/or foul language were so heavily laden with comedy that they weren't traumatizing. it was safe enough to watch that it was the only movie in my middle school's library that wasn't educational.
My parents made me watch the entire mini series of North and South at 10 years old because they said it would teach me about history. I still think someone should have reported them to DSS.😂
Lol. I love that series! But you are so right! Lol
I got that with Roots...
I saw One Magic Christmas in the theater in 1985, and remember loving it! Showed it to my kids Christmas 2020. Somehow I forgot that the dad gets shot, the kids get kidnapped, and then the car they are in plummets into a river! Merry Christmas, y'all!! (It all works out in the end...)
Princess Bride is still my favorite ❤ thanks for this eye opener to how traumatic my great childhood was 😂
1987. The greatest movie of all time came out. The story doesn't have overly explicit or graphic nature. It has action, adventure, Pirates, giants, sword fights, true love, ROUSs. THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
I came here to say EXACTLY that!!!
kidnapping and trafficing young girls, , murder by poison, animal abuse (poor ROUS), stalking some girl for years, violent sword fights, forced marriage (or mawwage ) , bullying, ..... 🤣🤣😅
Yes, I'm 47 and bought it, love that movie, great comedy!
1986. The year I was born.
Can we just take a second to appreciate the sharp editing? You know, plus accurate and hilarious!😂 Also I survived 80’s movies. I’m throwing The Breakfast Club out there!
And there is some sadness, generally speaking.. 😂
I remember the good old blockbuster days ..! It was an event- I would go with my girlfriend and we had so much fun picking out a movie. Then we would head back and make popcorn …
Now I wonder… where did all my friends go? It’s kind of an isolation nation now
Goonies! You should have added Goonies!!! I thought it was such an innocent movie when I was a kid, but I watched it with my nephews and realized it was quite inappropriate lol
Times have definitely changed! I remember my dad took my brother and me to see The Terminator when I was around 11. I won't say it traumatized me or maybe I just blocked it out. Who knows?!
Yeah, Terminator would've been pretty traumatizing at that age!
Terminator 2 wasn't a movie....it was a training film
@@crabtrap 😆
Favorite 80s movie: Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea ❤️
91- Wild Hearts Can’t be Broken
Ferris Buehler's Day Off - skipping school, stealing car, computer hacking, drugs.....
We all love that one!
And those are just the PG movies. I remember watching hard R movies like it was no big thing, watching Robocop at my dad's place, going to the theater with my mom to see Rambo FBP2, talking with the kids on the school bus about Nightmare on Elm St., and holy shit, how did Revenge of the Nerds even get made! Those R-ratings did not stop any kid from seeing any movie.
Robocop originally got an X for violence. They had to tone it down. I think the commercials in the film helped bring it down to an R
When I was a kid I was super into Greek mythology. One day, when we were visiting my aunt, my mom told me that my cousins were watching a musical called Grease. I thought "Oh cool, a musical about Greek mythology..."
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Tis be the word, Grease.
Tis possesses groove.
Tis possesses meaning.
🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
16 Candles and Ferris Bueller are two of my favs. Looking back it was so bad how they made the "dong" noise whenever long duck dong came into the scene. And they use the R word when the grandpa is describing his outfit to the police. I know. Grease I never realized all the words in the songs. I used to perform them all the time as a child. Dirty Dancing too! I never understood what Penny did and why she was in such pain. That one hit me hard when I realized what was going on
Goonies? That was wholesome I think 😂
My mom also said "it will put a hair on your chest". Grossed me out but I have 2 brothers so I'm thinking maybe it was for them.
I'm gonna look at 80's movies with a side eye from now on. Thanks for that 😂
These were the safe ones. Go back to the comedies and they're pretty bad. Revenge of the Nerds being some of the worst.
@@Zhiperser I loved Revenge of the Nerds. Probably I was young enough that most of the bad stuff flew right over my head.
Lol so true! 😂 My fav was Pretty in Pink, but definitely had a lot more language than I remembered when I was growing up 🥴
Breakfast Club was one of my favorites. I had no idea that TBS always showed the edited version. Imagine my surprise when I watched it years later 🙈
Yes, The Neverending Story definitely traumatizing.
I wonder just how many people have 'trauma blocked' the part about Artax's dying in the swamp of sadness...
I remember in my 20s my roommate wanting to watch an innocent Disney princess movie so she asked the pastor of our church if we could watch the little mermaid and I was horrified I was like she sells her soul to the devil inorder to get a guy to kiss her and she is trying to get him to like her without being able to talk. My friend and this teen girl she was mentoring were like no your wrong so we watched it and I was actually kinda surprised how well it worked for an allegory for sin and salvation. My friends were horrified that they remembered wrong. Ariel has like no redeeming qualities she is a hoarder she is constantly disobeying her father. Seeking trouble she signs a contract giving up her voice to be with some hot guy she doesn't know but also he is a different species so that's kinda bestiality we don't think about it reversed like that. At the end her Dad gives his life in payment for hers and while she is on her power trip the prince stabs her with the boat and she dies and the crown and scepter go back to king Triton. And I was like in context of religious allegory not the way I watched it at 4/5 years old it's not bad. My friend was too much in shock that it wasn't innocent to see what I saw. I saw big for the first time as an adult and I was not ok with that. You are absolutely right the technology quality makes things more realistic but a lot of the stories were a lot darker in the 80s and early 90s.
I felt the same way about The Little Mermaid. I had Ariel paper dolls and knew the storyline and songs from a sing-along VHS, but my parents never bought or borrowed it for us. Saw a bit at a friends' house at about age nine and decided 'I'm not okay with this' - told my parents later I didn't think it was one for our family! I got and liked the religious allegory when I was older - with a little help from reading the Hans Christian Anderson original - but no, Ariel's no innocent.
Aurora is probably the best Disney princess for that, and she has less screen time than Maleficent, which probably means something. 😂
Me reminiscing about 80's movies: "So cool!" Me seeing Sunny in the video: "I'm sorry, what other movies were mentioned?? I was distracted by Sunny being cute and cuddly with her mommy and I had to restart the video". 😆😆😆😆😆
The Princess Bride!!!
I fell in LOVE with River Phoenix in Stand By Me, Matthew Broderick in Ferris Beuler’s Day Off, and Andrew McCarthy in St. Elmo’s Fire. Andrew telling Allie Sheedy that he’s always loved her was epic! ❤️🔥
Roger Rabbit. When my daughter watch it recently, she was shocked at all the humor that went over her head.
My all time favs
❤Hocus Pocus
❤Heavyweights
❤Blank Check
❤Honey, I shrunk the kids
❤death became her
My adult child told me that "My Girl" was super traumatizing for him for a very long time. Not showing it to my other kids.
I was born in '66 and was more of a '70s kid. The movies I grew up with were The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Cat from Outer Space, Charlotte's Web, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Slavery and OSHA violations galore!), Witch Mountain, and Escape to Witch Mountain. My favorite '80s movies were: Ghost Busters 1 & 2, National Lampoon's Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Gremlins, and A Christmas Story,. I was also a HUGE fan of all the "Brat Pack" movies. I had a blast being a teenager in the '80s!
I had forgotten about Apple Dumpling Gang - one of my favorites as a kid!
I loved Sixteen Candles as a teen. I was turning 15 when it came out. I've seen it over 30 times. Watched it as an adult and WOW! Sex, drinking, drugs, nudity, inappropriate references, and so many other things. Luckily my teens wouldn't be interested in a movie from the 80s.
Yeahhhh, it's got a lot of problematic stuff in it. Unfortunately I still find the overall movie quite humorous. Some of it was endearing too, oddly enough. John Hughes always managed to work an emotional scene or two into his movies; leave you a little teary-eyed.
"Sex, drinking, drugs, nudity, inappropriate references, and so many other things." In other words, a typical teen movie aimed at teenagers. I'm not sure what the issue is. When you watch a movie from a different time period (or set in a different decade) you just have to roll with the social norms of the time. Most people won't even stop to think about something that's "inappropriate" anyway since they'll be more involved in the story and characters.
When I was growing up in the 80's, we watched these movies, because our parents did not shield us from the harsh realities of life. They knew that we needed to learn in order to be resilient to live thru hard times. These movies helped us to learn to cope. They brought us together. Hard times make strong people, sheltered times make soft people. Thank you for helping me to remember that and for being grateful for growing up when I did.
We watched those movies because "parental supervision" wasn't really a thing. And I honestly see nothing wrong with growing up seeing all that stuff. First of all, as a kid you either don't understand or don't deeply appreciate what you're seeing. Also, before you're a parent, most of the really traumatic things in movies just wash over you. It's only as an adult (and parent) that you cry your eyes out during "Forrest Gump." As a kid it was just a "good movie."
Eighties movies taught us the harsh realities of life?
@@DelbertTritsch Nope. Just that there was no problem a montage couldn't fix!
Same with television shows. They didn't shy away from stuff either
@@ShawnMilo Oh no, that's not true for everyone! I cried my eyes out over E.T. by the age of 8. Unconsolably. Had nightmares for weeks. Parents didn't know what to do. It was a real mess.
As a kid I cried as well but let me calm you down: When Bastian recreates Fantasia, Artax is brought back to life!!!
Tried to watch The Goonies with our kids - all-time classic, I still love that movie to death!! Speaking of death, my kids got spooked the second the frozen corpse fell out of the fridge. I thought maybe Sloth or all the skeletons in the cave tunnels would be a bit scary for them, but we didn't even get to these parts. What's up with kids today? A corpse never hurt anyone :-)
Hmmm...considering the amount of zombie material on film and tv shows of the last two decades....
Most of my childhood fears came from 80s movies/tv: 1. The clown truck on Maximum Overdrive mowing people down (it was a TOY COMPANY!!) 2. Gremlins popping out of the toilet 3. The Burger King king *shudders*
I was a kid when I saw Maximum Overdrive and thought that was one of the coolest movies ever. My Mom had no problem with me borrowing my brother's Stephen King books she was just happy that I loved to read.
💯 !!! Showing my daughter movies from my childhood when I was her age that were my favorite , had me doing lots of pausing , stopping, explaining in which I had no explanation and it confused the both of us ....and always ending that talk with " It was in the 80s, sweetie . It was different for some unknown reason" 🤫🙃🤔🤔🤔🤷♀️ But, I will ALWAYS be grateful that I grew up in an era before the internet , before Streaming took over going to the movies, the fact that I worked at Blcockbuster I wear that like a badge and always will . A different world entirely now and I do love sharing my experiences with her , because she loves to hear about it and always says " You're so lucky you were born I'm the 80s Mama " Gen X Mama and Proud 😎
Mine was probably Pocahontas. They had it all figured out and lived in an idyllic world with no problems, enjoying themselves in the beautiful nature, jumping off waterfalls with their best friends and pet racoons. For all the problematic-ness of cultural appropriation, etc, Pocahontas heavily inspired the stories I wrote throughout my childhood (usually involving a parallel universe).
Oh, the historic inaccuracies! I’m a big Disney fan. And I personally know a descendant of Pocahontas. But I just can’t watch that movie. 😢
@@ambermac77 When the film came out my parents used it as an excuse to read us the REAL story of Pochahontas. Still haven't seen the movie, even though 'Colours of the Wind' is probably my favourite Disney song!
Favorites from that age: Steel Magnolias, Dances With Wolves, ET (I obviously loved crying at movies), Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Princess Bride, Big, Say Anything, and Cinema Paradiso (another tearjerker). At home my younger siblings and I watched a VHS tape with a recording off the TV of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels over 70 times. 😂 We thought it was hilarious.
I distintly remember how dark that Care Bears movie was, I saw it a single time and in the theater.
No one can forget about that scene in My Girl, it would be like forgetting about Ryan White.
My dad took me to see Indiana Jones when I was like 3 or 4 at the theater. He also took me to see Jaws in 3d about the same time. I was traumatized!
I remembered as a little kid being so mad at my father for taking my brother to see Jaws and The Blues Brothers. I wasn't allowed to go because I was too little. Then in the fourth grade, I remember the Blues Brothers was going to be shown on TV and I was so excited to see it. I was in school waiting to go on stage for our Christmas Pageant and the teachers were going to let us watch The Blues Brothers while we waited to go on stage. I was really excited because if the teachers were going to let us watch it, my parents couldn't stop them.... The TV interrupted the movie, to tell us John Lennon had been shot! I did not see the Blues Brothers until I was in my 20s, because I connected the news with the movie.
Jaws is why I still won't go in the water when we're at the beach.
Christmas Vacation, Dirty Dancing, Risky Business, etc. As a parent they all shocked me so much more than when I was a kid. Also, Smokey and the Bandit, which we went to see as a family movie when I was 7. 😳
Christmas Vacation is the best Griswold movie; a joy from start to finish.
Maybe this is true because when we were kids, so much of it went over our heads. So we were pretty much protected from a lot of it!
@@AN-jw2oe a good point.
There were "Made for TV" cuts of alot of movies to fit in commercials and cleaned up for the ad sensors and audience.
@@ReRusted Grease.....poor Grease was massacred for tv. Tragic. Even Sound Of Music suffered for the sake of commercial breaks.
So true!!! The movies I loved most and was so naive about……WOW!!!! 😂😂😂😂
When I think of the movies I saw in the 80's as a tween...Breakfast Club and 16 Candles is definitely problematic and all the horror movies...(My sisters were in High School and we had hours of unsupervised time on our hands so... Blockbuster!)
I loved this so much! I tried watching Short Circut with my kiddos when they were like 3 and 4. I forgot how much cussing there was, lol. Incidentally, though, my 5-year-old daughter's favorite movie is The Labyrinth. She's also a huge Tim Burton fan, though, so 🤷♀️
No one rocks 80's fashions like you Kim! 😃But this is like so totally relatable. 😁 We say this generation missed out (which they did) but we think they would be better off watching these 80s/90s movies until we start breaking them down. I listened to a song from "The Saddle Club" the other day and... But go back to the 60s family entertainment! It doesn't get much better 😆It's not our generation's fault.
While we DID get one of the greatest movies of all time in the 80s - The Princess Bride - yeah... There were many questionable things in most movies lol. Grease has a LOT of stuff😵💫🤦♀️, and omg I forgot that Neverending Story scene! I keep telling my kids about that movie and want them to watch it... They'll be traumatized!
Not an 80s, but a 90s PG movie they just watched, The Adventures of Huck Finn, with Elijah Wood & Courtney Vance, deals with an abusive dad who tries to kill his kid with a knife, family feuds where a boy watches his family get killed then gets shot by vengeful adults, slavery and the near-lynching of Vance's character... Yeah, my kids were a little shocked, to say the least! 😵💫😵💫🤦♀️🤦♀️
There I was having a perfectly fine morning and... boom. Artax.
I'll be over in the corner crying if anyone needs me.
I remember putting on Uncle Buck for my kids when they were little because, you know--it's PG! I couldn't have run any faster from kitchen to living room trying to stop it for the language. Funny what we forget. 🙂
Used to watch that all the time with my grandma. Now I often wonder how she managed to sit next to me and not cringe in embarrassment!
When I watched Grease as an adult I was appalled that my mother took me to see it multiple times in theater
That one I agree on. The fun songs and dancing hide a really rubbish plot 🤷♀️
My mom loved Pretty Woman (I know, it was 1990, but close enough 😂).
@@cmm5542 You just described all but like three musicals.
Omg, I am LITERALLY taking a break from scrolling through 80s movies I loved as a teen in anticipation of my kids saying "Let's watch a movie! What should we watch?" But every time I'm like "ooh, I LOVED this one!!! ... oh, wait..." Like, EXACTLY what's in this video!!! Too hilarious, and scarily timely! 🤣🤣🤣
Ok, I've met kids who didn't get to see anything die. Their parents protected them from any talk of death. So when death did come up, they were scared. They didn't get it. Meanwhile, I grew up with all the movies where people died and I feel like it prepared me for reality, not scarred me.
I agree.
I volunteer for a summer camp as the Bible teacher, but it's usually very generic - not all the kids who come are Christians and it's mostly about them having fun. But one year the theme was 'Easter Week', so I was telling them the story and wondering to myself, 'Are their parents going to be okay with me telling six-year-olds about Jesus' death? The story KINDA doesn't work without it! Will they even get it?' Then I reminded myself I learned about the Crucifixion and death and heaven at age four, and it kept me from ever being scared of death in my life, so I just told them what happened without any graphic details, and they all eagerly chimed in to say how it helped them to understand where 'Grandma is now' and it was an astonishingly happy session!
watching Jurassic Park when I was 3 to 4 and loving it, thinking it's just Barney playing with his friends and legit loving the movie throughout my whole childhood. Watership Down traumatized me as a kid with the scene of the dog near the end and the fight with General Woundwart (only got over that in the last 10 yrs), TMNT 1 and 2, Sister Act, The Cutting Edge, Short Circuit, Never Ending Story got me every time with the Swamp of Sadness, Goonies, Little Shop of Horrors, Dark Crystal, Princess Bride, Lady Hawk, Cool Runnings, Ghost with Whoopi Goldberg, Casper, Major Payne. Oh man, Sybil movie from 1975 traumatized me while growing up in the 90s and still does to this day regarding the decapitated cat scene
Absolutely love this video! You just had to be a bit tougher in the 80s, or if your parents are from the 80s and they treat you like it’s still the 80s lol! Where you learn to suck all of your emotions into your soul, and it’s amazing! But also, my dad forces me to watch movies from the 80s, and some of them are bad, I love most of the cartoons from the 80s! But labyrinth was a terrible movie!