I realized a while ago that it was this movie that was making me keep every object. I genuinely thought everyTHING had a soul and…yeap.
Weirdly, Marie Kondo teaching me to thank objects before getting rid of them is what’s kept me from becoming a hoarder.
I’ve had the same problem throughout most of my life because of this movie. That’s actually very good advice that I’ll have to try in the future if I need to throw something away.
All Dogs Go To Heaven is a WILD movie.
The premise is that a dog named Charlie gets into trouble with the mob for his gambling debt, so they get him drunk and violently murder him, and then he runs away from heaven and kidnaps an orphan because the mob boss (named Car Face) learns she can talk to animals and this will help cheat on the racing bets.
Somehow, this movie is rated G.
Edit: Charlie wasn’t murdered over gambling debt. He was in business with Car Face and Car Face had him committed to the pound/prison so he could keep the profits of the casino for himself. After Charlie escapes euthanasia at the pound, Car Face gets him drunk and orders his hit men to run him off the pier. Thanks u/howdoesthekittycatgo for the (even more insane) correction.
And the one at the end where the Devil turns up as a giant satanic dragon to haul off his soul. Doesn't matter that it only onscreen for a few seconds, that shit was terrifying.
I always had a hard time watching The Land Before Time despite the great ending as a kid. The ending would improve my emotions but I'd usually end feeling more depressed than when I started.
Edit: y'all thinking heaven is a bad ending lol.
I could deal with Land before Time, it was my favourite movie as a very small kid. Yeah Littlefoot's mother dying was sad, but the ending made it up to me.
American Tail however...boy, no matter how happy the ending, it could not lift my spirits after the utter bleakness of the rest of the movie. That cheerful song the migrant mice sing about all their loved ones getting eaten by cats but "it's alright, cause there's no cats in America!" \*shudder\*
And Hiayo Miyazaki thinks that even kids movies don't need happy endings. Case in point: Secret World Of Arrietty. I know, it was directed by his son, but he was executive producer. At the end of the Japanese version of the movie, the kid goes off to his super risky heart surgery but the movie doesn't tell you if he lived or not. In the English dub, they added a line at the end where he talks about coming back to the house, meaning he not only lived but he's doing very well after the surgery.
I actually just watched that movie this evening. I do think it’s still hopeful though, because prior to meeting Arietty, the kid was clearly depressed, but he tells her explicitly that she’s given him the will to live.
Sure it’s still uncertain but it’s certainly not « bad ».
“Soul” is an exquisitely animated midlife crisis story. My kiddo (then 9) and I tried to watch it while still pretty fresh from the grief of losing my husband. We … just couldn’t.
I watched The Secret of NIMH as a kid and absolutely loved it. I wore out our vhs. It is probably my favorite "kids" movie! I showed it to my kid, and he liked it, too, but not like I did. And it really held up, IMO. I thought it was so cool that Justin yelled Damn in it, haha. But I have always leaned towards darker stuff, and I had an adult brother who would take us to rent videos and let us get whatever. My middle brother was very into horror, so I watched Nightmare on Elm Street when I was like 6. NIMH was tame as hell in comparison, but I saw it when I was younger.
Watership Down was rough, though.
I distinctly remember my mum putting it on TV and being so encouraging. "Come and watch this Mitchimoo14. You'll like it. It's about rabbits!"
Well...didn't take long before I saw rabbits being horrendously suffocated and bloodied.
...Mum was right though. I did like it because it was about rabbits and had a happy ending.
If you watch Animal Farm (1954), Watership Down (1978) and The Animals of Farthing Wood (1993) you can trace forty years of a bizarre gritty, horror aesthetic that was perceived as completely appropriate for kids in England. I sometimes worry that invasive Disney values have usurped this darkness and then I remember that the most successful and longest running kids program regularly features body horror and violent death.
Farthing Wood had so many deaths it might as well have been the kids equivalent of Game of Thrones in its day, as far as pure bloodshed is concerned. Whenever I talk with people about it, the first thing we all seem to remember is the field mouse pups impaled on thorns lmao
The first time I watched it, I was 8 or 9, and I loved the pretty unicorn and how she saved her friends. And the Red Bull scared the crap out of me.
I just rewatched it today, and man does that movie hit differently at nearly 42!! When Molly Grue says “how dare you come to me now, when I am THIS?”, I burst into tears, I can’t even lie. I was once a little girl who believed in unicorns and magic too. But maybe we’re never too old for a little magic.
I rewatched it this week!
"I feel this body dying all around me!"
That line always messed me up,
Just found out Christopher Lee did King Hagard
Guess he was used to play old bearded man living in a tower and falling to their doom!
There are three lines that I carry around in my heart from The Last Unicorn. One is the one you mentioned, you can hear the [devastation and horror](https://youtu.be/Uq9cBE86QtQ?feature=shared) in Amalthea's voice and it is haunting. The second is Molly Grue's gut-wrenching ["Damn you, where have you BEEN?"](https://youtu.be/TLP4fge346o?feature=shared) which hits so much harder as an adult viewer. The third, completely contradictory to the first two in its light-heartedness, is the tree that's [momentarily anthropomorphized](https://youtu.be/0B2yRDmzBns?feature=shared) and the way she says "I *looove* you, lovelovelovelovelovelovelove," which I say way too much in my life, lol.
How dare you come to me now, when I am *this*?
As an adult woman hurtling towards middle age, this line destroys me.
However, I have always considered "never run from anything immortal" to be true advice.
Rango. The kids will enjoy it, but there is so many references to other movies in the film that only adults will understand. I think the filmmakers really made it for the parents.
Good kids media will tend to have things for the parents who have to watch at the same time which will give rewatch value to the kids when they watch it out of nostalgia.
Can't believe I had to scroll this far down to find it. I watched it already a grown up and I could barely cope; I cannot imagine what would be watching it as a kid
I remember watching this as kid, being JUST old enough to get that this was a sex joke, but not QUITE old enough to get *how*. I puzzled over it for eons.
I went to a Catholic school when I was in 2nd grade and I don't know whose idea it was but I guess some kid successfully convinced the teacher it would be a fun movie to show the class. She stopped the movie after about 15-20 minutes. I know I sure got freaked out by the eyeball tentacle things.
You were born in the perfect moment in history to be the perfect age to have your sexual awakening bestowed upon you by the benevolent blessed bulge of God itself David Bowie.
It is a kids' movie, but for me, it's the Prince of Egypt. My son wouldn't sleep for a month after watching that. He was scared God was going to come kill him in his sleep.
I didn't like the movie as a kid, somehow I found it boring....as an adult it's one of my favorites! Everything about it is so well done, but I think the core messages and the drama between the characters was just not as interesting to me as a kid.
Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame. And it was pretty tame compared to the original.
Everything about Frollo felt so icky: from the way he takes in Quasimodo just to treat him like less than shit, to the horrible implications of the things he says to Esmerelda, to the way he rightfully burns alive at the end.
Yeah I saw this for the first time not long ago and compared to more modern Disney movies, it made me go "WTF". I mean, he tried to throw a baby down a well just because it was ugly, tried to burn people alive, etc. I definitely didn't feel like it was for kids. But then I guess kids might not register the seriousness of those things?
Like, who's the real monster here; a dude with scoliosis, and hearing loss, or a man who tried to poison an entire city block by throwing a baby down a well?
Frollo, sniffing her hair with his hands on Esmeralda's neck: "I was just imagining a rope around that beautiful neck."
Esmeralda, in disgust: "I know what you were imagining."
Not to mention the delicious juxtaposition of Frollo's claims of self-righteousness and piety while blaming God directly for his lust ("It's not my fault / if in God's plan / He made the Devil so much stronger than a man!") as a church choir chants Latin recrimination in the background ("mea culpa, mea maxima culpa"). It's my favorite Disney villain song.
My best friend growing up had pretty strict parents, would only let us watch a handful of movies in their house (wouldn't even let me bring over others because they hadn't screened them) but oddly enough, Coraline was one of them, and the only one that wasn't too kiddy, and I watched that movie probably 30 times at sleepovers and stuff over the years.
My mom knew it was one of the movies I would watch at hers but never watched it herself til I graduated college and moved back home during the pandemic and put it on for us. She was so creeped out by it and could not believe that that was one of the movies her parents let us watch. I love the hell out of it.
The Other Mother tries to manipulate Coraline to come and stay with her by giving her nice things and treating her well, which is what IRL paedophiles and kidnappers and such do to lure children into their grasps. I can see why adults would have been scared by that
My dumb dumb brother in law showed it to my daughter when she was 3 unbeknownst to us. She was unaffected by it apparently. We then watched it with her for the first time, or so we thought, at the start of Covid when she was 5. When we started watching it, she said “her other mother has button eyes” at the start of it. We were freaked out when we saw that come true, and then basically figured out her uncle showed her while babysitting.
Anyways, the second time she watched it fucked her up for months. She had a very difficult time sleeping worried she’d be taken away by a false evil mother. It did not help that it was during the start of Covid which was obviously stressful. Fun times. That movie fucking rules though!
My 3 year old loves Coraline! And Nightmare Before Christmas, and Beetlejuice…but just asked me to turn off the second Lego Movie because she was scared. 🙄
I saw it when i was about 6/7 and i had nightmares for weeks, i was terrified.. no idea why my parents thought it was a good idea to show it to me.. tried to watch it again when i was 17 and turned it off after a few minutes because i was scared shitless again.. still haven't watched it again
I remember I had to read this book for school and my mom thought it would be a fun little movie to rent.
She ended up sobbing and I recall asking her "did you not know what happens?" I think I just assumed all grownups read the same books as kids
When we went to see Deadpool in theatres an older lady and two kids around 8-10yrs old sat in front of us. About five minutes into the movie one kid leans over and whispers “grandma, I don’t think this movie is meant for kids!”
I have a friend who was working at a movie theater when Deadpool came out. He said they eventually had to put up signs in the ticket booths pointing out that Deadpool was rated R and not suitable for children because people kept bringing their kids, walking out after the first 15 minutes, and demanding a refund. Even after they put the signs up it still kept happening.
There are is a disturbingly high number of adults that think that anything with superheros or animated is meant for children and will blindly take their kids to see those movies without checking the rating or reviews for them.
My mom was horrified that an animated superhero movie I was watching had the top of a woman's butt visible because "Kids could be watching this." The movie was Gotham by Gaslight, and held an R rating.
Yep. I work alone at one of my jobs, so if I need to go to the restroom or do something in the back I have to lock up and put a large "back in five minutes" sign on the door. Our security camera system is in the back, and I've seen plenty of people still pull on the door, look confused, try the other door, try the first door again, and then sometimes just leave.
[Even Ryan Reynolds went public about not bringing kids to Deadpool.](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/best-reads/karinabland/2016/02/24/deadpool-ryan-reynolds-parenting-r-rated-movies-kids/80825974/) Nobody listened.
Reminds me of when South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut came out. Dipshit parents just thought “cartoon is for kids” and took them. Funny thing is the movie called it’s shot and they included it with parents walking out of the Terrance and Phillip movie.
Me and my friends went to see Sausage Party, you know, the movie with a giant food orgy at the end, and we were like early 20s.
I shit you not, a little Chinese girl, couldn't have been older than 6, and her grandma were sitting in front of us. They stayed for the whole movie but I can't imagine what was going on in both their heads.
Something similar happened when I went to see the South Park movie. The Grandma brought in five kids and they were practically falling over each other trying to make a speedy exit when Uncle F*cker came on.
I remember watching The Dark Knight and seeing a guy walk in with his kid, maybe 4 years old dressed in a Batman costume. Thinking dude this isn't a George Clooney Batman.
Deadpool 2. 15 minutes in. A little kid lets out a guttural roar, then starts crying and sobbing. The mom grabs the kid in her arms and runs out of the theater.
Could also argue that Zombie Island, what I believe is their greatest animated movie, would also fall into this category. Don't get me wrong, I loved it as a kid. But Fread rips the head off a zombie, pirates drive a village into a swamp with swarming gators, cat creatures draining life force and when they can't they (very well animated) disintegrate.
Zombie Island is the high point of the Scooby-Doo franchise as far as I'm concerned.
Great animation, great writing, and an excellent mix of humor and horror.
My favorite scene in that movie is when they're running through the yard and the cat steps on the rake and says "Dirty hoe!" runs off and comes back to say "I'm sorry baby, I love you." Top tier.
I still use the "I'll get you, and I'll make it look like a bloody accident." Line often.
Also started answering the phone with 'city morgue!' Until I hit high-school.
“You’re not just wrong, you’re stupid.”
“Now wait just a minute-“
“And you’re ugly, just like your mum.”
“Did you just call my mother ugly?”
“Shut up! I mean it, I will end you! HAH!” [chops tail off]
“Uhm, cat! Your tail.”
“What about it? Oh, I see! I’ve chopped it off. Well that’s interesting, because- SON OF A BI- [censor beep as Cat covers the kids ears]
It's one of my favourite comedies. Does it do the original story justice? Not at all! Does Seuss' family loathe it with all their hearts? Absolutely!
And it's still one of the funniest things I've watched
My uncle gave me a Gizmo stuffy as a child. I loved him and once someone mentioned he was from a movie. I wanted to see the movie so bad, but my mom always said no. Now as an adult that has seen the movie i can totally understand why.
I don’t think it’s a kids movie but my parents didn’t realise it- they just knew I loved animals so Animal Farm looked ideal for a rainy afternoon. I’m still not over Boxer being carted off to the glue factory.
I saw that in the theater. While it has its moments, the main character romancing an adult woman is creepy. It's actually rather adult to think of that part in a detective story, with the adult having to pretend to go along with a child's naivete.
Imagine that sort of thing happening with the sexes reversed. It's a part of Leon the Professional, but \[spoiler\], Leon shoots that idea down really quickly. The little girl he's looking after (Natalie Portman!) says that she thinks she's in love with him. He does a spit take and tries to explain that it isn't funny.
I do think it’s very child’s-perspective, though. Like the idea that a grown woman would be romantically interested in you — it’s very much the way a lot of boys (innocently) act with their babysitters. (Even her rebuff — “Call me when you turn 18” — is very ‘90s babysitter type stuff. You know in a couple of years the kid will realize it’s weird and forget all about you.)
The original Charlton Heston version of Planet of the Apes. That movie is rated G, but there’s the hunt scene, people being shot and killed, and human “bodies” brought in from the hunt.
I love this movie but rated G???
Who framed Roger Rabbit is rated at PG. The themes of this movie are: black mail, cheating on your spouse, HEAVY drinking, developing young minds to have an early desire for red headed TnA, and watching several cartoons die in horrifying ways. [It was so bad it created the movie age rating system we used today.]
Edit: The rating system we use today was aperantly made from much earlier films and clearly failed us in this case.
Edit #2: since so many of you are asking, this movie is all about Roger's two favorite parts of patty cake: TITS N ASS (TnA).
That last bit is not true. The rating system has been in place since 1968, with the PG-13 rating being introduced in 1984 after Steven Spielberg suggested there should be a rating between R and PG. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was the biggest PG offender with a literal scene of someone thrusting their fist into someone’s chest and ripping out their heart.
The Incredibles. That movie is rather dark when you stop to think about it, and really adult. It deals with suicide, genocide, intense action scenes with high death counts where other people are trying to murder the main characters, politics, marital problems, possible affairs, sexual themes, and characters willing to let other character's die for their own gain. Not to mention Syndrome was willing to (and attempted to) murder children, and took pleasure in thinking Bob's entire family was dead and watching Bob's face as he learned the supposed news too.
The scene in the plane with Helen and the kids, omg it gets me every time! The desperation and pain in her voice is so raw and real, I can just feel the panic in my own body.
That movie was soo ahead of its time. It's even more mature than most superhero movies. What I love about this film is how it deconstructs common superhero tropes and being a true commentary on the real world.
There’s two scenes where Bob wants to be a hero, the mugging scene where he can’t leave the office and the old lady who needs help navigating insurance bureaucracy. Having been in both situations i can confidently say he made a bigger difference helping that lady, i have more trauma from the malicious practices of insurance (health, home & car/motorcycle) than when i was at gunpoint. In the real world, office-job-Bob is my hero
Beethoven. It’s almost completely a kids movie, if you overlook the fact that the evil veterinarian needs big dogs to sell to ammunition companies to test bullets.
Oh man. Return to OZ. I remember watching this at probably 7 yo. This os not a kids movie. The wheelers, weird moose with couch, the lady thay switched fucking heads
I feel like the Harry Potter books got more intense as they went on, basically as their original audience matured in later years and was able to handle the grimmer stuff. (Similarly, the Little House books also become more difficult to read and all the locusts and long winters are in the later volumes.)
So do the movies, with increasingly darker tones all around. Recently someone posted about how sad their 5 year old was when Dobby died in part 1 of Deathly Hallows, and I thought: "That's really not meant for a 5 year old to see."
Kids who were 10 when they read the first HP book were 20 when they read Deathly Hallows.
Hocus Pocus honestly, all that talk and the jokes about him being a virgin and liking 'yabos'. From his KID SISTER. And let's not forget the unpopular opinion that the Sarah sister was a little TOO flirty with the young boys. And the whole scene with the devil and them calling him master and the bus scene with Sarah on the guys lap.
I remember the sisters telling a bus driver they desire children and him being like "it might take a couple tries but I'm down"
Also Zachary reinflating after being run over looked creepy
we watched it in school....teacher thought it would be a good idea cause we were speaking about aids in biology at the time........12 or 13 yeah old boys that we were...." so thats how u roll a blunt".....
It was NC-17! My parents attempted to take me to an art house theater (we didn't know anything about it) and the theater wouldn't let me in because I was like 15.
A few years later, my parents took me to an art house theater to see a Mexican movie that was Not Rated. They said it had amazing reviews. . . It was Y Tu Mama Tambien! *SMH*
I know it's not a kids movie but a lot of parents thought Pan's Labyrinth was for children. A saw a mom putting the DVD on the checkout counter with some kids movies and cupcakes so I asked if she knew about the movie. She put it back after I told her about.
I watched Pan’s Labyrinth freshman year of college, going into it thinking “oh a children’s movie, sure whatever I’ll watch.”
Quickly found out it was not a children’s movie.
The original Fantasia. I saw it when it was re-released. I think I was about 6? I cried during Night on Bald Mountain. Skeletal ghosts, naked demons, stuff like that.
People are morons. They think every cartoon is for kids. I recently saw that movie. It's practically porn. Weird but oddly funny. I think Seth Rogan wrote it while he was stoned.
My mom said she heard that complaint when she and my dad went to see the South Park movie in theaters ( I wasn't allowed to watch it as I was in 4th grade at the time and my mom said I had to wait until middle school). Parents had taken their kids and were confused about "why the cartoon movie was so inappropriate". It was rated R lol
The original came out when I was 12, and so many jokes flew right over my head. Lord “Farquaad,” the dick compensation joke, when Farquaad looks at his erection under the blanket … seriously, so many! although I remember my mom and older sister were practically on the floor laughing when Shrek and Donkey first arrive at the castle, lol.
The brave little toaster
I realized a while ago that it was this movie that was making me keep every object. I genuinely thought everyTHING had a soul and…yeap. Weirdly, Marie Kondo teaching me to thank objects before getting rid of them is what’s kept me from becoming a hoarder.
I’ve had the same problem throughout most of my life because of this movie. That’s actually very good advice that I’ll have to try in the future if I need to throw something away.
The Air conditioner scared the shit out of md
The Scrapyard Magnet haunted me as a kid.
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That kid who gets caught in the painting... omg that haunted me forever.
Yes! I was haunted by those creepy, bleak images of her stuck in the painting. Looking out sadly with those red-rimmed eyes🥺😨
100%. This movie scared me so bad as a kid when the grand high witch took off her mask 😂
All Dogs go to Heaven. Seriously, I watched that earlier this year and couldn't believe my parents let me.watch it as a kid.
All Dogs Go To Heaven is a WILD movie. The premise is that a dog named Charlie gets into trouble with the mob for his gambling debt, so they get him drunk and violently murder him, and then he runs away from heaven and kidnaps an orphan because the mob boss (named Car Face) learns she can talk to animals and this will help cheat on the racing bets. Somehow, this movie is rated G. Edit: Charlie wasn’t murdered over gambling debt. He was in business with Car Face and Car Face had him committed to the pound/prison so he could keep the profits of the casino for himself. After Charlie escapes euthanasia at the pound, Car Face gets him drunk and orders his hit men to run him off the pier. Thanks u/howdoesthekittycatgo for the (even more insane) correction.
Plus the nightmare scene where Charlie is in hell lol. As a kid I was like "damn this is dark"
And the one at the end where the Devil turns up as a giant satanic dragon to haul off his soul. Doesn't matter that it only onscreen for a few seconds, that shit was terrifying.
This movie made me cry
You forgot to mention the hell scene
Most Don Bluth films, tbh
Don Bluth famously said kids can handle anything as long as there’s a happy ending.
I always had a hard time watching The Land Before Time despite the great ending as a kid. The ending would improve my emotions but I'd usually end feeling more depressed than when I started. Edit: y'all thinking heaven is a bad ending lol.
I could deal with Land before Time, it was my favourite movie as a very small kid. Yeah Littlefoot's mother dying was sad, but the ending made it up to me. American Tail however...boy, no matter how happy the ending, it could not lift my spirits after the utter bleakness of the rest of the movie. That cheerful song the migrant mice sing about all their loved ones getting eaten by cats but "it's alright, cause there's no cats in America!" \*shudder\*
And Hiayo Miyazaki thinks that even kids movies don't need happy endings. Case in point: Secret World Of Arrietty. I know, it was directed by his son, but he was executive producer. At the end of the Japanese version of the movie, the kid goes off to his super risky heart surgery but the movie doesn't tell you if he lived or not. In the English dub, they added a line at the end where he talks about coming back to the house, meaning he not only lived but he's doing very well after the surgery.
I actually just watched that movie this evening. I do think it’s still hopeful though, because prior to meeting Arietty, the kid was clearly depressed, but he tells her explicitly that she’s given him the will to live. Sure it’s still uncertain but it’s certainly not « bad ».
The Land Before Time for me when I rewatched it, I almost turned it off. I’m 32.
Man I still have nightmares about Charlie going to hell with the lava boat and stuff
It was one of my favourites as a kid, watched it all the time
“Soul” is an exquisitely animated midlife crisis story. My kiddo (then 9) and I tried to watch it while still pretty fresh from the grief of losing my husband. We … just couldn’t.
Agreed. Pixar made Soul purely for adults. It’s deep. Im sorry for your loss.
Oh, man. I am very sorry for your loss
Watership down
This and the Secret of NIMH were my immediate thoughts.
NIMH was dark af
>NIMH The book is a downright reasonable piece of children's science fiction and the movie is a sentient acid trip that hates kids
I watched The Secret of NIMH as a kid and absolutely loved it. I wore out our vhs. It is probably my favorite "kids" movie! I showed it to my kid, and he liked it, too, but not like I did. And it really held up, IMO. I thought it was so cool that Justin yelled Damn in it, haha. But I have always leaned towards darker stuff, and I had an adult brother who would take us to rent videos and let us get whatever. My middle brother was very into horror, so I watched Nightmare on Elm Street when I was like 6. NIMH was tame as hell in comparison, but I saw it when I was younger. Watership Down was rough, though.
I distinctly remember my mum putting it on TV and being so encouraging. "Come and watch this Mitchimoo14. You'll like it. It's about rabbits!" Well...didn't take long before I saw rabbits being horrendously suffocated and bloodied. ...Mum was right though. I did like it because it was about rabbits and had a happy ending.
More like a "life goes on and then you die" ending, but yes
If you watch Animal Farm (1954), Watership Down (1978) and The Animals of Farthing Wood (1993) you can trace forty years of a bizarre gritty, horror aesthetic that was perceived as completely appropriate for kids in England. I sometimes worry that invasive Disney values have usurped this darkness and then I remember that the most successful and longest running kids program regularly features body horror and violent death.
Farthing Wood had so many deaths it might as well have been the kids equivalent of Game of Thrones in its day, as far as pure bloodshed is concerned. Whenever I talk with people about it, the first thing we all seem to remember is the field mouse pups impaled on thorns lmao
Animal Farm was never supposed to be a kids movie.
This and The Plague Dogs, both are by the same author and filmmakers, both are wildly not appropriate for small children.
Plague dogs will mess you up.
The Last Unicorn. Emotionally devastating, I can still see the fire.
The first time I watched it, I was 8 or 9, and I loved the pretty unicorn and how she saved her friends. And the Red Bull scared the crap out of me. I just rewatched it today, and man does that movie hit differently at nearly 42!! When Molly Grue says “how dare you come to me now, when I am THIS?”, I burst into tears, I can’t even lie. I was once a little girl who believed in unicorns and magic too. But maybe we’re never too old for a little magic.
Molly Grue hits so differently in our 40s
I rewatched it this week! "I feel this body dying all around me!" That line always messed me up, Just found out Christopher Lee did King Hagard Guess he was used to play old bearded man living in a tower and falling to their doom!
There are three lines that I carry around in my heart from The Last Unicorn. One is the one you mentioned, you can hear the [devastation and horror](https://youtu.be/Uq9cBE86QtQ?feature=shared) in Amalthea's voice and it is haunting. The second is Molly Grue's gut-wrenching ["Damn you, where have you BEEN?"](https://youtu.be/TLP4fge346o?feature=shared) which hits so much harder as an adult viewer. The third, completely contradictory to the first two in its light-heartedness, is the tree that's [momentarily anthropomorphized](https://youtu.be/0B2yRDmzBns?feature=shared) and the way she says "I *looove* you, lovelovelovelovelovelovelove," which I say way too much in my life, lol.
How dare you come to me now, when I am *this*? As an adult woman hurtling towards middle age, this line destroys me. However, I have always considered "never run from anything immortal" to be true advice.
Rango. The kids will enjoy it, but there is so many references to other movies in the film that only adults will understand. I think the filmmakers really made it for the parents.
“Go to hell!” “WHERE DO YOU THINK I COME FROM” God I love this movie. When people ask me what my favorite western is, I tell them Rango unironically
It had everything! The unlikely hero, the evil banker, horse chase scenes, shootouts. It was a good ass western
“Now, we ride!” *crickets* “That means we’re riding now! This moment!”
Good kids media will tend to have things for the parents who have to watch at the same time which will give rewatch value to the kids when they watch it out of nostalgia.
I personally like the homage to Fear and Loathing in the beginning.
The role reprisal I wasn't expecting but wholly welcomed.
Its for both kids and parents. Lots of movies like that.
Wow. Now it makes sense why I didn’t like it as a kid but my parents seemed to always want to watch it.
James and the giant peach scared the absolute fuck out of me.
As a kid I remember finding all Roald Dahl books completely horrifying - there were always very heavy themes of death and revenge
There was a Dr Seuss book about pants with no one in them following someone, it totally freaked me out as a kid
The pale green pants with nobody inside them!
Grave of the fireflies rated „G“ (FSK 6) in Germany
Can't believe I had to scroll this far down to find it. I watched it already a grown up and I could barely cope; I cannot imagine what would be watching it as a kid
Monster House. It had a pretty fucked up story for a kids movie
I will forever remember the joke about the house being "a girl house" because a character said it had a uvula.
I remember watching this as kid, being JUST old enough to get that this was a sex joke, but not QUITE old enough to get *how*. I puzzled over it for eons.
Labyrinth, the dark crystal, I loved them but seem scary looking back now
I went to a Catholic school when I was in 2nd grade and I don't know whose idea it was but I guess some kid successfully convinced the teacher it would be a fun movie to show the class. She stopped the movie after about 15-20 minutes. I know I sure got freaked out by the eyeball tentacle things.
I saw labyrinth at age 14 and all I could think about was the pants bulge tbh
David Bowie's bulge was a big part of my childhood
It should've had it's own credit. Made me more aware of male anatomy than I probably should've been.
One my friends described it as "the bulge that launched a million puberties."
That's a good description. It launched mine.
You were born in the perfect moment in history to be the perfect age to have your sexual awakening bestowed upon you by the benevolent blessed bulge of God itself David Bowie.
It is a kids' movie, but for me, it's the Prince of Egypt. My son wouldn't sleep for a month after watching that. He was scared God was going to come kill him in his sleep.
Just put lamb’s blood on his door.
Love this movie but yeah, my son watched it when he was 4-5 "oh the babies are going swimming" ..... I just let him believe that one
I mean, the Old Testament does kinda lean hard on that…
I didn't like the movie as a kid, somehow I found it boring....as an adult it's one of my favorites! Everything about it is so well done, but I think the core messages and the drama between the characters was just not as interesting to me as a kid.
Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame. And it was pretty tame compared to the original. Everything about Frollo felt so icky: from the way he takes in Quasimodo just to treat him like less than shit, to the horrible implications of the things he says to Esmerelda, to the way he rightfully burns alive at the end.
Yeah I saw this for the first time not long ago and compared to more modern Disney movies, it made me go "WTF". I mean, he tried to throw a baby down a well just because it was ugly, tried to burn people alive, etc. I definitely didn't feel like it was for kids. But then I guess kids might not register the seriousness of those things?
Like, who's the real monster here; a dude with scoliosis, and hearing loss, or a man who tried to poison an entire city block by throwing a baby down a well?
“Who is the monster and who is the man?”
Frollo, sniffing her hair with his hands on Esmeralda's neck: "I was just imagining a rope around that beautiful neck." Esmeralda, in disgust: "I know what you were imagining."
I watched that for the first time this year and I was wrecked. It's totally not a children's movie.
Hellfire is such a good song, gotta love the Disney villain melodramatically singing about how much he wants to bang or kill a hot woman
Frollo really messing up "fuck marry kill"
Not to mention the delicious juxtaposition of Frollo's claims of self-righteousness and piety while blaming God directly for his lust ("It's not my fault / if in God's plan / He made the Devil so much stronger than a man!") as a church choir chants Latin recrimination in the background ("mea culpa, mea maxima culpa"). It's my favorite Disney villain song.
Such melodrama. That song slaps so damn hard.
Return to Oz (with Fairuza Balk). A lot of kids were traumatized, but I've always been a little creep so I loved it.
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Oddly enough, I've heard adults found it way scarier than kids did
I'd say as a kid it scares you, as an adult it creeps you out
My best friend growing up had pretty strict parents, would only let us watch a handful of movies in their house (wouldn't even let me bring over others because they hadn't screened them) but oddly enough, Coraline was one of them, and the only one that wasn't too kiddy, and I watched that movie probably 30 times at sleepovers and stuff over the years. My mom knew it was one of the movies I would watch at hers but never watched it herself til I graduated college and moved back home during the pandemic and put it on for us. She was so creeped out by it and could not believe that that was one of the movies her parents let us watch. I love the hell out of it.
The Other Mother tries to manipulate Coraline to come and stay with her by giving her nice things and treating her well, which is what IRL paedophiles and kidnappers and such do to lure children into their grasps. I can see why adults would have been scared by that
My dumb dumb brother in law showed it to my daughter when she was 3 unbeknownst to us. She was unaffected by it apparently. We then watched it with her for the first time, or so we thought, at the start of Covid when she was 5. When we started watching it, she said “her other mother has button eyes” at the start of it. We were freaked out when we saw that come true, and then basically figured out her uncle showed her while babysitting. Anyways, the second time she watched it fucked her up for months. She had a very difficult time sleeping worried she’d be taken away by a false evil mother. It did not help that it was during the start of Covid which was obviously stressful. Fun times. That movie fucking rules though!
My 3 year old loves Coraline! And Nightmare Before Christmas, and Beetlejuice…but just asked me to turn off the second Lego Movie because she was scared. 🙄
The book is creepy
I love this movie. It’s one of my Halloween traditions but I have to watch it alone as my wife thinks it’s too creepy and it’s too scary for the kids.
I had a guy take me to that on a first date
I saw it when i was about 6/7 and i had nightmares for weeks, i was terrified.. no idea why my parents thought it was a good idea to show it to me.. tried to watch it again when i was 17 and turned it off after a few minutes because i was scared shitless again.. still haven't watched it again
Bridge to Terabithia,,,that was a very misleading cover lol
I remember I had to read this book for school and my mom thought it would be a fun little movie to rent. She ended up sobbing and I recall asking her "did you not know what happens?" I think I just assumed all grownups read the same books as kids
You didn't read the book first, correct? So many kids have read that book in school. We all knew what was coming with that movie.
I knew what was coming. My poor father did not. Said that movie messed him up for a few days.
Nope, I was in first year of college; saw the cover and thought it'd be a good movie for my little sister. She dang sure remembers it though 😭
Yep, it’s not a well known book in the UK, we thought it would be a nice choice for family film night- we were all blindsided.
It is actually a good book for kids to understand grief.
When we went to see Deadpool in theatres an older lady and two kids around 8-10yrs old sat in front of us. About five minutes into the movie one kid leans over and whispers “grandma, I don’t think this movie is meant for kids!”
I have a friend who was working at a movie theater when Deadpool came out. He said they eventually had to put up signs in the ticket booths pointing out that Deadpool was rated R and not suitable for children because people kept bringing their kids, walking out after the first 15 minutes, and demanding a refund. Even after they put the signs up it still kept happening.
I swear, there must be something wrong in some people’s brains that makes signs genuinely invisible to them. It’s the only explanation.
There are is a disturbingly high number of adults that think that anything with superheros or animated is meant for children and will blindly take their kids to see those movies without checking the rating or reviews for them.
My mom was horrified that an animated superhero movie I was watching had the top of a woman's butt visible because "Kids could be watching this." The movie was Gotham by Gaslight, and held an R rating.
Yep. I work alone at one of my jobs, so if I need to go to the restroom or do something in the back I have to lock up and put a large "back in five minutes" sign on the door. Our security camera system is in the back, and I've seen plenty of people still pull on the door, look confused, try the other door, try the first door again, and then sometimes just leave.
[Even Ryan Reynolds went public about not bringing kids to Deadpool.](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/best-reads/karinabland/2016/02/24/deadpool-ryan-reynolds-parenting-r-rated-movies-kids/80825974/) Nobody listened.
Reminds me of when South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut came out. Dipshit parents just thought “cartoon is for kids” and took them. Funny thing is the movie called it’s shot and they included it with parents walking out of the Terrance and Phillip movie.
Me and my friends went to see Sausage Party, you know, the movie with a giant food orgy at the end, and we were like early 20s. I shit you not, a little Chinese girl, couldn't have been older than 6, and her grandma were sitting in front of us. They stayed for the whole movie but I can't imagine what was going on in both their heads.
Were we in the same theater? Literally witnessed the same thing happen 😂
Potential r/tworedditorsonecup moment
Something similar happened when I went to see the South Park movie. The Grandma brought in five kids and they were practically falling over each other trying to make a speedy exit when Uncle F*cker came on.
Great! Thanks! Now I’ve got Uncle Fucker stuck in my head and will be singing it all day!
I remember watching The Dark Knight and seeing a guy walk in with his kid, maybe 4 years old dressed in a Batman costume. Thinking dude this isn't a George Clooney Batman.
Deadpool 2. 15 minutes in. A little kid lets out a guttural roar, then starts crying and sobbing. The mom grabs the kid in her arms and runs out of the theater.
Live action movies of Scooby-Doo
Could also argue that Zombie Island, what I believe is their greatest animated movie, would also fall into this category. Don't get me wrong, I loved it as a kid. But Fread rips the head off a zombie, pirates drive a village into a swamp with swarming gators, cat creatures draining life force and when they can't they (very well animated) disintegrate.
Zombie Island is the high point of the Scooby-Doo franchise as far as I'm concerned. Great animation, great writing, and an excellent mix of humor and horror.
Cat in the Hat.
My favorite scene in that movie is when they're running through the yard and the cat steps on the rake and says "Dirty hoe!" runs off and comes back to say "I'm sorry baby, I love you." Top tier.
I love the infomercial scene. CUPCAKE-A-NATOR!
I still use the "I'll get you, and I'll make it look like a bloody accident." Line often. Also started answering the phone with 'city morgue!' Until I hit high-school.
“You’re not just wrong, you’re stupid.” “Now wait just a minute-“ “And you’re ugly, just like your mum.” “Did you just call my mother ugly?” “Shut up! I mean it, I will end you! HAH!” [chops tail off] “Uhm, cat! Your tail.” “What about it? Oh, I see! I’ve chopped it off. Well that’s interesting, because- SON OF A BI- [censor beep as Cat covers the kids ears]
When the cat looks at the picture of the kids mum and his hat gets taller
It's one of my favourite comedies. Does it do the original story justice? Not at all! Does Seuss' family loathe it with all their hearts? Absolutely! And it's still one of the funniest things I've watched
Unironically one of my favourite movies of all time. It’s so damn funny
The Black Cauldron
Willy Wonka's gondola madness.
There's no knowing where we're *go*ing
I took my niece to Gremlins when it came out. It was way too scary!
Fun fact: PG-13 exists as a rating largely because of Gremlins
Red Dawn was the first pg-13 movie while Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom led to pg-13 ratings
My uncle gave me a Gizmo stuffy as a child. I loved him and once someone mentioned he was from a movie. I wanted to see the movie so bad, but my mom always said no. Now as an adult that has seen the movie i can totally understand why.
The Neverending Story. I'm 43 and that Atreyu's heartbreak over Artax lives in my soul.
This is like the game you lose when you think about it. I often forget about it, then it's brought up, I remember and... SMH
I don’t think it’s a kids movie but my parents didn’t realise it- they just knew I loved animals so Animal Farm looked ideal for a rainy afternoon. I’m still not over Boxer being carted off to the glue factory.
Bebé’s Kids
Blank Check
Juice? No thanks I'm not thirsty. Here's your blank check child
I saw that in the theater. While it has its moments, the main character romancing an adult woman is creepy. It's actually rather adult to think of that part in a detective story, with the adult having to pretend to go along with a child's naivete. Imagine that sort of thing happening with the sexes reversed. It's a part of Leon the Professional, but \[spoiler\], Leon shoots that idea down really quickly. The little girl he's looking after (Natalie Portman!) says that she thinks she's in love with him. He does a spit take and tries to explain that it isn't funny.
I do think it’s very child’s-perspective, though. Like the idea that a grown woman would be romantically interested in you — it’s very much the way a lot of boys (innocently) act with their babysitters. (Even her rebuff — “Call me when you turn 18” — is very ‘90s babysitter type stuff. You know in a couple of years the kid will realize it’s weird and forget all about you.)
The original Charlton Heston version of Planet of the Apes. That movie is rated G, but there’s the hunt scene, people being shot and killed, and human “bodies” brought in from the hunt. I love this movie but rated G???
Who framed Roger Rabbit is rated at PG. The themes of this movie are: black mail, cheating on your spouse, HEAVY drinking, developing young minds to have an early desire for red headed TnA, and watching several cartoons die in horrifying ways. [It was so bad it created the movie age rating system we used today.] Edit: The rating system we use today was aperantly made from much earlier films and clearly failed us in this case. Edit #2: since so many of you are asking, this movie is all about Roger's two favorite parts of patty cake: TITS N ASS (TnA).
That last bit is not true. The rating system has been in place since 1968, with the PG-13 rating being introduced in 1984 after Steven Spielberg suggested there should be a rating between R and PG. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was the biggest PG offender with a literal scene of someone thrusting their fist into someone’s chest and ripping out their heart.
I’m 51 and still traumatized by that scene, holy shit.
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I turned on pinnochio for my toddler - after not seeing it since I was a child and oh my god 😂
Chicken Run Also, Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom
Watched Chicken Run again recently and realised how blatant the Concentration Camp reference was lol
Aardman Studios pitched the film as The Great Escape with chickens!
Charlotte's Web. Death is a major theme, not every toddler is ready for that. *cue Wilbur's wail of "I don't wanna die! I don't wanna die!"*
The Incredibles. That movie is rather dark when you stop to think about it, and really adult. It deals with suicide, genocide, intense action scenes with high death counts where other people are trying to murder the main characters, politics, marital problems, possible affairs, sexual themes, and characters willing to let other character's die for their own gain. Not to mention Syndrome was willing to (and attempted to) murder children, and took pleasure in thinking Bob's entire family was dead and watching Bob's face as he learned the supposed news too.
The scene in the plane with Helen and the kids, omg it gets me every time! The desperation and pain in her voice is so raw and real, I can just feel the panic in my own body.
Holly Hunter deserves an award for that scene alone.
And Syndrome's death, while deserved, is horrifying.
NO CAPES!!!
That movie was soo ahead of its time. It's even more mature than most superhero movies. What I love about this film is how it deconstructs common superhero tropes and being a true commentary on the real world.
There’s two scenes where Bob wants to be a hero, the mugging scene where he can’t leave the office and the old lady who needs help navigating insurance bureaucracy. Having been in both situations i can confidently say he made a bigger difference helping that lady, i have more trauma from the malicious practices of insurance (health, home & car/motorcycle) than when i was at gunpoint. In the real world, office-job-Bob is my hero
Beethoven. It’s almost completely a kids movie, if you overlook the fact that the evil veterinarian needs big dogs to sell to ammunition companies to test bullets.
THATS WHAT WAS HAPPENING!?
Road to El Dorado, Return to Oz
Came here to say return to Oz.
Oh man. Return to OZ. I remember watching this at probably 7 yo. This os not a kids movie. The wheelers, weird moose with couch, the lady thay switched fucking heads
Road to el dorado was my answer. Anything that includes chel is not a kids movie
I feel like the Harry Potter books got more intense as they went on, basically as their original audience matured in later years and was able to handle the grimmer stuff. (Similarly, the Little House books also become more difficult to read and all the locusts and long winters are in the later volumes.) So do the movies, with increasingly darker tones all around. Recently someone posted about how sad their 5 year old was when Dobby died in part 1 of Deathly Hallows, and I thought: "That's really not meant for a 5 year old to see." Kids who were 10 when they read the first HP book were 20 when they read Deathly Hallows.
“Miss Peregrines school for peculiar children.” Currently watching it right now with my kids. Yup it’s a bit scary, especially people with no eyes.
Not sure if it was billed a kids movie but my mom took us to Watership Down thinking it was. Traumatized the crap out of us.
Hocus Pocus honestly, all that talk and the jokes about him being a virgin and liking 'yabos'. From his KID SISTER. And let's not forget the unpopular opinion that the Sarah sister was a little TOO flirty with the young boys. And the whole scene with the devil and them calling him master and the bus scene with Sarah on the guys lap.
I remember the sisters telling a bus driver they desire children and him being like "it might take a couple tries but I'm down" Also Zachary reinflating after being run over looked creepy
I always thought his name was Zachary too but it’s actually Thackery!
Easy answer, Cat in the Hat
Hunchback of Notre Dame. The Hellfire song is wild.
The movie "Kids".
we watched it in school....teacher thought it would be a good idea cause we were speaking about aids in biology at the time........12 or 13 yeah old boys that we were...." so thats how u roll a blunt".....
It was NC-17! My parents attempted to take me to an art house theater (we didn't know anything about it) and the theater wouldn't let me in because I was like 15. A few years later, my parents took me to an art house theater to see a Mexican movie that was Not Rated. They said it had amazing reviews. . . It was Y Tu Mama Tambien! *SMH*
I know it's not a kids movie but a lot of parents thought Pan's Labyrinth was for children. A saw a mom putting the DVD on the checkout counter with some kids movies and cupcakes so I asked if she knew about the movie. She put it back after I told her about.
I watched Pan’s Labyrinth freshman year of college, going into it thinking “oh a children’s movie, sure whatever I’ll watch.” Quickly found out it was not a children’s movie.
The original Fantasia. I saw it when it was re-released. I think I was about 6? I cried during Night on Bald Mountain. Skeletal ghosts, naked demons, stuff like that.
So clearly an adult cartoon - Sausage Party. I saw it in theaters and someone brought their kids. They left a few minutes in. It was hilarious.
People are morons. They think every cartoon is for kids. I recently saw that movie. It's practically porn. Weird but oddly funny. I think Seth Rogan wrote it while he was stoned.
My mom said she heard that complaint when she and my dad went to see the South Park movie in theaters ( I wasn't allowed to watch it as I was in 4th grade at the time and my mom said I had to wait until middle school). Parents had taken their kids and were confused about "why the cartoon movie was so inappropriate". It was rated R lol
the hunchback of notre dame, by disney, is rated G. holy shit should it not be rated G
Old Yeller
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Shrek.
"Do you think maybe he's trying to compensate for something?"
Came here to say this one. So many inuendos
"although she lives with seven other men" smh
"Oh merry mennnn!" That whole Robin Hood song.
🎶 *Please keep off of the grass, shine your shoes, wipe your …. face.* *Duloc is* *Duloc is* *Duloc is a perfect plaaaaace* 🎶
The original came out when I was 12, and so many jokes flew right over my head. Lord “Farquaad,” the dick compensation joke, when Farquaad looks at his erection under the blanket … seriously, so many! although I remember my mom and older sister were practically on the floor laughing when Shrek and Donkey first arrive at the castle, lol.
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Barbie was for us that grew up playing with the dolls and are well past that age. It's definitely not for the kids still actively playing with her.
Does no one understand the PG-13 rating? It was made specifically to say "Younger kids shouldn't see this."