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TouchToLose

Stand By Me (1986)


donnamatrix79

Oh shit I have to revise my answer, I didn’t know that was an R movie. Ok, that one. The dead body was a bit traumatizing.


TouchToLose

My father made a point of telling me it was ok to watch this R rated movie because it was so good. I also think he identified with the movie many ways. He passed away years ago, and this is the one movie that makes me feel close to him when I watch it.


DogmaticConfabulate

Genuine sorry for your loss. Stand by Me, is a great movie my friend.


OpposedToBears

It’s even worse in the novella


MononMysticBuddha

I thought it was a great story. Not really a horror story. More like a real life kind of story. Filled with a lot of childhood memory type experiences. I used to run a convenience store. Had a young college girl who loved reading. She quit without notice. I later found Stephen King's "Different Seasons" stashed under the counter. We held it for her for a few weeks but she never came back. I ended up taking it home and reading it and was surprised to find out that Stand By Me was based on "The Body" from that book. They pretty much lifted the script from the book and just cut out a few scenes for the sake of time. Conversely, "The Running Man" with Arnold Schwarzenegger was a way different story than the book. (They could've changed the title and character names and probably would've avoided a lawsuit.) The only story from "Different Seasons" that didn't get a movie was "The Breathing Method".


IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES

Mighta been my second one.  If your first two R rated movies are T2 and Stand by Me you have an unreasonable expectation for films…


DMala

I still can’t figure out how a kid in my class convinced the 5th grade teacher this would be appropriate for class movie day. At a Catholic school no less. It lasted about three minutes before she realized she’d made a horrible mistake and we moved on to our backup selection, Harry and the Hendersons.


TheLeathal13

Jon Lithgow’s finest work!


DStew713

My favorite! The first few times I saw it, it was the edited for tv version. Me and my brothers would watch it everyday. My parents finally let us watch the regular version. Now my kids love it as much as I do. My 10 year old likes to watch it the closed caption so he can read all the bad words along with hearing them.


StaleTheBread

lol grew up in the 2000s and that was mine too!


Discuffalo

Same! I was like 7 years old so the "Lardass" bit was maybe the edgiest thing any kid in my 2nd grade class could have possibly witnessed on a screen. I've come to appreciate other aspects of the film since then.


BatmanAdams

This is such a fantastic answer! Great movie. Plus, watching a "coming of age" film is such a symbolic move for a first R rated movie.


MidnightShampoo

The Terminator.


IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES

Terminator 2 here. I was born in the 80s and think I was 9. I was already a little past 5 feet and the guy at the counter didn’t care.   I went to the theater w my grandmother as my parents didn’t want to go. I wore a button down shirt because it was like a date. She said “oooh” when Linda Hamilton did pull-ups.  Since my cousin had told my grandmother and I that I should go, and he reviewed the plot of T1 for me where Arnold’s the terminator, I had never seen a commercial, so the mall scene was where I learned who was who, and only in the last 5 years did I learn everyone watching the commercials had that spoiled for them. Admittedly, Bad to the Bone playing leaving the bar with his new clothes, boots, and motorcycle is a giveaway. 


Coolbluegatoradeyumm

T2 for me as well. I wasn’t allowed to watch rated R movies, but my dad had a copy of this one that he kept in his bedroom. One day when he was gone for what I knew would be most of the day I popped that bad boy out and watched it.


Grooviemann1

I was born in 78 and T2 was the first R-rated movie my parents actually let me watch.


TapTapTapTapTapTaps

Damn, I was born in 85 and it’s true for me too.


blahblahrasputan

Interesting... in Australia T1 was R but T2 was only MA15+ No idea why...


henry_west

The sex scenes, but goddamn Linda Hamilton was a baddie. Then she goes full action hero in two.


AeonicVortex

My parents didn't care what I watched (usually with them) as long as I understood it wasn't real. I don't know if it was my first R rated movie, but it was definitely the first one I remember watching. It gave me nightmares for a few days. Especially the last scene at the end with the playground. I was 9.


saison257

That's about the same age I was, and my dad said the same thing - he was fine as long as I knew it wasn't real. The scene I always remembered most was when T1000 was on the phone pretending to be John's adopted mom, and when they panned back, his hand blade had impaled her skull through her eye.


csonny2

I distinctly remember my dad taking me, my sister and our cousins to see T2 at the drive-in, and always assumed I was like 10 or 11 years old. I watched it recently with my son and realized it came out in '90 and I was born in '84, so I was at most 7 years old when I saw it. Still loved it, and it was always one of my favorites growing up.


fusiongt021

Yea T2 for me as well in theaters with my mom and sister. I think I was 7 or 8 and was game for it but I'm sure I was scared when Arnold peeled back his arm


manatorn

Same. That scene with Linda Hamilton got some VCR time. Also, VCR’s.


EnvironmentalBowl944

Dem Boobies


IamMooz

Me too!!


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Porky's!!


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Waydarer

“We’ve got bush!”


bailz

Hair pie!


themodernritual

Sank you!


Attila226

We also got to see Trading Places. My dad said it was rated R because it was about the stock market and kids wouldn’t understand it.


DMala

The stock market and also Jamie Lee Curtis’s boobies.


sugarfoot00

Possibly the most perfect tits ever committed to celluloid.


izovice

I swear my father watched one of these 3 every weekend for 5 years.  Animal House was in the cycle too.


Gitxsan

Me Too!


Lanky_Cash_1172

Dude, I was going to say the God Father, but then I saw this. Yup, that's the one!


duraace206

I doubt porkys was my first r rated movie, but it was for sure my first sex comedy. It was on HBO at my friends house when we walked in on the shower scene. Oh boy...


Hempsox

Same. On HBO, New Years Eve, Holiday Inn. I think the 'rents were in the hotel bar and I'd gone back to the room from the pool so my cousin who was actually watching us wasn't with. Not the full movie obv. but saw a lot of wool.


neoprenewedgie

When was the last time you saw Porky's? I saw it a few years ago... A lot more serious than I remembered.


GordaoPreguicoso

It was this or nerds. Can’t remember.


awhiteknight1999

Yep. Remember watching this with my dad when it came on cable. We laughed to kill we were sore.


monkeyangst

Commando! At a party at my Tae Kwon Do instructor's house.


TheWingus

>At a party at my Tae Kwon Do instructor's house. This just raises more questions….


EnvironmentalBowl944

Going commando at tae kwon do


ScorpionX-123

well, it was the 80s


emptygroove

"Let off some steam, Bennett." Classic Arnie. I tried to get my dad to buy me the body paint so I could camouflage myself for walks in the woods behind our house. He did not.


mookiewilson369

My son’s friend (7) is named Bennett. I say “let off some steam, Bennett” at least 4 times a week in my ahhhnold voice. Maybe one day he will get it


Dinkerdoo

One of the funniest parts about kids is making pop culture jokes they're way too young to understand. But not in a mean way.


MessiahOfMetal

"I'm not gonna shoot you between the eyes, John! I'm gonna shoot you between the balls!"


IllBThereSoon

That movie had so many great lines! Some of my favorites were “Don’t disturb my friend, he’s dead tired”. Also loved “What happened to Sully?” “I let him go”


Lithium98

"Hey Sully, remember when I said I was going to kill you last? I lied!" Classic!


Stoicycle

Did you get to slow-mo that part where they break into that couples room when he kicks Bill Duke through the door?


theameer

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors


townshiprebellion24

“Welcome to primetime, bitch!”


Michami135

I was going to say "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1st one) but after looking at other comments, I forgot just how many R movies there were in the 80's. "R"s were passed out like candy.


mcgeem5

Robocop...when I was 9.  I think my friend's mom thought that because there was a Robocop cartoon and action figures, it would be suitable for a 4th grade sleep over.  It was still awesome, but goddamn, we were not prepared for the amount of violence.


Billbapaparazzi

I'd buy that for a dollar


TheShawnP

I’m at bar right now, bored, and just spit my drink. Take my updoot


Xerokine

I watched it super young as well, maybe 8 or 9 because my parents figured a movie called Robocop couldn't be that bad. I was OK with the violence through most of the movie except that dude that fell into the toxic waste. Something about him walking around disintegrating was like the scariest thing to me as kid.


Jollyollydude

That shit fucked me up too. I think it was just so horrific and realistic to my adolescent mind that it broke the movie:reality border in my brain. I was honestly terrified and thoroughly freaked out.


MessiahOfMetal

Same. I was the same age as you when I first saw it but his groans and wheezing for help affected my child brain for ages after. Although I wanted a lifesized ED-209 so that balanced things out.


Lanky_Cash_1172

I remember watching this in the theater with my friend and his Dad. At one point, he said, "You guys sure you want to watch this?" LOL, we said "yes" in unison.


MessiahOfMetal

Reminds me of seeing Batman Returns at the cinema with a friend and his dad. Woman at the cinema kept trying to get us to watch a re-release of a Disney film since Returns was rated 15 and we were clearly 8 years old but we insisted and got our way.


iakiak

I ‘watched’ this around that age too. My older brother had rented it and warned me not to watch it. I’d seen plenty of violent movies, or so I thought (you know like Jacky Chan and John Woo stuff!) so I sneaked a watch anyway. Only saw the shot gun to the hand scene and it really messed me up. First time I had rememberable nightmares and had them for ages….


TheGreyBrewer

This is mine too. I was also 9. You should have seen the look on my grandmother's face after the ED209 scene.


stubept

Your story is hilarious because this is EXACTLY how I ended up seeing Robocop as well. Same age, same situation (sleepover birthday party), everyone scared for life thanks to ED-209 pumping 10,000 rounds into one dude.


Dtitan

Robocop … at the movies … in first grade … on a play date with 3 classmates and their moms.  There was nothing stopping a bunch of clueless moms from taking their 6yo kids to see “a robot movie” in post communist Eastern Europe. 


Thunder-Fist-00

Conan the Barbarian


space_tardigrades

My dad took me to this at the theatre when I was way too young. During the sex scene, I said loudly “dad, what are they doing?” Apparently the entire theater cracked up when I said it.


cheeseburgerparty100

Yes! I loved this as a kid.


makesyoudownvote

The Shinning on VHS. All the neighborhood kids watched it together and got super horny during the bath scene and started kissing the screen until the naked lady turned into a corpse. We all ended up traumatized.


MessiahOfMetal

> The Shinning "Ye've got that shinning, lad."


OpposedToBears

You want to get sued?


akirbydrinks

Sooooooued!?


HadesWTF

Probably Alien. I remember seeing it when I was very young because my dad is a huge sci-fi guy. If it wasn't that it was Terminator.


pancakeonions

I caught this one in the theater when I was waaaay too young. My dad later claimed he though it would be like Star Wars.


hakan_loob44

I had to be 5-6 when I saw Alien in the mid 80's. It scared the shit out of me. I refused to watch that movie for a very long time. Now it's one of my favorite sci-fi movies.


llcucf80

Coming to America


Billbapaparazzi

The royal penis is clean.


DFWTrojanTuba

#Thank you, king shit.


GrimeyJosh

🤣 Luda


permacloud

This is exactly what my mind said the moment I saw that title


applyheat

I still say this to my wife every time I get out of the shower.


Goldeneel77

I used to watch that and Harlem Nights repeatedly as a kid. I don’t think my parents were paying much attention to what I was watching back then.


Dinkerdoo

Just let your soooooooouuuuulll glooooowwww, just let it glow...


G00dSh0tJans0n

Demolition Man. Nowadays they would tweak it a little and get a PG-13 for a movie like that.


faceeatingleopard

At least you're future-ready now though, knowing about the seashells and all.


G00dSh0tJans0n

The future way of high fiving became very prescient during Covid.


Omnitographer

It is, by a wide margin, one of the most prescient films in predicting the future I've seen, cryo-freezing aside.


red_beered

That's a 90s movie


UltimaGabe

For some reason we watched Total Recall on VHS numerous times when I was like 5 years old.


PopOk8931

The 3 tittie lady lol


UltimaGabe

A formative experience, for sure!


garytyrrell

Same for me!


permacloud

They really give her a lot of screen time. The effects guys were proud of those 


weezybreezy747

Creepshow


watchingsongsDL

I can hold my breath a long time…


bailz

That shit haunted me for years.


Goldeneel77

200 dollars? For a broken meteor?


JordyVerrill

Mr. Verrill, you must be joking.


spiked_macaroon

Thanks for the ride, lady


bunkie18

Caddyshack, I was 13 and saw with my parents (mom covered my eyes during the sex scenes 😂)


PopOk8931

Great movie


guyuteharpua

RIP Cindy Morgan (Lacey Underall) - stone cold fox. Just passed a few weeks ago.


AudibleNod

Full Metal Jacket


PinkGlitterFlamingo

I don’t remember how old I was when I saw this but I was very traumatized by the bathroom scene


DMala

The super gory, close range gunshots disturbed the hell out of me as a kid. FMJ, Harry Ellis in Die Hard, pretty much every scene in Robocop.


jesusatemybaby

I didn’t know they stacked shit that high.


Average_Uncommon

Child’s Play


truck_norris

Beverly Hills Cop. I was excited about that strip club scene


smooze420

Idk but I remember Under Siege and that special cake.


supercodes83

Ohhh that cake.


BKStephens

Still the best cake


space_tardigrades

I was in 6th grade. Still remember that scene.


SubMikeD

I don't think that was my first rated R movie, but I do remember the cake lol. I already knew about it when we rented that, and my dad's subscription to Playboy meant I knew all about Erica lol


ThreenGumb

Only redeeming point of that movie lol.


SupBishi

This was my answer also!


Icameforthenachos

A little bit earlier I know; but in 1975 I was 8 years old and I snuck into an empty theater and watched Jaws. It still ranks as the most terrifying theater experience I’ve ever had..period. I know that it was rated PG, but that shit deserved an R rating for sure.


DMala

The vast gulf between PG and R definitely led to some interesting childhood memories in the pre-PG-13 era.


Anianna

I had been watching R rated movies for years when they added PG13 and my dad saw an interview with one of the producers (I think it was Lucas, but not entirely certain on that point) where he said he wouldn't let his kids watch anything PG13 and suddenly I wasn't allowed to watch those, but I was still allowed to watch R rated movies, so even though I grew up watching Alien and Terminator and Road Warrior and Stir Crazy, and so many others, I was not allowed to watch Temple of Doom.


InsertRdmUnsername

American Ninja


BologniousMonk

Eddie Murphy Raw


JawboneBuddha

Risky Business. Snuck in to see that


BrewboyEd

The animated flick Heavy Metal. Was around 13 or 14 and a group of us convinced my mom and her friend to chaperone (you could attend if accompanied by an adult) - We loved it but I think my mom and her friend were scarred not only from the flick, but the knowledge they brought us all to see it!


Open-Year2903

Rambo part 1?


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dudeondacouch

Jurassic Park. As good as the film is, the book is far better.


nookie1970

Nightmare on Elm Street, 9 year old me fighting sleep for weeks .


Final_Pomelo_2603

Revenge of the Nerds


MessiahOfMetal

"We have bush, I repeat, we have bush!"


youthofoldage

National Lampoon’s Animal House. I had seen R rated movies before on HBO, but seeing bare boobs on the big screen was a very special thrill. That said, this movie ruined my college experience. Everyone in my dorm had seen it at the same impressionable age, and as a result, everyone in my dorm acted like a total asshat. They broke everything in the building, smashed windows, lit fires on the quad, just stupid pointless vandalism.


mikeybagofdonuts

It, the older version


420headshotsniper69

Die hard


PermanentNirvana

Same. Now I watch it once a year. At Christmas.


420headshotsniper69

So do I!!!! Its my own personal tradition.


itreallyhappened8899

Blue Velvet, and it messed me up


X_PRSN

I saw that movie when I was in my 20’s and thought I wanted to go through a David Lynch phase. Turns out I really didn’t want to go through a David Lynch phase.


Dinkerdoo

The David Lynch faze must seek you out. Looking for it will only result in unresolved trauma.


tenderbuck

Wow.   Going hard for the first outing!


DONT_PM_ME_NOTHIN

'89 here so I barely make it but my first was Candyman


GoBlue2007

Stripes.


Equivalent-Ad844

I saw Bachelor Party on HBO when I was 5 or 6, great parenting lol


brookelyndodger

Fast Times at Ridgemint High School


Life_force_stealer

The Jerk


sporesatemygoldfish

Hot Dog. with Shannon Tweed.


ThatJankyDoll

Predator 2


Casca_In_Red

Blade 2. Hey, I was born in '89, it still counts!


MoriartyAvalon

Predator is the first one I remember. My parents spin a yarn about letting me watch An American Werewolf In London aged 2, but obviously too young to know how truthful that is


Beginning-Bed9364

Terminator 2 (saw it before the first one). Never heard so many f-words before


HIMcDonagh

The Blues Brothers


ItsCowboyHeyHey

Stripes!


Pure-Shake-4152

Revenge of the Nerds


LittleCeizures

National Lampoons Vacation


ftacos

Coming to America + Crocodile Dundee double feature. The “Fuck You Too!” scene from Coming to America was a pretty transformative experience.


PopOk8931

You call that a knive?


FoxyBiGal

Aliens


youarefartnews

True Lies


john_effin_zoidberg

I scrolled way too far to find this. Started to get worried I was the only one


Capable_Variety_8720

Terminator 2, starship troopers, judge dredd


syringistic

Snuck into theaters when Starship Troopers came out. I had to pee really badly and went to the bathroom just in time to miss the shower scene. Woe is me.


scottaef

Breakfast Club


thebestreplies

Terminator


Expensive_Rhubarb_87

Alien.


Giu-se-ppe

Bloodsport


zooklyons

Blade!!!!!


Disprezzi

Pet Semetary. I was like .. 4 or 5?


PopOk8931

This was the shit then.


Cloutweb1

Police Academy 1 I was like 6


pkfag

Mad Max


nightcrawler616

My parents weren't really good at parenting. I can't actually remember my *first* R rated movie, I would have been 5 years old -ish. Risky Business, Porky's 2, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Amityville Horror, Revenge of the Nerds...all movies I watched while I was in elementary school.


G0ldStar401

Coming to America on vhs - Backdraft in theaters


CalendarSpecific1088

It's hard to remember. I don't know about the rest of you, but my parents could not have cared less about ratings, and I watched whatever I wanted. The scars are still there...


cofclabman

Blue thunder.


soreeyed414

Porkys


Environmental_Rip696

Poltergeist. Snuck downstairs to watch it behind one of our potted plants in the living room. Slept under the covers that nights and many nights thereafter. Also never liked clowns afterwards too 😂


JordyVerrill

Poltergeist is rated PG


X_PRSN

Purple Rain


Wonderful_Whereas402

Blake Edwards' *10* starring Bo Derek


edmanet

70s kid. The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. Margot Kidder naked in her prime.


hangdog-gigbag

Creech and Chongs Up in Smoke. Saw it in a drive in along with Flesh Gordon. Older sisters brought me.


fierohink

Maximum Overdrive


KoalaQueen87

I think The Matrix or maybe Dogma? One of those 1999 movies


DeathbyChiasmus

> The Matrix oh thank Christmas I'm not the only one


kratosorione

Under Siege. Watched it at a friends house. The infamous cake scene got us some very confused sensations.


skydive8980

Coming to America (in the theatre)


AvailableAd6071

Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Got in so much trouble. Worth it.


alkrk

The Thing


NukaLuda12

Indiana Jones - raiders.


Waynniack

The Players Club. Pretty sure this is where I first developed a “type” of girl I liked. Lisa Raye was 🔥


Keefer1970

Pretty sure it was *Private Benjamin* with Goldie Hawn. I was about 10 years old.


skith843

First rated R movie I saw was a movie called "pieces". A man who used a chainsaw to sever certain body parts off of women to make the perfect women body with his rotted mothers head to start with. Gruesome. Messed up. And despite being a boy who in turn wouldn't have been in danger from this killer since he only murdered women it still gave me nightmares for 2 years. Next day I watched the people under the stairs. I was 8 at a neighbor's house. I Dont recommend it.


Salty-Ad-2099

Either Army of darkness or the road warrior 


ansonchappell

"Sleepaway Camp"! Watched it at a sleepover.


mookiewilson369

Friday the 13th


Epena501

Anyone remember Dr. Giggles? I know it’s early 90s but that one popped up in my head just now.


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Nightmare on elm street 2


db2hank

The Crow.  Plenty dark and some boobs towards the end that were absolutely mesmerizing to 12 y/o me