my dad claims that he took his mom to see Psycho at the cinema
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
I can't even remember what movie it was, but I remember burying my face in the couch.
― how's life, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:05 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
I mean, I've watched Bad Santa with my dad so I don't really know why those other things seemed worse but they did somehow.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
recently i saw the black book with my parents because they'd just been to amsterdam and i had kinda forgotten how many long, lingering shots of naked breasts there were
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
I remember getting very confused when my dad discovered the dubbed tape of Porky's I'd been watching incessantly and how he lectured me about how terrible it was about women and sex; I think he was more offended that they weren't taking sex seriously than anything else.
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
Bull Durham: everybody in my family loved this movie and i know we watched it a bunch. i'm pretty sure everyone just tried to be cool about it. my folks weren't strict or anything. and it is funny and 'literary' so it met their standard for snobby entertainment. i know later there was a story about a friend of theirs who wanted to watch it with her own (elderly) parents because in her memory it was just a great funny baseball movie and all the stuff about susan sarandon in a garter belt or kevin costner waxing on about cocks and pussies had left her brain totally. until...
The Big Easy: i'm pretty sure i watched this with my parents and a whole other family? maybe just my mom, and another married couple, who would get together for movie nights every now and again. again i think everybody just tried to be cool, i think i must have been an older teenager, maybe even 'of age' if this matters at all (for the purposes of discomfort it really doesn't fyi). luckily ellen barkin does keep her clothes on.
Double Impact*: i don't remember which "JCVD" movie it was exactly, but after my folks split up my mom and i watched a bunch of them. i was a martial arts nerd and thought she was indulging me and i didn't really get what her angle was until reflecting on it much later. anyway i think it's double impact which has a really gratuitous slomo sex scene with bad music, basically the worst possible. i think my mom just said something like "well!" after it.
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands: this happened when i was a kid, i wasn't actually watching it, but wandered in when my parents were. the lines of dialogue i heard were: "how is she?" "who?" "your pussy!" and my dad leapt off the couch to stop the VCR. i've never seen this movie.
A History of Violence and Eastern Promises: my mom loves these movies. we watched them both in a row last christmas. really wasn't a big deal. maria bello in cheerleader gear, viggo knifing a dude with his dong out, all totally natural.
― goole, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
c. 13 years old cape fear cheek bite rape with high school friend's mum
― conrad, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
lol I showed Bad Santa to my parents, too
― have a nice blood (mh), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
maria bello in cheerleader gear, viggo knifing a dude with his dong out, all totally natural.
as one does
― have a nice blood (mh), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
oh god i forgot i made my dad take me to see Kids in the theater. big mistake in about fifty ways, at the time or ever
― goole, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
oof
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
watched 'do the right thing' with my mom
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
yeah that got pretty ugly afterwards, shit
xp
― goole, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, February 19, 2014
my dad & mom did this! my mom said she hid her face in her hands the whole time
― sleeve, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
I saw Coming to America with my parents, with the famous opening hottub scene. I think I was slightly pre-adolescent at the time.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
when I saw ghostbusters at age 9 and there's that scene where akroyd dreams about the sexy chick ghost giving him a spectral blowjob and his eyes cross, I had no idea what the hell was going on (haha how embarrassing she's pulling his pants off) but I remember my dad saying "uh oh!" and looking like he'd made a huge mistake showing us the movie.
I saw JFK with my parents and there wasn't any "sex" beyond Costner and spacek having a go at it after RFK got shot but that scene where tommy lee jones, pesci, and k-bacon are hanging out in powdered wigs (actually TLJ was covered head to toe in gold paint) smacking the hell out of each other and pesci shouting at TLJ "you're mine Mary!" or whatever was pretty awkward to watch.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
teenaged me and my parents in a hotel room, watching the Accused.
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Purple Rain w/ Dad
― That's So (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
Heh. We were watching Ghostbusters with my kid the other night and I naturally averted my eyes at the dream sequence.
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
I remember going to see both Kramer vs. Kramer and The Shining in theaters with my parents, at age 10 and 11 respectively, and both featured full-frontal female nudity, which I don't think they expected. They were pretty sanguine about it, though.
Both my parents were pretty cool about that kind of thing, looking back. Heck, my mother took me to see Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip when I was 13. Frankly, by then, my parents were divorced, my mother was working nights and my sister and I consumed much worse fare on cable pretty much all the time.
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
i watched Top Gun at a friend's house in grade school. when the big "take my breath away" business happened my friend was covering up his face but still watching through his fingers and giggling like an idiot, and his mom (who was otherwise ignoring us) suddenly was coming into the room saying "i don't know about this, boys" but didn't make us fwd it or anything. i thought their reaction was way weirder than what was happening onscreen. i'm pretty sure i'd seen it already, and i know my friend had, he had the damn tape. i got the feeling they did this everytime he watched it. they were pretty religious.
― goole, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Excalibur and Conan the Barbarian (where Conan sleeps w a witch who tries to kill him and flies away in ghost form).
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
i watched the hell out of both of those as a kid but my parents weren't into movies with swords
― goole, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
except the branagh henry v. unless brian blessed has his ass out i think that's pretty vanilla.
― goole, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
National Lampoon's European Vacation was my favorite movie when I was a kid and it's filled with sex jokes but I think that I mostly watched it alone or pretended just not to get them. Also, boobs.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
I think my parents cared less about things like boobs and references to sex then they did about some other things. For instance, I wasn't allowed to watch "You Can't Do That on Television" or MTV because they were "gross".
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
I think they were just inconsistent in the strictness.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
Never stupid enough to watch more-than-PG films with my parents, but I do have: one of Gilda Radner's SNL characters talking about 'penis envy' when I was 11 and watching it with my dad; was genuinely worried he didn't know what penis envy was (and embarrassed). Also VERY QUICK FAST-FORWARD of Darling Nikki on Purple Rain cassette in grandfather's car.
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
I nagged my mom into letting me watch Fatal Attraction (which my parents had already seen in theatres), which she finally agreed on with the condition that she watch it with me and that we discuss it afterwards. I suppose this is a fair practice, but when your first Talk About Sex is the result of having just watched Michael Douglas and Glenn Close fuck on a kitchen counter ("you know, that's not how people really have sex" is a phrase forever burned into my memory), it kind of puts most other awkwardnesses that one will encounter in their lives into some perspective.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
lol dying
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
yeah your mom burned you pretty good there
― goole, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Ever since I was a kid, when I watched a movie with my mom that included a couple showering, she would say things like, "That doesn't really work. Looks fun, but it's not."
― That's So (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
I remember an SNL skit where Phil Hartman played Frank Sinatra reading Madonna's "Sex" book for a book-on-tape, and he just kept saying "I like my vagina" over and over again and the channel was changed.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
oh man that Hartman/"Sex" sketch is a good one
― have a nice blood (mh), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
One thing I find kind of amusing in light of my Fatal Attraction memory is that it was hardly the first time I'd seen sex, or at least nudity, on screen. We were always watching stuff like the Vacation films and A Fish Called Wanda. It's fuzzy, but I even sorta remember watching one of the Porky's films with my parents. I suppose there might have been an presumption of "most the dirty stuff will go right over the kids' heads" at work here, but I also wonder if there isn't a belief that comedy makes things more palatable. I dunno.
Related anecdote: I once got in trouble for calling my sister a "slut." I didn't know what the word meant, but I'd heard it on The Golden Girls and it sounded funny. It didn't help that I did this in front of company.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
the scene in Airplane! when the naked female passenger runs across the screen - v. uncomfortable
went to see airplane at the cinema with my mum, and the plastic automatic pilot blowjob scene was much more awkward viewing than a brief glimpse of boobies
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
i've told this story before but when i was eight my family took me to see 'ghost,' which i found completely bewildering and impossible to understand because a) my mom covered my eyes during all the 'important' scenes and b) i'd thought we were going to see 'ghost dad' and kept wondering when bill cosby was going to show up.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
hahahaha
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
My younger sister and I watched an episode of "Wiseguy" in which Steven Bauer and Martika have sex, and Mom, annoyed, says, "What a bad actress. She can't even fake it well."
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
zero recollection of doing this but i yelled "they're naked!" in a movie theater during an r rated viewing of Excalibur. apparently to great enjoyment of the audience.
― bnw, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah! Our 10th grade English teacher, a Marist brother, showed us Excalibur but forgot to fast forward through Arthur's dad's fuck session in armor.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
My parents never watched movies, something that was inexplicable to them as it was to me, so there never were any uncomfortable film situations. But there was one time involving "Weekend," the NBC news program with Lloyd Dobbins (and later Linda Ellerbee). There was an extremely intense segment once about incest and child sexual abuse, and my mother jumped up and changed the channel when a young woman recalling her childhood said "...and then he started masturbating himself on me..." I guess I would have been 11 or so?
― needs more garlic → (WilliamC), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
My French girlfriend at the time and I took my dad and his then girlfriend to see Marquis. I think my dad's gf weas a little unsettled by the experience.
― A specialist in foolery (Michael White), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
me too
― goole, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
I don't remember inviting you
― A specialist in foolery (Michael White), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
he sat behind you guys making moaning sounds
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
In a dog mask.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
initially misinterpreted this thread as sex scenes you watched containing your parents and started dry-heaving
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
spoiler warning, guys
― goole, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
but uhm don't think we actually watched any in my pre-high school days cuz if we were watching a movie and clothes came off my dad would shout "CLOSE YOUR EYES" and periodically interject "keep em closed" while my brother and I snuck peeks.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Y Tu Mama Tambien on Christmas eve is the main one that comes to mind. As I recall, everyone pretended it was no big deal.
Watching the Diaz/Segel movie Sex Tape on a plane, with strangers on both sides, was also in many ways a poor decision.
― jmm, Thursday, 5 March 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
he listened to your parents sexing?
xpost
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 March 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
I too saw "Clash of the Titans" in the theatre as a kid; my mother took me and my friend. When the breasts appeared, my mother laughed and taught us the word "gratuitous".
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 5 March 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
xpost: my parents' love was not constrained by pedestrian events like "son having a sleepover"
― DJP, Thursday, 5 March 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
My parents took us to see "Godfather" at the drive-in when I was five. After that, I don't remember. Tbh my mom was more disturbed by violence. But my grandma walked in on my brother and I watching soft porn on Cinemax, but she wasn't shocked or angry. We just acted like we stumbled on it by accident.
― NO CLOO (I M Losted), Friday, 6 March 2015 01:08 (nine years ago) link
We grew up near a notorious red light district, so you could find hardcore porn magazines in the alley or woods. Best to take a more liberal parenting approach when that's what your kids are growing up with.
― NO CLOO (I M Losted), Friday, 6 March 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
My dad made me look away during the innocuous non-nudity in Christmas Vacation.
Then yelled at me for catching me watching Sex and the Single Alien.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 6 March 2015 01:15 (nine years ago) link
And then I got my own VCR and TV so I could watch smut in private, taped Real Sex 18, then mistook said tape for an extra credit video for history and gave it to my teacher.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 6 March 2015 01:17 (nine years ago) link
Hell they even flipped out at the pool scene in Death Becomes Her. I always was more embarrassed by their overreaction than anything.
Omg it's butts
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 6 March 2015 01:21 (nine years ago) link
God, when I rented Shame I was waiting for my dad to finish with TV so I could watch it, but he kept sitting there saying "putting on your movie." I waited until like 12:30 in the morning for him to go to sleep so I could start it.
― ed.b, Friday, 6 March 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
"put on your movie" that is, the implication being he'd watch it too,
― ed.b, Friday, 6 March 2015 01:39 (nine years ago) link
that is one big dick in that movie iirc
― mushaboom kids (rip van wanko), Friday, 6 March 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
also one big dick of a movie
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Friday, 6 March 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link
http://www.tr10023.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Dances-with-Wolves.jpg
― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Friday, 6 March 2015 02:04 (nine years ago) link
God, when I rented Shame
I feel such sadness that 99.4% of the time ppl are not meaning the Bergman film when they say this
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 March 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link
would make for a hell of a childhood,
― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Friday, 6 March 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link
i mean rowr ullman, amirite?
― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Friday, 6 March 2015 02:10 (nine years ago) link
Only Morbs deigns to humblebrag his film knowledge amidst a cacophony of shamefully awkward erect penii.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 6 March 2015 02:14 (nine years ago) link
the bergman film isn't very good either!
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 6 March 2015 04:31 (nine years ago) link
/insert nasty comment from morbs here/
haha this thread is gold.
― piscesx, Friday, 6 March 2015 04:39 (nine years ago) link
it's like that special episode of Full House where Uncle Jesse got stabbed by Brian Wilson
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 6 March 2015 04:52 (nine years ago) link
When I was in high school id watch videos at my friend Jim's house. His father would often join us however if a non-PG rated scene of a sexual nature came on, his father would leap out of his chair, make a beeline to the kitchen calling out to us: 'Coffee? Tea? Bonox? Anyone??'To this day when I get the vibe that someone is trying to make a move, I can't help but think to myself 'Coffee? Tea? Bonox?'
― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Friday, 6 March 2015 07:01 (nine years ago) link
Obviously it can't match the exquisite perfection of Back to the Future, but it's still an amazing movie
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 6 March 2015 12:21 (nine years ago) link
Didn't watch it with my father but many years ago I lent him my copy of Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (can't recall for the life of me how that came about or what possessed me to do this). When I asked him what he thought of it he just said it was "good".
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 March 2015 12:37 (nine years ago) link
"good egg"
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 6 March 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
I watched Leaving Las Vegas with my mom when I was a teenager. I’ve never recovered and it’s never been discussed.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 6 March 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
I share the sentiment that I’m way more of a prude than my parents.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 6 March 2015 13:16 (nine years ago) link
To this day when I get the vibe that someone is trying to make a move, I can't help but think to myself 'Coffee? Tea? Bonox?'
lol
― drash, Friday, 6 March 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
had to google bonox. what the fuck.
― goole, Friday, 6 March 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
i missed one: i got taken to see Black Robe in the theater, so i would have been in 8th or 9th grade. there's some doggystyle in a teepee iirc. the theater was pretty crowded; p sure there was some uncomfortable coughing.
i was more freaked out by the guy getting his finger cut off with a broken oyster shell.
terrific movie btw, a fave of the whole family.
― goole, Friday, 6 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link