Mine was the first resident evil (lol). I saw it with a group of friends and we were all minors, around 12-13 years old and we never got carded.
Ah that stinker of a movie, fond memories of Mila kicking a zombie dog in mid-air.
the matrix
Fuck ya, same. Gotta say though, as rated R movies go its pretty fuckin tame. It would get PG-13 today, no doubt
they say the f word more than once, which is automatic R
Ratings have gotten more strict, in the 70s, 80s and 90s it was much more relaxed and you had obscene violence in PG movies
PG-13 didn’t exist until
, they introduced it because the PG rating was getting more violent. Once introduced PG became “general audiences”, G became “kids”, and PG-13 became “general audiences with guns”.There was stuff in the 80s rated PG that would be rated R now
Like what?
AFAIK The Texas Chainsaw Massacre got an R rating, but the director was initially going for PG, which is why it’s so lacking in actual gore. Most of the blood seen in the film is from the lead actress cutting herself on accident when she stumbled through a thorn bush (the blood on her clothes in that chase scene is real).
Movies that are PG that probably would be rated R if released today:
- Jaws
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Spaceballs (I think they even drop multiple F-bombs in this one lol)
- Big
- The Graduate
- Eraserhead
- Fritz the Cat
- Airplane!
- Beetlejuice
- Top Gun
lol maybe I’m misremembering but I’m pretty sure Fritz gets into an orgy in like the first 10 minutes of the movie, is it really PG???
Gremlins, Poltergeist, the cut version of Barbarella, Beetlejuice, Watership Down to name a few
Terminator 2, by a long country mile. We had it on tape my dad had bootlegged, watched it too many times.
The first movie that fucked me up was the original Dawn of the Dead. Watched that at 11. That was a mistake. I did not handle Roger’s death scene well, hooo boy.
Monty Python and the Meaning of Life
A babysitter didn’t know what it was. I think I was 8 or so.
Great movie, though.
fight club
this is why i’m gay
bought tickets for Spy Kids and snuck into Bad Boys 2
I feel like if you catch a tween sneaking into a R-rated film literally called “bad boys” you are cosmically required to let them go.
A bunch of us kids squeezed into the Cool Older Brother’s room to watch Terminator 2 on VHS while all the parents had a nice wine party out in the back yard. It was a super intense experience for me. I was really upset by innocent bystanders getting blown away, and the judgement day dream scene freaked me out for weeks afterwards. On the flip side, it was the coolest shit I’d ever seen.
Watching the original Texas Chainsaw on a small crt while hallucinating my way through a fever on Halloween. Must’ve been around 8 years old or something.
RoboCop
Had it on VHS
Must have watched it at least 20 times before I was ten
Ah yeah Robocop, cool. I had some toys from it but my parents didn’t let me watch the movie. But aliens? I injected that shit into my veins (with parental supervision).
The 2001 remake of Thirteen Ghosts. A stinker of a film, but my first exposure to that kind of horror gore, so it sticks with me to this day.
Although, now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I had played Resident Evil before that movie came out - but PS1 graphics didn’t hit the same, not even back then.
Enter the Ninja on VHS, which, in spite of the title, is not a gay porno.
First R-rated movie I saw was Predator, followed soon by Alien, Aliens, and The Terminator/Terminator 2 (all thanks to my dad, who thought 3-year-olds should see penis monsters exploding from people’s chest). I think my mom just gave up because she’d let me watch them whenever I wanted later as I was growing up.
Devils advocate. I was way too young to have seen it
Tombstone when I was like 8, I’m the youngest cousin in the extended family. It’s still one of my top 10 movies.
I’m not a big movie guy, and I don’t really like gory stuff, and I grew up in a weird religious community, so probably like … animal house or blues brothers, which I watched at a friend’s house.
I don’t really remember either of them, but why was blues brothers R rated? I know animal house had some pervy
shitPretty sure it was Scary Movie. I had no business watching that as a kid but I ate that series up.
