Jaymole

I started a thread like this a long, long time ago and I thought I would try it again as I enjoyed the responses.

The film that I remember most not getting to see was The Graduate. Actually I did get to see the first 10 minutes but I knew that it was only a matter of time before it was shut off as that stupid "parental discretion is advised" warning came up before the movie started. That kept my mom in the living room as she gauged the suitability of the film and what damage it could cause to my emotional stability. When Dustin Hoffman said his famous line "Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me" my mom shot me a look and asked me what the word seduce meant. Knowing that it meant having sex, I proudly proclaimed so, expecting my mom to be proud of my knowledge & maturity, but instead, she immediately turned the TV off. I got screwed out of seeing the film because I wasn't naive!

Any films you couldn't see because of your parents acted like the Flanders?

Chew

I wasn't allowed to watch any Bond films.

Pu$$y Galore? *click*

Smidget

I remember when Species and Starship Troopers came out I wanted to see them sooooooooo bad, I was in 5th? grade I think, and aliens + gore = coolest thing ever. But parents were like "no no no no." I never did see Species, but from the reviews it seems like I didn't miss much, but Starship Troopers rocks

PalmerJoss

My parents let me watch pretty much whatever I wanted because I stayed over my grandparents house quite frequently and they had an enormous collection of movies--somewhere in the vicinity of three thousand. I was watching Porky's, Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds, and Nightmare on Elm Street when most kids my age were watching GI Joe.

Rypro 525

three words for ya
"Natasha Henstrige naked!" rent it at least

Geofferson

I was allowed to watch pretty much everything as well. The only time my dad told me I could not watch a particular movie was Wild Orchid w/ Mickey Rourke - but only because my mom was in the room at the time. I was probably 10 or 12 yrs old at the time.

joeydaninja

Topaz. HAHA!

nodoubt

i was allowed to watch anything except porn.

but my dad did tell me to shut off menace to society because of the language

renaldow

The only movie I was never allowed to watch was Taxi Driver. This would've been just a couple years after it came out and I was about 8yo. My older siblings aged 13-17 got to watch it though.

There was a channel in Seattle (Now the FOX affilliate) at the time (way before cable came around) that used to show it's movies uncut. I got to watch Apocolypse Now, Deer Hunter, Carrie, and quite a few others uncut when I was about 10-12. When I was 12 we got actual real cable TV with Showtime and The Movie Channel, and I got to watch whatever I wanted. Again (dang, I'm sounding old!) this was back before cable programmed for family hours and the like, and they'd show a hard R movie or a bloody R horror movie at anytime of the day. I'd come home from school and watch Friday the 13th, or some similar film. It was great.

shill66

Deliverance. But here's the thing: it was on prime-time network television! I was allowed to watch the duelling banjos, and then I had to turn it off. Must have been sometime around 1979 or so. ...So I just saw the movie for the first time a few months ago.

ArchibaldTuttle

I couldn't rent rated R movies till I was like around 13 or 14, and my mom wouldn't let me watch the Toxic Avenger for some reason

Ginwen

The only two I specifically remember were The Exorcist and The Godfather movies. I think they were probably right, especially on the Exorcist (if I'd seen that when it came out, when I was 10 years old, I probably would have been traumatized for life).

I never actually got around to seeing The Exorcist until it was rereleased a couple of years ago.

Jazzbutcher

My parents wouldn't let me stay up to see Charlton "from my cold dead hands" Heston in The Omega Man when it was on network TV. I was so pissed because everyone at school was talking about how cool it was the next day.

cheapskate

I never wanted to see any R rated movies when I was a kid - they didn't appeal to me ... for some bizzare reason I was more interested in kid's movies!??!

I did have a shady friend with a deadbeat dad that let me watch things like Predator and Kickboxer on VHS... I just thought they were gross - especially the shin bone sticking through the flesh in Kickboxer... urgh

... and I turned out OK

Steve Phillips

JAWS. I read the book instead, which had much more material which they would have found objectionable.

tronmaster

Hee. I wasn't allowed to watch any Rated R movies. So growing up during the 80s, I missed out all the "teen" movies such as The Breakfast Club, Lethal Weapon, Top Gun, etc.

When they had the first PG-13 movie, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I was 13 1/2, I had to go watch it with my father.

To tell you the truth I never have rented any of the above named Rated R movies. So basically, I have only seen the TBS or Pan and Scan Cable version.

Trigger

My parents didn't give a crap what I watched... My mom took me to see Risky Business in the theater when I was like 8 or 9... I saw Bonnie and Clyde when I was little... we had HBO from the time I was 7 or 8.

jasonbird

I remember wanting to see Conan so bad when it first came out,
but Dad wouldn't let us see anything R. so finally when it came
onto HBO he edited it for us to see. He did a terrible job at
editing.

Jason

Adrenaline

You gotta see Species 1 & 2, for the sake of seeing Natasha Henstrige naked repeatedly, what more could you ask for?

Corvin

My parents were pretty relaxed about what I could watch as a child, and I thank them for it.

To put things in perspective, my favorite movie as a child was probably Terminator II. I remember whenever I was sick and had to stay home from school my mom would always rent it for me. Those were the days. . .

tasha99

Me too. My parents had one of those huge old clunker vcrs (very state of the art back then) and had taped it. One night they came home and found a lime the lazyboy. My brother made up some story about eating fruit while watching some wholesome show, but what we'd really done was make gin and tonics to sip on while we watched Deliverence.

tasha

cheapskate

That's hilarious - Conan the Barbarian: Dad's Cut

Big Boy Laroux

I specifically remember my mom not allowing me to watch "the last boy scout" with bruce willis

A friend and I were actually started watching the movie. my mom walked through the room and heard F this and F that, and qucikly ejected the tape.

theneobez

Show Girls. . .

rocket1312

I wasn't allowed to watch Silence Of The Lambs.

I remember my mom and her friend renting it when it first came out (I was 11) and my sister and I sat down with them (as we usually did when my parents rented movies), but my mom made us leave after about 5 minutes. This was the only time she ever kept me from watching something (except for pro-wrestling). In fact, I remember watching stuff like Caddy Shack with my parents when I was 6 or 7. (my first nude scene!)

To this day, I've never seen Silence Of The Lambs completely uncut. Can't say I have any nagging desire to either.