Weapons (Zach Cregger, August 8, 2025) Movie • Page 40

I used to watch all sorts of crazy stuff as a kid, and I loved horror movies, but so far no horror for my kids.

my mom had a deal with the lady who ran the video store in our town that I could rent R-rated movies, but if I tried to get anything too crazy she would call my mom and ask - I remember getting shot down for Basic Instinct haha

 

I don’t think MPAA ratings mattered to my parents when I was a child; it was more about content. Violence was prefectly ok but sex and nudity weren’t

 

I watched scream in 3rd grade and definitely had recurring nightmares about being chased by a killer. No need to recreate that for my own kids

 

hot dog talk is permitted in all threads

 

i didn't sleep for almost a full week when i first watched I Know What You Did Last Summer and i was like 9 or 10.

i would just rent stuff from the library and my parents didnt really care what i watched as long as it wasnt south park lol

 

Thank god, I thought it was only allowed this thread, the politics thread, the Unpopular Entertainment Opinions thread, the NFL thread, and the Accountability in Music thread

 

my younger brother is 6 years younger than me, and he wanted to watch The Blair Witch Project when he was young, and my parents asked me if it's bad and I said it doesn't show anything, I was meaning like there's no nudity or gore, and he watched it and was TRAUMATIZED - my parents were so mad at me for that

 

if anyone gets on you for talkin' dogs you let me know

 

I had this same arrangement except it was between me and the video store and they wouldn't call my parents. I abused my privileges and rented Superbad with a friend and that friend's mom found out and I got in trouble lol

this was my parents as well, but they were also huge sticklers for language - even more so than sex, weirdly

 

Yep, I was also allowed to watch any R rated horror I wanted as long as it didn’t have nudity lol

 

My dad was a huge stickler for language. I used to pull songs into Audacity and edit the f-word out of them.

 

my parents drew the line at Parental Advisory stickers on CDs though lol

 

The only album I ever had trouble getting was Hybrid Theory because I think some mass shooter listened to it and/or the news was warning people about it. After a day or two of bugging my mom, she agreed that if I could find the lyrics online and show them to her, she’d take a look. I did, and she was basically like “uh yeah I don’t see anything concerning” and bought it for me lol

 

I never really put it together, but this was how it worked for me too - all sorts of gore & violence were perfectly fine but nudity or sex were a no go

 

My mom was appalled when I bought Good Charlotte's The Young and the Reckless (?)

I have a lot of fond memories of renting and watching both Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters and Saw III on our family desktop with headphones and pausing them every time my mom walked in. Lmao

 

I was 18 when Superbad came out. Aaron getting in trouble for renting it makes me feel 85.

 

same lol

 

I saw pretty much every Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme movie that was on VHS tape when I was eight years old. There is a period of time when I told people that my favorite movie was Double Impact, the one where Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a pair of twins. There was no way that I would watch a horror movie though.

 

Double Impact! now that is a blast from the past! also funnily enough, one of the few movies that I somehow snuck past that did have some nudity / sex if I remember correctly

I also remember loving Geoffrey Lewis in this as a kid, which strikes me as kinda funny now

 

first nudez i ever saw was kate winslet and i was in a theater with my mom so, she really had no leg to stand on as far as that went after that.

 

My seventh grade teacher played Titanic on the TV in our classroom and when it got to that part, she paused the movie and looked at us and said “Eh. You guys are old enough to see this.” And pressed play. I had skipped a grade so I was 11 years old and it felt transgressive.

 

yeah I was only 3 (I am 15 years old now)

 

What was everyone’s first r-rated movie in theaters? Mine was Paul.

 

My Bloody Valentine 3D. My friend's mom accompanied us and the first scene is literally a woman running around, full-frontal nude, for like three minutes straight in 3D lmao. Friend's mom attempted to stretch her arms out to cover all of our eyes but it obviously didn't do much good.

It's a really funny memory and nice introduction to R-rated horror in theaters. Still an underrated remake.

 

nightmare on elm street reboot i think. i was 15 probably? went with my cousin that was a couple years older

edit: spring 2010 so i was 16