Movies your Mom did not want you to SEE!

[GoreFollower]

Everyone reading this has a mom, or came out of a female and now you have two gay guys as your mom and dad. I don't know what your parential gaurdian is, mean c'mom, these days you can be raised by squirrels. But anyway, our parential gaurdians want to protect us (most of the time) from the evil outside forces. The most simple forces are tv, movies, and music.
Remember those "Parental Advisory" stickers on CD's and Tapes that were supposed to warn parents of what contents were in their children's music. It used to be a great tool for parents until all music had cursing and explicits in it. So the sticker has become almost invisible.
You know those TV rating boxes in the upper right hand corner of the tv screen that shows up on every tv show. It was also popular with parents but is now almost as invisible as the "PA" sticker on music items.
Now Finally, we have the movies. I'm sure sometime in your life. Mommy or Daddy said that you could never see that specific movie, or you will die a painful death. Ratings still work in movies but its pretty easy now to get into a "R" rated film even though you are under the age limit. All it takes is skill and practice. Anyway, here are the movies my parents tried to avoid me from:
-The Excorcist
-Halloween
-Pulp Fiction
-Psycho
-Night of the Living Dead
-Die Hard Series
-Natural Born Killers
-Reservoir Dogs
(Basically tried to avoid me from seeing any Quentin Tarantino Film)
-Se7en
-Dumb and Dumber
(And many, many more that I can't remember at this very moment.
I would also like to bring up the fact that my parent's Operation Must-Protect-Child ultimately failed because I saw all of these movies. Now, what are your thoughts?

"We came, We Saw, We kicked it's ass!"- Bill Murray- Ghostbusters /forums/images/icons/cool.gif

[DangerSeeker]

My mom didn't want to watch the movies with me, because she said she didn't enjoy them, but she never stopped me from watching anything, really. She just reminded me before and after the movie that none of it was real. There were special effects, actors, etc, and trusted that I'd see the difference between right and wrong. Michael Myers killing people? Wrong thing to do.

She did think twice about Life of Brian, though. She said she didn't want me questioning things so early in Catholic school. She asked me to give it a few years. The odd thing was, I'd already watched Clockwork Orange.

[FanGirl]

I didn't really have any restrictions. I watched whatever. I remember my first R rated movie was Goldie Hawn's Wildcats. I don't remember how old I was, but I was young.

There were a couple of movies that my mom asked me not to watch like Thelma and Louise and Casualities of War because of the rape scenes. And since my dad is a Vietnam Vet, all Jane Fonda anything was forever banned as well as Apocolypse Now.

[meandmyshadow]

Not really a movie, but I was watching an episode of Airwolf one time, and Jan Michael Vincent said the word "slut". I was pretty young then, and when I repeated it in front of my mom, I was never allowed to watch Airwolf again. (sorry for being off-topic, but I saw this thread and felt the opportunity to air out some childhood trauma)

[code6enterprises]

My first R film was 'Revege of the Nerds.'

[Omaru]

my mom didn't want me to watch the black and white original version of the fly when I was eight, unknown to her I had already seen the 1980's remake about a year before.

I cant remember my first R film, but I remember how nightmare on elm street made me always sprint past the water boiler door outside the bathroom.in my youth I probably found demons 1 & 2 scary.

[psychofiend]

My first R film; age 2, Childs Play 2.
Movies my mom did not want me to see:
Pulp Fiction-I now own the special edition DvD. My mom thought it glorified drugs.
Eyes Wide Shut-I have no interest in it anyway.

[MinerWerks]

My parents never forbade me to watch specific movies. I kind of policed myself, oddly enough.

But I will say that I got the weirdest feeling when somehow a conversation elicited the fact that both my parents have seen AMERICAN PIE...

* shudder *

[THX1138]

When I was a kid my mom forbade me from watching Hunt for Red October. I never found out why and she doesn't remember telling me that. To this day I have never seen it. The weird thing is, my mother watched American Pie 1&2 with me. Neither one of us was uncomfortable we have the same sense of humor.

[psychofiend]

My mom says she doubted her parenting skills because of when we watched Summer of Sam together.

[Tarantino_Fan]

Heres a list:

The Excorcist (finally saw it at 11)
Natural Born Killers (saw it the other night)

My mom wasn't big on censorship.

[psychofiend]

When I grow up I hope movies will explain things which I am going to be uncomfortable talking about with my kids.

[Tarantino_Fan]

"Here son, watch this movie, which will explain to you about sex. It's called Basement Ghetto Sluts 2."

[psychofiend]

Nah, Fast times at ridgemont will explain a lot. Without being so graphic as pornography. Not to mention school tells way too much.

[ratm1966]

I think I have to agree with Tarantino_Fan on the choice of movie.

[psychofiend]

I thought about it and showgirls is the perfect movie for teaching the kids.

[Zens_7s]

I was noticing something odd. Most of us say we were not censored too much by our parents. I was not censored by my mother at all; in fact, she encouraged any excuse to take me to the movies while growing up. GoreFollower was very strictly raised, and he is the guy posting the most disgusting links and professing his love of all things gory. (No offense Gore, all stuff you have told us before).

Makes you consider how telling someone "no" all the time will drive them in the opposite direction.

[ratm1966]

You know, I have to agree with you 100% there. My mom refused to let me listen to the Devil's Music (Rock N Roll) when I was a kid. I had to sneak it. I think if she heard what I listen to today, she would faint....Rage Against The Machine, NIN, Marilyn Manson, ICP, Monster Magnet, etc.

[psychofiend]

I guess since there are so few movies my mom won't let me see I am pretty normal.

[Dr3vil]

There were some things my mom didn't like me watching as a kid. Fortunately, I'm a born insomniac and while I wasn't watching infomercials (they were so great in the 80's), I was watching all the horror movies I could ever want. Because of that, what she would or wouldn't let me watch wasn't much of an issue.

The only time she was ever pissed off was when my sister played Nirvana's "Rape Me" for me when I was around 7. I didn't understand what was so bad, I had heard the word before and it was the first Nirvana song I actually liked (never got into teen spirit).

[GoreFollower]

My mother tried to block me from all violence, nudity, language, etc. in films. But when she would be out for the night my dad would always give me a movie like "Die Hard" and go watch it before the "b*tch" gets home.

"It's Hirby Hanckock"-Chris Farley- Tommy Boy

[DangerSeeker]

My mom is 59, and actually really likes Rage and NIN. She raised me on the Beatles, CCR, Sam Cooke, etc., though.

I was told when I was 6 not to say words like sh!t in school. Now I am honestly not a terribly profane person. The words lost their power.

At work, there are plenty of things I'm told not to do, such as post on this message board. At first I was sly about it, but finally I asked them if I do my job. They said yes. I said don't rock the boat.

Rebellion is only born of oppression, not appeasement.

[Friendly_Giant]

for me, its weird. my mom said she didn't want me to see pulp fiction or scarface. i ended up seeing them both and i know own pulp fiction and i plan to get scarface.

[Urban_Spaceman]

The first and only example of this that comes to mind is "Striptease" with Demi Moore; other than that, my mom never really banned any certain movies by titles. As far as music goes, to this day she still can't stand Eminem or Marilyn Manson, although I'm starting to think that she's now thinking Manson is just trying to get attention and not put out music that requires effort to create.