What was the first R-rated movie you saw, how old were you and who...

[LynneSin]

...did you go with?

My first R-Rated movie was "The Jerk". I was in a major Steve Martin kick because of a couple of his songs actually playing on the top-40 stations and for some bizarre reason I thought he was really cute. So I begged my mom to take me to go see "The Jerk" when I was 14 years old. My mom didn't see any big deal in the movie and I think she fell asleep about 20 minutes into it.

She kept taking me to the movies about 3-4 times a year until one time she picked the movie she wanted to see because Dolly Parton was in it and she was a big Dolly Parton/Country music fan. Of course that was "Best lil Whorehouse in Texas" and it turns out my mother had no idea what a whorehouse was until she saw the movie.

She hasn't seen a movie in the theaters since then

[HeeBGBz]

1. The Graduate - I was 17

My cousin and I double-dated with some guys from St Louis.

First time I saw breasts on film. Thank you, Anne Bancroft.

Incidently, I am now MS Robinson, hehehe.

Coo coo ka choo!

[Cerridwen]

2. Klute

My mom and brother were out of town, my dad and I were stuck home due to his work and my school. We decided to go to a movie; I think I picked it. I was 13 or 14 at the time.

During some of the steamier scenes, I could see my big, burly dad's face glowing bright red he was so embarrassed. I don't think he could decide if he wanted to hide my eyes or if he wanted to just have the seat swallow him up.

:rofl:

I think that was the first time I ever knew my dad had emotions other than anger and rage.

[meegbear]

3. The Chiorboys with my older brother and his friends ...

he wanted to see it but he had to take me to the movies. My parents wouldn't let go see an R-rated movie, so he said we were going to some PG flick.

It was quite shocking - remember the sexual parts manily. There was a dominatrix that was beating guys that I didn't understand at the time; it was actually a subplot, so she was in it a few times.

Have yet to resee it.

[peekaloo]

4. The Exorcist

A friend and I conned an older woman standing in line to just pretend she was our mom. When we got to the window we looked at her and asked if we could pay for our own tickets. She just rolled her eyes.

I was 13.

p.s. That movie scared the shit out of both of us. The mere thought of being possessed ruined my sleeping pattern for a few weeks.

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. "An American Werewolf in London" when I was 9- on HBO

Watched it at my aunt's house- she is a big sci-fi/horror nut. She made me cover my eyes during the naughty bits.

[LynneSin]

12. we're talking movie theater here hun

:D

[Beware the Beast Man]

14. Sorry, didn't realize your Lounge threads were so freaking technical.

That would be "Friday the 13th, Part 6," when I was 12.

[LynneSin]

20. Hey, don't make me do this to you!!!

[Burma Jones]

6. M*A*S*H

I went with my friend Ben, I was 12 and got in because the ticket taker at the theater was Ben's older Brother.

[WCGreen]

7. Clockwork Orange....

I was about 13-14 at the time and they were playing it in one of the first multiplex movies in Cleveland. We snuck in, of course....

I think we had seen Willie Wonka naa ran into the John and hid until the crowd went away and then snuck into to see Clockwork Orange

[meow2u3]

8. Animal House--I was 18

Went with a co-worker to see it.

[gmoney]

10. Me too...

Went with a friend. We had to lie to his mom and tell her we were going to see "Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe" but I'd bet she figured it out.

[Democrats_win]

58. Me three...at 18 too.

[nickinSTL]

9. The Thing

The John Carpenter version (as far as I remember, this was my first...but then, my parents were never that big on censoring what I watched, so it might not have been)

I was 9, and my dad took me.

[Coventina]

11. The Breakfast Club

I was 16 I think, and I begged my mom to take me to see it.

A friend and I had tried to sneak in to see it a few days before but had been carded. :eyes:

My mom actually liked the movie. She had gone in under protest, because to her, a rated "R" meant pornography.

[tigereye]

15. I think it was called The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

I have no idea why I went to see it, other than that it was Rated R. It was creepy. I think I was 16.

:shrug:

[Doctor_J]

21. Not a bad movie

I don't know whatever happened to Michael Sarazin. He somehow managed to keep Jacqueline Bisset entertained for 10-12 years, so he must have something going for him.

[Dora]

13. The Blues Brothers, at 9 years old.

My dad took my brother and me, after discussing it with my mother first. I thought the movie was hysterical, and it all went way over my head. My favoritest part was Aretha singing in the diner, and all the people dancing in the street. What fun!

I watched it again years later. Still thought it was funny, the tunes were even better, and it was nice to "get it" the second time around.

[youspeakmylanguage]

31. "One Timex digital watch, broken. One unused prophylactic....one soiled."

Hilarious...

[progmom]

16. Whoa - my first R-rated movie was The Jerk too!

I was 7.
My uncle got in a little bit of trouble for taking me to it. :D

[Eugene]

17. "Bad Bunch" - Around age 13

with friends.

A local theater ran lots of low grade blaxploitation and
martial arts films and they never checked ages.

[RebelOne]

18. Never On Sunday.

None of you will remember it.

[Z_I_Peevey]

I remember that one.

Melina Mercouri.

BTW, I have no idea what my first R-rated movie was, but I'll bet it starred Claudia Jennings.

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

19. Bram Stoker's Dracula

I was 9 and my mom took me and a friend of mine. I recently rewatched this movie for the first time in a long time and can't believe how bad it is.

[Aristus]

29. My first R was the Frank Langella "Dracula".

It was really too romantic and stylized to be scary. Frank Langella played Dracula like some second-rate lounge lizard. (Epithet not DU-related! :-) )

[youspeakmylanguage]

32. Somewhere along the line, Francis Ford Coppola lost his way...

Thank goodness he's content with just making overpriced wine now.

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

47. I believe it was somewhere in the Philipines

right after Apocalypse Now finished shooting. The four movies he made in the '70's are enough to make anyone feel they had a successful career though.

Francis can stick to the wine, Sophia can continue to make good movies.

[ghostsofgiants]

22. Terminator 2 when it first came out on video

No idea how I got to see it, but it quickly became my favourite movie at the time.

Oh, we're talking in the theatre? That would be Kill Bill Vol. 1 I think. Didn't go to theatres much before then. But my memory sucks, so I could be wrong.

[On the Road]

23. This Might Have Been Before the Ratings

but in 6th grade I was dying to see "Thunderball." My parents had extremely modest sensibilities, and didn't want me to go. James Bond was very cool and very risque then, and all the kids at school were seeing it. So I begged and ended up going with my father.

[ronnykmarshall]

24. Lady Sings the Blues ---- I was 12

I got to hear Diana Ross say "motherfucker"!!!

[Trigger Hippie]

25. Children of the Corn

I was about 10. I wouldn't go to sleep and my mom was watching it so she let me stay with her. I wish she hadn't because that movie haunts me still. :silly:

[SCDem]

40. Still get the willies today driving past a corn field

my older brothers made me watch it when I was young. I was a city girl and so still whenever I happen to drive in the country pass a cornfield I get the willies.

[nyhuskyfan]

26. Creep Show at age 11

For the next week, my friends and I were all yelling, "I want my cake Bedelia, you bitch" and laughing our asses off. We mostly laughed the whole way through until the last one with the cockroaches. That was gross.

I think the next R rated movie (on video) around the same time "Blame It On Rio" which had a more lasting effect. I probably wasn't ready for full frontal female nudity. Hell, I'm 34 now and I'm probably still not ready.

[WeRQ4U]

48. You've got to be kidding me, this is mine too. So odd.

I also saw "Wild Orchid" fairly young. My parents had HBO.

[sundog]

51. no shit! me too! and also at 11

:toast:

[swag]

27. Mine was "Serpico," because I had read the book (I guess I was 11)

and badgered my parents to take me to see the movie until they couldn't stand it any more and finally caved in.

I must have really been getting on their nerves, because my mom is a fundamentalist Christian who intensely dislikes profanity and nudity. She seems cool with extreme violence, though.

[progressoid]

44. Serpico for me too - we went as a family!

Scarred me for life. :sarcasm:

[swag]

28. I think it is very cute that your mom didn't know what a whorehouse was

until she saw that movie.

[youspeakmylanguage]

30. Rambo III (10 years old) was the first I watched in a theater...

I saw a lot more R rated movies on cablebefore that, though. I remember seeing "The Wall" and "Porkey's" I was very, very young and seeing one of the Poltergeist movies when I wasn't very old at all. "The Hollywood Knights" was one of my favorite late-nighters.

My parents did their best, but I was determined to see what was forbidden. I'd sneak downstairs at night and watch late-night HBO. At the time I thought "brief nudity" was the greatest thing in the world.

After all the flashing of boobies and violence at such a tender young age, I turned out to be fairly well-adjusted. Imagine that.

[Reverend_Smitty]

33. I honestly can't remember the first R rated film I saw

My parents never really cared what I watched so it was never really a big deal for me. It might have been Terminator 2 when I was like 9 I went with my next door neighbor and his father. Again another well adjusted adult who was raised on inappropriate video games and movies

[Throckmorton]

34. Looking for Mr. Goodbar, N/T

[Rob H.]

35. I don't know the title, I was 5 or 6, saw it with my parents

All I can remember is that it was a Western and was rated R on account of gunfights 'n' bare bewbies.

[Lilyhoney]

36. The World According To Garp

I was about 9 yrs old. My older sister and her friend took me.

[Divameow77]

37. Indiana Jones Temple of Doom

My dad took me when I was around 7 and boy was my mom pissed.

[Coventina]

59. Actually, that movie was rated PG

It was quite controversial, because of the intensity of the action and the "gross-out" factor.

Many people complained that it was much worse than a typical PG movie, but as there was no sex and no bad language and the violence was considered "cartoon-y" it didn't deserve an R

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was THE MOVIE that brought the PG-13 rating into existence.

Useless trivia!
:-)

[Divameow77]

60. Are you kidding?

I thought it was rated R, dang, at the time it was scary.

[Coventina]

65. Nope, not kidding

I guess you are living proof that the PG-13 rating is a good invention! :-)

FWIW, I was still fairly young when I saw it, and it was pretty darn intense. I remember I hid my eyes a lot.

After it was over, my dad said he felt tired.

[bertha katzenengel]

38. At age twelve (1975) my stepfather took me to see "Death Race 2000"

a futuristic piece of trash set in 2000 in which people drove in races where the goal was to kill as many civilians as possible without being killed yourself by the other racers.

Twelve years old.

Why did he take me to see it, you ask?

Because he had promised to take me to the Angels game. It was jacket night. He called about tickets on the afternoon of the game, then told me they were sold out.

We left a trip to my newly-dead mother's family in Susanville early so I could go to this game. I was torn between going home for the game and staying for the Lassen County Fair.

What a happy memory.

Well, you asked.

:hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

39. BTW, Lynne --

Your poor mom. :blush:

[proud patriot]

41. Invasion of the Body Snatchers w/ Donald Sutherland

:scared: I was 12

[Lumily]

42. The Deer Hunter. I was 10 years old...

...and my mother was(is)insane. I still can't believe she took me and my 8 year old brother to see that movie. She couldn't find a babysitter and was determined to go out on a "date."

It upset me so much. I still can't even watch the edited version of that movie.

[Modem Butterfly]

43. Our parents took us to see Blade Runner when I was 10 and my brother, 12

Someone told them it was just like Star Wars. Someone lied. I didn't see the end of that movie until I was in college.

[Initech]

45. Terminator 2, I believe I was 12 or 13

Yup, most of the R-rated movies I first saw were all Ahnuld flicks.

[sasquatch]

46. Full Metal Jacket- I was 6 years old and went with my dad

[hunter]

49. Blazing Saddles -- I was in high school.

Somebody above mentioned MASH. If I remember correctly MASH, and "A Clockwork Orange" were rated X when they were first released.

The movie ratings were pretty strict then...

As it was, it took a whole lot of pleading to get my mom to let me see Blazing Saddles. My friend's dad took us.

The funny thing about my mom is that she would let us openly read Playboy magazines and such, which upset a few of my friends' parents, but she was very strict about movies. She wouldn't let me and my siblings watch most "M" (or later was it "GP"???) movies.

[Felix Mala]

50. "Summer of '42" -- I was 12

Went to theatre near my grandparents' house. Later, Grandad told my mom: "It's good they show how people lived in those days."

She never wanted to tell him what the movie was really about.

[GalleryGod]

56. Some really erotic scenes in that movie ! Wonderfully shot

Gary Grimes, Lucky Guy Award!:wow:

Jennifer O'Neil what a vision of loveliness & vulnerability.

[mitchtv]

52. Black Orpheus

before ratings. it was a C on the Legion of Decency list ( Objectionable in part)

[youthere]

53. Bachelor Party..

I was 15. My first R movie was a huge moment for me because in my home girls were not allowed to watch R-rated movies because "Girls can get pregnant" (seriously). My older brother took me to see it and I laughed my ass off. I have seen many R rated movies since then and I can tell you that without a doubt none of them have made me pregnant.

[MadHound]

54. The Omen, when I was fourteen

Went with my sister, and yes, it scared the crap out of me. But it wasn't terribly bad, and I really like the film.

[jmm]

55. "Purple Rain" I was four

At my high school graduation party one of my aunts told me she thought I'd be a teenage mom and a drop-out because my parents took me with them to see it. I was always good in public so they'd take me out with them often.

[Redstone]

57. How the HELL am I supposed to remember that?

I can't remember where I was yesterday.

Come to think of it, did anyone see me yesterday? If so, where were you when you saw me? If you can tell me that, I'll know that I was there as well.

Redstone

[Finder]

61. Tommy--1975

with my mother. She was appalled.lol

[gulfcoastliberal]

62. Revenge of the Nerds

I think I was 8 when I saw it. My dad took me. He's a psychiatrist. Go figure.

[Kire]

63. Nightmare on Elm Street

I forget if it was 4 or 5. It was The Dream Child.

[khashka]

64. Animal House

I was a little kid.... and I thought it was porn. I was shocked and appalled. It made me the man I am today....

Khash.

[stlsaxman]

66. 200 Motels...

I was 13, me and my friends were Zappa fans from the start and my Friends mom took us...

"Sure, these aren't MY kids but I'm acting as their guardian. What do you want- a note from their mom?" I remember coming out of the theatre and her saying "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!?!?!?"

I was most impressed by Ringo Starr saying he was going to "Fuck the girl with the harp"... (Keith Moon dressed as a nun)... so he pics up the harp and starts chasing "her" around the stage! hahahah

Don Preston w/ his "vile foamy liquids".... and when the bassist (Jeff) takes that joint dipped in it back to his hotel room- that scared the piss out of me- "Jeff's gone out there on that stuff!" "Let's get together sometime and jam- we'll play some extended blues-" shwook "Extende-" "What?" shwook "Extende-" "What?" shwook "Extende-" "What?" ....

If you've ever "been there" you know what I'm talking about.

Also around that same time I somehow got in to see "Three In The Attic" doubled with "Hell's Angels '69"

:hippie:

[Scout1071]

67. Actually saw in a theater? Blues Brothers.....Age 9.

I'm sure there were others before that, but I can still remember the thrill of going to see an R rated movie. My stepmom took me to see it while I was staying at my dad's for a week in the summer.

[derby378]

68. ALIENS

Saw it at a General Cinema theater that shut down years ago.

[bikebloke]

69. The Summer of 42

I think I was about 13 or 14. The theatre usher let us in the side door for a dollar each.

[Tom_Foolery]

70. Bonnie & Clyde with my dad when I was 9. n/t

[Tikki]

71. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"......

I'm not sure if they had the R rating in '66...but it was advertised that you must be 17+ (18?) to see this movie.
I was just shy of 17. My mother wanted to see it so she accompanied me to an early evening showing.
I cried, literally sobbed, through most of the movie. My mother didn't even crack a scowl.



Tikki

[cmf]

72. Not sure on video, but in the theater it was "Basic Instinct"

We bought tickets for "My Cousin Vinny" and snuck into "Basic Instinct" instead. But I'm sure I saw many rated R movies on video before then.

On edit, I just IMDBed My Cousin Vinny and found out that it was rated R, too. We were dumb kids.