[rich_d]

This thread comes from two recent discussions I had

1. With my kids about the ongoing discussion about waiting until they are older to watch a specific film. My opinion is that it is not that they are necessarily too young to see a film but that it would be a shame for them to see a film they won't truly appreciate.

2. At work I mentioned that, as teenagers, a buddy and I snuck into a showing of A Clockwork Orange. Upon leaving, we both agreed that we weren't ready for it. If I were to answer the question of why, it's a bit more difficult. I guess that I remember dwelling on the language of the film (particularly the lingo "righty right") and didn't really get the issues at play within the film.

So the question is what film did you see that you wished you had waited until you were older to see? And Why?

[Tim Glover]

The Exorcist. I saw this when I was really too young and it bothered me for awhile....still unsettling to me now.

[andrew markworthy]

Casablanca - I saw it several times on the TV when I was a kid and for the next twenty years dismissed it as a silly soppy film. The nuances of it totally escaped me. In fact, I was deterred for a good many years by nearly all the classic black and white movies of the Golden Age after seeing them as a kid on wet Sunday afternoons when there was nothing else on the TV (in the UK). I was in my thirties before I really began to appreciate them properly.

On the other hand, there are films I saw when younger and loved that I can't abide now:

*Anything* by Ken Russell (other than his early work for TV)
Almost all the work of Mel Brookes or Woody Allen
Last Tango in Paris

[DaveF]

"Alien"

I'm sure I've ever seen the whole thing since that aborted attempted when I was a kid...

[Holadem]

I was traumatized by one of the first horror flicks I ever saw, possibly the first: Demonoid, Messenger of Death. Yes ,traumatized is not too strong a word: I was deeply depressed for weeks, unable to get the gothic feel of the movie and the music out of my mind and was afraid of the dark for years after. The fact that I never saw the ending and got some closure might have been part of it. I must've been 9-10. No ever ever knew.

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[Colin Jacobson]

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Originally Posted by DaveF

"Alien"

I'm sure I've ever seen the whole thing since that aborted attempted when I was a kid...

I saw this at 12 and loved it - never upset me. For reasons unknown, my stepmother brought my four-year-old brother with us! Didn't seem to traumatize him, but boy does that appear like an odd choice to me...

[Nathan V]

I almost saw Casino at a time when I didn't understand movies, and am very glad I waited. I wouldn't even have begun to comprehend the film's quality.

[Russell G]

2001 A Space Odessy.

I saw this really young on TV, around when I was into Empire Strikes back (back in 80's people when I was 6-8 years old). I thought COOL!! A new space movie. It bored the hell out of me, and I still can't appreciate the film, despite everyone telling me it's awesome.

[TravisR]

I'm with Russell, I saw 2001 at a relatively young age and found it boring. And I still think it's boring.

[Adam_S]

2001 is one I've given many viewings to. I've always found the dawn of man fascinating, and originally got bored with the rest of the movie.

first viewing - TCM, gave up in the middle of the extremely dull Hal section
second viewing, DVD - gave up on the film during the hour long acid trip 'transistion' but watched it through
third viewing Projected DVD (8 foot wide screen) - liked the Hal section and last section for the first time
fourth viewing 35mm - liked the whole movie, still think the acid trip 'transition' is about two hours too long and monumentally silly (it did make more sense on film though).

[Brian Sheffield]

Jaws- Saw it at 5 years old.


It was kind of traumatic actually. I still feel uneasy swimming in the ocean.