It occurred to me recently, as I was preparing for interviews with ’80s heartthrobs Adrian Zmed and Christopher Atkins (castmates on VH1′s Confessions of a Teen Idol, premiering tonight) that I shouldn’t have been a fan of Bachelor Party and A Night in Heaven when I was 15. (I was probably even younger the first time I saw those R-rated movies on TV. I’m just guessing. And being generous.)Obviously, I turned out okay — even if I couldn’t ask Atkins any questions about playing a stripper in A Night in Heaven because I was sure he’d be able to tell, over the phone, what a pivotal role that performance played in my coming of age. So let’s all share the R-rated movies we now realize we were too young to be watching. Because I never turn down the opportunity to post the trailer for A Night in Heaven on PopWatch, you’ll find it below. After the jump, a clip of Siskel and Ebert reviewing Bachelor Party. (Ebert gives it a thumb’s up!)
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Pretty Woman!
Easy. I will never forget coming home from Scary Movie and feeling like I was going to be in trouble due to the movies intensely naked comedy. Then of course there was A Clockwork Orange just a few weeks later which I basically watched on mute for fear my parents would figure out what I was watching.
My brother took me with him when he saw the Fellini movie “Amarcord” when I was 10 — that was waaaaay too young.
In 1983 I was 10 yrs old and my dad took me and my younger siblings to see Creepshow. I didn’t find it too scary but my 7 yr old sister did. I think it was a bad decision on my dad’s part. I also remember seeing The Shining when I was around the same age with my father. That movie still gives me the creeps.
My Dad took me to the movies to see both “There’s Something About Mary” and that James Woods vampire movie when I was 12. I had noooo idea what that “homemade hair-gel” was when Cameron Diaz put it in her hair lol.
In 1983 when I was 10 yrs old my dad took me and my younger siblings to see Creepshow. It didn’t scare me too bad but it did my 7 yr old sister. He also let me watch The Shining around the same time. That movie DID scare me and still does.
Thank god my parents really never cared what we watched!! They really didnt speak english so ummm yeah we got away with a lot!!!
I was eight and I watched The Shining, needless to say I shouldn’t have been. That movie freaked me out!
I was a real disco demon back in middle school and begged my folks to take me to “Saturday Night Fever.” Be careful what you wish for! That movie was waaaay too gritty for a suburban 12-year-old. The violence. The sexuality. The violent sexuality. Totally creeped me out and gave me nightmares for weeks.
if you had knew this just letting you know the oringinal rating to saturday nightfever was PG believe it or not but though the directors added some more stuff into it then it became rated R
I was 9 years old when I first saw “Revenge of the Nerds”. I really don’t know what my parents were thinking.
Oh boy…. a lot. I watched the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer when I was probably only 8.
“The Exorcist” at the tender age of 14. Not that it mattered because I’d read the novel when I was 13, and quite frankly reading the book was way scarier. I actually thought the movie was completely awesome and couldn’t wait to see it again.
I would sneak into my mother’s room when she went to the store and watch “Purple Rain”…on BETA…
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I was about six when I snuck a viewing of The Exercist on HBO. There are no words to describe how freaked I was- I haven’t seen it since and I’m still scared to death of any “devil” voices and such!
Pretty Woman! I was 9 when I saw that movie and so much went over my head. I thought those colored packets were pieces of candy! That’s why I never understood the line, “I’m a safety girl.”