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!)
More nostalgic looks back at our youths:The “dirty” books we read — and reread — as teensWhat’s the TV show you’re suprised you watched as a kid?‘American Teen’: Who were YOU in high school?Your prom songYour finest camcorder productionThe song you lip-synched, publiclyThe piece of memorabilia you wish you still hadThe things you misunderstood as a childThe moment you knew you’d be a pop-culture junkieThe fan letter you wrote when you were young
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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.
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…
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.”
Teaching Mrs. Tingle. Okay, it was PG-13, but I was 10 years old and it felt like an R movie…all that sexual undertones. Gave me nightmares for a week, but I haven’t been able to forget about Barry Watson’s Plymouth Rock rock.
I saw “Porkys” when I was fifteen at a drive-in (my sister who’s over two years younger hid in the back seat under a tarp to get in)
Animal House!!!
We had Cinemax and HBO–my mother worked at the cable company. What didn’t I watch? My favorite was _Nightmare on Elm Street_.
10 years old – “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”
We loved dancing around to the music, we didn’t even know it was dirty until later!
Terminator 2 when I was 13. Strangely, watching it recently, short of a few violent moments and a couple of F-bombs, I’m not sure what the big scare was over the violence… Oh, crap.
My sister and I had cable, including HBO and Cinemax, in our bedroom by the time we were 7 and 8. I remember watching “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask” when I was about 10.
How wrong is that? I was also a big fan of “Bachelor Party” and “Revenge of the Nerds.” What were my parents thinking?
That is why my kids will never have a TV in their bedrooms.
My dad took me to see Blade Runner in 1982. I was twelve and a HUGE Harrison Ford fan. BR was to be my first R-rated movie.
However, the head-squishin’ and Batty’s nail-through-the-hand scene caused me to seek refuge in the lobby. I remember watching the rest of the film through the windows in the theater doors.
The Exorcist – age 6
Goodfellas- age 8
Pulp Fiction – age 9
Actually, i think most of my childhood consisted of watching movies that were inappropriate for my age. I used to sneak them in when my dad would fall asleep watching them. Sad part is the only movie that really scared me was ET.
My Mom thought no ill of my siblings and I watching classics like Boyz in da Hood, or Menance to Society, Or South Central
I watched Dirty Dancing over and over when I was really young. I had no idea that part of the plot lines included sex and an abortion, but I loved the dancing!
I saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High with my friend and HIS MOM when I was 12. Uncomfortable on about 20 different levels, but we gutted out the whole thing.
The first R-rated film I saw at the theaters, and I’m aging myself, was Porky’s. I went to see this film with friends when I was 15 at a theater known for not worrying about that pesky under 17 rule. It didn’t do a whole lot to scar me. It mostly embarrassed me. The first R-rated film I saw by myself was Scarface. When I was younger my Mom would take my brother and I out to a Sunday matinee once or twice a month and by the age of 16 I was getting to the point where I wanted to see more adult movies. Somehow, I was able to talk my mom into buying me a ticket, even though the theater manager attempted to talk her out of it. My other choice was to see Return of the Jedi for a 3rd time. I ended being the only person in the theater to witness Scarface in all its bloody and violent glory, but it was fine until those final scenes with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Al Pacino. Those scenes totally weirded me out.
A bunch of my friends and I went to see the movie Double Team in theaters when we were in 7th grade. For those who don’t remember that one (I’d say 99.9% of humanity), it was the movie with Jean Claude van Damme and Dennis Rodman. I’m not even sure how we got in, but we defitinetly had no business being there. lol.
Scream 2- age 6