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I know what it was, but I'm not saying.

I mean I'll admit to being an old fucker, but I don't want every thinking, wow, really old fucker.

The Good Son when I was around 10 or 11. I had a crush on Elijah Wood at the time, so I watched it with a friend who had HBO. It didn't seem much different from your average PG-13 movie to me.

Conan the Barbarian. I am embarassed to admit I saw it with my Grandmother. She had always been a fan of swashbucklers and figured that this would be a sort of swashbuckler/adventure film. Needless to say, it wasn't what she had in mind when she agreed to take me...

I'm not 100% sure it was the first, but it's the one that sticks in my mind: Any Given Sunday. All I really remember about the movie was a locker room scene with lots of swinging dick (I believe the R rating was pretty miuch entirely based on gratuitous nudity). I think I was about 16 or so, and that was a lot more penis than I had experienced up to that point.

The Omen; aged 8. Courtesy of my late grandfather who thought he was buying a ticket for a different movie (he forgot to bring his glasses), and once in, decided to stay what with having paid for them and all. Result--I remember the decapitation scene to this day.

A friend's dad took her and me to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Midnight screening and everything. I was eleven. I'm positive that he had no idea what he was getting into - maybe he thought the R rating was only for language. The experience wasn't traumatic for me (after all, we had had cable in our house for a whole year already), but from the look on his face afterward it was certainly traumatic for him.

Interview with the Vampire. I was 16 or so. Don't laugh! To be fair, there wasn't a movie theater in my hometown, I was raised by strict Baptist parents, and I was reeeeeeeeeally into Brad Pitt at the time.

Interview With the Vampire, I was 14. I had read the book, and I loved it, so my dad humored me and took me and a friend to see it. To this day, still one of my favorite movies. Interesting enough, those Anne Rice books really resonate with a lot of teenagers, don't they? Don't really hold up as you grow up, but the movie is still great.

Last Tango In Paris when I was 13, traveling in Amsterdam.With my Mom.Afterwards,we talked about Brando and how that may have been the best performance of his career.That,and how the tango is the sexiest of all dances.And nothing else.

Like Yossarian, mine was also Terminator 2. I was 10. However, I was taken to the theater with two friends by one of their stepdads, who dropped us off with instructions to buy tickets to a different movie and sneak into T2. We bought tickets to Mystery Date. We'd have been fine had that same stupid friend not felt the need to exit the theater for popcorn (you dumb fuck!). Alas, we were ejected within the first ten minutes. Stupid little shit. Stupid lazy stepdad.

My parents took me on a cruise when I was 16, and the ship showed "Three Days of the Condor." Mom and I went to see it. It starred Robert Redford, and in those days there were sex scenes in all his movies. I think he screwed Faye Dunaway in this one. I had no idea what was going on and was bored to death. I never asked my Mom what she thought of it.

It was a Double Feature at the First State Drive in on Rt. 2.

8pm - Robocop
Immediately followed by Platoon

First R-rated movie taht made me shit my pants? (not literally)
Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

I was 8. I was dying to see it. I had seen the other 3 Nightmares at home and was a huge fan.

I made it about 15 minutes. Up until Kincaid bought the farm inside his waterbed mattress. i was crying and everything. We left the theater. The ticket taker was nice enough to let us hop theaters and go see Young Guns.

This is prrof that the theater experience is far more impactful than a home viewing. While Nightmare 4 has its moments...it was nowhere on the same fields as 1 and 2. by the time it got to 3, Freddy had nothing but 1-liners and interesting death scenes.

"the silence of lambs"

The Exorcist when I was 16. To this day, and I am really fucking old, I can not watch scary movies.

My parents pretty much let us see whatever we wanted, so I saw rated R movies starting probably from age 7 or so (I know I saw Saturday Night Fever, Jaws, and The Omen in the theater and I would have been 7 in 1976. Yes, I'm old).

I did, however, make my poor baby sister watch The Shining with me on cable when she was only like 5.

Gladiator - saw it with my stepdad before he married my mom, one of the first him and me outings. I was 12 and I remember not being too impressed.

First R-rated movie without parental supervision - One Hour Photo. My feelings on Robin Williams were dramatically changed after seeing that.

Age 7, Fanny and Alexander, theatrical release. Psycho step-father, creepy woman on fire, subtitles, and three effing hours long. My dad thought my brother and sister and I would like it "because it had kids in it." Great parenting, Dad.

OK. I am a GHOF (gray haired old fart) and I saw Ice Station Zebra with my step-dad. Except, it wasn't 'R' back then, it was rated 'M' if I remember correctly. That was in 1968 if you must know, and yes i was a young teenager.

To say that I was a sheltered young thing growing up would be an understatement. My mom didn't let me watch the night-time news when we had to write a news report in elementary school -- too violent! So I read newspapers instead.

My first Princess Bride viewing was tainted by the fact that I'd never seen anything so violent before, and when they showed it to us in first grade, I royally freaked out at the ROUSs.

I went over to a sleepover in 3rd grade where they were showing "Big," and she called ahead and made them fast forward through the part where the chick takes off her shirt. EVERYONE knew that it was my mom that did it.

Because of my shelteredness (which was a combination of overprotective parents and the fact that I was indeed a little bit pussy), I didn't see a PG-13 film until I was 13. When we saw Dances with Wolves and Glory in middle-school, I was horrified at the scenes of violence, having never ever seen anything REMOTELY that graphic before, and would go out in the hallway shaking until the bad parts were done. (Yeah. That definitely won me cool points).

So, fast-forward to high school. I was friends with a bunch of guys, and they wanted to see a movie, and my friend Matt's uncle was there, so he could get us all R-rated tickets. The two films that were playing at the theater? Fly Away Home and Long Kiss Goodnight. Being the only girl, I was soundly out-voted, and we all tromped into Long Kiss Goodnight. Now looking back on it, I can see how it's a fun, action-packed romp. Heck, I saw it on TV a few months ago, and actually enjoyed myself. But it's a bloody one -- Sam Jackson gets the shit kicked out of him a couple of times. Not to mention the shooting and the stabbing and the water torture and the explosions and the SNAPPING of the DEER NECKS, sweet god, I did NOT need to remember that just now. (shudder)

Every time it got to be too much for me, I'd run out of the theater and poke my head in the one nextdoor, and watch the geese flying and lil' Ana Paquin be all cute and moppet-like until my 16 year old heart stopped trying to batter its way forcibly through my ribcage.

So yeah. I spent the majority of the action-y bits hiding in my seat and running out of the theater. And to this day, even though I enjoy a solid action or suspense film, I'm still a hider, a screamer, and, yes, a little bit of a pussy.

I think it might have been "Blazing Saddles," but I also might be misremembering/wishing that were so.

If it wasn't, then I know for sure what it was. My mom took me, my sister and her friend to the movies. We wanted to see "King Kong." Of course we didn't get to the theater early enough, and it was sold out. We went to another theater, not so near by to see something (another place playing "King Kong," or something else we wanted to see? I don't recall). That was sold out to. As was our second choice. Besaddled with three cranky kids who were sad about not seeing a movie, my mom bought tickets to the first thing she saw that wasn't sold out. And that's how I got to see "Marathon Man" at age 9. Oh, and my mom covered my eyes when Dustin Hoffman rolled off the girl and you get to see her naked, but didn't flinch at any of the throat-slitting or gunplay.

I think that my Dad took me with him to go see 'Wizards'.
I was about 7 or 8. Cartoon boobies and dodgey, slightly risque
comedy I what I recall about it. Whoopie.

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Dad took me with him to see 'Wizards' at the age of about 7 or 8.
Big cartoon boobies and some risque humor. Whoopie!

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Dad took me with him to see 'Wizards' at the age of about 7 or 8.
Big cartoon boobies and some risque humor. Whoopie!

Glad to see I'm not the only one whose "first" was The Crying Game. I was fifteen or sixteen. There was a big group of us and while we were all still arguing over what to see, the friend at the head of the line went ahead and made the choice. We had no idea what we were getting into. Imagine how impressed all the sixteen year old boys were when "the" scene happened.

Hopehope, I believe Jaws is rated PG. Yeah the 1970s were a different time. I saw Jaws along with some killer octopus movie when I was 6 or 7 and didn't go into the ocean for years. The first R movie I saw was Alien. OF course then I didn't go into space for years either.

I am *so* sorry about the multi-posts! ShIte!
Two different error type happenings, to boot. aRghhhhhhhh

I blame the Company computer.

I grew up sheltered, so I didn't see my first R-rated movie until I was 14 (and that was at a friend's house)--Toy Soldiers with Louis Gossett, Jr. and Sean Astin. My parents were horrified when they found out. Needless to say, my sister and I never told them about sneaking in Gladiator into the house.

I believe my first theatrical experience was Open Range with Kevin Costner...and that movie was so forgettable, I couldn't even tell you what it was about. I do remember feeling very liberated at seeing an R-rated movie and actually having the license to do it (I was 19 and repressed).

Doh, just looked up the dates and that actually wasn't the first R movie I saw in a theater - Scream was. There's no cock in that movie though, so apparently it left less of an impression.

The Libertine. On a date. Her idea. Godawful movie, awesome date.

My first R rated movie was The Matrix, back in 2003 or 2004. It was pretty damn freaky, and my expectations at the time were so high, I felt both disappointed and wigged out at the same time.

First, unsupervised and in theaters, Inside Man. That movie was totally awesome, and I'm glad my first unsupervised in the theater was a Spike Lee movie.

Though, I've always felt my first PG-13 experiences were more special, even though the movies were much, much worse. (Van Helsing alone in the theater, and Small Soldiers at home.) For some reason, even though they weren't good movies, they hold a special place in my heart for the experience.
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Posted by: Cree83 at October 21, 2009 4:28 PM

Well, the Home Alone kid drops the f-bomb in that one, so that's probably how it got the R rating.

Last of the Mohicans, when I was 9 years old. My family and I were in a small California town at the time and my Mom really wanted to see it, nevermind the fact that she had a 14 year old, a 9 year old and a 7 year old in tow. The theater obviously didn't care either.

So like any responsible parents they stopped by the liqour store, picked up a bottle of Wild Turkey and took us to the theater. I remember the movie being horribly violent (at least for my 9 year old eyes) and something involving a graphic scalping, or something along those lines.

What I remember really well was my mother drunkenly slurring to everyone in the theater "Do you see, do you see what we did to them, we are such motherfuckers blah blah blah This is their land godamn it". There were accidental but still incredibly racist statements and completely made up historical events that she just kept talking about. She continued on like that for the whole two hours of the movie. We never went back to that theater again, I think it might have had something to do with the talk the manager had with my Dad when we were leaving.

Ahhh, good times!

As best I can tell, mine was Eraser. Yes, I'm young enough to make all of your hips ache. No, I wasn't going to use this for another outlet. Fuck you all the same, Dustin.

Just kidding! (Seriously, though: WTWTA? WTF?)

1999. 12 years old. Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. I've had a high standard for decapitations ever since.

Definitely bought tickets for Toy Story 2 and snuck in with my brother and cousins. Little did I know what a better movie Toy Story 2 was.

My brother definitely one-upped me by convincing my grandmother to take him to see Cadillac Man when he was 7. I really doubt that they finished it.

"Molly: ...you have no respect for women.
Joey: I guess dinner and a blow job's out of the question.
Molly: I guess.
Joey: We'll forget dinner... "

"R" means minors must be accompanied by a parent/guardian over the age of 18. It's "X" and "NC-17" that are no children allowed.

Thanks for clearing that up Wednesday. I don't think R, or PG movies as they're known here are a big deal. Any random shit seems to be given that rating unless its a kids movie. I'm surprised you lot remember the first R movie you saw. I certainly don't. It never seemed like a big deal and it never felt like growing up. It was just a movie. I mean when you see a kids movie and you're very young you go with your parents and when you see an R rated movie you still go with your parents so as a kid, you barely notice the difference. That's my take anyway... first adults only movie might have been a more interesting thread I think

If memory serves, it was Tango and Cash, but I've been trying to rack my Sierra-Nevada addled mind to come up with one earlier than that.

I do remember some smug 16 yr old son of a beeeatch rejecting my friend and I from seeing The Three Amigos in 1986 because it was pg13, and I was stupid enough to admit that I was 10. I'm still pissed off.

Platoon. I was 18, because my parents were strict about the whole "no R movies until you're old enough" thing. I went with friends, and we were late, so the only seats that were available were in the front row. Not the best place from which to see that movie, even in the days before Imax.

I'm pretty sure mine was Cocktail, with Tom Cruise. I remember my friends and I (four 12 and 13 year old girls) asked some older women to pretend to be our moms and get us tickets-I realize that those women were probably the same age I am now and it freaks me out! Don't remember much about the movie though.

I believe the first rated R movie I saw in theaters was Mad Max when I was 7. My dad and I both thought we were going to see a car movie. When you are expecting something like the Fast and the Furious, and find instead a post-apocalyptic world in which most of the main characters die, it can be pretty traumatic. I can't really remember if this was my first rated R movie or not, cause my parents didn't really care about ratings. But it was certainly the first one that horrified me. I had nightmares for a month.

Last of the Mohicans when I was 11. Don't remember much about it except that my dad and I took a piss break and he said I wasn't missing anything but some kissing or something.

Die Hard...nuff said.

Jay & Silent Bob Strike back when I was...14? I'd already seen Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Dogma, and there was no way in hell I was waiting to see the movie. We bought tickets for The Others and snuck in. Later, I had to explain what I liked about The Others to my parents. Fortunately, a young wikipedia was already full of movie plots by then.

Air Force One, 1997. I was 11. At 11, it was a pretty good movie.

Gladiator. Spent alot of time sitting there with my brother shouting "AH MAH JEEEESUS KILL THAT MOFO WITH YO SOWOOOOORD"

The decapitation scene made me want to be Russell Crowe when I grow up. I'm 20 now, still haven't quite gotten to grown up yet, some day, SOME DAY!

Posted by: idleprimate at October 22, 2009 1:27 AM

Hell, The Thing scares the shit out of me now, if I saw it when I was 10, I'dve locked myself in my bedroom for months, and sneak in a kitchen knife to protect me from the fucking dog monster.

Hell, I'd be terrified of my own family. Who knows weather or not they were possessed?

Mmmm...I know it wasn't rated R, but the first "grown-up" movie I ever saw was Jurassic Park. I was nine, and I went with my dad.

All the kids in my fourth-grade class had been talking about how scary the T-rex was, but when that scene came, I wasn't really afraid. I mean, I did feel a tingle down my spine, but I didn't jump up or start crying or anything.

I felt really brave afterwards, because I was considered a wimp and a crybaby at school, but unlike all of those guys, I hadn't been afraid of the T-rex. Of COURSE I bragged about it the next day.

Thinking back, though, my first R experience (in a theater) was probably Double Impact, starring JCVD. I was maybe about 11, and I was obssessed with Van Damme and Schwarzenegger movies, because that was what every kid in my sixth-grade class watched back then (that, and Dragon Ball Z). I liked it back then, but looking back, it probably sucked major balls.

Oh yeah, and sorry for the triple post, but I have to tell one more story.

Picture it: summer camp. "Movie Night". I was 12 or 13, and the movie was for the "big kids" only. They forbade all the under-11s from coming in that room, and they played us Beyond Horizon. At night. In the DARK.

I wasn't sure whether to be riveted, grossed out, or scared shitless. All I knew was, I was glad my baby sister had been forbidden from watching that bloodbath.

Sorry. Event Horizon, not Beyond Horizon. With Samuel L. Jackson (or was it Laurence Fishburne?) on a spaceship with aliens.

I vividly remember the "river of blood" scene. So terrifying, so cool.

OK, I'm old. Really old. In fact, I'm so old I got into my first R-rated film before there were ratings.

It was a little number called "I, A Woman", starring Essy Persson, from 1965. Back in the day, you had to find an art-house that showed movies with subtitles, preferably from Scandanavia. This on was from Denmark. High art!

-Ralphie

I saw many R rated movies on video before seeing any in theaters. My parents were not ones to take me to see any R rated movies. They'd rent them for me later on though. So my first R rated movie in theaters was when I was 17-Harold and Kumar Go to While Castle. Seriously. Went with a friend, we raided Dylan's Candy Store before we went and got a sugar high while Harold and Kumar smoked up on the big screen.

I grew up in a very strict home and I was a very good kid, so I didn't see a rated R in the theaters till I was 17, although I couldn't tell you what it was. My first rated R movie at home was seen by accident (I thought it was PG-13), and that was The Craft.

Drake, the way you feel about Zombies is the way I feel whenever the devil shows up. Whether it selling souls, possessions or having offspring. I just can't watch and I am not even particularly religious.

the first r rated movie i ever saw was Backdraft after going on the ride at universal studios.

I'm in the UK, so no R rating here - only (back in the day)U, PG, 15 and 18. We used to practice to get our birthdays 'right' to go in underage in case we got asked at the ticket counter. My first 15 film was Flatliners (at 14). My first 18 film (at 15 years old) was Silence of the Lambs. My Mum told me to go because I'd seen the trailer and had nightmares about it so she thought if I saw the whole film I'd get over it. It worked!

Porky's 1981.

Porky's, I was 9 and horrified! My son is 6 and has seen "Slither" and "Snakes on a Plane"---am I a bad mother?

Alien two when I was ten I was so terrified at I sat on my dad's lap through the last half of the movie with my head buried in my arms.