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Latter-day shite at the movies. [2]
Mar. 14th, 2011 11:14 amThe first full-on 18-rated film I remember hearing about was when I was about 9. I recall someone in the junior school playground telling me about a video they'd seen; their story featured some quite spectacularly lurid descriptions of horror and mutilation and I assumed at the time they were making it up, although these days I realise the film they were describing was Cannibal Holocaust which doesn't strike me as the best schoolnight watching for a prepubescent.
I'm not sure what the first 18-rated film I saw was. I reckon it was probably one of John Carpenters' films - The Thing most likely - when I was about 11 or 12 and I'd sneaked downstairs to the TV after my parents had gone to bed. It didn't seem to do any lasting damage. The first 18-rated film I saw in the cinema was Robocop when I was about 14 or 15. Once again that did me no harm but instead seriously boosted my playground kudos for a few days thanks to my lengthy descriptions of the scene where Emil falls into the toxic waste and then gets hit by a car.
Anyway, I was chatting to a friend over the weekend who has a son who will soon be arriving at that early teen age when watching 18 films suddenly becomes the coolest thing it is physically possible to do short of finding an open window at the girl's changing rooms and, given that it's an impossibility to stop him watching 18 films, the conversation got around to how to make sure he only watches the good ones. The solution we came up with is to have a selection of 18-rated DVDs in the house which are 'grown up films' which he isn't allowed to watch. Naturally, he'll do so at the earliest opportunity and you need to be careful of your selection; so we started to put together a short list of 18-rated films which would be appropriate for a 12/13 year old boy:
The Thing
Mad Max 2
Alien, and Aliens
LA Confidential
Goodfellas
Tony Jaa's Warrior King
Jackie Chan's Snake in Eagle's Shadow
Jean-Claude van Damme's Bloodsport
Robocop
Starship Troopers
The Sword and the Sorceror
The Expendables
Commando
Terminator
Any more suggestions?
I'm not sure what the first 18-rated film I saw was. I reckon it was probably one of John Carpenters' films - The Thing most likely - when I was about 11 or 12 and I'd sneaked downstairs to the TV after my parents had gone to bed. It didn't seem to do any lasting damage. The first 18-rated film I saw in the cinema was Robocop when I was about 14 or 15. Once again that did me no harm but instead seriously boosted my playground kudos for a few days thanks to my lengthy descriptions of the scene where Emil falls into the toxic waste and then gets hit by a car.
Anyway, I was chatting to a friend over the weekend who has a son who will soon be arriving at that early teen age when watching 18 films suddenly becomes the coolest thing it is physically possible to do short of finding an open window at the girl's changing rooms and, given that it's an impossibility to stop him watching 18 films, the conversation got around to how to make sure he only watches the good ones. The solution we came up with is to have a selection of 18-rated DVDs in the house which are 'grown up films' which he isn't allowed to watch. Naturally, he'll do so at the earliest opportunity and you need to be careful of your selection; so we started to put together a short list of 18-rated films which would be appropriate for a 12/13 year old boy:
The Thing
Mad Max 2
Alien, and Aliens
LA Confidential
Goodfellas
Tony Jaa's Warrior King
Jackie Chan's Snake in Eagle's Shadow
Jean-Claude van Damme's Bloodsport
Robocop
Starship Troopers
The Sword and the Sorceror
The Expendables
Commando
Terminator
Any more suggestions?
