Your earliest adult-oriented film?

[bradly1101]

When I was seven in 1969 my parents took us to a double feature I'll never forget. The first movie was "2001: A Space Odyssey." The second was "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

They were great pictures. I think mom and dad wanted my brother and me to grow up fast (or maybe they couldn't find a babysitter).

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Debbie Does Dallas. Oh, *that* kind of adult oriented. The first one I can remember fighting with my parents to take me to see was Jaws. I must have been about 5 or 6 at the time and they thought it would be too intense for me. Badgered them all summer and they finally gave in figuring it would give me nightmares and I'd stop asking to see movies like that until I was much older. Didn't work, I loved it, although I'll admit to almost crapping my pants when the head popped out of the broken hole on the sunken boat.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

My parents went back and forth on this. I watched Conan the Barbarian (VHS rental) with my parents when I was 5 or 6, but didn't get to see Terminator until I was in middle school because it was "too violent."

Plus, most of the movies we "owned" were taped off of cable TV (we only had it in the summer, when the Disney channel would do free month promotions. I guess there were no year-long contracts back then.) and edited accordingly. So I watched "Alien" when I was a fairly young kid, but didn't watch Alien until college.

I did see this at 14. It was neither my first rated-R movie nor the first movie I had seen with nudity.

My mom in particular had a preference for older movies, as well. Given the Hayes code and the singular viewpoints that were pushed in the '40s and '50s, there were a lot of "serious" movies that were, by the late '80s and early '90s, pretty fucking laughable, and somehow I knew it.

 

[nakedfrog]

I don't even remember. I'd seen a number of R-rated films by the time I was ten.

 

[FerrelGeek]

My parents took my cousin and me to see 'The New Centurions' when I was 13 or 14.

 

[zinfamous]

The Temple of Doom was actually rather messed up for what was at the time rated PG-13, considering where we stand today with the common snowflake rating system. Child slavery and abuse? Hearts-ripping-out? Vile food stuffs?

 

[Zorba]

I don't think it was the first r-rated movie, but I had Major League memorized by ~8. I'm pretty sure I watched T2 before that. My brother and I used to walk to a rental store that would rent us anything, no matter how much my dad bitched at them later. Brother would've been 11-13.

 

[vi edit]

The Temple of Doom was actually rather messed up for what was at the time rated PG-13, considering where we stand today with the common snowflake rating system. Child slavery and abuse? Hearts-ripping-out? Vile food stuffs?

Lol, yeah. As a parent it's really weird going back and watching movies from the 80's. Hell, I hadn't watched Ghostbusters in probably 20 years and forgot a lot of the dialogue. I let my kids watch it and was a bit shocked at what was PG then vs now. Whoops. Same for Indiana Jones...yep pretty fucked up movie when you go back and watch it now.

As for the original question...I think I saw Aliens a little after it hit HBO. I would have been around 9 at the time.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I saw the movie Jaws in theaters in 1975. I was 8 years old at the time...

I saw Animal House a couple years later. I would have been 11 years old.

 

[Nashemon]

Probably Aliens.

 

[who?]

When "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" was in theaters in 1976 the mall twin in Fayetteville Arkansas treated it as X rated and wouldn't let anybody younger than 18 see it no matter who they were with.

 

[shortylickens]

Back in 1997 I had dial up. And I didnt know of any sites that even had movies. If I did, I could have started downloading on my birthday and still not had a complete film before I left for bootcamp in the summer.

So for me it was VHS. Went to a video joint called Marios Movies and Games, let myself in the back room, and rented some flick the name of which I cannot recall. The first scene was of two girls doing things to each other with tongue and toy. In retrospect it was actually quite tame and not particularly good porn. But back then I didnt know any better and for me it was damn awesome.

The very first DVD I watched was South Park.
The second one was porn. (Barely Legal 2, I think).

And when I finally get a 4K television you know what I'm gonna watch?
Yeah, you know.

 

[Platypus]

My dad showed me the X-Rated laserdisc version of Robocop when I was very young... needless to say the shooting scene towards the beginning is something I haven't since forgotten seeing.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Umm, I saw pretty much all the R rated movies since I was like 5ish years old. The first movie theater experience I remember was Return of the Jedi in like 85 or so. Otherwise, when my family got a VCR and my folks rented movies from 'video mania' (or later, blockbuster when they came around), and I watched whatever they watched. The Terminator, Commando, Rambo, pretty much every Action movie ever made as well as stuff like Evil Dead.

 

[Mayne]

Amityville Horror in an empty theatre...just me and my bro. ended up sleeping in my sisters bed for the next couple years.

 

[Perknose]

Beginning around the age of 10 or so, my parents started taking me with them to the movies. So, at a very tender age, I got to see a lot of "art" films like Fellini's 8 & 1/2, trying to make sense of images like this:

 

[ImpulsE69]

I saw Alien (well parts of it - I think I was supposed to be sleeping) when I was 4 at the drive in. primarily I saw the chestburster part...yes that stuck with me.

My stepmother liked horror movies so I was watching R rated horror flicks at a rather young age. The Thing and LifeForce scarred me for life.

I remember seeing Blue Velvet at a pretty young age, and while I didn't 'understand' what was happening most of the time..I knew I shouldn't have been watching it.

 

[Mayne]

I saw Alien (well parts of it - I think I was supposed to be sleeping) when I was 4 at the drive in. primarily I saw the chestburster part...yes that stuck with me.

saw that and Jaws at the drive-in as a little kiddo..traumatizing to say the least.

*frozen strawberries is not an ideal movie snack* thought i was puking blood for 2 hours

 

[Zanovar]

Friday the 13th.zombie flesh eaters.Vhs rentals,scary shit.The canoe scene fucked me up for a bit:S

 

[John Connor]

My dad back in the 80's would rent a VCR from the gas station and it was then I watched Red Dawn and Star Wars. Actually the first ever films I ever seen.

Wolverines!

 

[Mayne]

WOLVERINES!!!

 

[quackagator]

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby road film when I was about 8 years old.

 

[dr150]

Alien. My mom covered my eyes HALF the time during the showing. I left PISSED as I didn't know WTF happened.

 

[Ruptga]

We Were Soldiers, I was like 14. My parents raised us under the biggest rock they could find. They still mute anything vaguely bad-word-like.

 

[John Connor]

WOLVERINES!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo1jGctJ0tk