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Posted: Aug 13 2011 09:43 pm

So I was driving home from work and listening to the radio they had a discussion about movies guys should never see. While it was a funny topic one of their comments "Spongebob's Travelling Pants" as a joke about the sisterhood thing with jeans, made me think of movies that ruined my childhood and made you realize your going to be an adult sometime soon...

The movie I think of, is Rugrats in Paris. I saw it with my cousin and sisters and just watching it made me realize how stupid it really was, that most of the cartoons I was watching wasn't what I should be watching any more... I then switched to Anime...

Posted: Aug 13 2011 10:26 pm

Final Fantasy Spirits with in, awesome awesome awesome movie, but at the time i thought it was super scary because the aliens took peoples souls by touching them or grabbing them from people. I then realized from their that not everyone goes to heaven to be best buddies with god and jesus and sometimes people just die.

Posted: Aug 13 2011 11:30 pm

This is gonna sound retarded, but it was when I was four or five--101 Dalmations. I remember it really, really vividly, and realizing that there are people out there who truly want to hurt innocent people for no reason. And although that ended happily, I also realized that Pongo and Perdy easily could have NOT gotten there in time. And skinning poor little puppies alive...that's grim.

Not that it scarred me or anything, but I do recall it being the first time I actually had any sort of meaningful reflections to that effect.

Posted: Aug 14 2011 12:39 am

Your's isn't stupid at all Hawk. Mine was rather similar, albeit truly stupid. Anyone remember Aladdin? Of course you remember Aladdin, the lovable, happy go lucky thief an pauper who marries the princess and lives happily ever after.

Remember Jafar. that evil sorcerer (and part time child molester) who tries to usurp the Sultan's throne? Yeah, he got his comeuppance in the second movie (finally!).

(Would you trust this man with your children?)

How about Gazeem? And there it is people. Gazeem is the thief that the Cave of Wonders kills right off the bat. Why did this bother me? Not one person noticed he was gone. Not one. He was shuffled off this mortal coil and not one person gave a damn about it. That freaked me out when it finally hit me that when you die, no one may miss you because they never realized you existed.

Posted: Aug 14 2011 12:58 am

Arachnophobia. I used to catch spiders and play with 'em. After that I learned they can travel from jungles in crates mate with each other and form super breeds that kill people with one bite. Now I squeal like a little girl if one is near me.

Posted: Aug 14 2011 02:27 am

Awww Douche. I don't like 'em either, but I still can't bring myself to squish them. (Unless they are Recluses, Widows, or actually making contact with my skin. Then all bets are off and the thing dies.)

Glory, that makes a lot of sense actually. I think the thing with Gazeem, though, is that Jafar was *specifically* feeding the cave people he knew wouldn't be missed--paupers and beggars with no family. He was the Vizier after all, and I suspect he didn't want a bunch of people disappearing on his watch. (One does wonder, though--if he had the Sands of Time all along, why didn't he use them to find Aladdin in the first place? Why bother trying other people?)(Am I overthinking this? ...Nah...)

Posted: Aug 14 2011 11:23 am

SoldierHawk wrote:

Awww Douche. I don't like 'em either, but I still can't bring myself to squish them. (Unless they are Recluses, Widows, or actually making contact with my skin. Then all bets are off and the thing dies.)

Glory, that makes a lot of sense actually. I think the thing with Gazeem, though, is that Jafar was *specifically* feeding the cave people he knew wouldn't be missed--paupers and beggars with no family. He was the Vizier after all, and I suspect he didn't want a bunch of people disappearing on his watch. (One does wonder, though--if he had the Sands of Time all along, why didn't he use them to find Aladdin in the first place? Why bother trying other people?)(Am I overthinking this? ...Nah...)

Actually, if memory serves right, Jafar didn't have the second half of that Golden Scarab at the beginning of the movie and Gazeem was hired to retrieve it. The scarab remained whole after Gazeem was eaten by the Tiger God (actual name of the Cave Entrance), so sending in Gazeem was probably just Jafar testing the waters, as he was unaware of the whole "Diamond in the Rough" situation until the Tiger God said something after Gazeem was killed.

Gallery 2 · Posted: Aug 14 2011 01:53 pm

Right now I'm having trouble figuring the idea of what a "childhood-killing movie" is within this context because every time I think about it, the only thing that comes to mind are unnecessary remakes of old movies just made for the sake of money (you know very well which ones are, so no need for examples).

Sure, I was really freaked out by Judge Doom's "death" and toon reveal in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or that story of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories in which the popular kid who got magnetized by a meteor realized the one who got hit with the second half of said meteor is the girl he despised the most, dooming him to be eternally stuck to that girl, but really I snapped out of that funk by the next day.

Come to think of it, not sure what to make of that,

Posted: Aug 14 2011 08:12 pm

Schindler's List pretty much destroyed the last lingering vestiges of innocence I had as a 9 year old. I mean yeah I new that war was bad and the Nazis were bad guys but holy crap I don't think I had a concept of how evil people could be to each other before seeing that.

Probably could have waited a few years before seeing that, thanks mom!

Posted: Aug 14 2011 08:50 pm

A german movie called "The Experiment". It's a psycho thriller probably inspired by the Milgram Experiment, wich really happened. I remember being strangely upset after watching. It was an emotional rollercoaster ride but a really bad one. I remember me saying after watching it that it was the worst movie i ever saw. It gave me feelings from anger to loathing to being scarred. I was about 14 years old.

Posted: Aug 15 2011 03:00 am

Stayed up late when I was 8, hoping to catch some HBO softcore porn, but instead I was treated to Natural Born Killers.

A cool flick for sure, but a bit too much for an 8 year old, lol...

Posted: Aug 15 2011 03:36 pm

Andrew Man wrote:

Stayed up late when I was 8, hoping to catch some HBO softcore porn, but instead I was treated to Natural Born Killers.

A cool flick for sure, but a bit too much for an 8 year old, lol...

I put together that it was every Thursday night, I got to see boobies. Good old G-String Divas

Posted: Aug 15 2011 04:35 pm

Slayer1 wrote:

Andrew Man wrote:

Stayed up late when I was 8, hoping to catch some HBO softcore porn, but instead I was treated to Natural Born Killers.

A cool flick for sure, but a bit too much for an 8 year old, lol...

I put together that it was every Thursday night, I got to see boobies. Good old G-String Divas

hahaha

skinemax for the win

Posted: Aug 15 2011 09:04 pm

It was certainly better than trying to decipher what the hell was happening on the scrambled porn channels!

Posted: Aug 15 2011 09:05 pm

Blackout wrote:

It was certainly better than trying to decipher what the hell was happening on the scrambled porn channels!

hah, i remember that as well. until we got a black box and got all the free pay per view channels.

Posted: Aug 16 2011 07:29 pm

AtmanRyu wrote:

Right now I'm having trouble figuring the idea of what a "childhood-killing movie" is within this context because every time I think about it, the only thing that comes to mind are unnecessary remakes of old movies just made for the sake of money (you know very well which ones are, so no need for examples).

Come to think of it, not sure what to make of that,

I think a better description for this thread would be "Moves that killed your child innocence."

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

I was pretty young when I saw the Mario Brothers movie. It made no sense to me, and I remember it as the first time that I ever thought a movie/tv show/whatever was bad. Up to then, I would have enjoyed anything. Thus, the birth of cynicism in my black little heart.

Posted: Aug 17 2011 01:03 am

OHMSS. A fairly standard, enjoyable Bond film for the 60's, up until the end. [SPOILER:041ee259bd]Blofeld was gone, and James was now married. Then Blofeld and Irma Bunt drove by with a machine gun, and killed Tracy. Then, the movie ended.

In one sense, it serves as the perfect Part 2 of a trilogy, but I had never before seen a movie like that. Tracy's death wasn't beautiful, or poetic, or deserved; it simply happened. And then the credits rolled.[/SPOILER:041ee259bd]

Posted: Aug 17 2011 03:15 am

Blackout wrote:

It was certainly better than trying to decipher what the hell was happening on the scrambled porn channels!

That sounds worse than playing Atari Porn.

Oh, and the Super Mario Movie was awful. I even owned it on VHS and i didn't enjoy it a single bit. I didn't mind though.

Posted: Aug 17 2011 05:53 am

Yeah it was pretty weak. You knew something you weren't supposed to ever even know about let alone see was happening because the sound was usually unscrambled and it sounded pretty over the top, but the shit was damn near indecipherable when you tried to watch it.

I only found out about how to make homemade descramblers after digital cable became the standard. Luckily by then the internet was damn near ubiquitous and cheap.

There's a Robot Chicken sketch somewhere that covers the era pretty well.

Posted: Aug 17 2011 09:26 am

I think it tried that myself a couple of times. Not a way to get satisfied.

Gallery 2 · Posted: Aug 17 2011 11:47 am

Ah yes, I remember now...

Videodrome.
The Toxic Crusader.

Not exactly fun to watch when you're in an age where you're easily impressionable and you watch these movies late at night, no one at home and lights turned off.

Also, I could say Street Fighter the movie; when I saw it when it first came out, it killed any hope that I had of a video game movie being any good. The animated movie and TV series (the japanese one) mended part of the wound, teaching me that the concept's not impossible, it's just that it takes the right person to do it properly (most cases, anyone who isn't American...). Besides, now being older, I can at least enjoy the Street Fighter movie for different reasons, plus the added context of Raul Julia's final display of ham throughout it.

Joined: Mar 13 2009 Location: Arlington Posts: 467

The Santa monologue from Gremilns. I was 5 or 6 when we rented this and I still think PG is not the appropriate rating for this movie.

Posted: Aug 19 2011 02:29 pm

AtmanRyu wrote:

Ah yes, I remember now...

Videodrome.
The Toxic Crusader.

Not exactly fun to watch when you're in an age where you're easily impressionable and you watch these movies late at night, no one at home and lights turned off.

I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch Videodrome. I'm not a huge fan of blood-and-guts horror movies (the Elm Street series being the exception), and Videodrome easily qualifies as the most fucked-up movie in existence that got a wide theatrical, video and DVD release.

...okay, maybe Eraserhead too, but I'm actually looking forward to that one.

Anyway, haven't seen The Toxic Crusader yet, but would like to at some point.

Posted: Aug 19 2011 02:57 pm

Thorton02 wrote:

The Santa monologue from Gremilns. I was 5 or 6 when we rented this and I still think PG is not the appropriate rating for this movie.

This movie was one of the key reasons for the creation of the "PG-13" rating, Steven Spielberg (Who was a producer for Gremlins) asked the MPAA to create a new rating after complaints from parents regarding Gremlins and Temple of Doom were too violent for PG ratings, so the PG-13 rating debuted two months after the film's release.