I watched The Lighthouse with my dad a few years ago and I think that was the most awkward movie watching situation I’ve been in. We decided to watch it because it had Willem Dafoe on it, a positive rating, and it was on a streaming service he had. It’s not really a spoiler but the movie has multiple scenes with a focus on masturbation. Neither of us turned it off because we kept assuming that was the last of it and we would have had to get up for the remote.
For everyone in this thread: there is a “parent’s guide” section for every movie on IMDB that describes the objectionable scenes in every category. Spoilers are hidden, but if you’re going to watch a movie with sensitive people, then it is worth putting up with spoilers to know the extent of the awkwardness that awaits.
Example for The Lighthouse (with warnings about what OP posted): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7984734/parentalguide/nudity
CommonSenseMedia.org Is a great alternative to IMDB.
In my early teens I got into scifi movies, so as a family we rented Barbarella. My mum had to check the vhs cover, she thought the video store had given us an adult film by mistake.
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watched 8mm with my grandmother we thought it was just a genetic crime story.
My grandmother took a girlfriend and I to see “Basic Instinct”.
“Oh, I love that Michael Douglas, he’s so good!”
Your girlfriend, or your grandmother’s?
My girlfriend.
A Clockwork Orange. When I was like 16.
Speaking of weird Willem DaFoe movies, how about AntiChrist which opens with a graphic shot of full vaginal penetration?
Cutting a dick off? Sure but did you see that actual sex earlier?
I don’t know how bad it got because that’s when I turned it off
Why though? It’s pretty good.
Opening with a closeup of Willem DaFoe pounding away at Charlotte Gainsbourg just seems kind of gratuitous, I’m not really into that.
Ever watch porn? Even if not sex is a thing that happens all the time, and that movie is all about pushing boundaries. I don’t think anyone should be disgusted by sex.
Some people are, though, and it’s not a moral failing.
If it helps, his dick was too big to be believable so they used a body double (a dick double, if you will).
Imagine being cast for that role and then saying, “excellent, your dick is small enough for this”.
Female genital mutilation? Bloody handjob? That movie had it all.
Good lord what is this movie
I can relate. In my teens, I watched Monster’s Ball with my dad and sister, and in around the same span of time I watched Mulholland Drive with my parents.
Monster’s Ball
For real? That has some pretty good sex scene in it, but nothing you’d want to watch with your parents. Lmao
I’ve never seen Monster’s Ball, but Mulholland Drive was pretty hot. I’m sorry you had what should have been a wonderful experience marred by awkwardness.
My mom and I would rent movies when my dad was on business trips. Go to blockbuster and pick out a movie, make popcorn, cozy blankets. One night my mom got a movie and about 5 minutes in she was like maybe we should turn it off, and I said nah, it’s already playing let’s watch it. So that’s how I ended up watching Pink Flamingos in 3rd grade.
I’m so sorry. I promise my laughter is not at you.
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Watched poor things with my brother. Could have been more awkward but that movie was … weird…
HARK!
I think the most memorable is probably The Wolf of Wall Street but it was nowhere near as awkward as it could have been. My sister and her husband wanted to see a movie with the family in theaters. Luckily the uproarious constant laughter from the packed theater was far more manageable than the awkward silence that would have happened with an at-home watch.
What really got me was that a whole group of my friends had planned on seeing it the week before, but one very difficult guy insisted that he would not go see a “boring movie about financial crime” and made such a huge fuss that we finally agreed to see American Hustle instead, which was a very tame movie “about financial crime” funny enough.
After, that guy said he was bored for the entire movie (despite the fact that American Hustle was actually pretty good). If it wasn’t for the fact that The Wolf of Wall Street is exactly the kind of movie you want to see with your friends and not your parents, and that American Hustle would have been a perfect movie to see with the family, I’m not sure it would stick out in my mind so much.
Don’t put metal in the science oven!
Extended cut of The Big Blue. I watched it with my dad and new girlfriend. My dad was a big time cave diver and so was she. I like Luc Besson movies. Seemed like a good first meeting activity. I wasn’t aware the extended had a fair number of sex scenes.
