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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
What was your first R-rated movie?
A discussion I had with GO editor Mandy Gambrell about the best racing movies led to this interesting query: What was your first R-rated movie?
For most kids, entry into their first R movie is kind of a rite of passage; one that stays with them for a long time - usually because the scary R-rated movie scared the bejeusus out of them.
For better or worse, my own experience is not so dramatic. My parents were pretty freewheeling about what I watched, so the R-rated movie never became the forbidden golden ticket for me. Heck, my dad likes to tell the story of how he took me to see the John Landis movie Schlock, and I yelled out in my loudest 4-year-old voice, “What the fudge was that?”
Only I didn’t say “fudge.” Schlock wasn’t t R-rated, but my mouth nearly was. (By today’s standards my outburst would be PG-13. The F-bomb has to be used as a verb to merit an R.)
So I can’t say with certainty what my first R-rated movie in the theater was. Beverly Hills Cop is my best guess. I do know that one of the first R-rated movies I saw on TV was Blazing Saddles, and I remember being confused at the gay jokes in the Hollywood chorus line. And, of course, the double entendre of names like Lili Von Shtupp sailed right over my head.
The first R-rated movie that traumatized me was Alien. Couldn’t get past the chest-bursting scene. And you’re talking to a kid who thought it was scary when Bill Bixby turned into the Hulk.
So tell me - what was your first R-rated movie? Please do try to keep the comments PG-rated!
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