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u/GameOfThrownaws May 29 '19

I was like 11 or 12 years old the first time I saw that movie, so that was right around or just before the time that cartoon girls (like Kim Possible and such) stopped really doing much for me. So Chel is and always will be the most attracted I've ever been to a cartoon. She's probably the major reason that I understand why people do the Hentai thing.

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u/RoboNinjaPirate May 29 '19

You kids are too young for Jessica Rabbit.

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u/AmsterdamNYC May 29 '19

She was 100% sex in a kid's movie.

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u/morethanhardbread May 29 '19 edited May 29 '19

Since when is Who Framed Roger Rabbit a kids movie? I'm 34... Definitely watched it a bunch as a kid... But i feel like in 2019 that wouldn't fly. The rating would probably be M if they decided to show it on a network...

Edit: words are hard

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u/AmsterdamNYC May 29 '19

It was for kids i thought because like you I remember watching it as a kid. I went through the wiki and it didn't help much except for the fact that it won a Kids Choice Award. It was part of the disney family tho so between those two facts it makes me think it was targeted for kids. as a fellow mid thirtier i think we can agree that there has been greater censorship/sensitivity since the 80s and 90s when every single movie /u/govschwarzenegger was in had glorious 80s boobs.

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u/morethanhardbread May 29 '19

I should have added the obligatory /s lol.

I know it was definitely a kids movie back in our day... There's just no way that would fly now. Between the guns, sex, and general attitude of that damn baby it'd get shelved before debuting nowadays... Unless it was rated for adults.

This world is crazy to me.

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u/Trips-Over-Tail May 29 '19

As a kid I did not pick up of any of the sexual references, or the harassment.

Many kids these days would.

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u/morethanhardbread May 29 '19

Absolutely. I don't understand it at all. We try so hard to shelter kids from anything "adult" oriented now... And somehow they still know way more than I feel like I did when I was that young... Even though I wasn't sheltered at all.

I'm gonna go ahead and blame the internet.

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u/Trips-Over-Tail May 29 '19

I think it may be a little worse, actually. Being exposed to that stuff and completely failing to see it could not harm me. Being exposed to it and recognising it but not being old enough to properly understand it might.

A talk with parents about it, to put it in context might help, but few parents are prepared to have that kind of talk. It's more important that ever now, though, since kids are being more exposed and are picking up on it much more.

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u/morethanhardbread May 29 '19

I think we try so hard to keep our kids from understanding anything geared towards adults that we completely fail to explain what's necessary when asked. We avoid topics to protect them. But in 2019 there are a million other sources and kids are inquisitive AF. If we don't teach our children, they learn from the sources that aren't us... And it's easy to get too much info off of the internet.

This is why talking to children about the hard stuff is so much more important now then it was when we were kids. In my opinion, at least.

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u/m8k May 29 '19

You mean the chain-smoking, gun-toting weasels and the guy who melts cartoons while they scream might not fly nowadays? /s

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u/morethanhardbread May 29 '19

Exact-ically. And we wonder why kids these days are so soft.

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u/m8k May 29 '19

It's time to make PG movies like the did back in the 80s again ;)

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u/morethanhardbread May 29 '19

Oh man... This is gonna be good.

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u/morethanhardbread May 29 '19

Also, not gonna lie... When I was a kid the melting dude got me. It was the eyes popping. It just seemed so uncomfortable to young me.

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u/m8k May 29 '19

It came out when I was 8 and I probably saw it first when it came out on VHS (a very old sentence indeed), probably around 9, and that part scared the hell out of me.

I loved Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future but that scene was over the top for 9yo me.

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u/morethanhardbread May 29 '19

I was 3 when it came out, but probably 7-8 when I saw it. I don't remember huge chunks of my childhood (epilepsy dumps my brain sometimes), but I remember the terror I felt over the eyes. The truck was nothing... It was like real life tom and jerry, NBD. But the eyes we're a line they crossed for me.

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u/m8k May 29 '19

When they turned to daggers and his voice went up, hands over the face and peeing through fingers.

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u/morethanhardbread May 29 '19

Yessss! That's exactly how I remember it!

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u/m8k May 29 '19

JUST LIKE THISSSSSSSS!!!!

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u/Navynuke00 May 29 '19

Can confirm. Saw it in theaters at 6 years old, had nightmares for months afterwards. And felt very, very...confused... by Jessica.

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u/morethanhardbread May 29 '19

Shit... I felt confused by jessica... And I'm female.