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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.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Titanic. I was just a kid. My mom responded to the criticism from other parents for letting me see a boob by saying “well, now he knows they don’t all look like momma’s.”

Those words haunt me to this day.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There have been more different boobs since then right

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nope. Every time he looks at boobs now, the words come flooding back... "not like momma's"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Nothing that tasted quite like home, unfortunately.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

CommonSenseMedia.org Is a great alternative to IMDB.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If it counts, my brother put an anime movie on for the family to watch. He'd never seen it before, and watching the tentacle rape of a schoolgirl scene was kinda awkward.

It was never spoken of again.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I was thinking Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend.

But there are, for whatever reason, so many possibilities for what it could've been (including the mostly live action Demonlover)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I feel like that's a lot like the observer effect in physics where as soon as someone walks in you watching anime all the weird stuff happens. Like when a friend I was hanging out with decided to watch A Sister's All You Need and we had to sit through the first scene of the first episode together.

I can't imagine watching an anime movie with my parents.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My grandmother took a girlfriend and I to see "Basic Instinct".

"Oh, I love that Michael Douglas, he's so good!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Your girlfriend, or your grandmother's?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

My girlfriend.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It's funny how different scenes stand out to different people. If someone had asked me to list the most memorable bits of The Lighthouse, the scenes you mentioned wouldn't have entered my mind. Dafoe's monologue, on the other hand, will stick with me for a long time to come.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Alright, have it your way. I like your cookin'.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] ghost_towels 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I'm so sorry. I promise my laughter is not at you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The first Austin Powers movie, watched it with my mom when I was, like, 14. Super awkward at that age with all the sex jokes. We never spoke of it again.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

One night I was re-watching Almodovar's "Átame!" ("Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" in English) and my older sister came in and sat to watch.
As I'd seen it before, I knew a very, very long and graphic sex scene was coming, so I got up and went to the bathroom.

When I returned, only after I was well and fully sure that scene was over, my sister said - "I'm so glad you walked out right when you did", yeah no kidding, I did it on purpose.

Now for a friend of mine... his family are born-again Christians, it was his turn to pick a movie that night, and he'd chosen "Easy Rider", yeah, this guy could be completely oblivious like that.
After an hour and change of uneasy watching with a palpable tension in the air... the acid kicked in... in the New Orleans raised cemetery. That was the straw that broke the camel's back, that's when the yelling started in my friend's living room.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Don't put metal in the science oven!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

literally any of them, those two saw MST3K and thought it was instructions on how to watch movies

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Everything Everywhere All At Once. I was hoping for some form of bonding. Nothing. I can't even talk about this without getting frustrated. So I'm not going to.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Speaking of weird Willem DaFoe movies, how about AntiChrist which opens with a graphic shot of full vaginal penetration?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Cutting a dick off? Sure but did you see that actual sex earlier?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Female genital mutilation? Bloody handjob? That movie had it all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Good lord what is this movie

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I watched the Matrix 3 in the theatre with my dad when I was a kid. Sat very quietly during the sex scene and never spoke a word about it on the drive home.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You mean the second one? There wasn't a sex scene in the third one, just a BDSM bar that the Merovingian and his very-well-endowed wife were hanging at.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Isn’t the third one where Neo and Trinity get it on during the underground party? Either way, it was this scene.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

My parents took us to see The Passion of the Christ. That sucked a lot.

But, my actual answer to this is watching A History of Violence with my aunt and uncle at their house. It was their choice. I knew what was coming, and I didn't strategically exit the room before the staircase scene.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

A Clockwork Orange. When I was like 16.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I watched kids with my mom when I was 17 or 18.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

American pie…with my gf at the time 😬

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

But did you smash? /s

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Watched poor things with my brother. Could have been more awkward but that movie was … weird…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My step mom said she liked wonder woman, so I made us all watch Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman.

The bdsm scenes were a bit awkward, but no regrets. People should know their history.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

watched 8mm with my grandmother we thought it was just a genetic crime story.

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