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.
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.
La Blue Girl?
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.
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.
Alright, have it your way. I like your cookin’.
If I had a steak…
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.
There have been more different boobs since then right
Nope. Every time he looks at boobs now, the words come flooding back… “not like momma’s”
Nothing that tasted quite like home, unfortunately.
literally any of them, those two saw MST3K and thought it was instructions on how to watch movies
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?
Female genital mutilation? Bloody handjob? That movie had it all.
Good lord what is this movie
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
Isn’t the third one where Neo and Trinity get it on during the underground party? Either way, it was this scene.
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.
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.
American pie…with my gf at the time 😬
But did you smash? /s
Y Tu Mama Tambien with my sister and her new boyfriend.
Yeah the ending is an awkward one with family for sure.
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.
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.
