Do you remember the first R rated and or NC-17 rated movie you watched?

[BlueSkies]

I've been having a lot of nostalgia of late due to buying a set of baseball cards recently I never got as a kid.  It made me think of this topic.

 

I know I saw Terminator 2 and Major League on TV as a kid but a lot of the curse words and what not was edited it out.  I think it was probably My Cousin Vinny for me.  My dad wouldn't let me watch as a kid but my mom was the cool one and rented it for me.  Still pretty funny.  

 

For NC-17 it was Body of Evidence with Madonna when I was old enough to rent movies on my own.  She gave still the most appealing/hottest performance to me in that film of anything I watched in my life.  

 

Those movies raised me in a way lol.  

[proserpina65]

The first R-rated movie I can remember seeing in the theater was Used Cars with Kurt Russell.  I was not quite 15 and saw it at the drive-in with my parents.  Although the movie was quite funny, the experience was embarrassing because of my parents being there.

There were probably things I saw on TV before that but of course they were heavily edited.  The Godfather springs to mind.  My father really liked that movie.

[Ohiopirate02]

Growing up we had HBO and my dad was big on allowing my older brother and I to self-censor, ie. he was going to watch whatever movie was coming on at 8pm and we could choose to watch it with him or choose to go to another room to play/read a book/etc.  I have no idea which movie was my first R rated movie. I was going to say that my first R rated movie was something like Poltergeist, but a quick look up shows that was only rated PG?!? 

I know the first R rated movie that I saw in theatres was Interview With the Vampire in 94 because it took some skill buying the tickets at 14.  The law in my state was a big vague on allowing those under 17 into R rated movies, and there was one woman working at the theatre who gleefully chose to interpret the law in the strictest fashion.  I remember staying in the longer line being staffed by some college kid who didn't look twice at who was buying the tickets versus getting into her much shorter line and not being able to see the movie I actually wanted to see.  

[Ceindreadh]

The first one I remember seeing in the cinema was Monty Pythons Life of Brian.  It was about 20 years after it had originally been realised but it had previously been banned so this was the first time it was being shown here.

I was actually not quite 18 but IIRC, I don't think they were making too much of a fuss about checking IDs.

[festivus]

Purple Rain. 

I remember going to see Saturday Night Fever when I was like 13 and wondering how the hell did we get in that one. Turns out there was a PG version released in 1979 and that's the one I saw. I saw the R rated one later and wished I didn't.

I also remember my first PG movie. My mom used to only take us to G rated Disney movies but when Jaws came out I begged her to take me and she did. I had already read the book and I just had to see it. 

[Sarahsmile416]

7 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

Growing up we had HBO and my dad was big on allowing my older brother and I to self-censor, ie. he was going to watch whatever movie was coming on at 8pm and we could choose to watch it with him or choose to go to another room to play/read a book/etc.  I have no idea which movie was my first R rated movie. I was going to say that my first R rated movie was something like Poltergeist, but a quick look up shows that was only rated PG?!? 

I know the first R rated movie that I saw in theatres was Interview With the Vampire in 94 because it took some skill buying the tickets at 14.  The law in my state was a big vague on allowing those under 17 into R rated movies, and there was one woman working at the theatre who gleefully chose to interpret the law in the strictest fashion.  I remember staying in the longer line being staffed by some college kid who didn't look twice at who was buying the tickets versus getting into her much shorter line and not being able to see the movie I actually wanted to see.  

First R-Rated movie in a theater - Bride of Chucky at 17.

First R- rated movie period - Interview with the Vampire - I was 11 or 12 lol. 

[Shannon L.]

The first one I saw in a theater was An Officer and a Gentleman when I was 14. It was special because my mom and dad were a bit strict (not terribly strict, but stricter than some parents), so getting permission to see an R-rated film was tough.  But I expressed how much I wanted to see it, so they went and saw it first. My dad was in the Navy and they felt that the depiction of what Navy training and living on a base was like was fairly accurate and that the sex/nudity wasn't gratuitous, so they agreed to let me see it.  My mom brought me and I was glad because I loved it. 

I don't recall the first one I saw without their permission on a friends HBO.  It was either Stripes, Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Caddyshack.  I saw them all behind their backs, but my gut says the first was Stripes.

[Bastet]

The first R-rated movie I saw was probably Kentucky Fried Movie.  For some reason my friends and I were really into that movie as kids.  I watched it recently and have no idea what we were thinking.  It may very well have been that all the stuff which got it the R rating was forbidden to us.

The first X-rated (which is what they were called back then) might have been Midnight Cowboy.  (It later got reclassified as R, but it was originally X).  Or maybe Last Tango in Paris.

[BlueSkies]

On 2/1/2023 at 7:26 PM, festivus said:

Purple Rain. 

I remember going to see Saturday Night Fever when I was like 13 and wondering how the hell did we get in that one. Turns out there was a PG version released in 1979 and that's the one I saw. I saw the R rated one later and wished I didn't.

I also remember my first PG movie. My mom used to only take us to G rated Disney movies but when Jaws came out I begged her to take me and she did. I had already read the book and I just had to see it. 

Haha yeah.  I saw the TV version of Saturday Night Fever before the uncut one.  Couldn't believe how many mentions of the c word were in the later