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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    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.

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    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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        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)

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      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.

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    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

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

    “Oh, I love that Michael Douglas, he’s so good!”

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    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.

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      Yeah the ending is an awkward one with family for sure.

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    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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      Huh that’s actually one of my favorite movies to watch with my grandparents. It’s probably the hardest I’ve seen my grandpa laugh

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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            Opening with a closeup of Willem DaFoe pounding away at Charlotte Gainsbourg just seems kind of gratuitous, I’m not really into that.

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              If it helps, his dick was too big to be believable so they used a body double (a dick double, if you will).

              Imagine being cast for that role and then saying, “excellent, your dick is small enough for this”.

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              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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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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    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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    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.