Comments on: What was your first R-rated film?

By: AKJ

AKJ — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:12:41 +0000

First one in a theatre was See No Evil,Hear No Evil. Snuck in and lied about seeing Field of Dreams.

First two (same night) on Betamax was First Blood and Kentucky Fried Movie. My babysitter was mortified. My friends were cool for bringing it over but not by inviting my dad’s employee to join the viewing.

By: Brian Swisher

Brian Swisher — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:11:08 +0000

“The French Connection”…I started off with a good ‘un…

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By: Chase

Chase — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:12:19 +0000

Heck, I remember my first PG film, “Day of the Dolphin.” … first R would have been Conan the Barbarbian … it was a small theater, two screens. Me and some friends bought tickets to the other movie, a PG film, then went in to see Conan … good times.

By: opus

opus — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:09:22 +0000

I don’t remember much about it and I think it was R rated, a movie called Night Call Nurses….lol.
The first R movie I really have a strong memory of is The Exoricist and I couldn’t even sit through the whole thing. My favorite horror movie of all time now, but I was freaked for a couple weeks after seeing it originally.

By: bvorka

bvorka — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:07:57 +0000

Ah, but I remember “M” rated films, like the first Connery Bond films, or “Dr. Strangelove.”

My first “R” film was “The Wild Bunch.” It was at the Castro, in San Francisco, 1969. The Castro had it on a double-bill with 1965’s “The Great Race,” rated “G.” The G film let us 14-year-olds walk in to see the R film.

I don’t remember much about “The Great Race,” but “The Wild Bunch” was seared into my psyche. Who knew that blood could fly like that, and in slow-motion, too? Ray and I left the theater in silence, afraid to talk lest we hurl. Nonetheless, “The Wild Bunch” remains one of my favorite films, my favorite Peckinpah film by far, and is, for me, THE standard on cinematic violence and mayhem.

By: Ronn

Ronn — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:18:57 +0000

i the first i remember at home was watching ‘Porky’s’ i was arount 10 at the time. in the theatre the first i remember seeing was ‘Platoon’ i was probably 11 at the time i remember liking it but at the time did not fully understand the impact my dad was in vietnam and he thought it was the most accurate that he had seen.

By: Grofe

Grofe — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:07:57 +0000

My parents dropped me off for a double feature. Deliverance and A Clockwork Orange. I’ve never been the same.

By: cftoto

cftoto — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:07:36 +0000

Thanks for sharing your memories, all. Sounds like my folks were the most negligent! And Carlos wins for being the most mindful of the ratings board regulations.

By: carlos

carlos — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:02:32 +0000

“Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,” which went beyond being a good-bad movie. It was a great-awful movie. Really ineffective scenes interspersed with some of the greatest scenes I’ve ever encountered.
I saw it at the Webb in Gastonia NC. I had been so honestabout the ratings I didn’t even know the age was 18; I thought it was seventeen. And I was 3 days short of my 18th birthday. The clerk studied my driver’s license as I noticed and started to stammer about the age; she smiled and said, “Happy birthday,” and handed me the ticket.