What was the first "R"/18-restricted movie you saw?
 

My momma was thankfully not shy about taking her 13-year-old kid to see movies rated R. The first one was "Three Days of the Condor", a very excellent Redford CIA thinker/thriller.

Hmmm... True Grit was my first mature movie but that was probably PG. I have no idea.

Hmm.... I can't even remember. It was probably something on HBO, unless you're asking about in the theater. I've never been into splatter-fests or dumb teenage comedies so it's possible my first "R" was quite late--I just never paid much attention to the ratings. I'm actually more into movies now than I was growing up.

Edit: It may have been The Blue Lagoon on HBO. Of course I had to check it out when my parents weren't noticing, but it was fine since, because it was HBO, any given movie was on 8 or 9 times a week. Needless to say I was watching it for one and only one reason, and I remember thinking that the movie was very tiresome and hardly worth the effort to see the advertised nudity. (And now I find out, when I went to check that it really was R rated at IMDB, that it wasn't even Brooke, but a body double.)

I think it was Flashdance.

My brother and I tricked our parents into letting us go with some friends to see Porky's in the theater. We told them it was some kind of kids movie. We laughed like crazy at all the dirty jokes/scenes, but didn't actually understand half of them.

A Clockwork Orange. My brother got me in with some of his friends.

The Exorcist :thepain3:
.... at a drive-in with my best friend and her older sister and sister's BF - we were supposed to see Disney's Robin Hood... but the older kids took us to another drive-in then locked us out of the car so they could make out....we were 9 yrs old.....which could explain a few things about me...... ;)

Night of the Demons. I was 9 years old. I know for sure because I saw it at a friend's slumber party and was thinking the whole time how much trouble I'd be in if my parents knew I was watching this. It was totally disturbing. Not just blood; lots of weird dismemberment and nudity.

double feature at the drive in. Animal House and Cheech and Chong's next Movie. i think i was 8 or 9 or maybe 10

I think it was either a Bruce Lee film, can't remember which one, just some woman lifting her sweater to show Bruce how she was burned on the chest with an incense stick. Of course she was braless and had gravity defying boobs, nevertheless even at 12 or 13 I thought it was a contrived scene.

Possibly Tora, tora, tora could have been first. I'm not sure. Dad and I would go to NYC on saturday and he'd do some work in his office and after we'd go to the movies and duck into the first one that (he thought) was appealing. It didn't matter if it had started an hour earlier, we'd just figure out what was going on and stay for the first part of the next showing. You used to be able to do that. Some folks spent all day in the movies.

Anyway, we'd get to the part where we came ina dn dad would say let's go.

We'd go out and hit nathans or orange julius or something.

It's weird, as I'm becoming a dad myself, I see myself doing the same sorts of things with inchley.

A few years yet before the R movies however.

Animal house? 8 or 9? How old are you LJ?

You must have been older than 8 or 9 if you were driving.

The "Blood Trilogy" on Halloween at the Cactus Drive-In. Technically they were unrated, but they should've been rated R, back in the early '70s, anyway. I was 7 years old, and the only one of the three I can remember is 2,000 Maniacs. The oldest kid in the neighborhood took a bunch of us younger kids in his muscle car. I'm sure he must have told all the parents that we were just going to see some "fun Halloweed movies," or something like that, because they wouldn't have let any of us go if they knew more than that!

My first actually rated R movie was Friday the 13th, I think.

The first movie I remember is "The Man Who Would Be King" 1975, I was 6, and although it was only rated PG, some scenes from that movie disturb me to this day. The first R rated movie I remember seeing in the theater was "Dog Day Afternoon," which came out the same year. All I really remember is that Al PAcino was in it, and the bank robbery bit. My dad has always been a movie fanatic, and I guess when he couldn't get a babysitter he would just take me along to the movies. Thankfully, this has not warped me, much.

I am having a heck of a time with this one. I know that I saw rated R movies well before I was 16, but I'll be darned if I can remember what any of them were, off hand. Can anyone point me to a list of movie releases by year that might help me figure this out?

(A lot of the movies that I am coming up with having seen before age 16 are mostly PG ... Goodbye Girl, The Sting, American Grafitti, Planet of the Apes, Jaws, The Towering Inferno, etc. Do the ones of these I saw before I was 12 count?)

I did see a double feature of Billy the Kid vs. Dracula and The Deserter for my 9th birthday ... There's a pretty gruesome flaying in The Deserter and other grimmy things.

I was so heavily supervised and indoctrinated that there was no opportunity while I was in high school, not even on the sly. There may have been some in our college Humanities film series, but at a Methodist college in North Carolina back in 1963 they probably only showed "approved" material. Cleopatra and Ben Hur don't count as R-rated, do they? Just violence, no nudity or sexual situations, just sticking swords into people instead of something warmer. So the first R-rated film I remember seeing was A Man And A Woman, the old French classic. It was supposed to be so daring, but I actually found it boring. I saw it again on TV a few years ago and I still think it's a boring movie. I guess by the time I ever saw many R-rated movies I was already old enough to be doing the stuff that got them the rating.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/

ok. i was 8. you made me look. i'm 35. oh, and my dad drove. the whole family went. I remember sitting on the roof of the van on a hot summer night.

edit. oops. must have been ten http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080520/

My first R was SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER!! Yeah, baby!

Watched "The Rock" con mi padre when i was 12..
"Your best?? Losers always whine about their best.. winners go home and **** the prom queen!"

The Rock is my favorite... Sean Connery RULES!

It was too long ago, but I don't recall my parents protecting me from tits and ass and naughty words at all. I think they had a pretty healthy outlook on those sorts of things, viewing them as realities of the world, and therefore I'd probably have to learn to deal with it sooner or later.

There was, however, much less of the highly graphical variety of death and boning on the screen when I was young and presumably more impressionable. I'm thinking it just wasn't as big a deal then as it is now because entertainment wasn't quite as permeated with blatant naughtiness as it now seems to be.

I can remember being in the back of the stationwagon at the drive-in late 60s about age 7 or 8 and the second feature was Georgy Girl. I remember my mom being concerned that we kids were still awake and perhaps watching/hearing the sex scenes. We pretended to be sleeping but were very interested.

I remember going with a friend to see Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore at the mall cinemas- I would have been around 12, that felt like mature content at the time, probably PG

my mother took me and my sister to see Caberet the nite it came out , it was un rated but the next day it was rated R ,

oh and Animal House and Cheech and Chong's next Movie. i think i was 8 or 9 or maybe 10

[Nelson] What a child , HA HA!!!!! [\Nelson]

I wonder if film-makers aren't as confident in their stories anymore?

Fritz the Cat at the Cruise-In in Cambridge, Ohio.
There was a whole pile of us in that trunk.

Movies based on books always have to cut stuff out. But this one always gives me a chuckle. The book was Six Days of the Condor. :lol:

i ditched junior high one day and saw Bonnie and Clyde. i was/am tall for my age.

it's a tie with carrie and several movies of the death wish series, i can't remember which was first. carrie scared the living shit out of me, though, and charles bronson was a personal hero for a while, so their respective emotional impacts were pretty different. ;)

incidentally, i seem to remember movies in the 80's being more free with their graphic/sexual content. seemed like every time you turned around there was a nude scene in a movie or a guy getting gratuitiously decapitated, and no one really made a big deal out of it. it could bet that, since i was a kid at the time, i wasn't in touch with what people considered "pushing the line".

i think our society makes WAY too big a deal out of graphic content in movies, especially sexual. that's a whole other can of worms, though....

Did you ever see The Last House on the Left? Gah... scary, violent, death, boning - I was WAY too young to see that when I did. Really disturbing because its just so real - nothing like his (Wes Craven) later "horror" crap.

Strangely, you cite the *exact* movie that put me off of that sort of film. I remember where I saw it (the 63rd Street Drivein), how old I was (16), and the scene in the movie that convinced me that this was just entirely unnecessary.

I'll bet you can guess which scene that was, huh?

Having become a bit more intrigued by this thread (and less intrigued with the notion of actually doing my work, which is tedious and boring today), I checked out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPAA_film_rating_system to review the history of the MPAA rating system, in particular, to find out when it started. Turns out that it was 1968. I then looked up films released in 1968 to suss out the first R rated film I was likely to have seen.

Turns out that it was, in all likelihood, Rosemary's Baby.

Platoon. It was for a film studies class in high school, and the folks had to sign off on it. I was surprised they did.

geez, am i the only one that feels really old after reading this thread? i remember my mom would NOT let us see Poseidon Adventure because she thought we'd be traumatized - but we watched monty python and "love, american style" every week on tv! first naughty movie was unfortunately after sneaking into the drive-in in the trunk of a car on a first date. yeah, that went well.

Man, if you weren't traumatized by Love, American Style, you're one tough cookie.

As a lifelong Cowsills fan, I did love the theme song, though.

We got to see Polanski's Macbeth at high school when I was about 16.

I got some fake ID to see Saturday Night Fever when it first came out (now why was THAT rated?) And then I started uni a few months before I turned 17, and they showed a whole bunch of R movies during O week - no checking of ID as it was in the student union building. The only films I remember are Fritz the Cat (which I adored primarily because there's an aardvark in it) and Deliverance. During the "squeal like a pig" scene all the blokes in my row (mainly other first years) crossed their legs at the same time.

i KNOW! i'm singing it right now!!:love: :D

Saw. And I'm only 15 ;)

"Vixens"
was x rated, was 17yrs old.... Later I worked in a movie theatre that only catered to 18 years and older. (wasn't a porn house, the owner had other theatres for Disneyish or x-rated drivein venues) This place showed things like the Graduate, Easy Rider, Funny Girl, Bob Ted Mary and somebody else.

Mad Max and Mad Max 2 at a drive in when I was probably about 11 or 12. I was hidden under a blanket on the floor in the back of a Mini while my sister pretended to be asleep on the back seat. The guy we went with told the attendant he was baby sitting his little sister and she'd sleep throught the whole thing...which she did:p
Needless to say, I didn't sleep all that well for a few days afterwards.