What was the first R Rated movie you saw?

[BillsPride12]

Some great answers in here

 

On a side note this is a pretty fun topic because you can tell what era everybody grew up in from their answer 😄

[Buffalo716]

I think it was original Halloween

 

It ruined me 

[Bills4everNY]

6 hours ago, stevewin said:

The Warriors.  At the time there was huge deal made about how excessively violent it was - which of course only fueled underage kids like me at the time to sneak in.  "Warrrrioooorrs - Come out to Play-eeee-aaayyyyyyy"

"Can you dig it?"

 

My first R rated movie was Saturday Night Fever.

Edited October 11, 2023 by Bills4everNY

[Simon]

The first one I successfully snuck into was Porky's.

Still amazed to this day that I wasn't ushered to the exit during this scene:

 

 

[Mark Vader]

Beverly Hills Cop

[aristocrat]

Lethal Weapon 

[SinceThe70s]

 

My first attempt was Blazing Saddles. Me and a friend made it into the theater and the movie started when we got a tap on the shoulder and were informed we'd have to depart the premises. Not too long after that a cop informed us we'd have to depart from where we were about to light one up. Don't remember where we went next except it wasn't home. Good times.

 

Pretty sure the first R rated movie I actually saw was Animal House.

[BuffaloBill]

21 hours ago, Golden*Wheels said:

I think it was "Hot Dog", the ski movie. Parents let me watch that one with them on VHS....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand there was sex and EVERYONE was uncomfortable. Think I was like 12, and a pants adjustment had to be done.

 

 

At 12 years old you probably had to do a pants adjustment when the wind changed direction.

[Logic]

Pet Semetary. 

I was NOT ready. Scared the ever-living ***** out of me. That sister with the spinal meningitis skittering to the door. "Raaachhhhellll"

Ugh. Still gives me the willies. 

Edited October 12, 2023 by Logic

[The Jokeman]

1 hour ago, Logic said:

Pet Semetary. 

I was NOT ready. Scared the ever-living ***** out of me. That sister with the spinal meningitis skittering to the door. "Raaachhhhellll"

Ugh. Still gives me the willies. 


 

Zelda and her freaky back scared me as a kid too. 

[BillsPride12]

2 hours ago, Logic said:

Pet Semetary. 

I was NOT ready. Scared the ever-living ***** out of me. That sister with the spinal meningitis skittering to the door. "Raaachhhhellll"

Ugh. Still gives me the willies. 

I was in 8th grade the first time I saw that movie and it still scared the S*** out of me! 

[johndhall1]

Dog day afternoon in 1975. I was 10 years old at the time.

[SoTier]

On 10/11/2023 at 4:45 PM, Wacka said:

God, people on here are young. Probably the Exorcist. Was 16 in 1973.HBO came on cable in 75 or 76. Saw Blazing Saddles (74) and then suggested that my parents see it. Went to see it again with them.

HBO went off the air at about 1AM. International Cable would show a hard R-rated  movie or two on that channel and then a "soft" X at about 4 AM.  We were already over 18, got some  beer and watch them at my friend's house. Years later confirmed this with my neighbor who worked for International Cab le back then.

 

I got you beat by 7 years.   😃   That was pre-cable, I lived in the country outside a really small town, and my parents were pretty strict, so I didn't see anything that wasn't fit for broadcast tv until I was old enough to go to the movies with my friends (without my dad having to drop me off).  I can't remember the first R movie that I saw, but the first X rated movie that I saw was Midnight Cowboy in 1969 when I was in college (the movie theater in my home town would never have shown an X rated movie.  It was a different world back then.).

Edited October 13, 2023 by SoTier

[That's No Moon]

On 10/11/2023 at 11:46 AM, Doc said:

Poltergeist was PG. 

G, PG, and R used to mean COMPLETELY different things.

 

Blazing Saddles was PG.

[The Jokeman]

11 minutes ago, That's No Moon said:

G, PG, and R used to mean COMPLETELY different things.

 

Blazing Saddles was PG.

How Poltergeist got a PG rating I'll never know as that was nightmare fuel for me as a kid. 

[Spiderweb]

A Clockwork Orange which I believe originally was released with an x rating.

[Success]

"Jaws" when I was 10.   I sat in the front row.

 

I was afraid to go in the deep end of a pool for a few years after that.  And to this day, when I swim in the ocean, I'm always looking around for a fin.

 

EDIT:  I'm kind of shocked - I just checked, and online it says "Jaws" was rated PG. Which is pretty surprising.

 

I think the 1st R I saw was Alien, then.  A crazy one to watch when I was that age, but the violent scenes didn't stick w/ me like "Jaws" did.

 

Edited October 13, 2023 by Success

[LeGOATski]

Varsity Blues

 

A lot of boobies and whipped cream

[BillsPride12]

6 hours ago, That's No Moon said:

G, PG, and R used to mean COMPLETELY different things.

 

Blazing Saddles was PG.

Watched Bad News Bears recently and it blew my mind it was rated PG 

[That's No Moon]

1 hour ago, BillsPride12 said:

Watched Bad News Bears recently and it blew my mind it was rated PG 

It's actually a problem if you forget that the rating changes because they haven't re-rated a lot of old movies. Some movies you've seen so much on TV and they are rated "PG" that you forget what's actually in them in the unmodified form. Spaceballs for example. Not terrible, not appropriate though.