Babysitting movies

[Zellie Crescent]

I screwed up when I was babysitting my niece about a week ago and I was bored and put on Donnie Darko, Lauren is 2 1/2 so she relly doesn't know what's going on in a movie til you tell her and she was busy coloring anyway. It got to the part where Frank shows up in Donnie's bathroom, it scared the crap out of me, Lauren had been watching for the last couple of minutes and asked if he was the Easter bunny. It was cute but I switched the movie to Mad Money, Have any of you made a movie mistake when babysitting?


Just to state facts my sister and her ex when they were still engaged watched Shutter Island with Lauren chasing Gracie around the room. That's what I came home from work and saw.

[tollbaby]

I always figured when I was babysitting that the only movies I should be watching were ones the kids would enjoy, unless they were in bed. As a parent, I would not ask a babysitter who watched "grownup" movies in front of my kids to come back.

[AnaKhouri]

I didn't babysit for long (I got a 'real' job as soon as I could, since I didn't like kids much). But I only watched adult stuff after the kiddies were in bed.

As a mom, I wouldn't mind if a babysitter had to watch their favorite TV show one night while watching Khan, as long as it was a network show. If they were watching rated R movies, I would be annoyed; Khan is only 19 months and he is a sponge, especially with language.

(my friend's ex-boyfriend had a funny 'oops' movie story; he was working at a video rental store where he could play movies on the overhead TV as long as it was rated PG. So he put in one of the Brat Pack movies from the 80's (Pretty in Pink maybe?). But he didn't realize that ratings were more liberal back then...and looked up to see, in horror, Molly what's-her-name's breasts. Commence scramble to hit 'stop' and remove the DVD!)

[Treasure]

when my "sister" was in an after school program - one of the "counselors" put in .... Watership Down (?) because it had Bunnies on the cover.

oops!

[tollbaby]

Actually, Watership Down is one of my son's favorites (his dad bought it for him)... but I wouldn't let my daughter watch it. She'd find it disturbing.

[Imogene]

I remember a story from the Chesterfield...
Apparently, early on in his career, original SM was given the choice to put something on the store play, and he thought: "Hmm... a musical... about hippy culture (and war, if I remember correctly)... sure, that works..." and put in HAIR, and ignored it until he noticed two old ladies pointing at it and complaining to each other, and looked up to see a Hippy penis!

[Jester]

My first thought upon seeing the thread title was "ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING!" After all, Elizabeth Shue is hot....oh, wait....that was not what they meant. Well, crap. Well, I won't even mention "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" then!

Seriously, though, several years ago my niece Bug, 13 at the time, was here in Key West for a week, after doing a week at Dolphin Camp in the Upper Keys. At one point, we were talking about renting movies, and she asked about one she wanted to see, trying to get me to rent it. Not certain, I got online and asked people (maybe even in this forum) about that movie, and every single reply said DON'T SHOW IT TO HER!

The movie? "Team America: World Police." At least one poster described it as having "puppet porn."

Bug may have seen that movie, but I had nothing to do with it!

[TruthHurts]

When I was 17, I was asked at the last minute to babysit my ten year old cousin. Earlier in the evening I had rented John Waters' Cry Baby and allowed him to watch it with me.

He loved the movie and unknown to me begged my aunt to rent it again. She was none too pleased after seeing it and I got a stern lecture from both my aunt and mom.

After that I was very careful with what I let him view when I babysat for him.

[tollbaby]

I remember a story from the Chesterfield...
Apparently, early on in his career, original SM was given the choice to put something on the store play, and he thought: "Hmm... a musical... about hippy culture (and war, if I remember correctly)... sure, that works..." and put in HAIR, and ignored it until he noticed two old ladies pointing at it and complaining to each other, and looked up to see a Hippy penis!

There is no nudity in Hair....

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Nudity evidently depended on the production.

[tollbaby]

Nudity evidently depended on the production.

Yes, but we're talking about the film. The film has no nudity.

[AdminAssistant]

Perhaps it was a tape of a live production? Not that either version is any good, just considered an 'innovator' of the genre because it hit Broadway and Megan Terry's Viet Rock didn't.

(I actually know a guy who worked on the original Broadway production of Hair. Told lots of stories about orgies and Diane Keaton tripping on acid.)

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yes, but we're talking about the film. The film has no nudity.

Good point.

(sorry, I've been so mired in theater off and on in my life my mind just goes there. )

[El Pollo Guerrera]

I worked at a video store for a long while...

I remember one weekend a little old lady came to us and asked a co-irker (who was thick as a brick) about getting a movie for her granddaughters who were staying the night with her.

They were 10 and 8.

He recommended "Scary Movie".



Needless to say, the next morining she came in and tore a strip off the boss. Who tore a strip off of him.

[Jester]

There is no nudity in Hair....

Yes, but we're talking about the film. The film has no nudity.

Toll, you are so very wrong. Beverly D'Angelo, for example, has a wonderfully nude scene at a lake. I have very fond memories of it.

There IS nudity in the film, folks.