[Film] Public warning - don’t take your kids to see Pinocchio

[LamieRobertson]

0]I ran out of the Plaza cinema i[/B]n Worthing when One Million B.C. first aired in about 1966. I didn’t get to see Rachel Welshs tits but caught up with them again a few years later.

Were her tits running away too?

 

[pastafarian]

Took my 6 year old to see the live action remake of that lovely 1940s cartoon Pinocchio.

It was genuinely disturbing.

Spoilers but he burnt his feet off, got hung, drowned as a donkey, elated by a sharped toothed whale but mainly the characters where scary as hell.

The wheezing tuna, nightmare inducing.

Worse than any saw film

Cant be as bad as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Not as disturbing as me being taken to see 'The Land That Time Forgot' aged 5.

Still remember the nightmares.

I know just the bit that scared you first




sweet dreams

 

[Eeyore]

Cant be as bad as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang






I know just the bit that scared you first




sweet dreams

I'm not even watching that. I can't escape to my parent's bed.

But on a more serious note, it shows how stuff like that can be damaging. I was seriously ****ed up for a few days.

 

[Blue3]

I was taken as small child to see Zulu

 

[AmexRuislip]

Took my 6 year old to see the live action remake of that lovely 1940s cartoon Pinocchio.

It was genuinely disturbing.

Spoilers but he burnt his feet off, got hung, drowned as a donkey, elated by a sharped toothed whale but mainly the characters where scary as hell.

The wheezing tuna, nightmare inducing.

Worse than any saw film

Isn't the new version of Pinocchio, just a normal night in the Houses of Parliament

 

[Taybha]

I was taken as small child to see Zulu

I bet there were Polar Bears and Penguins in those days .

 

[Thunder Bolt]

My mother had to rush me out of the cinema when I started screaming at the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz. I was probably about 4. I can remember some woman saying to Mum, ‘Buy her the book, dear’ as she rushed me up the aisle. It was the cinema by Pool Valley.

 

[Fungus]

Carry On Screaming did it for me.

 

[Blue3]

I bet there were Polar Bears and Penguins in those days .

Sientists are hopful of finally finding a cure for Dyslexia thank dog

 

[Is it PotG?]

https://news.sky.com/story/disney-warns-viewers-about-racist-stereotypes-in-classic-films-on-streaming-service-12105375

 

[Eeyore]

Cant be as bad as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang






I know just the bit that scared you first




sweet dreams

Cheers for that ! WTF ? I was five at the time.

EDIT: looks like this an old thread. So now I've seen it again twice. I'll book into therapy.

It should be funny but with all the plastic dinos but it still scares me.

 

[pasty]

Cant be as bad as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

I'm in my mid 50's and the child catcher still scares the crap out of me.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

When me kids were aged about 2 and 4, made the mistake of hiring Watership Down out of Blockbusters. Just assumed it'd be some kind of lame shit with cuddly bunnies hopping about for about an hour and a half. Couldn't BELIEVE that I had to dive in and hit EJECT about 20 minutes in, when it suddenly turned into the mother of all Slasher Pics! Dunno what the effect was on the kids, but certainly left ME seriously traumatised

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

The Mysterons in Captain Scarlett though - those circles of light. Did me in for years.

 

[Easy 10]

My parents took a 5 year old me and my 9 year old sister to see the 1976 version of King Kong at the cinema when it was released, in what was then West Germany (we lived out there for a few years). I guess the age certificates must've been a little more "relaxed" over there than it was with the BBBC. Anyway, I was getting fidgety wanting to see "the big monkey", because its a LONG time into that film when Kong finally makes his big entrance. "Where is he then ? Where is he ? Where's King Kong ? "Shhh, he'll be on soon" etc. The female sacrifice was in place, the trees start swaying about, then the enormity of Kong bursts into view on a 30ft screen.

My reaction ? "I...I want to go home now". I was quaking. Mum ended up sitting in the foyer with me, whilst dad and sister stayed and watched the rest of the film. And they NEVER let me forget it.

 

[LlcoolJ]

When me kids were aged about 2 and 4, made the mistake of hiring Watership Down out of Blockbusters. Just assumed it'd be some kind of lame shit with cuddly bunnies hopping about for about an hour and a half. Couldn't BELIEVE that I had to dive in and hit EJECT about 20 minutes in, when it suddenly turned into the mother of all Slasher Pics! Dunno what the effect was on the kids, but certainly left ME seriously traumatised

Yes I recall being terrified by that when watching it with a group of friends as a little kid.

 

[Swansman]

When me kids were aged about 2 and 4, made the mistake of hiring Watership Down out of Blockbusters. Just assumed it'd be some kind of lame shit with cuddly bunnies hopping about for about an hour and a half. Couldn't BELIEVE that I had to dive in and hit EJECT about 20 minutes in, when it suddenly turned into the mother of all Slasher Pics! Dunno what the effect was on the kids, but certainly left ME seriously traumatised

Never seen it but it resulted in one of my favorite prog albums... "Music Inspired by Watership Down". The 16 minute first track is a killer.

 

[AlastairWatts]

I wouldn't go in the sea for years after watching Jaws

 

[jamie (not that one)]

You should try taking him/her to a West Ham match. Far far more disturbing.

FA Cup match in 2007ish when Tevez was flicking the ball over our players and generally just pointing out how shit we were.

Every pub in the area had "away fans not welcome" signs in the windows and we eventually gave up and went into the pub pretty much attached to the stadium (The Boleyn maybe?). The barmaids were scarier than the blokes, who were all pretty scary looking. Good away day.

 

[jamie (not that one)]

Yes I recall being terrified by that when watching it with a group of friends as a little kid.

Watership Down and whichever one it is where the horse dies in quicksand ruined a happy childhood.