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My dads brother visited us one time - when I was around 7 years old - and they sent me to bed and watched a movie together on TV. I'm not sure where my mom was, perhaps taking care of my little brother, but I quietly went down the stairs and saw them watching the movie, and I stayed very quietly so they would not know I'm there.

It was a Bruce Lee movie, "The Big Boss (1971)". In that movie Bruce works at a ice factory and his boss kills some people and puts them into the ice. That's not the worst of it. They then have those big ice blocks and a big blade saw and that saw cuts the big blocks into smaller peaces. It also cuts those bodies in the ice blocks into smaller pieces.

I couldn't believe what I saw and went back upstairs and couldn't fall asleep. I never told my parents.

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[–] b3an@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Terminator 2. Also Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Oh and a glimpse of Silence of the lambs before I got caught by mum that time.

The heart part in Indiana Jones haunted me. as did the idea of a killer robot that you can’t reason with or plead mercy to.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yeah Temple of Doom and T2 for me as well.

ToD was somehow approved by my parents (I think it was rated PG-13, not R) and we even owned it on VHS but I definitely lost some sleep over the heart scene and also the monkey brains.

T2 was definitely not approved, but I watched it at a friend's house.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Same!! I watched it at a friends house ahaha 😂 Mum was not pleased. Ah well. Now it’s funny.

[–] snf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think it was rated PG-13, not R

In fact it was rated PG. The resulting backlash, along with a similar situation with Gremlins, directly resulted in the MPAA creating the PG-13 rating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Temple_of_Doom#PG_rating

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Oh wow haha, I didn't know that!

It probably would have been closer to 1990 when I first saw it though so it would've been PG-13 by then. Still, an interesting factoid.