# Poll: What was your first 'R' Rated Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203 "2001-05-22T17:38:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/21 "2001-05-23T02:38:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shera \* > \*\*My First was ‘Princess Bride’ I saw it when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I just found out a couple months ago that it was rated “R” and I was really surpised. I would be willing to bet that my parents didn’t know that it was rated “R” either. \*\* Are you talking about the Rob Reiner film? According to IMDB it is rated PG: [The Princess Bride](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093779) ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/22 "2001-05-23T02:51:23Z")
Well, I saw a lot of naughty stuff on HBO. I recall watching The Exorcist and having the change the channel because I couldn’t take it. But in a theater? My first R-Rated movie was **The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas**. I was at camp, and each counselor group got to pick their own off-campus fun night. We wanted to see a movie, and I guess this one was our top choice. Before agreeing, my counselor made us swear that (a) our parents would not normally object to this kind of movie and (b) if we were lying about that, we would never tell our parents so he wouldn’t get in trouble. I laugh (now) to think what a big deal this was. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/23 "2001-05-23T03:01:23Z")
**Magnum Force** Dirty Harry movie. Saw my first pair of bouncing tits in that one, in the pool party scene. Seconds later, the devs opened up with Uzis and wiped everyone out, including the girl. :eek: Blood _everywhere_ Haven’t been the same since. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/24 "2001-05-23T03:05:06Z")
Jaws. When I was, ummm… 15, I think. The theater owner was pretty strict about younger kids getting into R rated movies, but we had forged notes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/25 "2001-05-23T03:08:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\*Jaws. When I was, ummm… 15, I think. The theater owner was pretty strict about younger kids getting into R rated movies, but we had forged notes. 😃 \*\* Now I don’t feel so bad about having seen mine at age 14. 😉 Thanks, Arden!! ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/26 "2001-05-23T03:22:31Z")
**Dirty Harry** at age 14. ---
**Author:** ![Randy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2acd7d/32.png) [@Randy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/27 "2001-05-23T04:22:49Z")
Return of The Dragon Bruce Lee around 1975 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/28 "2001-05-23T04:57:55Z")
My dad took me to see a double feature of Blaxploitation (anybody remember Blaxploitation?) in 1973: _Hit Man_ and _Shaft in Africa_. (It was my idea.) I still can’t believe he went along with it. Afterwards he asked me, “Whaddidja think of those naked women?” I was 13. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/29 "2001-05-23T05:32:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo \* > \*\*My dad took me to see a double feature of Blaxploitation (anybody remember Blaxploitation?) in 1973: _Hit Man_ and _Shaft in Africa_. (It was my idea.) I still can’t believe he went along with it. Afterwards he asked me, “Whaddidja think of those naked women?” I was 13. \*\* Ahh, yes. _Shaft in Africa_, which gave the movie world this immortal exchange: > [@](#): > > _Aleme:_ > I enter Cha’la (sp?), my second age grade this February. Then even the Emir’s daughter may have sex and marry, after my clitoridectomy > > _Shaft:_ > Your _what_? > > _Aleme_ > My clitoridectomy- female circumcision. > > _Shaft:_ > You mean when they cut off your… > > _Aleme_ > Are you afraid to say the word? My > clitoris? Yes. That’s what they do in > the time of Cha’la (sp?) > > _Shaft:_ > Hell, no wonder the natives get restless. (Thanks to [The Old School Shaft Page](http://members.aol.com/PizarroD/shaft/) for the transcription; my recollection of the dialog was different in some particulars, but substantially the same. ) I had to have my jaw mechanically extracted from the floorboards of my apartment after hearing that late one night on TBS ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/30 "2001-05-23T05:32:22Z")
My God, I don’t ever remember I time when I wasn’t allowed to see R movies. I remember watching Heavy Metal when I was seven or eight, Alien when I was… maybe six. Caught each Nightmare on Elm Street movie as they came out on video. Used to keep tallies of how many people Jason killed in the Friday the 13th series. Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, I’m pretty sure, I saw in the theatre. Troma Films provided hours of enjoyment, especially that seen in Toxic Avenger when the guy’s head gets crushed in the weight machine (we’d watch that scene over and over) I was in the very first wave of pathetic Evil Dead II fanboys, that was when I was twelve or so. For years, I think until I was 13, my favorite movie in the world was Dawn of the Dead (the one with zombies in a shopping mall) When I was nine, I stole my dad’s “hidden” (hah!) stash of R. Crumb comics and stayed up 'til dawn reading them. Got really, really busted for that one. And, of course, until I was five or so my dad kept a copy of Playboy in the bathroom. And I’m _completely_ normal! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/31 "2001-05-23T09:35:08Z")
WOW, so many people saw them soo late. I saw a lot of stuff 7 and 8, and some younger. Rocky Horror, Clockwork Orange, Heavy Metal, Monty Python’s Meaning of Life boy there are so many. We were friends with the guys that ran the Campus theater at UH Hilo. Watched many of these from the projector room. Although I did get shooed out of the room when they had sex class in Monty Python, although as it turned out nothing much happened there. But then living in the boonies of Fern Forest I had already seen lots of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/32 "2001-05-23T09:37:58Z")
you know, it sounds like Nimune and I have a lot in common. And I’m pretty normal too. It’s the repressed people we have to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/33 "2001-05-23T09:42:53Z")
I can’t remember my first ‘R’ rated movie. I remember seeing bits of various movies that were probably rated ‘R’ as far back as I can remember. As far as the first one I got into on my own: Rainman. I was 12. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/34 "2001-05-23T10:15:13Z")
We got HBO when I was 6 or 7, it was probably soon after that. I saw Animal House dozens of times, but I can’t say if that was the first R I saw, probably not. Oddly enough, I can’t remember the first R-rated movie I saw in a theater. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/35 "2001-05-23T11:34:21Z")
_Tomboy_. I was 16 and a friend and I “snuck” (“sneaked”?) into the theater. O.K., we walked up to the window and bought a ticket. My God! What a stinkbomb! The trailers made it look like _Meatballs_ or something. You know…the gritty underdog, with spunk and determination, overcomes long odds and wins the race. The trailers LIED! Has ANYONE ELSE ever seen this? I expect The Onion A.V. Club to feature it in a “Films That Time Forgot” column. Oh it was horrible! The naked boobies didn’t even help. It was about the second worst movie I’d ever seen. (The worst movie was _The Naked Face_ with Roger Moore. The badness is burned into my brain.) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/36 "2001-05-23T12:33:29Z")
The first “R” film I saw was **Across 110th Street** (when it just came out, circa 1970). It had (I think) Yaphet Kotto in it. I can remember almost nothing of it, except for a very brief nude scene. I saw the beginning of “Tomboy” on cable, but it didn’t hold my interest at all. Here’s my question – if you look at 1950s ads for movies they tease and tantalize you with suggestions and promises of nudity that they couldn’t, of course, deliver on. But the sizzle brought in the audiences (men, at least). After the Code passed you could finally show that skin – but those teaser ads disappeared. Yeah, I know that there still is some teasing, and Sex Sells, but compare the lame teasing today with the high-voltage stuff from 1950s trailers, and there’s no comparison. [Andy Rooney Voice]Why is that, anyway? [/Andy Rooney Voice] ---
**Author:** ![Evnglion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@Evnglion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evnglion)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/37 "2001-05-23T12:48:40Z")
I was about 4 or 5 at the time, and I saw _Planes, Trains, and Automobiles_ with John Candy and Steve Martin. It was a family tradition that we watched that movie when we went to the beach ---
**Author:** ![Mort\_Furd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mort\_Furd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mort_Furd)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/38 "2001-05-23T13:08:55Z")
“Escape from New York” I must have been fourteen. My older sister and her creepy boyfriend took me. She probably insisted so as not to have to go with him alone. I never did like that asshole. He once handcuffed me half naked to the back seat of his car … I was changing clothes in the car after we all went swimming in the lake (Palestine by Tyler, Tx.) and the bastard reached over the front seat and slapped handcuffs on my right wrist and the head rest simultaneously. No damned fun. Heavy traffic, me in my underwear only, all the way from the lake to the house in Tyler. Fuckwad. Laughed my ass off the day some lunatic blasted his car with a shot gun. He was driving at the time, and it put a basketball sized hole in the driver side door. Didn’t penetrate to the inside, but it scared the bejesus shit out of the asswipe. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecb155/32.png) [@Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Dead_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/39 "2001-05-23T13:33:13Z")
I’m 15… and I have never seen an R rated movie. I’m sad, I know. But since the American R is more like our MA, I guess it’d be The Shining when I was about 10 - and damn did that freak me out. I don’t think I slept for the next week. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/40 "2001-05-23T13:33:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\*Jaws. When I was, ummm… 15, I think. The theater owner was pretty strict about younger kids getting into R rated movies, but we had forged notes. 😃 \*\* **Jaws** , according to IMDB, is currently PG-13, and from what I remember, it was PG before, not R. Can anyone confirm this? [I know it was PG on the video release, because we were permitted to play it ad nauseum in the video store, and we were only allowed to play G, PG, and select PG-13 movies.] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203.md?page=3)