# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dr.Pinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dr.Pinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Pinky)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/41 "2001-05-23T13:48:52Z")
I don’t recall my first R movie, but I do remember sneaking my brother into La Cage aux folles, and Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards when he was about 13. What are big brother’s for, if not to provide a bad example? ---
**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/42 "2001-05-23T13:52:07Z")
My Grandma took me to see “Eiger Sanction,” with Clint Eastwood, in Canarsie (NY) one afternoon while I was visiting NY for a few weeks. She didn’t know it was rated R. In one of the scenes, a shapely young lady removed her shirt (no bra), and I hear my grandmother hissing at me, “Close your eyes! Close your eyes!” I was about 14 at the time, and no, I didn’t close my eyes. ---
**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, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/43 "2001-05-23T14:21:25Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by dantheman \* \*\* > [@](#): > > **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.] \*\* Sheesh. Spoil my fun. 😛 I remember I needed a note or a parent, something I didn’t need for PG movies when I was 15 and going past Mr. Riley (the owner)at that theater. Okay, in that case. When I was in grade school, probably in the 6th grade, Alice’s Resturant was on TV as a late night movie. My parent’s made a big enough deal of hustling us off to bed that I snuck back in and laid behind the couch and watched it from under the end table. I know it’s PG now, but the [original rating](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0064002) was R (I just check, so there, **dantheman** :p). Apparently I thought it was boring and fell asleep. Now that I think about it, Alice’s Resturant was a really weird movie for my parent’s to be watching. It just wasn’t anything like their usual fare. ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/44 "2001-05-23T14:28:27Z")
I saw Easy Rider at a movie theatre when I was 13. It had a strict R16 censorship classification at that time. People under 16 were not supposed to get in even with a guardian. That film was like a rite of passage for me. I walked into the movie a kid and came out a proper teenager. I went with a friend and we got there late, after the lights were out. When they came on at intermission I was shocked to find I was sitting in a theatre full of hard core hippies, dopers (smoking) and bikers. Have you ever seen a mini series or film about the 70s in which the cast all look like they are playing dress up? Like, they didn’t really dress like that, right? Well, they did. Everyone in that theatre had gotten an A on their Electric Cool Aid Acid Test and I was a timid little girl in clothes my mother had chosen. ---
**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, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/45 "2001-05-23T15:02:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > I remember I needed a note or a parent, something I didn’t need for PG movies when I was 15 and going past Mr. Riley (the owner)at that theater. Prob’ly cause of the bloody violence… 🙂 Okay, in that case. When I was in grade school, probably in the 6th grade, Alice’s Resturant was on TV as a late night movie. My parent’s made a big enough deal of hustling us off to bed that I snuck back in and laid behind the couch and watched it from under the end table. I know it’s PG now, but the [original rating](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0064002) was R (I just check, so there, **dantheman** :p). Apparently I thought it was boring and fell asleep. [/quote] I wonder what made it an R movie? I can’t remember, now. Must have been nudity. Weird movie, though, huh? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/46 "2001-05-23T16:00:41Z")
My first was _Magic_, that movie with Anthony Hopkins and the creepy dummy in about '80-81 on one of those free HBO weekends they used to have to introduce people to HBO. Naked boobies and violence, what more could a 10 yr old boy ask for? ---
**Author:** ![fenrir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/43a26b/32.png) [@fenrir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fenrir)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/47 "2001-05-23T16:07:01Z")
Well i saw Jaws when it first came out ,I was 8.My babysitter took all the kids on the block.But i’m not sure if it was R or not.If not I did see I spit on your grave when i was 12.Now that was scary shit. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/48 "2001-05-23T16:45:48Z")
**Conan the Barbarian**. I was eleven. It was also one of the first movies I ever saw - I can remember two Disney films, Star Wars, Conan as the first 5 movies I’m aware of having seen. This movie also provided my first views of (mostly) naked female bodies, blood by the gallon, decapitations (three of 'em!), and some really incredible cinematography. ---
**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, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/49 "2001-05-23T21:24:34Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by dantheman \* \*\* > [@](#): > > I wonder what made it an R movie? I can’t remember, now. Must have been nudity. Weird movie, though, huh? 🙂 \*\* I dunno. I told ya I fell asleep. My Dad woke me up when they got ready to go to bed and hustled me back to my room. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/50 "2001-05-24T04:55:11Z")
Speed. I was 13. At my rabbi’s house. With the rabbi and his wife. My whole class had been obsessing about the movie for what felt like months, and I hadn’t seen it. On Christmas Eve, the rabbi and his wife wanted to go out, so they asked me to babysit. They came back an hour later, having realized that everything was closed except Blockbuster and the local (kosher) Chinese restaurant. After dinner, they rented a movie and asked me if I wanted to stay and watch it. I got parental permission without even knowing what movie it was. (I guess if the rabbi had rented it, they assumed that it was OK.) My first R in theaters was (I think) Wag the Dog. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/51 "2001-05-24T04:57:07Z")
Jeez, I feel like such a hick. When I was young, my parents would never have allowed me to go to an R-rated movie. Come to think of it, they’ve never actually given me permission to go to one yet. What’s more, if I were a parent, I’d be one of those meanies who wouldn’t let my 12 year old kids go to R-rated movies either. I was amazed when friends of mine tell me they’ve taken their kids to see _South Park_ or _Hannibal_. And when I was a lad, we didn’t have cable or VCR’s or anything like that. So you weren’t going to see any R-rated movies on TV. So it’s easy for me to pinpoint what the first R-rated movie I saw was: _Animal House_, which I saw on my 17th birthday, 29 October 1978. ---
**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 24, 2001, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/52 "2001-05-24T10:48:01Z")
Oh, I also got to see Risky Business (I was b 1974). That was my first bush. Well, on film. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/53 "2001-05-24T11:12:17Z")
The Godfather, when I was 14. Scared the hell out of me–took me six months to work up the nerve to read the novel. ---
**Author:** ![Tisme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Tisme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tisme)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/54 "2001-05-24T12:34:45Z")
“Emannuelle” Many moons ago. Am I showing my age now? ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/55 "2001-05-24T12:53:17Z")
**Aliens** …scared the piss out of me. I was 13, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/56 "2001-05-24T13:15:57Z")
Nightmare on Elm Street. Scared the crap out of me. I was just a tween then. Couldn’t sleep for days. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/57 "2001-05-24T22:31:51Z")
_Robocop_ on video when I was 7. Still one of my favorite movies. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/58 "2001-05-24T23:53:43Z")
Little Nemo you’re about 5 months older than me, and you picked the same movie I did. You didn’t see an R rated movie back then by accident. (A VCR tape or DVD laying around the house.) Back then you looked for your dads stash of magazines. Mom “What are you guys doing in that room.” Us “Just playing Trouble.” ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203/59 "2001-05-25T00:10:56Z")
My dad took all of us to see \*\* Jaws \*\* when I was 13. My brother was about 10 and his friends thought he was the coolest. The closest first run movie theater was 35 miles from our house, and dad took us to the brand-new multiplex—showed 6, count them, 6 movies! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-was-your-first-r-rated-movie/66203.md?page=2)