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Remember when HBO and Cinemax and Showtime used to do free weeks or free weekends?
We would lose our minds seeing commercial free movies and giggle over what was airing at night.
Color me naive now. If you have cable TV, do they still do free previews of the pay cable channels?
Terminator, I think. Saw it at the drive in with my parents not long after it came out.
They do around here, anyway.
Midnight Cowboy
Stripes
Mine was Escape from New York at the drive-in when I was like 8. My littler brother was there too but fell asleep during the first movie, Paternity.
I went to see An Officer and a Gentleman with my mother and much older sister when I was probably 12 or 13. I doubt very much my mother would have taken me if she knew it contained a sex scene.
I grew up before there was cable TV or video rentals or streaming. Back then you saw movies in a theater, when they were originally released, or you saw them on network TV, where they were edited for broadcast standards.
I grew up without HBO or any other channel and could not see R rated tapes. I was 14 when T2 was on tape and is the first real R rated movie I’d seen.
The Warriors (1979). My best friend’s older sister snuck us in.
The first one that I remember watching was Porky’s. I saw it with my 14 year old big brother at the drive-in. He had just gotten his learner’s permit and nobody gave a rat’s ass that he wasn’t legal to drive us to see a movie that we were not old enough to see.
I recently watched the movie again and I’m embarrassed that my 12 yer old self thought it was funny.
Either most of Alien Nation or part of Robocop, I think. Red Dawn was only PG-13.
Woulda been…six-ish.
Alien. I turned around and watched it at the drive in while my mom and grandmother watched the second half of a Meatballs/Heaven Can Wait double feature.
ETA: My first X-rated film was while driving by another drive-in with poorly situated screens, several years before. Genetalia, in motion! 
i might have seen another R-rated movie earlier, but for sure the most memorable was “10” My aunt told my father it was “cute”, so he took the whole family to see it Christmas eve. I was in high school, but my little sister was in elementary school, and my maiden-great aunt came with us, too. I think we were all too embarrassed by being there with each other to enjoy the movie.
Yes, I load them up on my TiVo. My apartment building includes cable/internet/TiVo into a mandatory fee. I could also get a landline if I wanted it.
Ah right, I was mostly VHS generation. We still snuck into R rated films in high school, or found theater staff who didn’t care to enforce it.
I and my girlfriend were both 20 so we could get in. It was our first date, and we went to the movies with the idea of seeing The Blue Lagoon. We saw Dressed to Kill because she thought it was more interesting.
I don’t know if they were R movies but two movies I saw as a small child scares the living shit out of me.
One was It’s Alive, a horror film made around 1974 of a baby mutant who kills all of the doctors in the delivery room and goes on a rampage. Kid had claws. My mother took me to that for some odd reason.
The second was Jaws. I was a little kid and didn’t understand that sharks only lived in the oceans and so would not swim in the lake that summer because Jaws was in it. I also had a weird fish phobia as a child (fish scared me to death) so Jaws didn’t help matters much.
Animal House. I was a teenage boy from a very conservative family and it was quite the education
The summer after I graduated high school I took a girl to see Network. I was only 17, but had no trouble getting in.