Like, Hi, Fer Shurr,

Did you become a teenager during the 1990s, as I did?  Did your parents believe that you should still be sheltered from all of the "cool" movies?

I had a rather strict mother.  When my family went on a vacation during 1988, I wanted to watch "Dirty Dancing" on t.v., and I was very upset when, after the opening credits, my mother turned the hotel t.v. off.  Of course, I was 9.  Then again, my mother was the same woman who had been shocked by "Roger Rabbit" during that same summer.

During the 1990s, I purposely avoided certain movies that I wanted to see, because my parents wouldn't let me watch them.  I now think that I was being silly, but I actually wrote a diary entry that said something like, "I'll have to wait until my mother goes somewhere to rent "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" ".  I STILL haven't seen that movie!  LOL!  I knew that at the age of 13, I was never going to be able to see "Cool World".

During high school, I actually asked my friends to take a survey that I'd created, because my mother was insisting that I not watch the "R"-rated movies that everybody else had already seen!  When she and Dad rented "The Piano", she wouldn't let me watch it.  I was probably around 17 at the time!  Really!

So, did you have strict parents who refused to let you watch the "cool" 1990s movies that your friends had already seen?
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I wasn't a teenager until 2003, but there were a lot of movies I wasn't allowed to see. Basically anything that wasn't R, in the 90's. The Matrix was the first R movie I was allowed to watch.

The 1990s had a lot of \'racy\' movies even \'racy\' in ways I won\'t mention especially around 1995.

You'll have to start an eighties thread for me. 

I regretted taking my very shy and virginal Catholic girlfriend to see David Lynch's "Wild At Heart."  It was way too effed up for her unsuspecting minds.  I also regretted going to see "Last Exit to Brooklyn."  The gang rape scene at the end still disturbs me!  I regretted going to see "Henry and June" because it was so dumb.

I don't remember anything racy... but violent:

Princess Mononoke. I got to watch it at afterschool care and got in trouble for "He's gonna die!" when the guy falls off the cliff. Even though I had told everyone my dad took me to see it.

Some others include The Matrix, Starship Troopers, Men In Black, Jumanji

My parents were huge snobs about movies and whenever a trailer for a movie with car chases or explosions would come on, they would try to tell me that it "looked dumb" and that I "would enjoy it" instead of just telling me I was too young to see it. Also showed me pretty much every "making of" feature that came on just so I could get my fill of "special effects" (read: car chases and explosions). For about five year I made it my life's goal to work in special effects simply because I was apparently too sophisticated to seriously enjoy watching cars explode when I was ten.