How old were you when you saw your first R rated movie?

I don't remember--probably fairly young. Definitely way under 18.

12 or 13. I went to the cinema with a friend of mine to see Emmanuelle in 3-D!

Under 5. Cujo.

it's not too hard to get an r rated movie nowdays. The theaters and video stores don't care, and you can order one off the tv quite easily. I know, i'm only 14!

Good question, but I really have no idea. My parents never were particularly strict. I suspect it was fairly young. *X* on the other hand, I didn't see until probably my early 20s. Probably somewhat sheltered in that respect.

I never knew they had Emmanuelle in 3d!!!

Matt: It was Emmanuelle 4, where Sylvia Kristel gets plastic surgery and comes back as Mia Nygren.

Animal House

At age 8
'What's up Pussycat' & 'Paint your Wagon' (which first came out as an X, back when XXX meant something like 'Deep Throat' or 'the Devil in Miss Jones') were movies I saw at the drive-in with my mom. Also my freind and I saw 'Summer of 42' playing with 'Dirty Mary Crazy Larry'
'Summer of 42' was our goal: though it was PG, it had partial sex.
For 'Dirty Mary Crazy Larry', they had the first 10 rows cordoned off because of the chase scene on a hilly road. At that age, I wanted to see Warhol's 'Frankenstein' in 3D, because I'd been a stereogram buff since age three. Eventually I did see it (see it at a theater), and most of his other stuff on video.
My kids started seeing R movies from birth, that's the video age.

I think I was twelve. I went with my older sister, and I hated the movie, but don't remember what it was. It was some hippie movie, and had some disturbing images so I've blocked it out.

Sue, It was Easy Rider....

I'm not quite sure but I slept over a friends house so that we could sleep downstairs and watch Bo Derek in "10" at 2:30 in the morning on Preview. We could barely stay awake and could not understand the movie. After all that effort I'm still not sure what we saw but I do remember that we were disappointed.

It was Easy Rider. My friend's parents took us to the drive-in. Us girls sat up front and the 'rents and buggy sister sat in the back.....very embarrassing. I don't think I told my parents what we saw. it was really kewl. I still have the soundtrack (vinyl)

MY dad took me to the drive in to see Jaws!

my father took me to see Alien and The Shining. He had no idea what he was taking me to, and both times he scolded me that I shouldn't see movies like that. Oh yeah... he took me to see Night of the Living Dead too, when I was even younger.

At 14, mom didn't want we seeing 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' on showtime. At 15, I was frequently seeing it at midnight theater showings with freinds.

Major League (Raited R for Lanuguge

Don't remember.

I don't know.

It was Animal House, but I'm too lazy to go find the release date and do the math. I'm 32 now, you figure it out.

10 years old, staying at a hotel with my cousins on the way across Pennsylvania, and we watched 'Fame' on HBO. I don't remember the movie (it wasn't very interesting, not enough action), but I remember that it was rated R and my uncle didn't think they should let us kids watch it.

There was a point where somebody yells "That isn't music, that's masturbation!" and storms out of the practice room... my eldest cousin (at age 13) asked 'What's masturbation?' and his mother told him. He and his father both turned neat colors.

tcb: 32 and never seen an X.

My first Rated 18 film was Heavy Metal. I didn't care too much for it, with the exception of the Captain Sternn segment, which seems to be everyone's favorite. My parents also enjoyed the movie, although their favorite segment was "B-17"

I wasn't sure where tp put this

Not mere spam, but *unfunny* spam. Yay.

Saturday Night Fever. What a thrill.

the first xxx movie i seen was lesbians' masturbating each other with huge double sided dildo's

planes trains and automobiles. my parents always had me turn down the big swearing part(the only part in the movie that made it R)the first time they heard that they went CRAZY! it was funny

pet cemetary... and... dolls? (or something) when i was in kindergarten

I was going to saw "Jaws" or "The Deep", but I checked and ImDB says there were both PG...

I was in 8th grade when I saw Jaws. Later that night we went body-surfing.

Hmmm... and rotating spam... at least that cartoon is better than the previous one

That reminds me of one of mine. (I know it's not columbus) "Columbus, upon sailing around the world reconsiders; 'perhaps the world is an infinite cylinder.'" Not as good as Jesus dog, by any means.

Summer of '42

Robocop - when i was 13 i think

I never expected someone to have the same answer as me on this one.

anon#1: The picture has changed! How did you do this? Wasn't the last one a joke about a bunny?

Any graphic here except the smilies is a link to another site. People can manually or programatically change their web sites.

Well, this graphic is funnier than the last one. I wonder what it'll be next.

Don't you see? The cartoon reincarnates.

My first R rated film, according to my Dad: American Werewolf In London
My first R rated film, according to my Mom: A Nightmare On Elm Street

Not sure which to believe.

Young I think. It was actually a book first then a movie. I still like both!!

Brian: it was american werewolf.

I saw the Exorcist when I was really young. I also remember my parents taking me to the theater to see Poltergeist. I was only 4 and I threw up all over. That movie still scares me. I hate clowns! And part two? I hate that old guy!

I'm not sure which scared me worse in Poltergeist, the clown or the tree. *shudder*

For me, it was the closet.

I remember it well. My parents sent my brother and I to see "Lassie Come Home", it was boring so we walked out, and went into the theater next door (it was a ciniplex). We didn't understand the scene where the kid is buying condoms, so when we got home we asked our parents about it. They thought it was pretty funny.

anon's image has changed again. This one's funny.

My parents never really cared what movie i went to see.

Was Jaws in fact R rated? Goodness, I was really young then - 6?

Its a PG-13 now, although its been re-rated. I don't know what it was before. I was about 6 or 7 when I saw it too.

I was probably a few months old... maybe a year.. I do not ever remember a time where I wasnt allowed to watch "R" rated movies... simply because of the rating... The only thing I can remember not being allowed to watch, was "Dances With Wolves" when I was 8 or 9 and I think that was more about me giving my parents some time alone than an actuall content type thing.

I have a story. Last night my beautiful SO and I went to the video store. I heard a well dressed, rather proper couple nearby discussing whether or not to rent Being John Malkovich.

Stupid Woman: *with excitement bordering rigid stupor* Oh Being John Malkovich!

Tall Dopey Guy: Oh yes, I heard that was funny. I wonder if we would like it.

Perfect Me: *turning my head and looking over my shoulder* It was really good. I would recommend it.

Stupid Woman picks up the box.
Tall Dopey Guy smiles widely at me. He wants me.

Stupid Woman: *shrieks* It's rated R??????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!What's wrong with it?

With that, Stupid Woman looks intently at me expecting a full review of anything and everything in the movie that might have caused it to get such an intense and objectionable rating.

Perfect Me: *long pause and "the look" complete with raised eyebrow*...well, I suppose, it depends on your point of view.

Perfect Me: *walks away shaking my head muttering something under my breath akin to*....that will fukkin teach me to talk to strangers in the video store...you'd think I'd fukkin' learn.....

14.....ish

12.

It was the comedy "Cold Turkey".

It was the comedy "Cold Turkey", and I would have been 13 when it came out in 1971.

This question always bothered me as I didn't know what our "country's nearest equivalent" was. It could be R because that has much the same rules, or it could be M because that's what most films rated R in America seem to get here. They're both equivalents, it just depends whether you compare content or rating scale.

Can I take you to w0ork with me? The guys think I'm making you up!

Could you explain those rating distinctions. Do you have both a subjective and objective rating scale?

Now, you'd have to have quite the wicked imagination to make something like me up, wouldn't you?

Exactly, now that he's mentioned you, he has to defend his un-wicked reputation.