What was the first "R" rated movie you saw in the theater, and how old were you?

R-rated movies, you have to be 17 to buy a ticket, but if your parents buy it for you you can still see it.
NC-17 you aren't allowed in the theater at all even if your parents buy the ticket.

ratings are dumb.

R means, I believe, that you're not supposed to be there if you're under 12 and not accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Years later, when I was 20, I got carded at the Angelika!

But ratings are rather stupid. So I guess, for those of you in other countries, what was the first adult-rated movie you saw in the theater? And I don't mean adult as in pornography, unless of course the first adult movie you saw WAS a porn... :)

On video, I saw Robocop when I was 9 at a friend's birthday party. I knew I wasn't supposed to see R-rated movies, so I ACTUALLY CALLED MY PARENTS BEFOREHAND. I think they figured it wouldn't be that big of a deal (though they probably disapproved of my friend's parents), so I proceeded to be subjected to the most disturbing acts of violence I'd ever witnessed. (I had a huge fear as a kid of the internal body, to the point where the transplant heart in Airplane! freaked me out. So imagine how I felt about faces getting blown off.)

there is no such thing as XXX - it's just a porn industry term. most X ratings are self-applied since it's rarely worth it for a film that is definitely going to get an X to submit itself to the MPAA review board.

Strangely, a few days ago I was carded when purchasing an R rated DVD at Wal-Mart (Freeway). I'm 28. I sometimes interpret being carded nowadays as a small form of flattery, but this just made me feel weird...like I was buying something dirty and forbidden.

the movie came out when i was 7, but let's assume it was a year or two later at some smaller theater. so 9ish? that movie freaked me out. when i saw the second one, it shook me up a bit as well ;-) no lasting scars or anything, just had to grab the seat a few times

I realized I was totally wrong about the purpose of the R rating. You're supposed to be 18 or you can't get it without a parent, right?

it was really the first time i'd gone anywhere/done anything on my own and i was worried they wouldn't let me in cuz i was under eighteen but hey, this was the big shitty where anything goes! best $35 i ever spent.

Having now seen Freeway, I must concur with jones.

(yikes!)

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. I was young.

THE BLUES BROTHERS
Reviewed by: Brian Nigro CONTRIBUTOR

Moral Rating: Very Offensive

Moviemaking Quality: ***½

Primary Audience: Adults

Style: Comedy

Length: 130 min.

MPAA Rating: R

The Blues Brothers, depending on who you ask, is one of the great American movies. Originally based on a Saturday Night Live sketch, the Blues Brothers are Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) -- two convicted-felon musicians on a "mission from God," as Elwood says, as they jam away at old Wilson Pickett tunes.

Actually, their "mission from God" is to help save a church orphanage from foreclosure. That's easily forgotten, given this movie's mixed message of religion. A lot of Christian audiences may be offended with the initial scene where Jake and Elwood swear at a nun, then walk out of that church and head to a lively Baptist mass. Yet, the Blues Brothers' motivations are undeniably well-intentioned: To help a church.

Jack and Elwood want to get the band back together for this very reason. ("We're on a mission from God," Elwood repeatedly insists.) So, they track down the other band members - at a soul food cafe, at a restaurant, at a Holiday Inn lounge, and so on.

The Blues Brothers still plays at college campuses around the country, and for good reason: It's a fun movie. While it's rated R for some profanity, the funniest scenes are clean. ("Are you cops?" one of the bandmembers' mother asks them in one scene, to which Elwood responds, "No, ma'am, we're musicians.") That's aside from all the inside jokes about Chicago and the state of Illinois.

Incidentally, there are numerous cameo appearances here: The Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown, plays a Baptist minister; Aretha Franklin as a waitress; Ray Charles as a music shop owner; the late John Candy as a cop; British supermodel Twiggy; and, in one of the most pivotal roles, Steven Spielberg (yes, that one) as the county assessor who stamps the check that saves the church orphanage.

CONTENT WARNING: The Blues Brothers is rated R for swearing. The four-letter words clock in at nearly 40 instances, with frequent crude phrases and Lord's name taken in vain six times. Some of the bad guys Jake and Ellwood tick off are the local Klan (a few racial epithets slip by). There is also some violent explosions and gun play, courtesy of Carrie Fisher. The most pervasive questionable content by far, however, is the nonchalant attitude toward beer and cigarettes.
An alternate recommendation for Christian audiences may be the original Saturday Night Live videotapes from TV featuring the Blues Brothers. The sequel, Blues Brothers 2000, was released in 1998.

http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/pre2000/rvu-bluesbro.html

R for beer, cigarettes, and swearing at a nun.

There's no KKK in Blues Brothers. The country band and Illinois Nazis are the only groups I can think of that's being alluded to.

My grandparents had HBO in 1980. I saw my first R-rated movies there, Blues Brothers and Stir Crazy. Grandma freaked out that I was watching the strip club scene in Stir Crazy.

I begged my dad to take me to see 48 Hours, but I wouldn't see my first r-rated movie in the theater until Rambo II.

actually i always though Red dawn was the reason they made PG-13.

Red Dawn was the first movie released as a PG-13 movie.

grosse point blank

The Lawnmower Man, I think, when I was 12.

probably some foreign number with boobs in it? my parents were "forward thinking". Europa Europa maybe?

Spielberg was really pushing the envelope with reagrd to PG violence and sadism back in 1983-4: Radiers, Poltergeist, Gremlins.

I think the first R-Rated movie I saw in the theater was The Breakfast Club. (Fuck Yous, Dope smoking)

First 18-cert movie I saw in the cinema was Silence Of The Lambs, aged 14.

first r-rated movie i can remember my parents taking me to was Frantic (i assume they couldn't find a babysitter that night).

when i was a little older my dad took me to stuff like terminator 2 and alien 3.

Alien, in 1980. I was not quite 11.