Hate to disappoint you, but I really did not anticipate this many people would disagree! This was just my honest opinion after trying to watch it again recently. The acting is so bad lol.
My partner and I were going through a bunch of classic 80s and 90s movies - ones that we'd loved and ones that we'd never seen before.
I'd never seen this one, but I really liked it. I love how different the pace is, how differently they approach things and how different their values are.
I also get a weird kick out of how run down and grim the large US cities were back then!
>I also get a weird kick out of how run down and grim the large US cities were back then!
I live a 5 minute walk from downtown of a city, my neighborhood was a warzone in the 1980s, it's come a long way.
Yeah whenever I go to Chicago (which is often now) I imagine it to be way more dangerous than it actually is. It’s a big city so of course it’s not like Disney World or something, but it’s not half as bad as this movie made it seem like. The movie made it seem terrifying lol
stupid Disney+ - Don't FOOL with the babysitter does NOT have the same impact. Introduced my kids to this movie this past summer and it felt so lame with all the changes they've made to it.
Here is something that would shock most people. He filmed that less than 9 months after he gained 70 pounds to play Private "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket. By the time he filmed Babysitting, he was back to his normal weight and condition.
That is the third time he has played Kingpin. Originally in the Daredevil TV series. Then again at the end of the Hawkeye limited series. Then reprising it again in Echo.
But he was incredible in Daredevil, and he is supposed to be in the new Daredevil series they are filming now.
I would love to see a Deadpool-Daredevil team-up movie.
Especially if it copies one of the iconic team-ups from the comics. Where the two anti-heroes take off to take care of business, and Weasel and Foggy go to a bar to have drinks and talk about what it is like being the best friend of a somewhat amoral superhero while they are regular people.
WATCH. IT. Watch it now! Vincent is great. The show is a little uneven in spots, but it’s still really good. Alaqua Cox is so damn interesting and her chemistry with Vincent as her uncle is natural.
That was not as drastic, but similar in the reverse.
However, for A League of their Own, Tom did gain 30 pounds. Then quickly lost it again afterwards.
Kinda hate how badly my favorite childhood line from this movie aged (the one about Thor). I mean, I'm gay so I can still get away with yelling it, but it just feels wrong now
Yeah I feel the same about Bill & Ted throwing around the “F” word really gratuitously as a running gag. Unfortunately casual homophobia was rampant.
With this movie though, having Anthony Rapp being the one to deliver the line makes it a little ironic & amusing given who he is and his later history as an out an proud person and star of Rent. So for me that helps make it more palatable
You slip me the cash, I slip you the wiener…
But I don’t have any cash!
[Then I don’t have a wiener!](https://youtu.be/txsmwM10dP4?si=gYWsX61scAVt3Hij)
Ok watched it tonight and LtD is at least 10x better than AiB. Jokes are actually funny, acting is pretty good, characters are charming and fun and writing, while stupid, isn’t gratingly stupid. Cast is top notch too. Even by 80s standards!
Dear god! Think of the children! No really. Think of the children. What would they look like? Would she lay eggs or would they be birthed? Would they still have a bill and duck feet or just feathers? 😂🤣😂
This flick taught me that side chicks named Sesame are the actual worst.
If you’ve never held a hairbrush like a microphone and danced around your bedroom lip syncing “And Then He Kissed Me” are you even in an 80s movie?
"While you're down there... Grab the knife out of my boot?"
Sure I'm misquoting that scene, but I feel like this whole movie and the relationship between them is peak Xeniall 90's version of sexual tension. 😅
I gotta rewatch it, gonna see if it's on any streaming stuff
We recorded the club scene on cassette so we could sing "Babysittin' Blues" in the good station wagon. The Griswold Mobile didn't have a working tape deck, duh.
I don't know if this is appropriate, or PC or whatever, but a lot of times when I rewatch old movies I loved as a kid and I don't think they hold up, I treasure them for what they were and how they made me feel at the time. I know a lot of movies are problematic by today's standards, but they also give us insight into past cultural standards, which I think is valuable from an anthropological standpoint if nothing else. For the record, I still like this one. Have you seen the remake?
From one perspective, perhaps it's not strictly necessary to feel guilt or make apologies or excuses for enjoying art that might deal with certain topics insensitively from today's perspective. And not only enjoying them as a record from the past, or for the sake of the warm nostalgia they bring us, but genuinely enjoying them in, for, and of themselves.
Even if we are connecting on some level to what some might consider "problematic" content (eg laughing at racist jokes, getting thrilled by violent or gory films), it gives us an opportunity to explore that side of our self and ask questions rather than repress it, which is a big part of what art is for. Also we would probably be left with enjoying very little if we avoided anything that could be seen as problematic--one could imagine an enlightened and peaceful future society looking back on much of the film and music we are enjoying today as backwards and repugnant.
In any event, I rewatched this movie a couple years ago for the first time since I was a kid and I don't remember anything striking me as problematic. I had no idea they made a remake.
I agree, this is what’s important. We can’t hold the past to our standards all the time, but we can learn from it and examine why things changed for the better.
I enjoy listening to the Bechdel Cast for how they discuss older movies. There’s one on the Goonies where I laughed my ass off. It it didn’t ruin the movie at all for me, but did help me examine the issues with the storytelling. The more we do that, the more we do better in the future.
I watched this movie, I dare say, at least 100 times.
Elizabeth shue’s character dancing in the opening scene getting ready for her date shaped my entire understanding of dating.
I may be the world record holder for person who has seen Adventures in Babysitting in a movie theater the most because I could stop going to watch it. The multiplex had just been invented so I would go in the morning and pay $2.75 and watch it over and over until my parents came to get me in the evening.
I spent the entire summer doing that and I don't know how many times I watched it. I can't even remember why I was so obsessed and transfixed by the movie. It had to be Elizabeth Shue. I remember wanting to be her or for her to be my friend so I must been having my first gay feelings for girls.
I was also oddly obsessed with Desperately Seeking Susan which is just objectively a terrible movie.
This movie is one of my core eaely memories.
Because of this movie I fast forwarded to the end of the credits of every movie ever looking for an Easter egg.
I don't know if this was the first after credits scene, but it's the 1st I saw.
This movie has some serious laughs. That homeless man who yells at Brenda to get out of his house? Thats been living rent free in my head since I was 8. And it makes me laugh every time I think of it.
You take that back! I watched this movie no less than 1500 times as a kid with my big sister! I hold a special place in my heart for this group of misfits
This was one of my parents favorite movies to watch with us back in the day. So it's super nostalgic for me. Watched it recently, holds up for the most part, as entertaining as ever. But entertaining doesn't equal "good" either haha
Holy shit I was JUST thinking about this movie the other day when I was cleaning my kitchen, specifically at the end where she’s wiping off the counters as fast as she can. I was thinking to myself ‘did that cursory wipe actually do any good? Because it never works when I try it’.
Memory is such a weird thing. Like, why am I analyzing a scene from a hella old movie as if it was giving me life advice on cleaning?
Ps. I loved this movie, especially with its toe into feminist dialogue on creepers in the workplace. It was a good lesson for a young women entering the corporate world.
This was one of the movies I'd sneak into after paying for matinee with change Gramma gave me from her change bowl. Licence to Drive and Lost Boys are the other two memorable age appropriate movies I "stole". Movie theaters in the 80's early 90's were my babysitter. I'd be gone ALL afternoon. Those were the days
This movie is most certainly not terrible! Don’t fuck with the babysitter!
Not terrible!
OP said it was terrible just to drive the comments up and I’m not fallin for it
One “weird” trick that redditors under the age of 47 hate
Hahahah
Shit
That’ll show em. I’m with you codetomyluggage
“Get in the car and run him over.” Still a great movie.
Hate to disappoint you, but I really did not anticipate this many people would disagree! This was just my honest opinion after trying to watch it again recently. The acting is so bad lol.
This movie is incredible! Don’t fuck with the babysitter! (I should watch this again immediately)
I just watched the opening scene the other day where she’s getting ready for her date and singing “And Then He Kissed Me” and I 😩😭 just so good
My partner and I were going through a bunch of classic 80s and 90s movies - ones that we'd loved and ones that we'd never seen before. I'd never seen this one, but I really liked it. I love how different the pace is, how differently they approach things and how different their values are. I also get a weird kick out of how run down and grim the large US cities were back then!
This movie and Dr Detroit made me think every city was an absolute dumpster fire.
And National Lampoon’s Vacation
>I also get a weird kick out of how run down and grim the large US cities were back then! I live a 5 minute walk from downtown of a city, my neighborhood was a warzone in the 1980s, it's come a long way.
I’ve been watching movies from the 70s lately, and wowza this could not be more true.
Yeah whenever I go to Chicago (which is often now) I imagine it to be way more dangerous than it actually is. It’s a big city so of course it’s not like Disney World or something, but it’s not half as bad as this movie made it seem like. The movie made it seem terrifying lol
Agreed! Loved it as a kid and still love it now
Right??? This movie was my go-to sleepover movie for years - Troop Beverly Hills being a close second, of course.
stupid Disney+ - Don't FOOL with the babysitter does NOT have the same impact. Introduced my kids to this movie this past summer and it felt so lame with all the changes they've made to it.
One of my favorites. The Babysitting Blues!
With a young Vincent D’onofrio as Thor!
Here is something that would shock most people. He filmed that less than 9 months after he gained 70 pounds to play Private "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket. By the time he filmed Babysitting, he was back to his normal weight and condition.
Wow, that is shocking! He is such an amazingly talented and underrated actor. I'll watch anything if he is in.
I love him in Men in Black and the Cell
If you need an unhinged weirdo, he’s your man!
I love him in Mystic Pizza 🍕
Well Echo is pretty good.
First I've heard of this. I just watched a trailer and it does look good. Thanks!
That is the third time he has played Kingpin. Originally in the Daredevil TV series. Then again at the end of the Hawkeye limited series. Then reprising it again in Echo. But he was incredible in Daredevil, and he is supposed to be in the new Daredevil series they are filming now.
If anyone can bring me back to Marvel, it's Vincent. Well, also Deadpool.
I would love to see a Deadpool-Daredevil team-up movie. Especially if it copies one of the iconic team-ups from the comics. Where the two anti-heroes take off to take care of business, and Weasel and Foggy go to a bar to have drinks and talk about what it is like being the best friend of a somewhat amoral superhero while they are regular people.
WATCH. IT. Watch it now! Vincent is great. The show is a little uneven in spots, but it’s still really good. Alaqua Cox is so damn interesting and her chemistry with Vincent as her uncle is natural.
The Cell is amazing
The Cell is worth a watch (or three)
Excellent movie! The only movie with Jennifer Lopez that I'll watch.
I too realized this maybe a year ago, that is some Tom Hanks castaway levels of transformation
That was not as drastic, but similar in the reverse. However, for A League of their Own, Tom did gain 30 pounds. Then quickly lost it again afterwards.
I'm still shocked that he played Pyle. I didn't recognize him for literally decades, until someone pointed it out to me.
As well as Edgar the Bug in Men in Black.
Egger suit
Give me... sugar water.
TIL that it's the same actor. Wow.
OMFG! My odd attraction to Detective Goren makes so much sense now.
Kinda hate how badly my favorite childhood line from this movie aged (the one about Thor). I mean, I'm gay so I can still get away with yelling it, but it just feels wrong now
Disney+ changed it to "weirdo"
Yeah I feel the same about Bill & Ted throwing around the “F” word really gratuitously as a running gag. Unfortunately casual homophobia was rampant. With this movie though, having Anthony Rapp being the one to deliver the line makes it a little ironic & amusing given who he is and his later history as an out an proud person and star of Rent. So for me that helps make it more palatable
The movies I never realized he was in! 😲 I didn’t even really notice him until he became Kingpin. Now I’m always like “oh! That was him???”
The one that always floors me is Men in Black. Even knowing it's him, I just can't see it.
Don't listen to him, he said you're a homo
Yes. I love him so. From the first sight, I saw this way before full metal jacket
Thor’s a homo
I had my gf watch it for the first time recently and had completely forgotten who played Thor.
Thor is a homo
You slip me the cash, I slip you the wiener… But I don’t have any cash! [Then I don’t have a wiener!](https://youtu.be/txsmwM10dP4?si=gYWsX61scAVt3Hij)
This humor was lost on me as a child 😂🤣😂
And all the proof you need of this movie’s genius
Really!? Such an innocent. This was peak dick humor for my 7 year old self.
Ohhhhhh I just got this now in my 40s 🤦
get out of my houuuse
Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues. That is also the most "John Hughes" movie, that was not made by John Hughes.
Albert Collins on guitar
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Cruisin' down the highway...
I’ve got the babyyyyyyyysitting blues
Baby baby
Even set/filmed in Chicago no less
One stitch? My only chance at being in a gang fight and all I get is one stitch?
Oh no… your friend… he’s dead.
Chris is gonna think I'm a loser
Cool threads!!! 😂
I always wanted that helmet
Wtf, this movie is far, far from terrible.
Not terrible. Campy and quotable. Loved it!
Exactly. It’s your typical 80s (teen) comedy.
Young Anthony Rapp! Where my musical theatre needs at?
December 24th, 9 pm.
Eastern standard time
From here on out I shoot without a script
When I found out Mark was Daryl, I nearly had a heart attack.
Wait What???
Stray dog!
"YA THINK?" --Daryl Coopersmith
Get in the car and run him over.
Loved it. Right up there with Licensed to Drive
Ok watched it tonight and LtD is at least 10x better than AiB. Jokes are actually funny, acting is pretty good, characters are charming and fun and writing, while stupid, isn’t gratingly stupid. Cast is top notch too. Even by 80s standards!
Terrible?! THE FUCK YOU TALKING BOUT?! Movie is an 80s gem!
You're so wrong, OP! Peak 80's cinema. Right up there with Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.
I’m right on top of that Rose!
The dishes are done!
Man.
My wife and I use this line at least once a week. Basically any time that the status of the dishes is actually mentioned by either of us.
That and I say "ass crack of dawn" pretty much any time I mention being awake at dawn.
Same, that's my favorite phrase lol.
Everyone knows the 80s lasted until 1992
Seriously..the audacity.
I’m from Nebraska—the 80s didn’t get here until 1992!
The Keith Coogan double feature. I finally bought the DVD for that, even though I have mostly bought Blu-rays for the last few years.
Keith Coogan and I share a Birthday! Different year tho.
My man had bad luck with babysitters for a while there
It was Kenny's bedroom that killed the babysitter. And he wasn't even there until after she died. And Brad, the definition of unrequited love.
That came out in 1991.
I'm not IMDB, bro 😆
This could totally double as box art for an NES game imo.
No way this movie is fantastic !! Same with Howard the Duck!!
That movie resides in my brain like a Sudafed fever dream. All I remember is that Lea Thompson might fuck an alien duck.
Dear god! Think of the children! No really. Think of the children. What would they look like? Would she lay eggs or would they be birthed? Would they still have a bill and duck feet or just feathers? 😂🤣😂
What?! You are nuts. Classic. Iconic.
This flick taught me that side chicks named Sesame are the actual worst. If you’ve never held a hairbrush like a microphone and danced around your bedroom lip syncing “And Then He Kissed Me” are you even in an 80s movie?
She’s a sleaze!
Loved this movie as a kid and STILL would beg my wife to give me a hall pass for Elisabeth Shue.
Have you seen The Boys? She's still smoking hot.
Yes, yes I have. Mmmm boy I have.
Yeah her head was definitely smoking. *Ba dum tis*
Her role in "The Saint"... awoken things in me
That scene where they have to warm each other up!
"While you're down there... Grab the knife out of my boot?" Sure I'm misquoting that scene, but I feel like this whole movie and the relationship between them is peak Xeniall 90's version of sexual tension. 😅 I gotta rewatch it, gonna see if it's on any streaming stuff
We recorded the club scene on cassette so we could sing "Babysittin' Blues" in the good station wagon. The Griswold Mobile didn't have a working tape deck, duh.
I don't know if this is appropriate, or PC or whatever, but a lot of times when I rewatch old movies I loved as a kid and I don't think they hold up, I treasure them for what they were and how they made me feel at the time. I know a lot of movies are problematic by today's standards, but they also give us insight into past cultural standards, which I think is valuable from an anthropological standpoint if nothing else. For the record, I still like this one. Have you seen the remake?
From one perspective, perhaps it's not strictly necessary to feel guilt or make apologies or excuses for enjoying art that might deal with certain topics insensitively from today's perspective. And not only enjoying them as a record from the past, or for the sake of the warm nostalgia they bring us, but genuinely enjoying them in, for, and of themselves. Even if we are connecting on some level to what some might consider "problematic" content (eg laughing at racist jokes, getting thrilled by violent or gory films), it gives us an opportunity to explore that side of our self and ask questions rather than repress it, which is a big part of what art is for. Also we would probably be left with enjoying very little if we avoided anything that could be seen as problematic--one could imagine an enlightened and peaceful future society looking back on much of the film and music we are enjoying today as backwards and repugnant. In any event, I rewatched this movie a couple years ago for the first time since I was a kid and I don't remember anything striking me as problematic. I had no idea they made a remake.
I agree, this is what’s important. We can’t hold the past to our standards all the time, but we can learn from it and examine why things changed for the better. I enjoy listening to the Bechdel Cast for how they discuss older movies. There’s one on the Goonies where I laughed my ass off. It it didn’t ruin the movie at all for me, but did help me examine the issues with the storytelling. The more we do that, the more we do better in the future.
This movie is fucking great is what you meant, right?
Excuse you this movie is awesome
Saw this in the theater as part of a double feature with “Ishtar”.
I saw it db’d with Inner Space
LOVED this movie, and so did my kids!!!
This movie is wonderful.
I fuckin loved that movie!
It’s not terrible, it’s a fun movie and yes I watched it recently with my teen who also enjoyed it.
its just bait to get more comments
Just watched it last week with my kids and tween and we all thoroughly enjoyed it.
I watched this movie, I dare say, at least 100 times. Elizabeth shue’s character dancing in the opening scene getting ready for her date shaped my entire understanding of dating.
I may be the world record holder for person who has seen Adventures in Babysitting in a movie theater the most because I could stop going to watch it. The multiplex had just been invented so I would go in the morning and pay $2.75 and watch it over and over until my parents came to get me in the evening. I spent the entire summer doing that and I don't know how many times I watched it. I can't even remember why I was so obsessed and transfixed by the movie. It had to be Elizabeth Shue. I remember wanting to be her or for her to be my friend so I must been having my first gay feelings for girls. I was also oddly obsessed with Desperately Seeking Susan which is just objectively a terrible movie.
The opening scene with the classic Then He Kissed Me..I love this movie
Babysitting Blues 🎶 was my jam!
This movie is one of my core eaely memories. Because of this movie I fast forwarded to the end of the credits of every movie ever looking for an Easter egg. I don't know if this was the first after credits scene, but it's the 1st I saw.
I just heard “and then he kissed me” the other day and the wave of nostalgia was something.
“Brenda’s probably dead” 🎶
This is the city, kid. I don’t help anyone but myself.
Handsome John Pruitt.
My sister and I loved it
That movie is fucking awesome.
This movie has some serious laughs. That homeless man who yells at Brenda to get out of his house? Thats been living rent free in my head since I was 8. And it makes me laugh every time I think of it.
Take it back, Brad. Take back what you said about this movie. Take it back.
Spaghetti O's with meat!
THOR!
Kingpin!
The dishes are done man!
well I loved it
I will always, unashamedly, love this movie.
Vince D’Onofrio as the Thor Mechanic, Albert Collins, who said it best: Nobody leaves without singin’ the blues.
Don’t fuck with the lords of hell!
You take that back! I watched this movie no less than 1500 times as a kid with my big sister! I hold a special place in my heart for this group of misfits
You shut your filthy mouth. This is one of the best movies of all time! It holds up!
My younger brother was the type to fixate on certain movies or songs and then wear the damn cassette out. This was one of those movies.
This was such a fun movie!
Miss March! Is that you?
This movie is legendary! They say fuck twice in ten seconds and still got a PG-13 rating!
Blasphemy
I legit love this movie
Also has derogatory and slanderous statements about Thor
The things they thought were appropriate for kids in the 80’s 🙄
Rudy from Monster Squad.
I'm not sure you know terrible
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im right on top of that, rose
😆I say this at work all the time!
Lmaoooo i literally just watched that. Tonight.
Blasphemer!
100% agree
I had the book that they used to do for some movies, based on the original scripts, and had deleted scenes.
It wasn’t Back To The Future!? Xennial card revoked.
I loved this fun movie as a kid but I thought Penelope Ann Miller was prettier.
I love this movie!
Loved this movie!
Terrible?? It's a friggin' classic
You're crazy. This movie is awesome!
[what're you up to elizabeth shue?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQIqhkQZ3H4)
Nice , drive comments up with a clear rage inducing caption.
I remember the first time I went to Chicago I was so excited to see the Adventures in Babysitting building.
OMG, me too! Seeing that building and then riding on one of those lower level streets like they do when they’re going back to get the car made my day!
As far as I know that is it’s official name
Was this the movie where the comedic relief lost her glasses and was all protective of a sewer rat?
Still a better Thor than the MCU.
This was one of my parents favorite movies to watch with us back in the day. So it's super nostalgic for me. Watched it recently, holds up for the most part, as entertaining as ever. But entertaining doesn't equal "good" either haha
This was my introduction to the blues and Albert Collins!
Holy shit I was JUST thinking about this movie the other day when I was cleaning my kitchen, specifically at the end where she’s wiping off the counters as fast as she can. I was thinking to myself ‘did that cursory wipe actually do any good? Because it never works when I try it’. Memory is such a weird thing. Like, why am I analyzing a scene from a hella old movie as if it was giving me life advice on cleaning? Ps. I loved this movie, especially with its toe into feminist dialogue on creepers in the workplace. It was a good lesson for a young women entering the corporate world.
This was one of the movies I'd sneak into after paying for matinee with change Gramma gave me from her change bowl. Licence to Drive and Lost Boys are the other two memorable age appropriate movies I "stole". Movie theaters in the 80's early 90's were my babysitter. I'd be gone ALL afternoon. Those were the days
“Is it a hand?” “No.” “Oh good.” “It’s a gun!” “OH GOD!”
That poster goes hard though.
It’s terrible but one of my guilty pleasures.
Agreed. Severely underrated babe. I love Cocktail, and lest we forget Hamlet 2.
I found this movie to be over shadowed by don’t tell mom the babysitters dead. 
The dishes are done dude