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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 14, 2018 18:06:49 GMT
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Original Star Wars trilogy, Jaws, Ghostbusters, etc..
Most recently, watched Terminator 2 with my 8 year old son last night. Fun explaining the time travel aspect of the plot and changing events in the present to avoid war in the future.
Films like The Godfather and Raging Bull on hold for a few years. |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2018 18:08:48 GMT
So do you force them to watch those films ?
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2018 18:10:26 GMT
Do your kids have any favorites among the ones you showed them?
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Post by Nalkarj on May 14, 2018 18:20:48 GMT
So do you force them to watch those films ? Weird question. I’m not Popeye Doyle, of course, but what most people do is say to someone, “Hey, this is a pretty good movie. You want to see it?” And usually the other person says yes, and you two (or three, etc.) watch the movie. Isn’t that the way it works with you? |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 14, 2018 18:20:49 GMT
So do you force them to watch those films ?  |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 14, 2018 18:22:21 GMT
Do your kids have any favorites among the ones you showed them? Of the Indiana Jones films, he really likes Temple of Doom. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 💀🎃👻 on May 14, 2018 18:48:14 GMT
I can relate, in a way. I forced my 69 year old mother to watch the original Star Wars trilogy when I stayed over a few years ago, she never once saw any of them! So much time had passed since these movies had become cultural icons, so it was great fun hearing her comments now.
She sat through The Phantom Menace but refused to watch Attack of the Clones, so she's not seen Revenge of the Sith. She did like The Force Awakens, however.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on May 14, 2018 18:56:03 GMT
Do you show them anything from the golden age of Hollywood.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 14, 2018 18:57:26 GMT
Do you show them anything from the golden age of Hollywood. Not yet. Was thinking The Wizard of Oz if I can find a copy. |
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Post by vegalyra on May 14, 2018 19:40:58 GMT
Do your kids have any favorites among the ones you showed them? Of the Indiana Jones films, he really likes Temple of Doom. Cool. Don't worry until you see your kid running around like this...   |
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Post by louise on May 15, 2018 6:15:08 GMT
No. 1 son used to watch old films with me sometimes when he was young. I remember him enjoying the Marx Brothers, and Will Hay. I think he still likes Some Like It Hot. I can remember no.2 and no.3 sons enjoying Ghostbusters
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Post by Marv on May 15, 2018 8:33:37 GMT
Awesome. No kids but I had a big enough age gap between me and some younger siblings that I was the one that introduced several films to them.
Most horror movies but especially Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street, Stand By Me and everything Quentin Tarantino.
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Post by mikef6 on May 15, 2018 14:38:29 GMT
Way back in the stone ages (early 1990s), I forced my two sons who were then about 17 and 14 to sit down and watch “Dr. Strangelove.” They griped about having to watch a dumb older movie, they griped about black and white, they griped about how bored they were, they groaned at everything I thought was funny, and generally did their best to make it a miserable experience for everybody. Kids today! Am I right folks? Jump forward about 10 or 15 years. My #2 son tells me he had ordered the “Dr. Strangelove” DVD, it was great, what a wonderful movie blah blah blah. I reminded him ever so gently (HA!) about what he had put me through a decade before. He claimed not to remember it (HA! again).
On another occasion around that time, I showed them “D.O.A.” (1950), a film I saw on TV at about the tender age of six which was a huge influence on my love of movies and mysteries which I date from around that period. Like with “Strangelove” they started out complaining but when the mystery kicked in very unexpectedly and the main character finds he has very little time to catch the murderer and the plot started to twist back on itself, they fell strangely silent and gave their full attention to the end. I think they also appreciated that there was no cop-out happy ending.
These were maybe the only two times I just ordered them to sit down and watch, but it paid off both times.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on May 15, 2018 15:48:25 GMT
I showed my nephew a lot of older movies when he was growing up, both the movies I grew up with in the 70s-80s, and the classics from before my time. He's in his mid 20s now, and has a vast DVD/Bluray collection that goes all the way back to the silent era. His favorite genre is horror, but his tastes are like mine and he has an appreciation for most all of them.
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Post by mslo79 on May 15, 2018 19:59:34 GMT
Don't you think movies like Terminator are a bit too much for a 8 year old?
it seems stuff like this would be more for, I don't know, say at least 12-ish+.
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