Most critics will always put movies into unofficial categories by saying this movie is for Teens,Women, Men, Young Kids, etc but I saw the movie Walking Tall and it could easily please all those groups except perhaps the young kids who can’t sit still for more than 10 minutes.
Let’s see for the Women it had Romance, For the guys it had fighting, For Parents it had a strong moral, for Kids it starred the rock, for adults it was based on a movie that came out in the 70’s, for the teens it had all of the above and some cool characters. Not my favorite movie but definitely a winner!
I know an incredibly wide range of people that saw/enjoyed the LOTR movies. Kids, adults, science nerds like me, non-nerds that you’d never expect to see in a D&D-type movie, people who’ve never even heard of fantasy, and so on. I guess the only crowd I didn’t see flock to the theatre was the elderly, but I don’t really know many so they might have liked it.
I also think a very wide range of people enjoyed the Matrix (well the first one anyway). And Shawshank Redemption.
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN … no way that anyone can watch and not be smiling and tapping their feet.
If you can get them to agree to sit still and watch for five minutes (it’s black and white AND silent), that’s all the time it will take for Charlie Chaplin’s THE GOLD RUSH to grab 'em and everyone will love it.
The original Star Wars seemed to be universally liked. The same goes with The Pirates of the Carribean.
If we leave out the “young children”, I would add to the list Casablanca, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Gone With the Wind. The latter was on my list of “I really have no desire to ever see that one” films. When my wife finally talked me into seeing it, I was completely blown away.
I just took a look at the AFI’s top 100 list; probably 12 of the top 15 would appeal to any mix of non-child audience. Schindler’s List and The Godfather are probably too violent for some people, and there are a sizeable number of folks (myself included) who just don’t see the attraction of Citizen Kane.
Unfortunately, if you want to appeal to adults and children, that pretty much leaves out any serious drama or complex themes.
School of Rock was so unexpectedly good I’m going to recommend it here. No foul language or ‘adult situations’, happy ending, musical theme and funny to boot. Yep, thought I’d hate it, really enjoyed it.
Walking Tall: The Rock cannot act. The Rock cannot act.The Rock cannot act. (When he’s lucky, he can get a laugh.)
Titanic: Gag me with glurge. I saw this POS when it was new because everyone around me was seeing it, but I spend half of the film thinking the people were morons and half of the film bored stiff. The guy’s drowning in icy water? He’s going into shock? Good! This travesty is over!
E.T. is glurgy, but I don’t hate it with the same intensity I hate Titanic.
So those movies are flops if you want 100% acceptance. You’d probably need to drug me if you want me to see The Princess Bride, however, but that goes for most fantasy movies (LOTR included). (In fact, I don’t remember the last fantasy movie I saw. Wizard of Oz, probably.)
Agreed. So let’s take all those movies off the list. I can’t picture any guys under 30 liking those movies without having first been indoctrinated to like them as children (like I was).
It’s a Wonderful Life
Can’t disagree with you about Walking Tall II or The Matrix but mainly because I’ll never watch a movie with eith The Rock or Keanu Reeves in it.
