# Parents: What "old" movies are you holding/waiting to show your children? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160 "2008-05-13T13:32:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/21 "2008-05-14T01:51:48Z")
I was actually surprised to find that the SO’s younger kids have not seen some of the _classics_ I grew up watching so I plan on building up a collection - besides, it’ll come in handy when the grandkids come into existance. -All of the Disney animated classics _teen + \* -Wizard of Oz / -Butch Cassidy & the Sundance kid -Sound of music / -Blazing Saddles -War of the Buttons (A MUST!) / -Bad News Bears -The Secret of Roan Inish / -Clockwork Orange -Black Beauty / -Escape From Alcatraz -Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder) / -Shawshank -The Thief of Bagdad / -Inlaws -Mary Poppins / -Goodbye Girl -Swiss Family Robinson / -Logan’s Run -Shirley Temple Movies / -Mad Max collection -Pete’s Dragon / -M_A_S_H -Freaky Friday (new one) / -Monty Python movies (age varies) -Star Wars collection / -Smokey & the Bandits -The Muppet movies / -Indiana Jones collection -Bedknobs and Broomsticks / 16 candles, Ferris Bueller, Mad Science, -Grease /Pretty in Pink, Better off Dead, Breakfast Club -Princess Bride / -History of the World movies (older teen) -Time Bandits -Tom Sawyer -Huck Finn -Old Yeller Ok, I’m sure there are lots more but that’s what’s on my list for now. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/22 "2008-05-14T04:02:12Z")
Pink Floyd _The Wall_ The Breakfast Club I haven’t given this any thought yet so I’ll have to come back later. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/23 "2008-05-14T11:42:29Z")
My daughter doesn’t want to see The Wall because she already likes Pink Floyd and she thinks it’ll change “the way she imagines the songs.” She actually did see it when she was a baby. I remember her sitting there looking intently at the wall in the penultimate scene. She nearly shit her pants when it blew up. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/24 "2008-05-14T12:06:02Z")
**Pixilated** - I like your list, though there are a few that I certainly won’t be shwoing my children. A Clockwork Orange is certainly on the - do-not-show - list. I had forgotten about the Secret of Roan Innish and Breakfast Club. Though I think a teen seeing Breakfast Club now would think it is silly and barbaric. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/25 "2008-05-14T12:08:48Z")
[QUOTE=Phlosphr] **Pixilated** - I like your list, though there are a few that I certainly won’t be shwoing my children. A Clockwork Orange is certainly on the - do-not-show - list. [/QUOTE] It stood out for me too. Part of the reason I named my daughter Alex is because of that movie, and I told her that, but I also told her it was a very shocking movie and she probably wouldn’t like it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/26 "2008-05-14T12:42:22Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] However, films that I’m waiting to show her… _Aliens_ probably tops the list. Sophie will just LOVE that one. Guaranteed. [/QUOTE] My mom took me to the movie theater to see _Aliens_ for my ninth birthday - I loved it! Of course, I was a strange child who, thanks primarilyl to divorce, was well versed in rated R movies by then. The movie I remember my dad being excited to show me when was roughly 10 was _National Lampoons Vacation_ and I thought it was hilarious. Of course, at the time it was only four years old but it seemed pretty old to me. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/27 "2008-05-14T14:39:32Z")
My eldest son saw the LOTR trilogy at age 9, I think, and wasn’t discombobulated at all (although he begged me not to do my Gollum impression afterwards, as it creeped him out). I’m saving _Casablanca_ (my all-time favorite movie) for him for at least another few years. He would “get it” now, but I think he’ll enjoy it much more when he’s a bit older. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/28 "2008-05-14T15:03:12Z")
[QUOTE=Phlosphr] Though I think a teen seeing Breakfast Club now would think it is silly and barbaric. [/QUOTE] My son watched it with me when he was 13 or 14, and he just couldn’t grok the social groups. His school doesn’t have “jocks” “populars” “weirdos” and “geeks”; they’re divided almost entirely on racial lines, with, he claims, no further division to speak of within those groups. The star athlete is just as likely to be found reading Manga with my kid in the library over lunch as he is to be volunteering in the tutoring program. I can’t grok _that_, so I guess we’re even! There are some great ones in here that are definitely on my list and many that we’ve already done with my son that are on the wait-list again for my daughter. My son’s favorite of “those weird old movies” is definitely _Star Wars_ (but he’s a lot more honestly critical of its shortcomings than the loyal fanboys of yore), and then anything Mel Brooks. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/29 "2008-05-14T15:08:10Z")
Raiders ( we’ve just read book 1 and I don’t think I can swing it reading 2 and 3 without strangling the writer.) Ferris Bueller. Marx Brothers ( any and all of them.) Timeless. Genius. His Girl Friday. Genius Lion in Winter Most musicals. ( I was quite the musical freak years ago.) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/30 "2008-05-14T15:40:33Z")
I considered putting A Clockwork Orange on my list. I love that movie. But I figured the dopers would spaz, so I left it off. It’s one I wouldn’t have him watch until he was 17 or so, though. He’s already seen Team America, by the way. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/31 "2008-05-14T15:44:35Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Most musicals. ( I was quite the musical freak years ago.) [/QUOTE] Y’all keep reminding me of stuff. My kids are both mad about the Rick Moranis version of Little Shop of Horrors. We sing it in the car. Oh my, we are a nerd family! My daughter is a big fan of The Sound of Music as well. She’s always shocked that other kids her age (16) don’t know it. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/32 "2008-05-14T15:56:37Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] He’s already seen Team America, by the way. [/QUOTE] heh My older son (about aged 22 at the time) censored Team America for _me_–he wouldn’t let me see the puppet sex. **Pixilated** –I loved War of the Buttons, and so did my boys. Now that they’re almost 25 and almost 18, I think my kids have seen everything I ever wanted them to see–we all love movies. There have been a couple disappointments, as little guys, they were polite but somewhat bored with The Red Balloon. They did enjoy my all-time favorite, Local Hero. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160/33 "2008-05-14T16:33:43Z")
Team America raised the hilarious situation of me having to explain the sex jokes to my son. I pretty much had to if I was going to let him watch the movie. See, if I just said “these jokes aren’t appropriate” but he didn’t understand _why_ they were inappropriate, I could see him repeating them at school or something. If he understood the scope of what he would be repeating, he’d be less likely (or at least more careful) to repeat them in inappropriate company. He was sufficiently grossed out by many of the concepts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-old-movies-are-you-holding-waiting-to-show-your-children/449160.md?page=1)