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 / -MASH
-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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
