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| 3/24/2002
| Daniel J. Phillips (BibChr)
Posted on 03/24/2002 9:37:00 AM PST by BibChr
I am here to ask for, and offer, help!
We have a weekly tradition called Burger Night. I cook for the family my own special formula for burgers, and show them a movie.
Here's the hard part: the movie has to have something for a family ranging in age from 2 to 46. Okay, we go soft on the 2yo, because he's hit-and-miss at this point. But that leaves boys aged 6 and 15, an 18yo girl, my wife and me.
Here are the criteria.
- Positively: It's got to have enough action to hold the 6yo, humor for all preferably, and if there are positive role models and moral lessons, all the better.
- Negatively: no sex, little or no profanity, little or no blood, not too intensely scary.
Here are some examples in both categories:
HITS (to varying degrees)
- Prince of Egypt
- Sgt.York
- Baby's Day Out
- Cats and Dogs
- Princess Bride (have to fast forward one scene)
- Sands of Iwo Jima
- Emperor's New Groove
- Toy Story I and II
- Stagecoach
- Rio Grande
- Hondo
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance (a little talky for the younger set)
- McClintock!
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Ever After (a little talky)
- Time Machine
- Iron Giant
- Atlantis
- Shane
- Tarzan and the Lost City
- Tarzan Finds a Son
- The Last Starfighter
- Star Trek: Generations
- All Star Wars movies
A COUPLE OF MISSES
- Big Jake (a few spurts of explosive blood, and everyone started looking at me)
- Indiana Jones and Anything (not yet, too violent)
- Quiet Man (not yet; favorite for my wife and me, but probably too talky)
Those are not exhaustive lists, but they should give you an idea (and maybe ideas of your own).
So now it's your turn. Every week, it gets harder for me to pick another movie that'll be a winner. I'm soliciting suggestions.
So please name your recommendations for family fare, with any brief comments you'd add. My (our) thanks in advance.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: family; funtime; movies
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To: Crowcreek
Also: Family-oriented storyline, animals/kids/imagination, based on a real event . . .
To: BibChr
To: BibChr
How about: Thomasina, Rhubarb, and The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. First two flicks it helps if you're a cat-lover.
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posted on
03/24/2002 10:52:02 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: BibChr
Anything by Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harold LLoyd.
To: hole_n_one
If you want your spawn to turn into animal rights activists just set them down in front of films the anthropamorphise food (like Babe and Bambi).
The last time I roasted a suckling pig I spent the whole party doing my Babe voice screaming about the spit he was roasting on (Oh my 'roids, the fire's hot). Also trying to convice the kids that the eyeballs were the best part (they said 'OK, YOU eat them'). I guess they are leaning critical thinking skills from me.
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posted on
03/24/2002 10:52:43 AM PST
by
Dinsdale
To: BibChr
A Face In The Crowd.
Boring for most, but the similarities to Clinton are eerie and Andy Griffith gives a performance worthy of an Oscar.
To: lowbridge
Or anything with Abbott and Costello, especially Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, and Hold That Ghost!.
67
posted on
03/24/2002 10:54:11 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: BibChr
Couple of suggestions:
Stuart Little
Chicken Run
These are animated but work on two levels. My wife and I loved 'em. Our first kid is still in utero, but from all accounts, he loved 'em too.
To: mewzilla
And the Leslie Howard version of The Scarlet Pimpernel.
69
posted on
03/24/2002 10:55:25 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: hole_n_one
I say we tell the truth to our children while you believe in mind-numbing indoctrination from government.
It isn't a pretty world. And for those that continue to paint the government as providing a pretty world, this retards the children; in fact, this is why contemporary music is so violent. Some of you folks don't tell the truth.
70
posted on
03/24/2002 10:56:26 AM PST
by
Buckeroo
To: BibChr
Bringing up Baby. Kate Hepburn and Cary Grant
Link
71
posted on
03/24/2002 10:57:15 AM PST
by
Wrigley
To: Dinsdale
Also any Monty Python film is great for kids. Again things they should not get just go over their heads. (Can't I have just a little peril. No it's too perilous. Bet you're gay.)
Anything Monty Python is not fit for anyone over 16-18. If I recall, there's brief bits of nudity in every one. I'd pass on these if you have kids younger than 16...
To: Wrigley
Oh, I'll second that!!. Our current house mew got his name from the furry protagonist in that film.
73
posted on
03/24/2002 11:03:15 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: Antoninus
How about Spartacus? ;)
74
posted on
03/24/2002 11:04:26 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: Antoninus
Anything Monty Python is not fit for anyone over 16-18.
over = under. Although Monty Python lost most of their luster for me after about age 20, so that statement is almost true...
To: BibChr
I must second 'October Sky' and 'Captains Courageous (MGM)', absolutely wonderful movies.
Try "Little Lord Fauntleroy (MGM)" with Freddie Bartholomew, my husband likes that one too. Also any Shirley Temple movie!!
76
posted on
03/24/2002 11:06:24 AM PST
by
pbear8
To: Buckeroo, Dinsdale
You don't laugh much, do you?
To: mewzilla, bibchr
How about Spartacus? ;)
Too violent and I think Crassus is portrayed as a homosexual, which he was not, historically. I think Commie/Hollywood 10 creep Dalton Trumbo had something to do with that film, if I'm not mistaken.
This time of year, The 10 Commandments is a good choice. I'd suggest A Man for All Seasons but I know BibChr is not sympathetic to the Catholic viewpoint, so I suspect he'd want to skip that one. It is a brilliant movie, however.
To: hole_n_one
You don't laugh much, do you?
Sure I do. I thought throwing a 'Babe' party and cooking a suckling pig was funny. Some of the little ones were kind of disturbed, but they all ate part of Babe and liked it.
Bambi is responsible for more brain rot then just about any other film. It is pure BS aimed right at the kids.
79
posted on
03/24/2002 11:13:36 AM PST
by
Dinsdale
To: Antoninus
If brief non-sexual nudity bothers you watch the TV show. No non-animated nudity.
Next you'll tell me whoppie cushons are'nt appropirate for kids. (a fart joke is never funnier then when you are 5)
80
posted on
03/24/2002 11:16:44 AM PST
by
Dinsdale
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