Young kids: The Iron Giant, Princess Bride, and if shows count, Adventure Time and Avatar
Teenagers: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Tron. Labyrinth. Goonies. Legend. Etc.
And by etc, OP means Princess Bride.
I cannot for the life of me understand the love for this movie. But the love for it spans generations so assume I’m the one in the wrong, but I just don’t see it.
I love this movie so much, but I get it. I feel like you have to have seen it at a certain age in order to really feel it.
Alright, that may be fair. I didn’t see it till I was in my mid 30s. And I will fight to the death with sticks, anybody who doesn’t like hook. So, I get it, but I don’t get it.
I like Hook too. I think I was 8 or 9 when it came out and it was amazing to me. My friend who is just a couple of years older didn’t like it because his younger siblings fucked that up for him by playing it on repeat.
It helps if you watch it over and over, until the tape wears out.
Yes
HUGE second on all of these
Oh and Willow
The Neverending Story
EDIT: Stoopid autocorrect
Yes.
Watched that for the first time while really high in college, and the horse sinking in the swamp really fucked me up lol. I’ve had no desire to revisit it, personally :/
Kids and animals dying really ruin media for me
It’s OK, Artax the horse survived.
The Everending Story
Is that a short movie about a kid finishing reading a book about a hero completing his quest?
Simpsons, South Park, modern family, futurama, bobs burgers
It’s vague if they are okay with animated films intended for adults, so…
Titan AE, Iron Giant, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Rocketeer, Indiana Jones, Star Wars IV thru VI, Forever Young, The Incredible Journey (original, not the voiceover remake).
Indiana Jones was my first thought. Just have them close their eyes during the arc face-melting part
And the heart ripping scene. I looked away as a kid but I was still disturbed.
The Rocketeer is a solid suggestion.
The human centipede
It’s basically a live-action version of the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Any of the Studio Ghibli anime. Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke are two of my favorites. If you’re not into anime, just trust me and give them a try; the writing and drama is on par with any Grammy-winning blockbuster from the past 50 years.
My Neighbor Totoro is magic for children. I have four kids and each one of them, starting at around 2, would go silent and sit for the entirety of that film any time I put it on.
Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle are some of the best media I have ever come across. Oh, Kiki’s Delivery Service is an amazing story about having faith in yourself.
The Princess Bride. It’s got fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles…
And it seems like it could be from a ttrpg session. Very amusing!
Grave of the Fireflies will fix that. They’ll yearn for Bluey.
Make it a marathon and put on Come and See immediately after. Hours of fun all night
It’s one of my favourite movies that i never want to see again
Depending on the age, but if they are still not truly able to follow complex storylines and conversations, you could really get away with anything that isn’t scary, sexual or violent.
My parents watched Friends all the time, I didn’t understand half of it but it was fun to watch as kid.
The princess bride
Interstellar is pg 13. It’s kind of a heavy movie but younger kids won’t pick up on it.
Could Inception or Matrix work then too?
Those are rather violent, with subject matter they wouldn’t understand. With interstellar you can just say really high gravity affects time.
I don’t remember inception being that violent but I don’t remember large parts of it. Matrix I do agree with being rather violent.
I think the matrix would be a great one. I have no idea why it’s rated r
Two people in trench coats pull a mass shooting in order to help the world “free their minds.”
It also happened to release in the Spring of 1999…
Doctor Who!
My kids like horror movies since they were little.
Lots of Spielberg directed stuff fits here I think like close encounters, Indiana Jones, Jaws
The blues brothers I remember was a lot of fun & don’t recall anything that stands out as too adult. tons of music, violence is not very serious
mst3k/rifftrax take a lot of old cheap movies and have comedians joke over the movie’s audio, I think most of it is pretty pg-13 stuff but not pandering to kids
Some Coen brothers/Ethan Coen movies like O brother where art thou and raising Arizona, true grit, add a bit more complexity to stories over kids movies, but keep the violence not too scary
If it wasn’t for a few f bombs the Blue Brothers could have been rated PG. And maybe the used condom joke at the very beginning.
My first thoughts were the naked gun or Monty Python movies.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy might be good too (at least the six episode TV series that just feels like a long film). I also think it’s a little more appropriate.
Naked Gun has some pretty sexual themes, Monty Python less so if you’re only talking Holy Grail. Life of Brian and Meaning of Life have loads of sexual themes and nudity.
Still a lot more tame than the other films.
Being a lot more tame ≠ appropriate for children 😂
I think as a kid, I’d have found this scene funny without really getting it. I’d probably be OK with my kids seeing it, if I had kids.
I did think of that scene fist which is why I was surprised that it was considered the one with the least sexual themes. That’s how I first found out spanking could be a sexual thing.
The 1980s version of Time Bandits is made by the Monty Python team for a family audience!
I keep forgetting there’s a modern version, I’ll add the year on my list to make clear that’s the one I mean!
I mean, Holy Grail has that whole nunnery sequence where they’re trying to get Galahad to fuck them
