What "old" movies do you want your kids to see?

[elfdream]

(06-07-2011 07:53 PM)Sharon Wrote:  

(06-07-2011 05:48 PM)pastors wife Wrote:  @Presbygirl, my husband can't believe that I still haven't seen "Top Gun"! You miss a lot of popular culture when you grow up fundy!

hah, that's a separate thread idea right there. My husband and I refer to that time as my "Jesus cave."

My husband tells people that he grew up in a monastery. I used to listen to popular music on the sly and it was so maddening that I could not share those memories with my husband but he plays catch up with classic rock radio.

My kids saw it all the first time around. I have been out a long time.

[boymom]

(06-08-2011 07:46 AM)Presbygirl Wrote:  Dear Pastor's Wife,

It is never too late to see Top Gun!

Your cyber friend,

Presbygirl

But it is too late to pine for Tom Cruise

[pastor's wife]

No pining here! I've got a great man! (And he's taller than me too! lol)

[Shoes]

Robin Hood- with K Costner
Home Alone
Red Dawn
Rudy
Princess Bride
Back to the Future

Not really "old" but it will be old to them

[Presbygirl]

(06-08-2011 09:51 AM)boymom Wrote:  

(06-08-2011 07:46 AM)Presbygirl Wrote:  Dear Pastor's Wife,

It is never too late to see Top Gun!

Your cyber friend,

Presbygirl


Amen sister!

But it is too late to pine for Tom Cruise

[Annie Moose]

Oh man, I missed so many movies growing up too. I've tried to rectify that lately, but I still haven't gotten around to watching Top Gun, for some reason.

Luckily my parents weren't totally anti-movie, just generally would only let us watch G-rated stuff, so I got to see all of the Disney and Pixar movies as a kid. Mulan remains one of my favorites, even if it is, you know, blasphemous/heretical/devil-worshiping because the ancestors show up. Also because a woman saves the day.

[M Go Blue]

I don't have any kids but I take any opportunity I can get to expose my 15 year old nephew to the wonders of 80's movies. We've seen the Indiana Jones movies, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Masters of the Universe, and Big Trouble in Little China, among others. Thanks to Netflix, I've also introduced him to the show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". I remember back in the day thinking that show was awesome but now seeing it... wow.... so cheesy.

[Scorpio]

(06-07-2011 11:58 AM)captain_solo Wrote:  "The gods must be crazy" - uproariously awful movie

FTW.

[Scorpio]

With me it's what movies I want to share with the grandkids. A few have been mentioned:

Jurassic Park
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rudy

I would add one more:

Jaws

[M Go Blue]

(06-10-2011 12:47 PM)Donb123 Wrote:  

(06-10-2011 09:30 AM)M Go Blue Wrote:  I don't have any kids but I take any opportunity I can get to expose my 15 year old nephew to the wonders of 80's movies. We've seen the Indiana Jones movies, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Masters of the Universe, and Big Trouble in Little China, among others. Thanks to Netflix, I've also introduced him to the show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". I remember back in the day thinking that show was awesome but now seeing it... wow.... so cheesy.

I remember thinking that chick was hot.. and I was too young to know what hot was Erin Moran or something..

Erin Gray is who you're thinking of. And yeah, she looked good as Wilma Deering.

Erin Moran was Joanie Cunningham from Happy Days