Good movies to watch 12 year old boy
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No. I was going to recommend that and Stand By Me. |
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Back to the future
jaws |
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| I prefer to link reading and books, so I don't care how gory something is (Last of the Mohicans comes to mind), if the kids read it, we'll watch and discuss the differences. Not many movies unless the kids read it first though. |
Anonymous
Murder and prison rape? Shawshank is not appropriate for a middle school kid. |
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Jurassic World if he liked the 2 books, which are very good and more scientific-minded than the movies, and if he liked the first movie. Number two and three are complete crap. The Hobbit movie, if he liked the book, although of course it encompasses a great deal more story than the book and the orcs are quite gruesome. Indiana Jones. |
Anonymous
Good one! The entire Lord of the Rings triology is great for a boy of that age. |
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| Star Wars |
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| Good Burger with Kenan Thompson (SLT member) and other known stars. It is a hoot. I'm watch it any time I have a bad day and need some side cracking laughs. |
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Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (actually better movie) Indian in the Cupboard Bridge to Terabithia* spoiler alert both book and movie are tear jerkers and deal with a child's death A Princess Bride Matilda Holes Zathura Peter Pan (the one with Jeremy Sumpter) The Hobbit (the animated 70s version) Not a book (that I know of)... Lucas Newsies a Hayao Miyazaki film...stunning |
Anonymous
careful with this one - they say the n-word in the original one. |
Anonymous
These are some of the book/movie combinations that the kids and I have done. Some were read by just the teens, some but just the elementary crowd, a few were one of the nightly chapter books. We only do this with chapter books, as there are way too many picture books that would take the kids 20 minutes or less to read, and then the kids would want to watch 1.5 hours of movie... No way, that defeats the purpose. Black Cauldron Wizard of Oz Narnia series (I'm hoping that they're just taking a break and are going to do the others... BBC versions work too) Harry Potter series LOTR series Hunger Games series City of Ember Great Gatsby Jungle Book (for a 12 yo I would do the live action version) first two Percy Jackson Giver Monuments' Men Ender's Game most Roald Dahl Alice in Wonderland Seabiscuit Snow Falling on Cedars Shiloh Where the Red Fern Grows Doctor Dolittle (the original film is much better!) How to Eat Fried Worms Coraline Series of Unfortunate Events (1 movie) Secret Garden Three Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask, Count of Monte Cristo Hunchback of Notre Dame Frankenstein Dracula any Shakespeare Sounder Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn Black Stallion any Austen any Alcott Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Princess Diaries series Scarlet Letter most of Nicholas Sparks some of Jodi Piccoult's books (My Sister's Keeper comes to mind) Ella Enchanted Sarah, Plain and Tall series Tuck Everlasting Anne of Green Gables series, Avonlea series National Velvet Eragon Inkheart Into the Wild Because of Winn Dixie Unstrung Heroes Marley & Me I know that we've done others, but those are what the kids and I could think of off the tops of our heads. |
Anonymous
| Oh, I forgot Louis L'Amour. One of the boys looks online to see which books were made into movies, and he usually reads one of those every month. |
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I would skip the Nicholas Sparks books or movies. He's a pretty terrible writer and I'm not a fan of the movies. They are too corny not matter how many times Ryan Gosling takes his shirt off.
Secret of NHIM Jumanji Lemon Snicket To Kill a Mockingbird would be ones I'd add to the list. |
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Million Dollar Arm
Blind Side Pursuit of Happiness |
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| maze runner, hobbit, the giver, ender's game |