Will your kids ever watch the movie ET?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids loved it at around 8 and 10 but then my 10 year old was sobbing and had to leave when he thought ET was going to die. I had to tell him he lives to finish the movie. My younger one has never cried in a movie ever ("It's fake mom!") but she cries at 30 second ASPCA commercials all the time!

I also sobbed my heart out as a kid watching it for the first time. In the 80s. It’s a shared experience! I still very much remember sobbing in my moms lap and her saying “keep watching! Keep watching!” I was destroyed by that scene.

“He’s alive?!”

It’s a doozy.

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Anonymous wrote:We tried Jaws I after the Meg came out but it was too realistic in the beginning .

My aunt didn’t get in the ocean for years after Jaws came out.

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Anonymous wrote:I traumatized my dd by showing it to her when she was 6. She didn’t act scared, but apparently it really did a number on her. She’s 15 now and thinks of it as a scary movie. I wish I’d waited until she was a bit older.

I was about that age when it came out and remember being scared watching it. I don’t think I’ve seen it since. I remember being petrified during the scene when he was dying and thinking it was really scary. I didn’t show it to my kids since it doesn’t have good memories for me! I doubt they would ever want to watch it on their own.

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ET yes. It was ok, not great.
We got 10 mins into the Goonies and DD couldn’t get into it…. She was 9.

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Anonymous wrote:We watch a lot of 80s and 90s movies with our kids. Fun for us and the kids have liked almost all of them. For some of the movies the changes in technology make them unintentionally hilarious - War Games was great. We've also watched Big, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Poltergeist, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mrs. Doubtfire, Goonies, Back to the Future. Our kids are in 5th & 6th grade...and we're in our 50s. Fun times

Wow you’re old!

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ET scared the sh*t out of me as a kid. The part when’s he’s sick…I shiver just thinking about it. As an adult I love scary movies but I don’t think I’ll watch with DS is he wants to watch ET.

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Yes, during a family movie night a few years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, my kids (12 and 14) have seen ET. If it weren't for COVID, though, I don't know if they would have seen it. We watched most family movies made in the past 40 years during that time. ET barely made the 40 year cut off.

wow. Talk about screen time!

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Anonymous wrote:We watch a lot of 80s and 90s movies with our kids. Fun for us and the kids have liked almost all of them. For some of the movies the changes in technology make them unintentionally hilarious - War Games was great. We've also watched Big, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Poltergeist, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mrs. Doubtfire, Goonies, Back to the Future. Our kids are in 5th & 6th grade...and we're in our 50s. Fun times

Wow you’re old!

NP. They aren’t old. 50 is the new 40! Give them a break!

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My kid watched it when he was ~ 10. He liked it as much as I did when it came out.

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My kids have seen it. One of my kids is a softie like me and cried as much as I did back in the day. I think it holds up well.

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Anonymous wrote:I brought my then 8 year old to a small theater at a vacation resort that showed classics. It was ok until they brought ET into the hospital dying. She started sobbing. Loudly sobbing. I kept trying to tell her he wasn’t dying there but she couldn’t stop so we had to leave. I don’t even know how it ended.

My son cries at movies too when someone is suffering on the screen although he’s quiet about it. I always felt bad when that happened because it meant I brought him to the wrong movie. He prefers comedy.

Gremlins was horrible with creatures dying and popping in the microwave.

Yeah Definitely not for the sensitive stomachs.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We watch a lot of 80s and 90s movies with our kids. Fun for us and the kids have liked almost all of them. For some of the movies the changes in technology make them unintentionally hilarious - War Games was great. We've also watched Big, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Poltergeist, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mrs. Doubtfire, Goonies, Back to the Future. Our kids are in 5th & 6th grade...and we're in our 50s. Fun times

Wow you’re old!

And you’re old to teenagers. What’s your point?

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Both my kids have seen it and love it. They are now 5 and 12.

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Didn’t like it in the theater as a kid and not going to watch it again now.