Anonymous
09/17/2022 16:55
Subject: Re:Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid in the 1970s, we had movie week themes after school.
Gidget Week
Elvis Week
Godzilla Week
Annette and Frankie Beach Week
I don't know if your children would like those movies. We didn't have cable until the early 1980s. And our parents were teenagers in the 1950s/1960s so we liked movies and music from that era, which were mostly rated "G."
Wikipedia calls it the 4:30 p.m. movie. I lived in the Midwest, so it was the 3:30 p.m. movie.
"The 4:30 Movie is a television program that aired weekday afternoons on WABC-TV (Channel 7) in New York from 1968 to 1981. The program was mainly known for individual theme weeks devoted to theatrical feature films or made-for-TV movies starring a certain actor or actress, or to a particular genre, or to films that spawned sequels. The more popular episodes were "Monster Week," "Planet of the Apes Week" and "Vincent Price Week." Some films, such as Ben-Hur and How the West Was Won, were of such length that an entire week was devoted to running the whole movie. Other films that ran longer than the program's 90-minute length were often divided into two parts and shown over two days."
I LOVED the 4:30 movie!! Whenever I know some old or obscure movie and someone asks me where I saw it, I say, “4:30 movie!”
Anonymous
09/17/2022 16:51
Subject: Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
Bridge to terrabithia
Anonymous
09/17/2022 16:51
Subject: Re:Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
When I was a kid in the 1970s, we had movie week themes after school.
Gidget Week
Elvis Week
Godzilla Week
Annette and Frankie Beach Week
I don't know if your children would like those movies. We didn't have cable until the early 1980s. And our parents were teenagers in the 1950s/1960s so we liked movies and music from that era, which were mostly rated "G."
Wikipedia calls it the 4:30 p.m. movie. I lived in the Midwest, so it was the 3:30 p.m. movie.
"The 4:30 Movie is a television program that aired weekday afternoons on WABC-TV (Channel 7) in New York from 1968 to 1981. The program was mainly known for individual theme weeks devoted to theatrical feature films or made-for-TV movies starring a certain actor or actress, or to a particular genre, or to films that spawned sequels. The more popular episodes were "Monster Week," "Planet of the Apes Week" and "Vincent Price Week." Some films, such as Ben-Hur and How the West Was Won, were of such length that an entire week was devoted to running the whole movie. Other films that ran longer than the program's 90-minute length were often divided into two parts and shown over two days."
Gidget Week
Elvis Week
Godzilla Week
Annette and Frankie Beach Week
I don't know if your children would like those movies. We didn't have cable until the early 1980s. And our parents were teenagers in the 1950s/1960s so we liked movies and music from that era, which were mostly rated "G."
Wikipedia calls it the 4:30 p.m. movie. I lived in the Midwest, so it was the 3:30 p.m. movie.
"The 4:30 Movie is a television program that aired weekday afternoons on WABC-TV (Channel 7) in New York from 1968 to 1981. The program was mainly known for individual theme weeks devoted to theatrical feature films or made-for-TV movies starring a certain actor or actress, or to a particular genre, or to films that spawned sequels. The more popular episodes were "Monster Week," "Planet of the Apes Week" and "Vincent Price Week." Some films, such as Ben-Hur and How the West Was Won, were of such length that an entire week was devoted to running the whole movie. Other films that ran longer than the program's 90-minute length were often divided into two parts and shown over two days."
Anonymous
09/17/2022 16:49
Subject: Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
Pirates of the Caribbean series
Anonymous
09/17/2022 16:43
Subject: Re:Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
Willow
Anonymous
09/17/2022 16:43
Subject: Re:Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
Black Beauty (1994)
Anonymous
09/17/2022 16:41
Subject: Re:Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
The Secret Garden
Anonymous
09/17/2022 16:15
Subject: Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
Enola Holmes, ET, Night at the Museums, Marvel movies, Star Wars movies, Back to the Future
Anonymous
09/17/2022 16:09
Subject: Re:Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
I don’t think these have a lot of profanity or sex, but I encourage you to check Common Sense Media or the IMDB Parent’s Guide.
Jumanji
Nim’s Island
Akeelah and the Bee
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Star Wars
Sound of Music
These might be too much like the Disney fairy tales you’re burnt out on, but they’re really well done adaptations that offer different takes:
Ever After
Ella Enchanted
Hook (caution, a child dies at the end)
Also, Disney had a lot of live action movies like:
Night at the Museum
Sky High
Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Classic movies are great. Decades of great filmmaking that was generally clean. Restricting profanity is likely to severely restrict more current options. I absolutely respect you selecting movies according to your family values. Our family just said that movies/TV was not the place to learn vocabulary, and that seemed to work for us. Especially after they started school, I assumed they were probably hearing a lot of the language there, anyway.
Jumanji
Nim’s Island
Akeelah and the Bee
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Star Wars
Sound of Music
These might be too much like the Disney fairy tales you’re burnt out on, but they’re really well done adaptations that offer different takes:
Ever After
Ella Enchanted
Hook (caution, a child dies at the end)
Also, Disney had a lot of live action movies like:
Night at the Museum
Sky High
Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Classic movies are great. Decades of great filmmaking that was generally clean. Restricting profanity is likely to severely restrict more current options. I absolutely respect you selecting movies according to your family values. Our family just said that movies/TV was not the place to learn vocabulary, and that seemed to work for us. Especially after they started school, I assumed they were probably hearing a lot of the language there, anyway.
Anonymous
09/17/2022 15:30
Subject: Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
The Martian
Apollo 13
League of their Own
Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Hamilton
We also do a lot of underdog sports movies: Rudy, Sandlot, there are a lot more but they run together
Apollo 13
League of their Own
Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Hamilton
We also do a lot of underdog sports movies: Rudy, Sandlot, there are a lot more but they run together
Anonymous
09/17/2022 15:24
Subject: Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
Our kids always get sucked into nature documentaries, surprisingly. David Attenborough is a gift.
We also LOVED Enola Homes.
We also LOVED Enola Homes.
Anonymous
09/17/2022 15:22
Subject: Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
Anonymous
09/17/2022 15:13
Subject: Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
My 9 yo loved My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Still recites the lines.
Anonymous
09/17/2022 15:09
Subject: Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
Babe
Anonymous
09/17/2022 14:14
Subject: Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
We do one night a week of family movie night. When kids were little we didn’t watch a lot of Disney movies but I will be honest I am itching to get out of those. Can you recommend movies that are not animation, but w/o too much profanity or sex. I don’t mind the range of topics - happy to talk to kids if they find it hard to follow. We recently watched Hunt for Red October and they need some explanation about why Sean Connery character wanted to be in America but I think everyone enjoyed the movie.
Any similar ones?
Any similar ones?