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.
It helps if you watch it over and over, until the tape wears out.
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.
Yes
The Neverending Story
EDIT: Stoopid autocorrect
The Everending Story
Is that a short movie about a kid finishing reading a book about a hero completing his quest?
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.
Yes.
HUGE second on all of these
Oh and Willow
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
My kids and I watched a lot of Futurama.
Mr bean.
The T.V. series got some legitimate laughs out of my step-daughter. I can’t really remember them actually laughing at any other movies or T.V. shows.
Rowan Atkinson is imo the only actor that mastered comedic face and acting, no word needed, just his facial reaction and action is enough to bring laughter. It breach age, language, and cultural barrier. I remember watching the series as early as age 5 in the 90s and enjoy it. Holiday is good too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My father got into serious trouble with my mom when my little brother was two because of Blazing Saddles. My mom had taken me somewhere, and my brother was in the playroom playing with blocks. Dad figured it was safe to watch Blazing Saddles, as little bro wasn’t able to see the TV, and he could see little bro.
A few days later, little bro walks up to my mother and casually called her a “tonic bitch,” and wandered off.
Needless to say Mel Brooks was banned in our house for a few years, but we all loved it when we were allowed to watch it. Spaceballs as well.
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.
Maybe they’d like some of the kids cartoons I enjoy as an adult or when I was in high school?
Dexter’s Lab, Ed Edd and Eddy, Power Puff Girls, 2 Stupid Dogs, Home Movies, Dr. Katz., Invader Zim, Rugrats, Ren and Stimpy, Hey Arnold, Rocko’s Modern Life, Phineas and Ferb, Daria, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Regular Show, and Adventure Time.
Ooh hey, my teenage cartoons!
*checks year of release
Okay, where’s that meme about getting run over by the old age truck?
Edit: I’m gonna add CatDog, Angry Beavers, Jimmy Neutron, and Johnny Bravo from around the same era. Also, how could we forget SpongeBob?
Lord of the Rings! Ditto for most of the YA film adoptions from the last twenty years
The princess bride
Galaxy Quest… while not a great movie, it’s a fun movie.
Excuse, me, what the fuck!? Galaxy quest managed to be one of the best Star Trek flicks out there while not even being in the same universe. By Grabthar’s Hammer, YOU…SHALL…BE…APOLOGETIC!
It’s not a great movie, it’s superb!
Yeah, what he said. Not a great movie? Are you nuts. I just can’t…
Police Academy
The Mask of Zorro (1998, with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones)
The Tenth Kingdom
Police Academy: sex and voyeur jokes
Mask of Zorro: suicide of brother, head in jar:
Don’t know. Depends on age of kids.
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.
