Movies I will force my Children to Enjoy Someday
Submitted by jenhowel on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:14
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- "Labyrinth" - though it shouldn't take much forcing. Kids I baby-sat for LOVED it.
- The Original Star Wars Trilogy - but of course
- "Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail" - I made my brother watch this all the time when I baby-sat him, and he came out very strange!
- "Gone with the Wind"/"Out of Africa"/"The Color Purple" - I also made my poor brother watch these and he intermixed the plots! I think it's good to force children to have long attention spans, recently my now 16-yr-old brother sat through and enjoyed "Magnolia" with me.
- "Welcome to the Dollhouse" - so they remember to treat others nicely.
- "Xanadu" - when they're very young, so they are programmed to like Olivia Newton-John. (I'm so evil)
- Musicals - so they appreciate them, and can sing them with me later. esp. "The Sound of Music", "Singing in the Rain", "On the Town"
- "The Lord of the Rings" - I don't think much forcing will be necessary, however, especially after I've read them all the books.
Author Comments:
This list has in mind not only the enjoyment, but the systematic programming of my children to be decent, intelligent human beings. Personally, I think that the movies we watch when young affect us deeply. The ones I showed my brother certainly seem to have. And I'm not against R-rated movies for kids, I'm much more against shallow movies for kids, those that show violence without showing the suffering behind it, or those that dumb down for the audience. Kids can appreciate much more than we give them credit for.
Yet you have the Trey Parker fanatsy going, and maybe even a Trey Parker/Matt Stone thing (re: your Matt Stone quote in the contest).