movies

[Michael]

Showed my 12 year old son The Matrix last weekend. It's been fun to bring back older movies for him to watch. He was blown away by it; great movie for a kid that age who is transitioning out of cartoons, superheros and PG's and into stuff that's a little heavier. It still holds up surprisingly well.

Need some more suggestions. What other older movies are must watches for a 12/13 year old?

Roadhouse is a great place to start for the uncomfortable experience of watching nudity in a movie with your parents in the room.

[go birds]

roadhouse should be required viewing for all teenage boys

[JL21]

Showed my 12 year old son The Matrix last weekend. It's been fun to bring back older movies for him to watch. He was blown away by it; great movie for a kid that age who is transitioning out of cartoons, superheros and PG's and into stuff that's a little heavier. It still holds up surprisingly well.

Need some more suggestions. What other older movies are must watches for a 12/13 year old?

Roadhouse is a great place to start for the uncomfortable experience of watching nudity in a movie with your parents in the room.

Major League works that way, too, especially since the third act of the movie is a slow march towards boobs. You can see the awkwardness coming and are powerless to avoid it.

[Schlich]

Hey, 1000 pages!

[GeddyWrox]

My kids loved Ferris Bueller and Forrest Gump. They also seemed to like The Blues Brothers a lot. I watched Shawshank Redemption with my older daughter (13 at the time) and she LOVED it. I tried to watch Green Mile and Matrix with her but she didn't bite on those as much for whatever reason. I want to watch Pulp Fiction with her soon, too.

[The Third Man]

My kids loved Ferris Bueller and Forrest Gump. They also seemed to like The Blues Brothers a lot. I watched Shawshank Redemption with my older daughter (13 at the time) and she LOVED it. I tried to watch Green Mile and Matrix with her but she didn't bite on those as much for whatever reason. I want to watch Pulp Fiction with her soon, too.

My dad tried so hard to keep me from watching Pulp Fiction when I was 12, after I heard him and my uncle discussing it. Of course, this only had the effect of making me want to see it with the burning desire of a thousand suns, so I snuck it out of his VHS cabinet after school one day and then waited for everybody go to bed to watch it. Obviously I [expletive] loved it, it was the first "holy [expletive], this movie is adult" movie I really saw of my own volition. Plus all the other reasons a pubescent boy would love Tarantino.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Showed my 12 year old son The Matrix last weekend. It's been fun to bring back older movies for him to watch. He was blown away by it; great movie for a kid that age who is transitioning out of cartoons, superheros and PG's and into stuff that's a little heavier. It still holds up surprisingly well.

Need some more suggestions. What other older movies are must watches for a 12/13 year old?

Hah...we just had this discussion on another forum I frequent. We came up with a lot but if I had to suggest five of my favorites:

Alien/Aliens
Goodfellas
Unforgiven
Amadeus (if he can deal with the length)
Blade Runner

The People vs. OJ Simpson (if he can deal with the length)

[Michael]

My kids loved Ferris Bueller

I think John Hughes movies are great picks.

Fun fact: My friend spent mid 5 figures on Ferris Bueller's leather jacket. It's tiny.

[SHOW]

[cardsfantx]

lol why?

[Michael]

lol why?

He loves the film and has lots of money.