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Requiem for a Dream
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King Extended Edition.
This is the correct option because during the day before movie night you watch Fellowship and Two Towers
“Now, has everyone brushed up on their Silmarillion beforehand as agreed? Good. Now I’ll just roll once for initiative before we start the film.”
No, we just jump to the Return of the King without seeing the other 2. It would be a total experience.
Blasphemy!
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Great for kids, and the dry sarcastic humor is great for adults. All around great movie.
The one with the random nightmare tunnel?
If kids are around, probably Howl’s Moving Castle or another Studio Ghibli movie.
If I am gearing for adults, a comedy like Chef where the premise is lighthearted but not a total snooze fest.
another Studio Ghibli
Grave of the Fireflies it is!
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Those movies are so great. Probably stick with the G and PG options if there’s a young kid in the mix (thinking of Princess Mononoke, which is PG-13, IIRC). The PG ones often have just the right amount of “safe-scary” elements that it absolutely grabs their attention. Great movies for grown-up/kid conversation-starters to boot, just due to the deep, rich, human themes they explore.
My two year old daughter loves My Neighbor Totoro, we even got her a giant Totoro stuffy for Christmas.
Recently had a movie night where we watched Oscar. Only one person (the person that wanted to watch it) had seen it before, but it was their birthday, so we all sat down to watch. It is a fantastic comedy of errors movie with Sylvester Stallone. None of us could believe that we had never even heard of it before, because we all loved it so much, and laughed so frequently. Fantastic movie night movie. I can’t recommend it enough.
I love finding those excellent movies that have somehow floated just below the surface of the consciousness of my sphere of community.
I watched that when it was released, and I can’t remember that much about it. But I do remember everyone in the theater just laughing our asses off. For some reason I always kind of put in the same basket as Men at Work.
Golf clap?
Excellent suggestion. One of my favorites.
3 nominations for the Razzie?
Wildly undeserved IMO.
The Princess Bride
If you have seen it. You are happy to watch again. If you haven’t, you will love it.
The fire swamp is a little intense for the little ones, but for teens and up it’s a great choice.
I think it’s fine for kids younger than teenagers. Maybe around 8 and up. By the time they are teenagers, most kids are watching anything and everything, included R-rated movies.
I wonder how I would have turned out if more sheltered growing up. I think I was around 7 when i watched Childs play and Nightmare on Elm Street. Then here you are saying some flames killing a fake looking big rat might be too scary for kids.
I watched all that stuff as a kid too, I remember having nightmares for weeks over Children of the Corn. I want to avoid that with my kid and let her choose when to watch that stuff.
Oh, I chose to watch it all. It’s just that my parents allowed it. Lol
Oddly enough, the only thing that I ever remember getting nightmares about was an alien abduction movie called “fire in the Sky” that said it was based on a true story. That one kept me up at night.
I watched The Neverending Story in my 30’s and realized the Artax scene had caused me decades of nightmares.
I just heard an interesting fan theory, that the scene with Artax and the swamp represents being unable to help a friend or family member through depression. That for the friend it can be perplexing (move or you’ll die!), but it’s so hard to do anything for a depressed person in a slump.
Even funnier since I ended up being metaphorical Artax.
My husband has a close friend who’s currently going through a rough patch. We know our Artax will pull through, but it’s going to be hard going for a while. Meanwhile my husband is trying to at least keep in touch.
Oh yeah. Nothing like a painful death by drowning in a swamp pit that you led your horse/pet/friend into. Did not expect that to go down.
It’s got romance, action, comedy, fantasy, safe for kids and families… Covers most groups
Is there kissing?
Some day you may not mind so much.
Something that everyone will love, like The Room or maybe Samurai Cop or maybe even Hard Ticket to Hawaii.
Depending on the group, sometimes old Jet Li flicks will work, too, like The New Legend of Shaolin / Legend of the Red Dragon which has some great baby-kung-fu.
Don’t neglect Miami Connection.
Nothing beats the baby kung-fu in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist though.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
If they can’t vibe with that I don’t want them ever coming over again
Well growing up in Utah there’s a lot of people that would not tolerate anything. Gotos are Princess Bride, Sandlot, most Disney movies.
Young Frankenstein.
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It’s Frankenstein!
Blücher!
horse whinnies in the distance
Big Lebowski
Brandt can’t watch, though, or he has to pay a hundred.
ultra-awkward wheeze-laugh we’re all very fond of veroxii, such a free spirit!
21 Jump Street. Lighthearted, don’t need to worry about how deep it is or not, but it’s well-written, well-executed comedy, and I’ve already seen it a couple times and know that’s not just nostalgia talking.
I think a general group of adults would get a kick out of it.
Dredd
Everyone loves ultra-violence, right?
Hook. It’s always Hook.
Hook! Hook! Give us the Hook! Hook! Hook! Show us the Hook!
That movie has a 29% rotten tomato rating…
How the fuck?
Aren’t those tomato meter scores the aggregate of critic reviews? On cult classics, low-brow, or franchises with baggage, the user reviews are way more likely to match the vibe of a movie.
Funnily enough, it’s almost the complete opposite for independent movies made for “film people”. Or plots that require critical thinking or deep attention (the latter is my own Achilles’ heel)–where the user score is garbage, but the critic score (and thus, the tomato meter) is more likely to match your own (if you’re into movies like that).
Rotten Tomatoes is, and always has been, an absolutely abysmal place to go to find out if a movie is good.
