Movie recc's and a request for your ideas.

[tripperfunster]

First off: My son Harry (9 yo) has been having a blast seeing 'old' movies that i really enjoyed when they originally came out. Most have been mid 80's and 90's flicks, like Back to the Future (all three) Jurasic Park (all three!) Bill and Ted's excellent Adventure (not nearly as entertaining some 26 years later, sadly ...) The Mummy, Original Star Wars, ToS Trek movies, Independence Day, all the Indianna Jones movies, Stand by Me, Fifth Element etc. Oh, just remembered: Ghost Busters and Spiderman. Please don't recc the Batman movies. I hated them all with a passion. ;)


Anyhoo, any suggestions? He tends to like ones with action. (duh! he's a boy!) while his brother prefers humour. My only limits are ... not TOO much graphic violence/sex/drugs. Swears are fine. The type of violent but not TOO violent flicks above are fine. (gotta say, the Mummy was pretty damn violent. More than I recall.)

He wants to see Die Hard, but I"m thinking it's too violent. Of course, I thought Bill and Ted had drug use in it, but the staff at Blockbuster assured me it didn't, and they were right! funny how we (mis)remember stuff eh?.

SUGGESTIONS APPRECIATED. Today, we're going to pick up Teen Wolf. :D Man, I had such a thing for Micheal J Fox. (and I still do!)


Thing two: After getting my brain around the beadwork thing, I really want to try something bigger. Any suggestions/ideas about things I could get that come in an array of colours, that don't cost too much? I've seen things done with spools of thread that are cool, but thread is like, $2-3 bucks per spool. If this art 'instillation' has 100 to 1500 'pixels' I just couldn't afford that AT ALL.

Paint samples is the only other thing I can think of where you get an entrie spectrum of colour, but I'm positive there's lots more out there.

THANKS IN ADVANCE MY LOVELY FLISTIES!! <3

Comments

[sabrebabe.livejournal.com]

The Crow is pretty violent, but it's one of my favourites. Not appropriate for a 9yo though.

You could go back a decade further and hit up the 70's for all the big cheesy Disaster Films that were popular then: The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, Asteroid, etc. Oh, and Jaws! And being from the 70's, they tend to be less violent and more about just blowing things up. :D Except for Jaws, of course. :D

Also, you could hit up Time Bandits, if you can find it! Tron (the original), Spaceballs, Flash Gordon (The really cheesy one with the soundtrack by Queen!), Gremlins, E.T., Superman (with Christopher Reeve), and I'm sure i"ll think of some more later on today.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I think the 70s movies would be too slow and cheesy. (got knows they are for me!) But your suggestion made me think of ... oh shit, I forget what it's called, but the Ben Affleck Asteroid movie. He'd eat that one right up.

I've never seen the Crow, but heard lots about it. Yeah, DEF too old for my boys at this point. :D Oh man, I loved Time Bandits! I think Gremlins would probably be a hit with them as well. Thanks!