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

[luvscharlie.livejournal.com]

Like you, I loved anything with Michael J. Fox-- Oh, and the old Karate Kid movies, and The Goonies (Riley's watched it many times), The Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Space Camp

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

A lot of people have suggested Princess Bride, but i really think he'll find it too dry. I think it's hilarious, but i guess I'll have to try and see!

Sadly, they didn't have Teen Wolf at the rental place, so we got X Men Wolverine. (never seen it, and I honestly don't care to ...) Terminator, which goes a bit over the 'mild' violence thing, but GOD I LOVED THAT MOVIE WHEN IT CAME OUT! And Uncle Buck. I seriously laugh when I just THINK about that one. :D

[luvscharlie.livejournal.com]

You know I'm pretty sure it was the *sigh*Wesley*sigh* factor that took my cousin and I back to that movie over and over again, so yeah, it may be a little dry for him.

I did love Spaceballs (though the suggestiveness is a bit less than subtle-- which I really had forgotten until I watched it again recently with Riley and was like "Stop asking questions you're too young for me to answer and watch the darn movie!" But if he likes John Candy in Uncle Buck, Spaceballs is my favorite Candy movie. He's a wonderful Mog.