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

[synn.livejournal.com]

ohh, stained glass. I've always wanted to learn to work with glass, in any capacity.

you're right about the mosaic heaviness of course.

What about ribbon? you could use strips of ribbon to collage a piece, or use a smaller ribbon hook-rug style or looped onto plastic canvas. obv. detail would be sacrificed in that second option.
what else... bouncing balls, plastic eggs, colored straws, brads. If you guys drink anything canned regularly, you could cut open the cans for tin panels to paint and use, but the sharp edges would be an issue.

[synn.livejournal.com]

oh - Batteries not included! that was a great movie. It might be a little slow for them to appreciate, it's more comedy than action, but I enjoyed it at their age/s.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Oh god, you give me way too much credit. I don't want to MAKE the things I"m using, I just want to buy them. ;)

Stained glass is really fun, and even when you do a shitty job, it looks amazing. I don't know if I've ever posted my stained glass stuff here. It was pre-fandom. *gasp*

[synn.livejournal.com]

*blinks* there's a pre-fandom?

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I *think* so. I dunno.

I'm too distracted by the shiny to think about it much.