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

[loopey-lovegood.livejournal.com]

For the humor one, some Mel Brooks might be good. Spaceballs was a favorite of mine, and they both would probably enjoy making the connections of who's being made fun of. (Just give them some warning/explanation about the Alien parody near the end. It starts off gross/scary but vaults right into silly.)

Men in Black might be another good blend of humor/action.

MST3K/Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Upon asking Mr. L: Real Genius, Space Camp, Masters of the Universe (live action), TMNT (any), Jumanji, Who Framed Roger Rabbit [My comment, it might be a little slow, but it's excellent], Yours Mine and Ours (original!), Teen Wolf, The Flash Movie (maybe... He thinks it might not hold up years later).

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

We tried to rent Teen Wolf yesterday, and they don't stock it! *sad face*

And yes! I forgot to list MIB, but Harry LOVED those. I don't think they'd be grossed out by the Alien parody.

I don't know if MST3K would be too mature for them or not. God knows I"m a huge fan of it though.

and yes, I saw that article, thanks! I don't think anyone in the world was surprised, really. Actually, *I* might have been surprised, if not for all of the conjecture swirling around the interwebs. My gaydar did not ping at all around him, but then again, I didn't watch Heros or ... the other show he was on. My only knowledge of him was from the Trek movie.