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Ask HN: When to watch classic movies with kids?
Cartoon movies have been 'quiet time' for my little one since she gave up afternoon sleeps at age 1 or so. We've basically stuck to cartoons from Dreamworks or Pixar but now she's nearly at school and can handle more 'normal' movies - she loved The Goonies the other day ;-) My question is pretty straight forward: given access to history's back catalogue, what should we watch and when? Let's set some bounds with Goonies@5 and say Aliens@12ish. Ages are indicative YMMV kind of thing. I'm more interested in getting a good steer on a great list of movies to enjoy with someone for the first time again ;-)
@5 = Goonies, Last Starfighter, Ghostbusters
War Games and Indiana Jones@8 etc...
- brudgers 11y agoI watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail with the boy when he was five. I wanted to make sure he would have a sound case for blaming me for all his adult problems later should he choose to. On the other hand, we were in a clear majority for holding off on Star Wars [in which a whole planet of people are killed in passing] with great effort until he was six. Then we got an XBox 360 and he was shooting up things hisself anyways. He seems to be turning out better than we deserve despite this. I suspect your best judgement will be fine. Good luck.
- DrScump 11y agoEvery Hayao Miyazaki film. Anything else out of Studio Ghibli. This was in theaters in the past year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Marnie_Was_There https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Marnie_Was_There