Last Friday, I responded to a request from an MNB user with a list of “classic” movies that I thought might be good to show 10-year-olds. I mostly was trying to come up with movies that would be accessible to a 10-year-old and expand their frames of references a bit. (Acknowledging that video games have ruined their minds and ability to appreciate pacing.)
You can read my original list here.
We’ve had tons of recommendations this week...and here are a few more.
One MNB user wrote:
I am in my 20's, but hanging out with my dad has given me a love for "old" movies. The Thin Man movies (starring William Powell and Myrna Loy) are some of my all-time favorites!
Not only did these movies practically invent the type of fast-paced, saucy banter you see in so many current movies, they contain humor and detective work and are just a ton of fun. Plus, movie dogs just don't get much better than Asta.
My dad asked for the box set for Christmas one year, and my entire family (I was 21 at the time, my brother 17) enjoyed six straight nights of these great movies. They were not at all what I initially expected from something made in the 30's.
Thanks for such a fun conversation!
Our pleasure. I love The Thin Man, too. (Though I’m not sure 10 year old boys would find the movies to be as charming. But I’d certainly give it a shot...)
From another MNB user:
Boys would probably like The Cowboys, with John Wayne (1972). He has to hire boys to do his cattle drive when his regular hands go in search of gold. I love that movie. Also, from my love of the 70’s (although the movie was made later, 2005) Roll Bounce. Never got much attention, but it makes me laugh and cry about some boys who are determined to win a roller dance competition. Great music in that one.
Never heard of Roll Bounce. But I liked The Cowboys a lot. (I’m a big John Wayne fan. One of my prized possessions is a note I got from him after I gave The Shootist a positive review in my college newspaper...this was the mid-seventies, and Wayne was not exactly beloved on college campuses. Somehow, he got hold of the review - I went to school in LA, and LMU had a real presence in the film industry - and sent me a note. Which was just the coolest thing.)
From MNB user Gary Loehr
Add the Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers to your list of classics for kids of any age.
Maybe the early ones. I think the later ones are really, really tired, IMHO.
And, from MNB user Mike Franklin:
I know she would prefer movies…but there are great alternatives to movies…
I would have suggested the following books…
1. THE BEAUTIFUL STORIES OF LIFE: SIX GREEK MYTHS, RETOLD
2. THE HOBBIT
3. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
4. CLAUDETTE COLVIN: TWICE TOWARD JUSTICE
5. WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS
6. ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS
7. THE BLACK STALLION
8. SOUNDER
9. THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
10. ONE-EYED CAT
11. ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY
12. ONE CRAZY SUMMER
13. NUMBER THE STARS
Y’know, it is hard to figure where these conversations are going to lead.
But I love them. Hope you do, too.
You can read my original list here.
We’ve had tons of recommendations this week...and here are a few more.
One MNB user wrote:
I am in my 20's, but hanging out with my dad has given me a love for "old" movies. The Thin Man movies (starring William Powell and Myrna Loy) are some of my all-time favorites!
Not only did these movies practically invent the type of fast-paced, saucy banter you see in so many current movies, they contain humor and detective work and are just a ton of fun. Plus, movie dogs just don't get much better than Asta.
My dad asked for the box set for Christmas one year, and my entire family (I was 21 at the time, my brother 17) enjoyed six straight nights of these great movies. They were not at all what I initially expected from something made in the 30's.
Thanks for such a fun conversation!
Our pleasure. I love The Thin Man, too. (Though I’m not sure 10 year old boys would find the movies to be as charming. But I’d certainly give it a shot...)
From another MNB user:
Boys would probably like The Cowboys, with John Wayne (1972). He has to hire boys to do his cattle drive when his regular hands go in search of gold. I love that movie. Also, from my love of the 70’s (although the movie was made later, 2005) Roll Bounce. Never got much attention, but it makes me laugh and cry about some boys who are determined to win a roller dance competition. Great music in that one.
Never heard of Roll Bounce. But I liked The Cowboys a lot. (I’m a big John Wayne fan. One of my prized possessions is a note I got from him after I gave The Shootist a positive review in my college newspaper...this was the mid-seventies, and Wayne was not exactly beloved on college campuses. Somehow, he got hold of the review - I went to school in LA, and LMU had a real presence in the film industry - and sent me a note. Which was just the coolest thing.)
From MNB user Gary Loehr
Add the Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers to your list of classics for kids of any age.
Maybe the early ones. I think the later ones are really, really tired, IMHO.
And, from MNB user Mike Franklin:
I know she would prefer movies…but there are great alternatives to movies…
I would have suggested the following books…
1. THE BEAUTIFUL STORIES OF LIFE: SIX GREEK MYTHS, RETOLD
2. THE HOBBIT
3. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
4. CLAUDETTE COLVIN: TWICE TOWARD JUSTICE
5. WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS
6. ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS
7. THE BLACK STALLION
8. SOUNDER
9. THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
10. ONE-EYED CAT
11. ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY
12. ONE CRAZY SUMMER
13. NUMBER THE STARS
Y’know, it is hard to figure where these conversations are going to lead.
But I love them. Hope you do, too.
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