posted on April 2, 2002 04:34:04 PM new
I want to spend some quality time with The Kid doing some thing we do together like once a year. Watch a movie. I don't care if it's war, horror, top gun or the like--cowboy? you know something jock ala 1955. no flying body parts, sliding eyeballs, that kind of thing. All I could come up with for boys so far was The Thing; The Blob; The MUmmy; (or whatever you call it); McHale's Navy maybe? Ideas welcome!
posted on April 2, 2002 05:48:33 PM new
Forbidden Planet
Day the Earth Stood Still
It came From Outer Space
Them!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (orig., not remake)
Flash Gordon serials (hokey but fun)
Adventures of Captain Marvel
Horror of Dracula (1st Christopher Lee Dracula film)
Halls of Montezuma
To Hell and Back
Early Bond films (60's but still...): Goldfinger, Thunderball, etc.
I was a Teenage Werewolf (hokey but fun, too)
posted on April 2, 2002 07:39:13 PM new
Thanks--Especially interested in things I can actually sit through. We settled on Captain Blood. It was arright. Keep 'em coming...
posted on April 2, 2002 08:27:53 PM new
THE "MOLE PEOPLE" IT SCARED THE S. OUT OF THIS 6 YEAR OLD AND I STILL REMEMBER IT TO THIS DAY. AND THAT WAS A LONG, LONG. TIME AGO. SUDDENLY! YOUR BUDDY IS,,,,,,,,,,,GONE! AND WHAT WAS THAT ONE,,,WHERE THOSE 57 CHEVY HOOD ORNAMENTS STUCK IN THE BACK OF THE NECK OF THEIR VICTIMS? THAT BIG OLE UGLY MONSTER CAME OUT OF THE CAVE AND THEY FLAME THROWERED IT? THERE WAS A GUY ON FIRE IN THAT MOVIE. HE WAS NO ACTOR. HE WAS A WW11 JAPANESE SOLDIER. THEY USED REAL MARINE CORPS FOOTAGE IN THAT MOVIE. IWO JIMA. THAT GUY WAS ONE SCREAMIN' HOT TOMALIE. GREAT! IT SAVED ALOT OF U.S. MARINES. SEMPER FI. THE EDIT PART. OR ,,,,,,,,TO BRING IT MORE UP TO DATE,,,,,,,,,,,THE VIETNAM ERA ANYWAY,,,,,,,,,THERE GOES ONE CRISPY CRITTER. JUST THE WAY IT WAS,,IS. CATSUP,,,I THINK NOT. SORRY FOLKS,,,,,TIME FOR B.S. AND TIME FOR REALITY. I KNOW REALITY,,,,,,,,,TOO WELL,,,AS WE ALL DO. CEP'T MAYBE THOSE ON LITHIUM, PROZAC E'R WHAT HAVE YA. HAHAHAHAHHAA. YUP, I JUST TELL IT ,,,,,,,,,,,,,LIKE IT IS AND WAS AND FOREVER WILL BE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,IN MY MIND ANYWAY. AND THE BEAT GOES ON, AND THE BEAT GOES ON. ALL,,,,,,,,,,,OR NOTHIN' AT ALL. FRANK SAID IT,,,,,,,,,,I JUST REPEAT IT. HEY!!!!!! I AM JUST THE MESSENGER!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE DON'T KILL,,,,,,,THE MESSENGER!!!!!THANK YOU.
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posted on April 2, 2002 08:36:24 PM new
>>THERE WAS A GUY ON FIRE IN THAT MOVIE. HE WAS NO ACTOR. HE WAS A WW11 JAPANESE SOLDIER. THEY USED REAL MARINE CORPS FOOTAGE IN THAT MOVIE. IWO JIMA. THAT GUY WAS ONE SCREAMIN' HOT TOMALIE.<<
The Kid will love it. I think we'll hold off. He's so cute now; protective; manipulative: "Its only catsup Mommy."
He wants to be a soldier or a pilot when he grows up, he thinks. Every mother's nightmare. And he probably will.
I guess I don't help matters. When he's been in the mud in his sneakers, he has to MARCH back home with me hollering: "LEFT! RIGHT! LEFT!"
posted on April 4, 2002 10:48:01 PM new
I'm Kind of on a "Western" thing Right Now. For HARDCORE, probably the Greatest of all Time "The Wild Bunch". For one that makes me Cry, "True Grit" or Wayne's Other Great, "The Shootist" (I'm always Fascinated that My two Favorite Wayne Westerns are Basically His Last). For Fun "Butch and Sundance". AMC (American Movie Classics) shows all The Above quite a bit Thru the Year, so you don't have to Rent or Buy (as long as You get Cable).
posted on April 5, 2002 06:19:43 AM new
docpjw--you think those are okay for a little kid?
Does anybody remember a early 60's/ late 50's horror movie with a tree that had a skull knife stuck in it and it walked? (Remembering this as a child would...)
posted on April 5, 2002 08:17:55 AM new
There was a movie called The Tree Monster, but I think that it has been released under other names. I haven't seen it it a long time.
posted on April 5, 2002 12:44:30 PM new
"car that ran people down"
Christine?
"western for the kiddies"
Siverado
1) This Island Earth
2) Forbidden Planet
3) Five Million Years to Earth
4) Lifeforce (Not for kiddies)
5) The Trap - Oliver Reed
6) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Kids wouldn't like this)7) Go Tell the Spartans
8) Any John Ford western
9) It, the Terror from Beyond Space
10) My Dog Spot
11) Book of Stars (non-kid)
posted on April 5, 2002 02:12:51 PM new
My Dog Spot
At the end there is supposed to be this sad part where the dog is too old to jump up on the kid's bed. So he just lays his head on it. They mom walks by, understands the problem, picks up the dog and puts him up on the kids pillow. I know this was supposed to be sad, but I laughed so hard I cried.
posted on April 5, 2002 05:54:13 PM new
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"The Searchers"
posted on April 5, 2002 11:27:45 PM new
This one is probably a bit too "vintage," but I loved the Errol Flynn "Robin Hood" when I was a kid. Heck, I still like it now--I just have more lustful thoughts about Errol Flynn than I used to! "The Mark of Zorro" (with Tyrone Power) is a pretty darn good one too. (Hmmm....maybe I just have a deep-seated desire to see Basil Rathbone get his butt whipped in a sword fight......)
If you want a "fun" western (but only after you put The Kid to bed since you probably don't want to answer the question "What's a brothel, Mommy?" ) try "The Cheyenne Social Club" with Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda and Shirley Jones. "Destry Rides Again" (the Jimmy Stewart version--not "Destry" with Audie Murphy) is one of my favorites and is great for all ages.
Without eBay, I might have a real life...
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posted on April 6, 2002 07:01:50 AM new
alwaysbroke--you're sick, you know it?
>>They mom walks by, understands the problem, picks up the dog and puts him up on the kids pillow. I know this was supposed to be sad, but I laughed so hard I cried.<<
I don't tend to go for action movies but I did go to one, you know--for The Boyfriend. Something about a hijacked bus. I laughed thru the whole dang thing. Nobody else did.
But a sick pup and his boy master? Sick, sick, sick...
posted on April 6, 2002 08:47:52 AM new
And I confess that in the 1st act of Les Miserables, when they wheeled the bed out on to the stage, I got up and left. I was having a low schmaltz-tolerance night.
posted on April 6, 2002 12:39:35 PM new
"you're sick, you know it?"
Didn't you ever feel so tired or older than your age that you couldn't drag yourself to bed or just plopped down and slept as is? I felt I could relate to that old, arthritic dog.
posted on April 6, 2002 08:20:04 PM new
>>Didn't you ever feel so tired or older than your age that you couldn't drag yourself to bed or just plopped down and slept as is? I felt I could relate to that old, arthritic dog.<<
Ahhhh. Poor baby.
The character I feel I most relate to lately is Barbra Streisand's character in "Nuts".
posted on April 9, 2002 08:35:33 PM new
"true story"--gary cooper--of alvin york, a tennessee pacifist hillbillie who went on to kick major major hymie butt independantly in WW1.
He's so cute now; protective; manipulative: "Its only catsup Mommy."
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