Family Movies

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Aw, now, that was just too short.  My brother the Dude came home for the holidays, and he’s already going back to his damn engineering school.* We had to cram a lot of geeking into a few days, so Mom and Dad had to put up with quite a bit of nonsequiturs involving Batman or Transformers or Pixar. I told him about the latest escapades of his favorite aliens from my stories, the uninhibited and somewhat bonkers wooslets (he helped create them), and he told me a bit about Tae Kwon Do and about how the freshmen at CSM this year apparently find it offensive that they’re called geeks and are trying to counter the campus paper’s “Geek of the Week” column with “Non-Geek of the Week.”  Denial.

 

I also discovered that one of his favorite kids’ movies is The Sandlot, which occupies a real soft spot for him the way It Takes Two does for me. It’s made me wonder about nostalgia movies. What’s a movie you will always love no matter how old you get, flaws and all?**

 

Speaking of movies, as a historic family marker, the Dude was here for the Great Epic New HD-TV And Blu-Ray Setup, which means we got to introduce Dad to WALL*E.  Dad has spent years not liking cartoons, and then he saw Ratatouille and decided it was the greatest movie ever—and so he was totally ready to view the world’s cutest post-apocalyptic movie when we put on WALL*E—and lo, he loved it. But if you ask me, the greatest Blu-Ray experience was Transformers—but then, I just love the hell out of that stupid movie.

 

Maybe when he comes back I’ll make him watch Cloverfield.  Nobody else in this family likes it; maybe I can get one person on my side.

 

 

*Bastard’s actually acquiring a useful skill. He’ll probably manage to get a great job straight outta college. Jerk.

 

**Actually, The Sandlot is a pretty quality movie. If you want a movie I think is a quality family film that occupies a soft spot, I’d go with Secondhand Lions, but I think I was past kid-age for that one.  It Takes Two isn’t in that caliber, but I was ten when it came out and it’s damn fun.

Comments

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

Yellow Submarine. ... I blame my early exposure to high-grade weird for some of my adult bizarre.

[jesuitfluff.livejournal.com]

I think I have to agree with your brother about The Sandlot; whenever I watch that, I'm transported to being home with my brother and sister in the old living room, with summer sun glinting outside and us all being wet and cheerfully exhausted from afternoon swims and coming inside for a good Sandlotting. YOU'RE KILLING ME, SMALLS was a regular part of our communications. Still is, whenever my sister calls me to inform me of something completely outrageous.

However, I think that the one movie that will always nurture me like chicken soup and crackers is a horrendously awful cheesy movie called Monster Squad. It is so completely bad, and yet so completely capable of making me feel like home and hot chocolate and my sister and I collapsing in giggles.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Too many, but I'll go with The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.



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[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

I, too, spent far too little time with my brother over Thanksgiving. Much fun. We watched much "Futurama" and episodes of "The Boondocks."

You know, I saw very few movies at all as a child. I recall liking "The Aristocats" quite a lot, and several Care Bears features... and, oddly enough for someone as easily frightened as I was, "The Addams Family Movie". Actually, I mostly just loved Wednesday.

Oh! And "Milo and Otis".

Now, I'd have to saw that my favorite kiddie movie is either "The Mighty Ducks" or "Angels in the Outfield."