YOU'RE JJ ABRAMS?
No...
...I'm an idiot
But If I were JJ Abrams I would (a) make the most awesome sequel trilogy ever and (b) come here to recruit actors/actresses and seek script advice.
They should just make Patton Oswalt's Filibuster sequel idea - that's a wrap.
However, these things also appeal to many adults and frankly some of the stuff is outright unsuitable for kids, if you think about it.
Not for late 70's, early 80's kids.
However, these things also appeal to many adults and frankly some of the stuff is outright unsuitable for kids, if you think about it.
Not for late 70's, early 80's kids.
Completely agree look at these other PG movies, Jaws, Poltergeist, Gremlins.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinlarosa/pg-rated-movies-that-are-actually-terrifying
Granted PG-13 wasn't around until 1984.
Most of those movies are kid movies. There are so many kids films with dark elements in them; most Disney films usually have a very dramatic beginning to them. Look at Finding Nemo as an example, the mass murder of unborn fish and the mother.
Its really awkward at times being a parent. This past Christmas we bought the kids three of my childhood favorites, The Goonies, Gremlins, and Big; all rated PG. There's a ton a questionable stuff in these movies, even in Big when Tom Hanks(really a 12 year old boy) touches the breast of the female lead and subsequently has sex.
To completely derail this thread, The Hobbit was a kids book.
I loved Gremlins as a boy. Goonies too. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Dune, Krull and Beastmaster. Not forgetting the Star Trek movies. Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock were my favourites. Though I believe I cried when Spock died..."I am and always will be your friend"...sniff.
Didn't adversely effect me at all... Admittedly that's open to debate.
Its really awkward at times being a parent. This past Christmas we bought the kids three of my childhood favorites, The Goonies, Gremlins, and Big; all rated PG. There's a ton a questionable stuff in these movies, even in Big when Tom Hanks(really a 12 year old boy) touches the breast of the female lead and subsequently has sex.
We let my son watch Gremlins when he was, like, six? He likes monsters and (reasonably) scary things well enough, so we thought it would be fine. Plus it was a Christmas movie!
Remember the part where the girl explains how she "found out about Santa?"
Neither did we...
Its really awkward at times being a parent. This past Christmas we bought the kids three of my childhood favorites, The Goonies, Gremlins, and Big; all rated PG. There's a ton a questionable stuff in these movies, even in Big when Tom Hanks(really a 12 year old boy) touches the breast of the female lead and subsequently has sex.
We let my son watch Gremlins when he was, like, six? He likes monsters and (reasonably) scary things well enough, so we thought it would be fine. Plus it was a Christmas movie!
Remember the part where the girl explains how she "found out about Santa?"
Neither did we...
That's hilarious. Sorry that you had to deal with that... But that's kind of funny.
And no one thing can 'ruin star wars' or 'kill your child hood'. Star Wars has always been a huge block buster force in entertainment and on some level it has always had some appeal to kids in varying degrees.
You make good points in general, but i must humbly disagree with this one. There is a thing that can come close to killing it, or rather letting it purposefully die: George Lucas' utter refusal to allow any sale of the original theatrical versions of Star Wars. Even the remastered versions would be absolutely wonderful. I would forgive him everything he's done if he'd just let us have that.
Its really awkward at times being a parent. This past Christmas we bought the kids three of my childhood favorites, The Goonies, Gremlins, and Big; all rated PG. There's a ton a questionable stuff in these movies, even in Big when Tom Hanks(really a 12 year old boy) touches the breast of the female lead and subsequently has sex.
We let my son watch Gremlins when he was, like, six? He likes monsters and (reasonably) scary things well enough, so we thought it would be fine. Plus it was a Christmas movie!
Remember the part where the girl explains how she "found out about Santa?"
Neither did we...
I actually haven't let them watch Gremlins yet, but this past weekend my 6 year old daughter came crying to me because no one would watch The Goonies with her; she had already seen it. So I turn it on for her and within 10 minutes all my kids were watching it.
George Lucas' utter refusal to allow any sale of the original theatrical versions of Star Wars. Even the remastered versions would be absolutely wonderful. I would forgive him everything he's done if he'd just let us have that.
Did you mean this release?
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Original_unaltered_trilogy_(DVD)
I remember it even being promoted on their website with the text "SEE HAN SHOOT FIRST!"
Or would you prefer:
Completely agree look at these other PG movies, Jaws, Poltergeist, Gremlins.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinlarosa/pg-rated-movies-that-are-actually-terrifying
Granted PG-13 wasn't around until 1984.
Most of those movies are kid movies. There are so many kids films with dark elements in them; most Disney films usually have a very dramatic beginning to them. Look at Finding Nemo as an example, the mass murder of unborn fish and the mother.
Its really awkward at times being a parent. This past Christmas we bought the kids three of my childhood favorites, The Goonies, Gremlins, and Big; all rated PG. There's a ton a questionable stuff in these movies, even in Big when Tom Hanks(really a 12 year old boy) touches the breast of the female lead and subsequently has sex.
To completely derail this thread, The Hobbit was a kids book.
PG does stand for Parental Guidance for a reason. Only U films are really intended that they will be entirely suitable for kids. This was why at my primary school we could only watch U films as PG films needed a parent's permission. Thank god Star Wars was a U, even though it shouldn't be (best films we got to watch at school by far). Oh, and my argument wasn't that it shouldn't be a PG, PG would be perfect for Star Wars. It was the fact it was a U (Universal, suitable for all ages, with no suggestion of parental supervision or guidance) that strikes me as odd. This is the same rating Tellytubbies etc get... though I will grant they are quite frightening in themselves.
I was talking about the UK rating system. In the UK Gremlins was 15 (no one under 15 was allowed to watch it). Granted, there was no 12 rating at the time, and I think it has since been downgraded to the 12A certificate. Jaws apparently was a PG for the same reason (but was judged to fall on the other side of the cut-off). Has subsequently been upgraded to a 12.
Star Wars, to me at least, falls very much in the same camp as Indiana Jones: old fashioned pulp adventure romps, which are not aimed at kids, but very understandably appeal to children (for pretty much the same reason they appeal to adults). Now, Indiana Jones is slightly more mature in its intended audience than Star Wars (romance and implied sexual relations feature a whole lot more, and it is generally a bit more gruesome in its violence), but it still falls within that zone.
And yes, the Hobbit was a children's book, while the Lord of the Rings wasn't. Consequently the Hobbit is probably better written, as it is less obsessed with the mythological world the story inhabits, and having clunky saga like speeches from certain characters. However, yes, the films are not made as children's films, instead trying to cash in as a 2nd Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
We let my son watch Gremlins when he was, like, six? He likes monsters and (reasonably) scary things well enough, so we thought it would be fine. Plus it was a Christmas movie!
Remember the part where the girl explains how she "found out about Santa?"
Neither did we...
Probably because it all went over your head when you watched it when you were younger, like much of the darker and more adult stuff in various films does (including Star Wars). Though, yeah, I found Gremlins odd, as it quite heavily features children, is set as a Christmas film, but in the UK was (originally) rated as 15. However, when I saw it I kind of understood why, even though I think the subsequent recertificating as a 12A makes sense.
Its really awkward at times being a parent. This past Christmas we bought the kids three of my childhood favorites, The Goonies, Gremlins, and Big; all rated PG. There's a ton a questionable stuff in these movies, even in Big when Tom Hanks(really a 12 year old boy) touches the breast of the female lead and subsequently has sex.
We let my son watch Gremlins when he was, like, six? He likes monsters and (reasonably) scary things well enough, so we thought it would be fine. Plus it was a Christmas movie!
Remember the part where the girl explains how she "found out about Santa?"
Neither did we...
That's hilarious. Sorry that you had to deal with that... But that's kind of funny.
No, it was actually really funny.
Three adults and one six year-old on the couch, when suddenly the three of us knew *exactly* what was about to happen.
Knowing my son, if we scrambled for the remote or made some weird show-ey distraction or whatever, it would only focus his attention more. The three of us just sat, holding our breaths, barely moving except to stare bug-eyed at each other like "How could we ALL have forgotten???"
In the end it seemed to slip by unnoticed and we've had a number of good laughs about it since.
