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55 Essential Movies Kids should see before they are 13

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I would cut a lot of movies and add these:
My Neighbor Totoro
Easy Rider
Ghost in the Shell
American Graffiti
Outsiders
Citizen Cain
Godzilla (1954)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Seventh Samurai

Some of them might not be age appropriate, but they are better than some om the list.
 
I remember Pee Wee's Big Adventure giving me nightmares as a kid when I was probably about 3 or 4. I still haven't even seen it since and I have no idea what scared me.

If I have kids, I will show them a lot of these and other classic movies. My parents didn't really care about movie culture so I didn't see films like the Godfather until college when I sought them out.
 
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rockyct said:
I remember Pee Wee's Big Adventure giving me nightmares as a kid when I was probably about 3 or 4. I still haven't even seen it since and I have no idea what scared me.

If I have kids, I will show them a lot of these and other classic movies. My parents didn't really care about movie culture so I didn't see films like the Godfather until college when I sought them out.
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Dead ghost trucker lady.
 
Spydermag68 said:
Easy Rider


Some of them might not be age appropriate, but they are better than some om the list.
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I just saw this for the first time a few weeks ago. Not really sure how I never saw it, but wtf that was sad 🙁 And no..I don't think it is kid appropriate.
 
Parents need to read to their children much more. They also need to teach children to have an imagination and think for themselves, which is the opposite of the movie going experience.
 
Oh, and for all you guys arguing about PG-13 and R and shit, you need to watch This Film Is Not Yet Rated.


The MPAA is full of shit and ratings mean nothing.
 
There are a whole lot of movies in that list that aren't 'essential'. Disney is Disney, but most of their movies are nothing groundbreaking or particularly special. Nemo was a unique idea that was extremely well executed. Beauty and the Beast? The Little Mermaid? Pffft. Iron giant? Pfffft.

Where the hell is the Never Ending Story? The Dark Crystal? The Secret of NIMH? Herbie the Love Bug?

The Sound of Music is overly pretentious crap that most kids I know HATED. Elf? Really?

Who framed Roger Rabbit is historic from a 'first good mix of people and animations' but as a movie, it wasn't all that good at all.

Titanic? An essential movie? Ho boy.

I'm not a movie critic, but damn...

Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
The Red Balloon (1956)
The Kid (1921)
WALL•E (2008)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Iron Giant (1999)
Elf (2003)
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
March of the Penguins (2005)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
The Incredibles (2004)
The LEGO Movie (2014)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Goonies (1985)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Duck Soup (1933)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Big (1988)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
The Avengers (2012)
Titanic (1997)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Jurassic Park (1993)
 
Where is Terminator 1 & 2, Rambo, Predator, and Saving Private Ryan? I enjoyed watching those movies since I was 4 years old.
 
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Where is Terminator 1 & 2, Rambo, Predator, and Saving Private Ryan? I enjoyed watching those movies since I was 4 years old.
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add in Alien, Aliens, Robocop and you can instill a healthy respect robots and aliens plus a desire to blow shit up should the need arise.
 
Awesome to see "The Kid" on the list. IMO one of Chaplins finest films.

I'd add Evil Dead, The Terminator, Rambo, Predator, Alien & Spaceballs

Those are not meant for small kids, but, when I was a kid, those were the "cool" movies...

Essentially, the list should contain pretty much all R rated movies.
 
List is missing Kidco, Short Circuit, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Innerspace and Ghostbusters off the top of my head.
 
it’s a survival-guide syllabus of films that we all need to know to be able to speak the same pop-cultural language
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Hmmm, I'd cut a bunch of those out and include, among others:
- The Last Unicorn
- The Neverending Story
- Disney's Robin Hood
 
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These are the ones that I haven't seen:
The Red Balloon (1956)
Annie (1982)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
The Iron Giant (1999)
March of the Penguins (2005)
The Black Stallion (1979)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Duck Soup (1933)
Stand By Me (1986)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Not an awful list, but as some have pointed out, there are definitely some glaring omissions! Especially if the list says it's meant to allow kids "to speak the same pop-cultural language", you can't leave off movies that get quoted/referenced often enough!

rockyct said:
I remember Pee Wee's Big Adventure giving me nightmares as a kid when I was probably about 3 or 4. I still haven't even seen it since and I have no idea what scared me.
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Probably the scene where Pee-Wee is having a nightmare about the clowns abducting his bike, chopping it up and melting it down. That scene and watching IT when I was 8 pretty much solidified my distaste for clowns. I mean... how can anyone always be smiling!? It's unpossible! D:
 
oh hell, I'd throw in some Abbott & Costello. That shit made laugh when I was in elementary school. And Lil Rascals. And old Godzilla movies were great too.

I would also include Lean On Me, Ghostbusters, The Rescuers and Airplane!
 
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