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I have a 14 year old son, and we watched Saving Private Ryan together recently.  He loved it, and it got me to thinking that there are a whole lot of movies that I think he and I should watch together.  Some because they are just great movies, but some that have a truth or lesson in them, especially those that are important for aspiring men.  Anyway, here are a few movies that I want to make sure we watch together.  Give me some more suggestions.

  • Outlaw Josie Wales
  • Big Lebowski
  • Schindler's List
  • Grand Torino
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • American Beauty
  • Patton
  • A River Runs Through It
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Life is Beautiful
  • Goodfellas
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Why would American beauty be a dad and son movie? That would creep me out.

Just a few. Some you’ll want to wait til he’s older

It’s a Wonderful Life
Battleground
The Right Stuff
Blazing SAddles
Young Frankenstein
Old Yeller
The Blue Max
Chef
Bullitt
Endless Summer
Honeysuckle Rose (Texas, Willie, music)
2001
Dr Strangelove
Schindlers List
The Godfather I & II
The Searchers
Airplane!
Hud
Junction Boys
DAs Boot
Fargo
Jeremiah Johnson
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Bernie


A lot of Texas based movies. It’s important.

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Tommy Boy- watched this on a 7" portable DVD player on a boys high school  playoff football trip in 2007.  It is so engrained in our vernacular and daily exchanges, I think it would qualify as the one thing my wife hated that I ever did with the boys, therefore, it is spectacularly perfect.

Napoleon Dynamite- Runner up to Tommy Boy for interjecting lines into our daily lives.

Rocky

Full Metal Jacket( we watched the boot camp scenes and they didn't watch the Vietnam scenes until later( probably next day when I went to work)

The Fugitive

Shawshank Redemption

My kids hated The Godfather the first time they saw it.  They love it now.  Not sure 14 is the right-ish age.  Depends on the kid, I guess.

+1 on October Sky, as both kids were already wired that way.  Wheelhouse for them.

 

 

 

 

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25 minutes ago, deech said:

Big Fish

I watched that with my parents many years ago, when my dad was somewhere in his 60’s (he’s 78 now). I can count the times on one hand I’ve seen my old man cry in my lifetime, and I could sense that he was getting emotional at the final scene. His dad was a fisherman, and they had a similarly strained relationship. At the end he got up and left the house, and I could hear him audibly weep as he walked out the front door.

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Thanks for the suggestions.  He’s seen some of these already.

I get the question marks in reaction to American Beauty.  It’s definitely not a typical man’s movie.  He would need to older, maybe even over 18.  I think AB serves as a great cautionary tale.  It makes the point that following the common, acceptable path and checking all the boxes of the American dream does not necessarily lead to happiness and contentment.  He gets one life, and some people spend all of theirs unhappily living a “good life” that society, media, parents, etc... have imprinted on them. If that isn’t where your happiness resides, don’t settle for it, or you’ll regret it at the end.

Amazing how few of the movies mentioned have been made in the last 20 years.  Have any been made in the last 10?

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46 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Thanks for the suggestions.  He’s seen some of these already.

I get the question marks in reaction to American Beauty.  It’s definitely not a typical man’s movie.  He would need to older, maybe even over 18.  I think AB serves as a great cautionary tale.  It makes the point that following the common, acceptable path and checking all the boxes of the American dream does not necessarily lead to happiness and contentment.  He gets one life, and some people spend all of theirs unhappily living a “good life” that society, media, parents, etc... have imprinted on them. If that isn’t where your happiness resides, don’t settle for it, or you’ll regret it at the end.

Amazing how few of the movies mentioned have been made in the last 20 years.  Have any been made in the last 10?

I loved American Beauty as a grown ass man recognizing so many of the depictions calling out real life tales of depravity and/or bad marriages.  It was dark AF and I loved it because of it.   Never once thought, "Oh my boys would love this movie." Same goes for American History X.  Great movie.  Not sure it would be cool for a 14 YO.

The reason most of my suggestions are a bit older is a function of when my own boys were that age.  I was thinking about more  flicks and would include stuff like:

The Martian

Almost any Bond flick

Finding Forrester

Good Morning Vietnam- my sons were very interested when I informed them Robin Williams was in it, and they knew he had voiced the genie in Aladdin.

Master and Commander

Good Will Hunting

Stand and Deliver

a shit ton of sports movies

 

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10 minutes ago, Goredho said:

I know Glory was mentioned, but it seems like given the times, perhaps some movies concerning the American Revolution and the Civil War might be in order.  I'm not sure if I could have made it through the Ken Burns docuseries when I was a young man.

The Crossing with Jeff Daniels cast as George Washington. While not in the 10 star category it's not bad and I'm always rather pleased with anything Daniels does. He's a good actor. Movie title says it all.

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My son's also 14 and we watch tons of movies together. He loves scary/horror movies the most, but here are some of our faves across genres, not including many of the ones y'all have already listed.

  • Get Out
  • The Goonies
  • Stand by Me
  • It (I know, I know, but in between the horror is a great coming-of-age story)
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Ready or Not
  • Dead Poets Society

Others we haven't seen together but that are on the list:

  • The Green Mile 
  • Good Will Hunting
  • True Grit

 

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11 minutes ago, baboso said:

Secondhand Lions.

Since you indicated a military movie bent, American Sniper.

He's seen seconhand lions already.  I actually haven't seen American Sniper, so that might be a good one for both of us.  I had a passing thought of Lone Survivor, too.

1 minute ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Field of Dreams is a must if he has even a passing interest in baseball

Neither one of us are into baseball.

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The Great Santini

The Death of Richie

Tank

 

Holy shit. Santini and Tank are like opposite ends of the father / son relationship scale. Excellent choices and bonus points for Shirley Jones as the hot Mom in Tank. Now that I think about it, Blythe Danner was too.

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4 hours ago, South Austin said:

My son is in sixth grade, about the age I was when I saw Stand By Me. Thinking about watching that with him soon.

I’d say a River Runs Through It, but that movie was terrible and my son would fall asleep in the middle of it.

I watched Stand By Me with mine during Covid. He would have been in 5th. It was not really much of a hit. I think it's more nostalgic for us old guys. 

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29 minutes ago, RPM said:

Holy shit. Santini and Tank are like opposite ends of the father / son relationship scale. Excellent choices and bonus points for Shirley Jones as the hot Mom in Tank. Now that I think about it, Blythe Danner was too.

Not to mention this in Tank... 

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The Sandlot (you don’t have to like baseball at all for that one)

Boyz N The Hood

Apocalypto 

Interstellar

Predator

Friday Night Lights

American History X

Mrs Doubtfire

 

Not a movie but I wish I’d seen Cobra Kai as a kid. Outstanding lessons on self-confidence, balance, and the results of bullying.

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3 hours ago, Goredho said:

Thanks for the suggestions.  He’s seen some of these already.

I get the question marks in reaction to American Beauty.  It’s definitely not a typical man’s movie.  He would need to older, maybe even over 18.  I think AB serves as a great cautionary tale.  It makes the point that following the common, acceptable path and checking all the boxes of the American dream does not necessarily lead to happiness and contentment.  He gets one life, and some people spend all of theirs unhappily living a “good life” that society, media, parents, etc... have imprinted on them. If that isn’t where your happiness resides, don’t settle for it, or you’ll regret it at the end.

Amazing how few of the movies mentioned have been made in the last 20 years.  Have any been made in the last 10?

That is not what that movie is about

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