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19 minutes ago, Serak The Preparer said:

Beastmaster needs to be mentioned. Seeing a young nubile Tanya Roberts kickstarted some changes in me. Maybe watch that with him and then give him some alone time.

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I'm not quite sure, but this scene back in the early 80s might have led to my first boner.

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The Power of One (only on apple tv from what I can tell but it is worth doing)

Field of Dreams isn't just for baseball people

Stripes

Bad News Bears (original version)

Captain Philips

A Few Good Men

Officer and a Gentlemen

The Pursuit of Happiness

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Unforgiven

The Wild Bunch

The Magnificent Seven (Preferably the original but the remake is bearable.)

Man on Fire

Where Eagles Dare

A Bridge Too Far

Goldfinger

Thunderball

The Outlaw Josey Wales

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Mine are 7 and 9 so a bit younger but we have already chewed through some of the sports movies and their favorite thus far is The Sandlot.

My 7 year old often gives me the "You're killing me, Smalls"

They also love The Princess Bride.

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Not sure about "watch with him" but here would be a good appointment viewing list for a teenage male (of stuff that somehow no one has posted yet):

Blockbusters/epics:

Braveheart

Gladiator

LOTR trilogy 

(assuming he's seen the original Star Wars trilogy?)

The Prestige

Nolan Batman trilogy

Pirates of the Caribbean (first few are all pretty good but the first one would be the only essential one)

Bladerunner (go make your kid watch Bladerunner right now)

Alien 

Comedies:

Raising Arizona

Anchorman 

Old School 

Wedding Crashers 

The Hangover

Walk Hard

Royal Tenenbaum's

Others:

Dead Poet's Society (make your kid watch this after he finishes Bladerunner)

Moonlight

There Will Be Blood

No Country For Old Men

The Hurt Locker

 

Too many more to name. If he sees all those he'll be ahead of 98% of his peers when it comes to film knowledge over the past ~30 years. 

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I put on Airplane! when my boys were teenagers thinking they would love it. Two minutes in they were like.."is it going to be like this the whole time?" They tapped out quickly.

They did love The Jerk tho..

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It seems like they have to come across movies when I'm already watching it and then get into them.  If I say, guys you have to see this, etc....they want to hate it on purpose. Dickheads.

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36 minutes ago, Pokoloco said:

I put on Airplane! when my boys were teenagers thinking they would love it. Two minutes in they were like.."is it going to be like this the whole time?" They tapped out quickly.

They did love The Jerk tho..

The thing about Airplane! is it was lightning in a bottle. You had to have seen all the terrible movies they were satirizing to understand it. Their generation has seen none of them.

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Just thought of a few more:

Kelley's Heroes

The Dirty Dozen

The Killing Fields (and if he asks, let him know that, Yes, this shit really happened)

Dr. Strangelove

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Ford vs Ferrari

The Last American Hero

Dust to Glory

White Lightning (boy needs to learn about shaky puddin)

 

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32 minutes ago, Hammerin Hank said:

The Natural 

Great father/son movie, and another baseball movie that’s not just for baseball people 

We need a movie about your guy.  Loved Hank. To me he was the greatest al around player.

*besides a documentary. there is one of those already.

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1 minute ago, Pokoloco said:

We need a movie about your guy.  Loved Hank. To me he was the greatest al around player.

I agree with all that. If you haven’t already, you should read his autobiography, I Had a Hammer. I’ve read it at least 3 times, and recommend it to anyone 

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1 hour ago, ztejas said:

Not sure about "watch with him" but here would be a good appointment viewing list for a teenage male (of stuff that somehow no one has posted yet):

Blockbusters/epics:

Braveheart

Gladiator

LOTR trilogy 

(assuming he's seen the original Star Wars trilogy?)

The Prestige

Nolan Batman trilogy

Pirates of the Caribbean (first few are all pretty good but the first one would be the only essential one)

Bladerunner (go make your kid watch Bladerunner right now)

Alien 

Comedies:

Raising Arizona

Anchorman 

Old School 

Wedding Crashers 

The Hangover

Walk Hard

Royal Tenenbaum's

Others:

Dead Poet's Society (make your kid watch this after he finishes Bladerunner)

Moonlight

There Will Be Blood

No Country For Old Men

The Hurt Locker

 

Too many more to name. If he sees all those he'll be ahead of 98% of his peers when it comes to film knowledge over the past ~30 years. 

Waited until page 2 for gladiator, which should be in the first fucking post. I am not…

Russell Crowe Gladiator GIF

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1 hour ago, RPM said:

The thing about Airplane! is it was lightning in a bottle. You had to have seen all the terrible movies they were satirizing to understand it. Their generation has seen none of them.

Lol not at all. It isn't younger generation's fault that his kids don't get Airplane. That movie is hysterical in a vacuum. 

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7 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Lol not at all. It isn't younger generation's fault that his kids don't get Airplane. That movie is hysterical in a vacuum. 

Like I said, they're dickheads.

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3 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

and My Cousin Vinny

I was watching My Cousin Vinny a few months ago when my teenage son sat down and started watching it. He obviously was interested in Marisa Tomei because he asks "does that actress come out in other movies?"

I said "dude, that's Hot Aunt Mae!" He followed up with "Then that's really Hot Aunt Mae." I told him I had a crush on her since middle school and his mom would smack me anytime we watched a movie with her in it.

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8 hours ago, South Austin said:

I’ve actually never seen October Sky, so guess I’ll give that a shot.

My first thought when I opened the thread was Stand By Me.

October Sky is excellent. You should definitely see that.

I’d add Contact to the list. 

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6 hours 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.

Mississippi Burning

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3 hours ago, RPM said:

The thing about Airplane! is it was lightning in a bottle. You had to have seen all the terrible movies they were satirizing to understand it. Their generation has seen none of them.

Or understand the career background of Nielsen, Stack, Graves and Bridges to fully appreciate their performances. 

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For both of mine, a double feature of Dazed and Confused/Fast Times a Ridgemont High was a prerequisite the week before they started high school.

Both Rushmore and The Life Aquatic have some good father/son themes. 

I'll echo Stand By Me.  It came out when I was in Jr high, and they saw it at that age themselves.  They loved it, and I think it's a great movie for the awkward and uncomfortable adolescent years.  And I think Goonies accomplishes the same thing from a comedic perspective.

And for some fun, follow Full Metal Jacket with Stripes as a double feature.  They are mirror images.

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47 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I’d add Contact to the list. 

Good idea. They'll better appreciate the movies that don't fucking suck after watching Contact. 

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Bad News Bears

Red Dawn

Stand by Me

Goonies

Sandlot

A Christmas Story

These were the only older movies all 3 of my sons liked watching. My oldest two liked the Indiana Jones trilogy.

Movies they universally disliked: Princess Bride, Dark Crystal, Blazing Saddles, Airplane, and Conan.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Underdog said:

Smokey and the Bandit - great father/son subplot. 

Momma's gonna take a hit though...

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22 hours ago, BHMCruiser said:

Commando

Predator

Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Destoyer

Pumping Iron

True Lies

Terminator

Terminator 2

Running Man

Twins

Total Recall

Kindergarten Cop

No “Last Action Hero”??  Wtf man 

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a couple of greats that did NOT resonate with my boys:

Red Dawn- no clue on the Cold War. They've read about it and know it happened, but don't get the social climate of the day.

The Breakfast Club.  Should appeal as a coming of age flick, right?  Nope.  They were bored as hell. See also: Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  They did however, appreciate Risky Business, or maybe it was just Rebecca's titties.

 

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1 hour ago, slorch said:

a couple of greats that did NOT resonate with my boys:

Red Dawn- no clue on the Cold War. They've read about it and know it happened, but don't get the social climate of the day.

The Breakfast Club.  Should appeal as a coming of age flick, right?  Nope.  They were bored as hell. See also: Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  They did however, appreciate Risky Business, or maybe it was just Rebecca's titties.

 

Man. Ferris Bueller is easy to get. 

Breakfast Club is honestly not a kids movie or even teen movie to some degree. It's one of those movies that you have to be out of high school looking back on to fully understand and appreciate. You have to have seen people change and identified some personal biases and unfair judgements and worked through them. 

Not that kids can't enjoy it - but most kids wouldn't understand what it's really about. 

e.g. - I think you have to be a certain age to really get a scene like this.

 

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10 hours ago, Underdog said:

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Just one of many examples for father/son bonding in Smokey.

Both of my sons have heard me say multiple times when they screwed up:

There is no way you came from my loins.

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