Included in the list, no less is Fucking Åmål (though of course for the Beeb, under its more auntie-friendly monicker of Show Me Love. Controversial choice, seeing it up against things like ET and The Wizard of Oz, and this list was compiled by the British Film Institute, which also I find odd as Fucking Åmål never had a UK release.
What films do you think under 14's should see?
Prompting Films:
All the James Bond films. Will have the youth of today speaking properly, fine table manners, how to play baccarat and the way ladies like to be treated
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Everyone should have got to see Flight Of The Navigator, for spack fest nasal voiced whining adventure.
It was the sort of film you went to see on a hot afternoon when your parents would let your older sibling look after you and you'd drink far too much Tizer and be like an amphetamine freak until your dad shouted to 'keep it down about sodding Flight Navigator' and you'd have to lie down because your older brother would punch you in the stomach because he was being the space ship going all pshhhhoooom.
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The original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
It's like when you have a song that's been sampled by someone - f'rinstance, The Boys of Summer that DJ Sammy wrecked last year. A whole generation are going to grow up not knowing that that used to be a bloody good song, and it's not until they are forced to go somewhere in the car with their dad who happens to be a Radio 2 listener, that they'll hear the original version and think, "hang on a minute! I know that tune! Wow, how much better is that than that awful drivel that DJ Sammy spouted out". Anyway, it will be the same with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Little kids will think that this is THE Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when it actually isn't.
Other than that, I'd have to go with the Wind in the Willows.
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quote:Originally posted by saltrock: The original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
It's like when you have a song that's been sampled by someone - f'rinstance, The Boys of Summer that DJ Sammy wrecked last year. A whole generation are going to grow up not knowing that that used to be a bloody good song, and it's not until they are forced to go somewhere in the car with their dad who happens to be a Radio 2 listener, that they'll hear the original version and think, "hang on a minute! I know that tune! Wow, how much better is that than that awful drivel that DJ Sammy spouted out". Anyway, it will be the same with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Little kids will think that this is THE Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when it actually isn't.
The 'original' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (actually called Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, because the producers wanted to shift focus away from 'uninteresting' Charlie) is pretty much a load of old wank anyway, largely designed to promote a confectionary range in the 70s. Roald Dahl hated it, and rightly so.
Also WTF is up with claiming it as 'THE' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when it's just an adaptation of the book? Just like the new one is. If there's any justice in the world the new film will bury the memory of the first adaptationfor once and for all, consigning to the rubbish bins of film history a movie that's chiefed off the success of its source material for far too long. I've no great desire to see the new movie, but I can't imagine it'll be as wretched as the 1971 version. I wish people would stop assuming that just because something's been around for 35 years, and endlessly repeated until it's burrowed into the national consciousness, that it's actually good.
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I see your general point Saltrock, but I'm not sure it justifies raising a slightly creepy Gene Wilder film to the status of classic.
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quote:Originally posted by OJ: slightly creepy Gene Wilder
Nonce sense. That boat ride is nappy papperingly frightening even when watched in broad daylight. I reckon Mask could have the Masketeers begging to be saved by the gas mask kids, if he played that one scene on A->B repeat for three hours.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I wish people would stop assuming that just because something's been around for 35 years, and endlessly repeated until it's burrowed into the national consciousness, that it's actually good.
quote:Originally posted by OJ: slightly creepy Gene Wilder
Nonce sense. That boat ride is nappy papperingly frightening even when watched in broad daylight. I reckon Mask could have the Masketeers begging to be saved by the gas mask kids, if he played that one scene on A->B repeat for three hours.
I should have been clearer, I didn't mean creepy in the intentional sense of a scary film. I meant unintentionally creepy.
In the way that adults, who think they're being childlike and fun, but are actually being oddly inauthentic and sinister could be described as creepy. It's all a bit scary Santa.
If you want to scare kids, you could do worse than Great Expectations. Miss Havisham could still reduce me to a blubbering wreck now, I'm sure.
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