Movies you tried to get younger people to like & got made fun of for

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tBrave little toaster

Tried to get my nephew to watch lord of the rings.

He couldn’t handle the slower story telling those movies start with.

Well I alerted the sophisticated cineastes of this board about "L.A. 2017", the Name Of The Game episode directed by Steven Spielberg in 1971, just before he made Duel. I got called old fart and various variations on that theme.

My favorite was the poster who joined in the pile-on when just the week before he had been bitching about nobody on the board wanting to watch classic old movies.

Hitchcock movies are harder for some younger people to get

I talked up Hitchcock’s The Birds as scary. The kids were majorly disappointed. “The only thing I was scared of was bird poop’ said my 8 year old son.

That’s surprising.

Usually campy ages well

Dutch.

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Movies you tried to get younger people to like & got made fun of for

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Actually, no. I've talked up movies from my childhood a ton, so when I finally have shown them to my kids there's an appreciation for them. They don't all necessarily WOW them the way I was, but part of that may be special effects, or the fact that maybe the movie I loved was the first and it's been done a ton since then and it's not as fresh as it was when I saw it.

One of the only good things that happened during the heady days of the locks downs was the local theater was renting out the place for $100 or so and you could choose a movie to watch out of a list they had. Brought my kids and some of their friends to see both James and Alien, and they loved them.

Even got my 14 year old to sit and watch Read Window a few months back, and he still brings it up.