"Well, that's the end of this suit."
Posted on 01/19/2016 12:32:17 PM PST by Sparticus
So I was watching a movie with my kids (10 and 13) the other day and was thinking about how different the media is that they consume than from the stuff I was raised on.
I would like to get them interested in older movies with positive messages. Which John Wayne and which WWII movies are your favorites and which would think would grab kids' attention?
I'm thinking "The Cowboys" would be good, but what else would everyone suggest?
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In Harms Way
El Dorado
The Quiet Man
Mclintock!
The Sands of Iwo Jima
The Flying Lethernecks
Chisum
The Flying Tigers
to name a few.
“By God girl, thats a Colts Dragoon. You’re no bigger’n a corn nubbin. What’re you doin with all that pistol?”
WW II movies I like include
Operation Petticoat
Father Goose
Midway is lauded, but I didn’t care for it.
If they like an epic with many different plots braided into one theme, try War and Remembrance
My kids enjoyed The Great Escape. Then, there is The Red and the Black.
Also, for light-hearted silliness try Hogan’s Heroes or McHale’s Navy.
Red River.
Look up John Wayne on IMDB and pick one. Well, any one except The Conqueror.
True Grit?
You mean the movie with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon?
(ducking...running away)
The Cowboys should be late.
For kids your age;
Chisum
The Longest Day
“Him” being Bruce Dern, yes. In the original movie, he is executed by each boy firing point blank as he lay on the ground, in retaliation for Dern men’s murder of John Wayne. In the modified version, Dern is tied to a horse then horse gets whipped, starts galloping then drags him on the ground and through a creek and he dies.
It’s no use. The old movies can’t compete with the modern CGI. Kids these days don’t have the attention span needed. Movies now require a shootout, car chase, or major earthwide catastrophe every five minutes.
True Grit, and the Cowboys. WWII look at 49th Parallel, Sink the Bismark, Flags of our Fathers.
True Grit
My absolute favorite, and one which I didn’t see or even know about until a couple of years ago is: The Shootist. But it’s not for youngsters. It is for anyone who has spent a long while digesting all of the earlier works. Save the best for last.
"Well, that's the end of this suit."
They Were Expendable. You get John Wayne and World War 2 in one package. Also, the great and underestimated Robert Montgomery (father of Bewitched Star, Elizabeth Montgomery).
Then, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. A very fine movie about many things.
Thanks for the update.
A nice dog gets killed in Hondo too.
You said a mouthful there. I'm showing The Ten Commandments to my class. They cannot watch it straight through. Sheesh!
No, it’s plenty of use. My nephew was trained early on to love silent movies as well as movies from the golden period of American filmmaking. Don’t be negative; the guy cares about his children.
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