Or just start a thread about multi cultural movies, nobody's stopping you. Title it something like multi cultural movies for expanding horizons and neutralizing xenophobic residue.
🙂
What about a bit of Clint? Saying that the list is already looking a bit blokey.
Not many female lead films with lots of cultural references (that I can think of right now)....
Title it something like multi cultural movies for expanding horizons and neutralizing xenophobic residue.
Just watch this Monty Python skit, it basically sums up all French films in under 6 minutes...
No need to watch any more.
Hah, Python. At one extreme a woke immigrant American who gave up his US citizenship for British with whom I'd happily eat dinner, and at the other extreme an anti-woke xenophobic Brexity extreme right racist whom I'd happily eat for dinner. 🙂 The former said of the latter something about he hasn't changed, just got fatter.
But yeah, if you want cultural references that haven't aged well, Python.
Dear dear, but then its the usual crowd again isn't it.
I actually thought my choices though hard going were at least to the point and reflect society quite well in this day and age.
We're seeing male orientated crap from the likes of Andrew Tate, and the colour purple covers the horrors women have had to face in the past, and like al my choices reflect on how society can go very much amiss should we ignore the warning signs. These parts of history should never be revisited, and I at least feel keeping them in the public eye is more important that death race 2000 or even monty python.
Perhaps it is why these films were created in the first place and it isn't all stick your head in a bucket of sand and forget they ever took place.
I think I should now add 12 years a slave.
Maybe wait a couple of years, dyna-ti, Madame took junior to Auschwitz (she's half Polish) but the recommended minimum age was 14 so he stayed outside. Good choices in a couple of years though.
Whale Rider is excellent and is about a girl who is 12ish.
Thelma and Louise
Clueless
Erin Brockovich
I quite fancy watching White Men Cant Jump again.
I'm thinking there are certain actors that need to be seen rather than certain films.
Arnie first imo
Lots of female leads in Studio Ghibli films which are all AMAZING.
Culture you say
Love, honor, obey.
Trainspotting
Jeez you guys live in a tiny blinkered world.
I for one am immensely grateful that you're here to tell us where we're all going wrong.
A wee bit o' speed is just the ticket.
Also Trainspotting
Christ on a bendybus, with the combination of naff old French comedies (watched twice) and now ‘worthy’ films about rape, what started off as suggestions for a fun film night for the Molls family is now looking like something the poor kid would need therapy for
Just get some popcorn in and watch Ferris Buellers Day Off
Honestly, I'm needing therapy reading this.
Anyone who's ever read Irvine Welsh would never recomend it to a youngster, you need a certain maturity to appreciate it.
Well that turned into one of the most depressing threads I’ve read.
War Games is a good call, I actually rewatched it yesterday. I watch a lot of older films or ones that require little thinking when I’m awake mid night shifts. Technology side it’s old of course but still entertaining.
Explorers
Last Start Fighter
Did anyone say Groundhog Day?
Which lead to this masterstroke of TV scheduling
Lol!
Ooh, Tron! Forgot that one.
End of line.
War Games is a good call, I actually rewatched it yesterday.
Oh, now, hacking movies is a hill I will die on.
War Games is just brilliant. They got it, they understood. There are so many throwaway lines that are just punch-the-air glorious.
Sneakers is probably the best 'modern-ish' hacking film. They got it, they understood.
Swordfish is worth the price of entry for the first five minutes if you have a half-decent AV rig, the first time I saw that I immediately stopped and restarted the movie after I'd pulled my jaw off the floor. The rest of the film is somewhere between OK and mediocre.
Hackers is pish of the highest order, I despise it to the core of my being and the only reason to watch it other than morbid curiosity is because Angelina gets her Jolies out.
Have I missed any?
Ooh, Tron! Forgot that one.
Tron is utterly, utterly stupid and has aged really badly even after a remaster.
Needless to say, I love it to bits.
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Hackers is pish of the highest order, I despise it to the core of my being and the only reason to watch it other than morbid curiosity is because Angelina gets her Jolies out.
There's one or two bits in Hackers that stick in my mind as unintentionally hilarious. Mainly when the protagonists rally youthful hackers around the world to do... something... (it's been nearly 30 years since I watched it) and we're treated to a montage of various young hackers around the world springing into action. Except that partway through that montage it cuts to Dave Stewart (then in his 40s and not looking like a young hacker) who answers his phone and likewise starts Hacking the Planet. The sheer incongruity of it cracked me up
It's a DDOS clearly, funnily enough we also had a Dave Stewart in our IT department.
And yes, it's hopelessly inaccurate and utter nonsense. It is to hacking what F&F is to car culture. And that's why I love it, just to laugh at it.
The Karate Kid,
@molgrips Red Curtain Trilogy; Strictly Ballroom, Romeo & Juliet and Moulin Rouge.
Just remembered that lot. 12yo Squirrelprincess will appreciate.
Maybe not really the subject of this thread but one of the best films I ever saw is Irreversible by Gaspar Noe.
That said it's so violent and disturbing that I will never watch it again. However in my opinion there's nothing gratuitous in the violence or the rape scene. It's about fate. If you embark on an extreme course of action, at what point does a chain of events become Irreversible. In my opinion that's right at the start.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Oh **** no! Based on what Molgrips has written Irreversible is the very last film I'd recommend. In fact there are very few scenarios where I would recommend it. It's been almost 20 years since I watched it (still have it on DVD) and there's no way I'm ready to watch it again.
Down there with Man Bites Dog, another film I'd struggle to use the word 'recommend' around.
LOL at someone suggesting an eleven year old watch Irreversible. Why not go the whole hog and watch A Serbian Film
Ooops I had forgotten the OP referred to eleven year olds
I was born in 78 and my papa owned a video shop so my knowledge of 80s, 90s and beyond cinema is unparalleled, however having grown up in a movie loving household, I'll go even further back and recommend
the Marx brothers
Abbot and Costello
Laurel and Hardy
Martin and Lewis
Etc
I look back so fondly on my parents showing me those films when I was young
Red Curtain Trilogy; Strictly Ballroom, Romeo & Juliet and Moulin Rouge.
Add The Greatest Showman to that list for 12yr old girls and you've got what mine loved watching around that time. That, Madagascar and Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events.
I think Bill and Ted (both excellent and bogus) with all the current cheesy 90's fashion could be entertaining.
Airplane! and Top Secret (despite the bum jokes)
The Truman Show
yer my boy at 11 i think, loved the bill and ted series
Irreversible by Gaspar Noe
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He should have Gaspar Noe night: Irreversible, Love and Climax.
Perfect evening for Daddy and daughter! 😆