Films That Kids of Today Should Have at Least Heard Of!

Oh hai :D!

Yeah I totally agree, I can't wait to educate me little bro' in a few years time! First up is Space 2001, or maybe The Big Lebowski.
 
True.

Most 13 year olRAB will be fine to see at least certain 18s though. Personally, I think the age ratings are a bit pointless, as individuals all have different maturity levels. I'm sure, if you looked, you'd be able to find a 10 year old who could sit through Saw and not be bothered, and a 40 year old who was blind terrified of Snow White.

When people are ready to view certain material is personal to them, and can't be decided by film boarRAB.
 
Brilliant film, great story and gut wrenching end. Amazing cast too......Patrick Swayze's best ever performance. Who else was in it???....think it was Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howard, Ralph Macchio....mind's gone blank but there has to be more. Considering that cast I'm amazed it's not more well known.
 
How could they possibly show an interest in them if nobody makes them aware of them in the first place?
Television isn't going to do it now.

Television just simply doesn't show older films anywhere near as often as they used to do.
It just tenRAB to focus purely on the most modern films, even if they're not very good.

I remember when I was 10 or 11 my middle school did a quiz, in which questions were asked on cinema. A couple of questions were about a Hitchcock film and an Orson Welles film. A handful of kiRAB actually knew the answers to them. I admit that I didn't though, although I know the films now.
The point is that we were expected to know and expected to have a crack at subject matter such as that.
This wasn't some posh private school or even grammar school either, it was a simple bog standard state middle school.
 
Double Indemnity
The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Several Hitchcock films such as Strangers on a Train, Rear Window
Shane
High Noon
Now, Voyager
Gone with the Wind
Midnight Cowboy
The original Postman Always Rings Twice
Coming Home
Born on the 4th of July
It Happened One Night
Kind Hearts and Coronets and other Ealing classics
Cabaret
Some Like it Hot

There's way too many, really.
 
It just seems like a list compiled by someone about the same age as me though, letting personal taste get in the way of educated opinion. I love Back To the Future and the Goonies, I don't really see a reason why youngsters of today should feel shamed not to have heard of them and be forced to learn about them. If someone compiled that list about 20 years ago perhaps they'd be thinking the same about youngsters who hadn't heard of The French Connection, Dirty Harry, The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Carrie, Saturday Night Fever, Escape From Alcatraz etc. Seems a bit snobbish to me, let people discover films of their own choosing. Apart from The Neverending Story. Everyone should watch The Neverending Story. Oh, and Stand By Me!!!
 
You now, I've never understood why that film is meant to be horrendously disturbing. I haven't seen it so maybe I have to to understand. But from what I've read, it just seems like a film about some circus freaks. Nothing terrible.
 
I changed my answermachine message to the 'meet the feebles meet the feebles, were not yr average, ordinary people' song about 6 years ago and have since forgotten how to change it, all of my mates now think its the most annoying song in history :D :D
 
No problemo, I don't agree with the OP, so it's swings-and-roundabouts! I find the reasoning behind his blog post to be snobbish. Godfather was made in 1972. This 13 year old was born in the 90's. The film wasn't released during this unfortunate person's lifetime, so there had to become a point where the 13 year old went from not knowing about the film to discovering it. They saw it came top of a list in Empire, was intrigued enough to source a copy and watch it, and enjoyed it enough to write a letter to Empire. All seems pretty credible stuff to me. But it made the OP laugh-out-loud, exclaim 'what!!!!', and then continue to refer to the 13 year old as a 'poor child'. Poor? Because a 13 year old wasn't born knowing about a film was over 20 years before his birth! I'm guessing the OP wasn't around to see Casablance at the cinema on release date, there surely must have been a point he hadn't heard of it, is that deserving of ridicule?

Erm... rant over!!!

(PS: To respond specifically to your post! Godfather has been on television plenty of times during the 13 year olRAB lifetime so I doubt his access to it has been restricted. Unfortunately, Godfather 3 has also been on a fair few times. Pile of poop!)
 
I can see where you're coming from.
I do agree with you that it's swings and roundabouts and more about what angle you come at it from.
I think that sometimes the tone of what somebody says can turn somebody off and put them more in favour of the opposing point of view.

I think your age does come into it at some point. But I also believe that wheras Casablanca would be shown on TV before no problem, nowadays it would be less likely to get shown due to a perceived fear that it might not appeal to a 'modern audience'. If it did it would probably be buried away on some Multichannel slot.

Personally I think it's television itself which has led itself into the current television climate as opposed to the people who watch television.
If something is rarely shown, if at all, then it's hard to blame people for not having seen it.

However I do believe that people are missing out. I'm not coming from a snooty superior position, more from a feeling that they're been discouraged from discovering new experiences for themselves. Which may sound ironic that people can discover something new from something old.

:)
 
It's down to taste, though isn't it.

At 50 (and working in the industry) I've not seen the Godfather either.

It has no interest too me.

Films, rather like music, people can be too precious about.

"I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like"
 
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