Originally Posted by
cudarunner
My son is a lover of movies--Many a year ago my then wife took our son to see the remake of Flight of the Phoenix with Dennis Quaid. When they got back I asked him how he liked the movie and he said it was Great.
So I ordered a DVD from Netflix of the original with Jimmie Stewart and once it landed I asked him if he's like to watch it and he said sure.
I didn't say a word during the movie and at the end I asked him how he liked it and he said "Dad, that was a lot better than the new one"!
A few years later I rented several older movies/most in Black and White including The African Queen and Casablanca for my son and me to watch.
During the scene in The African Queen when Humphrey Bogart had crawled out with the leaches (those were ACTUAL LEACHES by the way) and Hepburn had scrapped them off was going to crawl back overboard to continue pulling the boat through the shallow water my son looked like a snake that had been dropped on 150 F concrete as he was just squirreling around on the couch when he said; "Dad, he's not going back in that water again is he"?
After watching Casablanca I asked him what he'd thought of the movie and he said; "Dad, there wasn't a lot of action but there was all of this 'Interaction'. To which I said; "That's why it's a classic".
When he was taking Drama in High School, on occasion the instructor would show a movie. He announced that the movie he was going to show the class for review would be 'Dancing With Wolves' and asked if any of the students had seen it. -----------------Well I understand that my son was waving his hand like crazy and the instructor told him to please be quiet while the film was being seen and not to tell any other students anything about it.
TO ALL:
In conclusion, movies are a wonderful outlet. Enjoy them.