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Part of it, I’m sure, is the fact that they have a film professor as a dad, but I also believe great movies hold up no matter what era we watch them in.

My mom got us on to On The Road movies and we loved them.

Not nihilistic, just a stupid take

I mean... the Lord of the Rings books were written decades before I was even born but I was pretty damn excited to see the movies when they came out. I feel like this basic premise is an epic fail.

To answer the og question, it really depends on how much you think your child can handle, as theyre *very* violent films. My mom knew I could handle it at 8 years old (and I could) but not every child is like that.

For comparison, when I was 13, I watched Holy Grail for the first time, which would have come out 33 years prior. Then I watched it five more times.

I've of my preteen kids just watched The Sting with me and really liked it.

We watched plenty of old movies, but in addition to that, the LOTR movies are available in high resolution with modern production value. They look as good or better than anything that's released in 2026. It's not like watching an old black and white show in the 80s.

This person sounds horribly boring

5 is too early for godfather though

75 years ago Tolkien wrote the books we know as Lord of the Rings. Back in those days, people, including young people, actually just read the books, long before a movie was made.

When I was 10 I watched the disney channel, which was mainly shit they'd recorded in the 1930s. Yeah. They'll like LOTR fine.

When I was a kid the movies that were made 30 years earlier were nothing like the epic that is lord of the rings

Maybe what they're afraid of is that a lot of parents today seem to think their kids will be harmed by the kind of movies that we used to watch as kids.

By this logic no kid at all should enjoy the original Star Wars because it's 49 years old, but we know that's not true.

Lion King - 32 years old Home Alone - 36 years old Toy Story - 31 years old The Nightmare Before Christmas - 33 years old Jurassic Park - 33 years old Kids are ALREADY watching 30 year old movies without thinking twice about it.

When I was ten years old in 1993 I was happily enjoying I Love Lucy reruns on Nick at Nite. We watch TCM often and have already exposed our kids to films as early as the silent era.

For me, funny thing about what Stella said is I turned 10 in 1985. The highest grossing film that year was about a guy who went back in time 30 years. Loads of us were obsessed with 50s media in the 80s

LOL My kids loved the Marx Brothers, and my daughter (then two) tap-danced everywhere for months after seeing Singin' In the Rain. When she was an adolescent, our "us time" was spent watching Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

My 11 year old watched To Kill a Mockingbird last week and LOVED it.

When I was ten, my favourite films were all at least thirty years old! I adored black and white ones. There's a weird idea that kids only like new stuff. In truth they probably don't know if it's old. Have they seen the date at the end of the credits?! Give them a good story. Don't overthink it.

Um, books, people! These are all books! When is good for kids to read these books? (Kids, The Godfather? Dude, please.)

Most millennials grew up on Disney films made as far back as the 40s. Some stuff is just timeless if it’s well-made. Maybe you should not put so much stock into the takes coming from Nazis on the Nazi site in the first place though

Next year will be the 50th anniversary of Star Wars. Kids still like that one.

'Bugsy Malone' (1976) is like cinematic catnip for kids.

This is such a weird thing to say as if kids for all time haven’t grown up with the same art that always existed. Kids today still love The Wizard of Oz, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Star Wars. Disney movies. They still read books that weren’t written in their lifetimes. Like. What?

I was born in 1985 and have watched a ridiculous amount of movies from the 40s and 50s and enjoyed them. Why on earth would the age of a movie make it unenjoyable? Maybe there are references that can be missed in some but a fantasy film is fully self contained

When I was 10, I was mainlining Termite Terrace shorts like they were rocks of crack. My 8-year-old will ask to watch the stuff Selena Gomez and Lindsey Lohan were in when they were kids/teens. Stop underestimating your children.

One of my daughter‘s first favorite movies at the age for four or whatever was my neighbor Totoro, a movie that came out the year I was born It’s a very weird assumption that kids only like new things, they barely understand the difference between new and old things in some ways lol

some people truly have no appreciation for history and it's caused a lot of problems that should have been able to be easily resolved

Unbelievably wild take. At 10 I was watching old Godzilla movies and Jaws sequels. Super into It’s A Wonderful Life as well. If anything, interest in older movies seems to be growing, especially when platforms like Letterboxd highlight classics in a way that appeals to young people.

Lessee...when I was 10, movies from 30 years before would have been 1965... "That Darn Cat!" was #6 that year. I was very familiar with that film by age 10. "For a Few Dollars More" I probably would have enjoyed if I was allowed to see it. I had seen and liked some films from the 60s in general.

My 6 year old loves LoTR. She can't understand it at all, but loves the visuals

Maybe give them the books.

I loved Singing in the Rain (1952) when I was a little kid (2002~) This is nonsense

My daughter generally won’t watch something if I suggest it. However, she will come to me and suggest we watch a movie she wants to see together. Some of those have been LOTR, random Star Wars movies, The Life of Brian, and the 1st Blade movie for some reason. Obviously, old isn’t an issue.

It's sad to think of kids who wouldn't learn the pure joy of Larry Moe and curly Oliver Hardy or the Glorious Marx Brothers

I was raised, in the 1980's, on Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers. Thank fuck.

It's also how we find what we love. I grew up during the height of the 80s slasher trash, ran out of those, started watching the Gialli that they stole from, fell in love, ran out of THOSE, started watching the Hitchcock the Gialli stole from, ran out of THOSE, got into noir he stole...

I dare a kid to be bored watching anything by ray harryhausen. Also the 1940 thief of bagdad still rips and people are in disbelieve when you tell them it was made in 1940. Just have the sit down conversation about white actors in brownface before or after.

Bluesky is famously "the site where everyone is 38 years old". So "movies made 30 years ago" when the stereotypical user was 10 includes *the original Star Wars trilogy*.

When I was a kid, my favorite movies were Disney films from the 1940s. Some of my favorite TV shows were in black and white. Kids don’t have a sense of time because everything already exists when they arrive on the scene and it’s all brand new to them.

When I was a kid a substantial portion of what I watched was 30+ years old. There were whole TV channels devoted to it!

Given that I first read the books of the LOTR at the age of 7, having adored it when my Mum read it to me and my sister, and it must have been about 50 years old at this point, the OP's entire premise seems to be a load of crap.

My dad introduced my siblings and I to Mel Brooks when we’re 10. Now I struggle to name movies that are funnier than Spaceballs

I’m not a LOTR fan, but my wife is, and she recently showed them to my son, and he loved them.

My favorite movie when I was 10 [2003] was alien

Most of the younger people I have come across just have no interest or exposure to older movies. They cannot even fathom watching a B&W film. They were raised on franchises. Stuff needs to blow up. Your kids are outliers raised by someone who appreciates film.

has to be rage bait. Who just shows movies from the last 10 years? esp kids movies. psychotic

When I was 10 years old, films that were thirty years old were…the Original Star Wars. So I’d say so

When I was 10, I didn't want to watch Back to the Future because it was old. Then I ACTUALLY watched it and fell in love with it.

I was gonna debate that take on its merits and then I found out the author is (of course) a eugenicist and Reform voter. It's still so very dumb.

I just played What's the Score from @dansheehan.memyon.org and both my six- and ten- year old recognized Casablanca instantly.

It's complete foolishness from someone who obviously hasn't raised kids, or someone trying to deliberately provoke people. Five is young for LOTR, though.

I used to watch Georges Méliès and Charlie Chaplin shorts and other bits of early film with my ex's daughter when she was 8 years old, she loved it! I acted as her dad from when she was 7 to 13 and an open mind towards films is something I hope she'll keep

JFC, when my kids were small, I hooked them on the Ring cycle! I'd show it to them maybe twenty minutes at a time, and they loved it. "No Wagner until you've put your toys away," I'd threaten...

You are both wrong, give them books!

When I was a kid in the 70s I watched classic films all the time I grew up quoting THE COURT JESTER and ARSENIC AND OLD LACE Golden age musicals were a constant too And I’ve shown them all to my kid Hot takes like this indicate the OP doesn’t actually like older films themselves

I can't understand for the life of me why they are still making Marvel & DC movies instead of coming up with some new ideas. Comic book movies these days might as well be written by AI and probably soon will be, as long as it sells merch they don't care.

Both my brother and my daughter LOVED Sound of Music. It was 30 years when my brother re-watched it several times, and 55 years when my daughter watched it. A good movie is a good movie.

When I was 10 you'd have needed a stick of dynamite to get me away from any screen playing 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or any of the classic black & white monster movies from the 30s & 40s.

I was born in the early 80s. When I was 10-12, I was really into silent films. So yes, I definitely enjoyed watching things that were 30 years, and then several more decades, old.

My 13 year old daughter’s favorite films are Sabrina and The Devil Wears Prada and she didn’t like Double Indemnity but she likes to quote from it to make us laugh.

My daughters have loved most of the classic Disney animated movies, Mary Poppins, and the Sound of Music. All movies that were old when I was a kid.

Its a pleb take but not exactly a new one. Theres always been some people who will never engage with stuff from before they were born and mistakenly assume thats normal and everyone does the same. Its their loss.

The full chested confidence of a non parent with parenting advice... wish I could be that confident lol

I read children’s books written before 1930 when I was growing up in the ‘60s and ‘70s. My favorite movie was “The Wizard of Oz” (1939). When I was 12 or so I got turned on to the Three Stooges, W.C. Fields, and Laurel and Hardy because their films ran on local TV after I got home from school.

When I was a kid, movies 30 years prior, in the 40/50’s were prohibited from showing a lot of basic humanity & so full of innuendo that only that generation understood them. That wasn’t the case 30 years ago so naturally kids today can relate to them.

That's a wild take. The first movie I remember watching was pre special edition Star Wars. It was life changing. It was almost a 20 year old film at that point but it made me a nerd for life.

"Why don't those hobbits just use Google Maps on their smartphones?" my kids, children of the 2010s, ask me. I shrug. It's too hard to explain. Their viewpoint is just too alien from the time when the movie was made.

Unironically yes. When I was 10, I absolutely loved movies from 30 years ago. 40, 50 years even.

I mean the Disney Vault was set up in such a way that a ton of us kids were watching the hell out of Robin Hood with no idea at all that it came from the 70's. Not to even mention how many kids I knew in the 90's who loved Gus Gus.

Madness. Do they think LotR was based on current events? Lawrence of Arabia and 2001 still look better than anything made now....?

Hell, my parents got me started on the LOTR *books* when I was 8, and they were published in 1954-55

nihilistic - you’re too kind! I’m going with a stupid take. My parents (and broadcast TV) introduced me to tons of classics (and sometimes a discussion of what didn’t hold up after 30+ years)

When my eldest son was 10, the first Star Wars movie was 40 years old. He still loved it.

Born in 65. I spend my 8-13 year old childhood watching Little Rascals Lucy Elvis week Godzilla week Gunga Din Philadelphia Story Its a wonderful life ………

Pretty much all of my favorite movies were made before I was born.

just wait until she finds out how old the books are

Sounds like Stella got some dumb kids

I was so confused by this at first because my dad got me started on lord of the Rings around that age. By reading the Hobbit to me. Because it’s a children’s book. And it still exists and you can just read it to your kids if you want to.

When I was 10 or 11 my mother took me to her cinema class at night and I watched silent movies —I sobbed at ’Sunrise’ and I was fully terrified by ‘Nosferatu‘ and was also completely riveted by ‘Potemkin.’ One of our kids LOVED Chaplin and the other wasn’t that into him. So it depends on the kid!

I was raised on Ealing classics and John Wayne films, they were made between 40 and 20 years before I was born and it was not a hindrance.

It took me a bit to get into certain older movies, but I never said no to watching stuff because it was inherently older. What I DO remember is watching a TON of then modern trash as a kid and I think that's the larger hump to get over when introducing media to kids.

One of my favorite movies when I was like five or six years old was Disney's The Three Caballeros. That movie is 44 years older than myself. 😅

Also the correct answer is read The Hobbit to them at 6. Start LOTR a few years later.

When I was 10 years old, one film that came out 30 years beforehand was literally Star Wars

I watched Fantasia like 1000 times as a kid and that movie was made in 1940

Not movie but music related - all of the music my parents introduced my brother and I to as children (Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Sade) to this day we unequivocally love.

“When you were 10 years old, did you like films that were made 30 years ago?” Yes, but I guess I’m just built different.

This is a shit take. A big reason why I have a subscription to Alamo Drafthouse is to take my kids to see old movies. Growing up I routinely watched old movies with my parents. My 16 year old has seen The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Silence of the Lambs in the last year and loved them.

My daughter loves The Princess Bride, Back to the Future, and the Wizard of Oz.

You don’t understand once art is old it’s bad 🤪

Star wars will be 50 next year

The assumption she's the expert on all 10 year olds

When I was a kid many decades ago, I would not watch many 30 year old movies. But children today watch 30 year old movies all the time. However, they rarely watch old cartoon shows.

Uhmm…Disney is around why again?

91 years old. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_...

Sinbad the Sailor (1935 film) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

The pop culture references will probably go over their heads but there is a solid story there. /S

99% of recent movies seem to be “indistinguishable characters mumble in the dark while deafening explosions go on.” I’ll gladly take Lord of the Rings instead of that nonsense.

I really do think that takes like the one in the screencap are coming from Millennials who are overly self-conscious and anxious about their own aging.

When I was 10, I loved Star Wars, a film that was 20 years old.

OMG, my 4 yo grandson is loving LOTR.

Like, of all the popular movies he could have picked, he chose quite possibly the worst one to support his case. It really illustrates that he knows virtually nothing about the books, and how they've remained in the high fantasy zeitgeist for the last seven decades.

my partner and I have our parenting shortfalls, but one thing we have done well is stick to family movie night just about every weekend. We rotate through who gets to pick. Picker can invite friends if they choose. Anyway, “old” is relative lol. My kids be loving the court jester

What? I loved The Hobbit and still love The Hobbit from when my father introduced me to the book as a kid in the 70s. I got into LOTR all by myself after that and didn't even see the Bakshi cartoon until I was maybe in my early 20s.

This makes no sense at all when people liked lord of the rings 25 years ago when the books were already near 50 years old.

Not really liking “old” movies is one of my toxic traits 😭 I wish I did! But idk it’s hard for me to get into them 😔

No. It’s just dumb af.

yeah no one my age liked star wars

I watched wizard of oz as a kid and loved it, and it was definitely 30+ years old by then

The movies are based on books that are even older so if this logic were true then the movies never would have found an audience in their time either

The Wizard of Oz was released in 1939. How many kids have seen it since 1969? I would guess a great many.

My grandsons are 10, 7, 4. They are very into lord of the rings. Two were Sam and Frodo for Halloween, one was Sméagol, and they let me come as “Legol-ish” (cuz I was close but no Orlando bloom). Let them watch it!

I think I was probably 6 or 7 the first time I watched The Wizard of Oz on TV, and by that point it would have been almost 30 years old.

I discovered the power of movies when I was five, and was watching movies from around the world, spoken in English and/or subtitled, in color or in B&W (or both), from all eras of film, from then on. Gatekeeping is BS behavior on every level, on any topic.

To address another question raised by the screenshots, when my child was 5 I discovered that if you have the extended version on 2 DVDs, the 1st disk is appropriate for 5yr-olds. It even comes to a satisfying conclusion as the Hobbits reach (apparent or temporary) safety in Rivendell.

Hang on, gotta ask the 28-year-old. Yeah, she liked the Disney "Robin Hood." ("The one with the furries?... yeah, that was good.")

It's such an awful take. CBS aired Wizard of Oz every year through 1998. Cartoon collections on videotape were the traditional batch of "oops, public domain" Fleischer Superman/Popeye/etc or collections of Woody Woodpecker, classic Disney, etc. Snow White got a rerelease in 1987.

I will admit that I'm not a fan of very many movies exactly twenty years older than I. I probably preferred stuff made fifteen years before or fifteen years after 1952. But I almost certainly was watching and enjoying a variety of media from pretty close to that era. Film isn't about the calendar.

I think a big part of why I, as a kid, didn't like 30 year old media, is it was inferior in appearance to modern media. Now yes, that's still true to an extent, but much less so. LOTR simply doesn't LOOK 30 year olds the same way Star Wars did, for example.

My 10 year-old is currently obsessed with Rear Window. We've watched it about 8 times in the last three months on her request.

This take also strikes me as...unusual? How many kids AREN'T growing up on a media diet that's heavily weighted toward the things their parents liked as children? I grew up on Star Wars, old Disney movies, Looney Tunes, Three Stooges. It's not like my parents were cinephiles.

Not nihilistic so much as dumb (or bait). Disney has famously made a whole big business out of selling decades-old movies (based on centuries-old stories) to kids.

It's a good thing Stella wasn't working at New Line in the 90s when Peter Jackson pitched an adaptation of a book from 1954, then.

Bridge Over the River Kwai, The Great Escape, Blazing Saddles. My grandpa had a box full of old b&w WWII movies, we sat and watched them together, it was great!

Stupid people like that always assume everyone is as stupid as them

When I was 10 I loved Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton etc. all of which were over 30 years old

I watched AMC when they actually showed old movies and loved that when I was a kid. Movies older than my mom when I was 10 were so cool to me. The 1950s had some bangers!

As a millennial, I can confirm that many of my generation have watched Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. That's a whole 55 years older than me.

My 12yo and 10yo cannot get enough of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). It's like being a college freshman again

Joke's on them because a) I don't have kids and b) if I did and they didn't like a movie that was made more than 30 years ago I would put them up for adoption

When I was 10 years old I wouldn't have been interested in the LotR movies And I was 10 in the 90's

It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street were 30 years old when I was 10, so yes, yes I did.

if there's one thing i couldn't stand being born in the 80s and growing up in the 90s, it was 30-year-old-movie Star Wars

When I was 10ish (early 1980s), and probably younger, Laurel and Hardy, as well as Harold Lloyd, were on British TV all the time. My brother and I used to laugh ourselves stupid over that stuff, and I don't even remember thinking of it as "old", but just as "the thing that's on TV now".

This person underestimates how much human children like screens. If Friends and Full House can make a comeback, nine hours of action packed allegory about something very prescient will suck them in. See also OG Star Wars.

When I was 10 Star Wars had been out for 22 years; guess what? Every kid I knew watched and liked Star Wars.

When you’re a kid you watch movies whether they’re new or not. I LOVED OT Star Wars, Predator, Commando, and Terminator as a kid, and they were all like 20 year old movies at the time. 5 is PLENTY early to have kids watch LOTR. I saw ROTK in theatres when I was 5.

I started reading LOTR when I was like, seven, so I'm sure a kid can watch the movies at five.

When I was 10 I think watched looney tunes, tom & jerry and scooby doo. I think dude's argument is irrelevant. Even if kids understand something is old I dont think they really care that much.

Of course they'll watch and appreciate the movies. The novel The Lord of the Rings was published over 70 years ago and continues to be read and re-read and passed down through generations.

I'ved loved movies all kinds of movies since I was 10 or younger. And since we didn't go to the movies (theaters) that much, they were all oldies. What is this person even saying

Not to mention that LOTR is based on a novel series published 50 years earlier that was about Tolkien's experience in the war 30 years before that...

Major reference point for the offspring from when they were old enough to watch a movie has always been The Adventures of Robin Hood. Revisited from time to time to verify that the suck fairy has not been by (she hasn't). And Casablanca from shortly after, with The Blues Brothers somewhere between.

By this logic, no kid should watch anything star wars.

That account is either a young idiot popping off about things (film history, culture, literature, childhood development) they know nothing about or a bot. This first comment isn't even a sentence.

With LOTR in particular, those movies set a standard that movies today still follow so they really dont seem as old as they are. Its not like watching a movie from the 60s in the 90s where the visuals and pacing are so much different.

They don't need to make new cartoons, because they keep making new kids.

WTH? I liked things that were 30 years ago or more, at any age! What a weird case of self-projection that is…

Not going to advertise my age, but that's a terrible take. Many of the films I loved as a child were well over 30 years old.

Give em the radio play, it’s older and better

It’s also an invalid take bc the culture has slowed to the point where LOTR is still active IP (i hate classifying it that way, but it is), and enshittified to the point where something with this much practical and location shooting (on film, to boot) looks like goddamn cinemascope.

When I was ten, (1987) while most of the movies I loved were within the last ten years, I adored The Court Jester and Lady and the Tramp. Have been showing “old” movies to 23 year old Stepkid recently. Their favorites were SNEAKERS, HEATHERS, DONNIE DARKO, and KUNG FU HUSTLE.

So far, my kids have loved The Wizard of Oz, Sound of Music, The Music Man, Singing in the Rain, Charade, & West Side Story - each movie was already at least 20 years old when I was born.

Her dopey thoughts are dependent on the kindness of strangers... (Okay, that line was from Blanche, not Stella, but close enough...)

My kid had Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on repeat from ages 3 through 4...

Perhaps not nihilistic but just dumb. As a kid in the 2000’s I went on a binge all on my own watching Jimmy Stewart classics, Alfred Hitchcock, etc. It’s like saying kids will never appreciate Van Gogh because of AI art. And LOTR is just a dumb example- there’s nothing about it that doesn’t hold up

I see views, but how many likes did this get? Is this just a totally weirdo you found, or is this really a thing more than one person believes? Just feels...impossible to believe

I grew up watching movies made in a country that didn't exist by the time I was born. Still some of my favorites.

I was 10 in 1973 and my favorite movie was pretty much anything by the Marx Brothers.

I was 10 in 1991 and I can confirm that nearly every Disney movie from the 50’s and 60’s was in heavy rotation at my house (Also my 13 year old is obsessed with LOTR, movies and books, and has been their whole life lol)

That's why you only show them Bakshi LotR.

I dunno, you're the one sharing posts from the nazi child porn site

Movies that I enjoyed at 10 that were > 30 yrs old at the time: - Monty Python & The Holy Grail - Jaws - The Wizard of Oz - The Shining - Star Wars - Alien - Blade Runner - whole lot of James Bond movies - The Terminator - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Spaceballs

When I was 10, in 1970, I frequently watched movies from the 1930s and 1940s. That period included the classic Universal horrors, as well as the Laurel and Hardy talkies, plus many of the great musicals, thrillers and comedies. I still watch -- and write about -- the cinema of those decades.

Lmao, Grease was parodying a specific kind of movie, and it’s been popular for so long that the original tropes it was mocking have since been long forgotten.

Old movies were on TV a lot, and my parents liked them, so inevitably they were part of my entertainment. They sure did talk funny back then, though. Would kids today like the Marx Brothers or Francis the Talking Mule or Ma and Pa Kettle? Probably.

When I was 10 in 1977 I was staying up late on Friday and Saturday nights watching Universal Monsters, Abbott & Costello, The Marx Brothers. Great movies are always great.

hell yeah

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He's saying children wouldn't like Laurel & Hardy? I pity the fool.

immedeately i can think of like a dozen examples, not even including the one's you diddn't mention (i was born in 2002 for refrence) the brave little toaster basically any classic disney movie willy wonka The nightmare before christmas star wars goonies james bond and the list goes on for miles

What the hell is wrong with people?! History doesn’t begin and end with one’s lifespan. I was 10 and digging Buster Keaton movies

when I got into The Lord of the Rings in high school it (the books) were over 30 years old

I watched The Wizard of Oz with a ear ache and my sisters kept yelling at me to stop moaning. But I do wonder if this is something we are losing. Not me with an ear ache, but gathering as a family to watch a film. Is the fact everyone has their own devices mean we don't have family film night?

Hell, this is the silliest take if only because kids routinely watch Disney films, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ('37), Bambi ('42) and well....geez, Beauty and the Beast ('91), but maybe they don't count "cartoon movies" or something for their opinion.

My 8 year old absolutely loved Nosferatu (1922)!

This is such a dumb statement. She really thinks children won’t enjoy JURASSIC PARK because it was released in 1993? Great movies are timeless.

I showed my then 6yo son The Thin Man, and he loved it. They won't like things if they never get the chance to try them.

For me, that would be films from the 50s. Looking at a few lists, I liked, at ten-ish years old, Ulysses, Sleeping Beauty, The King and I, Ben Hur, Godzilla, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, King Solomon’s Mine, Zorro. And remember this was the era when you had to find these on VHS, for the most part

“I was an empty-headed dunce as a child (i still am) so your kids must also have no curiosity or attention span either”

I was watching Laurel and Hardy movies like everyone else in my school!

My toddler’s two favorite movies are The Muppet Movie (1979) and The Little Mermaid (1989)

we binge LOTR every year at Christmas - “kids” ar3 15, 17, 24, 26. same as you, they love so many of the classics - we also watch “Its a Wonderful Life” every year

It’s bogus.

You ever try to make a kid watch Bambi? That came out in 42, surely kids aren't interested at all

I was legit more familiar with media 30 years old than I was with my own era’s media til I was like 25.

My kids love it.

When I was 10, my favourite movie was Aristocats, which was over 30 years old at that point???

My son, at 8 years old, decided that he wanted to watch the original Godzilla movie. In black and white, with subtitles. And bless that wonderful child, his ADHD had him hyperfocusing on the movie the whole time and ENJOYING IT! The screencapped person is the wrongest person in Wrongtown.

This is a ridiculous take which I am not surprised by given thisthis person immediately assumed this person was talking about the movies! My dad used to read us the books before we could read and the first “big kid” book we got when we learned to read was the Hobbit.

There are films? When I was 7, LOTR was my favourite book, I thought taoki must have meant the book

@sistawendy.bsky.social and I started @notatelescope.bsky.social off with Duck Soup around 2005 when he was 8 or so. Good art retains value for decades.

Most disney animations I saw as a kid were likely 30 years old and I didn't care, they were amazing. A movie ages when it has too many elements of the decade, but LotR is fantasy, and that doesn't age. Go watch Dark Crystal or the Neverending Story trilogy right now.

I watched Halloween, Dirty Harry, and Slap Shot all regularly and at the same time as TMNT, The Mighty Ducks, and Batman.