This week:

DARYL
The Neverending Story
Explorers
The Gambler

Kids are 5&7. Any other recommendations?

Princess Bride
ET
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Babe (ok that's a 90's flick)
Any of the Ernest Movies (if boys, ymmv my vary with girls)

The Explorers, The Goonies, The Karate Kid

Back to the Future, Stand By Me, E.T.

Revenge of the Nerds

I should add that we've done the Princess Bride, ET and Goonies. Just not this week. My bad. But great suggestions.

I think Stand by Me and Revenge of the Nerds might be a little old for them. We'll wait on those.

Honey I shrunk the kids could be next.

They've already seen most of the 80s kids cartoons us 80s kids grew up with. My daughter straight up loves thunder cats.

I showed my kid "Blazing Saddles", she didn't think it was funny. I saw ET on the re release. Meh.

I watched "Breakfast Club" last week.

Still great!

GolemIII said:

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This week:

DARYL
The Neverending Story
Explorers
The Gambler

Kids are 5&7. Any other recommendations?

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5 &7?

Karate Kid
Big
Ghost Busters

My kids loved Willow (1988).

It's early 90's but The Sandlot.

A word of warning if your kids are that age. The PG-13 rating didn't exist until 1984, so many PG movies in that time period would be PG-13 today.

We showed E.T. to our kids when they were around that age, because we remembered it as a sweet, fun movie. We had forgotten that there is quite a bit of cussing. Same for Back to the Future. It's one of my all-time favorite movies, and I never really thought much about the cussing and sex-related scenes (like Biff and Lorraine in the car) until I was watching it with my kids. And Ghostbusters, too--lots of cussing and sexuality.

All 3 are great movies--just be careful showing them to your kids.

HenryTheOctopus said:

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A word of warning if your kids are that age. The PG-13 rating didn't exist until 1984, so many PG movies in that time period would be PG-13 today.

We showed E.T. to our kids when they were around that age, because we remembered it as a sweet, fun movie. We had forgotten that there is quite a bit of cussing. Same for Back to the Future. It's one of my all-time favorite movies, and I never really thought much about the cussing and sex-related scenes (like Biff and Lorraine in the car) until I was watching it with my kids. And Ghostbusters, too--lots of cussing and sexuality.

All 3 are great movies--just be careful showing them to your kids.

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My 7 year old just recently discovered cuss words. He loves to tell us that he read this or that one somewhere or periodically tell his 5 yr old sister that you aren't allowed to say F*** or S***....all so he can say them. It's kind of funny.

Age matters

Indiana Jones
Star Wars
ET
The Last Starfighter
Ferris Bueller - really the entire John Hughes collection
16 Candles



Older

Aliens
Rock 3 4
Rambo - First Blood
Terminator
Die Hard
Risky Business

Gremlins is greatness. My 6 year old loves it.

CNC said:

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Porkies

Its about a family of pigs....

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Actually saw that at the late (no so) great Ivy Twin

17 posts of suggestions and yet not one mention of Howard the Duck, Ishtar or Leonard Part 6.....

HenryTheOctopus said:

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A word of warning if your kids are that age. The PG-13 rating didn't exist until 1984, so many PG movies in that time period would be PG-13 today.

We showed E.T. to our kids when they were around that age, because we remembered it as a sweet, fun movie. We had forgotten that there is quite a bit of cussing. Same for Back to the Future. It's one of my all-time favorite movies, and I never really thought much about the cussing and sex-related scenes (like Biff and Lorraine in the car) until I was watching it with my kids. And Ghostbusters, too--lots of cussing and sexuality.

All 3 are great movies--just be careful showing them to your kids.

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Watched Back to the Future with our daughter when she was about 10. Was pretty appalled at the language. Decided to wait a bit on the sequels. A lot of those 80s movies are pretty heavy on the cussing. Realized the other day we'd never shown her Short Circuit. That's now in my Netflix list.

Keyser Soze said:

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Age matters

Indiana Jones
Star Wars
ET
The Last Starfighter
Ferris Bueller - really the entire John Hughes collection
16 Candles



Older

Aliens
Rock 3 4
Rambo - First Blood
Terminator
Die Hard
Risky Business

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Terminator was so good!

Kids love Pulp Fiction.

When mine was about 6, I'd say "Bear in the Big Blue House or Pulp Fiction?"

She'd say "Pulp Fiction mother****er".

tommie said:

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Kids love Pulp Fiction.

When mine was about 6, I'd say "Bear in the Big Blue House or Pulp Fiction?"

She'd say "Pulp Fiction mother****er".

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I want you to reach in that bag and grab my wallet...

I thought about posting an image but I was afraid of the potential responses.

When my college freshman son becomes frustrated dealing with his old man, he's likely to blurt out,

"English. Do you speak it." And when the old man figures out what he's talking about, it's

"Check out the big brain on Brett,"

Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

If you have a boy, it's never too young for him to learn Mike Damone's Five Point Plan ... and that, sometimes, you really must LOCK THE DOOR.

So do you teach your kid about incognito browsing or not?

GolemIII said:

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I should add that we've done the Princess Bride, ET and Goonies. Just not this week. My bad. But great suggestions.

I think Stand by Me and Revenge of the Nerds might be a little old for them. We'll wait on those.

Honey I shrunk the kids could be next.-->Showbox iTunes Notepad++

They've already seen most of the 80s kids cartoons us 80s kids grew up with. My daughter straight up loves thunder cats.

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Princess Bride
ET
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Babe (ok that's a 90's flick)
Any of the Ernest Movies (if boys, ymmv my vary with girls)

Footloose
Karate Kid
War Games

alphaneedle said:

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Footloose
Karate Kid
War Games

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War games is a solid recommendation

Teen Wolf
Harry and the Hendersons
The Pistol
Rad
Thrashin'

Homeward Bound

The Last Starfighter
Flight of the Navigator

there was only great movie of the 80's.

how great, one might inquire?

so great - that is was actually released in december 1979.

- BUmma



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/

Number 5 alive.

Neverending Story

It's funny though. I recalled Grease being about singing/dancing and cars. My wife says "that's not really child appropriate" and I say "yes it is". She was right. I was wrong.

I'm much more socially liberal than most Baylor parents I would imagine. So I think my 11 year old has seen most all of these movies.

He's going to hear poor language (and anyone who knows me knows he will hear it often) and he will eventually see/hear/know about sex...might as well be in an environment where he can ask questions rather than the back of the school bus.