Give me some action/adventure films to watch with the boy

[jon-nyc]

We started weekly movies at our house for the pandemic.

He’s liked:

The Matrix
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jurassic Park
Back to the Future
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

And we’ve had a couple of busts:
MP/Holy Grail
Crouching tiger hidden dragon

Thoughts?

[Horace]

Die Hard, but not the whole series
Fast & Furious, the whole series

[Aqua Letifer]

The other two Indy movies
Top Gun
Beverly Hills Cop
Willow
Point Break
The Fugitive
True Lies
Independence Day
The Fifth Element

[Loki]

Second hand lions

[Copper]

I count at least 9 sequels to the ones he has seen, for the most part they are worth watching.

Other blockbusters with plenty of sequels

Any Bond
Rocky
Rambo
Mission Impossible
Star Wars
Batman Dark Knight
Star Trek
Terminator
Ghostbusters
Clint Eastwood - westerns and Dirty Harry
And the Marvel Comics series - Iron Man, Avengers and so on
Lord of the Rings
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

I assume everyone has watched all of these

And of course the Three Stooges

[brenda]

For a funny one, Waking Ned Devine. We laughed so much with this movie.

It has some nudity, but it's just old man butts.

[brenda]

The Great Escape (1963 version)
The Third Man

[Loki]

Lord of the Rings
The latest King Kong

[Mik]

Definitely Second Hand Lions. I love that movie.

Blazing Saddles. Destroy any chance he has of succumbing to wokeness.

Avatar.

Planet of the Apes series

[Mik]

Shawshank Redemption

Carrie

It

The Stand

Romancing the Stone

Any Tom Clancy

[Mik]

@Horace said in Give me some action/adventure films to watch with the boy:

Die Hard, but not the whole series
Fast & Furious, the whole series

Under no circumstances let him watch Fast and Furious series. Or The Italian Job.

[LuFins Dad]

Sit the boy down for a MST3K marathon.

[Catseye3]

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Wired: "Watch and learn what formed Indiana Jones into the adventurous man that he is, by way of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Originally a short-lived TV series in the early 1990’s (before many of our kids were born), The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles –repackaged as The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones in 1999 – is now available for streaming via NetFlix (along with the mail service for the DVDs).

This is a great series that is generally safe viewing for younger children. It serves up an interesting back-story to some of the quirks and habits of Indiana Jones."

I loved this series. Excellent, IMO. Not sure, but I think it would be better to watch the 'old' Indy movies first, and then this.
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The Last Starfighter
U U U U U U U

Will send along others as and if I think of them.

Totally with the boy on Hidden Crouching Whatever. Wierd and boring.

[brenda]

@brenda said in Give me some action/adventure films to watch with the boy:

The Great Escape (1963 version)
The Third Man

After watching The Great Escape, the next week you should watch Chicken Run. To fully appreciate all the humor in Chicken Run, you need the background from The Great Escape.

[Loki]

@Mik said in Give me some action/adventure films to watch with the boy:

@Horace said in Give me some action/adventure films to watch with the boy:

Die Hard, but not the whole series
Fast & Furious, the whole series

Under no circumstances let him watch Fast and Furious series. Or The Italian Job.

Two great calls.

[brenda]

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Black Pearl

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in Give me some action/adventure films to watch with the boy:

Sit the boy down for a MST3K marathon.

???

[jon-nyc]

Mik, why no Fast and Furious? He loves cars in general and muscle cars in particular.

[brenda]

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

[Catseye3]

The Magnificent Seven, provisionally. The 1960 one, with Yul Brynner. Provisionally because I don't remember if there was any alarming violence. The bad guys get some in the end, I think mostly just BOOM, fall down, but I don't remember beyond that.

Maybe somebody here remembers.