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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I do too.
Of course, putting an old movie on for your kids doesn't necessarily constitute 'forcing them into liking' something. It's the parents (who are we kidding - dads) who use their kids as an excuse to spend $400 a year on Star Wars lego and figurines, or dress their kids up as their favourite Marvel character for Halloween every year, who might want to take a step back. And for the record, my kids actually liked Star Wars. Zulu (1964), on the other hand...
But that's another angle to this - I loved Zulu, even though it was already 15 years old before I saw it on TV for the first time, and hardly a kid's movie. Most of the movies I watched when I was a kid were 10-25 years old, including loads of old war movies and westerns. Parental geek obsessions aside, I don't think kids today are exposed to nearly as many older movies, which seems like a needless limitation. I made a point of watching the old Alastair Sim version of a Christmas Carol with the kids this year - not because I wanted them to love something I loved, but to expose them to a style of film they won't come across if they restrict themselves to contemporary movies.
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Isn't exposing them to the classics of our youth the same thing. So Alien, Star Wars, etc. These were the westerns and war movies of our day.
I think current kids love Star Wars because it's very Disney like. Heros fighting against evil to live happily ever after.