My personal one was the shining. I ended up watching it over 20 times before I was 12.

I’m spending a lot of time babysitting my nieces (9 & 11). I’m cis male and I would love to hear what women would answer or suggest for me to show them in a cool uncle role.

  • Lauchs@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    The Big Lebowski. I wasn’t a teenager yet, barely understood why anything was happening but damned if it wasn’t the hardest I’d seen my dad laugh.

  • Aa!@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

    Probably Monty Python’s Life of Brian

    I was one of those Holy Grail kids, I loved the movie and memorized the lines. Wanting more, I looked up other Monty Python works

    I was in 7th grade or something, raised in a very religious home. I was not expecting what Life of Brian was, and I know I wasn’t old enough to understand all of the jokes they made

    Hilarious movie

  • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    I read the Godfather when I was about 10. My shoebox diorama was the horse head on the bed. It was frowning because it didn’t like having its head cut off.

  • Plum@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    It depends on the 9 and 11 year old, but I saw Interview With The Vampire when it came out when I was 10, and I read the book at 12…

    Are the nieces interested in spooky shit, or scifi, or fantasy? That might help you refine your picks.

    • Timmy_Jizz_Tits@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      Good recc! Yeah they’re both pretty morbid. The older one is going to have a goth phase, no doubt. The younger one wants as many details as she can get on whatever true crime stories I know. Which is a lot.

      I had to hide my EMT training book from her because she was so curious about the pictures. She wants to be a cop.

      • Zahille7@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        I can’t believe I forgot about that gay goth masterpiece. They’ll love Interview With The Vampire.

        Wednesday might be a good show to watch with them, if they haven’t already seen it.

      • Plum@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        What about Leon: the Professional? I don’t know if that has been posted yet. But I saw that when I was however old you are in seventh grade. 12? 13? There’s some cop stuff for the bb cop.

        The first and second Crow movies are good for the goth one.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    Re: Shining

    Mom dropped me off at the movies to see Star wars (again). As I walk in the screen showed elevators doors open and a waterfall of blood pour out. I found an usher because I thought I was in the wrong room.

    Trailers, man.

  • bunkyprewster@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    I saw Midnight Cowboy when I was a little kid at the drive in theater with my parents. Didn’t really understand it and I was unsettling, but I lived the song and Dustin Hoffman’s “I’m walking here!”

  • Zahille7@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    Spaceballs, The Matrix trilogy (I was born in 1996), What Dreams May Come (possibly; I was too young to realize that he was dead and in the afterlife for the entire thing)

    Honestly I can’t think of any from my childhood other than those that might have been “bad” for a kid, other than shows that went right over my head like Family Guy and the like. I know I wasn’t allowed to watch South Park until I just decided to start watching it when I was around 13.

    Other movies that I really liked as a kid (other than Spaceballs cause it was kinda like Star Wars, and The Matrix) that may be kinda suggestive were Mystery Men, Galaxy Quest, and Titan A.E. They may like Lord of The Rings (Arwen and Eowyn + magic and swords) and possibly Star Wars (Padmé and Princess Leia, plus Ahsoka from Clone Wars and Hera from Rebels). Although I’m a man and had an older brother that liked a lot of this stuff, so I ended up liking a lot of it too, you may get better results from other people.