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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #25 on: April 09, 2012, 01:19:07 PM »
The Dirty Dozen
Force 10 from Navarone
Attack Force Z
Zulu Dawn
Von Ryans Express (the book is pretty good, too)
Band of Brothers (miniseries)
The Big Red One
Memphis Belle
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #26 on: April 09, 2012, 01:31:56 PM »
We've seen Secondhand Lions (have the DVD) and The Princess Bride.  Those are good ones to see again at some point.

Thanks, I've added quite a few to the list.  We'll be hitting the Library on the nights we don't have Boy Scouts or Baseball.
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #27 on: April 09, 2012, 02:02:38 PM »
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #28 on: April 09, 2012, 02:07:33 PM »
Forgive me if some of these are repeats:

The Professional
The Italian Job (new one, i've never seen the old one)
Sahara
Babylon AD
Dejavu
Eragon
Mad Max movies
Reign of Fire
Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow
Speed Racer
Van Helsing
The Spirit
V for Vendetta
Steamboy
Seabiscuit
Legend of the Guardians
School Of Rock
Without A Paddle
Dodgeball
The Crow

All the Marvel movies preping for the Avengers, particularly Captain America.

Another one that may/maynot be appropriate is Detroit Rock City. Great movie, four teenagers quest to see Kiss. Does have some cussing and sex stuff, although nothing explicit.
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #29 on: April 09, 2012, 09:45:18 PM »
I thunk some more.

The Sandlot ("Yer killin' me, Smalls")
Field of Dreams ("If you build it, they will come")
The Natural

Loves me some baseball movies
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #30 on: April 09, 2012, 11:07:30 PM »
The Caine Mutiny
Mr. Roberts
Ensign Pulver
The Incredibles
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #31 on: April 09, 2012, 11:45:53 PM »
Some more

Hatari
The Great Waldo Pepper
Charlie and Chocolate Factory (original)
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #32 on: April 10, 2012, 01:50:13 AM »
Big Trouble in Little China

Rocketeer

Last of the Mohicans

Last Stand at Sabre River or any of the Tom Selleck Louis Lamour stuff

Original Planet of the Apes

Ben Hur (maybe)

The old Disney live action stuff was aimed at his age, maybe dated but good stories, not sure what's available:
Black Stallion
Old Yeller
Davy Crockett
Shaggy Dog/DA
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Swiss Family Robinson
Treasure Island
Swamp Fox series (the Patriot with less tomahawking)
Zorro series

The older swashbucklers and knight movies with Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn might work if he can handle black and white

Robin Hood
Three Musketeers
Ivanhoe
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #33 on: April 10, 2012, 07:04:25 AM »
No one has mentioned Last Tango in Paris...
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #34 on: April 10, 2012, 08:37:53 AM »
Madison

The Rookie

Invincible

Blind Side

Breaking Away
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #35 on: April 10, 2012, 09:30:50 AM »
Agree with the comment about Alien. The chest burster scene is...pretty intense. Aliens, not so much. Mentioned above, Terminator and the sequel, Das Boot, good choices. Firefly, of course. Star Trek: Wrath of Khan. Victory at Sea? I loved that series at 11 and still watch it today.

Oh, and Victory at Sea is in the public domain so you can pick up the entire series for dirt cheap.
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #36 on: April 10, 2012, 09:49:41 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 10, 2012, 07:04:25 AM
No one has mentioned Last Tango in Paris...

You must have of had a really disturbed childhood. :)

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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #37 on: April 10, 2012, 10:06:05 AM »
The Crying Game. It's a coming of age story.  >:D
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #38 on: April 10, 2012, 12:52:18 PM »
Quote from: Jamisjockey on April 10, 2012, 10:06:05 AM
The Crying Game. It's a coming of age story.  >:D
Maybe for you it was, along with Brokeback Mountain.....
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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #39 on: April 10, 2012, 01:44:39 PM »
What? No love for Robocop 1? Oh, and Predator 1 with teh Ahnold is a must if it wasn't mentioned already.

And seeing all the graphic war flicks already listed, I would be remiss to not mention Braveheart and Platoon, both excellent stories despite the violence. That last one doesn't exactly glorify war or the military as other movies do, but if you are going to show war films, you might as well give some insight into the ugly BS of it too. Maybe for sometime in the future.

Also, All quiet on the Western Front (1930) for a more subtle, less than optimistic view on warfare with a sad, poetic-like ending. The 1979 version is a bit more in-your-face I think. It seems a 2012 version will be coming out as well, but I would go with the original first.

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Re: Movies for an 11 Year Old boy
« Reply #40 on: April 11, 2012, 08:55:52 PM »
GRRRR!  Goofed and it's too late to modify.

I left out Lawrence of Arabia.  It was LOA that was released in '62, not To Kill A Mockingbird (also '62, but I did not see it 'til much later,) and soaked up so much of my disposable income, despite the suture lines from the three projector Cinerama.
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