"THE LIST"

There are so many great movies that I can’t wait to watch with my kids. I’ve compiled a list of my top ten. Actually I don’t think it’s just MY top ten, I think it’s THE top ten.

Rule: You are welcome to challenge anything on my list (good luck with that, my list is awesome), but don’t challenge one without a replacement.

I’m a huge horror fan but I’m not going to include any of that on my list. I don’t want my kids watching horror. I can’t enjoy a movie that results in weeks or months of, “I’m too scared to sleep,” and a refusal to go upstairs alone… even during the day.

Rule: A series of movies (like the Rocky series) Counts as 1.

There’s a great site called commonsensemedia.org. It’s one of those sites that every parent should know about. It gives you an age recommendation for any movie, book, game, CD etc… that you type in, then it defends why it gave that recommendation; language, violence, use of drugs or alchohol, hard core porn, whatever. I’ll put their age recommendation next to each awesome item on my list.

Two last rules (Dads love rules): No TV shows and No R rated movies, I know, that makes it hard. I wanted so badly to have The Edge with Anthony Hopkins and Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood, but rules are rules.

I thought about listing them in order but it was stressing me out, so here they are in random order.


1. Rocky (all of them). Rated Iffy for 10 and 11.

2. Harry Potter (all of them). After the first 2 (rated 7yrs and 8yrs) they’re all rated 12+.

3. Dead Poets Society, Rated 13+

4. Lord of the rings (all of them), Rated 12+

5. The Goonies, Rated 10+

6. Stand By Me, Rated iffy for 13 – 15 yrs. I said no horror but had to work Stephen King into the mix.

7. Willow, says it’s rated 8+ but we tried it and my daughter was scared to death of the queen. Not 8 yrs in my house.

8. October Sky, Rated 10+

9. Jurassic Park (first one), Rated 12+

10 Indiana Jones (all of them except for the newest one) Rated 11+