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Recommendations of good non-animated "family" films for two parents and a 3-year-old?
meh wrote:
I understand that. My point is that for SOME kids, their ability to handle the darker material, and more mature themes, gets ahead of their reading ability, so reading it TO them -- or having books on tapes -- works well for them. I understand your point. But you might want to keep in mind that the OP was writing about reading LOTR to her 8-year-old. I think 8 is on the young side for LOTR -- whether or not it's read aloud -- but folks are welcome to differ with me. beeswing |
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Recommendations of good non-animated "family" films for two parents and a 3-year-old?
"Elizabeth Gardner" wrote in message ... In article , (beeswing) wrote: H Schinske wrote: I just came back from Harry Potter, and I didn't think the dementors were *nearly* as bad as I had expected them to be. (Note: I am a certified wimp about scary movies, and found the end of the first HP pretty frightful, having totally forgotten some of the stuff from the book and therefore having some horrid surprises. I also took a long while to get used to Nazgul and orc scenes when watching the LOTR movies.) I did put my hands over my eyes a few times, but more for the werewolf. Nonterrifying dementors? How good of a movie can it be? Seriously, though, thanks. It's good to know that they aren't *too* bad. My kid is completely fearless, but I still feel a little protective (as one can probably tell from my other recent posts!). beeswing I thought it was a _great_ movie. Much more cinematic than either of the first two, and much less "let's cram in as much of the book as we can." But a lot of the horror of the dementors is interior, which is hard to convey in a movie. They did a reasonably good job, but I agree, it wasn't as scary as in the book. My biggest problem with the third movie was that while they included enough to make the movie interesting, they removed a lot of the plot development essential to understanding later books in the series. And, as a result, either the next movies are going to just have things happening for no reason, or they're going to have to backtrack and explain later. I'm rather dreading the necessary cutting in order to make Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix reasonable movies, given the length of the texts. |
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