December Daily: kids' movies

[resonant]

pauraque -- your favorite movies as a kid (or favorite kids' movies as an adult)

It's amazing to me how different the kidlet's relationship to movies is from mine, because I was a kid in the pre-video days when you only got to see what was in the theater and what was on "The Wonderful World of Disney."

I remember enjoying "Fantasia" a lot, and then there's a gap until "Butch Cassidy and the Sunshine Kid" and eventually "Star Wars."

Once the kidlet was movie age, of course, I did watch the same movies over and over. My very favorite was "Lilo and Stitch." I think eventually I watched the "This is my family. I found it all on my own" scene without crying, maybe. I think we watched at least one of the sequels, but it wasn't the same at all.


Comment to leave me a prompt! Steal pauraque's prompt if you want to do the meme yourself!


11 -- mific -- a winter's tale. Anything wintry, good or bad.
12 -- runpunkrun -- advice you've found useful
13 -- terminally_underwhelmed -- things that change, things that don't.
14 -- watersword -- Tell me about a memorable meal.
15 -- anitac588 -- Chris Evans.
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17 -- ride_4ever -- birthdays
18 -- muccamukk -- Dwarvish things in your everyday life. (Moved from the 17th so ride_4ever could get the birthday date.)
19 -- jesse_the_k -- advice you regret following
20 -- copracat -- memory.
21 -- rhi -- cats.
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23 -- laurenthemself -- Something spooky that's happened to you
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Comments

[via_ostiense]

That scene made me cry so much! A Lilo & Stitch rewatch this weekend sounds just the thing (especially since only my dog will be around to watch me happy-cry over Stitch's found family).

[resonant]

I was just thinking the same thing.

[lunabee34]

Oh, man. Somehow I didn't watch Lilo and Stitch when my older daughter was young. A few years ago, when the younger got told enough for movies, we watched it. I'm basically crying the whole time. I look over at Emma, and she's got tears streaming down her face, and she's all, "That could be me and Fiona!" And Fiona's all, "What's wrong with you two?" LOL Such a good movie.

[resonant]

The end credits are better than some entire movies.

[lunabee34]

Yes!

[mekare]

Totally agree on Lilo and Stitch. Also, I have very good memories of Fantasia. I rewatched that one a lot on VHS.

[resonant]

Huh. I don't think I've watched it again since it was new. I should look for it.

[pauraque]

Thanks for the answer! The generational differences in how kids consume their media were at the back of my mind when I asked the question. I grew up at the very beginning of the VHS era, when being able to watch a movie over and over was a brand new concept. But I wonder if officially-released movies were expensive, because although I occasionally got one as a Christmas present, most of the time I was watching movies that I or my mom had taped off of TV broadcasts (which means that the versions of classic movies that I remember are often edited for time and language, and include occasional snippets of 1980s Pepsi commercials).

[resonant]

I've had the taped-off-TV experience a lot, too! I can't remember whether bought videotapes were so expensive -- probably -- but another thing I remember is that it was unthinkable to be able to get a TV series. If you wanted to see Star Trek, you were going to have to have a copy somebody had taped off TV.

[pauraque]

Yes! I remember in X-Files fandom in the 90s, "reviewing canon" for a fic often meant consulting text scripts of episodes that fans had painstakingly transcribed and posted online. Sometimes there would be official releases of the "best of" a series, like two-to-four episodes on a tape, but that was it.

[resonant]

I was thinking about that, in this age of binge-watching -- how I would sometimes want to write in a fandom but not do it because I wasn't willing to go to the effort of hunting down the canon.