'Shells'
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My 4-yr-old could sit through a whole movie when he was 2-and-change. But my 2-year-old can barely sit through a whole episode of Yo Gabba Gabba, so it'll be a while before we take her to the movies.
Also, David, I let this sit fallow, but in my book Watt > Hart, although I agree that Grant is some kind of ubermensch.
Also, David, I let this sit fallow, but in my book Watt > Hart, although I agree that Grant is some kind of ubermensch.
Have you heard Grant's solo stuff? I really love his song "Run, Run, Run to the Centre Pompidou."
Emmett saw a Pokemon movie when he was 2ish, and only sat through the first half hour short. A little later that year he sat through all of Toy Story 2. Matilda sat through (with some squirming and need to get up several times) Wall-E at about 26 months. And I intend to take her to Ponyo.
If you go to an early show there will be tons of kids anyway so you shouldn't worry too much about being disruptive.
Incidentally, I've seen about half of Ponyo standing around in a video store in Japantown. It's a simpler design and palette than a lot of his recent movies but the characters are very engaging.
Yo Gabba Gabba
I stayed at a friend's house on vacation and this program was on and *I* couldn't sit through an episode of YGG. It was just TOO much. If I had kids that had to see that every day, I think I'd take a hostage.
It's easily the least obnoxious of the entertainments my children like. I'll take techno & dancing and Mark Mothersbaugh teaching kids to draw and Biz Markie teaching kids to beatbox any day over the mindnumbing stupidity of Scooby Doo or the insipidity of Blue's Clues.
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Jaws
I didn't get to see Jaws until two years after it came out, and I had already read the book, so I figured I was pretty well prepared for it, but I still flinched at some of the "surprise!" moments, and for a few nights afterward shadows in my bedroom looked enough like sharks to make my pulse race.
Now I've seen Jaws so many times in passing on TV that I'm desensitized, and it only comes across as a comedy.
If you've never seen the movie, though, Robert Shaw as Quint telling the story of the Indianapolis alone is worth the price of the DVD rental.
It's easily the least obnoxious of the entertainments my children like. I'll take techno & dancing and Mark Mothersbaugh teaching kids to draw and Biz Markie teaching kids to beatbox any day over the mindnumbing stupidity of Scooby Doo or the insipidity of Blue's Clues.
Oh, TONS more obnoxious shit out there! Tiny Planets comes to mind. But that could be because it came on in the wee hours of the morning when I would be unwilliingly awake with toddlers. At the end of the show, the two aliens would be snuggled in bed and all I could think was, "you total bastards."
Robert Shaw as Quint telling the story of the Indianapolis alone is worth the price of the DVD rental.
Huh. I still haven't seen Jaws, although I did read the Reader's Digest Condensed Book version of the novel (my mom got those).
There should be a movie about the Indianapolis. Would be kind of a downer, though.
I have a great book on the Indianapolis--you can borrow it!
ugh it's just so horrible. I like my violence in the "that could never happen" vein.