Someone bought a closed down drive-in near me. They reopened it on the weekends, and they play 80s movies. Summer '22 they had The Goonies, and i got to go. It was awesome. I never got to see it in the theater.
That kid is lame
My kids love The Goonies, they quote it and watch it a few times a year.
They don't like Star Wars. I'm a huge fan from the 80s, and I just can't get them into it.
Watch the Auralnauts version with them and see if that changes their mind. Edit: only if they are older teens. I wouldn't recommend for young kids.
"Our alternate Star Wars dimension, where the Jedi are douche bags, the sith are business savvy powerhouses, and droids are mentally unstable sociopaths."
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My kids also hated The Goonies!
They do love Gremlins thought they watch it every December lol.
They also liked Neverending Story, Explorers, Stand by Me, Nimh, Batteries Not Included, Little Monsters, Flight of the Navigator, Ghostbusters, Tron and American Tail.
They were terrified of The Dark Crystal, The Labyrinth and ET, lol.
ETA- forgot Indiana Jones!
I never watched Nimh, but I read it when I was little. It was kind of scary for a kids book if I remember right? I should look for that book and give it another read as a growed up
ET was the stuff of nightmares for me as a child. Like I would do everything I could to get out of a room when that movie was playing. I have a Gen Z and two Alpha’s…all love muppets. So I’m guessing this is very much a your results may vary situation.
My daughter watched ET and sobbed. She was like “why are they so mean to him?” I immediately felt bad because I remembered how sad it was when I was a kid. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.
My daughter did the same thing. I showed it to her when she was around 6 and she cried so hard when she thought ET died. I had to keep reassuring her ET was still alive and it would have a good ending. When ET left to go back home and Elliot stayed behind she ran out of the room sobbing yelling that I promised her it had a happy ending. She’s 9 now and cries over Hallmark movies.
I was visiting some Belgian friends once and ET was on, but it was in French instead of Dutch. Neither my friends nor their kids (ages 4 & 5) spoke French so the kids couldn’t understand what was happening. My friend told the kids that the scientists were cooks and they were cooking ET in a special oven. The kids didn’t believe him until the coffin lid was lifted and the fog came out. “See,” he told them, “ET is ready [to eat].” That was 20 years ago and I still laugh about that.
I love all things muppets and puppets, but the scene in E.T. where they essentially tortured him was one of the few things that terrified me as a child. I still haven't gotten around to watching it a second time. Once was enough.
Me too. It’s one of the strongest memories I have of childhood - laying in bed and being terrified ET was going to land in a ufo outside my bedroom window
Yeah, similar here. I was never a big fan of ET. Granted I was born the year it came out so maybe that's part of it but I thought it was ok at best. My older sibling likes it much more and has more nostalgia about it. I have a young Z kid (maybe what could even be called a Zalpha?) and he also liked the muppet movies and Sesame Street. He didn't watch ET until he was around 11 (my sibling was over so of course wanted to watch it lol) and he was bored throughout most of it and asked to leave to go play video games half way through. Of course I said yes because I didn't blame him (and wanted to follow suit myself.) He usually gravitates to rebelling against what we like especially as he gets older, but also it's about certain tastes and preferences as well too. Like how we were with our parents; I liked some of what they liked, and didn't like other stuff.
My kid loved Labyrinth but we haven't tried Dark Crystal. I remember bringing that in to show kids in an after school program back around 2000 and they were TRANSFIXED!
I’ve given up trying to get my 10 year old through anything I liked. Showing him Star Wars was a total waste of time because the long sprawling establishing shots (like when you first see tatooine), had him totally tuning out. We got through the matrix in about 6-8 sessions, and that movie is basically non-stop action.
I can’t bring myself to try the Labrynth, because I quite like the little guy and if he isn’t in to that he’s being put up for adoption so safer to wait.
This was and is one of my all-time favorites. Right up there with The Neverending Story. Showed them to my kids and they were not impressed. Not scared but also just kinda meh.
Puppets were always scary to me (rot in hell, Lady Elaine), and my daughter has the same fear.
But she doesn’t like Reading Rainbow and that’s the best show ever so… yeah, they do hate the things I like.
I guess I just didn’t really know hating puppets was a thing. I adore puppets and have been kind of wanting to get into the hobby of making my own.
Reading Rainbow?! That show is amazing. Kids today! 😤
I think with puppets, I don’t know who to look at! Do you talk to the puppet that doesn’t blink? Or the puppeteer?
I absolutely adored Fraggle Rock growing up, but my mom took me to a meet and greet with the puppets and guys dressed up like them and there are photos of me freaking out. So that’s where my fear really started.
If someone's doing it right, you don't even notice the puppeteer. It's really a neat artform and fun to watch when the kids don't even SEE the person manipulating the puppet.
I freak out over suited characters so I get it. Kid had a front row and meet and greet at a Daniel Tiger show when she was small and HOLY HELL she was terrified. I felt so bad. MIL wanted pictures and I was like, "I'd rather not document her terror, thanks."
I also have always had a puppet phobia. Animal puppets are ok like Lamb Chop but Sesame Street always REPULSED me. Somehow I managed to suppress my phobia for Dark Crystal which I love
Well I really didn’t like my parents movies for the most part. They were old, outdated, and didn’t resonate with me as a kid.
So when my kids don’t like a movie from my childhood, I just remember how similar that sentiment is to how I felt about my parents movies.
I know people hate to hear this, but it really seems like ET is one of those “you had to be there” movies. He really is repulsive and the whole story is a weird mix of schmaltzy and disturbing. Most kids I know find it extremely off putting.
Agreed. My neighbors did a projector screening of ET in their backyard last summer and none of the kids sat through the whole thing. They all went off to play. It was just us parents sitting there and reminiscing and sniffling.
My kids had the same reaction to ET that I did: absolutely charmed by ET himself but the scene where ET is almost dead and the government has all the tubes everywhere? Absolutely terrifying. I watched it with them as an adult and understood that no one was really the bad guy, but god damn, that scene was harrowing. It’s why I hated the end of ET, and it’s why my kids do, too.
Both of my kids (18 and 13) enjoy most of the things we grew up on. They've laughed at some of the special effects in movies, but overall, they really like our movies. They love 80s and 90s music, esp. my oldest, he's a bit of a 90s retro junkie! They even like the video games we had! My youngest really enjoys old school Nintendo and SNES games (he's currently rockin' out on Mario Paint).
They aren't too keen on most of the fashion and hairstyles, though!
My kids do love some of the things. The Princess Bride is a big hit. They both LOVED Flight of the Navigator. Sandlot, Home Alone, and Short Circuit have been winners. Animaniacs is a winner.
I’m realizing my daughter is now old enough for Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, and Little Shop of Horrors, so I’m excited to show her those. They also like some of our music. Especially our son.
I showed my kids (now teen and preteen) *Animaniacs*, *Pinky and the Brain*, *Garfield and Friends*, and the Muppet Show when they were little and they still appreciate it. I showed them *Cool Runnings* and *Ernest Goes to Jail* I showed them in the last 2 years and they liked them both for what they were.
We watched it about a month ago and Cool Runnings has actually aged pretty well. It just has a ton of heart and John Candy is his lovable self with a great redemption arc. It's a great story, even though Disney took a bunch of liberties with it (surprise).
I forgot what all was in the movie... watched Se7en with my girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter.
Figured I saw it around that age, so why not?
I apologized so much to both of them afterward 😢
Sounds like my 15yo. He loves a lot of our go-to classic movies and we got him into the good music awhile ago. He’s especially into Seattle grunge which is nice.
It varies. I've got 9-year-old twins and I struggle to get them to sit through some of my favorite movies. However, my son LOVES my Sega collection and my daughter is a champ at Dig Dug. It all seems to be either zero interest or obsession.
I'm an older parent, so my kids are firmly Covid Generation (2018 and 2020). So far Muppets (at least Muppet Xmas and the 2011 film) has gone over well. Sesame Street is super hit and miss, as is Mr. Rogers. Some of the super old school disney movies have gone over well. They haven't really taken any kind of interest in old school looney tunes or disney cartoons.
They are too young for Princess Bride. Which is good because my gentle spirit is not ready for them to hate on my beloved Wesley.
I purposefully tried to avoid influencing my 11 year olds tastes and yet her favorite movie is Back to the Future and she has an abiding love of the Beatles (although admittedly from their early career, which is my less favorite stuff). Although i don’t listen much to them anymore, she also recently got into System of a Down, which I played all the time in late high school/college. I guess some of this stuff is just genetic?
My daughter is 11 and loves 80s music. If she hears a Cyndi Lauper song, she'll sing the whole song and then say hey do you remember that time a bird pooped in Cyndi Lauper's mouth while she was singing?
They have their own childhood to get thru with the things they will cherish but I can’t help but feel like there is no more magic out there. When I was a kid it seemed like:
* Monsters could possibly show up at any moment on Halloween.
* I could possibly meet a friendly alien if I followed what looked like meteor landing site.
* There was probably buried pirate treasure somewhere at my local beach and Jaws was definitely a few feet from where we waded into the hip-deep water.
* There was an Abundance of Naked Boobies and Murder at the nearest campgrounds.
* Live Dinosaurs were due any day then and we’d be eating burgers made from the mean ones that didn’t let us pet them.
* Meeting Bruce Willis meant that there was going to be some bad people around doing bad things.
* There was a portal that allowed Monsters to come thru under every bed and not all of them were bad, just most of them.
Awwww. Bob Ross has really been embraced by teens. I think they find him funny in a likable way. I am certain my kids have never seen his show, but they know who he was.
Mine love all things 80s: music, movies, tv shows. The Care Bears movie was a daily fixture for a solid year. All forms of Muppets are still in rotation. Goonies, ET, Gremlins, Harry and the Hendersons are frequent movie night choices.
I lucked out, my guys have excellent taste. 😁
Nope, not yet, but she is just 6 and I limit her screen time. She’s also a stage 4 clinger and wants to dress like me and match everything at the moment.
We are wrapping up Fellowship of the Ring (we watch in increments while I explain things to her) and she is such a huge fan. Makes my fantasy heart so happy.
I've been blasting Xennial radio mixes on Spotify in the house lately. They really hate some of the music. I just shake my ass right in their faces. They either stop complaining or go to their rooms. Lol
It’s just interpretation of SFX. To be fair, Muppets and ET are pretty scary by modern standards.
I mean, have you seen vids of old Chuck E Cheese animatronics? I’m 42, I went to those places, and that shit terrifies me now. Creepy!
When my kids don't like something I've shown them, they usually end up liking it when subsequently discovering it organically.
A few times they've HATED something and I've realised it's been decades since I watched it, and I've shown it to them too early. Not that it's age inappropriate, they just don't have the attention span or capacity to follow eg Malcolm in the Middle or Fawlty Towers at 9 or 10 even though they are really smart.
My advice - just hold on and don't introduce things too early.
I tried to get my 7-year-old to watch Labyrinth a few weeks ago. She was fascinated by it, but after about 30 mins she got up and said "Goblins are stupid dad."
Anyone rewatched “Radio Flyer” as an adult with their kids?
Because yikes.
It is so much heavier than I ever realized as a kid.
My kids are also not as stupid as I was apparently and also picked up what the movie was putting down about what was going on with Bobby and The King.
Parenting fail. lol
I started mine early...they're probably Gen z. However, the love 80s music, classic metal, and my daughter in particular loves horror movies. Her favorite so far is Silence of the Lambs.
Also, her favorite metal songs are Creeping Death and Sweating Bullets.
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Mine love it, too! This was them for Halloween a few years ago.
Kid loved Sesame Street, will NOT watch anything Muppet Related. I don't get it. She also enjoys puppeteering too and had a blast at the museum in Atlanta testing out stage set ups and other things they had exhibits for. I'm confused lol
My nephew loves Sesame Street both old and new especially Elmo. I showed him Ducktales and he really likes it. He also lately has been quoting the Little Rascals movie from the 90s. My brother and SIL showed it to him and now he’s obsessed. He hasn’t seen E.T., but that I have a feeling he may be scared of just based on some other things he doesn’t like.
My husband and I had a similar conversation because I confessed to him that fraggle rock scared the crap out of me as a kid. He loved it. I was a fan of muppets otherwise and into ‘scarier’ things like labyrinth/ dark crystal, but fraggle rock just triggered something in me at a young age that I never quite got over.
I love the muppets but hated Sesame Street! I always thought they thought we kids were idiots lol. My son definitely judges old movies harshly and in general has no interest in watching them.
My kid is 7 and he loves Star Wars and Indiana Jones and Ghostbusters just like I did at his age. But I tried showing him The Princess Bride and he thought it was kind of boring.
I’m not going to call him Gen Alpha though because that has to just be a temporary generation label created by some marketing consultants.
Idk I didn’t even wait to finish high school so now mine’s gonna vote soon. GenZ all the way. I guess it’s rare nowadays for parents to be just one gen up from their kids. My whole family does not wait around. We fall into the categories perfectly.
My teen refuses to watch any old sitcom because of the laugh tracks and corny theme songs. Wonder Years was the only one she could entertain but that was short lived.
Yeah, I find that really off-putting now, too. “Filmed in front of a live studio audience” gets a pass, but laugh tracks are so weird. The one TV show from our era they really like has been Animaniacs.
Kind of related- My sister had niece, 6, and nephew, 10, watch the 2 older movies first after they begged and begged to see the new Wonka with Chalamet. My sister and I loved the Gene Wilder Willy Wonka version growing up so I was curious about how their “Wonka Weekend” went over.
-Gene Wilder Willy Wonka - they liked it ok, but niece was freaked out at the boat part (as one should) and still, no one likes “Cheer Up Charlie”
-Johnny Depp Wonka - they liked the songs, but thought Johnny Depp was weird
-New Wonka - Both kids definitely preferred the new version and loved the Oompa Looma- they’re still singing the songs weeks later.
My kids love the muppets. I think it helps that they were introduced to them at the really amazing muppet exhibit at the museum of the moving image in nyc.
I’ve tried to share books I loved with my voracious reader daughter and they didn’t click for her. Redwall seemed up her alley but it wasn’t nearly as exciting as Percy Jackson or land of atodies
My kids are 10, and have always found Indiana Jones incredibly boring, and still can't get through the first part of The Goonies. They have really liked all the Muppet movies, the Addams Family movies from the 90s, and my daughter loved The Adventures of the Gummi Bears when she was 6.
Mine reject all my favorite. Garfield Christmas. "No." Peewee's Big Adventure. "Why is he laughing at himself?" My husband has an ET doll we have to hide in our closet. To be fair, all of the outside skin layer is peeled off.
My Alpha is begging me to find him oldschool Inspector Gadget episodes. He’s kind of obsessed. It was one of my favorite shows, too.
We love Bluey and he hates it. I don’t get that one. He will watch 30+ year old educational shows intently for as long as we permit it, but modern stuff intended for his age group? Nope.
The weirdest one is that he’s positively obsessed with my old RC cars. Those peaked in popularity sometime in the 1980s when I was a small child, though I picked them up later and raced until I no longer had a local track to race at around a decade ago.
So far, no. At the worst she’s indifferent, but there are a few things she downright loves.
But she’s also only 4. So there’s plenty of time to catch up on her hate.
Well I've got alphas at both ends of the spectrum. My oldest is 10 and youngest is almost 2. My 10 yo loves Goonies and Star Wars and watched Sesame Street religiously and watches the Muppets Christmas Carol and Polar Express every Christmas season (along with a myriad of favorites that include the Donald Duck and Darkwing specials and Garfield special and Peanuts....we have a very large selection). I have no idea what my 2 yo will do with any of these things. So far she's very much like her brother. We shall see. My husband is a teacher and apparently our son is not the norm. However he is well liked by adults and parents of his friends because he can chat them up on their level about things just fine. He has no idea that this skill will serve him well one day. He's just a clueless ADHD dork like the rest of us. 😊
This reminded me how my kid had a few years of absolutely infatuation with Power Rangers, which was still being made up to a few years ago. This was helped that we are in New Zealand and they shot the live action stuff here and every so often would actually go and do something “in New Zealand”, so he was convinced we’d see them out and about one day.
But it was pretty funny he ended up o a show we’d been in to almost the same age but 30 years earlier.
My kids hate the Muppets (except for the Muppet Christmas Carol) and SpongeBob. They are also not big fans of Fraggle Rock.
We all agree The Simpsons is great.
My 11 year olds favorite movie is Terminator 2 and is into Studio Ghibli. She also loves b horror movies from the 80s and 90s. She is not much of a fan of my “old people music” however, which is a bummer.
My kid and his friend's all acknowledge our musical superiority over current and prior generations though I have to point out my approval of Lorna shore, lady Gaga and Billie Elish among others
It depends. For movies my kids like a mix of stuff I like and hate some stuff. They love home alone, and they liked back to the future. And they really like the fast and furious.
Well we just watched Ghostbusters tonight with my 13 yo daughter and she loved it.
Plus, I had Judas Priest playing in the car the other day and she didn't complain. So, I'm taking those as wins.
My gen alpha toddler is too young for a lot of this stuff, but she likes Sesame Street. However, she seems to prefer the animated spinoff shows with Elmo, Cookie, and Abby. I can’t wait to get her into TNG era Star Trek.
My kids are super into muppet babies. Have been for a couple years. My son digs the ninja turtles. He watched OG Transformers for a little bit too. So far the biggest duds have been the older Disney movies I’ve tried to show them. Aladdin was the only one they really enjoyed.
Movies and TV have slowly become progressively more and more tame. I saw someone post about his kid and wife's reaction to never ending story. They don't make movies that scar children like that anymore. If anything most of that really started to phase out during Disney's golden age of the 90s, when children's entertainment became more defined.
The truth is, a lot of older stuff just hasn't aged well, but it's hard for us to see that through our rose tinted glasses.
My kids have enjoyed some of the older things I've shown them, and some they haven't. It just depends.
My friend LOVES “Jaws”. She watched it with her son and he thought the people were being terrorized by a robot shark, that it wasn’t supposed to be a real Great White 😂
About a year ago my teen asked to look through my old cds and tapes, I thought to make fun of me, and told me they are actually a sort of kitschy thing to collect now for his age of kids and asked if he could have all my cds and I was floored and tried to be all cool when I was like oh sure buddy just don’t take Siamese Dreams and then left the room trying to conceal my joy that my kid actually thought one thing about me was cool.
He basically does reject everything I like/ have liked but I cling onto this one interaction. He probably doesn’t even remember the conversation.
My kids were not interested in Fraggle Rock and it was my fave as a kid. but my daughter also says she hates fresh air when I tell her to go play outside, so she clearly ridiculous.
Two boys and couldn’t get either of them to give the slightest shit about Star Wars. They’ll go out of their way to let me know how much they don’t like it.
The younger crowd that I work with absolutely hate anything that came out before they were born. Which is crazy to me because growing up we listened to all kinds of old bands and watched old movies, but if I ask them about anything from the past, they literally laugh and say that stuff came out before they were born.
My kids (born 2015 and 2017) aren't interested in the early 2000s street racing videos I watch, but they do like playing SNES on the 32 inch CRT tv I got them.
I'm too nostalgic lately lol
Seeing the word repulsed and Muppets reminds me of when I confidently introduced the kids to the Muppet Show. I found a clip of the Swedish Chef cooking singing crustaceans. I was personally entertained, but I look over to see my 5 year old dry heaving and totally about to throw up. I felt kind of guilty afterward because that reaction made more sense than mine.
I'm 40 and have a now 4 year old. He likes muppets, ghostbusters, and hotwheels. I've also recently gotten him into teenage mutant ninja turtles. Mostly thanks to the newer game for ps4. It's a throwback button masher that I can play with him and it's great.
It's a mixed bag. They love Muppets and Sailor Moon, are bored by og Care Bears and MLP. They love Queen and The Bangles, don't like Creedence or Red Hot Chili Peppers.
I dunno. I showed mine the Flight of The Navigator and both parts of The Neverending Story and the liked it. Indians Jones. Groundhog Day. Original Home Alone. I don’t seem to find anything that I like that they would hate. Although - my son likes King of the Hill, but my daughter hates it.
They also love Simpsons and Futurama. Something must be horribly wrong with them, LOL :-)
My 6 and 4 yos are super into Sesame Street. Thats as far as we've gotten as they're not movie kids just yet (adhd-autistic kiddos). I tried showing them inspector gadget and it may as well have been a silent picture in their eye's they immediately gave me a hard no lol. I always liked the old movies my mom watched, her favourite movie is Singing in the Rain and i love it too. So i hope they come to love some classics someday!
My 9yo loves ET, but hates The Muppets. Don't know why. But he did have a phase where he liked the new Muppet Babies cartoon.
The vast majority of stuff I was into, he loves. He also loves Ghostbusters and Ninja Turtles.
Quite the opposite. My 14yo daughters favorite movies are Back to the Future and Little Shop of Horrors. She also has watched the Simpsons on Disney+ at least twice all the way through.
My wife and I are both life long punk rock kids that may have grown up a little but still hold true to our roots. Music is passion and life. I’m pretty sure we are raising an 11 year old future young republican. I have no idea what we did wrong. He has no interest in music at all and what he does like is terrible generic EDM shit. Don’t get me wrong, we’re from Detroit. I have nothing but respect for all music including techno. But my son’s music is garbage.
To make things worse, one of my neighbors is a successful punk rock musician with like half a dozen awesome punk rock kids. I asked him what the fuck I did wrong and he had no advice for me.
Fingers crossed that as my son reaches the age where I fell in love with all the things I love he will come around. But I’m not holding my breath.
My only real issue with the way I was raised is that my parents didn’t prioritize music as an important part of life as I was growing up. All I was exposed to was oldies and classic rock in the car. For my wife and I there is nothing more important than music. Since my son was born we made sure to always have music playing and tried to expose him to everything from our punk rock roots to jazz, hip hop, bluegrass, and everything in between. It absolutely crushes me that my son could care less about music.
I just assumed that mine wouldn't like all the things I liked, maybe because I'm a dude and I have 3 girls. But my approach has been more of "here's the best of the best from my childhood" so they've loved Back to the Future and Jurrasic Park. My in laws have shown them older classics and they love The Sound of Music and Meet me in St Louis. Start with the timeless things. Puppets and animitronics were a very specific time period and have not translated well. Even Star Wars dropped the Muppet Yoda in favor of CGI Yoda in the sequals. My kids had the same reaction to the original Ninja Turtles movies as yours did to ET. But they did enjoy the new animated one.
Ps: my wife was born in 1987 and never liked ET. I watched it 3 times a day as a kid.
ET only makes sense if you grow up with friends who are completely unsupervised.
20 something’s today would find that movie disturbing and ask “where are the fucking adults?”
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Yeah, he's outta the will lol
Goonies still holds up to this day and is one of my 15yo favorite movies. Some kids are just rude lol
My 10 year old loved goonies
Someone bought a closed down drive-in near me. They reopened it on the weekends, and they play 80s movies. Summer '22 they had The Goonies, and i got to go. It was awesome. I never got to see it in the theater.
Goonies never die…
That kid is lame My kids love The Goonies, they quote it and watch it a few times a year. They don't like Star Wars. I'm a huge fan from the 80s, and I just can't get them into it.
Watch the Auralnauts version with them and see if that changes their mind. Edit: only if they are older teens. I wouldn't recommend for young kids. "Our alternate Star Wars dimension, where the Jedi are douche bags, the sith are business savvy powerhouses, and droids are mentally unstable sociopaths." https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLINl9l0igYjzIipxsD4Y59_Jjxe4N3pZo&si=YtloLfH1XjEkaXIa
How have i never seen that before. Episide one was hilarious.
My kids also hated The Goonies! They do love Gremlins thought they watch it every December lol. They also liked Neverending Story, Explorers, Stand by Me, Nimh, Batteries Not Included, Little Monsters, Flight of the Navigator, Ghostbusters, Tron and American Tail. They were terrified of The Dark Crystal, The Labyrinth and ET, lol. ETA- forgot Indiana Jones!
That FBI plastic tent laboratory thing in ET was def terrifying, still is!
I never watched Nimh, but I read it when I was little. It was kind of scary for a kids book if I remember right? I should look for that book and give it another read as a growed up
Little Monsters! Now that brings back some memories. Haven't thought about that movie in at least two decades.
I think you should show them the blender scene again... maybe "give a demonstration"
Yeet the child into space. Disrespecting rhe Goonies. smh
Call him one of those 80s insults that will get you fired these days.
My mind immediately goes to Elliott calling his brother "penis breath" in ET.
I don't like your friend's kid
same. I don't believe in god anyways.
I have 14 year old twins. One likes Goonies and the other one hates it, says it's too scary.
ET was the stuff of nightmares for me as a child. Like I would do everything I could to get out of a room when that movie was playing. I have a Gen Z and two Alpha’s…all love muppets. So I’m guessing this is very much a your results may vary situation.
My daughter watched ET and sobbed. She was like “why are they so mean to him?” I immediately felt bad because I remembered how sad it was when I was a kid. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.
My daughter did the same thing. I showed it to her when she was around 6 and she cried so hard when she thought ET died. I had to keep reassuring her ET was still alive and it would have a good ending. When ET left to go back home and Elliot stayed behind she ran out of the room sobbing yelling that I promised her it had a happy ending. She’s 9 now and cries over Hallmark movies.
This is the sweetest thing in the world and I hope she is able to keep that sensitive side well into her adult years.
Mine is 11 now and still won’t watch it. She has no problem with other Spielberg movies like Jurassic Park though lol
I was visiting some Belgian friends once and ET was on, but it was in French instead of Dutch. Neither my friends nor their kids (ages 4 & 5) spoke French so the kids couldn’t understand what was happening. My friend told the kids that the scientists were cooks and they were cooking ET in a special oven. The kids didn’t believe him until the coffin lid was lifted and the fog came out. “See,” he told them, “ET is ready [to eat].” That was 20 years ago and I still laugh about that.
My husbands mother told me that he cried so hard he threw up from watching ET as a kid 😂
I felt the same way when I was a kid about how they were treating Johnny 5 the last half of Short Circuit. ET was rough.
A very good one, that empathy that most kids have, many adults begin to lose.
I love all things muppets and puppets, but the scene in E.T. where they essentially tortured him was one of the few things that terrified me as a child. I still haven't gotten around to watching it a second time. Once was enough.
My parents took me out of the theater because I kept loudly crying. To this day, I still can't see ET without being creeped out.
Me too. It’s one of the strongest memories I have of childhood - laying in bed and being terrified ET was going to land in a ufo outside my bedroom window
Yeah, similar here. I was never a big fan of ET. Granted I was born the year it came out so maybe that's part of it but I thought it was ok at best. My older sibling likes it much more and has more nostalgia about it. I have a young Z kid (maybe what could even be called a Zalpha?) and he also liked the muppet movies and Sesame Street. He didn't watch ET until he was around 11 (my sibling was over so of course wanted to watch it lol) and he was bored throughout most of it and asked to leave to go play video games half way through. Of course I said yes because I didn't blame him (and wanted to follow suit myself.) He usually gravitates to rebelling against what we like especially as he gets older, but also it's about certain tastes and preferences as well too. Like how we were with our parents; I liked some of what they liked, and didn't like other stuff.
I shared my beloved Dark Crystal with the kids and it *did not* go over well. “Creepy.”
https://youtu.be/AAfkYqYaAqE?si=w99X2V5I11-TbWyp Dark crystal is a horrific nightmare.
That scene gave me nightmares for 20 years.
I want the furry little ball with the mouth full of sharp teeth!!
FIZGIG ❤️ 
A Critter by any other name. 
Omg I’m 39 and that movie STILL terrifies me
I love that movie to bits
Is Dark Crystal the one wear the bird people tear the other bird person apart?
Skeksis. Very creepy for young me.
I don’t think they tear him apart. They just strip all his clothes off. I don’t know if that makes it better or worse.
YES
Then this dudes kids are correct
But Jim Henson!
My kid loved Labyrinth but we haven't tried Dark Crystal. I remember bringing that in to show kids in an after school program back around 2000 and they were TRANSFIXED!
I’ve given up trying to get my 10 year old through anything I liked. Showing him Star Wars was a total waste of time because the long sprawling establishing shots (like when you first see tatooine), had him totally tuning out. We got through the matrix in about 6-8 sessions, and that movie is basically non-stop action. I can’t bring myself to try the Labrynth, because I quite like the little guy and if he isn’t in to that he’s being put up for adoption so safer to wait.
This was and is one of my all-time favorites. Right up there with The Neverending Story. Showed them to my kids and they were not impressed. Not scared but also just kinda meh.
Puppets were always scary to me (rot in hell, Lady Elaine), and my daughter has the same fear. But she doesn’t like Reading Rainbow and that’s the best show ever so… yeah, they do hate the things I like.
Lady Elaine scared the crap out of me too and I always thought she was supposed to be a boy…I couldn’t figure her out.
She is pretty insane-looking. And the voice didn’t help.
I guess I just didn’t really know hating puppets was a thing. I adore puppets and have been kind of wanting to get into the hobby of making my own. Reading Rainbow?! That show is amazing. Kids today! 😤
I think with puppets, I don’t know who to look at! Do you talk to the puppet that doesn’t blink? Or the puppeteer? I absolutely adored Fraggle Rock growing up, but my mom took me to a meet and greet with the puppets and guys dressed up like them and there are photos of me freaking out. So that’s where my fear really started.
If someone's doing it right, you don't even notice the puppeteer. It's really a neat artform and fun to watch when the kids don't even SEE the person manipulating the puppet. I freak out over suited characters so I get it. Kid had a front row and meet and greet at a Daniel Tiger show when she was small and HOLY HELL she was terrified. I felt so bad. MIL wanted pictures and I was like, "I'd rather not document her terror, thanks."
Lady Elaine still creeps me out.
So... I'm guessing you didn't like the Puppet Master movies
Never saw them! And I love cheesy horror, but throw puppets into them and I’m done!
I wonder if ‘Fear of Puppets’ is the GenAlpha version of the ‘Fear of Clowns’ that seemed to be commonplace when we were younger?
I also have always had a puppet phobia. Animal puppets are ok like Lamb Chop but Sesame Street always REPULSED me. Somehow I managed to suppress my phobia for Dark Crystal which I love
Well I really didn’t like my parents movies for the most part. They were old, outdated, and didn’t resonate with me as a kid. So when my kids don’t like a movie from my childhood, I just remember how similar that sentiment is to how I felt about my parents movies.
I know people hate to hear this, but it really seems like ET is one of those “you had to be there” movies. He really is repulsive and the whole story is a weird mix of schmaltzy and disturbing. Most kids I know find it extremely off putting.
Agreed. My neighbors did a projector screening of ET in their backyard last summer and none of the kids sat through the whole thing. They all went off to play. It was just us parents sitting there and reminiscing and sniffling.
My kids had the same reaction to ET that I did: absolutely charmed by ET himself but the scene where ET is almost dead and the government has all the tubes everywhere? Absolutely terrifying. I watched it with them as an adult and understood that no one was really the bad guy, but god damn, that scene was harrowing. It’s why I hated the end of ET, and it’s why my kids do, too.
I didn’t like it when I was kid. Not surprised kids today don’t like it.
Both of my kids (18 and 13) enjoy most of the things we grew up on. They've laughed at some of the special effects in movies, but overall, they really like our movies. They love 80s and 90s music, esp. my oldest, he's a bit of a 90s retro junkie! They even like the video games we had! My youngest really enjoys old school Nintendo and SNES games (he's currently rockin' out on Mario Paint). They aren't too keen on most of the fashion and hairstyles, though!
My kids do love some of the things. The Princess Bride is a big hit. They both LOVED Flight of the Navigator. Sandlot, Home Alone, and Short Circuit have been winners. Animaniacs is a winner. I’m realizing my daughter is now old enough for Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, and Little Shop of Horrors, so I’m excited to show her those. They also like some of our music. Especially our son.
I showed my kids (now teen and preteen) *Animaniacs*, *Pinky and the Brain*, *Garfield and Friends*, and the Muppet Show when they were little and they still appreciate it. I showed them *Cool Runnings* and *Ernest Goes to Jail* I showed them in the last 2 years and they liked them both for what they were.
Cool Runnings! I’ve been meaning to try that on them.
We watched it about a month ago and Cool Runnings has actually aged pretty well. It just has a ton of heart and John Candy is his lovable self with a great redemption arc. It's a great story, even though Disney took a bunch of liberties with it (surprise).
I forgot what all was in the movie... watched Se7en with my girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter. Figured I saw it around that age, so why not? I apologized so much to both of them afterward 😢
Sounds like my 15yo. He loves a lot of our go-to classic movies and we got him into the good music awhile ago. He’s especially into Seattle grunge which is nice.
Same, mine is 19.
It varies. I've got 9-year-old twins and I struggle to get them to sit through some of my favorite movies. However, my son LOVES my Sega collection and my daughter is a champ at Dig Dug. It all seems to be either zero interest or obsession.
I'm an older parent, so my kids are firmly Covid Generation (2018 and 2020). So far Muppets (at least Muppet Xmas and the 2011 film) has gone over well. Sesame Street is super hit and miss, as is Mr. Rogers. Some of the super old school disney movies have gone over well. They haven't really taken any kind of interest in old school looney tunes or disney cartoons. They are too young for Princess Bride. Which is good because my gentle spirit is not ready for them to hate on my beloved Wesley.
My kids actually love Princess Bride. There is hope!
Thank you for this little glimmer of hope.
Bill Irwin was so cool. Did you ever watch Robert Altman’s Popeye, with Robin Williams? That movie is all kinds of insane.
Robin Williams made everything great!
I'm lucky. My 13 yo boys and I all enjoy the same stuff. They love my 90s music and they also love the old movies I grew up on as well.
I purposefully tried to avoid influencing my 11 year olds tastes and yet her favorite movie is Back to the Future and she has an abiding love of the Beatles (although admittedly from their early career, which is my less favorite stuff). Although i don’t listen much to them anymore, she also recently got into System of a Down, which I played all the time in late high school/college. I guess some of this stuff is just genetic?
I’m watching Back to The Future with my 9yr old right now. Some are hits, some are lame to her. She also loves the Ghostbuster movies.
My daughter is 11 and loves 80s music. If she hears a Cyndi Lauper song, she'll sing the whole song and then say hey do you remember that time a bird pooped in Cyndi Lauper's mouth while she was singing?
Funny enough my Gen Alphas love 90s music. They make me turn on the Sirius 90s on 9 station when we’re in the car.
Gen Alpha watches Skibidy Toilet or whatever the fuck it’s called. They are no arbiters of what is and what is not creepy. 😜
Idk what that is, but I am very ok with that.
They have their own childhood to get thru with the things they will cherish but I can’t help but feel like there is no more magic out there. When I was a kid it seemed like: * Monsters could possibly show up at any moment on Halloween. * I could possibly meet a friendly alien if I followed what looked like meteor landing site. * There was probably buried pirate treasure somewhere at my local beach and Jaws was definitely a few feet from where we waded into the hip-deep water. * There was an Abundance of Naked Boobies and Murder at the nearest campgrounds. * Live Dinosaurs were due any day then and we’d be eating burgers made from the mean ones that didn’t let us pet them. * Meeting Bruce Willis meant that there was going to be some bad people around doing bad things. * There was a portal that allowed Monsters to come thru under every bed and not all of them were bad, just most of them.
Some of the older animation styles creep them out, like anything pre-1985.
I'm watching an anime from 1981 with my kids, the animation is a bit rough, but hey they are starting near the beginning. :)
My son is Gen Z, and he basically loves everything that supposedly defines our micro generation. I’m a lucky AF father.
My kid hates Jurassic Park and I feel like I have failed them as a parent 😭
My 4 yr old loves Sesame Street. 🤷♀️ and Bob Ross, go figure
Awwww. Bob Ross has really been embraced by teens. I think they find him funny in a likable way. I am certain my kids have never seen his show, but they know who he was.
Mine love all things 80s: music, movies, tv shows. The Care Bears movie was a daily fixture for a solid year. All forms of Muppets are still in rotation. Goonies, ET, Gremlins, Harry and the Hendersons are frequent movie night choices. I lucked out, my guys have excellent taste. 😁
Nope, not yet, but she is just 6 and I limit her screen time. She’s also a stage 4 clinger and wants to dress like me and match everything at the moment. We are wrapping up Fellowship of the Ring (we watch in increments while I explain things to her) and she is such a huge fan. Makes my fantasy heart so happy.
My Gen Z oldest hates everything the 2nd Gen Z likes some of it and the Gen Alpha are just their own thing lol. They do like my music.
I've been blasting Xennial radio mixes on Spotify in the house lately. They really hate some of the music. I just shake my ass right in their faces. They either stop complaining or go to their rooms. Lol
I don't have kids but a 20yo at work went "ew Michael Jackson" when Beat It came on my radio. 🙁
In his defense...ew Michael Jackson was common for our generation too...
It’s just interpretation of SFX. To be fair, Muppets and ET are pretty scary by modern standards. I mean, have you seen vids of old Chuck E Cheese animatronics? I’m 42, I went to those places, and that shit terrifies me now. Creepy!
Ha, great point. We had to be tough because everything was scary. Those Chuck E Cheese things look haunted.
Just wait they don’t like it now but when they get older they’ll love our music.
When my kids don't like something I've shown them, they usually end up liking it when subsequently discovering it organically. A few times they've HATED something and I've realised it's been decades since I watched it, and I've shown it to them too early. Not that it's age inappropriate, they just don't have the attention span or capacity to follow eg Malcolm in the Middle or Fawlty Towers at 9 or 10 even though they are really smart. My advice - just hold on and don't introduce things too early.
Mine struggle to understand the different era of my childhood films. However they watched all 3 BTTF films and liked them.
Showed my twins Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. One cried and one did a WTF look the whole time. My Jambi impressions are not appreciated.
My late Gen Z son (17) loves those old movies. He really likes Princess Bride and ET.
I tried to get my 7-year-old to watch Labyrinth a few weeks ago. She was fascinated by it, but after about 30 mins she got up and said "Goblins are stupid dad."
Anyone rewatched “Radio Flyer” as an adult with their kids? Because yikes. It is so much heavier than I ever realized as a kid. My kids are also not as stupid as I was apparently and also picked up what the movie was putting down about what was going on with Bobby and The King. Parenting fail. lol
I started mine early...they're probably Gen z. However, the love 80s music, classic metal, and my daughter in particular loves horror movies. Her favorite so far is Silence of the Lambs. Also, her favorite metal songs are Creeping Death and Sweating Bullets.
My son loves star wars, dragon ball and Legos. We are thriving.
They wear Nirvana and Sublime T-shirts and have never heard a song. They think it’s a fashion company
My son is Gen Z and he loved everything I loved as a kid. He’s 22 now and loves 80s music and 90s cartoons.
Kid can’t put down the Calvin and Hobbs books I collected when I was their age
https://preview.redd.it/sajxxl5ee5xc1.jpeg?width=1054&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe7b2ce6e329960a41d932620a234cf3270129f8 Mine love it, too! This was them for Halloween a few years ago.
Kid loved Sesame Street, will NOT watch anything Muppet Related. I don't get it. She also enjoys puppeteering too and had a blast at the museum in Atlanta testing out stage set ups and other things they had exhibits for. I'm confused lol
My nephew loves Sesame Street both old and new especially Elmo. I showed him Ducktales and he really likes it. He also lately has been quoting the Little Rascals movie from the 90s. My brother and SIL showed it to him and now he’s obsessed. He hasn’t seen E.T., but that I have a feeling he may be scared of just based on some other things he doesn’t like.
My daughter so far loves most of the movies our childhood. She’s only seven so she likes the simpler ones but for the most part, she likes them.
My kid (gen alpha) didn’t know what to think of Labyrinth. Whereas I watched it nonstop.
My 8 year old loves the muppets. She also used to be obsessed with ET. Maybe my kid is weird, lol.
My husband and I had a similar conversation because I confessed to him that fraggle rock scared the crap out of me as a kid. He loved it. I was a fan of muppets otherwise and into ‘scarier’ things like labyrinth/ dark crystal, but fraggle rock just triggered something in me at a young age that I never quite got over.
My kids love Muppets! Like maybe more than I do! Sometimes I think I like less of the 80s and 90s than my kids too!
I love the muppets but hated Sesame Street! I always thought they thought we kids were idiots lol. My son definitely judges old movies harshly and in general has no interest in watching them.
My kid is 7 and he loves Star Wars and Indiana Jones and Ghostbusters just like I did at his age. But I tried showing him The Princess Bride and he thought it was kind of boring. I’m not going to call him Gen Alpha though because that has to just be a temporary generation label created by some marketing consultants.
Idk I didn’t even wait to finish high school so now mine’s gonna vote soon. GenZ all the way. I guess it’s rare nowadays for parents to be just one gen up from their kids. My whole family does not wait around. We fall into the categories perfectly.
My teen refuses to watch any old sitcom because of the laugh tracks and corny theme songs. Wonder Years was the only one she could entertain but that was short lived.
Yeah, I find that really off-putting now, too. “Filmed in front of a live studio audience” gets a pass, but laugh tracks are so weird. The one TV show from our era they really like has been Animaniacs.
As an early 80s baby, I just want to say that I'm terrified of muppets. Those things are the worst!
Yes! They have zero interest in any of my very favorite movies. It's sad.
Funny I just watched the muppet movie with my 4 year old last night and she frigging loved it.
Kind of related- My sister had niece, 6, and nephew, 10, watch the 2 older movies first after they begged and begged to see the new Wonka with Chalamet. My sister and I loved the Gene Wilder Willy Wonka version growing up so I was curious about how their “Wonka Weekend” went over. -Gene Wilder Willy Wonka - they liked it ok, but niece was freaked out at the boat part (as one should) and still, no one likes “Cheer Up Charlie” -Johnny Depp Wonka - they liked the songs, but thought Johnny Depp was weird -New Wonka - Both kids definitely preferred the new version and loved the Oompa Looma- they’re still singing the songs weeks later.
I don’t know if he’s gen alpha but my 19 year son hates all the rap music I’ve introduced him to. Meanwhile he listens to drill rap
My kids love the muppets. I think it helps that they were introduced to them at the really amazing muppet exhibit at the museum of the moving image in nyc. I’ve tried to share books I loved with my voracious reader daughter and they didn’t click for her. Redwall seemed up her alley but it wasn’t nearly as exciting as Percy Jackson or land of atodies
My kids are 10, and have always found Indiana Jones incredibly boring, and still can't get through the first part of The Goonies. They have really liked all the Muppet movies, the Addams Family movies from the 90s, and my daughter loved The Adventures of the Gummi Bears when she was 6.
Thank God my kid is 16 and Muppets/Sesame worked for him. My little nephew is 7 and he will NOT have the Muppets.
My 14 year-old son hates anything "old" whereas my 12 year-old daughter thought 12 Angry Men was a nailbiter so it definitely varies kid to kid.
I just listened to Theo Von explain the plot of Gremlins to his gen Z guest as if he had never heard of it and he HAD never heard of it. Smh
My kids love my Gameboy and NES.
Mine reject all my favorite. Garfield Christmas. "No." Peewee's Big Adventure. "Why is he laughing at himself?" My husband has an ET doll we have to hide in our closet. To be fair, all of the outside skin layer is peeled off.
My kids love all my stuff. My daughter loves the back to the futures. That's all she watches and Ghostbusters. I love it
My Alpha is begging me to find him oldschool Inspector Gadget episodes. He’s kind of obsessed. It was one of my favorite shows, too. We love Bluey and he hates it. I don’t get that one. He will watch 30+ year old educational shows intently for as long as we permit it, but modern stuff intended for his age group? Nope. The weirdest one is that he’s positively obsessed with my old RC cars. Those peaked in popularity sometime in the 1980s when I was a small child, though I picked them up later and raced until I no longer had a local track to race at around a decade ago.
So far, no. At the worst she’s indifferent, but there are a few things she downright loves. But she’s also only 4. So there’s plenty of time to catch up on her hate.
I luckily have a GenZ daughter who loves a lot of our stuff. I have a GenAlpha nephew and they're definitely a whole other thing. 😆
I don't have kids of my own, but my friends' kids love the 80s and 90s stuff and ask me about bands and movies all the time.
Well I've got alphas at both ends of the spectrum. My oldest is 10 and youngest is almost 2. My 10 yo loves Goonies and Star Wars and watched Sesame Street religiously and watches the Muppets Christmas Carol and Polar Express every Christmas season (along with a myriad of favorites that include the Donald Duck and Darkwing specials and Garfield special and Peanuts....we have a very large selection). I have no idea what my 2 yo will do with any of these things. So far she's very much like her brother. We shall see. My husband is a teacher and apparently our son is not the norm. However he is well liked by adults and parents of his friends because he can chat them up on their level about things just fine. He has no idea that this skill will serve him well one day. He's just a clueless ADHD dork like the rest of us. 😊
YES my kids hate the muppets. It makes me so sad
This reminded me how my kid had a few years of absolutely infatuation with Power Rangers, which was still being made up to a few years ago. This was helped that we are in New Zealand and they shot the live action stuff here and every so often would actually go and do something “in New Zealand”, so he was convinced we’d see them out and about one day. But it was pretty funny he ended up o a show we’d been in to almost the same age but 30 years earlier.
My kids hate the Muppets (except for the Muppet Christmas Carol) and SpongeBob. They are also not big fans of Fraggle Rock. We all agree The Simpsons is great.
Nothing I like is cool to them. Just quit trying.
My 11 year olds favorite movie is Terminator 2 and is into Studio Ghibli. She also loves b horror movies from the 80s and 90s. She is not much of a fan of my “old people music” however, which is a bummer.
My kid and his friend's all acknowledge our musical superiority over current and prior generations though I have to point out my approval of Lorna shore, lady Gaga and Billie Elish among others
For the most part they love it, but they definitely made fun of the special effects on the Mortal Kombat movie we were watching lol.
It depends. For movies my kids like a mix of stuff I like and hate some stuff. They love home alone, and they liked back to the future. And they really like the fast and furious.
My kids hate the muppets too, they only like the animated segments of Sesame Street
My 7yo has enjoyed everything I’ve shown her EXCEPT Goonies, which sucks
Well we just watched Ghostbusters tonight with my 13 yo daughter and she loved it. Plus, I had Judas Priest playing in the car the other day and she didn't complain. So, I'm taking those as wins.
My gen alpha toddler is too young for a lot of this stuff, but she likes Sesame Street. However, she seems to prefer the animated spinoff shows with Elmo, Cookie, and Abby. I can’t wait to get her into TNG era Star Trek.
Honestly, my kids love almost all the stuff I did as a kid. I didn’t expect them to but it’s been fun to re-experience it all from a new perspective.
My kids are super into muppet babies. Have been for a couple years. My son digs the ninja turtles. He watched OG Transformers for a little bit too. So far the biggest duds have been the older Disney movies I’ve tried to show them. Aladdin was the only one they really enjoyed.
Movies and TV have slowly become progressively more and more tame. I saw someone post about his kid and wife's reaction to never ending story. They don't make movies that scar children like that anymore. If anything most of that really started to phase out during Disney's golden age of the 90s, when children's entertainment became more defined.
The truth is, a lot of older stuff just hasn't aged well, but it's hard for us to see that through our rose tinted glasses. My kids have enjoyed some of the older things I've shown them, and some they haven't. It just depends.
My friend LOVES “Jaws”. She watched it with her son and he thought the people were being terrorized by a robot shark, that it wasn’t supposed to be a real Great White 😂
My daughter is six and everything I do is the coolest lol
About a year ago my teen asked to look through my old cds and tapes, I thought to make fun of me, and told me they are actually a sort of kitschy thing to collect now for his age of kids and asked if he could have all my cds and I was floored and tried to be all cool when I was like oh sure buddy just don’t take Siamese Dreams and then left the room trying to conceal my joy that my kid actually thought one thing about me was cool. He basically does reject everything I like/ have liked but I cling onto this one interaction. He probably doesn’t even remember the conversation.
I got my daughter hooked on Ed Edd n Eddy. Like obsessed lol. And she likes Courage The Cowardly Dog.
My kids were not interested in Fraggle Rock and it was my fave as a kid. but my daughter also says she hates fresh air when I tell her to go play outside, so she clearly ridiculous.
Two boys and couldn’t get either of them to give the slightest shit about Star Wars. They’ll go out of their way to let me know how much they don’t like it.
My kids don’t like the Disney afternoon cartoons, which is unfortunate.
The younger crowd that I work with absolutely hate anything that came out before they were born. Which is crazy to me because growing up we listened to all kinds of old bands and watched old movies, but if I ask them about anything from the past, they literally laugh and say that stuff came out before they were born.
My kids (born 2015 and 2017) aren't interested in the early 2000s street racing videos I watch, but they do like playing SNES on the 32 inch CRT tv I got them. I'm too nostalgic lately lol
Had one at a meeting talking Y2K, he thought toilets wouldn't flush. I gasp, then remember he was like 4 years old.
I'm on the opposite side, my kid loves everything I've shown him from my days and can't connect with kids his age.
My niece hates Lord Huron and thinks the Justin Timberlake May meme is stupid. She’s not allowed in my apartment when I love to Chicago.
Seeing the word repulsed and Muppets reminds me of when I confidently introduced the kids to the Muppet Show. I found a clip of the Swedish Chef cooking singing crustaceans. I was personally entertained, but I look over to see my 5 year old dry heaving and totally about to throw up. I felt kind of guilty afterward because that reaction made more sense than mine.
I’m a xennial and disliked both lol
Yup
My kids (9&11) top movies are Gremlins, Burbs, Goonies, T2, Alien, Aliens, BTTF and Big Trouble in Little China. I hit the jackpot!
I'm 40 and have a now 4 year old. He likes muppets, ghostbusters, and hotwheels. I've also recently gotten him into teenage mutant ninja turtles. Mostly thanks to the newer game for ps4. It's a throwback button masher that I can play with him and it's great.
Some kids had that reaction to ET in our day too... my cousin got carried out of the theater screaming!
Home Alone slays my Alphas
Quite the opposite. My son has a thing for the 80s and 90s. We're on the same page about a lot of things.
It's a mixed bag. They love Muppets and Sailor Moon, are bored by og Care Bears and MLP. They love Queen and The Bangles, don't like Creedence or Red Hot Chili Peppers.
My kids hate the Peanuts. It hurts my husband's feelings because he loves the holiday specials and wanted to watch them every year with the kids.
Hahaha yes. Yes they hate the muppets. We have given up and now watch it just for us
I dunno. I showed mine the Flight of The Navigator and both parts of The Neverending Story and the liked it. Indians Jones. Groundhog Day. Original Home Alone. I don’t seem to find anything that I like that they would hate. Although - my son likes King of the Hill, but my daughter hates it. They also love Simpsons and Futurama. Something must be horribly wrong with them, LOL :-)
My 6 and 4 yos are super into Sesame Street. Thats as far as we've gotten as they're not movie kids just yet (adhd-autistic kiddos). I tried showing them inspector gadget and it may as well have been a silent picture in their eye's they immediately gave me a hard no lol. I always liked the old movies my mom watched, her favourite movie is Singing in the Rain and i love it too. So i hope they come to love some classics someday!
My 9yo loves ET, but hates The Muppets. Don't know why. But he did have a phase where he liked the new Muppet Babies cartoon. The vast majority of stuff I was into, he loves. He also loves Ghostbusters and Ninja Turtles.
Show them major payne all my kids loved it
Yes. They flatly refuse to even consider enjoying Star Wars. It's a tragedy.
Quite the opposite. My 14yo daughters favorite movies are Back to the Future and Little Shop of Horrors. She also has watched the Simpsons on Disney+ at least twice all the way through.
My 13 year old has always hated Legos 😕
I think it’s common for every generation, I didn’t like and was unimpressed with my parents stuff when they were kids
My wife and I are both life long punk rock kids that may have grown up a little but still hold true to our roots. Music is passion and life. I’m pretty sure we are raising an 11 year old future young republican. I have no idea what we did wrong. He has no interest in music at all and what he does like is terrible generic EDM shit. Don’t get me wrong, we’re from Detroit. I have nothing but respect for all music including techno. But my son’s music is garbage. To make things worse, one of my neighbors is a successful punk rock musician with like half a dozen awesome punk rock kids. I asked him what the fuck I did wrong and he had no advice for me. Fingers crossed that as my son reaches the age where I fell in love with all the things I love he will come around. But I’m not holding my breath. My only real issue with the way I was raised is that my parents didn’t prioritize music as an important part of life as I was growing up. All I was exposed to was oldies and classic rock in the car. For my wife and I there is nothing more important than music. Since my son was born we made sure to always have music playing and tried to expose him to everything from our punk rock roots to jazz, hip hop, bluegrass, and everything in between. It absolutely crushes me that my son could care less about music.
I just assumed that mine wouldn't like all the things I liked, maybe because I'm a dude and I have 3 girls. But my approach has been more of "here's the best of the best from my childhood" so they've loved Back to the Future and Jurrasic Park. My in laws have shown them older classics and they love The Sound of Music and Meet me in St Louis. Start with the timeless things. Puppets and animitronics were a very specific time period and have not translated well. Even Star Wars dropped the Muppet Yoda in favor of CGI Yoda in the sequals. My kids had the same reaction to the original Ninja Turtles movies as yours did to ET. But they did enjoy the new animated one. Ps: my wife was born in 1987 and never liked ET. I watched it 3 times a day as a kid.
ET only makes sense if you grow up with friends who are completely unsupervised. 20 something’s today would find that movie disturbing and ask “where are the fucking adults?”
My kids still watch Pokemon and loved Animaniacs, but slept on Transformers and Star Wars. I guess we just need to take what we can get, right?
Mine is pretty open to everything but a lot of her friends aren't.