I think kids are also open to more things than we think they are. As much as my kids insist on repeat viewings of Frozen, Cars, and whatever, we've also now watched Marcel the Shell four times. Unknown depths!
I think kids are also open to more things than we think they are. As much as my kids insist on repeat viewings of Frozen, Cars, and whatever, we've also now watched Marcel the Shell four times. Unknown depths!
I was able to thrill to Willis O'Brien's Kong, rabbit fur rippling with fingerprints, even as fellow filmgoers cackled. But will my teenage children sneer at the matte lines, CRT screens, and glacial pacing of such stodgy old contraptions as Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgment Day? Seems unthinkable, yet likely!
I remember finding Star Trek confusingly dull as a pre-teen, although I warmed up to it later, eventually understanding each episode as a little quandary or thought problem like Asimov's Robot stories. But it's abstract in a way much other media isn't. (Most of TOS I originally saw in black and white; I'm still shocked today by the colorful set design.)
Depends on the age. Need to hook them up while they're still small enough. Getting it to them as teens wont cut it.
Also need to restrict all the modern options, full of frantic editing, explosions, and dopamine tricks, so they can first appreciate something like Star Trek.
I think kids are also open to more things than we think they are. As much as my kids insist on repeat viewings of Frozen, Cars, and whatever, we've also now watched Marcel the Shell four times. Unknown depths!
My experience with two kids is they're not open to watching new things at all.
You have no idea how many times I've tried to get them interested in watching Star Trek and been shouted down.
I was able to thrill to Willis O'Brien's Kong, rabbit fur rippling with fingerprints, even as fellow filmgoers cackled. But will my teenage children sneer at the matte lines, CRT screens, and glacial pacing of such stodgy old contraptions as Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgment Day? Seems unthinkable, yet likely!
I remember finding Star Trek confusingly dull as a pre-teen, although I warmed up to it later, eventually understanding each episode as a little quandary or thought problem like Asimov's Robot stories. But it's abstract in a way much other media isn't. (Most of TOS I originally saw in black and white; I'm still shocked today by the colorful set design.)
Depends on the age. Need to hook them up while they're still small enough. Getting it to them as teens wont cut it.
Also need to restrict all the modern options, full of frantic editing, explosions, and dopamine tricks, so they can first appreciate something like Star Trek.