Boys Life 100 Movies for Boys

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I put The Hunt for Red October on during a long coach journey to camp last year, the boys loved it (least said about the girls reaction the better!) A Bridge To Far is also great for showing people carrying on against the odds but may be a little long at the thick end of 3 hours. Glad to see Time Bandits on the list. I've seen it many times and never tire of it. Young Sherlock Holmes is also worth a look.

Young Sherlock great choice! You reminded me that Spielberg produced a Young Indiana Jones series for television.

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Add "Room for One More" = Cary Grant and Betsy Drake adopt some foster boys and girls, the boys join Boy Scouts to good effect.

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I'd add "The Right Stuff"

 

If we're going to take The Ten Commandments off the list because it's unique to at least two belief systems, and might be offensive to some scouts, then we're going to have to take a really hard look at a number of these films:

 

- Lion King: Requires belief or acceptance that our ancestors can guide us from the heavens. Probably issues with mystic practices of Rafiki.

- It's a Wonderful Life: Requires belief in or acceptance of the idea of angels

- How the Grinch Stole Christmas: Requires belief that Christmas is something beyond commercialism

- Fantasia: Requires belief or acceptance of wizards

- Wizard of Oz: Depicts witches in stereotypical and inaccurate ways

- Mulan: shows some oriental characters in stereotypical ways. Just look at the way her eyes are drawn on the cover art.

- Davy Crockett: Potentially offensive to Native Americans and Mexicans by celebrating the American frontiersman.

- Field of Dreams: Requires belief in or acceptance of an afterlife where one can play baseball.

- The Lord of the Rings: Mystical imagry might be upsetting to young children

- The Great Escape: Depicts Germans a murderers. Might be upsetting to scouts of German decent.

- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo: Promotes violence and warfare. Could be upsetting to scouts of Japanese decent.

- Ben-Hur: specifically Christian and Jewish themes.

- The Sound of Music: Anti-German, Anti-Austrian and it shows the Catholic church in a good light.

- Vision Quest: Promotes unsafe weight loss in pursuit of sporting goals

- Peter Pan: Some folks believe the character represents a being that escorts dead children to heaven (Neverland). That's why the kids never grow up. Totally upsetting.

 

I'm sure if we worked at it we could disqualify all of them. Were there any minorities represented in Lem's troop?