It took my 8 year old to Dunkirk. It wasn't graphic, but it was pretty powerful.

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Nov 20, 2017
3:06:03pm

russkiejedi All-American

I could see it being confusing, though. He says he liked it.

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russkiejedi

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Buffalo

11/20/17 3:01pm

Saints and Soldiers. Bridge Over the River Kwai.

ByuMba90

11/20/17 3:02pm

Sea Chicken

11/20/17 3:03pm

Saints on Soldiers?

ByuMba90

11/20/17 3:05pm

That doesn't sound kid appropriate

Sea Chicken

11/20/17 3:25pm

Sidenote on Bridge Over the River Kwai

TNT

11/20/17 3:04pm

Maybe they'll blow up the next Death Star with some dynamite and string

pink22

11/20/17 3:25pm

When Ray gets to the end of a trench on the surface of the death star, she will toss the dynamite into

CDV

11/20/17 4:11pm

Your sig is hilarious.

SandYFan

11/20/17 3:02pm

No kidding!

rockhound

11/20/17 5:06pm

What would he like about it if it's kid appropriate?

Cougarfan777

11/20/17 3:03pm

Operation Dumbo Drop

PharmD

11/20/17 3:05pm

Star Wars

tisdaplace

11/20/17 3:05pm

RE: Star Wars

Cougar Insider

11/20/17 3:06pm

It took my 8 year old to Dunkirk. It wasn't graphic, but it was pretty powerful.

russkiejedi

11/20/17 3:06pm

8 year old?

TNT

11/20/17 3:06pm

Tora Tora Tora. The Longest Day. Classics.

letthewookiewin

11/20/17 3:07pm

I loved Tora Tora Tora as a kid.

cucciolo25

11/20/17 3:09pm

I still quote the movie with my brothers

letthewookiewin

11/20/17 3:11pm

When did you last see it? I wonder if I'd still like it now that I'm grown.

cucciolo25

11/20/17 3:14pm

Midway!!

BigT801

11/20/17 3:07pm

Red Dawn

SJS

11/20/17 3:07pm

Didn't the remake show North Koreans as the antagonists?

TNT

11/20/17 3:09pm

They did indeed.

SJS

11/20/17 3:10pm

If TNT remembers correctly it was originally the Chinese

TNT

11/20/17 3:12pm

No, it was originally the Cubans/Nicaraguans/Russians

SJS

11/20/17 3:14pm

No. The original plot in the remake. How dare you. TNT is forced to give +20

TNT

11/20/17 3:15pm

I thought it was a billion?

Cougar Insider

11/20/17 5:06pm

It was! <flames />

SJS

11/20/17 6:59pm

RIP Powers Boothe. Underrated actor.

Cougar Insider

11/21/17 11:49am

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cucciolo25

11/20/17 3:09pm

Longest Day, Force 10 from Navarrone, Sands of Iwo Jima

2FarGone

11/20/17 3:10pm

Make sure it's the tv version of Force 10, or he'll see more of

Born2Fish

11/20/17 4:40pm

I don't think I have seen the non-TV version then

2FarGone

11/20/17 4:45pm

I'd seen the tv version then later rented the movie in high school.

Born2Fish

11/20/17 5:29pm

A couple of good but sad ones are Life is Beautiful and The Boy in the Striped

cucciolo25

11/20/17 3:15pm

Those both seem more like dramas set during wartime than actual "war movies,"

russkiejedi

11/20/17 3:18pm

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Frank Castiglione

11/20/17 3:16pm

Patton.

TeeKaa

11/20/17 3:19pm

Can you find those old B&W documentaries?

Paco

11/20/17 3:22pm

toy story...that scene at the end with the army people and sid...intense!

nashty

11/20/17 3:24pm

great escape

themathbook

11/20/17 3:29pm

Braveheart.

lilpenny

11/20/17 3:31pm

Yeah, my ten year old came in to my room when I was re-watching it at the part

Doodlebob

11/20/17 3:45pm

To He** and Back, the story of Audie Murphy.

Don Diego

11/20/17 3:36pm

Mine have seen "Master and Commander" and "Gods and Generals," but I know exactly where to skip. The Kenneth Branagh

Smack'sWife

11/20/17 3:47pm

Gettysburg was one of my favorites when I was that age

sTcCoug

11/20/17 4:08pm

let him see war in all its ugliness. don't sanitize it. let him see how truly stupid it is, how it tears families and

macaroni

11/20/17 4:43pm

Saving Private Ryan

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