Sunday, June 21, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Hollywood Homeschooling
I've begun something I'm dubbing "Hollywood Homeschooling." The idea involves influencing my 10 year old son's weekend movie viewing choices (he only watches TV on weekends, and prefers to read during the week). And don't think I'm encouraging couch potato habits- he does have sports activities.
We don't have expanded cable, which seems to have swallowed up most of the movies I saw as a kid. However, Netflix offers many of them for rent. I've been picking one movie a week, and so far he has been very receptive.
Movies watched so far:
The Great Escape (1963)
The Guns Of Navarone (1961)
Movies in queue:
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Zulu (1964
The Blue Max (1966) BTW, can anybody recommend a good DVD educational series on WW I?
You can tell I have a little theme going, and I'm reaching back into my memory, recalling what I watched in TV reruns when I was that old.
Which movies do you remember watching as a kid?
We don't have expanded cable, which seems to have swallowed up most of the movies I saw as a kid. However, Netflix offers many of them for rent. I've been picking one movie a week, and so far he has been very receptive.
Movies watched so far:
The Great Escape (1963)
The Guns Of Navarone (1961)
Movies in queue:
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Zulu (1964
The Blue Max (1966) BTW, can anybody recommend a good DVD educational series on WW I?
You can tell I have a little theme going, and I'm reaching back into my memory, recalling what I watched in TV reruns when I was that old.
Which movies do you remember watching as a kid?
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