movie night fun
Fridays are family movie night. That means we order pizza and watch a movie together. Our family fun tradition started a few years back when we would go skiing Friday afternoons and grab a pizza and a movie for the evening. We continued the family fun tradition even when we stopped skiing for the season. Now, both girls regard Fridays as family movie night. Our Netflix account has facilitated the tradition. We select the movies, cue 10 or more at a time so that by Friday evening the only thing left to do is order pizza. However, finding a movie that the entire family likes can be challenging. We once rented a PG movie and I had to turn it off mid way through. It featured a violent sword fighting scene in which several heads were chopped off. That was one of the last movies my husband selected without any input.
Finding appropriate movie themes can take some digging. After several mistakes, we’ve gone the classic movie route. We were looking for something that offered timeless entertainment. In fact, we struck gold these past two weeks. My girls were glued to the The Sound of Music. They’ve been singing the songs and talking about the movie for days now. It was pure, simple fun. This week, we watched Pippi Longstocking, a charming story about an unconventional little girl with a mother in heaven and a father in the South Seas. The original story was published in 1945 and several movie versions have been made. My oldest daughter read the book and both girls saw a theatrical production last year. The movie was a delight. They loved the scene where she cooks soup and they couldn’t stop laughing when Pippi ate the screws (or maybe they were nails).
What I adored about these movies was that they provided pure, clean, wholesome fun for the family. There wasn’t any foul language. There wasn’t a violent or heavy sex scene. So next time that you have a family movie night, consider watching a classic.
image courtesy of Michal Wojciechowski
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I loved this story as it brought back so many memories of my childhood. When I grew our Netflix was my “Uncle Al”. Every Saturday night, he would set up the reel-to-reel movie projector in the backyard and all of the kids from the neighborhood would come running to get the best seat on the lawn nearest to the picture screen. He made sure there was lots of popcorn and sodas…as an extra added attraction.
The movies were in black and white and some were silent movies. We got a healthy dose of cowboys and Indians and slap-stick comedy. It was the best of adventure and comedy at time in life when things were simpler.