Worst. Mom. Ever

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Since Ros is handling the dementors and various deaths in Harry Potter perfectly fine, we thought we'd give The Princess Bride a go for the first Family Movie Night of the year.

Yeah, that didn't go well.

Both the Sweetie and I remembered it as being light and funny.

Ros will no doubt remember it entirely because the R.O.U.S.s (Rodents of Unusual Size) scared her witless.


Okay, so it is a bit scary looking, for a little dude in a mangy costume.

She didn't do so well with Wesley being tortured or the final duel between Inigo and Count Rugen either.

Our plans to show her Star Wars are now on hold for a bit. (I'm betting Aunt Beru's death would do Ros in.) Though I'm seriously considering pulling out my old Star Wars novelization to read to her ahead of time, since she seems to be less scared when she knows exactly what's going to happen from the start. (She knows every Harry Potter spoiler there is.)

So, it's back to slapstick, screwball comedies and sports movies for a bit. Oh, and Gilmore Girls, which I have hooked her on. (I'm going to try original Trek next time, The Trouble with Tribbles and A Piece of the Action. I suspect if I showed her the salt vampire one she'd never forgive me. *g*)

Comments

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I've never seen Princess Bride--that rat is really scary looking!

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Whoops! Ah well, you can never tell what's going to unsettle someone until they see it - it was good research anyway!

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! My nieces and nephew all loved The Princess Bride...but I think they were older when they first saw it. Well, maybe not my nephew, who tends to go in for scary things. (He was watching Buffy when he really shouldn't have been.) I like the idea of giving her the novelizations to read first. I know I was always better prepared for movies when I knew what was going to happen. (With the except of Bambi.

Definitely not the salt vampire. *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I would have banked on her enjoying that film too.

I suspect the problem may be that there's a whole tongue-in-cheek approach to the events, like the poison-off and being mostly dead that might work better for adults.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Oh no, am so sorry that scared her but it is not something you could ever have predicted.

I remember my Mum telling me once that she and Dad actually went to see Ghostbusters before taking me and my brother to see it and we were fine with that movie but there were unexpected things in other movies that got to one or the other of us. You really can never tell.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Awww, but on the other hand, a little bit of childhood movie trauma is good for you! Probably! ...A bit?

Maybe wait a few more years with Labyrinth as well ;)

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness! Poor Ros. I remember the Princess Bride being one of my kids' favs but I don't remember their ages when they watched it endlessly. Same with Star Wars. How about The Sound of Music and The Parent Trap (original). They watched those until I could sing the entire sound tracks in my sleep.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

We have to pre-watch movies for Jamie. He has a fit at the ones we regard as fine, just because things like death or kidnap are mentioned. We haven't dared let him watch Paddington, he howled at What I did on my Holiday, and he was devastated by Lilo and Stitch. But he takes horror in his stride... Plays Plants v Zombies and Five Nights at Freddie's without batting an eyelid and was perfectly happy with Snow White and the Huntsman, which we were watching and he crept in to join us. And yes, reading the book first can help (we are looking at The Secret Garden and wondering) but at the same time there are sometimes things even in kids' books that set him off. Incidentally, Frozen appears to be completely acceptable.(And I really don't want to have those bland melodies on my brain...)

I remember Princess Bride as 'light' but then I was adult when I first saw it!

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Figuring out what will be scary to a child (or indeed an adult - I still have problems judging for myself now!) is hard. I remember my brother getting very scared during Wallace and Gromit just because of the music, which is 'intense dramatic scary' for comedy purposes but obviously if you're young enough, just scary. And I know I wasn't the only child who just couldn't understand the ending of Mary Poppins or why it was supposed to be happy, and used to just stop the VHS after 'We Love to Laugh' *g*

[the-cornettist.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Princess Bride or Gilmore Girls (although I suddenly seem to have developed a slight interest in seeing some Gilmore Girls, can't think why... *cough* a certain Supernatural actor *cough*). I have however seen quite a few Star Trek episodes, having had a wee crush on Captain Kirk whilst I was at primary school. Tribbles are so cute *g*, hope Ros finds them so too :-D