Why Your Kids Should Be Into Classic Films Instead of Junk TV Stuff

If you have kids you have probably glanced at what they are watching on television and urged them to go outside and play.

Households with kids would be enhanced by donating all their TVs to a recycling plant.

The majority of programming for the eighteen and under crowd on the television today is junk. I mean serious junk. It romanticizes characters you'd rather your kids didn't know about doing things that you'd rather your kids didn't do and getting away with things you're hoping they won't get away with until they're out of the house for at least a decade or two.

At the risk of giving my age away, I am going to ask whatever happened to the smart toons like Crusader Rabbit and George of the Jungle? Remember Gilligan's Island and Happy Days? There were plots and characters then. Now we have reality shows that have little to do with reality and cartoons where every toon character is beating up on the next.

And…Hollywood Movies are Just as Bad

Going to the movies is a big event in my family. We'll spend at least fifteen minutes pouring over the listings at the local theater trying to decide what we want to see (and easily twice that long standing in line at the snack bar). It's something we look forward to for weeks.

So when I step into the theatre and find out that I'm dealing with a half-hearted script, lots of special effects and at least fifty one-liners I really don't want to have to explain to my kids, it's a pretty big deal.

What if we could go retro and watch some of those beautifully written and directed classic movies of yesteryear?

There are actually businesses out there that understand the wonder of the classic movies coming into the public domain and are offering them once again to an audience eager for excellence in entertainment. There was a time when those great classics were copyright protected making them too expensive for showing in movie houses or streamed to your TV set. This is no longer true and some of the best movies ever made are lurking in the public domain.

Now classic film aficionados and companies can find the best (and the worst) of the classic films and put them on their websites to be accessible by anyone who cares. These films are in the original form, not remakes or altered in any way.

What If...?

Can you imagine the wondrousness of snatching these movies out of the public domain? Next time movie night with the kids or a celebratory occasion comes up, you don't have to scour the movie pages for an acceptable cinematic production. You can download a well-made entertaining classic movie right onto your television screen. How divine.

You have rescued your kids from thinking that all Hollywood does is make meaningless movies, full of special effects without plot, characters or entertainment.

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