It's movie night. You don't know who's coming but you have to pick a movie everyone vibes with. What do you choose?

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The Princess Bride

If you have seen it. You are happy to watch again. If you haven't, you will love it.

It's got romance, action, comedy, fantasy, safe for kids and families... Covers most groups

The fire swamp is a little intense for the little ones, but for teens and up it's a great choice.

I think it's fine for kids younger than teenagers. Maybe around 8 and up. By the time they are teenagers, most kids are watching anything and everything, included R-rated movies.

I wonder how I would have turned out if more sheltered growing up. I think I was around 7 when i watched Childs play and Nightmare on Elm Street. Then here you are saying some flames killing a fake looking big rat might be too scary for kids.

I watched The Neverending Story in my 30's and realized the Artax scene had caused me decades of nightmares.

Oh yeah. Nothing like a painful death by drowning in a swamp pit that you led your horse/pet/friend into. Did not expect that to go down.

I just heard an interesting fan theory, that the scene with Artax and the swamp represents being unable to help a friend or family member through depression. That for the friend it can be perplexing (move or you'll die!), but it's so hard to do anything for a depressed person in a slump.

Even funnier since I ended up being metaphorical Artax.

My husband has a close friend who's currently going through a rough patch. We know our Artax will pull through, but it's going to be hard going for a while. Meanwhile my husband is trying to at least keep in touch.

It's all you can do sometimes. When the darkness sets in for me I can't recognize the light. I'm starting to break out of it somewhat, but there's a lot of self hate still etched in. It does kind of improve once you're on the other side.

I watched all that stuff as a kid too, I remember having nightmares for weeks over Children of the Corn. I want to avoid that with my kid and let her choose when to watch that stuff.

Oh, I chose to watch it all. It's just that my parents allowed it. Lol

Oddly enough, the only thing that I ever remember getting nightmares about was an alien abduction movie called "fire in the Sky" that said it was based on a true story. That one kept me up at night.