I still suffer the nightmares: as a kid I went regularly with my
parents to movies, and it wasn't just "Winnie-the-Pooh" at the
drive-in, either. No, I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Andromeda Strain, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (see an old-movie sci-fi trend here?) and worst of all, The Lost Continent,
a movie that has inhabited my dreams ever since with its weird sentient
seaweed that attacked people through ship portholes but that you could
walk over while wearing huge balloons attached to your shoulders. [shudder]
So if I was so affected by these movies, I got to thinking after reading this little blurblet about kids and movies: how okay is it to take kids to films that aren't for kids? Do you? How do you know what's okay and what's not?
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