No
There are plenty of good movies appropriate for families on criterion. Why put a bad one?
Traffic, Z., or Ali: Fear Eats The Soul sure aren’t….
So…. three out of five hundred?
Seventh Seal
Spirit Of The Beehive
M. Hulot’s Holiday
Mon Oncle
Playtime
Big Deal On Madonna Street
Wild Strawberries
Antonio Gaudi
…Are just a few family appropriate crierion’s.
Salo is a nice movie too. For da kidsZ!
I really don’t think kids would understand The Seventh Seal at all…
Maybe not, but nobody gives kids enough credit…
Maybe not, but nobody gives kids enough credit…
@Spencer: How’s that? Maybe if they were two, but I think anyone over the age of ten or so would have no problems whatsoever.
…or any of the films he mentioned.
Well, I dunno, I saw some of those films when I was eight and loved them..
There’s far worse than Remember the Titans, though I do think I can understand Squiffle’s issue (unless he’s trolling us.)
Titans is guilty of one of my least favorite movies cliches. I really dislike how black characters must be jolly and sing, and must sing a recognizable but bland Motown, soul or R&B, to make sure said uncessary (and minstrelly) singing endears them to white audiences.
He’s trolling us. He gave Taxidermia 5 stars.
“There’s far worse than Remember the Titans”
no way,even Armageddon is better than this junk…
No.
It’s available everywhere. There’s a director’s cut and a blu ray version.
I don’t think children are in The Criterion Collection’s demographic.
I agree we need more highschool football in CC, but Friday Night Lights would be a much better choice.
True story: I played against that exact Odessa Permian team featured in the movie. Those motherfuckers were psychopaths. The ten hardest times I’ve ever been hit on a football field were in that one game.
Remeber the Titans is unwatchable as is Friday Night Lights.
Why put a bad film in CC just because it is a “family” film?
There are much more worthy family films
Babe rocks
and for football they should put North Dallas 40 in or All the Right Moves is better than FNL or Titians by a looong shot
Friday Night Lights a family film? That’s the problem with commenting on unwatchable films.
I don’t think there has ever been a movie about football that I’ve enjoyed more than seeing an actual football game. And remember that I’m a Lions fan! Of course, I still haven’t seen Knute Rockne All American.
Rudy was entertaining. A hobit trying to play football for Notre Dame? What a hoot.
The only Football picture worthy of Criterion inclusion is George Marshall’s ‘Hold That Co-ed’.
or . . . failing that . . . William A. Wellman’s ‘Eleven Men and a Girl’
or . . . ‘Horse Feathers’
HORSE FEATHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no
I’d much rather have Meet the Parents than Remember the Titans…
The answer is the works of Hayao Miyazaki.
Squiffle
It’s a good movie, for the kids. Criterion is filled with all sorts of movies with cussing and violence and nudity. Why not put a movie like this with down-home family values and a good message at the end?