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• Sunday, July 13, 2008 04:50 PM

  Lists are kind of dumb

  Any list is going to get heavy scrutiny, objections and some praises. Of course this is "Andrew's List" and not many will agree. There are tons missing from this list and many on Andrew's list I and my children haven't seen.

  Some comments:

  My own humble opinion of Japanese Anime - crap. But my daughter is a Pokemon fan going on 5 yrs or so, so what do I know about Anime?

  I didn't think much of the Iron Giant. Again, my daughter kinda liked it. But I really don't see anything about it that stands out as unique, revolutionary or...different. Its a wonder to me why it is always mentioned amongst the better kid movies.

  There are, indeed, tons of movies from days gone by that children find interesting, even if they are just scenes from movies. My daughter really liked Oklahoma!, besides Singing in the Rain, Sound of Music and a few other musicals when she was a toddler. Silents are just as great for kids as well. Newer ones as well as the oldies. Our neighbor bought The Snowman for us. We all loved it, and when we found ourselves living in London, we saw it on stage each Christmas we were there.

  I have to second the JT mention a few letters before mine. I'm a child of the 60's and early 70's. I recall JT during Christmas time for a few years, then it disappeared. There were gems like JT that we probably will never see again. I also recall some other greats, such as a 1961 Nutcracker, with Robert Goulet in his late 20s, as well as Cinderella, starring an older Ginger Rogers as the queen, Walter Pidgeon as the king and introduced us to Leslie Ann Warren as Cinderella. We now own it on video tape as we do the Muppet TV special, The Frog Prince, another very good kids' movie/tape. These shows had simple sets but they came off very well.

  My now 11 yr old is slipping into lousy productions on the Disney Channel, although she still enjoys better made shows and movies now and then, and my younger daughter, at 4, is enjoying many older discs and VHSs, as well as some new one.

  And we're Pixar and Shrek fans.

  —mdconti Read mdconti's other letters
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