looking for movie/tv recs
Jan. 7th, 2019 02:05 pmSo, my mom and I have been trying hard to work on positive, uplifting aspects of our relationship, and one of the things we do to bond is to watch beautiful stories together. Right now, we are listening to Little Women from audible. In the past, we have shared other audiobook loves, like Terry Pratchett (now her favorite beloved author), Jane Austen, Shakespeare, etc. She read to me a lot as a small kid, and somewhere I have a cassette of her reading snippets of my very favorite stories--she sent it to me, when I was in college and lonely, and the last bit was the sound of our then-dog's beloved nails racing across the floor.
Recently, we watched our very favorite two movies to watch together, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, and we're looking for something else to see.
I'd LOVE to have some recommendations for gentle stories that are uplifting and have zero-to-no-violence, ideally with great acting and beautiful scenery/appearance/sets/etc. Any genre is welcome!
Everybody's gonna laugh, but over the summer, we spent a delightful time watching British reality TV shows, particularly Big Dreams, Small Spaces (highly, HIGHLY recommended!) and, of course, The Great British Bakeoff. The latter was tricky because mom can't have sugar any longer, and also, um, we'd get over-invested and WORRY BECAUSE SO TENSE IS THE CAKE GOING TO BE LEFT IN THE RAIN?
AHHHHH PLEASE EVERYBODY BE OK!
OH MY GOD WHAT IF IT'S SOFT IN THE CENTER, um. Yeah. Maybe, um, assume we can get a little emotionally overinvested in making sure everybody turns out OK, haha.
Just for example, although she loved the appearance of the recent RDJ/Lawe Holmes' movies, with all the Ritchie artwork, they were too violent to continue. We ran into similar trouble with Elementary, because although some eps are low violence, others have a lot. Quirky and artistic is most welcome--we watched a pretty nifty adaptation of the Magic Flute on youtube some time back, animated, that was great.
Oh, and, I should add, she loves the early Harry Potter movies, but hasn't seen the latter ones because they're too damn sad. (She loves Harry, as who among us does not.)
We did try Kiki's Delivery service, years ago, but found it too twee.
So, I guess it's a balance!
Any suggestions welcome!
Recently, we watched our very favorite two movies to watch together, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, and we're looking for something else to see.
I'd LOVE to have some recommendations for gentle stories that are uplifting and have zero-to-no-violence, ideally with great acting and beautiful scenery/appearance/sets/etc. Any genre is welcome!
Everybody's gonna laugh, but over the summer, we spent a delightful time watching British reality TV shows, particularly Big Dreams, Small Spaces (highly, HIGHLY recommended!) and, of course, The Great British Bakeoff. The latter was tricky because mom can't have sugar any longer, and also, um, we'd get over-invested and WORRY BECAUSE SO TENSE IS THE CAKE GOING TO BE LEFT IN THE RAIN?
AHHHHH PLEASE EVERYBODY BE OK!
OH MY GOD WHAT IF IT'S SOFT IN THE CENTER, um. Yeah. Maybe, um, assume we can get a little emotionally overinvested in making sure everybody turns out OK, haha.
Just for example, although she loved the appearance of the recent RDJ/Lawe Holmes' movies, with all the Ritchie artwork, they were too violent to continue. We ran into similar trouble with Elementary, because although some eps are low violence, others have a lot. Quirky and artistic is most welcome--we watched a pretty nifty adaptation of the Magic Flute on youtube some time back, animated, that was great.
Oh, and, I should add, she loves the early Harry Potter movies, but hasn't seen the latter ones because they're too damn sad. (She loves Harry, as who among us does not.)
We did try Kiki's Delivery service, years ago, but found it too twee.
So, I guess it's a balance!
Any suggestions welcome!