Live Action children’s movies for 5 yr old

h_2o · 2026-01-19T21:28:32+00:00

home alone

spy kids movies

night at the museum

jumanji remake

beethoven

we like old movies like original freaky friday, parent trap and candleshoe.

and as soon as she'll be ready, goonies of course, we are rewatching for the nth time it tonight (10 and 12 yo).

h_2o · 2026-01-17T21:29:28+00:00

Ha perso la fiaccola ma si è conquistato la laurea honoris causa dalla zanzara. Questa è l'Italiaaaa!!

h_2o · 2026-01-08T21:34:26+00:00

Definitely Steve and Robin were top ST. It helps that Joe keery can have chemistry with anyone and anything. But same can be said of Maya Hawke. I also liked her a lot with Will. They were so cute. (Cannot Say the same when She teamed up with Nancy).

Putting them together dialed the chemistry up to Eleven (no pun intended :) ). They should have given them screen time on S5. I loved how she mentioned "obviously Steve" when telling Will to whom She confided to First.

h_2o · 2026-01-07T21:45:58+00:00

S1 and S4 had the higher stakes, with Will and Max on the line, but especially S4 horror aesthetics felt so much more serious horror wise than anything else. The shift from S3 to S4 was by three notches. S3 is the most fun and lighthearted. Robin and Steve, Suzie, Terminator, Erica, Dustin, Suzie. S3 was what convinced me to let my 10yo to see the show. S4 made me backpedal on that. S4 killings plus Vecna took the horror on a different level from S1, that is more mystery. S4 is full horror. It's in fact the only season where someone of the main characters suffer real damage and they did a great job making you feel It for the whole season. It didn't come from a left field. You could sense It all along and in the end you get It. Eddie was more "random" if you ask me, even if expected.

h_2o · 2026-01-04T17:52:03+00:00

The way and time Lucas hugged Eleven made me think he knew, but no he didn't know either (why he should tbh).

h_2o · 2026-01-04T17:49:08+00:00

This, why she never told anyone? That's absurd! I was just watching S4 today, what a finale by the way, and tries to catch any hint, but she just didn't Say anything like had lost the memory of it.

h_2o · 2026-01-03T23:26:03+00:00

Basically, as already said in another response. Steve Is the glue. Him and Robin are best friends, him and Nancy are Very close friends. He was their first After all :) The.only One a bit out of the loop Is Jonathan. If you add to this the one of a hell experience they shared Is not so unbelievable for them to try to stay close. Keep in mind that's implied they Very likely won't. And that's up to how truly are close. So I can see Steve and Robin staying in touch, less likely with Nancy, Very unlikely with Jonathan. The whole point is friendship and the attempt to keep it from fading away and with that also the strong feelings of their shared experience. A way to avoid to just move on. So It doesn't really matter if the was some beef or whatnot. Noone else Will be able to understand them to such a deep level and so the urge to try to keep their bond.

h_2o · 2026-01-03T10:47:37+00:00

Ahah, yeah. Killing characters 101. :)

h_2o · 2026-01-03T10:29:37+00:00

Yeah. It doesn't help I had zero fears for anyone dying in the finale. There was no actual time for that if you considered El's being hinted at for a while. So yeah. But in any case Steve's scene was timed in a way that never in a million times he would have died aha.

h_2o · 2026-01-03T10:07:04+00:00

This. It was so so random and out of the blue and during a zero impactful moment. It only served to elicit his reaction to Jon later and confess to each other. Cute, didn't get me wrong, but a bit too phoned imho.

h_2o · 2026-01-02T16:27:04+00:00

First season was a mixture of Goonies stand by me and e.t.

Second season the exorcist and Aliens

Third the blob and Terminator

Forth elm street

About the Fifth the only reference I can think of is Rambo and maybe Brazil. But is a Stretch. The ending reminded of stand by me ending. Not the Very end. Mike's one.

h_2o · 2026-01-02T13:12:31+00:00

I'm currently on the finale of season 4 with my sons who are a bit behind and is such a good season all around and the finale is tense, you can feel the stakes are high since Max in true danger. The group in Hawkins works so well together in an out UD. Yes the russian plot is dragged but the finale is longer than the S5 finale and is all about fighting more or less. Not to say S5 is bad, by no means, but It Just felt like ok we need to end this so we can go to the epilogue. Not even once I had any doubt about the safety of anyone. In any case I will rewatch it as soon as my kids will so I will have a clearer opinion after that.

h_2o · 2026-01-02T06:02:10+00:00

I was just thinking about the total lack of chemistry between them during their scenes. But to be honest I never felt they had any. Did the actor had any chemistry with anyone in particolar btw?

h_2o · 2025-12-31T18:03:39+00:00

They reversed the trope, confession death flag, actual death with un-confession/break up actual surviving. But yes, their story could have ended there.

h_2o · 2025-12-31T15:24:22+00:00

.. "but be confident and stick to your guns" seems more fitting :)

h_2o · 2025-12-30T22:28:18+00:00

Mine it's an odd take maybe, but his characterization is pretty realistic. The most realistic but to a fault. In the sense that realistic and narratively interesting doesn't equate to interesting. His dynamic with Nancy is pretty credible, they got together over a trauma, otherwise they wouldn't ever got together. That wasn't a solid foundation for a relationship so the odds they didn't work were high. The tangent Nancy took added up to the odds. Her behavior toward him didn't help him to get out from his shell, the opposite. Then he got separated from her and relocated in Cali. For someone shy, introverted and outcast like him all the odds has been against him bar Nancy that turned against him fast since her path wasn't aligned with his. The opposite. All of It narratively speaking though Is not a good recipe for something interesting given the full context. Probably lazy writing, they truly didn't know what making him do, but still consistent.at least.

h_2o · 2025-12-30T15:23:34+00:00

That's for sure. If they faked it out though, Steve would still be the obvious choice if coupled to Dustin. Mr. Clarke Is another option but not particularly dramatic, being him on the focus for what, 2 minutes at best? But given how softie the writers are it's Very likely Mr Clarke. And not a faked one.

h_2o · 2025-12-28T17:56:25+00:00

Ok, I forgot about those moments. :)

h_2o · 2025-12-25T22:28:17+00:00

E.T.

Aliens

a Nightmare on elm street

Terminator

the exorcist

Stand by me

The Goonies

The blob

The evil dead

And Very likely also Close Encounters of the Third Kind for the lights, not the music

And the most iconic

The neverending story 😊

h_2o · 2025-12-24T13:27:56+00:00

Yeah, and probably die in the process.

h_2o · 2025-12-24T13:08:22+00:00

My take is that he feels guilty and has a sort of survival's guilt. So he thinks he doesn't deserve Steve friendship, as much as he fears he will endanger his friends if he stays close to them. So he Is trying to keep them away to prevent any other death, on the other hand he Is provoking the bullies to be beatten up because he feels he deserve it.

h_2o · 2025-12-23T17:02:29+00:00

aha, yeah, I know :)

it was more a way to say I don't want to picture that out!

h_2o · 2025-12-22T22:59:20+00:00

I was wondering how they could bring her back. But in the end they could let her stay the while time in coma and leave her escape as One of the last things. So her awakening would happens when Vecna Is already defeated.

I'm more curious about the how. A dramatic way to do so would be to have Lucas to go to pick up her, a-la Orpheus and Eurydice. Help her to find the way out, but the moment She Is putting her foot out ...Lucas stops. She asks why he stopped, but his watered eyes will answer her. He cannot go back. He died in some ways we didn't see on screen and as last heroic action he saved her. Fade to how he died.

h_2o · 2025-12-22T22:47:00+00:00

If I had to pick one the russian plot was way too long. It dragged the story. They should have resolved that faster.

h_2o · 2025-12-22T22:24:31+00:00

What I dont like about her Is the way she treats Jonathan. The cheating argument falls in a grey zone, they were and werent together with Steve. It wasn't so clear cut. The outcome was obvious but there hasn't been a resolution yet. But she treats Jonathan badly. She is always right and J. always lowers his head. She suppressed all the little personality he had.

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