What movies CAN the Duggars watch?

[RandomTrivia]

I watched the original Cheaper by the Dozen this morning. Love that movie, definitely not Duggar friendly with the oldest daughter wanting to show off her knees (the horror!).

I wonder if the kids would get to watch, How it's Made, Mythbusters, Monster and Mega Machines, or Shark Week?

How It's Made probably has too much science, and Mythbusters would be off the list - Kari's too defrauding. She wears pants! And bikinis!!! And I'm sure Shark Week has mentioned at least once that sharks evolved from prehistoric sharks, or something equally heinous.

[nokoanna]

Sometimes it's surprising what the fundies do watch though. I think I've seen Adeline Morton quote Nacho Libre, and either the Sanders or the Roberts children went to see the Avengers. But I suppose ATI is stricter than VF?

[Becket70]

They should let those kids watch "The Right Stuff". It's both a history lesson and it could show them the benefits of science. Yes, there is drinking and some marital strife but the movie was about real people. Very courageious people, both the astronauts and their families.

[Iokaste]

Something like "This old House" or other home improvement/construction-shows.

And I'm sure they've made the slaves watch "Homestead Blessings", another "show" in which everything is "precious", "special" and "a blessing"

Didn't Josh and Anna go to the movies when they wen't on the "double-date" with John and Jana, were we ever told what they saw?

[m0drnmoonlight]

Something like "This old House" or other home improvement/construction-shows.

And I'm sure they've made the slaves watch "Homestead Blessings", another "show" in which everything is "precious", "special" and "a blessing"

Didn't Josh and Anna go to the movies when they wen't on the "double-date" with John and Jana, were we ever told what they saw?

They saw an advanced screening of Fireproof, the piece of crap movie starring their BFF Kirk Cameron. Michelle claimed the whole family loved it, though isn't it about a marriage being torn apart by the husband's internet porn addiction? Surprised Michelle and Jim Boob didn't think talk of that would defraud their children heh.

I'm sure they love Courageous too, wasn't that the one where they appeared as extras?

[lilwriter85]

They saw an advanced screening of Fireproof, the piece of crap movie starring their BFF Kirk Cameron. Michelle claimed the whole family loved it, though isn't it about a marriage being torn apart by the husband's internet porn addiction? Surprised Michelle and Jim Boob didn't think talk of that would defraud their children heh.

I'm sure they love Courageous too, wasn't that the one where they appeared as extras?

Yup, they were extras in that movie. I remember someone on twop said that the Duggars were made fun when the trailer for Courageous played before screenings of The Help. I'm sure the next time Sherwood Baptist Church makes a movie, the Duggars will go down to Georgia to be extras again.

[thoughtful]

Independent girl who wins an athletic competition, urged on by her mother, who funds her with the money she won as a girl, swimming the English Channel, and that her husband always respected as her money and not "theirs."

Velvet cuts her hair short and passes as a boy, and is only discovered when she passes out and the male doctor discovers she's female.

I think that one's out. :D

Went and found this thread, because National Velvet is on TV right now.

I had forgotten that there is a scene in which the oldest sister, played by Angela Lansbury, paints her little brother's toenails with her nail polish, as another sister reads a romance novel to them!

I don't think that would go over well in the gender-rigid world of the Duggars. :lol:

There are also several instances of the wife letting her husband know that he is being a blustering fool, or showing no sense when it comes to the children. She does it in a low-key manner, but she makes it clear. And he admits when he is wrong, with no need to be The Command Man.

The kids' behavior is a mix of bubbling over with age-appropriate fascinations and ambitious dreams, vanity, selfishness, squabbles, and, in the case of the youngest, gross-out stuff, irrational terrors, sudden changes of mind, and wetting the bed.

And nobody whips them -- Mom ignores things that will harm no one, discusses what is important (including, as she lovingly puts it "the importance of folly"), and gives them freedom to figure things out and make their own mistakes.

Taylor and Rooney's characters spend many hours alone, in remote fields, on the beach, in the barn, on a train, in London, etc., unchaperoned, trusted to be interested in training the horse and building their friendship, rather than making a two-backed beast of their own.

Not a fundie-approved family - not by a long shot!

[TeaELSee]

I googled Disney & the Duggars and found this thread. After searching for those terms I really hope I don't end up on the "Do not fly" list.

I do wonder if their kids are aware of Frozen or other movies that seem benign to mortals. I am actually more curious to find out if sequestered Duggar young women get rapid exposure to "pop culture." I really hope both Derick & Ben are all, "seriously, you have not seen this movie?" on them.

It would be interesting to see them witness a world they were not allowed to know about.

[Becket70]

Chariots of Fire? The Right Stuff? Saving Private Ryan? Though these are not films for young children, they would be fine for the oldest among them. I guess the point is that there are so many examples of fine movie-making that it is a shame to prohibit seeing them. One of my favorite films is Lawrence of Arabia which is a film that is so beautifully made as to bring tears to your eyes....the movie is like a painting come to life. But then it is about those dang Muslims so it would be an automatic reject in Duggarland. Movies are generally escapism and JB does not want those kids to escape, learn or question. Such shame.

[HarleyQuinn]

I wonder just how censored the older ones are with film. Josh talked about Jurassic Park in that episode where they went to the aquarium, but it was after he was married.

[BlackSheep]

I wonder just how censored the older ones are with film. Josh talked about Jurassic Park in that episode where they went to the aquarium, but it was after he was married.

I remember that episode, but not Josh talking about Jurassic Park. Did it seem like a general, heard-about-that-somewhere reference? That movie isn't Fundie Friendly.

Violence; gore; science; altering DNA; an unmarried, childless woman who wears pants and has a career; and the Number One, OMG, Fundies Gonna Get Riled Up Now topic: evolution.

As for me, great movie. Loved it.

[HarleyQuinn]

I remember that episode, but not Josh talking about Jurassic Park. Did it seem like a general, heard-about-that-somewhere reference? That movie isn't Fundie Friendly.

Violence; gore; science; altering DNA; an unmarried, childless woman who wears pants and has a career; and the Number One, OMG, Fundies Gonna Get Riled Up Now topic: evolution.

As for me, great movie. Loved it.

You know, what you put it that way, it could've been a "heard about it comment" He did use the reference incorrectly. It was when Mac cried when seeing some sort of animal and he said she had a "Jurassic Park moment."

[GeoBQn]

My husband and I just finished watching every Studio Ghibli movie in chronological order. No way in hell that they would let their kids watch any of them. Most of the movies have strong female protagonists, magic of some kind, and elements of Japanese culture that they would object to. (For example, Pom Poko has raccoon-like creatures with HUGE testicles that transform into things.) The latest movie, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, is the story of a girl who objects having to be made into an "inhuman" princess that has to sit still and can't show emotion.

For all of the restrictions they place on entertainment in the house, I have no doubt that JimBob and Michelle have made the young children watch graphic anti-abortion videos.

[artdecades]

I think people are going a little overboard by saying that the Duggars would reject something because it features women in pants. Even Kirk Cameron's movies have women in pants. The Duggars smuggly look down on women in pants, but they still allow their kids to be exposed to it.

I watched the original Cheaper by the Dozen this morning. Love that movie, definitely not Duggar friendly with the oldest daughter wanting to show off her knees (the horror!).

I wonder if the kids would get to watch, How it's Made, Mythbusters, Monster and Mega Machines, or Shark Week?

These would be bigger nos than any scripted tv show I think because of the focus on science. Can't give your children ideas about going to college and getting degrees.

[fabkiwi06]

I bet they have the "Kirk and Candice Cameron's Greatest Hits" collection featuring appropriate storyline episodes of Growing Pains and Full House. Anything that didn't line up with their dogma is viewed as a "teaching moment" about the horrors of the secular world. (I imagine in this edit, John Stamos is hidden behind a censored bar to protect from lustful thoughts and Boner is never mentioned by name until he's married).

We've seen the Duggars bend the rules about other things... I'm sure that the older kids have seen more than we give them credit for. Understanding what they see might be a different tale since so many stories are based on childhood fairy tales and mythology that are "off limits"...

[HereticHick]

I wonder if they can watch old "sword and sandals" epics, like Ten Commandments or Ben-Hur? Is it OK to have the women in defrauding gowns, and the men in too-short togas, if its a Bible story?

How about old "Catholic" themed movies, like the Song of Bernadette or the Bells of Saint Mary's? Do you think anything overtly Catholic is out?

And how about Juno? Its pro-life! Just kidding! :D

[straygoldfish]

I wonder about movie's like Lifetime's adaptation of the Red Tent. Sure it takes liberty with the biblical story, but the book was really well written and these were events that could very well have taken place (and it draws from a lot of non-Biblical Jewish sources that have been passed down as well).

[SassyPants]

Can the adult kids watch whatever they choose?

[patsymae]

"THe Passion of the Christ?" Mel Gibson is (sort of) Catholic, but so is Rick Santorum, and the gore in this movie in practically pornographic and it's anti-Semetic (but means it in the nicest way). I understand that was a huge hit with fundies early on.

[nini]

This past season Jessa used the term "Winning" which was coined by Charlie Sheen during his heavy drug use episode a few years ago. I believe it was in regards to dress choices or something to do with the wedding. I don't think in any way that Jessa knows where "winning" came from so I found it really funny when she said it. I do wonder though where she did hear it. From some friends who are slightly more worldly? Crazy cousin Amy? Did anyone else notice it when it aired?

[jerkit]

"THe Passion of the Christ?" Mel Gibson is (sort of) Catholic, but so is Rick Santorum, and the gore in this movie in practically pornographic and it's anti-Semetic (but means it in the nicest way). I understand that was a huge hit with fundies early on.

Can you expand on why Passion is anti-Semitic? I mean, I get that Jesus was Jewish and was violently killed. But I wouldn't call the movie anti-Semitic because it's about anti-Semitic historical events.

[manda b]

In the Passion the "blame" was put on the Jewish authorities for Jesus' death. Plus the violence was horrific to say the least.

[jerkit]

In the Passion the "blame" was put on the Jewish authorities for Jesus' death. Plus the violence was horrific to say the least.

Yes, I understand this. But there are plenty of horrifically violent war movies and they aren't consider "anti" whatever countries are involved.

[GeoBQn]

I haven't seen the movie, so I'll direct to the Wikipedia page:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ#Allegations_of_antisemitism

It sounds like whether the film itself is anti-Semitic is up to interpretation. What doesn't work in its favor:

-Gibson created his own off-shoot of the Catholic Church that rejected the changes of Vatican II (including Nostra Aetate, which stated that the Church's official position is that Jews were not responsible for the death of Jesus).

-The movie had its roots in Passion Plays, a type of play going back to Medieval times that portrays the events leading to the death of Jesus. Until the 20th Century, these plays were usually highly anti-Semitic in their portrayal of Jews and often incited violence against local Jewish communities.

-Gibson's drunken, anti-Semitic rant happened not long after the movie's release.

With all that in mind, I find it extremely hard to believe that the movie was free of any of those influences.

[hockeymoo]

My understanding is that "The Jews" referred to in the biblical account of Jesus' crucifixion were a specific group of religious leaders who took extreme offense w/ Jesus' ministry and handed him over to the religious authorities - but the term isn't referring to the Jewish people on the whole. It's not incorrect or anti-semitic to say that the 'blame' is with some of the Jewish leaders at the time, but that being said, Mel Gibson's Passion is pretty heavy-handed and not subtle in its biases, and the average viewer probably isn't biblically/historically educated enough to distinguish between "The Jewish authorities" and "The Jewish population at large."