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 Matty and I loved watching movies and TV shows together. Here are some of her favorite shows:

Star Wars Episodes 4, 5, 6. I watched these with Matty starting around age 2 or 3.

Toy Story: Matty collected all the toys from this series from restaurants or as collectibles and liked to arrange them like different scenes from the movies.

Home Alone (1990): This was one of the movies we had that Matty would skip to about half way through and start watching. In this case, Matty liked to start after the house was trapped and the burglars showed up.

Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990): Matty loved all three of this series.

Mulan: I think Matty liked watching this as an adult.

 A Goofy Movie (1995): Came out when Matty was 3. We saw Goofy at Disney world that year but Matty did not like it.

Muppet Treasure Island and Muppet Christmas Carol were two movies that we watched again and again.

Galaxy Quest

Princess Mononoke

The Fifth Element

I tried to get Matty to watch ET but he hated it.

Labyrinth: We had this on tape and Matty and I both enjoyed watching it.

Small Soldiers, The Goonies

We were excited for Dungeons and Dragons to come out in 2000

When Matty was about four years old I rented a copy of Pink Floyd's The Wall and waited until Matty went to bed to watch it. During the scene where the kids go down the conveyor belt, are hit on the head with a hammer, fall into the meat grinder, and come out as worms, I glanced back and saw that Matty had snuck downstairs and was sitting on the stairs watching the movie. For may years later Matty would get very angry whenever "We don't need no education" would come on, even if you just hummed a couple of notes.

In 2001 Harry Potter came out but I was more interested in The Fellowship of the Ring.

We loved Peter Jackson's series and Matty watched all of the movies many times, but The Fellowship of the Ring was our favorite especially the extended addition with commentary and extras.






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