oh yeah… and Time Bandits!!
My 5:
Flight of the Navigator (rented it all the time)
Back to the Future (all of them)
The Guyver
Hackers
All of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 80’s and early 90’s films (Bloodsport especially)
double post…
Back to the Future, The Goonies, & Stand by me
seem to be collective favourites.
Grease
Indiana Jones trilogy
Never-ending story
Time Bandits (later but soooo good)
For the Disney’s (best animated movies)
1. Beauty and the Beast
2. The little Mermaid
3. Alice in wonderland
4. Peter Pan
5. Dumbo
And I can go for a long list of those..
Henry Zeo Covert: The Exorcist? Yikes! You must have been a tough kid – that film still scares me to this day!
The 80s was such a wondeful time to grow up, as there were so many imaginative films for children!
Narrowing down mine, I remember watching the following a great deal:
- The Dark Crystal
- The Labyrinth
- Back to the Future 1 & 2 ( I especially remember watching #2 over and over!)
- Beetlejuice (Mandatory Saturday morning viewing as a child!)
- Alice in Wonderland (I love all classic Disney but this one has a special place in my heart)
Haha no wonder I went through a goth phase in my teens!
whoops!
La guerre des boutons!(war of the buttons)
to Clare Nina: the Exorcist, even edited for network TV (though not as much as it might be now) did scare the living hell out of me (no pun intended). i watched it every time it came on TV & it frightened me. when i finally got around to renting it & seeing it uncut, i taped it. by then i was no longer a child, but it still crept me out in places. i bought the ‘Version You’ve Never Seen’ cut on DVD when it came out, having missed it in the theatre. by this time i was over 30 & had seen the “version i had seen” at least a dozen times, plus other, more intense films since, so i could handle it better. but look how many times it took – and only 20 years!
another movie i was obsessed with as a young child was King Kong. as a pre-teen i was pretty damned obsessed with Superman the Movie & Superman II, as well as the Star Trek movies. i was also rather young when i first saw Psycho – uncut – on late night TV (my father swore it was missing nude shots & knife penetration from when he saw it in the theatre, but i later realized Hitchcock’s power of suggestion had worked as well on my father as it had millions of other moviegoers). that one unsettled me bigtime but, once again, every time i knew it would be on, i made a point to watch it…
My childhood film is Oklahoma! by Fred Zinneman. Also The wizard of Oz.
I remember the Back to the Future movies being one big movie for me that I would watch at any given moment. Disney’s Aladdin was also so much fun, I knew every song. Raiders of the Lost Ark was hands down my favourite childhood movie but I didn’t find out that’s what it was called until I was in High School… for some reason it was always just Indiana Jones.
O and Jurassic Park and Hook. Spielberg had a monopoly on my childhood.
Mao, same for me. Jurassic Park and Hook. It was magical.
Many Disney films too, especially Robin Hood with the animals, Pinocchio, Merlin l’enchanteur.
Batman… the animated series (they an animated movie too and it was good ! The mask of the Phantom I think)
Euh… The Gremlins? haha, it was ’’scary’’.
That’s about it!
ill go with thoses
1- Starwars the empire strikes back
2- Superman 2
3- Ultraman
4-Tron
5- raiders of the lost ark
6- the dead zone
7- Dreamscape
8 twilight Zone the movie
9- gremlin,ET,poltergeist
im pretty sure i miss a few..
1. Back to the Future (1985)
2. Pete’s Dragon (1977)
3. Flight of the Navigator (1986)
4. Labyrinth (1986)
5. Little Monsters (1989)
1-Nikita (Nikita left lots of effects on my personality! :)
2-My Girl (I remember, this one made me cry terribly.)
3- Leon (Leon, there is no more to say!)
4-Subway (This was a fairy tale for me. I’ve never forgotten Jean-Hugues Anglade, and when i grew older, i found him again with Betty Blue.)
5-Back to the Future
I loved the Brave Little Toaster.
I grew up in a small, northeastern factory town, with one lonely screen in a red-velvet theater, during those pre-Spielberg/pre-CGI/pre-home video days when Disney and sword-and-sandal kiddie matinees ruled the roost. My touchstones were “Pinocchio,” “A Hard Day’s Night,” “The Jungle Book,” “Jason and the Argonauts” and a George Pal sleeper called “The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao.” Then came an afternoon when a booking boo-boo caused the cancellation of “Lassie’s Great Adventure” and an unplanned screening of that evening’s feature: Frankenheimer’s “The Train.” I suspect that marked my own cinematic coming-of-age, realizing that an outlet for entertainment also could be a most mesmerizing medium, indeed.
I grew up in a household that had no sensory. . .So I was often encouraged to watch anything I wanted (except porn of course)
I remember my mother sitting me in front of the TV and letting me watch “Dracula” on Paper View. . .My father let me watch all “The Godfather” films and “Taxi Driver” especially. . .But I suppose I was always fond of “Cinderella” and “The Mouse Detective” and my favorite “Hook”. . .
Batman (nicholson-keaton)
The Goonies
The Breakfast Club
Howard The Duck
The Return Of The Jedi
Someone mentioned the Flight Of the Navigator (the memories and Sarah Jessica Parker)
Ghostbusters 1 & 2
Uncle Buck
The Great Outdoors
Home Alone 1 & 2
The Secret of Nimh (1982). Once the nightmares subsided, it thorned in my brain forever and most likely incepted my taste for the controversial and glass darkly in film.
After that the rest is just an undifferentiated mass. I guess Time Bandits did some damage as well.
what a great thread! i was all over the place as a youngster, and some of the impact of these films has remained with me and no doubt shaped my cinephilia in some way. i am a fan of music videos and i have no doubt that HELP and THRILLER played a huge role in that love. i also loved to illustrate and was crazy for comics and action figures. my list is as follows:
-i had a videotape of michael jackson’s thriller, the whole video, and i would watch it in succession daily when i was 4 or 5. it’s my first memory of film/video next to batman.
-tim burton’s batman
-richard donner’s superman
-help
-the red balloon
-indiana jones/last crusade
-i suppose, like many of you, my love of star wars had begun at an early age… how could we not have? i once believed that the shot of the binary sunset on tatooine (yes the two suns) was the greatest shot in cinema history.
-popeye (i know, how absurd, but damned if i didnt love the imagination of that film when i was young and impressionable)
The Goonies
Stand By Me
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Back To The Future trilogy
Ghostbusters
I always think about the films I loved as a kid and whether or not they were actually good. It’s nostalgia for sure if the films aren’t great….
In no order:
Transformers: The Movie
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Batman Returns
Enter The Dragon
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Superman, Batman,..Cantinflas
In order:
1. Home Alone
2. Kindergarten Cop
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4. Batman
5. The Neverending Story
No shit i just googled neverending story. My dog reminded me of Falkor, i didn’t know that they went all the way into a third film. Geez! And fun fact #657 Elias Koteas plays Casey Jones in TMNT who knew he’d be a lead in Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line. A cheesy little film that tried to give itself grit. For a child that was heaven. nice little list. How bout Howard the Duck.
Ha. Wow. I remember Howard the Duck. I have actually been on an intermittent quest to find a copy, without success.
Leah Murf
Stand By Me
Goonies
The Secret of N.I.M.H
The Godfather
Jesus Christ Superstar/ Rocky Horror Picture Show… (dunno which I watched more!!)