The Lion King- I would say every Disney movie, but in my life time i’ve seen this movie 100+ times
Star Wars- This movie was always just awesome.
Batman Mask of the Phantasm- Batman was always, always my favorite hero.
Rushmore- I loved that movie. It was on the WB (Now CW) at like 2 on a sunday afternoon. I loved it, even though I was like..10.
Indiana Jones- It had the same feeling as Star Wars.
Alot of people here are mentioning Back to the future.
I’ve never seen it. I wonder if that’s bad?
Labyrinth
The Princess Bride
All the Star Wars films
The Neverending Story
Little Rascals
My early childhood
Back to The Future
The Secret Of Nihm
The Dark Crystal
Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas
Conan the Destroyer
Terminator 2
Aliens
Cyborg
Rambo
Robocop
Ahhh, my childhood development was built off the following films:
1. Batman 89’
2. Jurassic Park
3. E.T.
4. The Lion King
5. Robocop
Special recognition for Terminator 2 and Aladdin.
Tron
Willy Wonka & The Choclate Factory
The first two Batman movies
2001: A Space Oddesy
Planet Of The Apes
Annie
Anne of Green Gables
Goonies
The Lost Boys
Back to the Future
these are the films that shaped my childhood in no particular order.
star wars (original trilogy)
indiana jones trilogy
die hard
T2 (just about any arnie flick)
mad max 1-2
toy story
batman (nicholson-keaton)
halloween
the universal horror monsters series
yellow submarine
robocop
batman: mask of the phantasm
the shining
jaws
ghostbusters
the shadow
the phantom
Before 10.. these poor tapes were worn thin..
The Road Warrior
After Hours (no I’m not joking, I was fascinated with this movie)
Back to the Future (series)
The James Bond series
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Batman (’89)
High Plains Drifter (I stayed up late watching this with my grandma one night and it had a pretty big impact on me..snuck it onto a Beta tape next time it was on..)
And a lot of other usual stuff really..
I have pretty strong memories of seeing Blue Velvet at 8.. might have left some damage.. thanks Dad!
Freaky Friday (old version)
Labyrinth
Return to Oz
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (was scared of this for some reason)
Groundhog Day (first grown-up movie I liked)
Alice in Wonderland (creepy, long live-action one with Ringo Starr in it)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Clue
And another: All Dogs Go to Heaven
And one more: Batman Returns
(I will always remember how terrified I was when I saw the Penguin character)
I don’t think The Shining is appropriate but somehow my parents thought so.
Didn’t get adequate sleep for days…
Star Wars. I snuck off ALONE to see it whilest on summer vacation in Bangor, Maine 1977. I was barely 12, and it took me 2 busses to get to the theater across town in a city I had never been in before, in a blistering heatwave. I simply had to see it. I lived in a small Canadian town at the time, and KNEW it would be ages before it played at home. I had to see it so when school started, I could gloat. So I did, And I did. But boy oh boy, did I get yelled at when I got back to the motel later that day, but it was TOTALLY worth getting grounded the rest of the summer. :-)
Star Wars. I snuck off ALONE to see it whilest on summer vacation in Bangor, Maine 1977. I was barely 12, and it took me 2 busses to get to the theater across town in a city I had never been in before, in a blistering heatwave. I simply had to see it. I lived in a small Canadian town at the time, and KNEW it would be ages before it played at home. I had to see it so when school started, I could gloat. So I did, And I did. But boy oh boy, did I get yelled at when I got back to the motel later that day, but it was TOTALLY worth getting grounded the rest of the summer. :-)
Alice in wonderland
The Wizard
Daydreamer
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones
E.T.
Total Recall
Wizard of Oz
The Lion King
The Fugitive
Star Wars
Im pretty sure most of these are still my favorite movies. 90’s movie magic there is nothing like it.
Alice in wonderland
The Wizard
Daydreamer
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones
E.T.
Total Recall
Wizard of Oz
The Lion King
The Fugitive
Star Wars
Im pretty sure most of these are still my favorite movies. 90’s movie magic there is nothing like it.
The Dark Crystal
Empire Strikes Back
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Lady in White
The Monster Squad
WILLOW. CLASH OF THE TITANS.
TEMPLE OF DOOM.
I’ve just resigned myself to the fact that no matter how much of a film buff I strive to be from here on out, no matter how much time I could commit to repeatedly watching, re-watching, and studying a particular “serious” title, I’ll never be able to top the number of views I’ve clocked between these two titles. And I’m sure that’s had a deeply unalterable effect on the way I see all movies. Like learning a language in infancy as opposed to later-life. Christ, I love them unconditionally…
If it wasn’t completely hand-drawn, it had to feel grown-up to me; no Mary Poppins or Bednobs and Broomsticks for this boy. So it was:
Yellow Submarine.
Dumbo, (re-release at the local Drive-In during very late 60’s or eary 70’s—my Dad grumbled like Darrin McGavin fixing a tire for the length of the feature.)
A Boy Named Charlie Brown, (same Drive-In, same Dad.)
Planet of the Apes (the real version)
and the Godfather Pt. I.
“The Red Balloon” or “P’tang Yang Kipperbang” were two films about childhood that I remember from my actual childhood. I remember my mum paying a fortune for a VHS of Mike Hodges’ “Flash Gordon” when it first came out on VHS and we all had the crunchy top loaders. “Raiders of the Lost Ark” figures there somewhere- opening night in 1981 at the Empire in Leicester Square. I was 9 years-old. When I got a bit older “Wish You Were Here” had quite an effect on me: 1987 at the Odeon Haymarket, sadly now defunct.
1. Disney’s The World’s Greatest Athlete (1973) – I remember seeing this in the theatre and then pretending to be Nanu for weeks.
2. King Kong (1976) – saw this in the theatre four times and thought there would never be a movie that could top it.
3. Wizard of Oz – every year when it appeared in the tv guide my brother and I freaked out with anticipation.
4. Swiss Family Robinson – did you see that treehouse? I mean really, did you see that treehouse?
5. Planet of the Apes – when this movie hit tv in 1974 I remember my mother was so against us watching it. I still remember her saying to me – you know those monkeys aren’t real don’t you? Thanks Dad for overuling her!
Singin in the Rain
The Wizard of Oz
Meet Me in St. Louis
Kismet
It’s Always Fair Weather
The Night of the Hunter
Labyrinth (that’s how I fell in love with Bowie)
Never Ending Story
The Addams Family
A Little Princess (I saw it a couple of months ago and it made me cry again)
Matusalem
Star Wars: A New Hope
The Empire Strkes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Back to the Future
Jaws
Willy Wonka (orig)
Bedknobs & Broomsticks
Three Musketeers/Four Musketeers
I saw …Cukoo’s Nest IN THE THEATER at age 9…ah memories
Flight of the Navigator
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Field of Dreams
Superman II
Rocky III
from 7-12 yrs…
Evil Dead I and II
Terminator 2
Predator
Jurassic Park
Project A (Jackie Chan)
edit: how could I forget Chaplin – City Lights/Great Dictator
more….
Lots of Bruce Lee
Loads of Jackie Chan
a few Gordon Liu martial arts flicks
Terminator
Commando
Jaws
Mask and so on…
Deep Throat
Behind the Green Door
Bambi Meets Godzilla
Dairy of a Chambermaid
Triumph of the Will
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCUBVS4kfQ
I had a very mixed up childhood.
Ivanhoe (the Liz Taylor/Richard Taylor version)
WarGames
Die Hard
Akira
The Blues Brothers
Monty Python
I have a hard time remembering what I liked as a kid. As a really young kid, I think I liked disney movies a whole lot. But when I started to form tastes about what I saw I used to watch almost exclusively comedies. I didn’t really get into film seriously until probably a few years ago, actually. From what I remember:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Spaceballs
The Wizard (because it had super mario bros. in it)
Naked Gun (any of the three films)
if we’re talking about films we watched growing up and NOT films aimed at kids?
Ghostbusters is, and always shall be, numba motha fuckin’ ONE!!!
followed by:
The Princess Bride
Goonies
The Last Unicorn (fuck you!)
and last, but never least, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADES bitches!!!
runners up:
The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi (we didn’t have Star Wars [Episode IV as they call it these days…but fuck that, I’m a fan of the good ole days!] on BetaMax)
Simon
Dark Crystal anyone?