When I was a kid, I super adored early Woody Allen comedies and would watch them nonstop over and over again.
1. Take the Money and Run
2. Sleeper
3. Bananas
4. Love and Death
Number 5 would be pretty much any Gene Wilder / Richard Pryor movie or something with Steve Martin.
LMAO. Bob ,I seem to remember that one too.
The Red Balloon.
my father had a penchant for the classics, so i think we ended up watching “bringing up baby” more than any other movie i’ve seen, as well as almost all of the rest of katherine hepburn’s films, particularly “the philadelphia story”. we loved fred astaire, more than gene kelly, but “singing in the rain” was definitely one of my favorite films. “the thin man” and “topper” series i remember very well and “aresenic and old lace”. despite the multiple times i remember being sent out of the room or having my mother shield my eyes at something inappropriate on the screen, she still showed me “tous les matins du monde”, “hilary and jackie”, cocteau’s “beauty and the beast”, “manon of the spring”, and the film about nijinsky. i do have to admit i was a little obsessed with “star wars”, though, and yes, “the last unicorn”!
Jaws
Young Frankenstein
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Silver Streak
Murder By Death
come to mind first.
ah! casey you beat me by 36 minutes, i was going to say the red balloon too.
Haha. Somebody had to say it!
Willy Wonka
The Muppet Movie
A Nightmare On Elm Street
The Toy
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
1. Princess Bride
2. Stripes
3. Great Mouse Detective
4. Ghostbusters
5. Key Largo
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Dick Tracy
3. The Great Muppet Caper
4. Robin Hood (1973 animated)
5. Tombstone
I’ve seen all of these recently, and they all hold up great…Coincedentally, I don’t know how my mother allowed us to watch Tombstone. I was six in ‘93, and wasn’t allowed to watch The Simpsons.
Valerie and her week of Wonders
The Secret of Nimh
Labrynth
The Dark Crystal
The Company of Wolves
Okay, I was lucky to grow up in the Sixties, the child of progressive artists in the U.S. so after seeing FANTASIA and SNOW WHITE when I was 5, my father brought my sister and I to a double feature of A HARD’S DAY NIGHT and HELP. I will never forget the music, the energy of those two films and the shock of going from B&W to color. I felt like I got a new pair of eyes that day. Richard Lester – Amazing.
There on in I got to go to so many adult films as a child and I loved everyone, even if I didn’t understand what was going on:. CAMELOT, EASY RIDER, THE GRADUATE, GIMME SHELTER, and of course, James Bond movies. I couldn’t wait to grow up and become Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Christie…or Mick Jagger.
Okay, I was lucky to grow up in the Sixties, the child of progressive artists in the U.S. so after seeing FANTASIA and SNOW WHITE when I was 5, my father brought my sister and I to a double feature of A HARD’S DAY NIGHT and HELP. I will never forget the music, the energy of those two films and the shock of going from B&W to color. I felt like I got a new pair of eyes that day. Richard Lester – Amazing.
There on in I got to go to so many adult films as a child and I loved everyone, even if I didn’t understand what was going on:. CAMELOT, EASY RIDER, THE GRADUATE, GIMME SHELTER, and of course, James Bond movies. I couldn’t wait to grow up and become Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Christie…or Mick Jagger.
ha ha, Kimberly, yeah I hear you. I grew up in the late 70s, early 80s myself, and both The Secret of Nimh and Dark Crystal were landmark films throughout my childhood. I can of course relate to wanting to grow up to be a screen siren (although perhaps less in the Bond movies than in a film like, say, Swamp Thing) and also … Mick Jagger :)
films i remember impressing me at different ages (approx)
Fantasia – 4
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – 7
The Great Escape – 12
El Cid -13
North by Northwest -14
Top Hat -15
now i’ve seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang described as a waste of time, but as a 7 year old boy in 1968 it had a big impact. How i blubbed when the childcatcher caught them (as did my mate). My mum said to his mum “don’t they take it seriously!”. Damn right, what could be more serious than being caught in a cage by that horrible childcatcher. And for months after i would look in wonder at the majestic cumulo-nimbus clouds, with their fantasy worlds and castles hidden among them
Most of the animated Disney canon, natch. Crappy 80s films from my uncle’s VHS collection (Mannequin, Howard the Duck, Grease 2). Whatever my folks rented from the video store.
My 12-year-old self’s top 5 would probably be as follows:
5. Peter Pan
4. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
3. The Road to El Dorado
2. Mystery Men
1. BASEketball
When I was thirteen, I saw Norman Jewison’s Rollerball and I haven’t looked back since.
1. UHF
2. The Beastmaster (1982)
3. Carrie
4. Any color Godzilla film (except Baby Godzilla) from 1960 to the late 70’s
5. The Rescuers Down Under
Labyrinth
Return To OZ
Never Ending Story
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Jurassic Park
Toy Story
E.T
Hercules (disney cartoon)
Ninja Turtles 1&2
In no order:
Monster Squad
Beastmaster
Labyrinth
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Red Balloon
Escape to Witch Mountain
Pipi Longstocking (all of them, actually)
The Sandlot
Free Willy
Ghostbusters II
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Dick Tracy
EGADS! Scary list…
Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion
Planet of the Apes
Doctor Dolittle (I really thought that snail looked real…I had to re-evaluate a lot of what I thought to be true when I saw that as an adult)
early childhood…
The Three Muskeeters (1948) Saw it as a re release in 1964 at age three . first film I ever saw at a theater. Scaed me.
The Beauty And The Beast
Peter Pan
Mary Poppins
Throughly Modern Millie
Batman (66)
20 000 leagues under the sea
@Brad Erickson – Your list is almost identical to what mine would be – we must have grown up in the same era. Willy Wonka brings back a lot of memories – I saw it at the theater when it first came out. I was never the same. I still think it’s way better than the Tim Burton version, although I like the music from the new one a lot. I remember laughing my ass off at Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in Silver Streak, James Coco in Murder By Death, and almost everyone in Young Frankenstein. I also had a Jaws “shrine” in my bedroom, with posters, books, the soundtrack, and other memorabilia. I was a weird kid…
Others I would have to add are: Jungle Book (from early childhood)
Singin’ In the Rain (saw it only on TV but it completely blew me away)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (also on TV, but he was my hero)
the last unicorn
never ending story 2 – i even saw it in the cinema! i was like 5 years old
land before time – this movie even made me weep
sound of music – my first musical ever
some tagalog films
My Top Childhood films:
Watership down
Who Framed Rodger Rabbit
Little Nemo Adventures in Slumberland
Beetle Juice
The Fifth Element
Young Einstein
Plague Dogs
Water World
Let me just say, respect for using an old thread rather than starting a new one. This thread’s a year old.
Films that stick out from my childhood (and I’m leaving out Star Wars and Raiders—I’m a child of the 70s so those are a given):
1. E.T. – one of the best films about what it’s like to be a little boy
2. The Thing – scared me to death and helped make me who I am today
3. The Secret of NIMH – there’s an element of danger here that separates it from most animated films
4. The Blues Brothers – first R-rated flick; parents took me to see it when I was 5, apparently unaware of all the f-bombs
5. The Dark Crystal – another pretty frightening kids flick I spent hours illustrating
6. Time Bandits – my first Gilliam; still one of my favorites (“Nipples for men?”)
Howard the Duck, Big trouble in Little China and the Karate Kid hehehe damn those were the days…oh and Pinocchio.. best cartooon eeeever
Samantha
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
The Karate Kid
Fantasia
Cloak & Dagger
The Gate II: Trespassers
Still love all of these. Funny how Alex Winter (Bill from Bill & Ted) is supposedly directing a Gate remake right now!