Your favorite film when you were a kid

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An ILF thread worthy of a wider audience, I think:

I loved the Muppet movies.
My brother seriously thought that Spaceballs was the best movie of all time.

-- adaml (formerlynordicskill...), October 1st, 2003.

Answers check, and check also explorers

-- s1utsky (parrisactava...), October 1st, 2003.

the goonies
-- s1utsky (parrisactava...), October 1st, 2003.

and ghostbusters (which I did not realize was a comedy)
-- s1utsky (parrisactava...), October 1st, 2003.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Dumbo when I was really little. Other favorite films I can remember are Rocky and True Stories.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I rented Chitty Chitty Bang Bang whenever I was ill.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Star Wars movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan. I think the next movie I went berserk over was Batman, but I was a teenager by then.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't remember ever actually having a specific "favorite" film when i was very young. when i was 12 my favorite movie was "duck soup."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, at an early age I was deeming things the BEST EVER and refusing to hear other opinions. The idea of any Disney movie being better than Dumbo? Please.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Annie, when I was about 6, I saw it 3 times at the movies. I misinterpreted the meaning of "tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow" as meaning that they didn't love each other yet, which I found very tragic and confusing because they looked so happy.
Later I loved Top Gun and wanted to be in the air force (they played NZ air force recruitment ads in the cinema before the movie!) and have buddies and a cool nickname like "Maverick". Also loved D.A.R.Y.L., and Puf'n'stuf, in which I found the opening scene where the boy gets told up for turning up to orchestra practice late strangely erotic, which I didn't understand (was about 7 I suppose)

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Watership Down would've been among my favorites if I was able to see it more often; I never missed a chance to see it, even though it freaked me out (ditto Poltergeist, when I was a little older. I don't know why I'm reading this question as "when you were four or five," but I am.)

Phantom Tollbooth would've been one of my favorites, but somehow -- to the amazement of many -- not only did I not see the movie until I was in my 20s, I didn't even know there was one. Not only one of my favorite books as the time, though, but one of the most formative.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

and this weird movie where these runners get lost in the desert and a gang of bikies torture them for the rest of the film

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

we were allowed to watch Poltergeist! I was thinking about it the other day actually, how it really appealed to kids because of the girl getting pulled into the TV (is that what happened?), I remember seeing that scene and the attraction of her being unreachable by her parents, something else was commanding her attention/taking her away

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bad News Bears
Watership Down
The Rescuers

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My massive Princess Bride love is noted elsewhere in ILX. obviously the Goonies, though as an asthmatic kid I always hated that throwing away the inhaler bit at the end. I also had a big soft spot for Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Poltergeist is really an amazing movie for me because I loved it so much as a kid, and got so much out of it -- without being able to use these words, I thought it had more substance than, you know, The Amazing Randy And Mickey The Monkey or whatever -- and now it's still one of my favorite movies but for completely different reasons. It's like two different movies.

Bad News Bears, geez, how could I leave a baseball movie out? (That's sort of like Poltergeist in that way, except that mostly I watch it now and think, "Christ, I saw this when I was five? There's no way they'd put this stuff in now and let five year olds see it! There aren't even any fart jokes!")

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys had good taste! mine was Godzilla vs. King Kong which wasn't as brilliant as the premise would seem to indicate but I think i was just in love with the idea of it. I loved Godzilla tho and since KK won in the American version i was always unsatisfied at the end. i think that's what led me to watch it like a million times.

Jaws, which i caught on cable when i wasnt supposed to, probably had the biggest effect on me. i still have a bad phobia of sharks, even in swimming pools!

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

we were allowed to watch Poltergeist! I meant were NOT allowed

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

cuspidorian stole my # 1 answer -- well, not so much steal as got to it first. Annie was the first movie I thought of when I saw the title of this thread. I loved the scene where Daddy Warbucks takes Annie to meet Roosevelt, and I loved the Punjab character. Another movie favorite from when I was little -- um, hello, Labyrinth!! Jim Henson puppets + teenaged girl character I could relate to + one of the most fascinating males I'd ever laid eyes upon (the David Bowie love started early, of course!) = me, enraptured.

Embarrassing admission of the day: When I was a young child, I really enjoyed watching Chevy Chase comedies. I was so thrilled whenever we would go to see a movie starring Chevy Chase, because I thought he was the funniest guy around. OMG.

Interesting admission of the day: I watched a fair number of R-rated films when I was a young child, as well. I remember watching Wall Street and Fatal Attraction when they were first released to the theaters, and I also remember watching every single one of the Lethal Weapon films when they were first released. These R-rated films held my attention much more than an animated Disney film would. (So why am I so straitlaced now, hm? *wink*)

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I still enjoy watching Chevy Chase comedies!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

even though I've theoretically answered this thread already there are still so many more I could list, so many movies I was completely obsessed (or morbidly fascinated: eg THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS!) with as a kid!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

AND ANNIE RULES!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee! Damn it yes! There was a film buzzing around the back of my mind hissing pick meee, pick meee and of course it was labyrinth!

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cat From Outer Space
Escape from With Mountain
Mary Poppins

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Benji series: cute furball saving the day---every day? You couldn't go wrong. (Yes, it's twee. Bite me;>)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

rosemary otm

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

early troma movies also

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

20,000 leagues under the sea! all of those '60s disney movies!

(I loved witch mountain too! and something wicked this way comes!)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit, the Witch Mountain movies, yeah. Those just came out on DVD, but I don't think there's much in the way of special features.

Oh: Incredible Mr Limpet, too.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks: who didn't want to be witchy and escape their humdrum, everyday school lives?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I just wanted to play football under the sea

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete's Dragon

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah 15, 20 years later I finally found the EFWM book. And it was free!

(Off topic: I think Kim Richards is the aunt of the Hilton sisters.)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, and Watcher in the Woods and the Parent Trap.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

my mom used to wake me up to watch casablanca with her whenever it came on the late show - heh I Was a Wee Film Rockist - but i liked Star Wars etc better

movies i didn't see, so i would make my friend DJ describe them in minute detail over and over until i felt like i had:
-Tentacles
-Flash Gordon (liked the themetune so i felt extra hard-done-by over this one)
-Invaders From Mars

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

-also Watcher In The Woods!!! (tho i got the feeling DJ never actually saw this one either, or if he did he really didn't get what happened in it AT ALL)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

invaders from mars was the same with me! it looked too scary!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck, I saw Invaders From Mars for the first time less than a year ago. I'm SO glad I didn't see it as a kid. Would have scared me shitless, especially the nightmare ending.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Invaders From Mars is definitely one of those fascinating post-ET films that are clearly made FOR kids by people who must HATE children.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

these movies usually contain a scene where a child is shot at (e.g. Mac And Me, North)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

AND ANNIE RULES!

Amen, s1utsky, amen!

Dee! Damn it yes! There was a film buzzing around the back of my mind hissing pick meee, pick meee and of course it was labyrinth!

Matt, this tells me that you are a Man of Good Taste. ;) No, really, how can anyone born from around 1968 or so onward not love Labyrinth?

Anthony, thank you for reminding me of E.T. I was also obsessed with this film, maybe because at the time I just thought of it as a magical film. I think I ended up watching it about 10 times in the theaters, certainly over the course of the movie's two big releases. I love how Henry Thomas is from around here -- hey, he went to East Central HS, which is a public HS for regular people, mostly from rural areas! I also love another film Thomas appeared in, Cloak & Dagger, because I recognize so many of the places in that movie! Such a rare treat!

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Neverending Story and Dark Crystal people, c'mon!

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

this may be because I am relatively young but a lot of kids back in the day really loved The Neverending Story.

― D Aziz (esquire1983), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

young sherlock holmes!!!

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(gotcha > cloak & dagger)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Young Sherlock Holmes was sort of crap actually - they got all the Egyptian stuff completely wrong, and I remember finding that really irritating at the time.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Two movies I really enjoyed in my youth that I am deeply embarassed by now (Though my fondness for the latter at least still makes sense): Batman & Sneakers.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Star Wars/Raiders ripoffs whose low-budget vibe gave me a creepy bad feeling:

-Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
-the Treasure Of The Four Crowns

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Flash Gordon

― calstars (calstars), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

(yeah Kim YSH is actually the first time i had the feeling of being pandered to by a film - i knew i'd way rather have been watching Grown-Up Sherlock Holmes - but then those stained-glass knights sort of eclipsed my misgivings and i sold myself down the river i guess)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

That part was cool. I gotta admit.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Willow?!?!?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I totally understand dee's chevy chase thing cause we (me and minna) used to be obsessed with the naked gun movies..
oddly enough duck soup was one of my faves as well, plus mary poppins ( except we always had to fast forward thru the bank bit because it was too scary and when i became terrified of santa claus, marry poppins had to deliver the gifts, though now when i think of an old man climbing down my chimney i think the fear was justifiable)

― Nellie (nellskies), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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Neverending Story fucking freaked me out. Transformers actually holds up really well.

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 2 October 2003 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Splash! I loved that! And Back to the Future and E.T. and The Dark Crystal and Neverending Story. I also adored Annie. When I first got my puppy he was a little tiny guy and would cry at night. I would come down and sit by his crate and sing songs from Annie.

I also remember really liking Peter Sellers movies, having an obsession with North by Northwest, and watching The Natural several times. Somehow I never saw Labyrinth until last year! I missed out!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 2 October 2003 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't really remember. I wasn't one of those kids who had a video player and watched the same film over and over. So, I guess it was probably stuff like Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Transformers etc.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

where is the SUPERMAN love ppl????

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Dirty Dozen

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Labyrinth is one of my all time favorites, too - I didn't see it until I was in high school, though . . . but I suppose in a way that still counts as being a kid.

How can you NOT love a movie that features David Bowie (in tights, no less), a talking blue haired worm, biting fairies, goblins and a bird as a hat? (And about 500000 other things).

I always wanted that dress, and for someone to say things like "How you turn my world, you precious thing" to me.

Neither have happened to date.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Paper Moon"

Yeah, I liked that a lot as a kid too. I think I was really young when I first saw it, but for some reason It stuck with me. maybe beacuse it was black and white and I felt older and more sophisticated watching it.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

thers I watched multiple times (like 100) with friends were:
Duck Soup, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Star Wars

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i went to the care bears movie and loved it.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I am very pleased to note that there is no love for Space Camp on this thread.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

not anymore

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I wanted to go to Space Camp. I wanted to watch movies about Wookiees. There you go, work Batman in there and you have Tep, age 7 to age 10.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Zoolander was really great when I was a kid... ...............what?

― Skottie, Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

also: William A. Fraker! Tom Skerritt! Larry B. Scott! space!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The Secret of Nimh was pretty great (though not as great as the book) and as long as I'm thinking about animation, there was also the uh 'taboo', Heavy Metal.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 3 October 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Was anyone/everyone else attracted to the flute playing gelfling? I seem to have had a thing for flute playing boys.
When a bit older (12ish) two big faves were The Lost Boys and Stand By Me. Oh and earlier we loved "The Gods Must Be Crazy"...and the Police Academy series...
I also loved this godawful heroic Australian film called "Coolangatta Gold"...my friend who'd been living in Australia kept going on about her favourite movie "North Shore", we were burning to see it but I didn't get to til last year...hmmm. Another was "The Boy Who Could Fly" and the original "Flubber"[actually I don't know if it was called flubber but it was remade under that title]...

wow I can't believe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hasn't been mentioned!

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Friday, 3 October 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

okay orig flubber film = The Absent-minded Professor"

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Friday, 3 October 2003 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a lot of Labyrinth love...and there could be EVEN MORE!

Let us not forget that beautiful gem The Dark Crystal, o' course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 October 2003 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"What's Up, Doc?" (Barbra Streisand, Madeline Kahn and Ryan O'Neal in a screwball comedy--WAY better than it sounds.) Saw it again a few years ago and it's still hilarious.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 3 October 2003 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"wow I can't believe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hasn't been mentioned!"

Ummm, that's because Charlie in the chocolate factory isn't coming out until 2005. I think Tim Burton hasn't even started it, but just announced it.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 3 October 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

But if you are talking about the movie "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" then I did mention that above.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 3 October 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

(pedancing)

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 3 October 2003 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I love all these movies! except maybe dark crystal!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 3 October 2003 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Explorers, Goonies, Three Amigos, Bill Cosby: Himself, watching the Bond films that ABC would run on sunday nights, and, thanks to my father, Any Which Way You Can/Every Which Way But Loose.

say, whatever happened to Barret Oliver, anyway?

oh, and I went to Space Camp, or at least the older version, Space Academy, in 1990. And the flick had Joaquin Pheonix!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 3 October 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

'willie wonka and the chocolate factory' was a fave of mine, then 'grease' and 'star wars'. we didnt have a vcr ( i dont think they even existed when i was that young,) so any movies i got to see were on tv or at the 'picture theatre' woohoo.
i hated disney movies that featured 'plucky kids getting one over fucked up adults' and i never saw annie. movies about animals made me cry because one of them always dies and i hate that. ( i cried and became very distressed seeing 'bambi' when his mother died early in the movie ).
thanks to my mother, who loves musicals, i saw stuff like 'paint your wagon', 'fiddler on the roof' which i had no understanding of at the time but simply enjoyed the big event of 'going to the pictures with mum'.
now i seem to have been afflicted with the musicals thing, and even if they are the most crappy and old-fashioned rubbish to be shown i am drawn to the tv when they are on.

― donna (donna), Friday, 3 October 2003 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

My mom was eeeevil and made steak for dinner after we went to see Poltergeist.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 3 October 2003 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG, I totally forgot to add that when I was about nine or ten years old, my favorite thing to do once I arrived home from school (I was a "latchkey kid") was make popcorn and snack on it while watching Night Of The Living Dead -- the original black & white version. I would watch either that or the "Munsters"/"Addams Family" reruns TBS would run back-to-back during that time period.

More young girl movie love:

Overboard and Throw Momma From The Train, which I remember because my mom and I would go to the movies together and she would almost always choose movies she too would enjoy. Beverly Hills Cop, because I thought it was really funny and exciting at the same time. Grease -- I'd nearly forgotten about that! That and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun were both de rigueur video rentals. And I loved Just One Of The Guys, The War Of The Roses, and Weird Science -- OMG, I'd nearly forgotten about Weird Science, as well! And hey, wait a sec, I was still a child back in 1989, duh! So Steel Magnolias gets thrown into the pile as well -- "you're too twisted for color TV"!

Wow, this thread was a major memory jogger.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 3 October 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

'Le Mepris'

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 October 2003 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

should i start a thread about how fucked up the Charlie Brown/Peanuts movies were?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 3 October 2003 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably this - since it had like flying motorcycles and stuff.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 October 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/avg/cov120/DRV100/V149/v14913wxjmj.jpg

!!!!

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 3 October 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Trading Places, Breakin', Back to the Future, Vertigo--my mom was/is a huge Hitchcock fan, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller (can't believe a Hughes film hasn't been mentioned), Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Story

Also, PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE BEEYOTCHES!

I HATED Neverending Story. Gave me the creeps, esp that huge fucking robotronic dog.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"What's Up, Doc?" (Barbra Streisand, Madeline Kahn and Ryan O'Neal in a screwball comedy--WAY better than it sounds.) Saw it again a few years ago and it's still hilarious.
-- Douglas (il...), October 3rd, 2003

It's Peter Bogdanovich's remake of Bringing Up Baby, Madeline Kahn's first movie, and it's THE GREATEST COMEDY OF ALL TIME!!!!!!

― Skottie, Friday, 3 October 2003 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone else remember The Golden Seal? ah! but how did they make it so nice and gold?

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 6 October 2003 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0792846621.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 6 October 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Watership Down & ET both used to make me cry. I used to like the wizard of oz, although the witch scared me! Also Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. I loved Grease when I was slightly older aswell.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 6 October 2003 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

o.nate's and mine were directed by the same guy. he also did smokey and the bandit. huh.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 6 October 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Last Starfighter.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 6 October 2003 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Electric Dreams (!!)
this and Cannonball Run II were on the same video tape and I watched the all the time. Also, the Last Starfighter, Red Dawn, Explorers, Back to the Future, Stroker Ace (weird Burt Reynolds pattern developing), Ghostbusters, Return of the Jedi, and Howard the Duck (WTF)?

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Monday, 6 October 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Couldn't find a picture online. This must be the tie-in amusement ride.

http://gamegod.com/AMUSEMENT%20RIDES/Silver-streak.jpg

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 6 October 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit! RAD! Yes, yes, yes. Starring the immortal Bart Conner.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 6 October 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Send Me An Angel" made the movie.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 6 October 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87125667/images/beat_street.jpg

http://www.alyon.org/generale/theatre/cinema/affiches_cinema/k/krush_groove.jpg

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 6 October 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

whoa. sorry.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 6 October 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was very young, we used to go to a kids film club every Saturday. I loved everything I saw as far as I remember, but the ones that I particularly remember were Pete's Dragon, The Rescuers, The Aristocats, the Witch Mountain ones, The Waterbabies and the Cat from Outer Space.

I don't remember any non-kids films I saw when I was young except Superman and probably some James Bond ones but I can't remember which ones. Whichever were around in the late 70s, I guess.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 October 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

gleaming the cube, anyone?
I can't stop with this thread!
I think more people should cop to the Police Academy fandom.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 6 October 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

CP, you just caused a major flashback! Totally forgot about Beat Street. Who played the lead with the dripping activator curls? Drawing a complete blank...

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 6 October 2003 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

define "kid"

when i was really young it was the wizard of oz

when i was a preteen it was a world apart

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 October 2003 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

My Fair Lady, but I hardly ever saw it to the end because it's so damn long and I only watched it at my mum's friends house. For quite a while me and my best friend were really obsessed with that Return to Oz movie. I got it out a while ago but never got round to watching it. I liked the bit with the heads in glass cases.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

We were played movies every friday afternoon in the standard four's classroom; many would repeat and by far the most popular was a safety film wherein a boy and girl were crossing a river and one of them fell and their leg was gashed open on a rock - it was an extremely gory closeup, nothing could beat that as far as we were concerned! also from those sessions "I am Joe's heart" and "I am Joe's stomach" were INTENSE - I still remember the almost unbearable impending disaster, driven by the sound of the heart pumping or for the stomach one, the drip drip zzzzzzzzzkkkkk drip of acid against the stomach wall. Stop worrying Joe!!!!! God those movies made me anxious, they probably caused me some ulcers. In those days I was convinced all adult males were in great danger of dropping dead from a heart attack at any time, so it didn't do me much good. And then the school principal did die of a heart attack.
Old Yeller's another we watched at those screenings.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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