Favorite films of your childhood

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you know, the movies you demanded to watch again and again...

Back to the Future (still love this unreservedly)
Transformers (i have written elsewhere on the profound life-lessons of this film)
Benji (ok this is early childhood but still embarassing)
Jaws
Die Hard (permissive parents)
Labrynth

was there ever a Fraggle Rock movie? there is in my subconscious for some reason...

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 10 January 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

The only movie I remember watching over and over in my early childhood is one of the black and white versions of A Christmas Carol.

From later adolescence (10-12ish) my faves:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
The Man Who Would Be King (which actually bored me a bit, but it was prime old-man bonding)
The Hunt For Red October

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 10 January 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

oh damn Robin Hood was the shit...

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 10 January 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

the last unicorn

― andrew s (andrew s), Monday, 10 January 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

oh that reminds me of one i hated: The Neverending Story. i think i found it too scary.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 10 January 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

i barely ever watched movies as a kid.

― t0dd swiss, Monday, 10 January 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

The Neverending Story
Ghostbusters
the first two Ninja Turtles movies
Ernest Scared Stupid
Batman and Batman Returns
Star Wars
March of the Wooden Soldiers
Surf Ninjas

So for any of you who were too nervous to reveal some of your old favorites, I just admitted to having once liked an Ernest movie. It doesn't get more embarrassing than that.

― Anthony (Anthony F), Monday, 10 January 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

ha--i did like one of the Ernest movies, but i can't remember which one. know what i mean vern?

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

and the first ninja turtles movie was pretty awesome. i especially liked it when shredder kicked everyone's ass.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I liked the one with Vanilla Ice better.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

the princess bride
indiana jones
peter pan
labyrinth

i was browsing the a_film_by posts a couple of weeks ago and a couple of members were going back and forth about their discoveries of bresson, ozu, welles at the tender age of like 14 (i can't find the posts now, and might be exaggerating a year or two, but not many). pretty amusing.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

I got into Bergman and Fellini when I was about 15.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

i can see that... i can actually see welles too. ozu and bresson strike me as particularly precocious, just because their films are so much harder to find (though maybe not for today's 14-year-olds)

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

i'm so old now that i forgot the empire strikes back, which due to having it on vhs i'm sure i saw 10 times as much as any other movie before i was 14 or so. actually, that ratio is probably still intact.

― andrew s (andrew s), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

i'd never heard of bergman before my existentialism professor screened the seventh seal when i was a sophomore? in college. actually, thinking of it now i'm not actively aware of having had any opportunity to see bergman on film in the 10 or so years that have passed since then.

― andrew s (andrew s), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

when i was 12 i was reaaaaaaaaaaaally into heathers. and hairspray. (not that i'm frontin', i still like them both)

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

ozu and bresson strike me as particularly precocious, just because their films are so much harder to find (though maybe not for today's 14-year-olds)
it really depends on exposure, location & personality, i guess. i was always kind of an "intellectual rebel"--in high school when we were supposed to be reading "the once & future king", I was into Dostoevsky & Ibsen. As a result, I know little to nothing about Arthurian legend, but I have no regrets.

I'd say my interest in the foreign masters at such an early age is from an early fondness for Woody Allen and Bob Dylan. I read some interviews with them where they were dropping names like Strindberg, Fellini, e.e. cummings, Rimbaud, Bergman, Tarkovsky, etc. and I just went crazy watching & reading everything I could. What a trip to lay on a pubescent mind!

God, I'd KILL to have that kind of energy & time again--a career really sucks that out of you. I still have the desire to experience new works, but not as voraciously & I have only a fraction of the time to do it. **sigh**

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Ozu and Bresson aren't that hard to find these days. Any teen with a family Netflix account can get the Criterion and New Yorker discs (after a long wait).

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sd455.com/moviesmokeybandit.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

There is only Flight of the Navigator. When I was a kid, my mom would rent me a movie every weekend; I demanded Flight of the Navigator every weekend for something like a whole year. I'm kind of interested in watching it again, but if it comes off as terrible on rewatching I may have to tap a vein.

(actually, I remember liking The Last Starfighter and The Neverending Story a whole lot too. Then I saw Star Wars and became an unfortunate person for a few years.)

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

star wars, gremlins, jurassic park, terminator 2, aliens, goonies, monster squad, tons o shit like dat.

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Monday, 14 February 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

D.A.R.Y.L. Just came out on dvd in the UK, too. Hmmm....

I loved Westerns when I was a kid. Eastwood and Wayne especially. And War Movies - WW2. I saw the Longest Day on the 40th anniversary of D-Day in the 80s and thought it was the best fim ever. Except for Star Wars, obviously.

The BBC had a season of 50s/60s sci-fi movies on in the early evenings when I was around 10, I think, and I loved all of those. This Island Earth, Invaders From Mars, etc.

Any Harryhausen stuff. King Kong.

Sword & Sorcery - both Conan movies, the Beastmaster, The Sword & The Sorcerer, Krull, even Excalibur.

I loved trash....

― David N (David N.), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

trash is great, crap is what you gotta look out for

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

how did i forget Gremlins? classic!

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Hard to think of, but there is one that has pretty much never let me down- Young Frankenstein.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Freaky Friday
Herbie goes to Monte Carlo
Escape to Witch Mountain
Follow Me Boys
Phantom of the Paradise
Young Frakenstein
The Great Santini
& of course, Star Wars
(early childhood, Grand Lake Theater)

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 2 April 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

Pinocchio
Black Stallion (still one of the greatest and most extraordinarily beautiful movies of all time, IMHO. I'll defend this film until my dying day!)
Mary Poppins

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Saturday, 2 April 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

The Secret Of NIMH (I'd pretty much forgotten about this one till recently, when I started thinking about it and just got overwhelmed by realizing how much I remembered. I even got the same emotional reactions when I remembered how the music goes. I need to see this again!)
Real Men (Uhm, yeah, I'm not sure why. It still elicits great laughs from me though. This is probably the best one to guess my age by)
Annie & The Sound Of Music (both I only really tended to rewatch the first half of, for some reason.I haven't seen either one since I was ten)
The Never Ending Story (I've seen at least one sequel, which I hated. Going by IMDB descriptions, it seems like I saw the third one, but it seems to be way too new to be the right one. Whichever it was, it had them kill big monsters by tagging them with spray cans. Not that it matters, but euuuuhrgh! I have the book somewhere too, but a friend of mine borrowed it and vomited on it in 1991 or so)

Some of my friends were huge Goonies fans, but I was completely unable to watch it, as it was too damned scary.

So for any of you who were too nervous to reveal some of your old favorites, I just admitted to having once liked an Ernest movie. It doesn't get more embarrassing than that.
A friend of mine was a huge fan of the Ernest movies when we were fourteen-fifteen years old. God, how much I hated. Of course, he was also a fan of the American Ninja and Porky's movies. And he had an American flag on his wall.
Ooph.

― Øystein (Øystein), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Superman I, II
Star Trek I, II
The Natural
Goonies
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
Space Raiders in 3D
Ice Pirates
Battle Beyond the Stars
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Explorers
D.A.R.Y.L.
Firefox
Black Stallion
Max Dugan Returns
Back to the Future
The Last Unicorn
The Neverending Story
Rocky
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Krull
The Last Starfighter
Breaking Away

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Star Wars
Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
Thief of Bagdad (Sabu)
Close Encounters
The Hobbit
Fantasia
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Watership Down
Tron
2001
Dark Crystal

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

dude that hobbit movie is kinda creepy

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

The Wizard of Oz
King Kong
Planet of the Apes

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

xpost: great voice performances and illustration. I watch this one every other month or so. but, yeah, creepy.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

oops. i got one of the titles wrong. some favorite, eh. it should be...
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone... In 3D!

"space raiders" may or may not exist.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

it exists:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/avg/cov120/DRV300/V342/v34296hfteg.jpg

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

Flight Of The Navigator seconded!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

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