The movies of your childhood

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I was a VHS brat with extremely permissive parents. When I was VERY young I liked Bedknobs & Broomsticks,. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Wizard of Oz, Dumbo and Tron. Then I liked goofy comedies, things with miniature aliens/monsters like Puppetmaster/Ghoulies/Critters, also I liked things with boobs like Porky's and erotic thriller-ish things like Dead Calm. I also LOVED Jackie Chan, James Bond, Woody Allen and the Pink Panther movies.

What about you?

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, we already did this. And Ryan also used "permissive" in HIS first post!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Favorite films of your childhood

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot Herbie!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

These are all movies my dad brought back from the library in the first year or so after we got our VHS player. Some of these I do not know what he was thinking haha.

Bridge on the River Kwai
Barbarella
Planet of the Apes
Picnic on Hanging Rock
Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy and ESP. The Marx Brothers!
Silver Streak, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Stir Crazy, etc (I watched a lot of Gene Wilder, I think I had a crush on him)
Melvin & Howard (?!?!?)
Red River
Chariots of Fire
Bananas
North by Northwest
To Catch A Thief
The Man Who Knew Too Much (original version)

I don't remember seeing Disney stuff on VHS. I think we generally went to see those in the theater (this was back when they would get re-release an old Disney cartoon once every ten-fifteen years--what happened to that practice?)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

I love these threads!

We liked Gene Wilder too! And Hitchcock! But less so on the other Hollywood classics because of the British thing (I think this is why I still don't know a lot of the canonical Westerns - I was watching Ealing comedies instead).

ALL dads LOVE Planet Of The Apes! haha!

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

I loved all the Wilder/Pryor movies, even the REALLY crappy ones.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I was convinced that Picnic at Hanging Rock was the weirdest movie ever at 6/7, but later I always assumed that was just cuz I was young! Then when I saw it when I was 23 I realized that it was a REALLY weird!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Thinking about you saying "the year we got our VHS player", I don't really remember not having one, BUT my dad would tape movies and individually label and number the cassettes, keeping a little lined notebook that detailed what was on each tape. He kept them in a cabinet with sliding doors that was always really hard for me to open, but I'd climb in there (practically inside) and mess them all out of order looking for the ones I wanted.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think we got our VCR in 1981? We were definitely one of the first people I knew to have one. I remember life before that vaguely. Lots of PBS and the occassional movie on TV. Also my dad would take me to old films at the Castro or at the libraries a lot. Usually Keaton or Chaplin revivals or those sorts of things. I distinctly remember the big Hitchcock re-release in the early 80s (Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Trouble With Harry, Rope, and To Catch A Thief? Dial M For Murder? I can't remember the fifth now.) I think I saw Rear Window and the remake of TMWKTM that go round. Good times.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

When did VCRs become widely available?

My secondary film education was when C4 ran a year-long series of movies to coincide with the centenary of celluloid....and I guess my tertiary film education was...being a Film Studies undergrad! haha!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

The 5th Hitchcock was Vertigo

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

1976 (thanks, kyle)
!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

we didn't get a vcr until late, but we used to rent them and movies together. the vcrs were always heavy. movies I remember renting: A Hard Day's Night, the Shining, 2001....in fact, with 2001, we rented it and the vcr and we didn't watch it until the day before it was due back, and it was getting late, so we fast-forwarded through the whole ending so the machine could go back on time.

it took very little to entertain me then.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

but I remember the very first movie I ever saw on HBO, at someone's house, when I was 7: Puff the Magic Dragon. So awesome! I hate that movie now.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know that was a movie!

Yeah, I also loved The Shining (it's still one of my favorite movies!) when I was very young because I was a Stephen King fan (natch).

The only film my mother wouldn't let me see was Wild At Heart when I was about 12 or 13. Not sure why THAT in particular...

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

i was in college when that came out. you are young.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

No, you are OLD!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

my mother used to rent the Verdict and Absence of Malice all the time, like every time she'd go rent a movie, because she never remembered that she'd seen them. She probably still does this.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

That will be you!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

"The only film my mother wouldn't let me see was Wild At Heart when I was about 12 or 13. Not sure why THAT in particular..."

Um I think I can guess.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe, but I could see pretty much everything else!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

I bet the Daily Mail ran an editorial on it like they did with Crash. EVIL AMERICAN FILM HEADING FOR OUR SCREENS

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

All I remember is seeing Victor/Victoria when I was maybe 8, and then seeing it again ten years later, and realizing I must not have understood a damn thing about that movie when I was a kid.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8494/appledumplinggangver26yl.jpg

― Bucky Fullminster (vincent spano), Sunday, 18 June 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

ahhh.... Hot Lead, Cold Feet

― Total Fucking Darkness (sexyDancer), Monday, 19 June 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

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