Childhood Movies

c - 13

Everyone has their favourite childhood movie, the one movie that you watched so many times that you wore out the tape.

Recently I began a search for movies that I enjoyed as a child - purely for sentimental value - and realised how watchable these films were even after all these years. The main problem however is that some of them are hard to track down again.

Some recent examples of DVD's (some of the simpler ones to find) that I found were -
Labyrinth
The Goonies

Next on my list -
Howard The Duck
Star wars - Battle for endor (the one with the Ewoks)
All I need now is the money (being a broke college student sucks)

So what films are you dying to see again ?

Litcagral

c - 13 wrote:

the one movie that you watched so many times that you wore out the tape.

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"Wore out the tapes" ?? What tapes - we just had an old black and white PYE and had to thump it every five minutes.

c - 13

Litcagral wrote:

"Wore out the tapes" ?? What tapes - we just had an old black and white PYE and had to thump it every five minutes.

Aye and we were happy with it too ... between that and walking the 8 miles to school and back everyday through thick snow (even in the middle of summer, while having to fend off the wild boars and hedgehogs that attacked you along the road with nothing but a stick) we were kept busy but we were happy with our lot, not like these kids today with they're fancy shiny disk things and their mpT's or whatever it is theyre called ......

Crucifix

'Dark Crystal'
I did see it on DVD in HMV recently, just didn't have any cash.

c - 13

Never actually saw all of that. Only bits and pieces from when it was on television recently.

Ruu_Old

i liked the Running Man with *shudder* Arnold Schwarzenegger. We had one of them top loading video recorders that would get awfully hot by the time the film had ended

Capt'n Midnight

King Kong Vs. Godzilla - I only saw it once though. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056142/

OLDYELLAR

Witches....definately wore that one out

The labrynth ...watched that a few too many times alright.
ET....Really liked that as a kid , hate it now though.

Aladdin...actually thats still one of my favourite films to this day , brilliant.

Chinafoot

The Goonies
Labrynth
Legend
Unico (absolutely loved that....can't find it anywhere now though)
All of my Disney tapes
Santa Clause the movie....the *only* christmas movie worth watching

OLDYELLAR

oh I forgot home alone 1 ....Think my mam still knows every line of that , Id still watch that over and over.

arbeitsscheuer

Heh, I just remember constantly watching Grease, the Blues Brothers, A Bridge Too Far... Not exactly children's films, but hey, twas what I watched at that age.

Neverending Story and Little Mermaid I spose come close... And even then only cos they had characters with names similar to my own...:o

missingtime

Ah lads what about The Karate Kid. Always a classic. I remember getting the Mickey Mouse movie where nothing happens and its all just music and arsing about. I think my sister started crying when she watched that.

sioda

Gobots and the rock lords remember getting a copy of a rental copy and waering the tape out till it broke and killed my video :-(

Lirange

Ghostbusters.
Stand By Me
Lost Boys
Time Bandits
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Airplane!
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Vacation
Gremlins
Back to the Future
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Spaceballs

xzanti

Superman
Greece
Dirty Dancing
Gremlins
Look Whos Talking 1 and 2
Three Man and a Baby/Little Lady
An American Tale

c - 13

Secret of Nimh (think there was a sequel too)

JungleBunny

What about the Dark Crystal.... anyone remember that one?

Larianne

Definately Labrynth and The Goonies. Bought both on DVD recently and I also bought The Dark Crystal coz it was another Froud/Henson film but had never seen it.

Also Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Clue, Airplane!, Uncle Buck, Commando, Kingergarten Cop, Three Men and a Little Baby/Lady.

Bodhidharma

Young Guns. Emilio Estevez was a cool mofo. I remember when i was about 8 or 9 i used to watch it every day. I had my gun and tried to spin it like billy the kid. I used to act out the end by jumping out of abox, all guns blazing.

Ah, if only to be young again (younger, anyway).

Crucifix

JungleBunny wrote:

What about the Dark Crystal.... anyone remember that one?

High five! I loved that film, but no one I know that I've mentioned it to has ever heard of it.

nachos

I loved The Land Before Time, I remember it being such a sad film that would always make me cry! I loved Home Alone, ET, back to the future, who framed roger rabbit

brown*eyed*girl

The very very first video I watched was ET. Havn't watched it in years. My uncle was the first in our family to get a video recorder and myself and all my cousins watched it.

Some others are:

Grease
Back to the Future
Gremlins
The Jungle Book
Dirty Dancing
Revenge of the Nerds (loved that)
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Mannequin
Pretty in Pink
Willy Wonka

brown*eyed*girl

nachos wrote:

I loved The Land Before Time, I remember it being such a sad film that would always make me cry! I loved Home Alone, ET, back to the future, who framed roger rabbit

The Land Before Time made me cry too. I think I watched them all with my daughter. There was around 3 or 4 of them. 10 out of 10 for those.

Loomis

The Goonies
Milk Money
Home Alone
Drop Dead Fred

c - 13

Also forgot to mention Edward Scissorhands

charba

Disney Films. Loved them to bits.

Favourites being
Beauty and the Beast
The Jungle Book.

That I got for christmas one year when I was about 8.

Kojak

Back to the Future - the 3 of them were pure class, IMO.

Siogfinsceal

i have been buying all my favourites back off ebay for the last year or so- managed to get :
- the dark crystal
- labrinth
- she-ra
- my little pony
- rainbow brite
- the last unicorn
- legend
- transformers
- dungeons and dragons

the ones im dying to get now are jayce and the wheeled warriors, jem and the holograms and wildfire

Larianne

Mr. Anderson wrote:

Drop Dead Fred

i thought that was the freakiest film when I was younger.

Siogfinsceal

I loved drop dead fred!! only problem was I wanted to do things id seen in the film! cornflake mud pie anyone?

iregk

For me:

The Labrynth
Neverending Story
The Gooneys (the ultimate kids film)
& of course the Back to the Future trilogy. Still love those films.

Toasty

Goonies
The Breakfast Club (obviously)
Stand By Me
Gremlins
Back to the Future (all of 'em)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Grease
Dirty Dancing (nobody puts baby in the corner)
The Karate Kid (mr miagi was class) *remembers movie* wax on wax off!

brown*eyed*girl

Toasty great choices I had forgotten about The Breakfast Club and Stand by Me. Just thought of another one which is usually shown around Paddy's Day - Darby O'Gill and the Little People. Love that even though I get a bit scared at some parts.

Rhyme

Labyrinth, The Neverending Story, The Princess Bride, Gremlins, Goonies, Legend, Transformers and The Land Before Time stand out the most... i still watch Transformers every now and then and i bought Legend not too long ago

constitutionus

remember seeing transformers the movie in the adelphi and being totally blown away. it just looked absoulutly amazing on the big screen . got it on dvd recently and forgot how violent it was, half the cast and the main protagonist get offed before your even 40mins in :eek: , its still class though:D

cant believe no ones mentioned crocodile dundee yet! and fair play to whovere mentioned maniquin, lord kim catrell looked fine. and i love the princess bride. its probably the best scripted kids film ever. ended up watching it with the lads on a bender a few weeks back, its class with a few beers

actually bought the back to the future films last year, its amazing how well they hold up and i think everyone loved gremlins. i dont think you'd get away with a film that scary now:rolleyes: .


anyone remember the last starfighter? man that was cool and if memory serves it was the first film to try to use cgi in any large role along with films like flight of the navigator, you know now that i think of it the eighties was a great period for kiddie sci fi

by the way do you know howard the duck is the first screen preformance for tim robins:eek: big jump from that to shawshank redemption

one i nearly forgot about is watership down. a class animated film about bunnies fighting a totalitarianism stalinist regieme, who'd a thunk it:D

you know thers one other i can only remember by name. anyone know what the hell BMX bandits was all about? only thing i remember about it is nicole kidman was in it

Loomis

Larianne wrote:

i thought that was the freakiest film when I was younger.

You must have been a dumb child then

Megatron

Great Movies so far .

hmmm for myself , just about everything listed so far, but stuff i'd love to watch again i have nearly all of em

Transformers the movie ( i found this in a Xtravison and made a cop .. i mean backup :P)
krull - Classic Movie
Men at work - my fav comedy of all time.
hmm just remembered i need to find all my disney movies
but in order to relive being a kid i'd have to rent out the ambassador :P
Goonies
Gremlins
Watershipdown
Platoon - watched it when i was about 12 and though it was the kwelist thing ever
Willow - I'm the greatest swords man that has ever lived !!! - Stupid Peck .
Star wars - IV, V , VI
Last starfighter - was on ITV2 recently
Ice Age - ok i wasn't a kid when i watched this first , but it made me feel like one .
Gobots
Alien + Aliens ( well i have the quadrillogy)
Superman ( I II III IV)
Teen wolf - II sucked so i didn't get that.
Weird Science
Tony the tiger - magic tshirt embuded with kwel powers i read the book and then got the movie as a pressie one year.
Bladerunner - Had me sitting there with my mouth open in Awe.

Lots and lots more ... but as i said i have the majority of anything i want to watch

iregk

A few id forgotten about.

Karate Kid (how could I forget that!)
Crocoldile Dundee as previously mentioned
Last Starfighter (brilliant)
Heartbreak Ridge

and now for the piece la restance (not sure how to spell that in french)
Big trouble in little China!

c - 13

Almost forgot Teen Agent.

constitutionus

iregk wrote:

and now for the piece la restance (not sure how to spell that in french)
Big trouble in little China!

hell yes kurt russell ruled , god i loved that film. think it was on around christmas too. my brother picke up krull for about 5euro just before christmas from xtra vision and it just brings a goofy smile to my face. i'd have killed for one of those blade thingys when i was a kid (and liam neesons in it :eek: )

actually another obscure one's just occured to me, anyone remember "supersnooper"? it was about this cop that got superpowers when exposed to radiation in a nuclear test. as a result he could run faster catch bullets and had super strength but it faded anytime he saw the colour red:D i think i destroyed the video watching it so many times. seen it on play a while back, might get it for a laugh!

guinnessdrinker

"Big Trouble In Little China" I seen that one in the cinema, its a great movie, I have it on dvd now, in my opinion one of kurt russells best. Pure entertainment.

Who can forget "The Goonies", even now, every so often you hear people shouting "hey you gu-uys!", brilliant.

Also a bit obsure but I remember seeing a movie in the mid 80s with my neighbour called "The Last Starfighter" I completely forgot about it but it was on TG4 last saturday i think it was. Not as good as i remembered, very cheesy 80s in places, but still enjoyable.

The are loads of other films that are coming into my head now but most are i think a bit too obsure.

All in all i think the 80s had some great popcorn movies, very little or very bad special effects but then again thats probably why the are special.

DriftingRain

'Dark Crystal'
I did see it on DVD in HMV recently, just didn't have any cash.

There is a part two in the works...not sure if anyone knew about it...I'm SUPER EXCITED about it!

http://www.henson.com/company/20060201.html

Now if we can get another Labyrinth....*sighs*
ahhhhhhhhhhh

Femelade

the goonies
gremlins
never ending story

ruprect

Goonies & ET.
The thing is I always remembered the goonies as being auld fellas since I was so young! Same with elliot in ET.

constitutionus

guinnessdrinker wrote:

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The are loads of other films that are coming into my head now but most are i think a bit too obsure.

All in all i think the 80s had some great popcorn movies, very little or very bad special effects but then again thats probably why the are special.

Last starfighter might look crap now, but the scripts brilliant " go to sleep or im telling mom about your playboys!" class:D and it holds up well in a sentimental sense

as to obscure cheesy films, your not thinking of "battle beyond the stars!" are ye? go on johnboy and the hanibal

Ruu_Old

Another good one was Starman with Jeff Bridges

Starman: I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast.

DriftingRain

Another good one was Starman with Jeff Bridges

Starman: I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast.

YESSSSSS....*giggles*
I remember that one too!:D

Toasty

Weird Science

i cant believe i forgot about this one. is one of my top 5!! classic!

DriftingRain

Ohhh the Breakfast club....

*GRINS at Toasty*

I used to think that was the hottest movie along with that other molly movie.....Sixteen candles was it?

Toasty

could have been pretty in pink either!!

DriftingRain

No.....Pretty in pink was different....She wanted soem hot guy...then in the end....her best dorky bud pulled her through...*wipes tear*
I LOVED that one too!

Come on Toasty...we need an 80's marathon movie watching day *giggles*
We're likin the same ones..;)