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.