Films from your childhood that live up to your rose tinted remembrances of them .

PhiloCypher

Ok I'll kick us off

The Monster Squad : bought this on the cheap recently not expecting much and it turned out to be every bit as fun as I remembered .

yeh yeh I'm a big kid , so sue me

krudler

Most of them tbh, I can watch stuff like Innerspace, Labyrinth, The Goonies etc and still love them, mostly because they're comfort movies, but they're good movies as well, and good movies stay good forever.

Black Swan

"A Beautiful Mind" (2001): I have the DVD and appreciate it more now than when I was just breaking into my teens over nine years ago.

Limerick_Lass

The Champ

Otis Driftwood

There are alot of movies that I adored as a pup and still love now.The main ones outside of the usual's like Star Wars or Indiana Jones would be

The Dark Crystal - very dark movie and pretty damn scary.
Labyrinth - just a lovely film from start to finsh.
Return to Oz - like tDC,very dark in places but hugely enjoyable.

Probably a few Im leaving out but those ones spring to mind immediately.Unfortunatly "kids" movies nowadays have for the most part turned to crap.

tman

Bladerunner

I think I originally loved it because it had a flash of boobies in it, all these years later and I love it for so many other reasons!

Home Alone 1 and 2.

MrSir

I saw The Iron Giant recently which I saw a lot as a kid. It was such a nostalgia trip. I love that movie.

Nevyn

Walter Mitty, The inspector General, hans christen anderson, flight of dragaon, the last unicorn.

One of the best thing about having kids is watching with them all the movies you loved as a kid.

LeoGilly

I'd say TRON but i love it so much!!!!

missingtime

Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park (although I fear I may have watched it too many times - still get goosebumpss at Richard Attenboroughs' "welcome to jurassic park" scene), beetlejuice, probably loads of other but cannot think now.

bnt

Smokey and the Bandit. The CB Radio stuff is obsolete, but crazy stunts and big trucks smashing in to cars never gets old. As a kid I didn't appreciate what Sally Field brought to her role, while now I see how she highlights just how nuts the whole idea was, because US liquor laws were crazy. (Why do you need to smuggle beer between US states?) :cool:

Mickeroo

MrSir wrote: »

I saw The Iron Giant recently which I saw a lot as a kid. It was such a nostalgia trip. I love that movie.

I was the tender age of 22 when i saw that for the first time. One of my favourite films ever.

Goonies,Dark Crytsal, An american tail, the secret of nimh, all the disney movies, flight of the navigator, labrynth, the last unicorn, more or less everything mentioned thus far.

PhiloCypher

A land before time - this used to be appointment television for me every christmas , if you don't love this film you are officially dead inside .

kevin12345

A Never Ending Story - loved those movies The Goonies and AI: Artificial Intelligence

candy-gal1

mrs doubtfire (still think to this day that its my film as the year that it was out my parents were getting separated lol)
the snowman
toy story
the lion king
aladin
beauty and the beast
mannequin (saw this when i was really small and it stuck with me for ages)
labyrinth
the goonies
annie
oliver

PhiloCypher

You really start to feel your age when people name AI as a film they saw in their childhood lol .

K I'm gonna go off and cry now *snif snif*

kevin12345

PhiloCypher wrote: »

You really start to feel your age when people name AI as a film they saw in their childhood lol .

K I'm gonna go off and cry now *snif snif*

Nervous Wreck

D2: The Mighty Ducks.

ziggyman17

enter the dragon

laurashambles

A Goofy Movie forever. It's so gloriously 90's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3debg_o3u_o

Hercules was pretty bitchin' too, even if rewatching it now I want to punch his lights out. (I have no idea why though. Something about him rubs me the wrong way. Eh.) It's not great, admittedly but I'm a sucker for a good soundtrack.

And weirdly, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. Not a kid's movie but I saw it ridiculously young and have loved it to death ever since. The songs are great and even though I've probably seen it more times than any other movie (I can recite the whole thing from memory ) I still find it funny.

PhiloCypher

Sinbad and the eye of the tiger put the swash in the buckle long before this Pirates of the caribean nonsense all you young'uns love so much .

johnny_ultimate

A fairly significant amount, I'd say. A couple of my favourite childhood films - say, the two Toy Stories - are as good as they've ever been in my eyes, even without the veil of nostalgia. A good film is a good film, no matter what you're age! A couple I've even grown to love more as I've grown older. My brother was always a bigger Goonies fan than I was when we were younger, but I've watched it many times over the last few years and now see it as one of the most fun and entertaining movies ever made! Another obsession of mine when I was a wee lad were the Neverending Story movies. I watched the first a few years ago, and there's still some good ideas there. However, it isn't quite as strange and creepy as it seemed when I was younger (and the special effects are a bit more naff). However those statues with laser eyes are still destressingly odd, and the

death of Atreyu

still packs a punch!

On the other hand, there are plenty of films I remember from being younger that more than certainly do not stand up to scrutiny. Exhibit A, which I silently curse my parents for subjecting me too when they could have been showing me My Neighbour Totoro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdvO0tmNjGo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5le9sYdYkM

TinCool

Raiders of the Lost Ark, BTTF Trilogy, Ghostbusters, Ferris Buellers and Die Hard 1.

unreggd

The Parent Trap [original]

Cantona's Collars

ET-an absolute classic and still holds up today.
The Goonies-no argument,hey you guys!!
BMX Bandits-everyone was into BMX when I was growing up,correct me if I'm wrong but was a very young Nicole Kidman in it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5whaRkuipU

Podman

Close encounters of the Third Kind

Star Wars (before it was all politics and effects)

Brainstorm

Soylent Green

Fahrenheit 451

The Abyss

The Breakfast Club