Influential films on your youth

Skerries

What films when you were young gave you that wow moment that in some way influenced the rest of your life in some small or large way?

david75

ET
Star Wars
Back to the future
The lost boys

gimli2112

not a film but Stephen King's the "Night Shift" made me check the closet before going to bed for the last 30 odd years

The final battles in the return of the king.

judeboy101

Poltergeist. I've never looked at a telly the same way since.

Lorelli!

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Goodfellas, The Lost Boys, Terminator 1 and 2, Labyrinth, Once Upon a Time in America, Ladyhawke and The Last Of The Mohicans would probably be mine but lots more. I remember films from my youth very well because i rewatched them countless times.

My brother would want to watch a film that probably wasn't suited to my age so he'd get me all hyped up about it saying how great it was and then I'd end up loving it.

I use to reenact scenes from Goodfellas with my Barbies

Guy Sajer

The Land Before Time. Introduced me to the fact that loved ones wouldn't be around forever.

AmberGold

Cool Hand Luke, a few life lessons in that one.

phobia2011

E.T

IT the clown

The Goonies

Rumpy Pumpy

Home Alone brings back lots of lovely childhood memories. Not of being left alone, but of going to the cinema with my parents etc.

Terminator 2 - we didn't have a VCR at home, and I was about 6 months behind the other lads in school to see it. Eventually got to watch it at my cousins house. Mind blown. Went to see the 4K 3D version in the cinema recently, and it remains an iconic movie from the era.

All 3 Indiana Jones movies.

Lorelli!

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Terminator 2 - we didn't have a VCR at home, and I was about 6 months behind the other lads in school to see it. Eventually got to watch it at my cousins house. Mind blown. Went to see the 4K 3D version in the cinema recently, and it remains an iconic movie from the era.
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I think I first watched it in my friends house because they had Sky but I have a strong memory of my mam and I going to collect my brother and my dad from the cinema after going to see it.

I think I saw 2 before 1. I watched 1 when it was aired on TV one night and we recorded it

Skerries

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

All 3 Indiana Jones movies.

I see what you did there

Agent Coulson

AmberGold wrote: »

Cool Hand Luke, a few life lessons in that one.

Lesson 1 don't eat 50 boiled eggs in an hour :P

Lesson 2 is What we've got here is failure to communicate

shazzerman

The Magnificent Ambersons - the faster man is carried, the less free time he has. I think about this one every now and then.
Cool Hand Luke - "I can drink 50 pints," rang out in my local back in the mid-1980s. Strangely enough, it was me saying it... I don't think about that one too much.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - great to revel in as a 13 year-old, and still one of my favourites.
Pinocchio - another favourite film, and still the greatest feat of animation in features.
The 5000 Fingers of Dr T - a surreal treat.