Since the forums have been somewhat dead today and yesterday (it’s that midweek syndrome) and because everyone loves to reminisce I’ve decided to pose the question:
What Top 10 Movies Did You LOVE As a Kid? (BTW: I just replicated this idea off of a blog post)
Regardless, I’ll get the bowl rolling (most of my list is obvious/cliched):
10. The Muppets Take Manhattan
9. Baby Geniuses
8. Beauty and the Beast
7. Uncle Buck
6. Mrs Doubtfire
5. Home Alone AND Home Alone 2
4. Mean Girls
3. Jurassic Park
2. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1. Miss Congeniality
I really couldn’t narrow it down to just ten - I’m terrible with lists - but I was pretty big on comedies (good and mindlessly shitty ones alike) up until a few years ago. I was far easier to please when I was a little kid. I watched a ton of animated Disney films as well. Like, constantly.
How old are you, by the way? I feel like Mean Girls came out a lot more recently than it probably did.
These may not have been my very favorites but my friends and I tended to watch these over and over again.
In no particular order:
1. The Lost Boys
2. Gremlins
3. The Three Amigos
4. The Goonies
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
6. Hello Dolly!
7. Ghostbusters
8. National Lampoons European Vacation (it seemed like it was always on at my buddy’s house)
9. Batman (1989)
10. Back to the Beach (this one was just me, my friends wanted no part of this)
With the exception of number’s 8 and 10 all of these still hold up as awesome (and I still get a kick out of 8 and 10, I just don’t think they’re actual “good” movies anymore).
I forgot about Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade! I watched that quite a bit too, it was better than the first two. I wasn’t actually allowed to watch the first Batman film as a child because it was rated ‘15 and over’ in the UK and my (stupid) Mum thought it was ‘too violent’! I’d quite like to sit her down with Hostel 2 and then see what she thinks :D
Am I a bad person for not liking Goonies? Or Ghostbusters? or Gremlins even?
I liked Gremlins 2 - maybe it’s just ‘cause I’m a diff. generation or whatever.
Well, I didn’t like Last Crusade better than Raiders of the Lost Ark but for some reason we watched Last Crusade a lot.
As for not liking those movies, no you’re not a bad person but your taste is questionable. I think it probably does have a lot to do with you being a different generation. I’m sure a lot of people who were not born until the late eighties (or early nineties as the case may be) aren’t as enamored of those films as some of us who actually grew up in the eighties. Still, Ghostbusters is pretty timeless it is a rightful classic and I would say the same about Gremlins (though Amy doesn’t really like Gremlins either). The Goonies, to me is still awesome but I know for some people it doesn’t hold up so, that one’s debatable.
These may not have been my very favorites but my friends and I tended to watch these over and over again.
In no particular order:
1. The Lost Boys
2. Gremlins
3. The Three Amigos
4. The Goonies
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
6. Hello Dolly!
7. Ghostbusters
8. National Lampoons European Vacation (it seemed like it was always on at my buddy’s house)
9. Batman (1989)
10. Back to the Beach (this one was just me, my friends wanted no part of this)
With the exception of number’s 8 and 10 all of these still hold up as awesome (and I still get a kick out of 8 and 10, I just don’t think they’re actual “good” movies anymore).
You had the greatest childhood ever. I didn’t discover a lot of these until much later in life.
My parents had HBO and Showtime so I got to see a lot of movies over and over again. Most of the movies were out when I was around 12.
Gremlins
GhostBusters
Top Secret!
Monster Squad
Rustlers’ Rhapsody (I seem to be the only one I know that has seen this and I watched it alot)
War Games
The Outsiders
Red Dawn- Have seen this movie about 150 times. Literally. For my birthday my parents rented a Beta machine (don’t laugh)and we rented this movie and watched it twice at my party. My friends weren’t happy but it was my birthday.
The Last Star Fighter
Johnny Dangerously
Dreamscape
Back to the future
Goonies
Monster squad
Superman (The first one with Chris Reeves)
Star Wars (A new hope)
The Thing From Outer Space
Jungle Book
JAWS
Dark shadows (The first movie of the tv series)
The last dragon
Goonies
Gremlins
Starwars… all of ‘em. Saw VI at the drive in :-)
Indiana Jones
Superman
The Dark Crystal - we even named our first cat, a ginger one, Fizgig
Ghostbusters
Dirty Dancing - NO ONE PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER!!!! - haha just kidding this was my sisters fav though.
The Three Amigos - I remember later on seeing this in VCD and being AMAZED!!! A Movie on a disc!!!!
Batman (80’s one)
Back to the Future
Space Balls
Wow is it just me or do the 25+ group seem to have very similar choices?
Goonies
Flight of The Navigator
Drop Dead Fred
The Neverending Story
Space Balls
Ghostbusters
Kindergarten Cop
Gremlins
Indiana Jones Trilogy (though parts of Doom scared the shit out of me)
Arachnophobia
All in all though, I was much more into cartoons though.
