I forgot about the NeverEnding story!!!! What a good movie that was. (I think I had the boardgame or something, some kind of crappy promotional item - I know for a fact that I had the ‘Willow’ boardgame)
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.
I was, and still am, a huge fan of Red Dawn. Greatest movie ever.
Red Dawn - my brother and I would take our toy guns (yes, my parents let us have toy guns and we didn’t grow up to be psychotic) and play army with the neighbors. We had to kill those Russians. Red Dawn - Keeping the Cold War alive.
Legend - The Devil guy was cool.
Neverending Story
Gremlins
Ghostbusters
The Beastmaster - Seriously, I loved this movie way more than I should have.
Goonies
Any John Wayne movie (I have to thank my Dad and my Grandma for this).
Any Godzilla movie - somehow a guy in a rubber lizard suit was the height of entertainment.
Star Wars
Ok here we go, in no particular order….
Pretty Woman
Batteries Not Included
Little Monsters
Star Trek IV the Voyage Home(Thar be whales capt’in)
Project X
Adventures in Babysitting(I broke the tape)
Hairy and the Henderson’s
Empire of the Sun(I know depressing right)
Scrooged(even if it wasn’t X-mas)
The 3 Amigos
Wierdly my wife just bought home Harry and the Hendersons from the shops tonight! Forgot all about Scrooged, now that was a great movie :-) I wonder if it still stands up.
There were so many, but these are just 10 of the ones I dropped life to see every chance, early to very early in my life:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Hands Down)
2. Empire Strikes Back (then Star Wars)
3. Xanadu
4. The Pirate Movie
5. Jaws
6. Willard & Ben the Rat
7. Outsiders
8. Secret of Nhim
9. The Birds
10. Grease/Grease 2
Watership Down
Karate Kid
War Games
Red Dawn
Lost Boys
Bambi
Stand By Me
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This is an awesome topic by the way. It’s made me remember all of these great movies from my childhood. I’d forgotten about Harry and the Hendersons, Flight of the Navigator, Neverending Story, etc. All were great flicks.
How about the animated version of The Hobbit? Or the first half of Lord of the Rings (animated version)?
Return of the Living Dead
Labyrinth
Heavy Metal
Return of the Jedi
Halloween 2
Jaws
E.T.
Mr. Mom
Airplane!
The Goonies
Honorable mention:
Masters of the Universe
Back to the Future
Summer School
Caddyshack
Beverly Hills Cop
Ernest Goes to Camp
The Garbage Pale Kids: The Movie
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Adventures in Babysitting
The Karate Kid
In no paticular order:
1. Anastasia
2. Aladdin
3. Beauty and the Beast
4. Pokemon the first movie
5. Jumanji
6. Pocahontas
7. Casper meets Wendy
8. An American Tail
9. Ferngully
10. Roger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (the one with Brandy)
11. The Blair Witch Project
12. Scream
Hmm. This is a hard one, as I was definitely of the “TV baby sitter” generation.
Ones that everyone liked, in no particular order:
All of the Indiana Jones movies
Return of the Jedi (I love all three of the trilogy, but that one was my fav as a kid. I was gonna marry me some Luke Skywalker!)
Grease
Adventures in Babysitting
The My Little Pony Movie (No, Catrina! Don’t make the baby ponies into slaves!)
Goonies
Gremlins
The Last Unicorn
The Monster Squad (my nephews now love this movie)
Flash Gordon
Labyrinth
The more weird titles that I was exposed to compliments of my parents, also in random order:
The Thing From Another World (1951)
THEM!
13 Ghosts (1960)
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (which was smurfin’ weird)
R&B’s The Hobbit
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Heavy Metal (I love oblivious parents!)
Fire and Ice
Flight of Dragons
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Godzilla (1954, replete with Raymond Burr’s mug spliced all over the place at weird times.)
I actually think this is where my B movie love originated.
I’m pretty young, so I probably grew up on a lot of different movies than most of you.
In no particular order.
1. Halloween & all the Halloween’s
2. The Exorcist
3. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
4. All of the Scream movies
5. Gremlins
6. Batman
7. Toy Story 1 & 2
8. Space Jam, haha!
9. All of the Star Wars movies!
10. The Matrix
I’m sure there are a lot more, I just cant think of them. I also loved watching shows like Friends(which I’m watching right now).
Hmm. This is a hard one, as I was definitely of the “TV baby sitter” generation.
Ones that everyone liked, in no particular order:
All of the Indiana Jones movies
Return of the Jedi (I love all three of the trilogy, but that one was my fav as a kid. I was gonna marry me some Luke Skywalker!)
Grease
Adventures in Babysitting
The My Little Pony Movie (No, Catrina! Don’t make the baby ponies into slaves!)
Goonies
Gremlins
The Last Unicorn
The Monster Squad (my nephews now love this movie)
Flash Gordon
Labyrinth
The more weird titles that I was exposed to compliments of my parents, also in random order:
The Thing From Another World (1951)
THEM!
13 Ghosts (1960)
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (which was smurfin’ weird)
R&B’s The Hobbit
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Heavy Metal (I love oblivious parents!)
Fire and Ice
Flight of Dragons
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Godzilla (1954, replete with Raymond Burr’s mug spliced all over the place at weird times.)
I actually think this is where my B movie love originated.
I LOVE that someone remembers the My Little Ponies movie with Catrina!!!! All the time I’m walking around singing “My little Ponies escape from Catrina!” even though that’s not how the song went at all…wasn’t she voiced by Eartha Kitt? No wait, she was voiced by the lady who voiced Molly Grue in The Last Unicorn but that lady SOUNDS like Eartha Kitt a little bit.
Also I was a HUGE Godzilla nerd as a little kid. I watched Godzilla movies every saturday.
