Favourite Childhood Movie?

fun bus

Everyone has at least one film they loved as a child and haven't seen in ages! whats your's? you possibly cant even remember the name of it,but if u describe it someone might hit the nail on the head and put your mind at rest!!

my fave film as a kid was Howard The Duck. haven't seen it in about ten years and cant find it in any video shops,but i LOVED that crazy dwarf of a duck!!

monkeyfudge

fun bus wrote:

my fave film as a kid was Howard The Duck. haven't seen it in about ten years and cant find it in any video shops,but i LOVED that crazy dwarf of a duck!!

The comic book was alot better. But I did like the special effects on the alien at the end of the film.

One film that I used to rent out of the video shop constantly as a kid was Star Chaser: The Legend of Orin. It was an animated film and was sort of a rip off of Star Wars, but I thought it was great fun. I managed to track down a copy recently and I still found it very enjoyable.

Another one would be Comet Quest : The Adventures of Mark Twain. It was a feature lenght claymation movie based around a number of Mark Twain's stories, but mostly centred on Mark Twain's journey on a strange air ship to Haley's Comet. It was a very good film and I would love to see it again.

Necronomicon

Well right off the top of my head I'd have to say Willow.

monkeyfudge

Necromomicon wrote:

Well right off the top of my head I'd have to say Willow.

One thing that always annoyed me about Willow was the fact that they had that cool bad guy with the skull mask, but underneath it he was just some guy with a beard and wasn't very impressive at all... it was a bit of a let down.

I just thought of another one... The Dark Crystal. I was pretty young when I went to see that in the cinema and got very wrapped up in storyline and I even remember shouting at the screen in fustration at the characters.. haha...

Karl Hungus

I always the aforementioned Dark Crystal and Willow. Great films altogether, and I have the Dark Crystal on DVD. Another great film from back then is Labyrinth, aswell as Legend. Lesson known animated fantasy films I loved being The Flight Of Dragons and The Last Unicorn, and my very first introduction to Miyazaki, Castle In The Sky, way back when.

Damn they had some great fantasy back then, didn't they? I remember being scared absolutely ****less! The old hag in the swamp from Legend had me, or those giant beetles in the Dark Crystal, or the Trolls from Willow.

Hugh Hefner

Hocus Pocus!

Karl Hungus

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Hocus Pocus!

*Shudder*

That was painfully pants.

Playboy

Rocky 4, Kickboxer and Bloodsport

Retr0gamer

The Goonies. Watched it so many times that i practically knew every line. Got the DVD a while ago. It's as good now as it was all those years ago.

Ania

Playboy wrote:

Rocky 4, Kickboxer and Bloodsport

LOL, I also loved the Rocky films and movies with Jean Claude Van Damme when I was younger, although all my teachers were amazed because I'm a girl.
Easterns, especially movies with Bruce Lee were my absolute favourites.

TerrorFirmer

Star Wars I guess...

And seeing as I'm still relatively young, I was about 12 when Starship Troopers came out, so thats goes in there. I remember the time well, convincing my friends mother is was "12's I think"

It was possibly the single greatest movie experience I've ever had. Now, I love my gore/war/horror/sci-fi films, and there are films I love more, but SST was the definative movie experience for me.

djmarkus

Jungle Book rocked.

monkeyfudge

Karl Hungus wrote:

Lesson known animated fantasy films I loved being The Flight Of Dragons and The Last Unicorn, and my very first introduction to Miyazaki, Castle In The Sky, way back when.

Flight of Dragons was amazing. It just had so many great characters in it. I got The Last Unicorn on DVD recently, it's still a great cartoon.. but it's got some horrible songs in it that I'd blocked out of my mind. Really terrible songs... Oh and it seems to be down for a remake to be released next year, but then again what film isn't scheduled for a remake at some stage?

(Oh, and good job moving the thread into the main films forum)

LundiMardi

Adventures in Babysitting
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the one with beebop and rocksteady)
American Ninja
No Retreat No Surrender

Basq

Mine were:

Labyrinth
Project X
The Goonies
Adventures In Babysitting

applehunter

The Goonies...Ruth Ruth ..Baby Ruth
Tiny Toons Vacation....Funny even now!
Bugsy Malone...Still Love it. "So you wanna be a boxer"
Jungle Book..Went to see it twice at the cinema. Bought the video and the Sing-a-long video too. how Sad

BlitzKrieg

man now that i think about it my childhood was messed up...

i would love films like:

flight of the dragon, the last unicorn, dont tell mom the babysitters dead, the two gremlin films and all those other traditional kid films.

but my sister from a very young age got me onto james cameron with Terminator, Aliens (and from there the entire franchise) and then into Kubrik...I SAW CLOCKWORK ORANGE AGED 11, god knows how it must have messed me up...but i do love films.


few oldies i wish to see again but i know will be rubbish:

Pound Puppies movie (for some reason i remember it being really really dark)

The last unicorn


gee...ithink i have dug up all the rest...rom we're back to american tail to secret of nimh...*sigh* really one just has to see all of (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089940/) movies for a complete childhood of horrors.


edit:

oh dear god!!!

http://videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?PublishedID=176296

HAHAHAAAAAA WORSE TRAILER EVER!

monkeyfudge

BlitzKrieg wrote:

gee...ithink i have dug up all the rest...rom we're back to american tail to secret of nimh...*sigh* really one just has to see all of (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089940/) movies for a complete childhood of horrors.

I loved the Secret of Nimh and Titan AE... I really didn't like everything else inbetween.

That trailer is something else alright... I'd love to re-edit the trailer for a film like Taxi Driver with those kids in it... ha..

NikNik

monkeyfudge wrote:

I got The Last Unicorn on DVD recently

Could you tell me where you got it ?

BlitzKrieg

monkeyfudge wrote:

I loved the Secret of Nimh and Titan AE... I really didn't like everything else inbetween.

BUT!!!

ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN!?!?!?!!!???


Its ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN!!! How can you not like it????


it has to be at least in the top 10 best films to come out of ireland!!!

AHHH

That trailer is something else alright... I'd love to re-edit the trailer for a film like Taxi Driver with those kids in it... ha..

Scarface or trainspotting...

monkeyfudge

NikNik wrote:

Could you tell me where you got it ?

It's available on region 1 DVD

http://www.playusa.com/playusa.asp?page=title&r=R1&title=153700

It's probably a good deal cheaper on DVDsoon.com though...

Rantorama

Always liked War Games (with Matthew Broderick)
Haven't seen it in years though.

Retr0gamer

My favourite Don Bluth film was Land Before Time. Then again i always had a thing for dinosaurs.

Larianne

Wizard of Oz and Carebears, The Movie. Also The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Then it progressed to Labrynth. One of my fav films. Come home from school and watch it for weeks. I dunno what could be my favourite movie though. So many to choose from.

LundiMardi

Flight of the Navigator
Home Alone
The Goonies
Santa Claus(1984)
ET
Jaws

samo

Although already mentioned have to concur on: -

Labyrnth - Cannot and will not picture David Bowie anyway but in that film!!
Adventures in babysitting - I loved this although title makes it sound a touch dodgy!
Space camp - but cant remember who's in it!
Ghostbusters II - Remember going to the cinema with my mates for the 1st time to see it and was mad about it as loved Bobby Brown and knew all the words to the theme tune (so sad in hindsight!!)

monkeyfudge

samo wrote:

Adventures in babysitting - I loved this although title makes it sound a touch dodgy!

It had a better title in the US if remember correctly...

EDIT:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092513

It had the title "A Night on the Town" when it was broadcast on the TV in the UK.. I knew I'd seen it with another title.

Vincent D'Onofrio was in it.. sheesh... It's been a long time since I've seen that film. It's odd how some films get shown on television very little and some are shown all the time.

Tar.Aldarion

the goonies,wizard of oz,lion king.

grimloch

Bambi and what was that yoke called again...Peter Pan, loved those to bits.

Never went in for the Lion King much myself. Or Beauty and the Beast.

monkeyfudge

I never liked much of the Disney stuff when I was a kid. Too many songs and they always had one annoying comedy character in them.

The Black Cauldron was one that I really did enjoy though. It wasn't like the other Disney films of the period.

grimloch

I enjoyed most of those films tbh. I did prefer the more bad-ass films though, ie the NInja Turtles if I felt like a spin on the wild side.

I suppose I grew up at a time when there was alot of them going around so that would have influenced my watchings and preferences.

Retr0gamer

Ninja turtels with Vanilla Ice.
*shudder*

NikNik

monkeyfudge wrote:

It's available on region 1 DVD

http://www.playusa.com/playusa.asp?page=title&r=R1&title=153700

It's probably a good deal cheaper on DVDsoon.com though...

Thanks I can't wait to watch that again! It was my favourite along with
The Neverending Story, E.T., The Labyrinth, Gremlins, Super Mario Bros, The Land Before Time, All Dogs go to Heaven
I also used to have The Lord of the Rings the animated version - bit scary at a young age tbh but still watched it
Also loved Dangermouse (tink it was a series tho) and Alvin and the Chipmunks

samo

My 5 year old daughter would just love the last unicorn (had forgotten about that film!) so just checked dvd soon and its 15.98 CAD (about 10.50 euro with free shipping)

http://www.dvdsoon.com/show-title-details.xml?uid=106319 and has the magical 'in stock' status!!

I've bought the majority of the dvd's that I loved from my early years more for myself than my kids!!

And just to add:-

Adventures in babysitting for $8.98 CAD or 5.90 euro (approx!) also at dvd soon!

http://www.dvdsoon.com/show-title-details.xml?uid=5150

Happy days

Shewhomustbe...

The Princess Bride
Ghostbusters and The Godfather

Kare Bear

The land before time and the Jungle book where my faves.And some movie about a family of mice that lived by a lake.

monkeyfudge

samo wrote:

My 5 year old daughter would just love the last unicorn (had forgotten about that film!) so just checked dvd soon and its 15.98 CAD (about 10.50 euro with free shipping)

http://www.dvdsoon.com/show-title-details.xml?uid=106319 and has the magical 'in stock' status!!

Be careful though. They have great prices but when they say 'in stock' it tends to be stretching the truth a bit. It can be a week or two before they actually get around to dispatching it. But once it's in the post it doesn't take too long, and their great prices more than make up for the delays.

Kare Bear wrote:

And some movie about a family of mice that lived by a lake.

That sounds like the Secret of Nimh. They lived in an old cinder block.

samo

Hehe, am a veteran of dvd soon and there strange stock levels - although prices have risen lately so this is the 1st order they have gotten off me for the past month!!

Will probably receive the Little Unicorn in time for her 6th birthday

Mitch Connor

Karl Hungus wrote:

*Shudder*

That was painfully pants.

that was so bad - my dad's cinema showed it a week before it came out and still no one turned up!

nadir

my parents didnt really care what I watched when I was younger (might explain why im so ****ed up now) so here are a few of my childhood favs.

Conan The Barbarian,
Predator,
Terminator,
Akira,
Alien,
Blade Runner,
Time Bandits,
The Princess Bride,
2001,
Empire Strikes Back,
All the Clint Eastwood ones.
dunno , loads more


but I got to say, I always thought Willow was complete pants

Kingp35

I think all mine have already been said but I have to say them again.

Labrynth - What a classic fantasy adventure. It used to really scare me when I was younger. Still have it on video.

Flight Of The Navigator - Also an absolute classic movie. Have it on video as well

The Goonies - Also a great adventure film

and my childhod fav....

Ghostbusters 2 - Was the first film I ever saw in the cinema that my dad brought me to see. I was 5 and I loved it. Was addicted to ghostbusters for years and I had all the toys. Just recently bought both of them on DVD. Still as good as ever!!

Kingp35

Oh and how could I forget SHORT CIRCUIT.

I bet it would be rubbish now but I loved it back in the day

p~b

cool runnings
police academy
beetlejuice
masters of the universe
the money pit
big
uncle buck
teenage mutant ninja turtles: the secret of the ooze
the snowman

fun bus

QUOTE-Flight Of The Navigator - Also an absolute classic movie. Have it on video as well

I love that film!! and i couldn't even think of the name of it til i saw it written down in black and white!! it is the one with the kid, the space ship and all the adorably friendly little aliens, isnt it? why dont they show these classics on tv more?!

butters scotch

ah the goonies, it's still funny even now... memories

Hedge

Ferris Buellers Day Off
Gremlins
The Untouchables
BMX Bandits
See no Evil, Hear No Evil
Time Bandits
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

and my number 1

The Cannonball Run

c - 13

Bought Labyrinth on DVD the weekend (bargain at a tenner) watched it a couple of times again, I was actually surprised at how watchable it still was even by todays standards (IMO anyway).

Gave it to my little sister - might as well pass on the classics.

film_gonzo

Mine would be..

Back to the Future
Ghostbusters
Gremlins 1&2 (Joe Dante what went wrong?!)
and pretty much every Disney film I ever saw with exception to
The Jungle Book and Robin Hood. Loved those.

Nimrod's Son

The Three Amigos never left the video player in our house when I was young.
Special mentions for Back To The Future, Moonwalker, Teenage Mutant Turtles and Short Circuit (1&2).

Hercule

I watched Home Alone 1/2 religously for several years - it got to the point where I knew the entire bloody film off by heart.I also have to mention Mighty Ducks and COOL RUNNINGS
"how 'bout i draw a line on your head so it looks like a butt"- priceless

Diarmsquid

Robin hood :rolleyes: