What was your favorite movie growing up as a kid?

[Rookeskydiver 0]

As for myself, the Goonies was my favorite. I think it was every kids dream to go on a pirate treasure hunt.

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"Its a Wonka Bar"....."Go ahead Charlie open it, lets see that golden ticket"

[Michele 1]

The Sound of Music, followed very closely by the Star Wars Trilogy.

Ciels-
Michele

~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~

[Viking 0]

Any of the star wars or star trek movies. I can watch a movie and then rewind it and watch it again!!

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[Lolie 0]

I loved "The King and I" for some reason. I remember watching it four times in one day. My sister and I used to watch it every time we went to our grandma's house.

-Miranda
you shall above all things be glad and young / For if you're young,whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad / whatever's living will yourself become.

[AggieDave 6]

Back To The Future (all 3 of them).

The summer when I was 12 or 13 I think I watched all three of those movies once a day or so. Still to this day I can still damn near quote the movies line for line, even though I haven't actually watched them in a very long time...

I loved the Goonies too, though. Actually, there were quite a few movies that I really enjoyed (well, I love movies, so that was normal for me), but Back to the Future(s) was the movie that stands out.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[narcimund 0]

Oh, that's easy! Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

In fact, I think it's STILL my favorite movie. I also have first edition copies of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and most of Roald Dahl's other great children's books.

First Class Citizen Twice Over

[jessefs 0]

I liked the Princess Bride and Legend. Legend always scared the bejeezus out of me....

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[suz 0]

Never saw goonies myself. But I definately grew up on Grease.

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Actually! Now that I've had a few hours to think about this one, I'd have to say I grew up on
Grease
Never Ending Story
The Dark Crystal
Gremlins
Ghost Busters

OK....I can go on for ages. But I just had to add those

Don't bother me, I'm living happily ever after

[Lolie 0]

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I definately grew up on Grease.

I've never seen Grease.

-Miranda
you shall above all things be glad and young / For if you're young,whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad / whatever's living will yourself become.

[misskriss 0]

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The Sound of Music

Me tooooooooo... in fact , I am hooked on the soundtrack as well.. does it make me a mean Mom to force my kids to watch it every Christmas season when they have no interest? oh well..i make them watch it anyway..

now I'm singing..i am sixteen..going on seventeen...

[mccordia 74]

E.T. was always huge for me..it still realy brings back the feeling I had when I was about 12 years old watching it....that movie is pure magic..

JC
FlyLikeBrick
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[rgoper 0]

"Tommy" (Starring Elton John, Tina Turner *The Acid Queen* and Roger Daltry from The Who) and "Gone In 60 Seconds" (first one) not nicholas cage's version. the tiger in the back of the cadillac was too much! and "Rin Tin Tin"

--Richard--
"We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

[IronMike 0]

A Christmas Story

[ozthebum 0]

Spaceballs. I saw it for the first time when I was about 12, and have watched it, no shit, about 200 time sense.

Oz

[bbarnhouse 0]

Anything Shirley Temple
Every Sunday Morning like clockwork, I was glued to the t.v. waiting for the darling pixie to bring a ray of sunshine ......

[skymama 37]

Another vote here for The Sound of Music, and it's still one of my favorites. And, I might add, some of you are picking movies that I saw as an adult, not a kid. There's something terribly wrong with that!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[sunshine 2]

Romancing the Stone
Pete's Dragon
Flashdance

Those are the only 3 i can think of right now.

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[nacmacfeegle 0]

Okay Andrea, I'll make you feel better...
My fave childhood film was Steamboat Willie.....

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[skymama 37]

heehee, thanks, nacmac!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[CrazyIvan 0]

Deep Throat

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Blue Skies and May the Force be with you.

[charliezulu 0]

Toss up between Top Hat (Fred A.) and Singin' in the Rain (Gene K.). Old musicals rock.

CZ

[PLFXpert 0]

There were several movies that I went through at least 2 or 3 copies of when I was little:

Adventures in Babysitting
Grease
Dirty Dancing
Sound of Music

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[PLFXpert 0]

Holy cow! How could I forget Pete's Dragon and Flashdance, even Romancing the stone! I had the Flashdance soundtrack and went through a couple copies of that, as well! I used to pretend I was the dancer...ha hah a....I had warm-up socks and a leotard and the works!

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[wmw999 2,534]

Probably "Hatari!"

After we watched that, the broomsticks and clotheslines were all co-opted to animal-trapping duty, and no dogs were safe.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[quade 4]

My Side of the Mountain also a -great- set of books. If you have a kid of Boy Scout age, then it's a must watch & read.

The first book was written in 1959 and I believe the last book in the series was just written recently. I haven't read it yet.

The movie was released in 1969.

If you read the books or watch the movie, I think you'll find it interesting that what -could- have been perfectly acceptable at the time they were made, would be almost unthinkable today.

Still, lots of really cool stuff in the books (a little less so in the movie) about how to live off the land and such. Realy cool. Kid even learns falconry. Anybody remember the name of the skydiving falcon that was featured in Parachutist? Well, guess where the name came from?

quade -
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