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[Borys]

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[Tieno]

Ski patrol, I saw it so so so so many times when I was a kid. Love skiing. It's pretty bad.

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[MrAngryFace]

Short Circuit
Masters of the Universe
Neverending Story
Flight of the Navigator
Last Starfighter

[muckhole]

I think I watched Revenge of the Nerds about 10,000 times when I was younger, but there was nothing youthful or innocent in my motives.

[CajoleJuice]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1-3

First two were awesome.

[The Fake Shemp]

Probably either Big Trouble in Little China or Ghostbusters.

[Akala]

Aside from all the good ones that have been mentioned already...

Space Camp 

[Rman]

Ghostbusters
Short Circuit
Batteries Not Included
Disney's Sword and the Stone
Gremlins
The Empire Strikes Back
The Goonies
The Neverending Story

child of the 80s obviously

[The Fake Shemp]

Yeah, I forgot - I used to watch *batteries not included and Short Circuit a lot.  And F/X.

[Brehvolution]

The original cartoon movie of Transformers. The first 5 minutes of the movie where autobots are dying and my 10 year old brain is like WTF!!!! Braun ... NOOOOO!!! I loved the hardcoreness of it and I thought it was a great story.
Great metal score too.

[Darunia]

SW trilogy <3 This is pretty much required watching for any kid.
First 2 Home Alone movies
Aladdin
Gremlins
3 Ninjas
Karate Kid
Alien/Aliens
Critters
Mrs Doubtfire
Turtles 1 & 2 (to this day I've still not seen 3, kinda plan to keep it that way)
Jurassic Park. I had seen movies in the theatre before but JP is the first one I vividly remember, was 8 years old at the time, so awesome
Child's Play
Naked Gun
Tim Burton's two Batmans <3
Beetlejuice
ET
Ghostbusters
Poltergeist
National Lampoon movies with Chevy Chase
Back to the Future

most I can remember right now

ow ow and the movie where Dennis Quaid befriends an alien

edit: here we go

[FlameOfCallandor]

[Enl]

Neverending Story
Friday the 13th 1,2,3,4 (can't believe I was allowed to watch these movies)
Dark Crystal
Legend
Fantastic Planet
The Snowman
Labyrinth
Cloak and Dagger
Critters
The Burbs
The Last Starfighter
Star Wars
Flight of the Navigator
Robocop
Predator (saw this and Robocop at the drive in for the first time)
Winds of Change
Goonies
Fright Night
Enemy Mine
Big Trouble in Little China
Alien, Aliens
The Peanut Butter Solution
All the Indiana Jones
Poltergeist
Beetlejuice
Batman
The Last Unicorn
Evil Dead 1,2, and Army
Invaders from Mars (the teacher with the frog in her mouth scared the hell out of me)
House (hated House 2 and 4 though)
Revenge of the Ninja (such a bad movie but I loved it so much)


Too many to list! I guess I should be fortunate to have parents that copied a lot of films they rented.

[cool breeze]

BTTF2

Currently my favorite movie is BTTF.

[Phoenix Dark]

The Gate
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Scared the SHIT out of me as a kid. This is perhaps where my fear of small monsters began

The Bad Seed
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My mom introduced me to many older films when I was younger, and of course the scary/suspenseful stuff made the bigger impact on me. Very good movie, and the cat/mouse interaction between Leroy and the little girl is still amazing

The Labyrinth
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Still a favorite of mine omg. Gotta watch it a couple times a year

Jurassic Park
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I still remember the very first time I saw this.

Beauty and the Beast
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I loved so much Disney stuff as a kid but I remember watching this all the time

Imitation of Life
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I like the original but I love the remake. Still one of my absolute favorite movies of all time. John Gavin 

To Kill a Mockingbird
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My favorite movie. I still remember the first time I saw it

Jaw
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The day after I saw this movie my dad took me to the rec center pool, and even in the shallow end I was fucking scared. I remember eying the high windows over the pool, wondering if I could get away if a shark busted through 

The Neverending Story  :'(
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Artax  :'(

[Mupepe]

seriously, no one mentioned heavyweights?

[Bildi]

Wow, you guys have already listed some kick-ass movies that I totally forgot about, in particular Big Trouble in Little China.  I'm going to bookmark this thread.  A couple of others I can think of:

Princess Bride
Gods Must be Crazy 1 & 2
Flying High 1 & 2

Also a movie called "It's Alive".  I don't think it was any good but it was about this killer baby with fangs and shit.  I never forgot it.

House

[Enl]

I forgot about The Gate. That film made me want to have an eye on the palm of my hand when I was a kid. Oh the things I could do with an eye palm hand. I actually rewatched that film fairly recently and even though the first half is pretty drab the 2nd half turns into a pretty fun kid vs. demons flick. The sequel is a god awful mess though. Good thing that was forgotten with time.

[TVC15]

1) I don't even know how it's called . It was a movie that starred PETER WELLER from Robocop as a guy whose house is infested with a huge rat. He fights with this rat using everything he has, he destroys much of the house in the process but comes victorious in the end. Great action, very tense. I loved it. I have seen it 3 times as a kid on a channel called FILMNET. I have never seen or heard about it later.

Are you sure it's a rat and not a dog?

Also a movie called "It's Alive".  I don't think it was any good but it was about this killer baby with fangs and shit.  I never forgot it.

That and it's 2 sequels are motherfuckin' bona fide awesome ass cult classics.  Larry Cohen, duder! 

[Enl]

House

House was a damn fun horror flick and is still watchable today. The scene where the blond neighbor bends down to pick up a shotgun shell and comes back up as a mutant Rosanne Barr freaked the living hell out of me as a kid.

[Bildi]

House

House was a damn fun horror flick and is still watchable today. The scene where the blond neighbor bends down to pick up a shotgun shell and comes back up as a mutant Rosanne Barr freaked the living hell out of me as a kid.

I remember almost nothing about House (it must be 15-20 years since I saw it), but I remember being absolutely riveted.  I remember I was disappointed in House 2, but I did have a totally kick-ass House 2 T-shirt with a zombie hand holding up two fingers in a peace sign on the back.

I have to try and find that shirt and I really need to find House on DVD.  Thanks for the reminder about it.

Also a movie called "It's Alive".  I don't think it was any good but it was about this killer baby with fangs and shit.  I never forgot it.

That and it's 2 sequels are motherfuckin' bona fide awesome ass cult classics.  Larry Cohen, duder! 

Wow, I had no idea they were Larry Cohen films.  A friend and I rented It's Alive when I was maybe 10 and my friend had nightmares for weeks.  Guess they were great films after all, I'll have to track them down.  Thanks!

[CrystalGemini]

Sleeping Beauty
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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Oliver and Company
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest
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ALSO, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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HOLY COW I FORGOT HOME ALONE:
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[FlameOfCallandor]

 

[Joe Molotov]

House

House was a damn fun horror flick and is still watchable today. The scene where the blond neighbor bends down to pick up a shotgun shell and comes back up as a mutant Rosanne Barr freaked the living hell out of me as a kid.

I remember almost nothing about House (it must be 15-20 years since I saw it), but I remember being absolutely riveted.  I remember I was disappointed in House 2, but I did have a totally kick-ass House 2 T-shirt with a zombie hand holding up two fingers in a peace sign on the back.

Speaking of movies you loved as a kid, I loved House 2. I thought it was the most hilarious, amazing movie I'd ever seen when I was 10. I bought the House/House II double feature on DVD a few years ago, and it was laughable how bad House II was. Some parts were still pretty good, like the Electrician/Adventure that they hired to work on the house, but mostly it was just bad. On the other hand, House itself was actually a really great movie.

Another movie that I though was awesome when I was a kid: The 'burbs. But that one doesn't count because I still love that movie.



Best Tom Hanks movie ever.

[Mupepe]

the burbs was awesome

the burbs

[Mandark]

Absolutely wore out a VHS copy of Ghostbusters as a kid.  I remember when I was very young it was hard for me to tell them apart outside of Winston.  All white people look alike, I guess.

Loved some of the pre-Katzenberg Disney stuff:  Robin Hood, Great Mouse Detective, The Jungle Book, and Sword In The Stone.

The live action stuff I got into was mostly comedies.  Young Frankenstein, Bananas, A Night At The Opera, Trading Places and, uh, Surf Ninjas.

[Mupepe]

all ethnicities look alike.  I can't tell any asians or black people apart. 

[Joe Molotov]

I wish I could quote the exact line from memory, but it was something like:

"Two counts of criminal trespassing, one count of breaking and entering, three counts of destruction of private property, two counts of destruction of public property, and this old man claims that you have a ransom note that says you kidnapped his dog!"

That line gets me every time. 

[CrystalGemini]

Absolutely wore out a VHS copy of Ghostbusters as a kid.  I remember when I was very young it was hard for me to tell them apart outside of Winston.  All white people look alike, I guess.

Loved some of the pre-Katzenberg Disney stuff:  Robin Hood, Great Mouse Detective, The Jungle Book, and Sword In The Stone.

The live action stuff I got into was mostly comedies.  Young Frankenstein, Bananas, A Night At The Opera, Trading Places and, uh, Surf Ninjas.

omg The Great Mouse Detective kicked ass.

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[Mandark]

all ethnicities look alike.  I can't tell any asians or black people apart. 

I read that as you can't tell Asians apart from blacks, which would be even better.

[Enl]

I was just reminded of another movie that I used to watch in my youth. One that is far worse in quality than Revenge of the Ninja:

[Mupepe]

all ethnicities look alike.  I can't tell any asians or black people apart. 

I read that as you can't tell Asians apart from blacks, which would be even better.

I bet we can find someone like that in rural America

[Joe Molotov]

Absolutely wore out a VHS copy of Ghostbusters as a kid.  I remember when I was very young it was hard for me to tell them apart outside of Winston.  All white people look alike, I guess.

Loved some of the pre-Katzenberg Disney stuff:  Robin Hood, Great Mouse Detective, The Jungle Book, and Sword In The Stone.

The live action stuff I got into was mostly comedies.  Young Frankenstein, Bananas, A Night At The Opera, Trading Places and, uh, Surf Ninjas.

omg The Great Mouse Detective kicked ass.

The end with Basil and Ratigan inside of Big Ben was 

[etiolate]

Many of the ones mentioned, especially Enl's list, but I must add Explorers.

[xnikki118x]

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YES, THIS.

I actually have it on DVD now, and the fact that it's like the same narrator throughout and the way he talks kind of bothers me.


And like CG posted, Home Alone and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

[crimsondynamics]

I'm assuming by "childhood" we mean earlier than 12 years old?

I was five when I first saw The Omen.

I was four when I saw The Exorcist.

I was eight when I saw Alien. They were showing Rosemary's Baby right before that, so I caught both movies.

The Revenge of the Pink Panther and The Pink Panther Strikes Again were also some childhood favorites. I saw these around ages 4-6.

There's got to be more, but yeah, these are among the most memorable.