What was your favorite movies as a child?

United States
November 9, 2006 4:57pm CST
I liked Adventures in Babysitting, The Last Unicorn, The Boy Who Could Fly, Dirty Dancing, The Goonies, Flashdance (yes... my mom let us watch this), and Weird Science. I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones that we watched over and over again.
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@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
16 Nov 06
National Velvet (Elizabeth Tayler 12 years old and Mickey Rooney), Lassie Come Home, all the Shirley Temple movies, all the Judy Garland and Mickey Roonie Films, all the musicals, Esther Williams movies. Almost forgot the films of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid, Hopalong Cassidy, Lash Larue, The Lone Rangerand Red Ryder. Gosh there were so many it's impossible for me to say which I liked best. Kids today don't know what they are missing.....there was no blood and gore in those days and no explosions...no special effects....no raunchy vocabulary....it was juat music, romance and shoot em up cowboys.
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@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
16 Nov 06
I forgot to mention all the movies in WWII....my favorite then was "A Guy Named Joe" with Spencer Tracey and Irene Dunne and also like "30 seconds Over Tokyo" with Van Johnson.
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• United States
20 Nov 06
Thank you for your comments. I've seen some of the movies you mentioned. I tend to agree about the movies today. I even think that 80's horror films were scarier because they aren't as high tech and gorey as today. More was left to the imagination, and the imagination can be a scary thing. :)
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@macubx (11414)
• Philippines
9 Nov 06
Problem Child - i was enjoying this when i was young..
• United States
9 Nov 06
Oh I remember that movie. It was so funny back then. Did you see Problem Child 2?
• United States
10 Nov 06
Do you know if that kid did any other movies?
• United States
20 Nov 06
My favorite movie was All Dogs Go To Heaven for many years; I just liked the characters. When I was very young I remember loving The Lion King, 101 Dalmatians, and Pocahontas. By the time I actually got to visit Jamestown, unfortunately, Pocahontas wasn't my favorite movie anymore!
• United States
22 Jul 07
Groaning!... THe Lion King... my little niece would visit for 6 weeks at a time and watch that show 8 times a day the whole six weeks. IT got to where I knew it line by line.
• United States
16 Nov 06
ghostbusters hands down. i had a school bag that looked like a proton pack, bedsheets, pajama jumpsuit. the whole nine yards. also, in case you couldnt tell, i was the COOLEST kid around.
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• United States
9 Dec 06
That's cool! Do you still remember all their names?
• United States
19 Jul 07
I watched a whole lot of sci-fi as a kid, because my parents were sci-fi fans, and they took us along to see stuff like Star Wars and Star Trek. No wonder I grew up to be a geek! :) I also really loved The Last Unicorn, The Princess Bride, The Neverending Story, and other fantasy type movies.
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• United States
22 Jul 07
My mom was the same way! Neverending story - good one!
@Omoidasu (28)
• Philippines
19 Jul 07
My favorite was Babes in Toyland by Disney...Love Mary's dresses and it was a nice surprise that when I got the DVD I actually still remember the songs! After that there's also the Last Unicorn. There was a video rental in a mall near home who had a LASERDISC of the Last Unicorn and whenever we were there or at least whenever it was available, I would rent it no matter how many times! Must've drove Mom crazy! But then again she knows I love horses :)
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• United States
22 Jul 07
The Last Unicorn is great. One of my all time favorites.
• Singapore
16 Nov 06
Surprisingly, the only movies I remembered watching during my growing up years were the James Bond 007 movies. "For Your Eyes Only", "A View To A Kill", "The Living Daylights", "Octopussy", "Live and Let Die", "The Spy Who Loved Me", "From Russia With Love", "You Only Live Twice". And I remember I actually liked them. My favourite was Pierce Brosnan, followed closely by Timothy Dalton. And my childhood ambition was to grow up to be a Bond girl.
• United States
16 Nov 06
I never watched these til I was a teenager... and a TV channel had a Bond Marathon. It would be cool to be a Bond girl.
• Malaysia
24 Jul 07
As a child, I had not many chances to watch movie. My parents are not movie goers, so we never go to the cinemas. But I remembered at one time my father brought home a projector with Cinderella animated slides. Our family gathered in the living room and my father played the projector. I really love Cinderella (the walt disney cartoon). Until now it is still my favorite animation movie.
24 Jul 07
Oh my gosh, I had millions of movies that I loved as a child. It is hard to narrow it down to my favourites, but I was a Disney fanatic. I also loved the cartoon character Asterix and I had all of his films... I think my favourite was probably Fantasia. I liked the music. x
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