Your favourite movies when you were kids?

[RFalvo69]

Spurned by the discussion about "The Green Knight".

1) Midway (my mother was a war movie nut; this movie alone first spurned my interest for military history (*) and then for joining the Navy)
2) Ghostbusters
3) The Young Frankenstein
4) Airplane!
5) Dario Argento's Phenomena (the best thing in having a thing for Jennifer Connelly is that she grew up with me, so I always had a thing for her across the ages [:'(])

No Star Wars. I liked it, but I was already reading "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov (I started reading early) and I found it a fun escapade but nothing more.

(*) My very first military history book was "The Great Naval Battles in the Mediterranean: 1940-43" by Arrigo Petacco. I was 10 and I was very surprised to see that Midway was not mentioned...

[ThomasJay]

Favorite movies I saw in the theaters as a kid that come to mind :

2001 a Space Odyssey
Battle of Britain
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid
Blue Max
Catch 22
Charge of the Light Brigade
Cool Hand Luke
Dirty Dozen
Doctor Zhivago
Good the Bad and the Ugly
Help!
In the Heat of the Night
Sand Pebbles
Waterloo
Yellow Submarine

Many more I could add, there were a lot of good movies growing up.

[Anonymous]

Patton on TV.
When I was a kid I was only allowed to stay up until a certain time. So one year I got to see the 1st hour of Patton. The next year a little more, etc.
It is probably the most watch movie that I've watched over the years.
I watched it with my daughter one time and to this day she still calls him "potty mouth" Patton! [:D]

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[Curtis Lemay]

I was between fifth and sixth grade when "The Longest Day" was released. I and all my friends eagerly attended the first showing at our base - huge event. I considered it the Greatest Film Ever at the time. (It's slipped a bit since).

A year later came "Bye Bye Birdie". I was just old enough to really appreciate Ann-Margaret = Greatest Sex Symbol Ever at the time. (She's only slipped a little since).

[Zap]

The wizard of OZ

[Zovs]

Patton
A Bridge Too Far
Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming
One Who Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Audrey Murphy To Hell And Back
The Green Berets
The Longest Day
Cross of Iron
The Big Red One
Dirty Dozen
The Magnificent Seven
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Dirty Harry
Smokey and the Bandit

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

The Omen --- Nothing like 666 at age 8 to scare the crap outta me and motivated me to read the King James Bible
Deerhunter --- You wanna end up like Stevie in the pit?
10 --- In the late 70's, had to work to see nice set of cans
Stalag 17 --- Sgt JJ Sefton, "Two packs of cigarettes Dunbar doesn't make it outta the compound"
Star Wars --- "Ive been waiting for you Obi-Won"
Logan's Run --- Runner!
Ten Commandments --- Moses, Moses, Moses.
King of Kings --- Jeffrey Hunter, really
Judah Ben Hurr --- Chuck
Planet of the Apes --- You finally did it
Beneath Planet of Apes --- good suspense
Patton --- We're fighting the wrong ppl
Shane --- So you're Jack Wilson, heard alot about you. You're a low down Yankee liar.
Aliens --- Bill Paxton as Hudson, so much great smack
Rambo --- They drew first blood
Psycho --- been locking bathroom door since then
Dial M For Murder --- never ran with scissors again
Poseidon Adventure --- "Hey Preacher, you got 15 minutes or we're going the other way."
Red Dawn --- Wolverines !!!
Wall Street --- Life comes down to a few moments, this is one of them
One Eyed Jacks --- If you're looking to get your back broken, I'm the one who takes care of those things around here.
Bridge on the River Kwai --- You can do it boy, use the knife!
Battle of the Bulge --- Telly Savalas, "It's like shooting them with tennis balls, lets get outta here".
Custer of the West --- Fact we are wiping you off the Earth, not my concern, judged for being backwards.
Rocky III --- If he dies, he dies.
Die Hard --- Shoot the glass!
Caddyshack --- $50 bux you slice. I never slice, and there's no gambling at Brentwood. You can owe me.
Hoosiers -- My team is on the court.
G.I. Blues --- Elvis in uniform
Viva Las Vegas --- Elvis & Ann
Blue Hawaii --- Elvis is the man
Jailhouse Rock --- Elvis is prison
How Green Was My Valley --- Love the Welsh singers.
The Seahawk --- Errol Flynn the pirate, serving the Queen.
Outlaw Josey Wales --- Dying ain't much of a living
Dirty Harry --- Did I shoot 5 or 6 times?
Jaws --- Scared me for a Summer at the lake
Force Ten From Navaronne --- We're no damn partisans!
Sgt York --- Give me that old time religion. Alvin gets saved.
Pride of the Yankees --- Today, I'm the luckiest man alive.
Great Escape --- Donald Donald Pleasence my fav character
Goldfinger --- P_ssy Galore
Animal House --- Pledge pin on your uniform!

[James Taylor]

James Arness as "The Thing"

[bomccarthy]

Sticking to when I was a pre-teen (through 1977):

Saw in the theater:
Jaws
Scrooge (with Albert Finney)
Gumball Rally (we went to see the other movie in a double feature, but this stuck with my siblings and me. Writers and producers of Cannonball Runwere angry at this "ripoff", but Gumball beat them in release and was a much funnier movie with more interesting cars, and Raul Julia had much more talent then anyone in Cannonball)

Watched on TV:
Frankenstein
King Kong
Planet of the Apes
The Norliss Tapes (intended as a TV series pilot, but never went further; streaming on YouTube)

Watched in my friends' garage (their dad was a high school teacher who worked for Disney during the summers - he was allowed to borrow films for private viewings):
The Love Bug
The Absent-Minded Professor
Mary Poppins (probably more memorable because we felt special for being able to see a major movie that was only released to theaters for relatively brief runs)

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[OldSarge]

There were a bunch.
Forbidden Planet. I still think of this as the best of it's genre, I'm glad there hasn't been a remake.
War of the Worlds. This is the only movie I can recall that included Jack Northrop's 'Flying Wing'. As a side note, in 1980, before Northrop died. He was granted a special security exemption to be allowed to visit the B-2 development facility. Northrop saw vision reborn
Patton. George C. Scott was epic in this film, first saw it at the Saturday matinee back int the day.
A Bridge Too Far.
Battle of Britain. A classic that still stands the test of time.
Logan's Run.
The Andromeda Strain.
The Wild Bunch.
Cross of Iron.
Strategic Air Command.
The Omega Man.
Soylent Green.
To Hell And Back. Starring Audie Murphy himself[/b].
The Red Badge Of Courage. Another Audie Murphy movie.

There are other movies whose names are escaping me at the moment.

[Orm]

So what age span are we talking here. How old of a kid? Or young.

[jhyden]

I remember watching Patton when it came out in the theater. I was about 8-9 and loved it immediately. I remember my oldest sister's boyfriend bought the soundtrack (8 track cassette) and listened to it in his car.

I watched a bunch of war films on TV growing up, all the stuff that was on. One of my favorites was "Ryan's Express" with Frank Sinatra. Another favorite that I saw when it was at the theater was 'The Cowboys' with John Wayne. The Vivaldi music really inspired me and Bruce Dern scared me. [:)] I saw 'Star Wars' when it came out also. I had just started high school (1977-78) so it was a big deal. I remember seeing 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Jaws' with the same friend (mid-seventies). I also remember seeing a couple of the 'Sinbad' movies that were really cool.







Might as well mention "The Time Tunnel" which was on TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MByhY6aSUo


~ best wishes to all

[OldSarge]

I remembered a few others
A Man For All Seasons A powerful role for Paul Scofield. Quite a few big names in the cast.
A favorite quote from that movie

“For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!”

The Sand Pebbles.
Bullitt.
The Magnificent Seven.
The Seven Samurai.
Rashomon. I'm a fan of Kurosawa films.
The Agony And The Ecstasy.
Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

[Kuokkanen]

I remember watching a number of movies, but I have trouble remembering any favourites. I was all for James Bond, Star Wars, and Tarzan when those aired, but I don't remember any single favourites from any of the series. Once upon a time in the West ranks high though. I don't remember when I saw it first, but I remember watching it with my father. He said the genre has staring like in the first meeting between Harmonica and Cheyenne. Eventually I recorded it (VHS) and watched repeatedly.

Starship Troopers is the first movie I remember watching in a theater like environment (library's auditorium) where I wasn't part of a school class. I was already in mid-teens and in vocational school at the time. Later I recorded it (still on VHS) and watched it repeatedly. Still best scifi war movie I know of, and I challenge you to name a better (Star Wars ones are adventure).

[Rising-Sun]

Hmm good ones, hard to remember what i been into back in those days.

I did like the movie The Howling (first one) when that chick taken her cloths off, my dad put his hand over my eyes lol. We were in the theater.
Also like that Star War movie too.

And one crack me up, Monty Ponty, The Holy Grail. Something to do with the black knight getting chopped up near the bridge.

[Neilster]

Star Wars blew my seven year old brain
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark was huge too
The Empire Strikes Back gave us more goodness from the Star Wars universe
Firefox was exciting...secret Soviet fighters...very cool

Later, I discovered Where Eagles Dare, which I've watched dozens of times and The Blues Brothers. Same.

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[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: Grognerd_INC

I was 24 when I saw Star Wars! Wear Star wars T-Shirts every day now in 2021 (Not the same one of course!)

What old kid you were [:'(]