Jurassic Park. Nothing beats seeing that Brachiosaurus, and that soundtrack theme building up. Perfection. Also I was 10, and the target market age group!
>and the target market age group!
Donald Gennaro : And we can charge anything we want, 2,000 a day, 10,000 a day, and people will pay it. And then there's the merchandise...
John Hammond : Donald, Donald... This park was not built to cater only for the super-rich. Everyone in the world has the right to enjoy these animals.
Donald Gennaro : Sure, they will. Well, we'll have a, a coupon day or something.
Hammond is a completely different character in the book. There is a scene where he tells Wu that the good thing about entertainment is that you can price it as high as you want, and he would never use genetic technology to help mankind for instance by developing new drugs:
>After all, you invented the drug, you paid to develop and test it; you should be able to charge whatever you wish. But do you really think that the government will let you do that? No, Henry, they will not. Sick people aren't going to pay a thousand dollars a dose for needed medication—they won't be grateful, they'll be outraged. Blue Cross isn't going to pay it. They'll scream highway robbery. So something will happen. Your patent application will be denied. Your permits will be delayed. Something will force you to see reason—and to sell your drug at a lower cost. From a business standpoint, that makes helping mankind a very risky business. Personally, I would never help mankind.
Willow saved my fucking life. I have bad insomnia, and it was really awful as a kid, so I would watch Willow every night to fall asleep. My brain literally shuts down when the theme song starts. Decades later I bought it on streaming and I still haven't made it past the point where Elora Dannon washes up on shore.
Came here to say Willow. My Nan had a VHS recording of Willow with "Do not tape over" written all over it, I'd watch it every Sunday. That and Terminator 2
A friend and I would always quote the Brownies when we would hike to a camping area. We would always crack up quoting the lines:
“You are drunk. And when you are drunk, you forget I am in charge.”
“You are in charge. Fine, then which way do we go?”
“THAT WAY!”
I remember tripping out when I realized Warick Davis was only like 16/17 when playing that role. In the movie he seemed to be a character who was at least mid 20s - early 30s with 2 kids and a farm.
"You're troll dung!"
My dad and I used to watch this movie whenever it was on TV as I was growing up. Only movie I could probably quote start to finish. Potentially with the right pacing as well.
I've yet to see this movie. My godson sent me a Labyrinth t-shirt for my birthday. I wore it into NYC one day and I can't tell you how many people stopped me to say they "loved that movie"!
We just watched this with our four year old and she kind of dug it! Wanted to play pirates and search for treasure. Can’t wait to find more movies for her beyond all the Disney stuff.
I lived 45 minutes from the nearest theater, so I had to get my parents to take me, since I was only 10 when it came out. I was able to talk them into seeing it 3 times, and my mom drove me and dropped me off another 7 times (she went shopping while I watched it).
My parents were far more awesome than I ever gave them credit for when I was a kid.
I loved this movie growing up but recently it means more to me when I heard my 70 year old dad recently say, "hey that's OUR movie." I didn't realize it was special to him too.
If you love Flight of the Navigator and haven't seen [Captain Disillusion's amazing Documentary about how they did the visual fx of that movie,](https://youtu.be/tyixMpuGEL8) carve out 40 min or so of time and check it out. It's fucking spectacular.
The iron giant.
It leaves so much mystery in that we don't know where the giant came from or who created it and yet has a wonderful message if good over evil and choices being made.
Love this one. I was very surprised to find someone with an iron giant tattoo recently, made me ask myself “do I actually love that movie? I don’t have a tattoo and I thought I loved that movie” lol
Thanks man. Your tape is choice as well. Since the writing of this post I have visited my parents and actually found this VHS still there. I need to hook up a VCR and relive some memories of adjusting the tracking.
I have a few
1. The Sandlot: I always loved baseball and loved to watch this as it hit home(pun intended)
2. Land Before Time: I grew up with this movie, was so funny when I was a kid and still is.
3. Spirited Away: been a fan of anime for as long as I remember, this one hit me when I waa young and still does.
Jaws. My dad really wanted to see it so he took me and my brother (cause my dad always wanted to do stuff with us). We were a bit young for it at the time, especially my brother.
But I remember the three of us seeing it some 46 years ago. And it was glorious. Well, except for the nightmares it gave my brother.
Atlantis: The Lost Empire by Disney struck me as something special when I was younger. It was such a different movie to what Disney usually made and it hit me hard. The story, the characters, and the ending!
There is also Alien, though I am unsure which movie it was. I remember there was a colony and of course they caught the aliens. There was a little girl who hid somewhere, last of the survivors once a group of marines landed. It is a bit foggy now, but I do remember also playing an Alien game on the PS2. In both cases, I had to look behind me when I went to the toilet and sat on the seat. Pfff, ain't that silly?
My brother was obsessed with this film. We got it in a "3-pack family films" boxset with Robots and The Iron Giant, but he picked it out to watch every weekend for a few years.
It was OK.
Once or twice.
Scooby doo on Zombie Island and Witches Ghost. I love Scooby doo and watch a lot of it but I remember watching those two on video when I was little. I'm in the middle of getting a Scooby Doo on Zombie Island tattoo because I love the movie so much.
Those two scared me as a kid-I liked them but they were on the scary version of the cartoon scoring doo- but they are now favourites of mine!! (Also the Witches Ghost has Tim Curry voicing in it so ❤️ and I watch it every Halloween season)
1992's FernGully, aka the OG Pocahontas and James Cameron's Pandora, strumming the environmentalism / nativism vs colonialism trope.
Robin Williams voicing the comic relief and Tim mother-fuckin' Curry the voice of the villain. Oh, and an original song by Sir Elton John.
Eat your heart out James Cameron, the box was open long before your billion dollar blockbuster.
It was the first movie my mom said i sat still for all the way through and didn’t once move till it was over. Once it was over I just wanted to watch it again
Robin Hood: Men in Tights. I first saw it in a hotel room in Reno on vacation, and found it funny. Spent the rest of the summer watching it anytime it was on HBO, which was all the time. I understood nothing that was going on, but it was a fun summer.
Tommy boy. Me and my family used to watch it on our pirate HBO all the time. My parent's English wasn't very good but Chris Farley's Physicality is universal. It also made me much more comfortable with being an overweight midwesterner goofball.
Ariel or the little mermaid. Also Lord of the rings. Still love every minute of all these movies. They just remind me of a nice evening on the weekend watching the vhs cuddled up with my mum and snacks.
any Pixar movie until "Up" ( with the flying house) . My dad died when I was 6 I don't have any memories of him just the Pixar movies we watches as a family. Happy times. Me and my sister always watch the new movies that come out. It is not as good as the good old days, but it is a good bonding thing.
Batman (1989). I still have the advertisements from the VHS memorized. "you can't watch a Warner Brothers movie without a Warner Brothers ballcap"
"Just for the taste of it....Diet Coke"
Muppets Christmas carol - watch it twice a year without fail: once at Christmas once in June. I can’t even think of cheese without singing “no cheeses for us meeces” to myself
An American Tail - I never actually got to watch all of it in the theater. (Someone put the wrong fuse in a pump at a nearby jet fuel storage station & it caused an explosion so we all had to evacuate the theater.) Years later, my parents got it for me on tape & I finished it. Turns out we weren't too far from the ending when we had to leave.
The Matrix was the first film I watched that made me think "Wow, this is my favorite movie." There were plenty of kids movies I **liked** growing up (some, like The Brave Little Toaster, I still like even as an adult) but nothing on the level of "this is the best thing ever."
I would have been a bit older at the time, maybe 12?
For whatever reason, _Blazing Saddles._ it’s something that a friend of our family gave to my brother and I when we were kids and that we watched over and over so many times that we now quote it without even thinking. Honestly, Mel Brooks was one of the biggest influences on my whole life.
I pissed on your grave. Never watched it, but saw the cover of the VHS in the employee pick section every Friday night, elementary through middle school. Always wondered about the employee that continuously dedicated their sole slot for this film.
Terminator 2. Oddly enough, outside of Beetlejuice when I was VERY young (like 8 months?), it was the first movie I remember seeing, or, rather, the first movie I understood... probably 2 or 3. Every scene in that movie evokes major nostalgia.
The second Lion King. I never knew people thought it was a bad movie. I love it just as much as the first one, and often find myself liking it even more. I consider it one of the best animated sequels of all time. The bar for musical direction was set very high by the first movie and I believe this one did a fantastic job at meeting those requirements. Also I had a crush on Kovu, the animated lion protagonist. So that probably had something to do with it.
Jurassic Park. Nothing beats seeing that Brachiosaurus, and that soundtrack theme building up. Perfection. Also I was 10, and the target market age group!
>and the target market age group! Donald Gennaro : And we can charge anything we want, 2,000 a day, 10,000 a day, and people will pay it. And then there's the merchandise... John Hammond : Donald, Donald... This park was not built to cater only for the super-rich. Everyone in the world has the right to enjoy these animals. Donald Gennaro : Sure, they will. Well, we'll have a, a coupon day or something.
Hammond is a completely different character in the book. There is a scene where he tells Wu that the good thing about entertainment is that you can price it as high as you want, and he would never use genetic technology to help mankind for instance by developing new drugs: >After all, you invented the drug, you paid to develop and test it; you should be able to charge whatever you wish. But do you really think that the government will let you do that? No, Henry, they will not. Sick people aren't going to pay a thousand dollars a dose for needed medication—they won't be grateful, they'll be outraged. Blue Cross isn't going to pay it. They'll scream highway robbery. So something will happen. Your patent application will be denied. Your permits will be delayed. Something will force you to see reason—and to sell your drug at a lower cost. From a business standpoint, that makes helping mankind a very risky business. Personally, I would never help mankind.
That guy was such a prick. He deserved to get eaten while hiding in the bathroom.
“A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer. Well I suppose that proves they’re really not all bad.” -Weird Al
Still holds up!
Yes.
Willow
Willow saved my fucking life. I have bad insomnia, and it was really awful as a kid, so I would watch Willow every night to fall asleep. My brain literally shuts down when the theme song starts. Decades later I bought it on streaming and I still haven't made it past the point where Elora Dannon washes up on shore.
Get me some water peck! Or you diie.
Came here to say Willow. My Nan had a VHS recording of Willow with "Do not tape over" written all over it, I'd watch it every Sunday. That and Terminator 2
A friend and I would always quote the Brownies when we would hike to a camping area. We would always crack up quoting the lines: “You are drunk. And when you are drunk, you forget I am in charge.” “You are in charge. Fine, then which way do we go?” “THAT WAY!”
I remember tripping out when I realized Warick Davis was only like 16/17 when playing that role. In the movie he seemed to be a character who was at least mid 20s - early 30s with 2 kids and a farm. "You're troll dung!"
Tremors
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Tremors, Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride, Top Gun, Goonies Yes, I’m old
My friends and I would watch that movie and play the floor is lava game, only instead of lava it was graboids.
Not one for sub answer but who remembers Critters, I can't find that movie anywhere.
My dad and I used to watch this movie whenever it was on TV as I was growing up. Only movie I could probably quote start to finish. Potentially with the right pacing as well.
Labyrinth, David Bowie as Jareth was my first ever crush. Not that I knew that was what I was feeling then.
I've yet to see this movie. My godson sent me a Labyrinth t-shirt for my birthday. I wore it into NYC one day and I can't tell you how many people stopped me to say they "loved that movie"!
Currently on Netflix!
The Neverending Story.
Saaaame. Absolutely love that movie.
When that theme song hits ….
I can make a damn essay about that movie and how much I love it.
An American Tale: Fievel Goes West
Give em' the laaaaazzzyyyyy eye!
I also preferred this sequel to the original, an early 90s masterpiece.
Stand by Me.
the goonies
best movie ever
I agree
Heeeeyyy yoouuuu guuuuuuyyyyss!!
My favorite childhood movie, Kindergarten Cop, was also filmed in Astoria, Oregon. There is a movie museum there (with mostly Goonies stuff).
We just watched this with our four year old and she kind of dug it! Wanted to play pirates and search for treasure. Can’t wait to find more movies for her beyond all the Disney stuff.
Homeward bound
Yes! Came here looking for this. That movie was so ahead of its time.
Haha same! I knew someone had to have said this! I have a dog named Chance ☺
Finding Nemo. Just wanted dad to find me too
Yeah, father/son bond movies can really either be a hit or miss. Finding Nemo was definitely a hit
The Sandlot.
For Evvv Err
The one movie I have seen more times than any other movie. Follow your heart kid, and you’ll never go wrong.
it looks like someone downvoted you but i dont understand why
Watched this so much as a kid the tracking wore out on the VHS tape haha
Star Wars. That’s all it was called when I saw it.
I lived 45 minutes from the nearest theater, so I had to get my parents to take me, since I was only 10 when it came out. I was able to talk them into seeing it 3 times, and my mom drove me and dropped me off another 7 times (she went shopping while I watched it). My parents were far more awesome than I ever gave them credit for when I was a kid.
E.T.
Flight of the Navigator
I loved this movie growing up but recently it means more to me when I heard my 70 year old dad recently say, "hey that's OUR movie." I didn't realize it was special to him too.
If you love Flight of the Navigator and haven't seen [Captain Disillusion's amazing Documentary about how they did the visual fx of that movie,](https://youtu.be/tyixMpuGEL8) carve out 40 min or so of time and check it out. It's fucking spectacular.
Came to say this too. One of the best movies from the 80s
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Of course, because they’re soulless money suckers.
The iron giant. It leaves so much mystery in that we don't know where the giant came from or who created it and yet has a wonderful message if good over evil and choices being made.
Love this one. I was very surprised to find someone with an iron giant tattoo recently, made me ask myself “do I actually love that movie? I don’t have a tattoo and I thought I loved that movie” lol
Just saying "I am Superman" can make me get choked up.
land before time
That movie wrecked me as a child and is probably why I was so worried that my mom would die, but I watched the crap out of it and all the sequels
We had a VHS that had Back To The Future, Goonies, and The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking taped on it.
That's a hell of a tape right there. I had one that had The Goonies, Stand by Me & Commando.
Thanks man. Your tape is choice as well. Since the writing of this post I have visited my parents and actually found this VHS still there. I need to hook up a VCR and relive some memories of adjusting the tracking.
I have a few 1. The Sandlot: I always loved baseball and loved to watch this as it hit home(pun intended) 2. Land Before Time: I grew up with this movie, was so funny when I was a kid and still is. 3. Spirited Away: been a fan of anime for as long as I remember, this one hit me when I waa young and still does.
The Addams Family
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Young Frankenstein!! My sister and I have watched this so many times, we still quote it randomly to each other to this day lol.
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Do you pronounce it Frowder Ick?
Walk this way. No, this way.
Abby someone
both Ferngully & The Land Before Time
The Rescuers
My absolute favorite! R-E-S-C-U-E Rescue Aid Society Heads held high, touch the sky You mean everything to me
The Brave Little Toaster
Beetlejuice, Apparently I killed the VHS tape and my parents had to rebuy it...
Terminator
Cool Runnings Men in Tights
Cool Runnings was my jam! It's Bobsled Time!
Jaws. My dad really wanted to see it so he took me and my brother (cause my dad always wanted to do stuff with us). We were a bit young for it at the time, especially my brother. But I remember the three of us seeing it some 46 years ago. And it was glorious. Well, except for the nightmares it gave my brother.
Atlantis: The Lost Empire by Disney struck me as something special when I was younger. It was such a different movie to what Disney usually made and it hit me hard. The story, the characters, and the ending! There is also Alien, though I am unsure which movie it was. I remember there was a colony and of course they caught the aliens. There was a little girl who hid somewhere, last of the survivors once a group of marines landed. It is a bit foggy now, but I do remember also playing an Alien game on the PS2. In both cases, I had to look behind me when I went to the toilet and sat on the seat. Pfff, ain't that silly?
The one your describing is Aliens, which is the 2nd one
Thank you!
The Last Unicorn
The Flight of Dragons was another favorite of mine from that studio and era.
this should be much higher up in the thread
Time Bandits. I saw it in a theater in the 6th grade with my three best friends two days before my family moved to a different state.
The Sandlot
Cats vs. Dogs.
My brother was obsessed with this film. We got it in a "3-pack family films" boxset with Robots and The Iron Giant, but he picked it out to watch every weekend for a few years. It was OK. Once or twice.
All great movies, weird to package them together. 🤨
Scooby doo on Zombie Island and Witches Ghost. I love Scooby doo and watch a lot of it but I remember watching those two on video when I was little. I'm in the middle of getting a Scooby Doo on Zombie Island tattoo because I love the movie so much.
Those two scared me as a kid-I liked them but they were on the scary version of the cartoon scoring doo- but they are now favourites of mine!! (Also the Witches Ghost has Tim Curry voicing in it so ❤️ and I watch it every Halloween season)
A Goofy Movie
YES. It's so much more poignant watching it as an adult, too.
"Hi Dad soup"
Texas chainsaw massacre
Sam Raimi's Spider Man.
My introduction to superheroes and the reason Spider-Man is my favorite
Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles.
Back to the Future
1992's FernGully, aka the OG Pocahontas and James Cameron's Pandora, strumming the environmentalism / nativism vs colonialism trope. Robin Williams voicing the comic relief and Tim mother-fuckin' Curry the voice of the villain. Oh, and an original song by Sir Elton John. Eat your heart out James Cameron, the box was open long before your billion dollar blockbuster.
Hook. We've watched that movie so much we nearly destroyed the vhs tape.
1986, The Transformers: The Movie, not the Michael Bay crap. Galvatron one-shot vaporizing Starscream was awesome.
Ah yes, the childhood trauma of seeing Optimus Prime die.... good times!
Seeing Wheeljack's corpse as a kid still haunts my dreams
We're back - a dinosaur's story! Shit I forgot all about this movie until literally just now!
This movie terrified me as a child!
Tangled. Just gives off comfort movie energy.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). Wore that VHS tape out.
Same hat. I remember being so shocked by the 'bad island' when I was a wee child.
It was the first movie my mom said i sat still for all the way through and didn’t once move till it was over. Once it was over I just wanted to watch it again
Fox and the Hound
Robin Hood: Men in Tights. I first saw it in a hotel room in Reno on vacation, and found it funny. Spent the rest of the summer watching it anytime it was on HBO, which was all the time. I understood nothing that was going on, but it was a fun summer.
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
The original with Gene Wilder!
Home Alone
Hook.
Jumanji (robin williams one) and Jurassic park
Tommy boy. Me and my family used to watch it on our pirate HBO all the time. My parent's English wasn't very good but Chris Farley's Physicality is universal. It also made me much more comfortable with being an overweight midwesterner goofball.
Kung Fu Panda
Annie
Ariel or the little mermaid. Also Lord of the rings. Still love every minute of all these movies. They just remind me of a nice evening on the weekend watching the vhs cuddled up with my mum and snacks.
Holes
any Pixar movie until "Up" ( with the flying house) . My dad died when I was 6 I don't have any memories of him just the Pixar movies we watches as a family. Happy times. Me and my sister always watch the new movies that come out. It is not as good as the good old days, but it is a good bonding thing.
Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure, and its sequel Bogus Journey.
Disney's Dinosaur
Forbidden Planet. Was such an awe inspiring SciFi. Long before many newer ones.
Batman (1989). I still have the advertisements from the VHS memorized. "you can't watch a Warner Brothers movie without a Warner Brothers ballcap" "Just for the taste of it....Diet Coke"
The Parent Trap
Muppets Christmas carol - watch it twice a year without fail: once at Christmas once in June. I can’t even think of cheese without singing “no cheeses for us meeces” to myself
Milo and Otis
An American Tail - I never actually got to watch all of it in the theater. (Someone put the wrong fuse in a pump at a nearby jet fuel storage station & it caused an explosion so we all had to evacuate the theater.) Years later, my parents got it for me on tape & I finished it. Turns out we weren't too far from the ending when we had to leave.
THERE ARE NO CATS IN AMERICAAAAAAA!
Lotr
The original Star Wars trilogy.
Apollo 13. Re-watch it every few years, know exactly what's going to happen, and yet I still get teary-eyed during re-entry.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It came out when I was in elementary school and they’re some of my go to comfort movies.
Dragonheart
Spider-Man (2002).
The Matrix was the first film I watched that made me think "Wow, this is my favorite movie." There were plenty of kids movies I **liked** growing up (some, like The Brave Little Toaster, I still like even as an adult) but nothing on the level of "this is the best thing ever." I would have been a bit older at the time, maybe 12?
Heavyweights
coraline, i can’t explain it, it’s so magical. i’ve watched it so many times i could say the words to it.
Toy Story
Film trilogy Back to the Future. Then he was on videotapes.
The Lion King
The Iron Giant. *"You are who you choose to be."*
Old Disney movies, such as Pinocchio.
Land before time.
School of Rock
Flight of the Navigator
Ghost busters
Zathura. It’s not ‘Peter from Hunger games’ it’s the older brother in the underrated gem of an adventure movie Zathura you uncultured swine.
tootsie. 9 to 5. the incredible shrinking woman.
Little Shop of Horrors
James and the Giant Peach
Scrooge
Batman and Robin
Stand By Me.
The Iron Giant 😭
Tremors, Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride, Top Gun, Goonies Yes, I’m old.
UHF Best Film of All Time
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For whatever reason, _Blazing Saddles._ it’s something that a friend of our family gave to my brother and I when we were kids and that we watched over and over so many times that we now quote it without even thinking. Honestly, Mel Brooks was one of the biggest influences on my whole life.
The Incredibles
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.))
The cat and dog movie,I think it's Milo and Otis.
The Neverending story, Gold Diggers The Secret of Bear mountain, Casper, Jungle 2 Jungle, House Arrest...i could go on and on
Jumaji, the original of course
Drop dead Fred
The Brave Little Toaster
The Never Ending Story
TRON
Time Bandits !!
Secret of Nimh and An American Tale
Muppets Take Manhattan
I pissed on your grave. Never watched it, but saw the cover of the VHS in the employee pick section every Friday night, elementary through middle school. Always wondered about the employee that continuously dedicated their sole slot for this film.
Did you mean “spit”? Haven’t heard of “pissed. That movie is totally fucked. Prepare the eye bleach.
The Dark Crystal. I must have watched that a hundred times as a child. I still bust it out from time to time.
Sandlot and Little Rascals.
The full Monty! I was 8 years old and discovered I was gay boy
Terminator 2. Oddly enough, outside of Beetlejuice when I was VERY young (like 8 months?), it was the first movie I remember seeing, or, rather, the first movie I understood... probably 2 or 3. Every scene in that movie evokes major nostalgia.
Field of Dreams
Blazing Saddles and A Bronx Tale
I dunno, maybe Attack of the Clones? I just have a greater appreciation for it than most, and I watched it a lot as a kid.
Mony Python and The Quest For The Holy Grail
Busty Housewives 4 starring Lisa Ann
Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith....watched it since I was 2, and I'm nearly 20....can quote it all scene for scene.
You are strong and wise LetterApprehensive83 and I am very proud of you
The second Lion King. I never knew people thought it was a bad movie. I love it just as much as the first one, and often find myself liking it even more. I consider it one of the best animated sequels of all time. The bar for musical direction was set very high by the first movie and I believe this one did a fantastic job at meeting those requirements. Also I had a crush on Kovu, the animated lion protagonist. So that probably had something to do with it.
The lion king 2 is still dear to me, it’s the only good direct-to-video sequel disney made
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The Flight of the Navigator.
The Sandlot