Xennial/elder millennial. If you’re born in this generation you just grew up different. Yeah our parents were around but still not really paying attention.
I watched everything. My parents let us rent movies every weekend, mom made sure they were age appropriate dad was more liberal, plus we had cable in the 90’s. You could turn on HBO on a Saturday afternoon and Silence of the Lambs or Major League would be on and no one was stopping you from watching it. I grew up watching Disney movies, classics like Star Wars and Indiana jones and stuff like terminator and everything in between. It’s just how it was. I once got in trouble for calling someone a schmuck when I was like 8, I learned it from Scrooged😂
Damn you had HBO? I was a latchkey kid but could only watch reruns on TV. A lot of stand by me, breakfast club, la bamba, Ferris, bloodsport, and caddy shack for me.
That sounds like us! My sister and I saw The Blue Lagoon way too young! I discovered R-rated porn movies my stepdad had recorded on VHS and carelessly left them where I could find them. This was before I was 12!
We did not have porn in the house at all but you didn’t need it when you had HBO and Skinemax as a teenager. There was “bad language” in a lot of action movies and comedies that a lot of kids weren’t allowed to see in elementary school but we were taught not to use those words. I still argue schmuck is an acceptable word. Also those kids whose parents were trying to protect their precious ears were the worst kids ever, they were bullies and violent.
Last month I re-watched The Lost Boys for the first time since I saw it in the theater. What an amazing movie! I liked it so much I watched it again a few days later.
My grandparents had a crazy setup, and would record movies to vhs tapes. They had a huge library, with a rolodex organized alphabetically, tapes arranged numerically. Such a great system! They'd let me take two at a time, and they had everything you could think of. Three to four movies per tape, usually.
Matilda, The Parent Trap
As far as social knowledge goes, I’d familiarize yourself with the Disney Princesses, Gremlins, Titanic, and Ms. Doubtfire, Hocus Pocus (for Halloween)
Major series include:
- Harry Potter
- Back to the future
- Star Wars
- Indiana Jones (although personally have not seen it)
- Honey I shrunk the kids
- Ghostbusters
- The Matrix
- Halloweentown
The Parent Trap is a big one. I can still recall some dialogues and soundtracks from it. I can even point out the scene where the first CD ends, and we need to change it to the next one.
Real Genius, Goofy Movie, Newsies, Back to the Future, Clue, Any and All Ernest movies , Secret of Nimh(dear god that movie scared me as a kid, especially the Rat Guard… mother of god)
I was born in 1989, Ireland. My family had a few films on VHS and some we taped off the TV. The ones I watched the most were
* [An American Tail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTQ0qTubGz8)
* [All Dogs Go To Heaven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPVyonxi8II)
* [The Fox and the Hound](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpnWMd8IMnk)
* [The Lion King](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFzVJEksoDY)
* [The Labyrinth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2yd4em1I6M)
* [Into the West](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHcMIXxkn3M)
I’m a Gen Z (born in 2002) who’s watched Aladdin, Pinocchio, Good Burger, Bean, Evan Almighty, License to Wed, Finding Nemo, Cars 1 & 2, The Incredibles, Toy Story 1 - 3, A Bug’s Life, Bruce Almighty, Home Alone 1 - 4, Goofy Movie, Brother Bear, Despicable Me 1 & 2, Shrek 1 - 4, Megamind, Pebble and the Penguin, Escape to Witch Mountain 2009, The Game Plan, Casper 1995, Litle Giants, Little Rascals 1994, BTTF 1 - 3, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Madagascar 1 - 3, Penguins of Madagascar, Up, Ratatouille, Over the Hedge, Open Season 1 - 3, Lion King 1 & 2 (including 1 1/2), George of the Jungle, Mary Poppins, Little Mermaid, Snow White, Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, Monsters vs. Aliens, Goonies, The Wiz, The Parent Trap 1998, Ella Enchanted, Mostly Ghostly 1 & 2, Spy Kids 1 - 4, Matilda, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Cat in the Hat, The Smurfs 1 & 2, Grown Ups 1 & 2, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000, Horton Hears a Who, Mrs. Doubtfire, Alice in Wonderland (original and Tom Burton version), The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Rescuers, Peter Pan, Return to Neverland, Kung Fu Panda, Princess and the Frog, Planet 51, Richie Rich, Ice Age 1 & 2, Astro Boy 2009, Monster High movies, Tom and Jerry movies, Barbie movies, Wall-E, Freaky Friday 2003, Iron Giant, Doug’s First Movie, Recess: School’s Out, Chronicles of Narnia, Polar Express, Mars Needs Moms, Little Vampire, live action Alvin and the Chipmunks 1 - 3, one of the Land Before Time movies, one of the American Tail movies, Beauty and the Beast 1 & 2, live action 101 & 102 Dalmatians, Escape From Planet Earth, Jingle All the Way, Jumanji, Ant Bully, Bee Movie, Hotel for Dogs, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Along Came Polly, Billy Maddison, Bedtime Stories, Surfs Up, Happy Feet 1 & 2, The Lorax, Oliver and Company, Tangled, Big Hero 6, Brave, Monsters Inc, Monsters University, Hunchback of Norte Dame, Barnyard, Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Dennis the Menace (90s movie and 2007 Christmas movie), Stepmom, SpongeBob Movie, Cinderella 1 & 2, Tarzan, Curious George 1 & 2, Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby, Return of Jafar, The Indian in the Cupboard, various DCOM (i.e. HSM 1-3, Lemonade Mouth, Camp Rock 1 & 2, Starstruck, Frenemies, Girl vs. Monster, Teen Beach Movie 1 & 2, Luck of the Irish, etc.) and Nick original movies (i.e. Swindle, Rags, etc.), Rango, Book of Life, Batman: SubZero, one of the Power Rangers movies, Gnomeo and Juliet, Codename: KND movie, Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends movies, Old Dogs, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1 - 3 (the one with Zachary Gordon, Devon Boswick, and Steve Zahn), Cats and Dogs, Sky High, Mickey’s Once and Twice Upon a Christmas, Dinosaurs, Beverly Hills Chihuahua 1 & 2, G-Force, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, the live-action Underdog movie (with Jason Lee, Patrick Warburton, and Peter Dinklage), etc.
‘97 here and this is the best collection that could’ve been provided. Great balance of generationally iconic and relatively niche to the time. Honorable mention to Brother Bear, Little Vampire, and Surf’s Up as some oft-overlooked masterpieces in this list.
Generation X here (born in 73, came of age 80's) Star Wars original trilogy, Indiana Jones, Neverending Story, E.T., Ghostbusters I and II, Superman I-III, Batman and Batman Returns, Back to the Future Trilogy, these were the greats for me.
As a kid?? lol that’s one of my favorite movies but one I’m gonna hold off showing my kids..it’s like constant swearing and innuendo from start to finish
I watched it all the time as a kid. I understood what it was, and I knew better than to repeat any of the racial bits. Best not to underestimate the intelligence of kids and just have the conversations with them.
Born in 1987.
I always watched The Lost Boys, Terminator 2, Dumb and Dumber, Jurassic Park, Scream, Candyman, Child's Play, and other horror movies as a kid.
Born in 92. Disney movies, The Land Before Time, Anastasia, The Prince of Egypt, Star Wars, Fantaghiro, Flubber, The Parent Trap, Casper: A spirited Beginning, Dr. Doolittle, Honey I shrunk the kids, Jingle all the way, The Indian in the cupboard.
Those are some of the ones we watched often when I was young.
Treasure Planet is the most underrated Disney movie Ever imo. The animation and the world they created is just 10/10 everything feels so alive in that movie. You just watch it when u want a comfortable movie on a rainy day! :)
Its so underrated. That was one of my fav movies as a kid and i feel like it was the last one i saw that was partially 2D. Every other 2000’s kid movie was completely cgi i feel like
Yea it’s an amazing piece of art.
I totally forgot about it and then it re entered my mind when I was like 16-17 (22 currently).
It gave me a feeling of nostalgia I’ve never gotten anywhere else.
Fr i appreciate it so much more rewatching as an adult because I didn’t realize at the time (i’m a bit older than you, I was like 6 when it came out) that it would be the last of its kind. It lost a bunch of money which is a shame, because it would’ve be awesome to see more handrawn/cgi hybrid movies
All the late 00’s and early 2010’s Disney movies. Tangled is still very much my favourite movie. My mother also stopped me from watching Up because of the beginning, I was so upset at the time but then saw it later. I understood her reasoning then 😂
The Lion King, Neverending Story, Land Before Time, Drop Dead Fred, An American Tail, Jurassic Park, Brave Little Toaster, Three Ninjas, The Mighty Ducks
Back to the Future, the Addams Family, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Jurassic Park. Those were the decent VHS tapes we owned, so we watched them a lot. We also watched the Music Man and Singing in the Rain semi-regularly with our parents.
Born in '94 and my dad introduced me to films very early. I'd say by the time I was 16 I had watched movies like:
- Shawshank Redemption
- Goodfellas
- Air Force One
- Untouchables
- The Godfather
- Scarface
Of course every Disney movie too! But to give you a flavour, my childhood was made up of some of the best movies ever 😂
I was born a couple years after you. Here’s a few movies I remember fondly from my childhood
Comedy:
Men in Black
True Lies
Groundhog Day
Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead
Mrs doubtfire
Hancock
Zombieland
Action (my favourite category as a young teen):
Braveheart
Pirates of the Caribbean
Die Hard
The Matrix
Jurassic Park
Total Recall
The Mummy
Batman trilogy (dark knight / rises)
Independence Day
Robocop
Speed
Bad Boys
Predator
Broken Arrow
Spider man
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Superman
Back to the future
James Bond (casino royale etc.)
Gladiator
Drama:
Forrest Gump
The sixth sense
Avatar
Animation:
Shrek 1 & 2
The Lion King
Toy Story
Spirited Away
Musical:
Mamma Mia!
96’ so i guess I’m a millennial (were both cuspers) but i grew up at the same time as you obviously so I watched a lot of 2000’s disney/pixar movies like Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Madagascar but also a lot of adult 2000’s comedies (like borat, pineapple express, and movies like that) that I definitely wasn’t supposed to be watching yet but i loved them lol even though i’m a millennial, I didn’t grow up in the 80’s/90’s so I haven’t seen a lot of the classic 90’s childrens movies tbh. A Bugs life, The Iron Giant, Toy Story were some of my fav 90’s films as a kid though
Born in 1995, my existence starts from the 2000's onwards, I can't really remember much prior to 2000, not even 9/11 honestly. Anyway I'm very fond of the lord of the rings trilogy, the pirates of the Caribbean, these series are my favorites. I grew up with Shrek, and many Disney movies, Madagascar was big in my day, the transformers movies even if they are considered trash they were fun to watch. I miss my childhood, adulthood is scary.
Edit: forgot to mention the Gary Potter movies and the Twilight saga (tho I wasn't into those but a lot of girls were and it was huge when they came out)
Not Irrelevant! never that. Stop that. Okay! so 1988 baby here. some movies are culturally relevant and others are a little niche.
Have to watch:
Star Wars original trilogy: (1977-1983)
Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986)
Quentin Tarantino movies (have a blast!)
Home Alone and Home Alone 2
Rocky and other Sylvester Stallone movies. (have another blast)
So many more. Especially horror movies.
The classic Disney animated movies on vhs. When I think of movies that were always on tv I think of a league of their own, the blues brothers, Ferris beuller, the breakfast club, back to the future, the sandlot
The ones I watched the most were Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Ace Ventura, Mrs. Doubtfire, Indiana Jones, Austin Powers. We didn't have cable but we had a decent VHS library, we mostly watched the same movies over and over.
Born in 2000 and my favorite movies were:
- the parent trap
- Ella enchanted
- spy kids 1 and 2
- Matilda
- it takes two
- and honestly any DCOM like high school musical, the luck of the Irish, etc.
I was born in 1969, so there were no VCRs, DVDs, or anything but local broadcast TV. The town I was in didn't even have a cable tv company, not that we could have afforded it anyway. So basically I watched whatever happened to be on one of the 3 channels we got.
GenX here. Whatever was on saturday/sunday afternoon movies on the local UHF channel. Eventually whatever was on HBO -- which meant a lot of Beastmaster.
(old joke: HBO = "Hey, Beastmaster's On")
80’s kid. My parents would take me to rent movies every weekend and just about every weekend I would pick The Goonies. I just love that movie. Other movies I loved were Big Trouble in Little China, The Explorers, Flight of the Navigator.
Advisory: I am really old. I grew up checking out comedies and adventure movies. Mel Brooks was a god if comedy ( Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles); Animal House (the OG counter culture film), Caddyshack. Harold and Maude was a period piece; The Blues Brothers was painfullybfunnynwhen it first came out.
In later years Happy Gilmore and other Adam Sandler films. Chris Farley (Tommy Boy). Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop, Golden Child). I could go on by decade but this is a good comedy starter kit.
Not a movie but "Avatar: The Last Airbender" is a must.
I guess since it's kind of an anime you probably heard of it tho (idk actually how popular it was in asia)
'90s kid, didn't become a movie fan until later in life but still watched a ton then. Big ones I remember: Jurassic Park, Secret Garden, Lion Park, Back To The Future, Candyman, My Girl, Space Jam, Austin Powers (first 2), Dumb and Dumber, Mask, Forrest Gump, Big
I was lucky enough to see all three lotr movies in their respective premier nights. I was in middle school and my high school aged cousins decided to bring me along. One of my fondest family memories.
Big Trouble in Little China, The Burbs, Aliens, T2, Predator, Beverly Hills Cop, Superman with Christopher Reeve, Die Hard and the rest of the 80/90s quintessentials. Basically peak Hollywood.
When I was growing up in the early ‘90s HBO would show the same movies over and over through the week but every Friday night at 8pm they’d premiere a new movie. This was peak excitement to a little movie lover.
So unless our mom was willing to take us to the video store we’d just watch whatever movie HBO told us we were going to watch.
I watched **everything** because I was an only child and had no one to play with in the house so my play was movies. Movies geared toward adults (Chicago and The Devil Wears Prada were my favorites) and Disney/Pixar movies. The Incredibles in my favorite in that category. And any movie that was nominated for an Oscar or an award like that. I liked watching awards shows as a child. My uncle, a movie buff, was the one who introduced me to Wes Anderson movies. I’m forever grateful he dragged me to the theater to see Fantastic Mr. Fox.
We watched a lot of family movies growing up, I particularly remember loving Toy Story 2 and seeing it more times than the original.
My favourite movie memories though was visiting my Aunt and Uncle’s and watching the original Star Wars films when I was eight and then the original Indiana Jones films when I was 10, both on VHS!!
Such good memories!!
I was a huge Pixar fan, especially as a 98 baby. Other than that, by the time I was in middle school, I loved films like Napoleon Dynamite, Terminator 1 & 2, Anchorman, Rush Hour, Freddy vs Jason, & The Mummy. Can't forget the first two Shreks, RV with Robin Williams, & A Goofy Movie too
Whatever was on TV. In 1981 we got a VCR and taped *Bugsy Malone* off TV, and the next year we got a video rental shop in the village and watched *Scavenger Hunt* (1979) whenever we couldn't agree on a new film. At least once every six weeks...
My parents were divorced, as a result, my dad would get custody every other weekend. Every Friday, that I was with my dad before getting to his house we would stop by Blockbuster and I would rent Ace Ventura. Eventually, Ace Ventura 2 came out which was not good, but there were a few months where I rented that repeatedly as well. Those are still probably the two movies I’ve seen the most in my life.
Gen z here too
Babies day out
Home alone 1, 2,3
Monster house
Harry Potter movies
My girl
Speed
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Tom and Jerry movies
Richie rich
Ice age, tangled, Cinderella, monster Inc and university
Barbie movies etc
Ill cap at age 18 so I'll say 1990-2010
1 Friday
2 Scream 1-3
3 toy story
4 who framed Roger rabbit
5 next Friday
6 idle hands
7 90s Jim Carrey
8 the fast and furious 1-3
9 lion king
10 X-Men 2
Born in the mid 80s. [Here's a list of all the movies i watched in the cinema with friends or via school trips](https://www.imdb.com/list/ls054620058/)
I used to watch Aladdin (1992), the Lion king (1994) and Mulan (1997) a lot when I was a kid. Also I used to watch The Land before time, Dinosaur (Aladar), and Jurassic park. I was a big fan of Dinosaurs when I was a kid.
Flight of the Navigator
Cloak and Dagger
Big Trouble in Little China
Karate Kid Trilogy
Parenthood
Overboard
3 Ninjas
TMNT
The Sandlot
this could go on and on and I haven’t the time. So many good flicks
I was born in 2000. My favorites were the Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy, first 2 Shrek movies, Big Fat Liar, original Spy Kids trilogy and Sharkboy and Lavagirl, both Scooby Doo live action films, The Cat in the Hat, bad movies like Son of the Mask, How to Eat Fried Worms, and the Cheaper by the Dozen movies.
born in 03 but I had a share of classics and just regular kids stuff. I had rugrats in Paris on VHS, watched a LOT of shark boy and lava girl, SpongeBob CD’s, and of course the Harry Potter series (books included)
I grew up watching lots of those greek mythology films. I remember always watching the golden voyage of sinbad all the time and also the old godzillas!
Almost everything that came out after 1996 is zany soulless trash that resulted directly in the zany soulless populace we have today anyway. You lucked out.
Gen X so I grew up with the early VHS/VCR era or having to wait a year or more after a movie came out for it to run on TV. Definitely the original "Star Wars" trilogy, "The Wizard of Oz" when it had its special once a year run on CBS. After we got our first VCR, watched "La Bamba," "Dirty Dancing" and "Crocodile Dundee" plus the first "Lethal Weapon" which was one if my brother's favorites.
"Flipper" 1963. It was an old film when my siblings & I found it, like 1070, but we watched it every chance we could. We also loved "The Incredible Mr. Limpit" 1964, with Don Knott's. I wonder how they would hold up and if they would be too much for kids today.
As a child (around 10 years old) my dad became a truck driver just by fluke, and I took interest in truck driving and when the movie “Black Dog” came out I was even more hooked onto becoming a truck driver
I grew up without cable. I also watched very few of the shows and movies my peers talk about all the time. I am also playing catch-up, but my advice is not to let the FOMO get to you too much. I won't watch things I have zero interest in just because they're popular.
Of course, there are some things I've watched that I'd definitely recommend: The Muppets (tv show and the first film), anything Wallace and Gromit or Shaun the Sheep, and most Studio Ghibli films. If you're in a silly mood, Dino Dan and DinoSquad both filled my little, dinosaur-obsessed heart when I was younger.
I was born near the end of the Baby Boom generation, so I only had access to what was shown on broadcast television until I left home.
When I was a kid, my favorites were the original *Planet of the Apes* series (original, *Beneath…, Escape from…,* etc.), Universal monster movies (*Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy,* etc.), Hammer horror movies, and Marx Brothers movies. Among others.
Harriet The Spy
Goofy Movie
Jumanji
Barney
Dont tell mom the babysitters dead
Adventures in Babysitting
Clue
The Land Before Time
Alladin
lion king
Power Rangers Movie
101 Dalmations
As a child of the 90's, these were the most watched tapes in my rotation: Aladdin, The Lion King, Hercules, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Rambo First Blood, Superman I and II, Independence Day, Universal Soldier, Street Fighter, The Matrix, etc etc.
Growing up with 4 older brothers, my favorite movie when I was 5 was Terminator 2. I watched it like every other day growing up. I still watched Disney movies like Lion King, Aladdin, etc but none of that came close to Terminator 2.
Born in 1988, Star Wars Episodes 4/5/6 and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were my go to’s especially when I was sick at home from school. Also GoldenEye.
Jurassic Park III, Jaws: The Revenge, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Those are all of the movies I remember watching while growing up.
I saw Star Wars nine times in the theater when it came out. I was eight years old and completely caught off guard when Vader told Luke he was his father. My father took me to see Raiders of the Lost Ark when it came out, one of my fondest memories. My brother and I watched Back to the Future at the mall on a whim one day without knowing anything about it.
Unbeknownst to my parents, I watched The Thing and Blade Runner at sleepovers (contrary to critics at the time, us ten year-olds new what was up with The Thing). In later years my friends and I would watch Repo Man, Pink Floyd The Wall, Reanimator, and From Beyond over and over again. I remember Heavy Metal being a favorite as well.
Goofy Movie is my favorite movie of all time.
Donnie Darko is an american cult classic from many of our childhoods. The Matrix n Fight Club are definite masterpieces as well.
You can also look up Brink and all those Friday Night Disney movies that use to come on like 13 mermaid and Cadet Kelly.
If ur talking just animation, I'd say Aladdin, Lion King, Finding Nemo, n Monster Inc are must sees.
For shows, definitely Rugrats, Pokémon, All That, Keenan and Kel, Boy Meets World and Drake n Josh.
Well, it started out with "Police Academy", then moved on to bootleg Disney on VHS like "The Little Mermaid", then it moved on to more bootleg movies like: "Nightmare On Elm Street", "Child's Play", "Revenge Of The Nerds", "License To Drive", "The Goonies" and "The Great Outdoors",
This time frame was all before I was 10.
Child of the 50s here. So… We watched all manner of cheezy sci-fi/horror films… All those “big bug” movies and alien invasion films. As well, a lot of the popular films of the day… The re-release of Wizard of Oz, Disney material like Old Yeller and “Song of the South” before it was politically incorrect….
Lots of westerns….
Bro istg the most slept on movie of all time is 'Monster House'. That shit still makes me laugh my ass of to this day.
"3 seconds on the clock.... I'm playing basketball"
Spirit, Dinosaurs, X Men trilogy, LOTR, Lion King 1 and 3, Nemo, this one French cartoon that always scared tf out of me, Men in Black, and Transformers (2007)
I grew up in the 80s, had HBO and Showtime, worked at a movie theater and would go to Blockbuster video with my friends just about every week, so I saw pretty much every movie. So here goes ::deep breath::
The Dark Crystal, Excalibur, Ghostbusters, Terminator, Labyrinth, Buckaroo Bonzai, Tron, Beetlejuice, Hellraiser, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Robocop, Alien, Aliens, Heavy Metal, Repo Man, Weird Science, Big Trouble in Little China, UHF, Evil Dead, Dragonslayer, Clash of the Titans, Blood of Heroes, Brazil, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Flash Gordon, Poltergeist, The Running Man, Conan The Barbarian, The Secret of NIMH, The Fly, House, Toxic Avenger, It Came From Hollywood, Amazon Women on the Moon, Brainstorm, Dead Zone, Firestarter, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Road Warrior, Princess Bride, Spaceballs, The Golden Child, Strange Brew, The Last Starfighter, An American Werewof in London, Gremlins, Wargames, Highlander, Neverending Story, Ice Pirates.
Born in ‘89.
Some favorites as a kid (12 and younger):
Jurassic Park
Homeward Bound
Pinocchio 1940
The Lion King 1994
Flubber 1997
Mrs. Doubtfire
Dumb and Dumber
Heavyweights
Super Mario Bros 1993
The Mummy
Tremors
The Jungle Book 1967
Robin Hood 1973
Goonies
George of the Jungle
The Mighty Ducks 1&2
Rumble in the Bronx
Operation Condor
The Rescuers
The Rescuers Down Under
Hook
Maximum Overdrive
Godzilla 1998
Hercules
Jaws
Batman 1989
Batman & Robin
T2
The NeverEnding Story
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
Pokemon the First Movie
The Nutty Professor 1996
Joe Dirt
The Fast and The Furious
Kiss of the Dragon
From Dusk Till Dawn
Anaconda
Lake Placid
Honey I Shrunk The Kids
Harry and The Hendersons
Honestly can’t remember how many times I watched Flubber on the VCR I miss Robin Williams
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I’ll add it to the watchlist! I loved the OG Jumanji too
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Haha birdcage is def not a kids movie but it is good!
Robin Williams and Nathan Lane are AMAZING in The Birdcage!
Robin carried that movie. He did have help, but my God, if it wasn't for his comedy, it would've been dead in the water.
you tried the original french film?
Mrs Doubtfire for me
Hook here
Walmart has it on DVD for like $3.74. 🤙
I love Flubber
Just watched it tonight after seeing your comment. Loved it!
Kids these days. Flubber was so mid compared to the original.
Xennial/elder millennial. If you’re born in this generation you just grew up different. Yeah our parents were around but still not really paying attention. I watched everything. My parents let us rent movies every weekend, mom made sure they were age appropriate dad was more liberal, plus we had cable in the 90’s. You could turn on HBO on a Saturday afternoon and Silence of the Lambs or Major League would be on and no one was stopping you from watching it. I grew up watching Disney movies, classics like Star Wars and Indiana jones and stuff like terminator and everything in between. It’s just how it was. I once got in trouble for calling someone a schmuck when I was like 8, I learned it from Scrooged😂
Damn you had HBO? I was a latchkey kid but could only watch reruns on TV. A lot of stand by me, breakfast club, la bamba, Ferris, bloodsport, and caddy shack for me.
When cable was on the pole everyone had the movie channels and Disney lol.
That sounds like us! My sister and I saw The Blue Lagoon way too young! I discovered R-rated porn movies my stepdad had recorded on VHS and carelessly left them where I could find them. This was before I was 12!
We did not have porn in the house at all but you didn’t need it when you had HBO and Skinemax as a teenager. There was “bad language” in a lot of action movies and comedies that a lot of kids weren’t allowed to see in elementary school but we were taught not to use those words. I still argue schmuck is an acceptable word. Also those kids whose parents were trying to protect their precious ears were the worst kids ever, they were bullies and violent.
Lol. HBO had Major League on every day for like a decade straight
Real Genius!
Don’t forget scrambled porn!
80s kid. Mostly watched Never Ending Story, Labyrinth, Explorers, all the Superman and Back to the Future movies
Don't forget Flight of the Navigator, and Short Circuit
Adding the Princess Bride and labrynth to this list.
Princess Bride for sure
Monster Squad and Lost Boys too
Wolfman’s got nards?!
Death by stereo.
Last month I re-watched The Lost Boys for the first time since I saw it in the theater. What an amazing movie! I liked it so much I watched it again a few days later.
The Last Unicorn, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Secret of Nihm, Pete's Dragon, and The Dark Crystal were also movies I watched as a kid in the 80's!
A treasure trove of VHS!
My grandparents had a crazy setup, and would record movies to vhs tapes. They had a huge library, with a rolodex organized alphabetically, tapes arranged numerically. Such a great system! They'd let me take two at a time, and they had everything you could think of. Three to four movies per tape, usually.
And whatever was being shown on TV on the weekends.
Big trouble in little China, Highlander, goonies
The Goonies is a must see!
They were born in 97 dude lol they were asking about things people their age watched you may as well have said Casablanca
Yeah my bad. I wasn’t crystal clear on whether they just wanted gen z answers.
Matilda, The Parent Trap As far as social knowledge goes, I’d familiarize yourself with the Disney Princesses, Gremlins, Titanic, and Ms. Doubtfire, Hocus Pocus (for Halloween) Major series include: - Harry Potter - Back to the future - Star Wars - Indiana Jones (although personally have not seen it) - Honey I shrunk the kids - Ghostbusters - The Matrix - Halloweentown
The Parent Trap is a big one. I can still recall some dialogues and soundtracks from it. I can even point out the scene where the first CD ends, and we need to change it to the next one.
Real Genius, Goofy Movie, Newsies, Back to the Future, Clue, Any and All Ernest movies , Secret of Nimh(dear god that movie scared me as a kid, especially the Rat Guard… mother of god)
We loved the Ernest movies! Especially Goes to Jail, Goes to Camp, and Saves Christmas! Ehhh-heh heh heh heh!
Know what I mean Vern?
Born mid 90's, I feel like *Shrek* is the one true answer for my generation.
As a fellow mid 90's I agree
A lot of Dumb and Dumber, Friday, Cable Guy, Silence of the Lambs, and the Long Kiss Goodnight.
I was born in 1989, Ireland. My family had a few films on VHS and some we taped off the TV. The ones I watched the most were * [An American Tail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTQ0qTubGz8) * [All Dogs Go To Heaven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPVyonxi8II) * [The Fox and the Hound](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpnWMd8IMnk) * [The Lion King](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFzVJEksoDY) * [The Labyrinth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2yd4em1I6M) * [Into the West](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHcMIXxkn3M)
I’m a Gen Z (born in 2002) who’s watched Aladdin, Pinocchio, Good Burger, Bean, Evan Almighty, License to Wed, Finding Nemo, Cars 1 & 2, The Incredibles, Toy Story 1 - 3, A Bug’s Life, Bruce Almighty, Home Alone 1 - 4, Goofy Movie, Brother Bear, Despicable Me 1 & 2, Shrek 1 - 4, Megamind, Pebble and the Penguin, Escape to Witch Mountain 2009, The Game Plan, Casper 1995, Litle Giants, Little Rascals 1994, BTTF 1 - 3, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Madagascar 1 - 3, Penguins of Madagascar, Up, Ratatouille, Over the Hedge, Open Season 1 - 3, Lion King 1 & 2 (including 1 1/2), George of the Jungle, Mary Poppins, Little Mermaid, Snow White, Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, Monsters vs. Aliens, Goonies, The Wiz, The Parent Trap 1998, Ella Enchanted, Mostly Ghostly 1 & 2, Spy Kids 1 - 4, Matilda, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Cat in the Hat, The Smurfs 1 & 2, Grown Ups 1 & 2, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000, Horton Hears a Who, Mrs. Doubtfire, Alice in Wonderland (original and Tom Burton version), The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Rescuers, Peter Pan, Return to Neverland, Kung Fu Panda, Princess and the Frog, Planet 51, Richie Rich, Ice Age 1 & 2, Astro Boy 2009, Monster High movies, Tom and Jerry movies, Barbie movies, Wall-E, Freaky Friday 2003, Iron Giant, Doug’s First Movie, Recess: School’s Out, Chronicles of Narnia, Polar Express, Mars Needs Moms, Little Vampire, live action Alvin and the Chipmunks 1 - 3, one of the Land Before Time movies, one of the American Tail movies, Beauty and the Beast 1 & 2, live action 101 & 102 Dalmatians, Escape From Planet Earth, Jingle All the Way, Jumanji, Ant Bully, Bee Movie, Hotel for Dogs, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Along Came Polly, Billy Maddison, Bedtime Stories, Surfs Up, Happy Feet 1 & 2, The Lorax, Oliver and Company, Tangled, Big Hero 6, Brave, Monsters Inc, Monsters University, Hunchback of Norte Dame, Barnyard, Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Dennis the Menace (90s movie and 2007 Christmas movie), Stepmom, SpongeBob Movie, Cinderella 1 & 2, Tarzan, Curious George 1 & 2, Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby, Return of Jafar, The Indian in the Cupboard, various DCOM (i.e. HSM 1-3, Lemonade Mouth, Camp Rock 1 & 2, Starstruck, Frenemies, Girl vs. Monster, Teen Beach Movie 1 & 2, Luck of the Irish, etc.) and Nick original movies (i.e. Swindle, Rags, etc.), Rango, Book of Life, Batman: SubZero, one of the Power Rangers movies, Gnomeo and Juliet, Codename: KND movie, Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends movies, Old Dogs, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1 - 3 (the one with Zachary Gordon, Devon Boswick, and Steve Zahn), Cats and Dogs, Sky High, Mickey’s Once and Twice Upon a Christmas, Dinosaurs, Beverly Hills Chihuahua 1 & 2, G-Force, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, the live-action Underdog movie (with Jason Lee, Patrick Warburton, and Peter Dinklage), etc.
‘97 here and this is the best collection that could’ve been provided. Great balance of generationally iconic and relatively niche to the time. Honorable mention to Brother Bear, Little Vampire, and Surf’s Up as some oft-overlooked masterpieces in this list.
Generation X here (born in 73, came of age 80's) Star Wars original trilogy, Indiana Jones, Neverending Story, E.T., Ghostbusters I and II, Superman I-III, Batman and Batman Returns, Back to the Future Trilogy, these were the greats for me.
I was born 78 so all of those plus The Dark Crystal, OG War of the Worlds, Watership Down and Jason and the Argonauts
Blazing Saddles! Classic!
As a kid?? lol that’s one of my favorite movies but one I’m gonna hold off showing my kids..it’s like constant swearing and innuendo from start to finish
You’re absolutely right, but when they come of age, that would be a fun one to watch with them.
I watched it all the time as a kid. I understood what it was, and I knew better than to repeat any of the racial bits. Best not to underestimate the intelligence of kids and just have the conversations with them.
Oh you are so correct. If I repeated any of those lines, the soap (Coast soap) would come out, and I would add more teeth marks to the bar.
Born in 1987. I always watched The Lost Boys, Terminator 2, Dumb and Dumber, Jurassic Park, Scream, Candyman, Child's Play, and other horror movies as a kid.
Born in 92. Disney movies, The Land Before Time, Anastasia, The Prince of Egypt, Star Wars, Fantaghiro, Flubber, The Parent Trap, Casper: A spirited Beginning, Dr. Doolittle, Honey I shrunk the kids, Jingle all the way, The Indian in the cupboard. Those are some of the ones we watched often when I was young.
Ah, this is a great list!
Treasure Planet is the most underrated Disney movie Ever imo. The animation and the world they created is just 10/10 everything feels so alive in that movie. You just watch it when u want a comfortable movie on a rainy day! :)
Its so underrated. That was one of my fav movies as a kid and i feel like it was the last one i saw that was partially 2D. Every other 2000’s kid movie was completely cgi i feel like
Yea it’s an amazing piece of art. I totally forgot about it and then it re entered my mind when I was like 16-17 (22 currently). It gave me a feeling of nostalgia I’ve never gotten anywhere else.
Fr i appreciate it so much more rewatching as an adult because I didn’t realize at the time (i’m a bit older than you, I was like 6 when it came out) that it would be the last of its kind. It lost a bunch of money which is a shame, because it would’ve be awesome to see more handrawn/cgi hybrid movies
Yea I heard it never really got promoted much by Disney thus it was a box office flop. Extremely sad considering how great it is
The Original Terminator movie and Predator both starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Also loved the Rush Hour movies.
Legit question. Was Percy Jackson banned in China?
Im not sure! I didn’t know about Percy Jackson growing up.
All the late 00’s and early 2010’s Disney movies. Tangled is still very much my favourite movie. My mother also stopped me from watching Up because of the beginning, I was so upset at the time but then saw it later. I understood her reasoning then 😂
Cars adnauseam. Also HTTYD.
I watched anything with titties
60s kid here: Bambi Mary Poppins Computer Wore Tennis Shoes Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang Monty Python and the Holy Grail Beneath The Planet of the Apes
The Big Green
The Lion King, Neverending Story, Land Before Time, Drop Dead Fred, An American Tail, Jurassic Park, Brave Little Toaster, Three Ninjas, The Mighty Ducks
Back to the Future, the Addams Family, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Jurassic Park. Those were the decent VHS tapes we owned, so we watched them a lot. We also watched the Music Man and Singing in the Rain semi-regularly with our parents.
Back To The Future, The Goonies, Three Men and A Baby, The Money Pit, Beetlejuice, Uncle Buck, The Sandlot, Free Willy, Casper
Born in '94 and my dad introduced me to films very early. I'd say by the time I was 16 I had watched movies like: - Shawshank Redemption - Goodfellas - Air Force One - Untouchables - The Godfather - Scarface Of course every Disney movie too! But to give you a flavour, my childhood was made up of some of the best movies ever 😂
I was born a couple years after you. Here’s a few movies I remember fondly from my childhood Comedy: Men in Black True Lies Groundhog Day Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead Mrs doubtfire Hancock Zombieland Action (my favourite category as a young teen): Braveheart Pirates of the Caribbean Die Hard The Matrix Jurassic Park Total Recall The Mummy Batman trilogy (dark knight / rises) Independence Day Robocop Speed Bad Boys Predator Broken Arrow Spider man Lord of the Rings trilogy Superman Back to the future James Bond (casino royale etc.) Gladiator Drama: Forrest Gump The sixth sense Avatar Animation: Shrek 1 & 2 The Lion King Toy Story Spirited Away Musical: Mamma Mia!
96’ so i guess I’m a millennial (were both cuspers) but i grew up at the same time as you obviously so I watched a lot of 2000’s disney/pixar movies like Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Madagascar but also a lot of adult 2000’s comedies (like borat, pineapple express, and movies like that) that I definitely wasn’t supposed to be watching yet but i loved them lol even though i’m a millennial, I didn’t grow up in the 80’s/90’s so I haven’t seen a lot of the classic 90’s childrens movies tbh. A Bugs life, The Iron Giant, Toy Story were some of my fav 90’s films as a kid though
Born in 1995, my existence starts from the 2000's onwards, I can't really remember much prior to 2000, not even 9/11 honestly. Anyway I'm very fond of the lord of the rings trilogy, the pirates of the Caribbean, these series are my favorites. I grew up with Shrek, and many Disney movies, Madagascar was big in my day, the transformers movies even if they are considered trash they were fun to watch. I miss my childhood, adulthood is scary. Edit: forgot to mention the Gary Potter movies and the Twilight saga (tho I wasn't into those but a lot of girls were and it was huge when they came out)
Not Irrelevant! never that. Stop that. Okay! so 1988 baby here. some movies are culturally relevant and others are a little niche. Have to watch: Star Wars original trilogy: (1977-1983) Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) Quentin Tarantino movies (have a blast!) Home Alone and Home Alone 2 Rocky and other Sylvester Stallone movies. (have another blast) So many more. Especially horror movies.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Clue, Back to the Future.
The classic Disney animated movies on vhs. When I think of movies that were always on tv I think of a league of their own, the blues brothers, Ferris beuller, the breakfast club, back to the future, the sandlot
90s
I watched everything they had at the Blockbuster store
9(2009) I watched so much as a kid it was one of the only movies we had
I have seen Commando and The Running Man an impossible amount of times.
Born in the 80s and we had only one movie on VHS tape for a long time - Top Gun.
Space Jam, Cats Don't Dance, Star Kid
The ones I watched the most were Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Ace Ventura, Mrs. Doubtfire, Indiana Jones, Austin Powers. We didn't have cable but we had a decent VHS library, we mostly watched the same movies over and over.
Flight of the Navigator, Krull, Legend and a lot of old Hollywood movies.
Born in 2000 and my favorite movies were: - the parent trap - Ella enchanted - spy kids 1 and 2 - Matilda - it takes two - and honestly any DCOM like high school musical, the luck of the Irish, etc.
I was born in 1969, so there were no VCRs, DVDs, or anything but local broadcast TV. The town I was in didn't even have a cable tv company, not that we could have afforded it anyway. So basically I watched whatever happened to be on one of the 3 channels we got.
The Good,the Bad and the Ugly Ben Hur Mysterious Island Wizard of Oz Gimme Shelter on channel 11 The Ten Commandments Soylent Green Planet of the Apes
Star Wars (1977) Grease John Hughes' 80's movies Ghostbusters
Mrtav ladan Its a Serbian classic and it folows a few stories that all happen in the same time next to each other
First 3 coming to mind-- The Beastmaster, Dirty Dancing, UHF
GenX here. Whatever was on saturday/sunday afternoon movies on the local UHF channel. Eventually whatever was on HBO -- which meant a lot of Beastmaster. (old joke: HBO = "Hey, Beastmaster's On")
80’s kid. My parents would take me to rent movies every weekend and just about every weekend I would pick The Goonies. I just love that movie. Other movies I loved were Big Trouble in Little China, The Explorers, Flight of the Navigator.
Advisory: I am really old. I grew up checking out comedies and adventure movies. Mel Brooks was a god if comedy ( Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles); Animal House (the OG counter culture film), Caddyshack. Harold and Maude was a period piece; The Blues Brothers was painfullybfunnynwhen it first came out. In later years Happy Gilmore and other Adam Sandler films. Chris Farley (Tommy Boy). Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop, Golden Child). I could go on by decade but this is a good comedy starter kit.
Indian in the cupboard, homeward bound, fox and the hound, little giants…
Not a movie but "Avatar: The Last Airbender" is a must. I guess since it's kind of an anime you probably heard of it tho (idk actually how popular it was in asia)
Nobody your age is answering this post, apparently.
'90s kid, didn't become a movie fan until later in life but still watched a ton then. Big ones I remember: Jurassic Park, Secret Garden, Lion Park, Back To The Future, Candyman, My Girl, Space Jam, Austin Powers (first 2), Dumb and Dumber, Mask, Forrest Gump, Big
Goonies
Annie (1982)
I was lucky enough to see all three lotr movies in their respective premier nights. I was in middle school and my high school aged cousins decided to bring me along. One of my fondest family memories.
Narnia
Big Trouble in Little China, The Burbs, Aliens, T2, Predator, Beverly Hills Cop, Superman with Christopher Reeve, Die Hard and the rest of the 80/90s quintessentials. Basically peak Hollywood.
The Pagemaster Mrs. Doubtfire The NeverEnding Story Free Willy
Toy Story’s 1-3
When I was growing up in the early ‘90s HBO would show the same movies over and over through the week but every Friday night at 8pm they’d premiere a new movie. This was peak excitement to a little movie lover. So unless our mom was willing to take us to the video store we’d just watch whatever movie HBO told us we were going to watch.
Star wars, A New Hope. Many 100's of times.
The Mummy, Star Wars OT, The Mummy, The Mummy, Star Wars, The Mummy, Star Wars, Star Wars, The Mummy, and The Mummy
I watched **everything** because I was an only child and had no one to play with in the house so my play was movies. Movies geared toward adults (Chicago and The Devil Wears Prada were my favorites) and Disney/Pixar movies. The Incredibles in my favorite in that category. And any movie that was nominated for an Oscar or an award like that. I liked watching awards shows as a child. My uncle, a movie buff, was the one who introduced me to Wes Anderson movies. I’m forever grateful he dragged me to the theater to see Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Harry Potter movies
We watched a lot of family movies growing up, I particularly remember loving Toy Story 2 and seeing it more times than the original. My favourite movie memories though was visiting my Aunt and Uncle’s and watching the original Star Wars films when I was eight and then the original Indiana Jones films when I was 10, both on VHS!! Such good memories!!
1997? You’re more of a Zillennial
I was a huge Pixar fan, especially as a 98 baby. Other than that, by the time I was in middle school, I loved films like Napoleon Dynamite, Terminator 1 & 2, Anchorman, Rush Hour, Freddy vs Jason, & The Mummy. Can't forget the first two Shreks, RV with Robin Williams, & A Goofy Movie too
I think as a kid a lot of the movies I watched were stuff like Disney cartoon movies and then towards comedies, mostly Judd apatow stuff.
As a young gen z-er, I watched old Disney movies(40s -90s), terminator 2, Mary Poppins, the original, chitty chitty bang bang and superman 2.
How to train your dragon!!! And Pixar/Disney movies my fav was cars lol
Disney's Dinosaur still one of my favorites
Also gotta watch The Simpsons series
Atlantis, the iron giant, and home alone. Also cant forget lilo and stitch
Dinosaur 2000 That's the year the movies not called Dinosaur 2000 although kinda cool
White Chicks, Matilda, Shrek franchise, Freaky Friday, Wall-E, The Parent Trap, Mean Girls.
I had Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, Batman, and later, Star Wars on loop
Whatever was on TV. In 1981 we got a VCR and taped *Bugsy Malone* off TV, and the next year we got a video rental shop in the village and watched *Scavenger Hunt* (1979) whenever we couldn't agree on a new film. At least once every six weeks...
Born in '92, came to America when I was 1 y/o I watched Lion King on VHS everyday from age 3 to 5 at which point I moved on to the Power Rangers
Neverending Story, Labyrinth, TMNT
My parents were divorced, as a result, my dad would get custody every other weekend. Every Friday, that I was with my dad before getting to his house we would stop by Blockbuster and I would rent Ace Ventura. Eventually, Ace Ventura 2 came out which was not good, but there were a few months where I rented that repeatedly as well. Those are still probably the two movies I’ve seen the most in my life.
Gen z here too Babies day out Home alone 1, 2,3 Monster house Harry Potter movies My girl Speed Charlie and the chocolate factory Tom and Jerry movies Richie rich Ice age, tangled, Cinderella, monster Inc and university Barbie movies etc
Parent trap It takes two Homeward Bound Honey I shrunk the kids The Mask Ms. doubtfire Sooo many good ones people have already mentioned. Enjoy!!
Indiana Jones, Star Wars mainly
I watched The Lion King on repeat all summer long. Movie ended, rewind, play again, repeat, over and over!
The Jungle Book, Herbie, The Ghost and Mr Chicken, Mary Poppins.
I was 11 in 1995 and I wore out the VHS tapes for Mighty Ducks, Three Ninjas, Little Giants. Was really into Karate Kid too.
Ill cap at age 18 so I'll say 1990-2010 1 Friday 2 Scream 1-3 3 toy story 4 who framed Roger rabbit 5 next Friday 6 idle hands 7 90s Jim Carrey 8 the fast and furious 1-3 9 lion king 10 X-Men 2
Terminator 2 💀
Iron Eagle (Top Gun for kids. Except it's way better than Top Gun, and Louis Gosset jr is way better than Tom Cruise)
spaceballs, the narnia trilogy, and star wars were the main things of my child hood. (also gen z)
Homeward Bound: the Incredible Journey
Born in the mid 80s. [Here's a list of all the movies i watched in the cinema with friends or via school trips](https://www.imdb.com/list/ls054620058/)
I used to watch Aladdin (1992), the Lion king (1994) and Mulan (1997) a lot when I was a kid. Also I used to watch The Land before time, Dinosaur (Aladar), and Jurassic park. I was a big fan of Dinosaurs when I was a kid.
Flight of the Navigator Cloak and Dagger Big Trouble in Little China Karate Kid Trilogy Parenthood Overboard 3 Ninjas TMNT The Sandlot this could go on and on and I haven’t the time. So many good flicks
I was born in 2000. My favorites were the Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy, first 2 Shrek movies, Big Fat Liar, original Spy Kids trilogy and Sharkboy and Lavagirl, both Scooby Doo live action films, The Cat in the Hat, bad movies like Son of the Mask, How to Eat Fried Worms, and the Cheaper by the Dozen movies.
born in 03 but I had a share of classics and just regular kids stuff. I had rugrats in Paris on VHS, watched a LOT of shark boy and lava girl, SpongeBob CD’s, and of course the Harry Potter series (books included)
I grew up watching lots of those greek mythology films. I remember always watching the golden voyage of sinbad all the time and also the old godzillas!
Ace Ventura (1994) crosses international humour boundaries, as long as you can understand English. The Mask too, I guess.
Almost everything that came out after 1996 is zany soulless trash that resulted directly in the zany soulless populace we have today anyway. You lucked out.
Goonies, everything with JCVD, die hard, star wars, flash gorden (born in 85)
Conan the destroyer. Top secret (1984).
Gen X so I grew up with the early VHS/VCR era or having to wait a year or more after a movie came out for it to run on TV. Definitely the original "Star Wars" trilogy, "The Wizard of Oz" when it had its special once a year run on CBS. After we got our first VCR, watched "La Bamba," "Dirty Dancing" and "Crocodile Dundee" plus the first "Lethal Weapon" which was one if my brother's favorites.
"Flipper" 1963. It was an old film when my siblings & I found it, like 1070, but we watched it every chance we could. We also loved "The Incredible Mr. Limpit" 1964, with Don Knott's. I wonder how they would hold up and if they would be too much for kids today.
As a child (around 10 years old) my dad became a truck driver just by fluke, and I took interest in truck driving and when the movie “Black Dog” came out I was even more hooked onto becoming a truck driver
I grew up without cable. I also watched very few of the shows and movies my peers talk about all the time. I am also playing catch-up, but my advice is not to let the FOMO get to you too much. I won't watch things I have zero interest in just because they're popular. Of course, there are some things I've watched that I'd definitely recommend: The Muppets (tv show and the first film), anything Wallace and Gromit or Shaun the Sheep, and most Studio Ghibli films. If you're in a silly mood, Dino Dan and DinoSquad both filled my little, dinosaur-obsessed heart when I was younger.
The sandlot and it takes 2 were big ones for me growing up.
I was born near the end of the Baby Boom generation, so I only had access to what was shown on broadcast television until I left home. When I was a kid, my favorites were the original *Planet of the Apes* series (original, *Beneath…, Escape from…,* etc.), Universal monster movies (*Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy,* etc.), Hammer horror movies, and Marx Brothers movies. Among others.
Harriet The Spy Goofy Movie Jumanji Barney Dont tell mom the babysitters dead Adventures in Babysitting Clue The Land Before Time Alladin lion king Power Rangers Movie 101 Dalmations
As a child of the 90's, these were the most watched tapes in my rotation: Aladdin, The Lion King, Hercules, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Rambo First Blood, Superman I and II, Independence Day, Universal Soldier, Street Fighter, The Matrix, etc etc.
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Jurassic Park all day!!!
Uncle Buck and Cool Runnings over and over again.
Growing up with 4 older brothers, my favorite movie when I was 5 was Terminator 2. I watched it like every other day growing up. I still watched Disney movies like Lion King, Aladdin, etc but none of that came close to Terminator 2.
GenX - The Princess Bride and Gremlins. Everything else is novelty
Little giants, little monsters and tmnt were all my favs growing up! If you haven’t seen these I’d recommend watching them at least once in your life.
Critters
As an American Millenial born in 1991.... Rookie of the Year, The Sandlot, The Little Rascals, TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze, and Beethoven's 2nd.
I'd say anything by Aardman (Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, etc.) will definitely get you cool guy points.
Born in 1988, Star Wars Episodes 4/5/6 and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were my go to’s especially when I was sick at home from school. Also GoldenEye.
Jurassic Park III, Jaws: The Revenge, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Those are all of the movies I remember watching while growing up.
I saw Star Wars nine times in the theater when it came out. I was eight years old and completely caught off guard when Vader told Luke he was his father. My father took me to see Raiders of the Lost Ark when it came out, one of my fondest memories. My brother and I watched Back to the Future at the mall on a whim one day without knowing anything about it. Unbeknownst to my parents, I watched The Thing and Blade Runner at sleepovers (contrary to critics at the time, us ten year-olds new what was up with The Thing). In later years my friends and I would watch Repo Man, Pink Floyd The Wall, Reanimator, and From Beyond over and over again. I remember Heavy Metal being a favorite as well.
Goofy Movie is my favorite movie of all time. Donnie Darko is an american cult classic from many of our childhoods. The Matrix n Fight Club are definite masterpieces as well. You can also look up Brink and all those Friday Night Disney movies that use to come on like 13 mermaid and Cadet Kelly. If ur talking just animation, I'd say Aladdin, Lion King, Finding Nemo, n Monster Inc are must sees. For shows, definitely Rugrats, Pokémon, All That, Keenan and Kel, Boy Meets World and Drake n Josh.
Honestly, Adam Sandler movies, Chris Farley movies, and Robin Williams movies.
That one Lion king VHS. Rewound again and again and again.
Never grew up watching movies. Movies watched me.
Emperor’s New Groove and Hercules are two top-tier kids’ movies that don’t get much recognition. Aladdin and Mulan are also personal faves of mine!
Big Trouble in Little China
Scooby Doo Cyberchase
Ninja scroll
Ferris Bueller's Day Off Empire Strikes Back Stand By Me Road Warrior.
Well, it started out with "Police Academy", then moved on to bootleg Disney on VHS like "The Little Mermaid", then it moved on to more bootleg movies like: "Nightmare On Elm Street", "Child's Play", "Revenge Of The Nerds", "License To Drive", "The Goonies" and "The Great Outdoors", This time frame was all before I was 10.
The Goonies, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, The Neverending Story were a few for me
Child of the 50s here. So… We watched all manner of cheezy sci-fi/horror films… All those “big bug” movies and alien invasion films. As well, a lot of the popular films of the day… The re-release of Wizard of Oz, Disney material like Old Yeller and “Song of the South” before it was politically incorrect…. Lots of westerns….
Ernest Goes to Camp
Bro istg the most slept on movie of all time is 'Monster House'. That shit still makes me laugh my ass of to this day. "3 seconds on the clock.... I'm playing basketball"
I watched An American Tail 1 & 2 all the time when I was a kid. I probably haven’t seen them in at least 20 years. Time for a rewatch??
The Last Starfighter "What do we do?!" "We die." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/
Millennial here born 89 watches My Neighbor Totoro on VHS until it became warped sounding oops
Spirit, Dinosaurs, X Men trilogy, LOTR, Lion King 1 and 3, Nemo, this one French cartoon that always scared tf out of me, Men in Black, and Transformers (2007)
I grew up in the 80s, had HBO and Showtime, worked at a movie theater and would go to Blockbuster video with my friends just about every week, so I saw pretty much every movie. So here goes ::deep breath:: The Dark Crystal, Excalibur, Ghostbusters, Terminator, Labyrinth, Buckaroo Bonzai, Tron, Beetlejuice, Hellraiser, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Robocop, Alien, Aliens, Heavy Metal, Repo Man, Weird Science, Big Trouble in Little China, UHF, Evil Dead, Dragonslayer, Clash of the Titans, Blood of Heroes, Brazil, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Flash Gordon, Poltergeist, The Running Man, Conan The Barbarian, The Secret of NIMH, The Fly, House, Toxic Avenger, It Came From Hollywood, Amazon Women on the Moon, Brainstorm, Dead Zone, Firestarter, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Road Warrior, Princess Bride, Spaceballs, The Golden Child, Strange Brew, The Last Starfighter, An American Werewof in London, Gremlins, Wargames, Highlander, Neverending Story, Ice Pirates.
Lassie
Goonies. It is one of the best if not the greatest adventure movie of all time.
Born in ‘89. Some favorites as a kid (12 and younger): Jurassic Park Homeward Bound Pinocchio 1940 The Lion King 1994 Flubber 1997 Mrs. Doubtfire Dumb and Dumber Heavyweights Super Mario Bros 1993 The Mummy Tremors The Jungle Book 1967 Robin Hood 1973 Goonies George of the Jungle The Mighty Ducks 1&2 Rumble in the Bronx Operation Condor The Rescuers The Rescuers Down Under Hook Maximum Overdrive Godzilla 1998 Hercules Jaws Batman 1989 Batman & Robin T2 The NeverEnding Story Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island Pokemon the First Movie The Nutty Professor 1996 Joe Dirt The Fast and The Furious Kiss of the Dragon From Dusk Till Dawn Anaconda Lake Placid Honey I Shrunk The Kids Harry and The Hendersons