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teasel
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posted February 23, 2012 08:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm watching E.T. right now.

I also loved The Fox and the Hound, that came out in England around the same time, I think. They both had me sobbing, when I was seven-years-old. I hate love triangles, but friendship-related movies get me right there. <points at heart>

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posted February 23, 2012 09:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They are rebooting lots of movies...like Total Recall. I would like to see ET and Back to the Future remade.

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posted February 23, 2012 09:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I would hate to see ET remade. I think it's great just the way it is.

I heard about Total Recall, and they re-made Footloose and Fright Night. I actually liked Fright Night, but haven't seen the new Footloose. Straw Dogs was a remake, too.

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posted February 23, 2012 10:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Straw Dogs was good. I liked Fright Night as its own movie, but I didn't think it was a good remake. Didn't see Footloose.

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posted February 23, 2012 11:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Alma Sun     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh dang E.T. lol, I remember watching it when I was young. It scared the doo-doo butter out of me! Especially when the kid and the alien was dying.
Scary stuff for a kid lol. -.-'

I mostly watched different Chinese TV series my dad bought. The most memorable one was Song Bird.

Plot:

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The story is based on a young girl named Zhou Xuan (Nnadia Chan) taking place during the Republic of China 1930's era. Zhou originally came from a poor background. She managed to join the Bright Moonlight Song and Dance Troupe to try to make a living, and met composer Yim Chi-wah (Leon Lai). A record producer recognized her skill, and helped her launch a music career in a very difficult time.

The backdrop of the falling Republic of China led to the collapse of the Shanghai Shidaiqu music industry. Zhou Xuan would suffer from mental breakdown and die an early age, but her music would make her a legend.


Lead actor/actress:

Leon Lai

Nnadia Chan

Song they sang together on the show.

Sorry I know you asked for movies Teasel, but I don't have any fave childhood movies.

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posted February 23, 2012 11:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fondue Knight     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote


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posted February 23, 2012 11:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Alma Sun     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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"Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties." — Jamie Whyte
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posted February 23, 2012 11:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lexxigramer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Sigh,
childhood movies.
To start, most folks here are too young to remember some of these,
but here goes.
In no particular order:
Thomasina 1964
Old Yeller 1957
Great Expectations 1946...but the 1998 remake was great too!
Lassie Come Home 1943
The Adventures Of Rin Tin Tin 1934
The Jungle Book 1960
Mary Poppins 1961
Citty Chitty Bang Bang 1964
The Parent Trap 1960
Alice In Wonderland 1950
Peter Pan 1951
Sleeping Beauty 1952
Darby O'Gill And The Little People 1955
The Sword In The Stone 1967
The Moon Spinners 1961
Pippi Longstockings 1968
Born Free 1960
That Darn Cat 1965
Asterix And Kleopatra 1966
Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959
Robinson Crusoe On Mars 1964
The Atomic Kid 1954
The Boy With The Green Hair 1948
Beauty And The Beast 1946
Metropolis 1927
Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last"- 1923

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posted February 23, 2012 11:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was practically raised on Disney movies like The Little Mermaid and Hocus Pocus, and I'll still watch them out of nostalgia.

Same for movies like Casper or the first 2 Addams Family movies (that is the ones that came out in 1991 and 1993), and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

A favorite of mine when I was 11 was The Crow, the first R-rated movie I snuck into. It got me into music and skateboarding (though I didn't get a skateboard until my 14th birthday). Still, it's not a favorite today. I loved it intensely as a child and a teen, but now it just seems kinda silly. I'll watch it when it's on but I won't go out of my way to get it.

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posted February 23, 2012 11:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lexxigramer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Some more Silent movies.
I mentioned Metropolis and Safety Last! 1923 already.
The Kid 1921
The Gold Rush 1925
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
The Cameraman 1928
The Patsy 1928
Siegfried 1924
Nosferatu 1922
Faust 1926
The Navigator 1924
Our Hospitality 1923
The Circus 1928
Girl Shy 1924
The Phantom Carriage 1921

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posted February 23, 2012 11:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They are rebooting The Crow.

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posted February 24, 2012 01:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for charmainec     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Crow part one with Brandon Lee is one of my faves.

I grew up watching lots of Disney movies, Super Man, oh, The Never Ending Story

The Alien movies although it scared me as well as Freddy Kruger.

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posted February 24, 2012 03:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Monster Squad

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btw

E.T. was the first movie I cried at.

My neighbor's mom took us to the theater to see it.

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posted February 24, 2012 03:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
i started a Monster Squad group after seeing the movie. We had 4 members including my brother.

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posted February 24, 2012 03:44 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
& we swear we saw two red glowing eyes coming out of my neighbors garage (swear to god) - he was an old man and clueless to the fact that we were searching for monsters and ghosts all over his property.

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posted February 24, 2012 08:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Venus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Mrs. Doubtfire and the Sound of Music

i've watched them sooo many times i know them by heart. Literally if you mute the movie i can mouth the words to you

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posted February 24, 2012 11:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Alma Sun     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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posted February 24, 2012 12:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hmmm...

The ones I've bought again for my kids >grin< include:

* The Secret of NiMH
* The Dark Crystal
* Legend
* The Princess Bride
* The Phantom Tollbooth
* Willow
* Labyrinth
* Fraggle Rock (not a movie, but they have the series on DVD )
* The Point!
* Edited to add: The Last Unicorn (don't know how I could've forgotten it)
* ...There are a few others, but I can't think of them right now.

Edited to add: There are a few others (not from my childhood...but I'm a Pisces Sun, so I'm not sure I'll ever leave ) in heavy rotation for the girls:

* Most Miyazaki films (What's that? Heroine saves the day and/or reconciles two morally ambiguous foes? Why, yes, I will indoctrinate my girls...)
* Stardust
* ...and, again, drawing a blank. Gr.

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posted February 24, 2012 12:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jesstar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
oh man i remember watching "breakin" over and over and over i would have to put that up there with my other favorite childhood movie "the sound of music" . as for animation "the last unicorn" stole the show for me as a kid

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posted February 24, 2012 01:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ghanima81     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great topic!!

A lot of mockingbirds are mine as well (I think we are about the same age?). I LOVED anything with fantasy, mythology and magic. I still do, actually.

Princess Bride, The Dark Crystal and The Goonies were the best! The Last Unicorn is my favorite cartoon of all time. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of the first movies I remember seeing at the theater.

I also liked anything with time travel, back in time or forward. Movies that just made you go WOW!

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posted February 24, 2012 02:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for sand     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
risky business
ferris bueller's day off
mallrats
bloodsport
the karate kid
can't hardly wait
the lion king
braveheart
forest gump
hook
the air up there
major league
the labarynth
edward scissorhands
bill and ted
beavis and butthead do america

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posted February 24, 2012 02:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lexxigramer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by mockingbird:
Hmmm...

The ones I've bought again for my kids >grin< include:

* The Secret of NiMH
* The Dark Crystal
* Legend
* The Princess Bride
* The Phantom Tollbooth
* Willow
* Labyrinth
* Fraggle Rock (not a movie, but they have the series on DVD )
* The Point!
* Edited to add: The Last Unicorn (don't know how I could've forgotten it)
* ...There are a few others, but I can't think of them right now.

Edited to add: There are a few others (not from my childhood...but I'm a Pisces Sun, so I'm not sure I'll ever leave ) in heavy rotation for the girls:

* Most Miyazaki films (What's that? Heroine saves the day and/or reconciles two morally ambiguous foes? Why, yes, I will indoctrinate my girls...)
* Stardust
* ...and, again, drawing a blank. Gr.


Same here, for my son when he was little.
Add in Star Wars of course.

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posted February 24, 2012 03:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
ghanima & Lexxigramer - The Goonies and Star Wars!
How could I forget those?!

I even had Star Wars sheets and the (drumroll, please) BED TENT.
It was the best thing EVER.

And, yep, ghanima - 1980 here

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posted February 24, 2012 03:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Wizard of Oz

One parents knew nothing about : Splendor in the Grass

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posted February 24, 2012 04:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I LOVED the Sound of Music. How could I forget that one?

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