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Old 05-07-2013, 01:04 PM
 
Location: Orange Blossom Trail
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The Goonies
Gremlins
Ghost Busters 1 & 2
Back to the Future 1 & 2
GI Joe the Movie
Heavy Metal
Star Wars Return of the Jedi
Coming to America
Disorderlies


Im 33 and still have never seen E.T.
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Old 05-08-2013, 01:58 PM
 
Location: Orange Blossom Trail
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I'll go with Ben Hur, Swiss Family Robinson, Ten Commandments, McLintock, North to Alaska, Thunderball, West Side Story, Our Man Flint, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Taras Bulba, The Dirty Dozen, and McHales Navy (the movie). LOVE THIS THREAD!
Movies from your child hood?? My dad loves like 3 of those flicks you mentioned...
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Old 05-09-2013, 10:01 PM
 
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The original Star Wars trilogy was the closest thing in my upbringing to religion. Same with Back to the Future, and the Indiana Jones movies. I was 12 when the Matrix came out and that blew minds at the time.
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Old 05-10-2013, 08:26 AM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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The Lion King (first movie I remember seeing in a theatre...well, I'm not sure. It's between that and Snow White)
Toy Story
The Mighty Ducks 1, 2, and 3
Heavyweights
Good Burger
Twister (the first "grown up" movie I owned on tape)
The Land Before Time (but only 1 through about 67, lol)
Gumby: The Movie
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

Guess it's pretty obvious what decade I came up in.

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Old 05-10-2013, 08:43 AM
 
Location: South Carolina
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Yep the three lives of Thomasina
swiss family robinson (the original ) with dan o from hawaii five oh.
gone with the wind
the sound of music
pollyanna
lady and the tramp
pinnochio
samantha and leo (micheal douglass's first movie ) with Johnny whitacker and jodi foster
the goonies
there was one I watched with Brian Keith and this kid was interested in an irish setter dog dont remember the name of it though .
where the red fern grows
where the lillies bloom
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Old 05-10-2013, 09:25 AM
 
Location: Born & Raised DC > Carolinas > Seattle > Denver
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Terminator 2
Goonies
Aliens
The Labyrinth
Star Wars trilogy
Indiana Jones movies (all of 'em)
Ghostbusters
E.T.

I'm an '82 kid.
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Old 05-13-2013, 06:27 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Default So many great movies enriched my reality

Ben-Hur
El Cid
The Defiant Ones
The Ten Commandments
Taras Bulba
To Sir With Love
The Big Country
How The West Was Won
Once Upon A Time In The West
Red River
One-Eyed Jacks
The Man Who Would Be King
Goldfinger
Psycho
The Birds
The Warlord
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Dirty Dozen
The Magnificent Seven
The Birdman of Alcatraz
From Here to Eternity
The Great Escape
Cape Fear (the original)
Hard Times
The Hustler
Cool Hand Luke
Dr. Zhivago
Moby Dick
The Bad Seed
Lawrence of Arabia
The Wolfman
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Mummy
I Was A Teenage Werewolf
The Blob
Day of the Triffids
Viva Zapata
The Godfather
Khartoum
.
....to name just a few.
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Old 05-13-2013, 04:49 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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These were my faves/influential to me from childhood - high school.
Karate Kid
Dirty Dancing
Footloose
Clueless
Teen Witch
The Birds
Carrie
Sleepaway Camp
Fear of a Black Hat
Blue Chip
Friday
Indiana Jones (all of them)
Little Mermaid (one of the first movies my sister and I got to see with no parents!)
Jurassic Park
Nightmare on Elm Street (all of them)
Scream (all of them)
Popcorn
Ferris Bueller
Silence of the Lambs

I forgot Heathers (thanks mom!)

And Home Alone. And Back to the Future.

I guess that sums up the top of mind ones

**I know I am supposed to be in the age group where Goonies, ET, Star Wars, Flight of the Navigator, Stand by Me, and Top Gun were on the list but in reality I didn't care about these.
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Old 05-16-2013, 06:15 PM
 
Location: prescott az
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Ha Ha Ha
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Please Don't eat the Daisies (Doris Day)
Magnificent Obsession
(I am really old, as you can tell.)
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Old 05-16-2013, 07:28 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Noone mentioned Porky's?
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