Movies you never outgrew?
 

So I was making a list of DVDs I want to purchase and several of them are movies from my youth that are geared toward kids - but I still love them!

What are some of the movies you saw as a kid and never grew out of/still enjoy?

My list:

The Parent Trap
Mary Poppins
Cloak and Dagger
Flight of the Navigator
Newsies
The Great Muppet Caper
Muppets Take Manhattan
Muppet Movie
Muppet Christmas Carol
Free Willy :laugh:

These are movies I either own and watch or will soon own - I just enjoy them :p

Airplane - surely I am serious :cool:

i love the airplane movies! and don't call me shirley.

Stewardess - I speak JIVE - try making that today :eek:

The Wizard of Oz
The Goonies
Mary Poppins
Beetlejuice
Dirty Dancing
Home Alone
I'd love to see Pippy Longstockings again. Haven't seen that one in YEARS!

I know some of these movies came out when the majority of you were teens and 20's, but I was born in 1984, so I was just a babe.

lord, i know. i think the heyday of cinematic comedy is behind us.

My main favorites from my youth are Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, the 80s Pippi Longstocking, Newsies, and Dirty Dancing.

Also, movies I feel I shouldn't love but do (with every fiber of my being) include Clueless, You've Got Mail, Legally Blonde, and Ever After.

throw momma from the train... ooowennnn!

Erm Airplane and Throw Mama from the Train weren't geared toward kids :shrug: So I don't know - no reason to outgrow them!

How could I foget Wizard of Oz :eek: that's a biggie :nod:

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
101 Dalmations
The Parent Trap
The Wizard of Oz

my parents weren't the most discerning... ;)

mary poppins!

COWS!

I fell in the aisle laughing!

Yea - but I saw them as a kid and I never outgrew them!

But, IF YOU INSIST :wavey: - The Sound of Music

And I get what y'all were going for now...there are tons of non-kid movies I saw as a kid that I still love too :nod:

Hmm...I just watched the Sound of Music this weekend :laugh:

this is really a cute thread, i have movies that i just adore from my youth & well my 20's, that i love to watch over & over~ i just got 1 for my birthday & watched it last night & remembered how wonderful the movie really was, it brought back so many memories, that movie was:
stand by me, i also love
the goonies
freaky friday the 1 w/ jodie foster
willy wonka & the ...
the 1st 2 karate kid's
ET
close encounters...
bad news bears
grease & grease II
clueless
don't tell mom the babysitters dead
girls just want to have fun
poltergeist
the little girl who lived down the lane
that is all i can think of right now

oh & yeah i loved the airplane movies too;) ~

& strand i worship the sound of music!!!~

Grease is still one of my alltime favorite movies.


Also never outgrew The Wizard of Oz and Willie Wonka. :)

^^

OMG How could I forget Karate Kid I and II!?! I JUST bought and watched them this past weekend :laugh:

Did you know there's a Karate Kid III??? (it's not the lame one with Hillary Swank)

also the Goonies - classic! :nod:

was karate kid III, when daniel & miyagi(*sp) had the bonzai shop & he met a girl who would did pottery & would do the vases?, i think i remember it & that i liked it, but i must not of watched it as much as the other two~

Beetlejuice
Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder wins over Depp any day)
Land Before Time (The original. Screw the zillions of sing-along sequels!)
The Goonies (Do the truffle shuffle!)
Beauty and the Beast
Uncle Buck :laugh:
Adventures in Babysitting (Elizabeth Shue = Still a hottie)
Sarah Plain and Tall

land before time = HELL YES!!! also beauty and the beast. still haven't seen goonies. *hides*

where ARE you???

Wutchutalkin'bout, Willis?!? I'm online!!

Um, you are seeing with me.

Yo, I haven't seen goonies either. So what? Oooo, we didn't see one movie! Our brains are going to rot and ooze out of our skulls because we don't have the cultural reference of goonies in there to hold it in place! :rolleyes:

i know, but every time i say something to you, you don't respond/sign off! look, there's a huff - i think i'll leave in it! :laugh: jk, i'm sure it's just msn/your internet being a bastard. but yes, let's watch it together. :D

:laugh: yeah, but i've been meaning to see it because cyndi's in it! *swoons*

Naw, dude, I'm there... because I'm talking to Barry. *tries to talk to you!!!!*

Willie Wonka
The Dark Crystal
Babe (so what if I was an adult when it came out. I'm a sheep pig !)
Any Muppet Movie
Charlotte's Web (Templeton the Rat ! Paul Lynde as a queenie, bitchy rat. How can you not love that ?)
Planet Of The Apes

i've been responding! *murders barry* my name rhymes with his ... you won't miss him. :laugh:

in an effort to not hijack this thread, here are the movies i'll never outgrow:

free willy (totally with you on this one, deanna)
the lion king

ummmmm, i can't think of any more. there are more, though.

umm, LOLOLOL i just heard the funniest FM mention on will and grace! will: "eeeeeeeverybody's sleeping with everybody. suddenly my parents are fleetwood mac!!" HA!

A movie I never outgrew (nor did many people who saw it) is Richard Fleischer's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" with Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas (a drag as the moralizing professor), Ted de Corsia (Creepy Ted of the old noirs) & James Mason in a landmark performance as the tormented Captain Nemo.

The movie's got verve, great production design, cool music ("Whale of a Tale"), Technicolor & a cute seal. What more could kids -- or adults -- want in a movie?

http://www.cylon.org/images/classic/20leagues01web.jpg http://www.cylon.org/images/classic/nemo01.jpg http://www.cylon.org/images/classic/20000b.jpg

Bahaha... HEY, THE LION KING!! DUDE. Why did I forget to include that? When I first saw that, for some reason, I cried at the beginning where all the animals flocked to see baby Simba. I need to watch that again.
Hm, what else? I'm not crazy about Free Willy.

dude, i LOVE every second of free willy. i even loved the music video - the summer i turned 8 i watched vh1 as often as i could to catch it! :laugh:

Freak. :lol:

:laugh: heyyyy, i was 8!

The main ones for me are:

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz
Mary Poppins
The Sound Of Music
Thoroughly Modern Millie

Grease 2. You heard me. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer's bangs:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/antisnark/07.jpg


And yeah, I do count it as a kids movie. And you're all lying if you say you don't want a cool rider. If I got a jacket like that it would totally match my future skates (see sig).

Naturally, I haven't ever outgrown Grease, either - it includes the unexpected star turn of Olivia Newton John's bangs - a tour de force performance:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12...ark/211122.jpg

A little trivia - I believe that cigarrette was nominated for a supporting actor oscar. Tragically, it was posthumously awarded because if you recall, right after its appearance it was cruelly stomped out, its bright fire forever extinguished.

:laugh: MP is still ridiculously hot. ridiculously. i used to watch up close and personal like 3 times a day when i was in middle school, and i would tell people it was because robert redford was in it, but it was a lie.

actually, i'm adding that to my list. it's not a kids movie, but i saw it as a kid and totally loved it, and always will.

I agree. She's mesmerizingly gorgeous. Just incredible.

she looks a lot like jodie foster in that picture you posted. jodie's another favorite of mine. she's so, like, ~*teh in the wynd*~

A favorite of mine as well. Which reminds me of how Freaky Friday could be on the list. But no, I saw it when I was older. Disqualified.

ooh, i saw silence of the lambs when i was 11. totally putting that on the list.

Labrynth
Any Muppet Movie
The Chipmunks Adventure
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