The movie talk in my last post got me thinking about this. What movie brings to back to your childhood?
For some bizarre reason it seems that every child will chose one – or a few particular movies to incessantly obsess over. They will watch these movies again and again with apparent enjoyment over the familiar scenes with each replay. They will mimic the characters and anticipate every plot change and conflict…because they’ve seen it hundreds of times. Then one day, this repetitive movie craziness ends and they eventually mature into adults. Adults that would probably not re-watch movies again to that extent.
Sound familiar? What is your child movie or movies? Mine is the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie from 1990. I loved these turtles! I never had the action figures or anything like that but I swear I could recite every scene on cue.
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29 responses to “What is your childhood movie?”
Any movie with Julie Andrews. Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music. I had a mad crush on her. I thought everybody did, so I didn’t think it wasn’t odd for a little girl to crush on an actress. Looking back, I also admired her strength as a person and the roles she picked. You didn’t F with Poppins, and her character in the Sound of Music was pretty bad ass too….for the time. Remember, this was the 1960s.. Different times.
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Jungle Book is such a sweet movie. This is a good one.
Did you enjoy the remake, if you’ve seen it?
usually I won’t watch remakes.
Are you afraid that you could enjoy the remake more and may feel like you’ve betrayed your loyalty to the film that you hold dear to your heart? No? That’s what I do…but then I watch the remake just so I can pompously announce to everyone that it definitely was NOT as good as the original.
But the remake was pretty good. Of course it lost a lot of it’s charm but the animals were gorgeous and I think the film still did well in getting the emotions of the characters across.
yes, mostly. and i really have no interest because I know it’s not the same.
I too liked the original; and found the remake enjoyable as well.
Of particular interest was the fact that the only “real” element in the entire movie, was the boy who played Mowgli. Everything else (including the annoying 3-D mosquitoes) was CGI. The “Making of” clips are interesting. Everything is a function of Jon Favreau’s imagination hitting off of the young actor’s imagination (he was dealing entirely with “targets” and “place-holders” on a uniformly-green set — perhaps with parts of the movie playing in the background.
There was one totally hilarious take where the boy wasn’t giving a “genuine” fear reaction to an imagined Sher Kahn attacking him so Jon Favreau snuck around behind the set and jumped out from behind the CGI tiger snarling. Poor Mowgli did a few proverbial laps around the room before they caught him and calmed him down!
And even though he approved when they played back his performance you could see he was still a twitchy wreck!
Ironically enough I grew up watching so many musicals that I can’t pick just one. Among my favorites (single movies) are:
Many of the Elvis musicals
The sound of music
7 brides for 7 brothers
State Fair
My Fair Lady
I loved all of those, too.
I’ve never even seen The Sound of Music, or any of those others. Just King Creole that’s it…….
I worked a chow line at a dinner theater and told the singin’ wait staff,
“I hate musicals.”
They took it somewhat poorly.
I grew up watching them. I might HATE music in general, but the tunes, coupled with plot, make it worth listening to it. Outside of that, for the most part, except for the RARE case, I’d rather have silence.
They won me over to musicals in the end, but I’d rather that not get out.
My childhood movie would, of course, be The Omen, but I liked this movie alot & haven’t seen it since I was a Sprout Eyegouge.
Wait, your childhood movie was The Omen but you really enjoyed On the Right Track too? Such drastic differences.
The Omen was about my childhood.
I pretty much watched Wayne’s World like every Friday evening. haha. I still have a crush on the ‘psycho hose beast’ named Stacy. Garth was really funny to me also. I also wanted to be a drummer like Tommy Lee when I grew up. I used to steal my brother’s Motley Crue music video tapes. I was a latchkey kid.
LOL Wayne’s World huh!? I haven’t seen or heard of that movie in a long time! I think Garth was so much funnier than Wayne. He was just a goof.
You ever get those drumming skills down?
Somewhat. I haven’t messed with them in years. Just during the spring I was going to play around some, but I couldn’t find any sticks. haha. And yeah I thought Garth was funnier also. The 2nd movie isn’t bad.
If noise & neighbors are an issue, you can get brushes and muffle the drum heads cheaply and effectively with cardboard circles used for cakes, found in stores with large cake decorating aisles or this internet thing. The different sizes cover the entire drumhead almost like they were made for drums. Right now I just use a large one that fits the kick-drum perfectly & brushes, and for only 5 minutes a day will I use sticks then I switch to brushes, because I feel kinda guilty for being loud, with neighbors as nice as mine who’ve never called the cops even when I wouldn’t have even blamed them.
thanks I’ll look into that. I left them behind at my parent’s place when I left for school. It was definitely because of noise. The good thing about living in the middle of nowhere before was loud noises didn’t matter much. haha
Those RKO movies with a young and skinny Frank Sinatra and all Marx Brother’s movies. I loved the Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger’s movies. I had a best friend (Billy) who would recreate some of the Fred and Ginger dance moves and we danced on roller skates as skate partners. We would imitate those dance moves.
I loved the innocence and naughtiness of Harpo Marx. I have a friend now in my adult life who looks like Harpo Marx and has that same innocence/naughty factor. He is a joy to know. He is not a real dentist, but he made my dentures in my kitchen. When he was taking the impressions with that big glob of weird clay stuff, I played in my mind a crazy Marx Brothers scene. ——– The dentures he makes are high quality. His family in Iran were a family of dentists and high grade ceramic tooth makers. It is too bad that he has not gone to a dental collage here in the United States to get a license for Dentistry. Oh well, just knowing him brings back silly Marx Brothers movies to my mind.
You should get him and PirateMan to make you JamesBond Jaws-Dentures.
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My friend (Noserat) really could make teeth like that. I could use them instead of saying, “I got a headache”. Just wear the 007 teeth and turn the Pirate off.
Actually, I had a time in my life a few years ago, where I watched Inglorious Basterds and Kick Ass over and over again. :-) Albeit, as tends to be especially more true these days, I did have these on in the background.
I recall really not watching movies over and over again until post-12. Then again? That was 1982, and we were early adopters of video machines. :-)
Star Wars came out when I was six or seven, and that was huge for me, and everybody. It was every boy’s obsession, it was the playground play game, and the main focus for toys, clothes, posters, everything.
My dad actually got a bootleg copy early, and while more grainy, did watch that a lot. That was more along my more normal fetishes, cinema wise. Closest to that in normal, was Monty Python. I fell in love with that show when I saw this scene of people playing music while their limbs and heads and such absurdly came off, spurting blood everywhere. It brought me to tears. So, my humor was dark leaning even then.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, we had a video of, and I watched that countless times.
More deep movies, one called “noon to three” with Charles Bronson as a condemned to death outlaw who faked his own death, ended up in prison, returned to discover his brief romance with a woman was made into a world famous novel. Only, all the details were wrong, and nobody would believe he was the now culturally vaunted hero…
A movie, though, above all others for me, which remains on my favorite top five movie list, despite my viewing cinema with a near religious like love is “My Name is Nobody”. About this old top gun who runs into this young mysterious, unknown but super talented gun. And this young man tries and get the reluctant old man into one last shoot… before they both ‘ride off into the sunset’ by faking their own deaths. The shoot is to take down, just by themselves, the fictional “wild bunch” which is like six thousand men strong.
Both shooters have impossible gun fighting powers.
Incredible movie.
Later on, I got into ninja movies and Charlie Bronson movies heavily.
Watched American Ninja a million times, and Bronson’s hitman and revenge movies thousands of times. (Not literally, but a lot.)
One of the most bizarre favorite shows of my youth, was “the Prisoner”, which my brother said I was obsessed with.
You can maybe see a theme here revealing the secret of my soul.
Terrence Hill westerns RULE!
This one stands out. The story line was so unique and well thought-out. It really fired the young imagination and got you thinking. (By today’s standards, would this be considered child abuse
)
Movies didn’t exist then…