Favorite Children's Movie Memories

[PurpleDragon]

Simply idea really, 1) What was your favorite movie as a child, and is it still a favorite of yours.  2) Why?

I'll go first.

While it is often hard to pick a favorite of all the movies of my youth, I would have to say that The Hobbit by Rankin/Bass was my all time favorite and still is to the extent that I own it on VHS and still watch it quite often.  I loved the animation in that one and of course the storyline.

Next would have to be Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory starring Gene Wilder.
Do I really need to explain this one???

[maelstrom0370]

I am SOOOOO with you on Willy Wonka...it's been in my Top 3 Favorites since I was a kid!
Absolutely HATED the remake, though.

Oddly enough, Hair is another fave from my youth.  I saw the movie version with Treat Williams and John Savage when I was 10 or 11 and it has always stuck with me.  It's one of those "I'll watch it whenever it's on" movies.

[PurpleDragon]

I am SOOOOO with you on Willy Wonka...it's been in my Top 3 Favorites since I was a kid!
Absolutely HATED the remake, though.

Oddly enough, Hair is another fave from my youth.  I saw the movie version with Treat Williams and John Savage when I was 10 or 11 and it has always stuck with me.  It's one of those "I'll watch it whenever it's on" movies.

Gene Wilder ROCKED that role as Wonka

OMG...How in the world could I have forgotten HAIR?? I LOVE THAT MOVIE... In fact, I own a copy of it on VHS as well.. LOL

[maelstrom0370]

OMG...How in the world could I have forgotten HAIR?? I LOVE THAT MOVIE... In fact, I own a copy of it on VHS as well.. LOL

Even as a kid, I'd get choked up at the scene where Claude shows up just in time to see Berger's plane take off.
Well, that and I think it was the first time I saw really for real nekkid b00bies on TV!  (HEY! I was, like, 10 years old!!)

[TiaLD77]

Clash Of the Titans & Grease 2......they were always on Cable when I could go stay with my cousins in town HBO was Soo Coool then

[Lady Christina de Pond]

favorite child hood movie had to be star wars episode VI the return of the Jedi i guess i liked it best because it had all the cool actions scenes

i also loved Robin Hood Prince of thieves still my top movie of all time  action adventure romance what more could a girl ask for

[Whistler Fred]

Even though it was not a new movie when I saw it (I'm not that old) I always loved "The Wizard of Oz" as a kid.  When it was on it was always a Big Event - we would go to one of my relatives that had one of those newfangled color TVs (well, okay, I'm am a bit old  ) and all gathered around and got engrossed by Dorothy and her adventures over the rainbow.  I still enjoy it as an adult (and now understand some of the jokes that went over my head as a kid), although it was a bit dissappointing to realize that the green skinned guards of the Wicked Witch's castle weren't singing about Oreos.

[maelstrom0370]

**Smacks his forehead**

HOW could I forget Clash of the Titans!!!??
AND The Wizard of Oz!!??

AND....ummmm...**looks around to see who's paying attention**...*cough*TheSoundOfMusic*cough*

[maelstrom0370]

although it was a bit dissappointing to realize that the green skinned guards of the Wicked Witch's castle weren't singing about Oreos.

They're actually singing "Oh we love the old one".  Don't ask, it's one of the 1000's of useless pieces of information floating around in my head.

[Morgan Dreadlocke]

Always loved the Universal "Wolfman". Prolly one of the few thats ever seen the Chaney vs bear scene. Disney's "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh" was a rememberer (soon to be on dvd). Also liked "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", cause its the coolest  submarine ever designed.


OOleeOO  OHHloww-
Bad memories from high school gymnastics as the entire team was needed to roll up an transport the free ex mat from the apparatus room to the bastket ball court. It was a one ton sausage and an absolute b*t*h to move. It weas a fitting marching drone.

[Al-Nimer]

Some of my favorites, besides Wizard of Oz, include WarGames, Star Trek II & IV, Star Wars IV-VI, and of course The Princess Bride.

[gypsylakat]

uhmm saddest movie every.. scruffy... *cries* but i loved it soooo much, it's about a little cocker spaniel who gets lost from her family and ends up in a pound and oh it's so sad! I'm not sure why It's one of my favorites!

[Lady Neysa]

One of my favorite movie memories as a kid was when my dad took me to see "The Black Stallion".  I was a horse nut at a young age.  When I was 9 or 10, I  remember  finding a box of books mom had packed away in the back of a closet.  I found a very old looking hardback book, tattered and falling apart,- "The Black Stallion"-my first introduction to that series. Turns out it was my dad's book when he was a kid, who was a horse nut too. (Wish I still had that old book, it was obviously a very early edition) I fell in love with the series, and when the movie came out dad took me, just us, with no other family with us. It was a nice bonding moment.

[Queen Bonnie]

 I LOVED Robin Hood- Errol Flynn!
Also Peter Pan!  Fantasia! So many wonderful movies!

[Taffy Saltwater]

The 1950's movie Tarantula, about a giant spider that wreaks havoc on a little town, oh, and can't forget the Blob.  What can I say - I wanted to grow up to be Morticia Addams.