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What were your favorite films growing up? - 25/5/2012 7:42:18 AM

Padilpi

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I loved fantasy films likeThe Dark Crystal, Flight of the navigator, willow, Labyrinth. Everytime i see those films they remind me of when i was a child.

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 25/5/2012 9:19:50 AM

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Ghostbusters 1 and 2
Indy 1,2,3
Gremlins 1 and 2
jaws
Star Trek 2,3,4,5,6
Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?
Jurassic Park

and there are still favorites now with Jurassic Park still my all time favorite film.

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 26/5/2012 10:25:29 AM

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Every Bond film
Indiana Jones
Muppet Christmas Carol
It's A Wonderful Life
The Emperor's New Groove
Waterworld

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 26/5/2012 1:10:43 PM

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Star Wars

Indian Jones
Bond films
Jaws
Time Bandits

Flight of the Navigator
Willow
Labyrinth
Krull (not the greatest fantasy - but me and my sister really enjoyed it!)
Robocop (i was probably too young to watch it - blame my uncle!)
Commando (same as above)
Q-The Winged Serpent (watched it with my grandparents -same as Time Bandits!)

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 27/5/2012 3:14:38 PM

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Sorry, I know its strictly films, but there were are also some cartoon shows on TV which bring back memories of my childhood growing up in the 80's! Gems such as;

Dungeons & Dragons!

The Mysterious Cities of Gold! (I purchased the complete boxset not too long ago! A joy to watch from start to finish!)
Dogtanian!
He-Man!

Ulysses!

Thundercats!
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors!
Those are just some which spring to mind, and which I absolutely love even as an adult! They were some quality shows, unlike most of the garbage being shown on todays shows!

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 7/6/2012 2:54:32 PM

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'The mask' stands out as one in particular. Loved that film

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 7/6/2012 3:01:15 PM

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Jaws
Jurassic Park
Robin Hood (Disney)
Ghostbusters
Mrs. Doubtfire
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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 7/6/2012 3:38:38 PM

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How could I forget 'Mrs Doubtfire?' And 'Mathilda' added to that

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 7/6/2012 4:40:12 PM

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I used to love anything with Ray Harryhausen special effects, Jason and the Argonauts, Valley of the Gwangi, Mysterious Island, any Sinbad film. I was also obsessed with Jaws and Close Encounters.

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 9/6/2012 11:37:30 PM

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Bugsy Malone
The Goonies
The Muppet Movie
The Great Muppet Caper
Muppets Take Manhattan
Follow That Bird
Jason and the Argonauts
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Golden Child
Ghostbusters

As I got older (late 80s, early 90s) I got into-
Die Hard
Commando
Red Heat
Lethal Weapon 1 and 2
Tango & Cash
A Fish Called Wanda
Kindergarten Cop
Robocop
Van Damme and Steven Seagal films
as well as Ghostbusters 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Three Men and a Baby

I watched a lot of films when I was a kid.....

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 10/6/2012 7:54:29 PM

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Star Wars, of course. Jurassic Park too, and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. And Indiana Jones, thinking about it - a lot of Spielberg/Lucas stuff.

Pixar films as well. Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc. and Bug's Life especially. I still love Pixar films - as an 18 year old I'm eagerly awaiting Brave, and count WALL-E and Up amongst my favourite films.

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 10/6/2012 11:51:08 PM

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What if you haven't quite grown up yet???

If we're talking childhood though...
Another vote for Bugsy Malone, I can still do the Fat Sam's grandslam dance

Honey I Shrunk the Kids

Flight of the Navigator

Beauty and the Beast

Land Before Time / An American Tail / Animalympics... any of these would still reduce me to tears!

To my embarasment though my most often watched video was probably Totally Minnie, a cobbled together Disney special with Elton John singing Don't Go Breakin' My Heart with Minnie Mouse. In fact, I would probably still enjoy that, anyone got a battered copy?!

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 13/6/2012 10:57:57 AM

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I really got into films and cinema when I was 11 years old (circa 1994) and for that reason my favorite films growing up where the best films of that season. Films like Interview with the Vampire, Speed, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, The Crow. One year later we had Die Hard 3 and Se7en.

Then, as I started watching older movies as well, I got hooked with Star Wars and so on.

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 13/6/2012 1:59:23 PM

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I only had one favourite film when I was younger

I used to watch it endlessly. One whole summer was planned around how many times I could watch this. It�s by far the film I�ve seen most as well, way over 300 times. I don�t think any VHS tape in existence has ever been worn so much. The final 20 minutes, the pirate attack, I watched countless times, over and over endlessly, in the thousands. I stopped watching it around 1992, but tried it again a few years back and it had lost none of its charm. It's not a masterpiece of deep meaning and philosophy, it won�t further your understanding of the human race, but as family entertainment, an adventure film, it�s nigh-on untouchable. Storms, snakes, pirates, tigers, that wonderful treehouse that I always wanted to live in (love the version in Disneyland Paris as well), John Mills and Dorothy McGuire as the kind of folk you wouldn�t mind being stuck on an island with, that great theme by William Alwyn, everything is just damn fine. And that pirate attack still rocks!

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 13/6/2012 4:41:29 PM

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Spaced Invaders (1990)

Remember watching it alot when I was a kid,though I've just browsed youtube and it looks abit cr*p.

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 13/6/2012 6:44:54 PM

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 13/6/2012 8:57:01 PM

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Seen at the CINEMA:
BOND Films fav one OHMSS
STAR WARS -New Hope
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG.
JAWS
Seen on TV(before there was Video

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HAMMER HORROR FILMS mainly the ones with Lee and Cushing.
UNIVERSAL Horror Films two fav
Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 13/6/2012 9:53:54 PM

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 14/6/2012 1:12:33 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: OPEN YOUR EYES

Spaced Invaders (1990)

Remember watching it alot when I was a kid,though I've just browsed youtube and it looks abit cr*p.

That's a crazy shout. I do remember going to see it at the cinema though, it starred the guy who played Howie in The Fall Guy - a TV favourite growing up.

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 15/6/2012 7:29:00 PM

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 15/6/2012 10:13:05 PM

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The first films I really loved were Mary Poppins and the made for tv Hulk film
then iwas almost anything with Arnie
Commando
Conan
Red Heat
Predator
also Jurrassic Park and Real men

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 15/6/2012 10:59:28 PM

OPEN YOUR EYES

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quote:

ORIGINAL: fuzzy

quote:

ORIGINAL: OPEN YOUR EYES

Spaced Invaders (1990)

Remember watching it alot when I was a kid,though I've just browsed youtube and it looks abit cr*p.

That's a crazy shout. I do remember going to see it at the cinema though, it starred the guy who played Howie in The Fall Guy - a TV favourite growing up.

I watched it alot more than I should of as a kid,it was constantly on the loop.
Other films I watched when I was young were (blame my babysitting nan

) Terminator,Aliens and Star Trek 3:The Search For Spock,which was another film on the loop mainly because I loved the scene of the Enterprise's self destruction.
edit:destruction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1xdGCvNMEY&feature=relmfu

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 20/6/2012 11:11:43 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Taizy

What if you haven't quite grown up yet???

I was just about to say that!

Anyway, my favourites are the same as my all-time top 3 movies: Jaws, Battle of Britain and Raiders. Add 633 Squadron, Aliens, An American Werewolf in London, The Howling and Total Recall to the list, too.

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 20/6/2012 11:34:52 PM

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Star Wars
Valley of Gwangi
Beauty and the Beast
The Little Mermaid
Shadowlands (yes seriously, I was 6 when I last watched it but I remember loving it, without really knowing what was going on)

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 21/6/2012 5:16:06 AM

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My favourite films growing up were totally random

I loved the Dark Crystal, Pebble and the Penguin and then basically any Disney movie.
Grease would also have to be one of my all time favourites from when I was growing up, although watching it now I definitely had no clue what was going on. I just loved the singing

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 21/6/2012 6:09:05 AM

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Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Omen
Bugsy Malone
Back to the Future
Star Wars
(Bizarrely) The Man With the Deadly Lens
The Spy Who Loved Me
Diamonds Are Forever
Blade Runner
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Black Hole

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 26/6/2012 9:42:40 AM

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Nightmare before Christmas
Water boy
Star wars
Indiana jones

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 30/6/2012 12:01:00 AM

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i watched chitty chitty bang bang & willy wonka and the chocolate factory alot as a child. also watched one of our dinosaurs is missing.

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 30/6/2012 2:20:29 PM

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The Wizard (1989) The Power Glove!
The Goonies (1985)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Stand By Me (1986)
Gremlins (1984)
License to Drive (1988)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Adventures in Babysitting/A Night on the Town (1987)

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RE: What were your favorite films growing up? - 30/6/2012 3:16:25 PM

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