The Great Outdoors is one that brings back a lot of memories. Loved John Candy in it and I wish he was still around to make more movies
Friday OT - Nostalgic Cinema
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Several mentioned from 80's and early 90s...Uncle Buck, Home Alone, OG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles--nobody, but NOBODY did it like Jim Hensen.
Any more when one is on it's not just watching the movie, but it's like watching a celebration of the era for music, styles, and how good guys like John Hughes were at setting the stage for the perfect scene.
Any more when one is on it's not just watching the movie, but it's like watching a celebration of the era for music, styles, and how good guys like John Hughes were at setting the stage for the perfect scene.
The first movie I remember seeing at the theater: "Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory."
My recollection of it attached to childhood isn't so much about the movie itself, but circumstance. One day when our family made a routine trip from the farm to Sioux City, while Mom and my sisters went shopping, Dad decided to take me to a movie.
After we all reconvened and headed home, Mom asked us what we thought of the movie. I was at an age when Any Entertainment is equally valid, I said I liked it.
Dad was disappointed. He thought it was going to be about an actual factory and how chocolate is manufactured.
Eventually, I became my dad, in that regard.
My recollection of it attached to childhood isn't so much about the movie itself, but circumstance. One day when our family made a routine trip from the farm to Sioux City, while Mom and my sisters went shopping, Dad decided to take me to a movie.
After we all reconvened and headed home, Mom asked us what we thought of the movie. I was at an age when Any Entertainment is equally valid, I said I liked it.
Dad was disappointed. He thought it was going to be about an actual factory and how chocolate is manufactured.
Eventually, I became my dad, in that regard.
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I'd have to say the original "Planet of the Apes" with Charlton Heston. I'll still sit and watch it if I run across it on TV.
One of my first memories of seeing a movie in a theatre that I thought was so cool and still remember scenes from was "Ice Station Zebra" at the River Hills in Des Moines. We lived in a small town about 30 miles away and seeing a movie in Des Moines was a big deal.
Also the original, "The Longest Yard" at the theatre in Nevada when I was a teenager.
Also the original, "The Longest Yard" at the theatre in Nevada when I was a teenager.
One I remember distinctly is Wizard of Oz 2: Return to Oz. The Wheelers scared the **** out of me...
Additions to my first post.
A lot of early theater memories were Disney live-action. First one was "The Love Bug," but memories are vague. I probably saw "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes," too.
Movie I most-closely associate with childhood is "The Wizard of Oz," which was aired annually on TV --- not all that common in those days, compared to the cable era.
A lot of early theater memories were Disney live-action. First one was "The Love Bug," but memories are vague. I probably saw "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes," too.
Movie I most-closely associate with childhood is "The Wizard of Oz," which was aired annually on TV --- not all that common in those days, compared to the cable era.
That made me think (for some reason) of another early movie that I saw at the theater: Time Bandits.
Oh yeah, movies we watched a ton as a family were Swiss Family Robinson and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world.
This could have been written by me, verbatim.
I see that The Sandlot and Goonies were mentioned already so I'll throw out all of the Back to the Future movies, Ghostbusters 1 & 2, and a guilty pleasure from back then: Little Monsters.
Other TV-movie annual replays our family watched in my early years were "The Ten Commandments" (always aired during Easter season) and "The Sound of Music." I loathed both.
Outside of the Stars Wars original trilogy as a kid it was either the original Tron or a much lesser known Condor Man starring Gene Wilder.
One I remember distinctly is Wizard of Oz 2: Return to Oz. The Wheelers scared the **** out of me...
This is the one I was thinking of. Recently talked about that movie with my brothers; we realized even more how messed up that movie is for kids. That room where all the heads were screaming at Dorothy scared the piss out of me everytime.
Surprised we didn't all need therapy after watching that as often as we did. Which reminds me, didn't realized until my discussion with my brothers that they were trying to give Dorothy electroshock therapy at the beginning because she kept talking about Oz?!
I just watched "The Highwaymen" last night on Netflix. Good companion movie.
With you on wizard of oz for reasons you mentioned. Throw another vote for home alone. For some reason I thought I was older than Macaulay than me but in a wiki lookup I was thrown that we are the same age.
