Top 5 Childhood movies

[SCyclone]

For my youth it was definitely Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow Up".

Holy cow, you must be my age!

 

[cyclone101]

No particular order:
Space Jam
Toy Story
The Lion King
The Sandlot
The Cowboys (Old movie but I watched it a ton)

 

[SCyclone]

I think what helped it out was the fact that it was a short story/novella, same with Shawshank, and not a 1000 page novel with way too much to cram in a 2 hour movie.

From the same King book (Different Seasons):

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
The Body (Stand By Me)
Apt Pupil (movie with Brad Renfro about a teenager who recognizes an ex-Nazi living in his neightborhood - not a bad film, actually)
The Breathing Method (which IMHO would make an excellent, creepy film)

 

[deadeyededric]

Bad News Bears
Bad News Bears breaking training
Goonies
The dark crystal
Pee wee's big adventure

 

[EnhancedFujita]

Funny story. I grew up behind a drive in movie theatre. So myself and the neighborkids could watch all the movies for free. We had our own radio and a fort set up in the woods right by the screen. I saw my first breasts ever at that theatre during a showing of Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks. The boys and I saw that movie 50 times just so we could see that scene. haha

Yeah, that was the same type of experience I think most of us had in the 80s with nudity. Those random scenes in 80s comedies were a gold mine. I kinda worry now that I've got kids that are approaching adolescence. This just doesn't exist in movies much anymore, and there is no softcore playboy stuff that Dad's "hid" in the garage. Instead its just the internet which can be a scary place for that type of stuff real fast.

 

[weeterkane]

Obviously not all kid friendly, but hey, I was a twisted child.
Big Trouble in Little China
Re-animator
Phenomena - aka Creepers
The Gate
Blue Velvet

 

[Cytown12]

Jurassic Park

 

[Cytown12]

Home Alone movies,Germlins, and Die Hard all great childhood Christmas movies

 

[EnhancedFujita]

I think what helped it out was the fact that it was a short story/novella, same with Shawshank, and not a 1000 page novel with way too much to cram in a 2 hour movie.

King's longer stories are ripe for a limited TV series spanning a couple episodes. I really liked the recent IT adaptation, but I think to do stuff like that and The Stand justice you really need to spend 10-20 episodes of a TV show getting into the detail of the story. I thought they'd be able to do that with the Under the Dome show a few years back, but it seems like they abandoned some of the stuff from the book if I recall.

 

[Cyched]

90s Kid:

1. Space Jam
2. Lion King
3. Toy Story
4. Finding Nemo
5. Aladdin

 

[Clonefan32]

The few that come to mind for me as a kid are Free Willy and the 3 Ninja Movies.

 

[Cyched]

This didn’t come out when I was a little kid, but Up is probably one of Pixar’s best movies.

 

[Lemmiwinks]

The few that come to mind for me as a kid are Free Willy and the 3 Ninja Movies.

Holy crap I forgot the 3 Ninja Trilogy in mine. Good call.

 

[madguy30]

Yeah, it managed to capture the feel of a King book much better than most. Some of his best writing is the stuff woven in between the horror, and that is hard to translate to film.

The anticipation throughout it and the real morbidity and relationships between the characters makes it a gem imo.

Add in some really, really good child actors that carry it.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Goonies
Top Gun
Big Trouble in Little China
Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure
Rad

 

[ISUTex]

ET (saw in theatre and everybody clapped and cheered when ET came back to life).
Ghostbusters
Goonies
Lonesome Dove (watched mini series on CBS with parents. Awesome Western.)
Indiana Jones Trilogy (crystal skull doesn't count IMO).

Star Wars Trilogy comes in at a close 6th.

 

[IASTATE07]

Tommy Boy
Dumb and Dumber
Billy Madison
The Sandlot
Ace Ventura

 

[mb7299]

No mention of My Dog Skip yet. Loved that movie.

 

[ISUTex]

I think by today's standards for sure. Back then they weren't necessarily marketed as a movie to take kids to like Disney movies were, but they were certainly considered films that were okay for 8-12 year olds to watch. Similarly today, I don't think many people would call the Marvel movies as kids movies, but you know a lot of kids in that age range to to see them.

my parents let us watch Revenge of the Nerds and Porky's when they had friends over in the winter (they would rent the movies and bring multiple VCRs over to record them. Then they would drink, smoke and play cards all night.

in the summer we were basically feral on the weekends.. Ahhh, the 80's. Good times.

 

[Brentwood]

I loved the movie CLUE