I liked to recreate the finale of What’s Up, Doc? with my Matchbox cars.
1776. I’d seen one scene in elementary school–the local high school cast came and performed it, I think during the Bicentennial. (It was the “I Say You Should Write It” song when they argued about who should write the Declaration of Independence.) My sister noticed that it was on TV, and I was mesmerized. It’s still one of my favorite films.
Star Wars, and the years later, Labyrinth.
Embarrassingly, I had a crush on Darth Vader (his voice mostly) and then David Bowie.
Ooh! I love that movie but I never saw it until my late 20s.
I went to the movies by myself and saw Little Big Man when it was first released. I went back the next day and watched it twice in a row.
Did you ever see the episode of St. Elsewhere in which Dr. Craig and his wife went to Philadelphia, in the summer?
A kid? Old Yeller.
We had four Peanuts cartoon movies, and I watched one practically every week.
Planet of the Apes franchise.
I have seen all of the first five films at least 10 times and I can probably quote the dialogue word for word. When I was a kid, I was really into the whole “Ape City” mythology and I watched the films until no one could stand watching TV with me.
“Goddamn you all to Hell!!!”
best.
Line
EVER.
I was really into Dances With Wolves when I was 11. I played the soundtrack endlessly and fantasized about living with the Sioux. Oh, and I may have had a slight crush on Kevin Costner.
“Not Dumb Bear… Dunbar.”
I had no money for movies as a kid, and I’m hard-pressed to remember any I saw in a theater (other than Winnie the Pooh and Mary Poppins) before I was a late adolescent. I’ve never been big on movies or television, and until the advent of DVDs, I don’t think I saw any movie more than once unless it was on television (e.g., 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Monty Python and the Holy Grail).
Now that I teach, there are films and episodes of shows I see a lot, but it’s because they’re good to teach with. Most are documentaries, like Smile Pinki.
On the other hand, there are books (like many of Heinlein’s) that I’ve read and reread throughout my life.
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere. On July 4, 1974, a local multiplex theater showed all five of the original Apes movies, on one ticket. I sat down at 10:00AM, and got out who knows when. But I did not buy any of the bananas that were being sold in the lobby.
“I loathe bananas!!!”
The Wizard of Oz
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Quite a few:
The Great Muppet Caper
E.T.
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
Return of the Jedi
Oh, and The Dark Crystal.
Babes in Toyland, the one with Annette Funicello.
I saw that once in the middle of the night on UHF.
Mary Poppins