# What's the earliest movie that you liked that you still like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817 "2014-01-03T17:43:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/141 "2015-10-15T01:39:35Z")
Including movies I first saw on TV, **Duck Soup**. Excluding TV, either **Silver Streak** or **Silent Movie**. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/142 "2015-10-15T14:46:40Z")
First movies I remember ever watching were back to back: Jason And The Argonauts… and The Giant Claw, on Saturday afternoon TV. Jason still holds up pretty well… ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/143 "2015-10-15T15:51:25Z")
When I was about six, HBO showed _Time Bandits_ and _Flash Gordon_ over and over again. I would watch both every time. In the last couple years, I watched both of them again and enjoyed them for the most part. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/144 "2015-10-15T16:11:40Z")
> [@PaperBlob](#): > > **The Sting** , which I saw in the theater when I was 11. I didn’t completely understand all the details of the con, but I got it well enough to think it was pretty cool. Also, I LOVED the music, and got the soundtrack to the movie for my birthday or Christmas. As I got older and re-watched it on video, I better understood all that was going on in the movie, and just liked it better and better. I still love the music too. Hell, I first saw it around age 25 when it first came out and didn’t grasp all the nuances then, and I was in graduate school. I \*FINALLY \*understood \*EVERYTHING \*about the con for the very first time when I saw it for possibly the 15th iteration at age 60. (Finally got the FBI stuff and “Salino.”) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/145 "2015-10-15T18:07:57Z")
For me it has to be King Kong. I saw it as a young child on TV before the 1976 remake. I’ve been fascinated by the movie since that time. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/146 "2015-10-15T18:19:51Z")
I saw Take The Money and Run on first run. But really isn’t it going to be the Wizard of Oz for most (Americans) anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/147 "2015-10-16T05:30:38Z")
The Godfather It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World The Poseidon Adventure Fantasia Five Sleeping Beauty ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/148 "2015-10-16T09:13:58Z")
What is _Fantasia Five_? I can’t find any mention of such a film. Are you taking about _Fantasia 2000_, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/149 "2015-10-17T04:38:50Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Loved it when I was five because a hunk of stone fell on a guy’s torso and he vomited blood. Haven’t seen it since so I can’t comment, but the cast is great. I remember that too. I was only 7 or 8 but remember that vividly. Then I found out that someone had died during the making of the film and I always wondered if it was that man. Also, I remember that as a round stone was rolling and rolled right up against the man. I have tried to find a version of this film that still includes that scene but it seems to have been cut from all modern versions. In any case, IMHO, I find that on the whole, S&D does not hold up as a great film nearly as well as The Ten Commandments. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/150 "2015-10-17T23:09:08Z")
Star Wars. It wasn’t the first movie I ever saw in a theater, but it was one of the first few. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/151 "2015-10-21T20:53:54Z")
Maybe “Umbrellas of Cherbourg”. I often put the entire film on YouTube and just listen to the sound track while I’m working. Sometimes I watch for a while. Amazing, transfixing movie. 48 years old now. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/152 "2015-10-21T21:09:56Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Maybe “Umbrellas of Cherbourg”. I often put the entire film on YouTube and just listen to the sound track while I’m working. Sometimes I watch for a while. Amazing, transfixing movie. 48 years old now. So is this the oldest movie you like? Or is it the first movie you saw that you still like now? Hard to imagine either way. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/153 "2015-10-21T23:02:50Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > So is this the oldest movie you like? Or is it the first movie you saw that you still like now? Hard to imagine either way. The latter. Of all the movies I liked a long time ago, that one comes to mind as one I still love. I was 27 when I first saw it, and other pictures of that and earlier eras don’t stand the test of time all that well. There are older movies that I also like, but none that I saw that long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/154 "2015-10-22T01:22:29Z")
My sister took me to see **Chariots of Fire** when I was 6. I understood the gist of it and loved it immediately. It just seemed larger than life because… well, it was. I think it still holds up. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/155 "2015-10-22T02:15:28Z")
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which my sister and I still quote from all the time), and The Fox and the Hound, which still makes me cry. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/156 "2016-12-02T15:37:58Z")
I failed to include [The Iron Mistress (1952)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGQjAo1hD_s) in the OP list, but it has been in my memory all these years since I saw it as a kid. It shows its age and the limits of its entertainment value in rewatching, which I did for the first time in a long time this week. But I still love it. Finding it on YouTube has taken weeks, since the version they had up earlier was taken down for some reason. This version is barely acceptable but at least most of the good parts (the ones with The Knife!) are okay. Seeing it again satisfies me that I don’t really need to own a copy of it – even a good one – but it brings back fun memories. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/157 "2016-12-02T16:35:44Z")
_Duel._ Sometimes, while playing Euro Truck Simulator, I’ll home in on a random AI vehicle and follow them around the map for hours. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/158 "2016-12-02T17:59:39Z")
(Didn’t read whole thread.) [The Day the Earth Stood Still](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/)(the 1951 original with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal) I saw it in Japan when I was two years old (no kidding-- I have a picture of myself standing in front of the poster at the base theater). I saw it again when I was about 11 and loved it all over. I’ve never gotten tired of it. In fact, I may watch it again later today! I’ve always been amazed how the interior of the space craft STILL looks futuristic by 2016 standards. Even the ST:TOS bridge looks a little dated now. But not Klaatu’s ship. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/159 "2016-12-02T18:05:56Z")
My sisters took me to a bunch of movies when I was little. Only remember _Silver Streak_ and _Smokey and the Bandit_, though. Still watch if I run across them while channel surfing. Saw _Star Wars_ with the whole family and a sister’s friend at a drive-in in '77. The same drive-in showed a print of the animated _Jungle Book_ when I was very little. I only remember because the film melted. Still love that movie! :wanders off, humming “Bare Necessities”: ---
**Author:** ![mdurkee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@mdurkee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdurkee)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/160 "2016-12-05T18:09:01Z")
Still watch this as often as possible and since the death of Gene Wilder it has been showing up on the movie channels more often. I am glad that we can still enjoy this awesome actor for years to come. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817.md?page=9)