# When you were a kid, what was your favourite film?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 6, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-what-was-your-favourite-film/520154 "2009-12-06T02:24:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Webner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/0ea827/32.png) [@Webner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Webner)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-what-was-your-favourite-film/520154/81 "2009-12-14T01:09:17Z")

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**Back to the Future  
The first three Indiana Jones films  
Honey I Shrunk the Kids  
Field of Dreams  
Demolition Man**

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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-what-was-your-favourite-film/520154/82 "2009-12-14T01:42:08Z")

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**To Kill A Mockingbird** and (Robert Mitchum’s) **Cape Fear** are the two that really stick out. I also loved many of the SF films that gonzomax mentioned, especially **Them** , **War of the Worlds** , and **When Worlds Collide**. Also **The Parent Trap** , **The Wizard of Oz** and **Treasure of the Sierra Madre**. Of course I saw all those on television.

When I was old enough to fall in love with a movie I saw in the theater, as a pre-teen, they would have been Franco Zeffirelli’s **Romeo and Juliet** , **Bonnie and Clyde** , **Funny Girl** and **Bullitt**. I wanted to see those movies over and over and over again, but I couldn’t (we lived on a farm and didn’t get to the theater too often). My penchant today for seeing films I really love multiple times in the theater comes from, I think, an attitude of “I CAN now, so fuck it, why not?”

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**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-what-was-your-favourite-film/520154/83 "2009-12-14T01:43:03Z")

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When I was around 15 y/o my favorite movies were the Jean-Claude Van Damme masterpieces, **Bloodsport** and **Kickboxer**. I somehow got them both on videotape and went nuts for about half a year. I don’t think I could watch them now without suffering an extreme allergic reation.

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**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-what-was-your-favourite-film/520154/84 "2009-12-14T17:25:35Z")

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God, I loved “the Goonies” and “Back to the Future.” Still do, to a point. I watched “Strange Brew” recently, and it didn’t hold up.

Joe

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