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