# You see a movie that you haven't seen since you were a kid...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 16, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-a-movie-that-you-havent-seen-since-you-were-a-kid/201886 "2003-09-16T03:31:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-a-movie-that-you-havent-seen-since-you-were-a-kid/201886/41 "2003-09-17T15:35:19Z")

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I enjoyed “Heidi” more as an adult. Shirley Temple was cute.

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-a-movie-that-you-havent-seen-since-you-were-a-kid/201886/42 "2003-09-18T04:21:00Z")

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I’m having a tough time remembering what movies I saw and liked as a kid.

**Star Wars** would have to fit in there.  
**Empire Strikes Back** – I think I like this better now than when I saw it at age 10. Jedi? eh – probably liked it better as a kid. The ewoks seem more corny now.

Although not movies, I’ve got to agree with **Sublight** on the Bugs Bunny cartoons. As a kid, I preferred the road runner / coyote ones. But now I like the Bugs ones better – and can better appreciate the more subtle humor – lots of stuff that kids just won’t “get”. As a music person, I especially like the ones that parody well-known classical music – “Kill da wabbit”, and so on.

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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-a-movie-that-you-havent-seen-since-you-were-a-kid/201886/43 "2003-09-18T06:49:33Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \*  
> \*Oh, and **Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom** and **The Last Crusade** are just plain classics. The middle one is tolerable, but pales. \*

_Temple of Doom_ **is** the middle one. The first one is _Raiders of the Lost Ark_. (which is far and away the best)

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**Author:** ![Zen\_Postman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4da419/32.png) [@Zen\_Postman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zen_Postman)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-a-movie-that-you-havent-seen-since-you-were-a-kid/201886/44 "2003-09-18T12:30:31Z")

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> Another thing about the movie was that I recalled the opening sequence, with Chitty racing to be quite short, but when I caught it on Tv the other night, it went on and on and on and on and on.

I watched CCBB with my kids, less than a week ago, and thought the same thing. The director could have made the point that CCBB was an early world class racing car with one or two scenes, not the four or five that went into the movie.

I looked up Sally Ann Howes [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0398141/](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0398141/) and marveled at her seemingly advanced age to play a romantic interest in a musical.

I also had never noticed all the connections with the Bond films.

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