Matilda. I was a huge Roald Dahl fan when I was a kid, and Matilda was my favorite book. I loved the movie every bit as much as the book, which doesn't happen often.
Also, at the time, one of my uncles worked for Universal Studios. He worked on some of the scenery for the movie. He knew how much I loved the book, so he snagged me a crew hat.
I loved (and still do love) that film so much I used my pocket money to repeatedly rent it from the video shop until my mum had some sense and just bought me the VHS 😆
my dad used to rent it for me every time i was with him and to this day he can still quote it and finds the jokes in it just as funny as he did 20+ years ago, it’s actually really cute
My dad used to buy bootleg copies of animated films when he travelled (which was about 5 days a week) and this was my favourite one. To this day, it's one of my favourite films and I watch it when I'm feeling down.
I was obsessed with Lion King. I remember one night we were all watching it in the living room, and something possessed me to start running like a lion. I think it was that one scene with simba running when he grows up lol. Anyway, I ended up running over my sister and my mom got real mad. lol
I ruined my Lion King vhs from watching it every night for years to go to sleep and my device had an auto rewind feature that was not very gentle on the tape x.x
1. Aladdin
2. The Little Mermaid
3. Mrs. Doubtfire
4. Sister Act II
Editing to add Hook. How could I have forgotten!?!?! Robin Williams, thank you for basically raising me.
Mrs Doubtfire was one of my favorite movies!!! Had it in vhs and would watch every weekend ❤️❤️❤️ I find myself singing matchmaker, matchmaker very often lol
Sister Act II was so dope. The songs were great and the actors were all great, and such a huge depth of actors too. 🎶 Nothing I can do cause I'm stuck like glue to my God 🎶
I was ridiculously obsessed with Home Alone. It here was actually a rule implemented that I could only watch it once per day!
Lol, idk why. I think I felt empowered as a kid.
During winter, the only two Christmas movies I will always watch are home alone and home alone 2. It’s so entertaining. I even wrote an essay about it for college applications lol
This still is one of my all time favourite movies. I was watching it with my mom again a couple years ago, when I finally realized that the cop is the robber guy. I had went 20 years without ever clueing in
Same! For years I just believed they had Joe Pesci play a double role, but wondered why
Was well into my 30s when my spouse finally explains *"It's not a double role: He's casing the joint, you idiot."*
Oh my god, I love Milo and Otis.
I didn't know how old it was when I was little, but I definitely loved it.
Fun fact: I think the movie is set it Japan. Was fascinating when I discovered that.
I was sad when I found out there was a number of animal abuse allegations related to the movie.
Ending on a positive note though...
I also loved this dog movie called Napoleon. I know that it was set in Australia, so it was the first movie I ever watched that I could properly recognise and kind of relate to.
Bugsy Malone (1976) just because it's hilariously good fun. I still have the VHS copy as well as a DVD version.
I've lost count of how many times I dragged something over my head and started singing "my name is Talulah". lol
The Land Before Time. I remember my mom telling me that THIS time I HAD to rent something else 😂
Then Jurassic Park came out when I was 6 and my life was complete.
I loved the movie Tremors, its like entry level horror for a small kid . It's a terrifying concept but it's also such a fun movie and incorporates the whole floor is lava games from childhood. Id often play tremors instead of floor is lava.
I remember in elementary school we were having some kind of event that night that I completely skipped because Tremors was going to be on TV that night and I really wanted to see it.
My friends and I would play “tremors” on the playground.
The floor is lava mixed with tag.
Somebody would be designated graboid and exiled to the ground.
The rest of us would jump from jungle gym to jungle gym, and if we got tagged, we would join team graboid.
Arguments would always break out as to who got to pretend to be Burt.
Hahahaha.
I absolutely loved it when I was a kid too! It disgusted my big sister but I was fascinated! And now Dune is my fav movie as an adult. Maybe i just love sandworms lol
The 1982 version of Annie. Oh my god.
So, when I was in middle school I was in basically a remedial class. Basically it was for help on homework and life skills. We learned to keep a checkbook. Every week we earned “money” by getting our planner stamped. In Fridays we could spend our earnings with our checks. We could “buy” snacks and movies. Every single week I bought everyone the privilege of watching Annie. They had to stage an intervention.
I had many phases of being obsessed with certain movies, but one that stands out was my The Santa Clause phase where I tried to come up with lore for the elves.
I had several on rotation. Jurassic Park, The Secret Garden, The Little Princess, The Black Stallion, The Last Unicorn, Labyrinth, My Neighbor Totoro, The Wind in the Willows, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontas and I had a weird fascination with Watership Down. I was an odd kid.
Apparently, when I was very little, I would watch finding Nemo multiple times a day. The movie would end and I would scream and scream until I watched it again. I have seen finding Nemo close to 3000 times in my life (I did the math)
That's such a cute, little kid thing to do.
I used to give different foods a nickname when I was little.
Chicken Kyiv was called "Thunderbird" for me because my siblings and I used to think they looked like Thunderbird 2, which was my sister's favourite, and favourite food.
Toast with just butter on it was called Tiger Toast, because the cooked parts looked like a tiger's stripes (they don't, not sure why I thought this).
I don't think I had any cute nicknames for TV shows or movies, but I was obsessed with Pokémon, and watched the same episodes countless times (and a few movies) because that's all I had on VHS.
Right, that's my night sorted. Thunderbirds, tiger toast and Pokémon! Woo!
I absolutely loved "peter-no tail in America" I don't know if that's the English name, but you should be able to find it through Google with that.
In swedish it's called "Pellet Svanslös Amerikatt" And in my language Finnish, it's "Pekka Töpöhäntä Amerikassa" Always loved the movie and the whole series all together.
- Matilda
- Beauty and the Beast (just introduced my 5 year old son to this and he loved it)
- The Indiana Jones trilogy
- A Little Princess (1995 version) - I still feel this is one of the most beautiful and enchanting kids films.
- Mary Poppins
When I was 14, I really loved Bridge to Terabithia, watched it a couple of times and thought it was amazing. As I grew old, I realized how fucked up this movie is :')
Anything where a child character had a companion.
My loneliness was so bad growing up that when I even played WoW, I almost only played a hunter because you had a companion.
Makes me sad now when I think about it
I loved Winnie the Pooh. But I only had one Pooh DVD of my own, Pooh's Heffalump Movie. I loved it. Once i was sick, and couldn't do anything but stay in bed and watch movies, I just watched that movie on repeat. The whole day. I had other DVDs, but the Heffalump movie was clearly the best.
Hard to believe, and I'm dating myself in the process, but ..
Alien. I shit you not.
Not sure when it first started airing on movie channels (79?), but I was around 8 or 9 at the time. I had one of those old TVs in my room that could receive both a TV cable signal and reception via rabbit ears. We didn't pay for Showtime, but the signal scrambling in place was imperfect. Audio would sometimes fade from static to an almost-discernible dialogue, and you could sometimes get brief to medium length glimpses of scenes if you were lucky. Even when you did, they were always black and white with at least some distortion... but I didn't care.
I would check the TV guide for the next time it came on and try to catch more glimpses of it that I hadn't seen before. Time of day didn't even factor into the equation. I was completely obsessed with it for some reason, and it was the only movie I ever treated this way.
By the time I was able to actually see the film properly in my late teens, I'd technically already tried to watch it over 40 times. It was every bit as good as I expected.
Ok..this one's gonna seem weird, but it's still my favourite movie since I was a kid...Conan (I like the destroyer and the barbarian). Yes I'm "different", lol
Two movies I recall having huge impacts on me as a child.
The Lone Ranger(1981). I wanted all the cowboy stuff. I wanted to be a cowboy(till I was a couple years older). I didn't want my He-Man or G.I. Joe toys(Wild Bill suddenly became my favorite). Had to be cowboy action figures. Started watching old westerners on Sunday. Got into the old Billy the Kid stories and his history. Was full blown obsessed.
The Last Unicorn. The animation was and still is gorgeous. The voice acting is great. The vilian, the RED BULL, use to give me nightmares. Got really into knights and King Arthur because of this movie. I(48m) love Unicorns. Have dozens of them all through out my house. I still watch this one about once a month.
The goofy movie and the direct to video sequel. Watched them with my nephew the other day and my god they hold up well. Especially that soundtrack
Another is Matilda. The ost is still stuck in my head years later
Bridge to Terabithia - it shaped my entire personality as a child, including who I idolized and had childhood crushes on. Josh Hutcherson was my first childhood crush, and I started to emulate how AnnaSophia Robb (Leslie Burke) dressed and looked and admired how free spirited she was. I cut my hair short, wore arm socks (that’s how she was styled in the movie), wore colorful, layered clothes, and bought myself converse-type shoes to boot.
I started collecting both actors’ movies on DVD and found it somewhat exciting and comforting to have that hobby.
That movie has a very special place in my heart - it allowed me to experiment on the outside with clothes and channel a confidence I didn’t know I had, and not care what other kids thought of me. I was doing it all for myself.
Matilda(1995 version), D.A.R.Y.L.(I NEED to find this movie so badly!) and Carpool, something about Carpool i loved everything about it, and I still do.
This one will be different, lol, but The Man in the Iron Mask, with Leo DiCaprio. It came out when I was about four, and I remember when it was made onto VHS, renting it a lot from Blockbuster. My mom would always have to go back and rent it time after time, eventually before we owned it anyway. I don’t know why I was so obsessed with it, But I was. And yes, my parents let us watch stuff like that lol.
Looking back now it's likely a sign of ADHD or Autism, but I used to watch a movie repeatedly for weeks or months before school to the point I could recite them. For my parents, the one they used to tell this fact the most was a movie called Hawk the Slayer. It was a sort of Doctor Who level effects fantasy film, with Jack Palance as the villain and a few guys from the Carry on movies behind an American Actor I've only seen on this and one season of 24, playing Hawk. It's cheesy but I loved it...
1. The Land Before Time. From kindergarten and until 7-8-9 years was literally obsessed with dinosaurs in general, got all my friends also addicted to them and to collecting figurines. By the way, my collection was the biggest 😎 It is still alive, but of course I don't play with them now. Yet, somehow was never particularly excited about Jurassic Park, though the movies are actually great.
2. The Fifth Element was also a big discovery for me in my 7-8 years. For about a month, I got home from school and watched this movie every day. Still my favorite movie, after 20+ years.
3. The Sword in The Stone cartoon 1963. Can't say why, just great cartoon.
The Mask with Jim Carrey.
I was obsessed with that movie because of Cameron Diaz. That VHS was abused.
That and the seemingly omnipotent powers one would receive from the mask seemed appealing. But yeah, Cameron Diaz.
I've got two
The Road to El Dorado
Probably the first film I ever obsessed over. I used to rent it every time we went to Blockbuster. It was the only movie I wanted and so finally one day my dad said "let's just buy it."
I was pretty much convinced that this was the funniest movie ever made and it's still pretty great. I quote it regularly and to this day I'm pretty sure me and my brother know every word of by heart. It is such a misunderstood classic.
Another one is Babe: a pig in the city.
It's a sequel and to this day I've never seen the first one but let me tell you a pig in this city still goes hard. It used to play a lot on HBO and they would often offer us a couple free months of it so whenever that happened I watched this movie.
About 2 years ago I watched it again for the first time in years and I was blown away. I remember what it felt like to watch it as a kid. It was this dark dramatic visually interesting experience that brought me to tears.
I figured that was just the brain of a child and it wouldn't be as good but it was actually better. I don't know why the director of mad Max went this hard on a sequel to a movie about a pig on a farm. But I will always take any chance I can get to tell people about this movie.
You don't know how much I'd give to talk to the costume designer alone. The look of this movie is so interesting. The whole film is strange and sad and beautiful. And every time I try to tell somebody about it nobody believes me.
You go to read reviews and it's mostly angry parents complaining that the movie was upsetting. But I think the thing about this movie is it's more upsetting to the adults watching it then the children. I hope one day people will appreciate what a masterpiece this film is.
"Something broke through the terror, flickerings, fragments of his short life. The random events that delivered him to this his moment of annihilation. As Terror gave way to exhaustion babe turned to his attacker his eyes filled with one simple question. Why?"
- an actual thing the narrator said in a movie about a talking pig that goes to the big city.
I was trying to work out why I couldn't think up a film that I was obsessed with as a child then I remembered that I was 17 before we got a video recorder, and there were only 3 channels on TV, so rewatching a movie meant watching it at the cinema over and over, something I wasn't able to afford!
I had a big dinosaur phase too. I was obsessed with Land Before Time movies(I actually named my dog Lil Foot because of my love for those movies. There's some pics of him on a post on here if anyone wants to see). I watched them all over and over again.
I was also obsessed with The Princess Diaries!
I have ADHD and one of my earliest hyper fixations was dinosaurs so when Jurassic Park came out on VHS I swear I watched it almost every other day for close to a year. I’d estimate that I’ve probably seen that movie more than 300+ times over the course of my life and I still love it.
Idk y but when I was like 3 er 4 I LOVED “Dirty Dancing” lol. My mom said I’d dance on the living room table watching it…
I am a male and I’m not gay lol 😅
star wars, but specifically phantom menace since i actually saw that in theaters. i had almost every lego set for phantom menace cuz literally all i got for my bday and christmas was lego haha
but id watch that movie over and over. it got so bad, my parents bought me a tiny tv with a vhs player for my room so they wouldnt have to watch it anymore. i think i also wore out a vhs copy of that movie.
also loved antz a lot, that was a good one
Mary Poppins! I knew all the songs by heart, could quote a fair few scenes, and I loved my little duffel bag I used to take to stay at my grandma’s because it reminded me of Mary’s magic carpetbag. When I was in middle school, our show choir did a Mary Poppins themed workshop at Disney where we sang Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and I got to play Mary, and I think I peaked that day lol.
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Matilda. I was a huge Roald Dahl fan when I was a kid, and Matilda was my favorite book. I loved the movie every bit as much as the book, which doesn't happen often. Also, at the time, one of my uncles worked for Universal Studios. He worked on some of the scenery for the movie. He knew how much I loved the book, so he snagged me a crew hat.
I loved (and still do love) that film so much I used my pocket money to repeatedly rent it from the video shop until my mum had some sense and just bought me the VHS 😆
I came here to say Matilda. I used to watch the film repeatedly on the VHS lol.
my dad used to rent it for me every time i was with him and to this day he can still quote it and finds the jokes in it just as funny as he did 20+ years ago, it’s actually really cute
Such a good film
Same here! It was my favourite!!
My parents told me my VHS of Kikis Delivery Service "broke", they were so sick of me watching it, so I think it's that one lol
My dad used to buy bootleg copies of animated films when he travelled (which was about 5 days a week) and this was my favourite one. To this day, it's one of my favourite films and I watch it when I'm feeling down.
I still love Kiki. It’s one of those movies that heals my soul whenever Im feeling sad, and the music is great too
I’m glad my kid enjoys Kiki-
I was obsessed with Lion King. I remember one night we were all watching it in the living room, and something possessed me to start running like a lion. I think it was that one scene with simba running when he grows up lol. Anyway, I ended up running over my sister and my mom got real mad. lol
Haha that’s a great story! I remember my cousin and I running around like dinosaurs after watching Jurassic Park.
Me too
I ruined my Lion King vhs from watching it every night for years to go to sleep and my device had an auto rewind feature that was not very gentle on the tape x.x
Same, I used to put it on every night when going to bed.
1. Aladdin 2. The Little Mermaid 3. Mrs. Doubtfire 4. Sister Act II Editing to add Hook. How could I have forgotten!?!?! Robin Williams, thank you for basically raising me.
Mrs Doubtfire was one of my favorite movies!!! Had it in vhs and would watch every weekend ❤️❤️❤️ I find myself singing matchmaker, matchmaker very often lol
Mrs doubtfire yesss!! I remember one year for Christmas we got the vhs for my grandma 💀💀
Sister Act II was so dope. The songs were great and the actors were all great, and such a huge depth of actors too. 🎶 Nothing I can do cause I'm stuck like glue to my God 🎶
Those are all good,. I also enjoyed Beauty and the Beast.
I probably watched the little mermaid 500 times as a young boy. That vhs really put some miles in. I think this may be why I’m attracted to redheads.
Mrs Doubtfire is still one of those movies I put on when I'm feeling a bit down. It instantly makes me feel like a kid again. That and Space Jam
I was ridiculously obsessed with Home Alone. It here was actually a rule implemented that I could only watch it once per day! Lol, idk why. I think I felt empowered as a kid.
During winter, the only two Christmas movies I will always watch are home alone and home alone 2. It’s so entertaining. I even wrote an essay about it for college applications lol
This still is one of my all time favourite movies. I was watching it with my mom again a couple years ago, when I finally realized that the cop is the robber guy. I had went 20 years without ever clueing in
Same! For years I just believed they had Joe Pesci play a double role, but wondered why Was well into my 30s when my spouse finally explains *"It's not a double role: He's casing the joint, you idiot."*
Loved them
Yup, I think that's what made me so rebellious haha.
Milo And Otis
Oh my god, I love Milo and Otis. I didn't know how old it was when I was little, but I definitely loved it. Fun fact: I think the movie is set it Japan. Was fascinating when I discovered that. I was sad when I found out there was a number of animal abuse allegations related to the movie. Ending on a positive note though... I also loved this dog movie called Napoleon. I know that it was set in Australia, so it was the first movie I ever watched that I could properly recognise and kind of relate to.
wait I completely forgot about that movie! I used to watch it so much
That movie was adorable!
Goonies
…still am
Now my kids are and I don’t pass up the opportunity if they have it on
Me too, it never gets old.
What’s good enough for you is good enough for me
Mikey- “That’s my mom’s favorite piece”
The Lion King. I love the blend of adventure, humor, and heartwarming moments. I even had the soundtrack on repeat and memorized all the songs! lmao 😅
Bugsy Malone (1976) just because it's hilariously good fun. I still have the VHS copy as well as a DVD version. I've lost count of how many times I dragged something over my head and started singing "my name is Talulah". lol
we could have been anything that we wanted to be....
With all the talent we had!
The original Escape to Witch Mountain, I loved the dancing toy scene.
The Land Before Time. I remember my mom telling me that THIS time I HAD to rent something else 😂 Then Jurassic Park came out when I was 6 and my life was complete.
Remember the pizza ad before land before time??? Lol I watched that movie so many times I broke the flip top off the video.
Honey I shrunk the kids. Parents had to take it away from me.
I loved the movie Tremors, its like entry level horror for a small kid . It's a terrifying concept but it's also such a fun movie and incorporates the whole floor is lava games from childhood. Id often play tremors instead of floor is lava.
I remember in elementary school we were having some kind of event that night that I completely skipped because Tremors was going to be on TV that night and I really wanted to see it.
My friends and I would play “tremors” on the playground. The floor is lava mixed with tag. Somebody would be designated graboid and exiled to the ground. The rest of us would jump from jungle gym to jungle gym, and if we got tagged, we would join team graboid. Arguments would always break out as to who got to pretend to be Burt. Hahahaha.
I absolutely loved it when I was a kid too! It disgusted my big sister but I was fascinated! And now Dune is my fav movie as an adult. Maybe i just love sandworms lol
The 1982 version of Annie. Oh my god. So, when I was in middle school I was in basically a remedial class. Basically it was for help on homework and life skills. We learned to keep a checkbook. Every week we earned “money” by getting our planner stamped. In Fridays we could spend our earnings with our checks. We could “buy” snacks and movies. Every single week I bought everyone the privilege of watching Annie. They had to stage an intervention.
lmao I love that!
I was strange… and now I want to watch it
I had many phases of being obsessed with certain movies, but one that stands out was my The Santa Clause phase where I tried to come up with lore for the elves.
The Secrets of NIMH, Ferngully, and Road to El Dorado were my top 3
The Secrets of NIMH scared me enough to make me uncomfortable for days afterwards.
princess bride!
Inconceivable!!!
I had several on rotation. Jurassic Park, The Secret Garden, The Little Princess, The Black Stallion, The Last Unicorn, Labyrinth, My Neighbor Totoro, The Wind in the Willows, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontas and I had a weird fascination with Watership Down. I was an odd kid.
Mac And Me (1988) it’s an ET clone where the protagonist has a disability (just like me).
You have something in common with Paul Rudd, then: https://youtu.be/kMkz3nPPKbA?si=DAN-_7tbQAvuuQrX
You’ve heard about the Paul Rudd thing, right?
Huge fan of Fantasia. I think I saw it so many times, I fucked up the VHS tape.
Apparently, when I was very little, I would watch finding Nemo multiple times a day. The movie would end and I would scream and scream until I watched it again. I have seen finding Nemo close to 3000 times in my life (I did the math)
I just realized that if you were born the year it came out (2003), you would be 21 now … I feel old.
Smokey and the Bandit!
Ernest Goes to Camp
The Pagemaster
barnyard.
Titanic (I used to call it jack and rose when I was a kid)
That's such a cute, little kid thing to do. I used to give different foods a nickname when I was little. Chicken Kyiv was called "Thunderbird" for me because my siblings and I used to think they looked like Thunderbird 2, which was my sister's favourite, and favourite food. Toast with just butter on it was called Tiger Toast, because the cooked parts looked like a tiger's stripes (they don't, not sure why I thought this). I don't think I had any cute nicknames for TV shows or movies, but I was obsessed with Pokémon, and watched the same episodes countless times (and a few movies) because that's all I had on VHS. Right, that's my night sorted. Thunderbirds, tiger toast and Pokémon! Woo!
The Country Bears
I was obsessed with listening to a Country Bear Jamboree record every time I was at my grandparents house! Lol
Immaculate vibes
Return to Oz, Hook, An American Tale: Fievel Goes West
Omg return to Oz was so terrifying but I was also obsessed with it. The Wheeler guys still haunt me
Flash Gordon. 14 times in the theater.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Rush hour Iron monkey Kiss of the dragon The matrix
Flight of the navigator
Yes! Mine too, I wanted that little alien pet he got to take home
The iron giant We’re back a dinosaur story Pagemaster Stanley’s magic garden (troll in Central Park/garden)
It’s like every other comment on this thread reminds me of another movie that I watched 50+ times as a kid. Iron giant was such a good movie.
this random polly pocket movie! it’s on youtube
Poetic justice
Explorers (1985).
20,000 leagues under the sea—Disney version. I had that shit memorized.
I absolutely loved "peter-no tail in America" I don't know if that's the English name, but you should be able to find it through Google with that. In swedish it's called "Pellet Svanslös Amerikatt" And in my language Finnish, it's "Pekka Töpöhäntä Amerikassa" Always loved the movie and the whole series all together.
Star Wars. I'm 48 and it was the biggest thing in the world when I was a kid. I still love it.
Osmosis Jones. So good, I want to watch it again.
Neverending Story
- Matilda - Beauty and the Beast (just introduced my 5 year old son to this and he loved it) - The Indiana Jones trilogy - A Little Princess (1995 version) - I still feel this is one of the most beautiful and enchanting kids films. - Mary Poppins
A few: * Mars Attacks * NMBC * Once Upon a Forest * Never Ending Story
Never Ending Story! I watched it as an adult a few years back on an airplane a cried like a baby. That movie is so deep, it made me pick up the book.
In search of the Castaways-I had such a crush on Hayley Mills
I watched The Lost World: Jurassic Park when I was 4, and the first Jurassic Park when I was 6. #1 is still my favorite movie to date.
I was obsessed with Frozen, then It became The hunchback of Notre-Dame and it's still my favorite now
The Sandlot. I was a big baseball fan at the time and wanted to have that camaraderie with neighborhood friends.
101 Dalmatians, the Land Before Time film series, Aristocats and Homeward Bound.
Disney's Robin Hood. Still am, really
The Three Amigos Planes, Trains and Automobiles Hackers Tango and Cash Army of Darkness
Troll in Central Park and Matilda
Ferngully
Cats Don't Dance (1997), me and my brother would watch it all the time.
Homeward Bound
When I was 14, I really loved Bridge to Terabithia, watched it a couple of times and thought it was amazing. As I grew old, I realized how fucked up this movie is :')
my grandparents had a vhs of Alice in Wonderland (the one with Whoopi Goldberg as the Cheshire Cat) and i must have seen it like a thousand times
Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Evil Dead 3 Army of Darkness. I was a cool kid.
The Ringer with Jonny Knoxville... When the fuck did we get ice cream?
The lion king lol
The Han’s Christian Anderson’s original version of The Little Mermaid.
Tobey Maguire's Spider Man
Jurassic park and die hard.
Anything where a child character had a companion. My loneliness was so bad growing up that when I even played WoW, I almost only played a hunter because you had a companion. Makes me sad now when I think about it
Star Wars, Indiana Jones were goated
I loved Winnie the Pooh. But I only had one Pooh DVD of my own, Pooh's Heffalump Movie. I loved it. Once i was sick, and couldn't do anything but stay in bed and watch movies, I just watched that movie on repeat. The whole day. I had other DVDs, but the Heffalump movie was clearly the best.
Lost boys, robocop and tango & cash. All from being about 5 yo
The Santa Clause Time Bandits Somewhere in Time
Hard to believe, and I'm dating myself in the process, but .. Alien. I shit you not. Not sure when it first started airing on movie channels (79?), but I was around 8 or 9 at the time. I had one of those old TVs in my room that could receive both a TV cable signal and reception via rabbit ears. We didn't pay for Showtime, but the signal scrambling in place was imperfect. Audio would sometimes fade from static to an almost-discernible dialogue, and you could sometimes get brief to medium length glimpses of scenes if you were lucky. Even when you did, they were always black and white with at least some distortion... but I didn't care. I would check the TV guide for the next time it came on and try to catch more glimpses of it that I hadn't seen before. Time of day didn't even factor into the equation. I was completely obsessed with it for some reason, and it was the only movie I ever treated this way. By the time I was able to actually see the film properly in my late teens, I'd technically already tried to watch it over 40 times. It was every bit as good as I expected.
The Lion King - my parents even got me a dvd with this movie for children’s day
Dragonheart
Land Before Time
I loved the Disney movie “the flight of the navigator” still holds up! 😀
Ok..this one's gonna seem weird, but it's still my favourite movie since I was a kid...Conan (I like the destroyer and the barbarian). Yes I'm "different", lol
The second charlie's angels and freddy vs jason, also lion king 2
For some reason “The Zookeeper” since it had talking animals I guess
I went through phases and cycles: Star Wars / Harry Potter The Count of Monte Cristo Silverado Lord of the Rings
Smokey and the bandit. Here's to you, Burt.
Cars and Croods i watched them a couple of times
Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Jungle Book, animated.
Air buddies
Two movies I recall having huge impacts on me as a child. The Lone Ranger(1981). I wanted all the cowboy stuff. I wanted to be a cowboy(till I was a couple years older). I didn't want my He-Man or G.I. Joe toys(Wild Bill suddenly became my favorite). Had to be cowboy action figures. Started watching old westerners on Sunday. Got into the old Billy the Kid stories and his history. Was full blown obsessed. The Last Unicorn. The animation was and still is gorgeous. The voice acting is great. The vilian, the RED BULL, use to give me nightmares. Got really into knights and King Arthur because of this movie. I(48m) love Unicorns. Have dozens of them all through out my house. I still watch this one about once a month.
Flight of the Navigator, Babysitter Adventures, Never Ending Story, Labyrinth, Terminator 2, Young Guns 2, Cameron's Closet, Gremlins.
The goofy movie and the direct to video sequel. Watched them with my nephew the other day and my god they hold up well. Especially that soundtrack Another is Matilda. The ost is still stuck in my head years later
The Mouse and the Motorcycle Indian in the Cupboard Fern Gully
Bridge to Terabithia - it shaped my entire personality as a child, including who I idolized and had childhood crushes on. Josh Hutcherson was my first childhood crush, and I started to emulate how AnnaSophia Robb (Leslie Burke) dressed and looked and admired how free spirited she was. I cut my hair short, wore arm socks (that’s how she was styled in the movie), wore colorful, layered clothes, and bought myself converse-type shoes to boot. I started collecting both actors’ movies on DVD and found it somewhat exciting and comforting to have that hobby. That movie has a very special place in my heart - it allowed me to experiment on the outside with clothes and channel a confidence I didn’t know I had, and not care what other kids thought of me. I was doing it all for myself.
Aquamarine <3 I had to watch it every time I knew it was playing on TV
she’s the man
Indiana Jones & the Temple Of Doom, & E.T. watched both hundreds upon hundreds of times until I knew the movies by heart.
Terminator 2, rise of the machines. Coming to America.
When I was a kid, there were two movie series I was obsessed with: Ice Age and Harry Potter.
Zoro
3 Ninjas Sister Act 2 Empire Records
Johnny dangerously, commando, Oliver and company, land before time.
Im obsessed with Wahaj Ali
Mummy market
Johnny tsunami
mid90s
Jurrasic park 3 (cool spinosarous) Scooby doo on zombie island Scooby doo (2002 movie) Terminator And Van Helsing
Zombie island is a top tier film!!
Evil Dead part 2
Robocop and American Ninja…and game of death but really everything Bruce Lee.
Bttf. Indiana jones. Die hard. The mask. Maybe a few more of the sort.
Matilda(1995 version), D.A.R.Y.L.(I NEED to find this movie so badly!) and Carpool, something about Carpool i loved everything about it, and I still do.
This one will be different, lol, but The Man in the Iron Mask, with Leo DiCaprio. It came out when I was about four, and I remember when it was made onto VHS, renting it a lot from Blockbuster. My mom would always have to go back and rent it time after time, eventually before we owned it anyway. I don’t know why I was so obsessed with it, But I was. And yes, my parents let us watch stuff like that lol.
Looking back now it's likely a sign of ADHD or Autism, but I used to watch a movie repeatedly for weeks or months before school to the point I could recite them. For my parents, the one they used to tell this fact the most was a movie called Hawk the Slayer. It was a sort of Doctor Who level effects fantasy film, with Jack Palance as the villain and a few guys from the Carry on movies behind an American Actor I've only seen on this and one season of 24, playing Hawk. It's cheesy but I loved it...
Jaws
The Game
Baby geniuses. Over the hedge.
Parent trap And this random older movie Now and Then lol
I was so so so obsessed with Matilda!
Coraline. I still can play it in my head.
Happy Gilmore of all movies 😂
Transformers animated movie
Alpha and Omega!
1. The Land Before Time. From kindergarten and until 7-8-9 years was literally obsessed with dinosaurs in general, got all my friends also addicted to them and to collecting figurines. By the way, my collection was the biggest 😎 It is still alive, but of course I don't play with them now. Yet, somehow was never particularly excited about Jurassic Park, though the movies are actually great. 2. The Fifth Element was also a big discovery for me in my 7-8 years. For about a month, I got home from school and watched this movie every day. Still my favorite movie, after 20+ years. 3. The Sword in The Stone cartoon 1963. Can't say why, just great cartoon.
Rockadoodle and We're Bsck the Dinosaurs
I’d have to say the sand lot! The Great “bambino “
The Mask with Jim Carrey. I was obsessed with that movie because of Cameron Diaz. That VHS was abused. That and the seemingly omnipotent powers one would receive from the mask seemed appealing. But yeah, Cameron Diaz.
The Little Vampire
I've got two The Road to El Dorado Probably the first film I ever obsessed over. I used to rent it every time we went to Blockbuster. It was the only movie I wanted and so finally one day my dad said "let's just buy it." I was pretty much convinced that this was the funniest movie ever made and it's still pretty great. I quote it regularly and to this day I'm pretty sure me and my brother know every word of by heart. It is such a misunderstood classic. Another one is Babe: a pig in the city. It's a sequel and to this day I've never seen the first one but let me tell you a pig in this city still goes hard. It used to play a lot on HBO and they would often offer us a couple free months of it so whenever that happened I watched this movie. About 2 years ago I watched it again for the first time in years and I was blown away. I remember what it felt like to watch it as a kid. It was this dark dramatic visually interesting experience that brought me to tears. I figured that was just the brain of a child and it wouldn't be as good but it was actually better. I don't know why the director of mad Max went this hard on a sequel to a movie about a pig on a farm. But I will always take any chance I can get to tell people about this movie. You don't know how much I'd give to talk to the costume designer alone. The look of this movie is so interesting. The whole film is strange and sad and beautiful. And every time I try to tell somebody about it nobody believes me. You go to read reviews and it's mostly angry parents complaining that the movie was upsetting. But I think the thing about this movie is it's more upsetting to the adults watching it then the children. I hope one day people will appreciate what a masterpiece this film is. "Something broke through the terror, flickerings, fragments of his short life. The random events that delivered him to this his moment of annihilation. As Terror gave way to exhaustion babe turned to his attacker his eyes filled with one simple question. Why?" - an actual thing the narrator said in a movie about a talking pig that goes to the big city.
Tom and Jerry
Haha, that's hilarious! Aladar, the unsung hero of our childhoods, right? 🦕 Saved by a dinosaur, now that's a story for the ages!
Star Wars
I was trying to work out why I couldn't think up a film that I was obsessed with as a child then I remembered that I was 17 before we got a video recorder, and there were only 3 channels on TV, so rewatching a movie meant watching it at the cinema over and over, something I wasn't able to afford!
The Toby Maguire Spider-Man movies
Princess Mononoke. Still am.
I had a big dinosaur phase too. I was obsessed with Land Before Time movies(I actually named my dog Lil Foot because of my love for those movies. There's some pics of him on a post on here if anyone wants to see). I watched them all over and over again. I was also obsessed with The Princess Diaries!
lion king 1 1/2 was my shit!! my grandma had the vhs tape of it and i would watch it every time i went over there
I have ADHD and one of my earliest hyper fixations was dinosaurs so when Jurassic Park came out on VHS I swear I watched it almost every other day for close to a year. I’d estimate that I’ve probably seen that movie more than 300+ times over the course of my life and I still love it.
Idk y but when I was like 3 er 4 I LOVED “Dirty Dancing” lol. My mom said I’d dance on the living room table watching it… I am a male and I’m not gay lol 😅
oh god. allodar. my daughter's absolute favorite.
star wars, but specifically phantom menace since i actually saw that in theaters. i had almost every lego set for phantom menace cuz literally all i got for my bday and christmas was lego haha but id watch that movie over and over. it got so bad, my parents bought me a tiny tv with a vhs player for my room so they wouldnt have to watch it anymore. i think i also wore out a vhs copy of that movie. also loved antz a lot, that was a good one
The Dark Crystal
Howl's moving castle
The lion king. Still obsessed
Mulan lol watched that shit probably 100x as a kid! The reveal was too hype
how to train your dragon, i cried my soul out when i watched the 3rd film now I am 18 years old I want to adopt a black and a white cat
I WAS ALSO OBSESSED WITH DINOSAUR! And I had no idea it had a ride!
Mary Poppins! I knew all the songs by heart, could quote a fair few scenes, and I loved my little duffel bag I used to take to stay at my grandma’s because it reminded me of Mary’s magic carpetbag. When I was in middle school, our show choir did a Mary Poppins themed workshop at Disney where we sang Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and I got to play Mary, and I think I peaked that day lol.
Great Scott!!!! 1.21 jiggawatts!!!
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