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What movies defined your childhood?
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I think "A Bug's Life" made me communist without realizing it at the time. I watched it over and over obsessively.
I would say
- The Last Unicorn
- The NeverEnding Story
But I also got captivated a lot by cartoons like Pinky & the Brain, Darkwing Duck or Adventures of the Gummi Bears.
A really big impact had the LOTR trilogy, although this was more in my late childhood to preteens.
One is a genius, the other's insane!
But they never specify which one is which...
I like to throw Pinky & the Brain on in the background sometimes still
Haha nice, just recently threw on the theme song in the office as we have some younglings in the team which never heard of the show!
original Star Wars. saw the ad on TV, the line to get in was down the block. crowd reaction when the death star exploded was awesome. I was 8 or 9 years old.
blues brothers was my first R rated movie. outstanding film!
Batman, Terminator 2, Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, Robocop, Ghostbusters 2, Home Alone
Later - The Castle, Stargate
Keaton or Clooney?
Keaton - 1989, first movie I ever saw in a cinema
Basically many movies from the 90s Disney Renaissance era:
- Hercules
- Aladdin
- Pocahontas
- Tarzan
- Mulan
And of course the Pixar movies from that era:
- Toy Story
- A Bug's Life
James Bond flicks:
- GoldenEye
- Tomorrow Never Dies
- The World is Not Enough
- Die Another Day
Other movies:
- The Mask
- Home Alone 1 & 2
- Ace Ventura
- Spirited Away
- The first Pokemon movie
- The Matrix 1–3
- Kummeli Kultakuume
- Pahat Pojat
- Pitkä Kuuma Kesä
- South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
- Jurassic Park
- Jurassic Park: The Lost World
Note that several of these movies weren't for kids, but I got to watch them regardless.
I looked up Pahat Pojat because I've never heard of it and I gotta say the image for the movie that came up was not what I was expecting for a kids movie
Well, it wasn't intended for kids but I watched it regardless, same with many other movies on my list.
Oh the other movies are understandable, I just wasn't expecting a poster with 4 buff half naked guys
Films that I saw, on TV or at the cinema, prior to the age of 16 or so that had a major impact on me - in the approximate order in which I saw them:
- The Amazing Mr Blunden
- Jason and the Argonauts
- Mon Oncle
- Star Wars (before it became A New Hope)
- The Third Man
- The Omen
- Stalker - which pretty much marked my transition to adult SF
Transformers (the original G1 animated one).
Robocop
The Never Ending Story
The Dark Crystal
The whole œuvre of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.
Predator, Commando, Rambo: First Blood, Blood Sport, King of the Kickboxers, Blues Brothers.
Meet the Feebles
and
Aliens
Batman, Terminator 2, Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, Robocop, Ghostbusters 2, Home Alone
Later - The Castle, Stargate
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