What were your favorite movies as a kid

[Lady of Winterfell]

Ugh, how could I forget Labrinth!?!? Also thought of another one...Goonies.

[daisybee]

Can't believe I forgot those two either!!!

Goonies got watched every Saturday for months in our house.

And I totally had a crush on David Bowie in Labyrinth. Yup. Even in the tights. Or because of the tights? Who can tell?

[Stone]

Most of those i can remember at the moment have already been mentioned i think, but i agree with previous posts re Danny Kaye and Jerry Lewis, anything with them had me glued - also B&W Will Hay films for some strange reason...

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger - always a favourite, 1st time i saw it was a saturday matinee double feature with The Jungle Book.
Hawk the Slayer (yes i know it hasn't stood the test of time ).

Others i remember would be D.A.R.Y.L and The Explorers although haven't seen them in years.

Oh and the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder - hell i still watch that now if its on

[Nesacat]

Clash of the Titans is the very first that comes to mind. My father picked me up from school and we went down the road to the cinema to watch it. I still remember telling him through the whole entire movie that they'd gotten the story all wrong because it was not like in the books of Greek Myth that my mom had got for me. It's something he still likes to point out.

All the Sinbad movies. I loved those to bits. Saw them in the cinema and saw them again when they came out on television months and months later. I bought the whole set on DVD a few years ago and the magic is till there, despite the jerky, stilted special effects.

And Star Wars was such a wonder. None of us had seen anything quite like it. I still remember kids fighting with 'light sabers', all wrapped in sheets and speaking funny like Darth Vader. My brother tried it with a fluorescent tube he found in the neighbour's trash can and it smashed in the fight.

[steve12553]

This is also making me feel very old. The mentions of the Neverending Story in particular. (My daughter's favorite). I was a big fan of the Ray Harryhausen movies (The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms), the Universal horror classics ( Frankenstein, The Wolfman, Dracula, and all the sequels). As I got a little older I got to see some of the Hammer films. (The House that Dripped Blood, et. al.) Life is so really wonderful when everything is new and different.

[HoopyFrood]

Whoa, this takes me back. Many of my favourites have already been mentioned (and a good job, too, else I would've forgotten them!)

Ghostbusters
Neverending Story (I can't take the horse bit, though. My friend and I always talk about this, and it's the single saddest moment ever!)
The Flight of the Navigator -- possibly one of my favourite films
Clash of the Titans
Jason and the Argonauts
Jurassic Park (I remember watching that at the cinema when it was first released and it was so loud)
Jumanji
Edward Scissorhands
Robocop
Police academy
Gremlins

'Course, I was a horror nut from an early age, so I also enjoyed:
Tremors
Poltergeist
Evil Dead and Evil Dead II
Dawn of the Dead
Predator
Alien
The Fly
(Seriously, I watched all of these films when I was between the ages of about five and ten -- repeatedly).

I also watched a lot of action films with my family, so I also enjoyed Bruce Lee films, and many, many Arnold Schwarzenegger (Commando, Running Man (Oh, Running Man, I loved that film!) etc) and Van Damme films (No Retreat, No surrender, Kickboxer, Universal Soldier, etc).

Was a bit of a film nut in my younger days, indeed.

[Urien]

I can't remember much before my early teens, 13, 14... so that would be Alien, Star Wars, Jaws and Animal House.

[Adasunshine]

Mary Poppins (pretty much on a loop)
Jungle Book
Little Mermaid
Mannequin (my lil' bro had a huge thing for Kim Cattrall (sp?))
Demolition Man
Grease
Grease 2
Care Bears Movie
Bedknobs & Broomsticks
The Sword & the Stone (ditto Mary Poppins)
Land Before Time
Toy Soliders (Can't remember if this is the exact title but it starred Will Wheaton and Sean Astin - we all loved this one)
Clash of the Titans
Jason & The Argonauts
Jason & the Golden Fleece (all three thanks to my Grandad)
Jumanji (still watch it now if it's on)
Ghostbusters I & II (thanks to my bros)

Me and my two brothers used to argue over which films to watch all the time... it drove my mum mad and she still can't stand to watch Mary Poppins!!!

xx

[Lady of Winterfell]

I loved Bedknobs and Broomsticks!!! Another movie I forgot about.

[Quokka]

Gremlins was one of the first movies I remember seeing at the drive-in and from memory I saw a lot of it peeking over the backseat. Batteries Not Included was another one I remember going to the cinema to see.

.... and Santa Claus: The Movie, the movie probably wasn't great but it came out right about peak child-excited-about-Christmas time and it was great going to the cinemas with the whole family. Actually there's probably a whole thread just in favourite/least favourite seasonal movies.

[TK-421]

Some favourites, an incomplete list but includes some stuff from my early teen years:

Never Ending Story
Willow
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
The Goonies
Star Wars, Star Wars, and more Star Wars
Star Trek
Gremlins
Revenge of the Nerds
Police Academy
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Clash of the Titans
Excalibur
Weird Science
Real Genius
Flight of the Navigator
An American Werewolf in London
48 Hours
Beverly Hills Cop
Caddyshack
Arthur
Beetlejuice
The Breakfast Club
Platoon and Apocalypse Now(yes, I was intense at times...)
A Christmas Story
Crocodile Dundee
Conan the Barbarian
Desperately Seeking Susan
E.T.
Jaws
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ghostbusters
Tron
Tootsie

[Lady of Winterfell]

Real Genius is a great movie. Freaking hilarious! I really need to see that movie again.

[Tillane]

I think most of mine have already been mentioned, but for the record...

The Goonies
Tron
Labyrinth
Willow
Krull (yes, yes. I know...)
Ghostbusters
Star Wars (Empire was the first movie I ever saw at the cinema. I was 3.)
Close Encounters of The Third Kind
The Last Starfighter
Blade Runner (saw the director's cut at the Blyth Wallaw in 1992. Still a favourite.)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
WarGames
Back To The Future
Gremlins
The Untouchables
Blazing Saddles

EDIT: And Spaceballs. I make no apologies.

[The Procrastinator]

Didn't watch too many movies as a kid, but I do remember seeing Disney classics at the cinema - Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella. Loved the black and whites on tv (mind you the tv was probably black and white) - Errol Flynn, Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. And Herbie!! (That was on colour tv) Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, The Great Race. And of course the wonder that was Star Wars - to see that on the big screen when it first screened was soooo awesome. And the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve. Just loved it.

Watched most of the movies mentioned by others in my teens and loved many of them, but I don't know if anyones mentioned The Muppet Movie yet so I will remedy that lack...

[Lady of Winterfell]

Thought of another movie that I enjoyed when I was younger -

Swiss Family Robinson