Movies that you think stand the test of time.

[DipDipDive]

There are some movies that I loved when I was little that I now realize are complete pieces of cinematic excrement (i.e. Howard the Duck). Then there are some that I loved as a youngster and I still love today...

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Princess Bride
Dick Tracy
Raising Arizona
Ferris Buehler's Day Off/Uncle Buck/Pretty much all the mid to late 80's John Hughes films
Labyrinth
The Shining (it scared the fuck out of me then, it scares the fuck out of me now)
The Birds
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Three Amigos
Blazing Saddles

:)

You?

[dublirie04]

Hoosiers
Uncle Buck
Breakfast Club
Gleaming the Cube ---------- syke, that one sucked
Do the right Thing
The Player
Killing Zoe
Endless Summer
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Brooklyn Babylon

[ToucanSpam]

Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Jurassic Park

[beastieangel01]

Strange Brew
Star Wars
The Princess Bride
Labyrinth
Night of the Living Dead :p
the Manchurian Candidate (the original one)
A Charlie Brown Christmas :)
the Nightmare Before Christmas
City of God
Sixteen Candles
North by Northwest
Psycho
Citizen Kane
Nosferatu
Rear Window
It's a Wonderful Life
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Casablanca
Patton
Platoon



okay I will stop now.

[ToucanSpam]

Nosferatu


Dear Beastieangel,

Excellent choice. I like your list, you have good taste in movies.

Sincerely,

Patrick

[Mr Films]

Dear Toucanspam,

your avatar is severly outdated.

heart,

mr films

[like2_drink]

Dick Tracy


is that the one where clint eastwood is like a comic book hero?

[DipDipDive]

is that the one where clint eastwood is like a comic book hero?

Warren Beatty.


Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Fuck. I can't believe I forgot this.

[Documad]

These are movies you loved as a child but still love today? It seems like from people's answers they're going for movies they loved as a child that were actually released decades before they were born. Probably because you people grew up with videotape and cable. :)

Movies I saw in a theater as a child and still love today:

Freaky Friday (Jody Foster version with Barbara Harris, who I worship, as the mom)
North Avenue Irregulars
Jaws
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles (my dad was a huge Mel Brooks fan)
The Sound of Music (it was a rerelease I'm sure)
Star Wars
Grease
Airplane
Foul Play
Raiders of the Lost Ark at a drive-in but I was in my late teens by then

I never saw Close Encounters when it was released. :o Or E.T. :o

If I was going to add movies I saw on TV as a kid it would include a lot of Hitchcock, classic screwball comedies, Marx Bros., and Fred and Ginger movies. Plus Auntie Mame.

[steve-onpoint]

Death Wish 3

[like2_drink]

Warren Beatty.

if droppin sees this, thats the movie i was talkin about months ago.

[HEIRESS]

I watched weird shit as a kid because we had no cable and the VCR along with 2/99cent tuesdays were my best friends

The Bad Seed
In the Heat of the Night
Ode to Billy Joe
A Patch of Blue
Cool Hand Luke
Strange Brew
Bonnie and Clyde
Watership Down
Pink Panther (all of em)
Outlaw Josie Wales

and last but definately not least

The Dog Who Stopped the War/La Guerre Des Tuques (in my opinion the greatest canadian film ever)
I like the french title better which means "the war of the tuques"

[Documad]

The Bad Seed
Oh, my! You must have been a strange child!

Did you ever see the original Village of the Damned? That was a good one.

[Medellia]

Night of the Living Dead
The original Star Wars trilogy
Lord of the Rings
All of the Monty Python flicks
Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction
Enter the Dragon
Young Frankenstein

Eh...I'll think of more later.

[HotAndWet]

the exorcist
the shining
ghostbusters (1 and 2) :D
annie! haha yeah
uncle buck and all john hughes films
sleeping beauty, cinderella, 101 dalmatians, peter pan :o

[beastieangel01]

Fuck. I can't believe I forgot this.

I was surprised you didn't list it either. Alas, it's mentioned, all is well. :)

p.s. thanks TS

& I forgot Ghostbusters (I only like the first one the best however).

[skinnybutphat]

I can't believe Strange Brew showed up not once, but twice in this thread.
It's a jelly.

Better Off Dead
The Empire Strikes Back
Goodfellas
Office Space
Uncle Buck
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Spinal Tap
History of the World Part 1
True Romance
Pulp Fiction
Amazon Women from the Moon
Hollywood Shuffle
Weird Science

[HEIRESS]

Dood, its strange brew

bob and doug's comedy album is solid gold as well

:D

[enree erzweglle]

The Bad Seed

That movie scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

Two rewarding things about being a parent: waiting for just the right time to introduce your kid to your favorite books and favorite movies. And the bonus is watching him love those books and movies.

I'm doing that with my kid with literature rather than just pop fiction.

He's working a shift where he's allowed to read if there are no customers. He works long days, so he doesn't have time to go to the library. He asked me to recommend books.

I leave a book propped against his bedroom door. Maybe a day or two later, that book is propped against my bedroom door, which signals to me that he's ready for another book. I browse the bookshelves and my own stacks and leave another one for him. He's read about 20 books in two months.

He's got Confederacy of Dunces now.

Salinger's on deck.

[mickill]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Princess Bride
Dick Tracy
Raising Arizona
Ferris Buehler's Day Off/Uncle Buck/Pretty much all the mid to late 80's John Hughes films
Labyrinth
The Shining (it scared the fuck out of me then, it scares the fuck out of me now)
The Birds
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Three Amigos
Blazing Saddles


I agree with some of your choices, particularly Raising Arizona, The Princess Bride and Russ Meyer's Supervixens, but how has Labyrinth stood the test of time? I think it was pretty gay even at the time. Why do you people always talk about Labyrinth? Is it about Bowie's scrotum sack practically tearing through the lycra pants he rocked in that movie? I don't get it.

I'd have to say:

The Sting
Heathers
Wall Street
The Goonies
Back To The Future
Blade Runner
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Revenge Of The Nerds
First Blood
The Karate Kid
Taxi Driver

Along with most of the usual John Hughes films already mentioned.

[abcdefz]

He's got Confederacy of Dunces now.

Salinger's on deck.





...it's an exciting time, then. (y)

[marsdaddy]

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

[enree erzweglle]

I noticed that he's two-timing Toole with Hawking.
He's not fully content unless he's backing fiction right up against non-fiction.
I do the same thing.

[abcdefz]

Try Burns' Feeling Good and Chandler's The Long Goodbye as a double-header. That would be quite something. :D

[enree erzweglle]

Try Burns' Feeling Good and Chandler's The Long Goodbye as a double-header. That would be quite something. :D
For a half-second, I started to write that down.

[CrankItUp!]

The Lost Boys

[DipDipDive]

Why do you people always talk about Labyrinth? Is it about Bowie's scrotum sack practically tearing through the lycra pants he rocked in that movie? I don't get it.

We don't all think like you, pervert. :rolleyes:

[Tzar]

has anyone said the goonies yet?

edit: yes they have...

[jabumbo]

when i was a kid, i always loved to watch "fantasia" all the time. still nothing else can compare to it...



oh, and i never really like the goonies all that much, for whatever reason

[icy manipulator]

harold and kumar go to white castle :p

[icy manipulator]

but on a serious note

apocalypse now
on the waterfront
lock stock
fear and loathing in las vegas
taxi driver
scarface

and of course malibu's most wanted :p

[BOBBY DIGITAL]

A mother fucking Christmas Story.
The Godfather.
Platoon.
Pretty much any movie with Bill Murray.
Braveheart.
Swingers.
The Wizard of Oz.
(enter your favorite Hitchcock flick here).
Fast Times.
A Clockwork Orange.
2001: A space odyssey.
The life of david gale. (that one wont get old)

[Dr Deaf]

cloak and dagger
red dawn

[icy manipulator]

cloak and dagger
red dawn

wa wa what???

[BOBBY DIGITAL]

cloak and dagger
red dawn



Good shit, but Swayze's a bitch.

[HEIRESS]

BOBBY PLATOON YES

I tried to refrain from bringing attention to my obsession with all movies that have a vietnam war theme in this thread, cause thas just creepy when you are an 11 year old

[BOBBY DIGITAL]

BOBBY PLATOON YES

I tried to refrain from bringing attention to my obsession with all movies that have a vietnam war theme in this thread, cause thas just creepy when you are an 11 year old


no doubt. I gotta big you up for the strange brew jon. HOLLA.

[icy manipulator]

hope you all konw that apocalypse now is the best vietnam film of all time

[sam i am]

OK, here goes :

Casablanca
Citizen Kane
On the Waterfront
Jaws
Poltergeist
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Lost Boys
Office Space
Goodfellas
Fargo
Miller's Crossing
Unbreakable
Stripes
Groundhog Day
The Breakfast Club
Vacation
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Just watched it last night)
Aliens
Eddie Murphy Delirious
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
What About Bob
Star Wars movies
The Matrix
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
American History X
A History of the World Part One

Plenty more....

[Tzar]

oh, and i never really like the goonies all that much, for whatever reason

at what age did you first watch goonies?
you gotta watch that shit when you're like first starting primary/elementary school because...yeah it's just so cool.

[buddylee]

I watched weird shit as a kid because we had no cable and the VCR along with 2/99cent tuesdays were my best friends

The Bad Seed
In the Heat of the Night
Ode to Billy Joe
A Patch of Blue
Cool Hand Luke
Strange Brew
Bonnie and Clyde
Watership Down
Pink Panther (all of em)
Outlaw Josie Wales

and last but definately not least

The Dog Who Stopped the War/La Guerre Des Tuques (in my opinion the greatest canadian film ever)
I like the french title better which means "the war of the tuques"

Strange Brew I would have guessed no one else onther than SCTV fans would have seen that..

Outlaw Josie Wales was'nt it loosly based on book call a man named Shane

heart break ridge
Jaws
Colors
Car wash
Kentucky fried movie
Meatballs
Stripes

[mickill]

One more:

Dazed And Confused

[g-mile7]

Coming 2 America (y) still damn funny

[sam i am]

Coming 2 America (y) still damn funny

Agreed.

Eddie Murphy gets dissed pretty regularly now, but in the day, he was the shit...

48 Hours
Delirious
Beverly Hills Cop
Trading Places

All classics. Later, some of his crack-ass ideas sucked, but he still DOMINATED in Bowfinger.

Plus, I've still never laughed harder in my life than when I first saw Delirious...

Now THAT's A fire!

pdoof...pdoof...pdoof...MY SHOE!....pdoof....pdoof....

I GOT some Ice cream...and you ain't got none...cuz your Daddy's on the welfare...

And then a big brown shaark caaamee....

:D :D :D :p

[CrankItUp!]

Stand By Me will always be one of my favorites! :)

[Tzar]

Agreed.

Eddie Murphy gets dissed pretty regularly now, but in the day, he was the shit...

48 Hours
Delirious
Beverly Hills Cop
Trading Places

All classics. Later, some of his crack-ass ideas sucked, but he still DOMINATED in Bowfinger.

Plus, I've still never laughed harder in my life than when I first saw Delirious...

Now THAT's A fire!

pdoof...pdoof...pdoof...MY SHOE!....pdoof....pdoof....

I GOT some Ice cream...and you ain't got none...cuz your Daddy's on the welfare...

And then a big brown shaark caaamee....

:D :D :D :p

gooni goo goo :D
delirious is truely his best shit. the jesse jackson shit. stevie wonder. pahahah! classic shit right there.

[steve-onpoint]

Labyrinth


I was watching this before work yesterday. I enjoyed the behind the scenes documentary with Jim Henson. What a creative cat he was.

[hellojello]

One more:

Dazed And Confused
Personally I thought as soon as it hit 2000 this movie was debunked.

did anyone say lock, stock and 2 smoking barrels yet?

[fucktopgirl]

I watched weird shit as a kid because we had no cable and the VCR along with 2/99cent tuesdays were my best friends

The Bad Seed
In the Heat of the Night
Ode to Billy Joe
A Patch of Blue
Cool Hand Luke
Strange Brew
Bonnie and Clyde
Watership Down
Pink Panther (all of em)
Outlaw Josie Wales

and last but definately not least

The Dog Who Stopped the War/La Guerre Des Tuques (in my opinion the greatest canadian film ever)
I like the french title better which means "the war of the tuques"


oui la guerre des tuques ,awsome movie!
pink panther ,totally
indiana jones
goonies
star war
le grand bleu(big blue)
legend
dark cristal
antartica
ace ventura(hehe)

[bigblu89]

oh, and i never really like the goonies all that much, for whatever reason

Dude, that's just nonsensical talk right there.

It gets no better than Goonies.

[bigblu89]

le grand bleu(big blue)


They made a movie about me?

[fucktopgirl]

They made a movie about me?

hehe :D

no is the story about Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari
its base on their true story
apnee divers who break wolrd record.all along the movie,you get to know their personal live,romance,friendship.Its realy a beautiful movie visually .
if you never see it,go ahead ,in english "the great blue",i presume,the author is Luc Besson

[fucktopgirl]

yea clock work orange is a good movie (y)

[ToucanSpam]

Nosferatu (1922) {this one's better Norcen, 'Max Schrek' is awsomely creepy}
Gone With the Wind (1933)
Dracula (1931)
The Wizard of OZ (193something)
Citizen Kane (1940)
Casablanca (1942)
The Fly (1958)
Star Wars (1977)
Rocky (1978)
The Shawshank Redemption (1992)


I fucked the dates up for them. Sue me.