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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 04:42 |
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Mine are:
The Never Ending Story I
The Never Ending Story II
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 05:31 |
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Great topic. The movies that stick out for me, from my childhood, are:
"Weird Science"(creating your own woman through science!? A growing boy's fantasy)
"Action Jackson"(A African/Black hero, nuff said)
"The Running Man"(I would pit myself in an imaginary game of "Running man" as a child; I always won and got the girl, too.)
"Coming to America"(Arsenio Hall's role as the reverend at the beauty/booty pageant still leaves a brother in tears to this day, "I believe the children are the future....... SEXUAL CHOCOLATE*stumps feet* SEXUAL CHOCOLATE*stomps feet again*; "Just let your soul glow"(what up DM; just playing, b)).
"Back to the Future 1"(see my explanation for "The Running Man").
"Back to the Future 2"(Again, see my explanation for the Running man).
"The Last Dragon"(A African/Black martial arts flick with a young hero; "Who's the baddest?").
"Howard the Duck"(I have no explanation)
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 05:59 |
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The Mighty Mos Def wrote: Great topic. The movies that stick out for me, from my childhood, are:
"Weird Science"(creating your own woman through science!? A growing boy's fantasy)
LOL!
"Action Jackson"(A African/Black hero, nuff said)
I totally understand that. The hero is usually white and hard to relate to when you are black....we are expected to "adjust" to this, which never completely happens.
"Back to the Future 1"(see my explanation for "The Running Man").
"Back to the Future 2"(Again, see my explanation for the Running man).
Those were entertaining movies.
"Howard the Duck"(I have no explanation)
LOL! The "no explanation" part is funny and ironic because I feel the same way about another "duck" movie....."Mighty Ducks" was a good movie when I was young but I don't know why  I guess it was just action packed.
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 07:36 |
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Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory ( I so wanted that GoldenTicket,scrath I so want that golden ticket)
Commando. My oldest surviving tape. This film was taped about 13 years ago and hasnt been touched. Watch it everytme I need a laugh and need to see things blow up
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 10:48 |
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CashMoney wrote: Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory ( I so wanted that GoldenTicket,scrath I so want that golden ticket)
You know...I liked that movie too. However, I like the remake with Johnny Depp even more.
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 10:52 |
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Wizard Of Oz. I know all the songs and I love it.
Oh yeah and Bugsy Malone.
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 10:55 |
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MMD your choices of Weird science and running man were spot on... and your reasons lol!!!
Timeline. The never ending story part one looking back on it is such a dumb movie. I mean the baddie was... the NOTHING!! lol But yeah I can quote that entire film and yes I enjoyed it back then "say man name Bastian, say my name" must have inspired destinys child...
I was kinda disneyfied back then... Jungle book and those ones lol
Return to Oz, I think that is the only movie that has ever actually scared me. Get this, back then I was watching all the Freddies, Jasons and Chuckies but I was hiding behind the sofa from this silly movie? It was the wheelies, the headless witch, the rock king... too much for a kid man!
Bugsy Malone. That is a movie I WISHED so badly to be in. Those splurge guns looked so much fun, I can't lie, I STILL want one.
Ferris Buylers day off. I can't remember this movie or even what he did on his day off only that it was funny and I must have liked it.
The ultimate movie for me growing up was Transformers movie. NOTHING has ever come close for me. I can sit down now decades later and talk along to that movie word for word. Was there ever a moment in cinema like the death of optimus prime? Starscream?
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 11:11 |
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Watership down....lol I used to watch that year after year and always thought them rabbits was straight gangsta!!
bugsy malone.....
oh and of course.......TRANSFORMERS the movie.....cmon now show love!!
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 11:54 |
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Has to be Charlie and the chocolate factory................I still love that movie, it shares the top spot with Bugsy Malone.........I loved that movie.
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 12:07 |
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I loved the Transformers Movie as a child but I appreciated it moree as an adsult
The 'beef' between Autobots and Decepticons really is interesting. Whenever decepticons see autobots, 'ITS ON' , guns at the ready, pow pow pow
The movie has one of my favoirote 'killing' ever. I'm poor with names, Galvatron was at a building and I think they were about to appoint a new leader of the decepticons, ( the guy who pushed out megatron from the spaceship), galvatron transforms, hits the guy with his canon, then the guy ights just shut down and he falls to the floor. Heavy!!!!
Back on topic
The Witches ( really creeped me out, 2nd longest film I have kept on tape)
But. The Ultimate childhood film for me is
THE GGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNIIIIIIESSSSSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!
No explanation needed. Coolest film ever. I wanted to be a goony even more then I wanted that golden ticket. Like Willy Wonka, film will get watched everytime its on, whether 10 mins gone, or 10 mins left, it doesnt matter
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 12:11 |
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 13:32 |
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THE GOONIES- I loved it when the fat kid did the truffle shuffle.
ET- To sad, it still makes be bawl.
RETURN OF THE JEDI-I liked the furry creature things in this.
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 13:36 |
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@DM
Bugsy Malone was the sh*t!!
Others.....
1) Who framed Roger Rabbit?
2)Ghostbusters 1 & 2
3)Gremlins 1 & 2
4)Short Circuit
5)Golden Child
6)The Last Dragon
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 14:20 |
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Timeline wrote: The Mighty Mos Def wrote:
"Howard the Duck"(I have no explanation)
LOL! The "no explanation" part is funny and ironic because I feel the same way about another "duck" movie....."Mighty Ducks" was a good movie when I was young but I don't know why I guess it was just action packed.
I know what you mean; but then they went and made part 2 with some of the original cast, but not all of them(and they looked really old). I can't remember the entire plot, but the thing with all of those movies is: you felt like you were a part of them back then, for some ridiculous reason. I, literally, used to play back entire movies in my mind(with a few changes in script of course) with myself cast as the lead; I suppose that's youth for you?).
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 18:18 |
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Cashmoney, you were talking about Starscreams death That was my favourite character man...
Galvatron: "Coronation Starscream? this is bad comedy!"
Starscream: "Megatron? Is that you?"
Galvatron: "Here's a hint!" KABOOOM *starscream blown to dust*
Rumble: "Whaddhe say his name was?"
Galvatron: "GALVATRON"
All decepticons: "LONG LIVE GALVATRON!!"
Oh and I HATED goonies... I hated that big scary freak thing, I dont care if it was friendly, he scared me man. "eeeeeey you guyss!" Nah man... not for me!
MMD Golden child was only good because I was young enough to find words like "sardo numspa" highly amusing... *shrugs*
Ghostbusters and short circuit were heavy though... great movies.
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 18:39 |
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@ FizzyB AND CashMoney...it's all about the goonies!!!! Love that film, I bought a goonies T-shirt from truffleshuffle dot com a couple of month's back and had a great time educating our youth (I work in a college) about the movie.
Bugsy Malone and and any film based on a Roald Dahl book comes a close second.
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 18:56 |
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I loved and still love Watership Down. The book is even better with the rabbit language.
Also liked:
THE LITTLE MERMAID
SHORT CIRCUIT
GREMLINS (only the first ones)
DARK CRYSTAL
BUGSY MALONE
BEETLEJUICE
TEEN WOLF
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT
WILLOW
GHOST BUSTERS
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 19:01 |
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aurora wrote: I loved and still love Watership Down. The book is even better with the rabbit language.
Also liked:
THE LITTLE MERMAID
SHORT CIRCUIT
GREMLINS (only the first ones)
DARK CRYSTAL
BUGSY MALONE
BEETLEJUICE
TEEN WOLF
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT
WILLOW
GHOST BUSTERS
What was that Movie Dark Crystal about? I can remember going to the pictures to see it but can't remember the story line. Teen wolf another funny movie currently being shown on sky movies at the moment. Tried to watch it and have some mother daugter time...my daughter thought it was pants!
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 19:17 |
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I think I saw it on video. It was about these two creatures called Gelfings (and a ball of fur called Fizzgig) racing against time to find a piece of a crystal before the 3 suns could meet and the evil creatures (i forget their names) had power forever. My memory of it is hazy, but I know I liked it at the time cos it was just so weird and original.
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 19:33 |
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 20:03 |
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THE GOONIES- it's the ultimate
[The Fratellis are interrogating Chunk]
Francis Fratelli : Tell us everything! Everything!
Chunk : Everything. OK! I'll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog...When my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I got nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out...But the worst thing I ever done -- I mixed a pot of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa -- and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life.
Jake Fratelli : I'm beginning to like this kid, Ma!
Watership down - Still don't like Rabbits
Ghostbusters
Explorers - Still trying to build a space ship from an old washing machine.
ET - Can't bring myself to watch it now thou
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 20:50 |
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The Mighty Mos Def wrote: Timeline wrote: The Mighty Mos Def wrote:
"Howard the Duck"(I have no explanation)
LOL! The "no explanation" part is funny and ironic because I feel the same way about another "duck" movie....."Mighty Ducks" was a good movie when I was young but I don't know why I guess it was just action packed.
I can't remember the entire plot, but the thing with all of those movies is: you felt like you were a part of them back then, for some ridiculous reason.
WOW! That is exactly why I liked it. I now remember myself becoming lost in that movie because I no longer felt like I was sitting in my seat...I was PART of the plot.
I, literally, used to play back entire movies in my mind(with a few changes in script of course) with myself cast as the lead; I suppose that's youth for you?).
No...that's not "youth for you" That is vast creativity. That is why I liked The NeverEnding story movies because the theme was the threat of lost creativity. Fantasia (fantasy world) had no boundaries until humans started trying to make sense of everything and marginalizing creativity. I think in childhood, your practice for a lifetime of creativity is exercised through these fairytales and stories we tell ourselves. Of course that creativity is often curbed in adulthood when we are asked to "keep our feet on the ground" as Bastion told the Empress when all she wanted him to do is give her a name so that the creativity could continue inside of him and not be swept away by the five known senses. Creativity becomes our "hope" as adults in getting through an unpredictable existence. When creativity ends, emptiness (what attacted fantasy world Fantasia) sets in and the boundaries of creativity are restricted until there is no more. So hopefully you still dream and create  But even when Bastion had a grain of sand...the only thing left of the vast Fantasia...he was able to have unlimited space to create yet again. So even emptiness leaves room from where what used to be is destroyed and what is yet to come is created.
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Posted: Friday October 7th, 2005 20:59 |
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MrsPawz wrote: aurora wrote:
Also liked:
THE LITTLE MERMAID
BEETLEJUICE
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT
GHOST BUSTERS
I liked these movies too....ESPECIALLY Beetlejuice (although I can't remember whether I saw that in my childhood or in my teens
I liked "Who framed roger rabbit" because it was unique to me at the time....humans interacting with cartoons in a serious manner was something I'd never heard of.
Ghost Busters scared the sh*t out of me.... Especially the marshmellow....they made those ghosts look so real...
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Posted: Saturday October 8th, 2005 03:28 |
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Timeline wrote: The Mighty Mos Def wrote: Timeline wrote: The Mighty Mos Def wrote:
"Howard the Duck"(I have no explanation)
LOL! The "no explanation" part is funny and ironic because I feel the same way about another "duck" movie....."Mighty Ducks" was a good movie when I was young but I don't know why I guess it was just action packed.
I can't remember the entire plot, but the thing with all of those movies is: you felt like you were a part of them back then, for some ridiculous reason.
WOW! That is exactly why I liked it. I now remember myself becoming lost in that movie because I no longer felt like I was sitting in my seat...I was PART of the plot.
It's interesting to hear someone with a similar experience from watching movies at that age.
I, literally, used to play back entire movies in my mind(with a few changes in script of course) with myself cast as the lead; I suppose that's youth for you?).
No...that's not "youth for you" That is vast creativity.
Thank you
That is why I liked The NeverEnding story movies because the theme was the threat of lost creativity. Fantasia (fantasy world) had no boundaries until humans started trying to make sense of everything and marginalizing creativity. I think in childhood, your practice for a lifetime of creativity is exercised through these fairytales and stories we tell ourselves.
I agree. I believe those of us that went in depth in our thoughts and seemed to "live in another world" as young children through our vivid and free-flowing imaginations, end up more curious as adults, as well.
Of course that creativity is often curbed in adulthood when we are asked to "keep our feet on the ground" as Bastion told the Empress when all she wanted him to do is give her a name so that the creativity could continue inside of him and not be swept away by the five known senses.
We are told thinking in this fashion past, oh, say 15/16 is a sign of immaturity, rather than a gift of sorts.
Creativity becomes our "hope" as adults in getting through an unpredictable existence. When creativity ends, emptiness (what attacted fantasy world Fantasia) sets in and the boundaries of creativity are restricted until there is no more. So hopefully you still dream and create
 You are 'wild,' lady; do you know that? But I like that. And no, I'm not going to answer that question, you'll just have to leave it up to your imagination.
But even when Bastion had a grain of sand...the only thing left of the vast Fantasia...he was able to have unlimited space to create yet again. So even emptiness leaves room from where what used to be is destroyed and what is yet to come is created.
I'm dying over here, lol; were you reliving the movie? I believe I already know the answer to that question.
All kidding aside, I'm feeling the relation you made between the movie and our discussion, good on you, very clever.
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Posted: Saturday October 8th, 2005 05:40 |
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The Mighty Mos Def wrote: Timeline wrote: The Mighty Mos Def wrote: Timeline wrote: The Mighty Mos Def wrote:
"Howard the Duck"(I have no explanation)
LOL! The "no explanation" part is funny and ironic because I feel the same way about another "duck" movie....."Mighty Ducks" was a good movie when I was young but I don't know why I guess it was just action packed.
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