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What was your favorite movie growing up?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on October 4, 2011
“‘The Powerpuff Girls,’ the Christmas version.”
“‘The Lion King.’”
“‘The Muppet Movie.’”
“‘Cinderella.’”
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Comments
autie 5 years, 11 months ago
As a punk kid, "The Wizard of Oz". I remember how it was a major life event when it came on that one Sunday night a year. Time itself stood still for that couple of hours.
jlzack 5 years, 11 months ago
& we watched it every year!!!
KansasPerson 5 years, 11 months ago
When the flying monkeys came on, my little sister ran upstairs and hid under a chair. Good times.
Terry Sexton 5 years, 11 months ago
It is indeed a tough call. Maybe 'Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs' or 'The Longest Day' because I went to see that one with my dear departed auntie whom I adored. I was gonna say 'Ol Yeller' but the kid went & ....SPOILER ALERT!!!...
...shot the dog.
Julie Craig 5 years, 11 months ago
He had the Hydraphobie though . . . Had to do it.
riverdrifter 5 years, 11 months ago
Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Pitt_Mackeson 5 years, 11 months ago
Well my parents weren't home often so I grew up on The Shining, Deliverance, Taxi Driver, and various others. I was a strange little boy.
Pitt_Mackeson 5 years, 11 months ago
And Psycho. Can't forget that one.
cabella 5 years, 11 months ago
Escape from New York
RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago
I ain't growed up, still in fourth grade.
You're all weird anyway, forget it.
RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago
I'm guessing I will say the same as BABBOY
"Gone With The Wind"
Because 'Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.'
number3of5 5 years, 11 months ago
Yes I do. Maybe that shows one's age.
oldvet 5 years, 11 months ago
Anything sci-fi with aliens or monsters
RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago
I was gonna say "The Last Picture Show". But never mind. weird . . .
trinity 5 years, 11 months ago
The Grapes of Wrath. Talk about being a weird kid...my dad loved that movie ergo I loved it too. :)
Flap Doodle 5 years, 11 months ago
Boiling Over, with Steve McQueen and Lee Van Cleef
boxers_or_briefs 5 years, 11 months ago
The Excorcist.
number3of5 5 years, 11 months ago
The Gay Divorcee without a doubt. I was in love with Fred Astaire.
RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago
My dad loaded us all up into his '58 Ford station wagon and took us to the Drive-In to see "Attack of The 50 Foot Woman". Us kids didn't pay much attention to it but just by coincidence (I guess . . .) our youngest sister was born about nine months later . . .
Richard Heckler 5 years, 11 months ago
There are so many favorite movies.....
Perhaps many of us are still growing up with many movies yet to be seen...
The answer to the question: perhaps there is not only one.
RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago
My Savage bolt action .223 prefers 24.4 gr of W748 behind Nosler 55 gr ballistic tips. On a still day at 68 degrees I have fired 3 shot 100yd groups measuring 3/10" center to center.
RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago
The Mrs was expecting our firstborn when we went to see Star Wars in '77. That kid has been a scifi enthusiast since day one.
LadyJ 5 years, 11 months ago
To Kill a Mockingbird.
RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago
Our oldest tried to convince her sister she was adopted. I told her she's the one who looks like the milkman. (I worked for a dairy at the time.)
Julie Craig 5 years, 11 months ago
I remember the Walt Disney World Sunday night movies. Watched all of them.
There used to be a movie version of the Nutcracker. Loved it.
Wizard of Oz and Sound of Music.
Scott Morgan 5 years, 11 months ago
oh my sighhhhhhhhhhh. What great television.
somedude20 5 years, 11 months ago
indiana jones raiders of the lost ark aliens ghostbusters any movie on skinemax starring kari wuhrer
RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago
Okay, finally decided. I will dress as Darth Vader for Halloween. I bet no one else has thought of that!
Bill Lee 5 years, 11 months ago
"Blue Hawaii" Elvis proved he could look good wearing anything, and the women wore almost nothing. That was a great combination for a young boy in SE KS.
cooltrix 5 years, 11 months ago
The Goonies
somedude20 5 years, 11 months ago
The Sting was much much better with The Police (I mean, Stew Copeland on drums, come on!!)
Sheryl Wiggins 5 years, 11 months ago
bwahahahaha somedude, you make me laugh.
FlintlockRifle 5 years, 11 months ago
From Here to Materity or Eternity, kinda get the wording wrong most of the times. Roe I have never tried this handload in my ruger #1 in 223, but it sounds like it works great in Savage , I sure like the acua-triger on my 17 cal Savage, they have it right.
Mike Hatch 5 years, 11 months ago
I probably watched a lot of things as a kid that I shouldn't have. I only remember not being allowed to watch The Valley of the Dolls and Helter Skelter. Back then, not too many kids movies would show up on TV. I remember loving Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I tried watching it when it was on TV a few months ago and I couldn't make it through the whole thing. That is one downright odd movie, especially the part where the Queen is singing that weird song in her underwear and her hair in braids down to the floor. Neat to see Benny Hill in it, though.
John Spencer 5 years, 11 months ago
Jason and the Argonauts
Scott Morgan 5 years, 11 months ago
ditto, still love it. Watched it at a drive in as a wee lad.
beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago
Metropolis
Terry Sexton 5 years, 11 months ago
Based on the movies he/she/it mentioned, M_L had the longest childhood ever.
The Day the Earth Stood Still - 1951 Forrest Gump - 1994 You go, M_L! We're all kids at heart.
I loved 'The Great Race' with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood & Peter Falk. Released in 1965, I was a Central Jr. High Mustang at the time. Also 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' Released in 1967.
RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago
Nanny Duver still haunts me. As does Miss Engleson. Tell me it was only a movie . . .
RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago
Oh I tried plenty hard, he sure didn't like big guys who had no interest in football.
Sheryl Wiggins 5 years, 11 months ago
I remember that. I was in Lawrence from my hometown in Iowa and got to go to "the show" with my friend who was on the trip with me. My Mom dropped us off and we thought we were something gettin' to see a movie in the big city.
Julie Craig 5 years, 11 months ago
+1 I remember that!!!
beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago
I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd in Oakland in 1977, a short time before the crash. It was The Outlaws, Santana, LS, and Peter Frampton to close it out.
What a greatly diverse line-up. Those were the days.
Terry Sexton 5 years, 11 months ago
Never caught much flack from Nanny. Wrote my locker combination 300 times for him when I forgot it. I guess he was kinda ticked when the starting tackle came down on my foot during a volleyball game & broke his ankle. Hey, I was the one with the ingrown toenail. Now, Miss Engleson, that woman had issues.
RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago
Wut we have heayah . . is a failyah . . . to communicate!
Terry Sexton 5 years, 11 months ago
The Shane quote prompted me to post this AFI list of best quotes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years%e2%80%a6100_Movie_Quotes#The_list
27 is way higher on my own list.
Terry Sexton 5 years, 11 months ago
well...since this didn't work, it ain't hard to find if you wanna do a search.
Terry Sexton 5 years, 11 months ago
Years back I went to a convention in Orlando with this guy. He was a real horn dog, sleazeball type. You couldn't trust him not to run up the pay-per-view charges on the hotel bill, especially of the adult variety. I went to the front desk to ask if the porn channel in our room could be disabled. The clerk looked a little disgusted & said that 'regular' people porn was all they had to offer.
Scott Morgan 5 years, 11 months ago
A question about one of those odd things which pass during a life without explanation. What was up with the Billy Jack movies? They were very popular, then I never heard of them again.
gccs14r 5 years, 11 months ago
Patton. Saw it at the drive-in when I was just about six. Made one heck of an impression.
wildflowers 5 years, 11 months ago
Goonies
Julie Craig 5 years, 11 months ago
Wissmo - I noticed the Billy Jack movies are on netflix. There are three.
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