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Topic: 3 Childhood Defining Movies!

Okay, so during WAYDM's commentary for The Wizard Of Oz, Dorkman declared that film, Annie and Ghostbusters as the three pictures in heavy rotation during his childhood, which went on to define his tastes. Basically, those three films tell you exactly who Dorkman is, what he's like as a person. This created a kind of "game" in the forum thread for that episode, so I felt it should have its own thread.

Here are the rules: 1. Only 3 films (none of that runner-up, honorable mention or tie bullshit. You MUST limit your submission to three. That's the fun, challenging part. 2. Let's put the cut-off point at age 13. We're entering into Teenager territory at that point and that's a whole different game. So, only films you "grew up on", before you turned 13. 3. Include the year of release for each film. It gives a time stamp of sorts, allowing to track how old you were when it came out and when you might have seen it. 4. No Doubles or Triples, meaning you can't just list two or three films in a franchise (so no Star Wars, Empire AND Jedi. Pick one out of the three).

I'll go second. Dorkman counts as first:

1. The Breakfast Club (1985)
2. Night of the Creeps (1986)
3. Three O'Clock High (1987)

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For me, I have the 3 I remember watching over and over from childhood:


1. Terminator 2 (1991)
2. The Terminator (1984)
3. Ghost Busters (1984)

So basically I love optical special effects and 80s synth music. Win!

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1.) Uncle Buck (1989)
2.)The Lion King (1994)
3.)The Two Towers (2002)

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Always good to see Pav back on the forums

Bugsy Malone (1976)
The Goonies (1985)
Ghostbusters (1984)

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E.T.     (1982)
Last Starfighter  (1984)
Star Wars    (1977)

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1. Jurassic Park (scared the shit out of me and got me interested in movies when I saw it at age 4, in theaters)
2. Star Wars (on VHS in 1995, saw Raiders of the Lost Ark on VHS about the same time as Star Wars)
3. I need to mention Goldeneye (my first Bond film) on VHS at about 8

"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   cool

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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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1. Toy Story

2. Flubber

3. Star Wars

I'm Batman

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1. Star Wars (1977) - to me, there has always been Star Wars, I can't remember a time pre-Star Wars
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - always my favourite growing up, such fun to watch and it had a cool Chinese kid who did martial arts. I was a kid who wanted to be that cool and do that stuff.
3. The Vikings (1958) - historical epic with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis, ends with big battle, I'd run about my garden swishing my wooden sword around humming one of the tunes from the soundtrack

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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I've been racking my brains since the Wizard of Oz comm thinking about this, and I've come to the conclusion that I didn't "like" movies growing up. Which is a weird thing to say i guess. But when I think about my childhood I don't have very specific things that jump out at me as being hugely influential (I have 2 specific movies that I remember watching a lot, George Of The Jungle and Space Jam, which were 2 of the only VHS's we had in the house growing up, but they only jump out because I continue to actively watch them).

Otherwise I don't actually remember anything from that era, and as I'll say in the other thread after I do this, that dead zone continues until High School. Obviously I watched movies as every kid does, but I didn't latch on to anything in any meaningful way that actually influenced me then or had repercussions on who I am now. The entire concept actually feels weirdly alien having thought about it so much over the last couple days.

I'm kinda not really sure how to feel about this, I don't know if I just have a really horrible memory of that time or if I just didn't have anything that affected me like y'all seem too. I kinda feel a little empty about the whole thing hmm

So yeah, anyways, like I said, going by the only metric I have (repetition of watching) I have to go with:

1: George of The Jungle (1997)
2: Space Jam (1996)
3: The Phantom Menace (1999)


Yeah. When I was a kid I watched the living SHIT out of the Phantom Menace. Sometimes it would just be looping in the background 4or 5 times a day. But I don't have any cool stories about memorizing every line or anything like that, it's just a movie I watched a lot when I was a kid, and then I grew up.

This thread is making me kinda depressed, I'm just gonna stop now.

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I am really trying to imagine the sort of life lessons a young child would derive from repeat viewings of that combination of movies.   No matter how I slice it, it's disturbing.

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Indeed, but I'd rather not become another research project for my psychiatrist's students.