1. Die Hard (1988)
2. Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
3. Tango & Cash (1989)

That is only in my early teens, though, I watched more as I got older. I'm old, remember?

1. Mallrats (1995) - saw this one hundreds of times, to the point where I've not seen it for about 10 years now
2. Aliens (1986) - I believe I saw it when I was younger than 13, but it wasn't until I was this age that I really started to love it and watch it religiously
3. Armour of God (1987) - this one acted as a gateway to the world of Jackie Chan and Hong Kong cinema

Like I said in the other thread, I have basically a dead zone in my mind of most of my childhood through to high school about films. More specifically films that had any "real" impact or lasting impression on me. I just don't have any. Even movies I have grown to love over the past couple years haven't really had any impact on who I am now, I guess they're too new to me to really have a deep effect.

I didn't paticularly care about movies growing up, they were just things I watched and then got on with my life, nothing actually stuck with me. If I'm going to be completely honest there are 2 book series that affected me more growing up than any movie every did. Harry Potter, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy.

If there is ever to be anything that I could claim influenced and shaped who I am today it would be those 2 series.

But that's not the name of the game, so going by what other metrics I have left, my main movies through my teen years through to a couple years ago (I'm 21, 19 wasn't that long ago) would have to be.

1: Hellboy 2 (2008)
2: RENT (2005)
3: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Well, my list plays out a little bit differently because home video and cable movie channels weren't a factor in my childhood or adolescence.   The only way to see a movie multiple times was to keep going back to the theater, or scour the tv listings to try and catch it whenever it aired.    That's right, kids - in my day sometimes we had to set the alarm and get up at 3 AM just to see a movie a second time. 

So with that level of effort involved, for a movie to make MY list it was obviously a pretty big deal.   

I'll start with the obvious one:

1.  Star Wars (1977)
I mean, duh.    Ten or more viewings in the theater during the original release, and several re-release viewings after that.  As soon as "home video" was no longer exclusive to millionaires it was one of my first video purchases, but I was out of my teens by then.

2.  The Ωmega Man.  (1971)
Damn right I used the symbol to spell the title properly because RESPECT.

I was not yet a teen when this was made but was too young to see it at the time.  I discovered it on tv a few years later, and from that day forward I watched the shit out of it every chance I got.  My well-documented love of downer apocalypse movies follows a straight line leading right back to The Omega Man.

3.  Harold and Maude (also 1971)
Did not see this during its original release either (see above) but neither did nobody else.  But then H&M became of the most popular "midnight movies" of the '70s (second only to Rocky Horror, pretty much).   So it was possible to catch a screening of H&M pretty much any weekend of my teen years.  Which I did, at every opportunity.

If there's any single movie that determined my worldview to this day, it's Harold and Maude.  To know it is to know me.  If you dare.

1.)Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)
2.)Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
3.)Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)