Off Topic Films from your youth

Currently watching Born Free on Sky Movies and remembering why I loved this film as a kid. My Old Man worked for Essoldo Cinemas when I was young and as we got free entry to all Essoldo Cinemas I used to go to the cinema at least once a week and throw in being an ABC Minor on Saturday mornings and I seemed to spend a large chunk of my time watching the big screen.

Anyway what films did you lot like as kids which in today's cynical world might now seem slightly cheesy?

 

Debbie does Dallas.

 

Seriously tho...

All the Laurel and Hardy ones, chaplain, marx bros and all John Wayne films.

Used to love watching all of those.

 

Goonies

 

Bloody hell, I'm surprised they had colour TV when you were a kid....

 

As a kid I used to love all the 1970s horror movies. Most of them look titally crap now.

I also used to like the big epics on Sunday afternoons, like Ben Hur, Spartacus, Zulu, El Cid, etc. Although I still think some of those are quality now.

Then there were all the Westerns. Too many to mention.

 

Loved the Marx Brothers. Still do in fact. Absolute brilliance.

Also loved the James Cagney films and the Humphrey Bogart films and the Edward G Robinson films and the....

 

Actually when Born Free was released we didn't have colour tv.



Saw it at the cinema.

 

They had built cinemas when you were a kid?

 

I think Planet of the Apes was one of the first films I went to see at the cinema.


That's when I realised the difference between us and mackems.

 

Star Wars and James Bond movies made up a large part of my youth.

Ghostbusters.

Trading Places.

Brewsters Millions.

National Lampoons Vacation.

Back to the Future (I, II, III).

Crocodile Dundee.

 

At least you had a TV...

 

I remember when my older brother first got cable TV and there were loads of movies. I ued to love staying over at his house because all we had at home were BBC1, BB2, ITV.

 

Me and me mates would gan to the odeon in the mid 70's, I would buy a ticket and then gan to to the bog and push the fire exit bar on the door and let them in !, we played turns each for different films hehe. The man with the golden gun 1974 was one.

 

Born Free was one of my favourite films as a nipper. Another was Ring of Bright Water (same lead actors), and Kez. I used to love all of the wildlife stuff like that. As a teen my first real fave film was Gregory's Girl. I fell head over heels in love with Clare Grogan.

 

Standout cinema moment as a kid was the birthday treat, saw The Italian Job when it was first released, Jungle Book, Diamonds Are Forever was my favourite Bond movie then, at home black and white TV until about 1975 when the old B&W went up in smoke and we finally got a colour TV, used to rent TV's then ours came from DER. Best thing as a kid in the late 60's and early 70's was the Christmas TV and always the big blockbuster movie on Christmas day, the westerns with John Wayne were like others a favourite and will still sit down and watch them now even though I've seen them so many times.

 

Stop going on about wildlife movies, you're getting Albert excited.

 

Forgot Smokey and the Bandit II. Not a great film at all but we must have recorded it off the telly and me and my brother watched it over and over. Just us lapping up more Americana I guess.

 

Having older brothers when I was a nipper in the 70s meant I got to see the Monty Python films at a young age. Still love them now.

Other childhood faves include The Great Escape, Time Bandits, Blazing Saddles and of course...STAR WARS

 

Our TV was gas