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Top three movies you watched over and over as a kid.

Mine are:

The Goonies
Never Ending Story
E.T.

Sirena 7 July 14
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I'm down with all those but depends on when as a kid.
Ghostbusters
Robinhood Men In Tights
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Sword and the Stone
Aladdin
The Little Mermaid
The Princess Bride
Captain Ron
Home Alone
Back to the Future
Peewee's Big Adventure

Oh no! I forgot Ernest Goes to Camp ?

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When I was a kid we did not watch movies over and over. If we saw a movie, we went to a theater and saw it once. (The nearest theater was an hour away by car.) There were no DVDs or VHS tapes. They had not been invented yet. Where my family lived we only got one TV station, and if the wind blew the reception went to shit. If you wanted to be mentally transported to another world your best option was to read a book. We read lots of books. My mom had us signed up to the Book of the Month Club. There was one for kids and one for adults. By the time I was twelve I was reading off the adult list. And we had subscriptions to Time magazine. And National Geographic. And Reader's Digest. We bought Life magazine off the rack when we went to town. My dad always had a daily newspaper delivered. And he usually had the latest Playboy, which I was allowed to read as a young adolescent because it did have good articles. Reading was really a thing in my family. It still is.

We got all of 4 TV stations not counting public. And 2 were CBS. So there were typically 3 shows to pick from.

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As a kid --- movies over and over again meant going to the theater or something that was played on TV annually like The Sound of Music and The Wizard of Oz.
VCRs came out whilst I was in college working on my first degree.

But, the Star Wars Trilogy was the first boxed set I watched on my new $649 VCR and I watched them over and over and over again...

$649 for a VCR? And it was probably a Beta, right?

@BobbyJaan yes $649.99 on sale. I chose wisely though and it was VHS. ?

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Willow
Return of the Jedi
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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TV was new when l was a kid. There was no opportunity to watch movies over and over except,maybe, on the Friday night horror movies.
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Wolfman

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Die Hard
The Crow
Big Trouble in Little China

Nice

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Jaws, Alien, Starwars.

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Aliens
The Roadwarrior
Excalibur

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Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Space Balls

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The Christopher Reeves Superman movie, Princess Bride and Willow.

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Spaceballs
Muppet movie
Smokey and the bandit

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Cheech and Chong Up in Smoke, The Thing, The Shining

These were more my teen years for me

@Sirena teens are kids

@NothinnXpreVails I know. I meant younger kid though.

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Casablanca, The Day The Earth Stood Still(original version), The Wizard of Oz.

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A lot of us on this site were around before the advent of vhs, dvds & 24/7 tv so we were lucky to see stuff like Wizard of Oz once a year, which for me was a BIG DEAL. ???
One very memorable year in particular I had chicken pox & recall licking calamine lotion off of myself while Dorothy was doing her thing. ?

So... my favorite movies from growing up?
Saw Godzilla vs the Smog Monster in the theater ❤ ?
It was quite awhile until I was able to see that one again. 😟

Used to get in trouble as a kid for my Helen Keller impression from The Miracle Worker in front of company. (was the one & only time my beloved grandfather popped me on the butt for acting possessed-, also one of the very few times I was ever "spanked" ) lol

Qualia Level 8 July 15, 2018

You sound like you were a hilarious kid to be around!

@phelicity9 without cloning myself I wouldn't know! LOL
I was a strange kid tho for sure.

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Almost all old kung fu movies, Mel Brooks movies, Star Wars (original trilogy), Princess Bride, any Warwick Davis' movies name some. Sorry can't name just three over all others.

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willow , enemy mine and the star wars original trilogy

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mary Poppins, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Sounds like all porn flicks lol

@ClaytonE83 nowadays it is porn.

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Can't answer that one because in the 60's and 70's we didn't have video,cable or streaming services. Jeez, I don't even remember repeat viewing of any movies until the "Midnight Movie" thing started in the mid 70's.

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Tremors, Back to the Future, Terminator 2.

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The Wizard of Oz and two of Charlton Heston's epics - The Ten Commanments and Ben Hur.

MrDMC Level 7 July 14, 2018

Gotta love a good epic ?

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The Little Shop of Horror, Abbott and Costello (any of them), Plan 9 from Outer Space. I used to love watching B horror movies. Now that you've sparked those memories I am going to have to find copies of them and host a party come October to watch them again.

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Frankenstein
Blade Runner

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For many of us, there was no real option for watching movies over and over again.
I actually miss that sometimes.
It's annoying AF that some people insist on repeatedly rewatching the same
movies over and over.

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When I was a kid there was no way to watch it other than on TV. But there are still a bunch I love. The Errol Flynn version of Robin Hood, To Have and Have Not, Mutiny on the Bounty, Drums Along the Mohawk. And most any old black and white movie

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I didn’t have access to a VCR until I was ~ 15 but after that I repeatedly watched the Star Wars original trilogy, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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