re: What movie/movies did you geek out to as a kid?

C'mon man, no one mentioned this one yet??

I was born in 1959, so here's a list, with IMDb links, from before we watched VHS tapes at home. I saw all of these in the theater. Most at least twice.

Great Kids movies from the 60's, and early 70's were pretty limited. The three I really remember liking are:

The Incredible Journey (1963)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
The Jungle Book (1967)

I saw a bunch of entertaining adult movies back then too.

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) was the coolest movie ever when I saw it. A naked lady at the beginning, and the ambush at the end. We loved it as kids.

Planet of the Apes (1968) was one we talked about all the time. It was unlike anything before it. The Statue of Liberty scene was amazing.

Blazing Saddles (1974) inspired us with the N word, lots of cussing, and the campfire fart scene.

Could almost do a list of just war movies my brothers, and I saw back then.

Patton (1970) had great tank battles, Cool Germans, the slap, and the opening speech.

The Great Escape (1963) had the guys from different countries banding together, and the Steve McQueen motorcycle jump!

The Dirty Dozen (1967) gave us the funny war games scene, Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin in German unis, Maggot, and Jim Brown slamming grenades into those hatches on the run.

The Guns of Navarone (1961) Had those huge canons, lots of cool German stuff, Greg Peck, plastic explosives, and the cool boat horns at the end.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Must have seen it at the drive in. We loved for the guys whistling the Colonel Bogey March. It was the Comet song to us. "Comet, will make your teeth turn green. Comet, takes just like gasoline. Comet, will make you vomit. So get some Comet, and vomit today." Drove my parents nuts with that.

Von Ryan's Express (1965) may have been the one I liked best as a kid. It had snooty Englishmen, Cool German uniforms, Messerschmitts attacking trains, a hot Italian chick, and Sinatra with an MP 40 submachine gun.

Was a big fan of the Spaghetti Westerns too. Saw Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), For a Few Dollars More (1965), Fistful of Dollars (1964), but My Name Is Nobody (1973) may have been my favorite as a kid.

We watched King Kong all the time.

Copied on VHS from TV.

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Wait, why am I blanking on what this is???

I know I’ve seen it a million times but can’t for the life of me place what it’s from??


ETA: shite Flight of the Navigator!!!

I watched Smokey & The Bandit over 100 times.

Watched Hooper nearly 20 times.

Liked the Cannonball movies.

Any movie with Burt Reynolds and Dom Deliuise

TMNT

The closest movies that come to mind are Grind and Christmas Vacation during high school.

Explorers.

I wanted to "discover" a way to build and control a spaceship like they did so bad as a kid. It's the reason I learned computer programming.

I used to religiously watch Disney movies.

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WeBleedCrimson

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Does your mom know you're on the computer?

Just messing with ya

I feel old now

ETA: I'm right there with the rest of you 80s baws though.

Flight of the Navigator
Goonies
Rad
Thrashin
Gleaming the Cube
Explorers
The Wraith (surprised no one mentioned this one yet..)
The Last Starfighter
Red Dawn