And welcome to DU!

We saw it as a family when I was a kid, and I remember how it made my family laugh.

in the early 1950s. Network television used to show it in prime time every Christmas Eve and it became a ritual for Americans to gather around the TV set to watch it. It's been with me throughout my life and always brings back memories of when I was a carefree kid during Christmases past and all my family members were alive.

This touching scene for me never fails to make me shed a tear.

That and the annual Thanksgiving Wisard of Oz, back in the day when we had tv but no way to record it.

AND..the 1983 version of A christmas Story....absolutely captured, as only Jean Sheperd could, the experience of being a kid in the 50's.( Except in the books, it was set in The Depression.)
And brought so wonderfully to life by esp. Darrin Mcgavin...I adored him as an actor,would watch anything he was in.

now my daughter is starting to enjoy it. The boys are a little young still and don't like the B/W but I'll get them too.

Gigi and The Music Man.

Eliot and I were both 10 at the time.

That movie had a big impact on me.

"alligators in the sewer...."

I remember going with my family when I was very young to go see this movie. I remember crying my eyes out when Little Foot's mother was killed and scared crapless as only a Don Bluth movie can do.

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Yeah.

I' m weird.

But I believe you already knew that.

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Though set about 10 years earlier, it portrays my smalltown Michigan
childhood experiences very nicely.
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A Christmas Story was compiled from several of the stories, the writing is wonderful, but the movie visual is great.
I finally have a copy of the movie, so on Christmas Day..hot cocoa, warm slippers and robe and movie.

Saw it on Tele-cinema and thought "hey, that's different"

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Especially this part:

I got the Blu Ray for my birthday and it is packed with some of the most amazing extras plus the film itself looks gorgeous.

Billy Jack.

And "Escape from Witch Mountain."

Real horrorshow me droogies.

Does not seem to be a "child" type movie, to me.

I saw it in the theaters in the summer of 1977. Amazing experience. When the Death Star blew up, the audience stood up and cheered! I had never seen that before. Even at my tender age, I had seen a lot of movies, but nothing like that...

Star Wars, in Seattle, big theater, 1977. In the University district, lots of college students, including me.
and lots of pot.
Theater was packed, of course,
so when the opening scenes came on, of the enormity of the giant spaceship rolled over our heads, from the audience came a collective "oohhhhh" of amazement.
I looked around and realized instantly...we were ALL stoned.
Watched the whole movie with an awareness that everyone in the place was in the same space.
Rather remarkable.

Wherever there was a coin-op game, I'd be there until around 1986 . . . when the games started to all become souped-up (and in turn, more expensive), 3-D versions of Pole Position, Karate Champ or Tron. Give me 2-D Retro ANY day.

Herbie the Love Bug.

I saw this in the theater with my parents, and I had never heard my dad laugh so hard.

My boyfriend and some Air Force buddies went to see it thinking it was porn. Something about the title, I guess.

Superman the Movie, Star Wars(empire/return of the jedi), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Batman the Movie(Adam West).

Sorry, private inside joke over some rough memories.