Old Favorites

[€uroMeinke]

NA and have been watching old Disney Films that were relesead (or re-released) in our Childhoods, and it got me thinking about seeing the Love Bug for the first time as a kid and coming to the conclusion that it was the absolute best film ever - it was my favorite for a long time, and Buddy Hackett was the best comedian ever.

Later in my high school years, Clockwork Orange, was my favorite film. I saw it with friends at a revival theater and spoke like a droog for days, listended to Beethovan, and loved to sing "Singing in the Rain."

While I still enjoy both films, I'm not sure I'd rate them as highly as I once did, but it's still fun to look back at what I once considered the "Best of the Best."

So what are your old favorites - what movies did you watch over and over again? What songs got continuous airplay? Come share your old favorites.

[Scrooge McSam]

To Live and Die in LA - Loved loved loved when the hero went down well before the end and the "oh ****, what now?" conundrum left behind. Thought I don't think of the movie as highly as before, I'm still loving Willem Dafoe

[Ghoulish Delight]

I confess that I watched Grease over and over...oh, wrong thread. But, umm, yeah.

I watched our Disney's Peter Pan video to death.

[Not Afraid]

I remember LOVING What's Up Doc with Babs and Robert Redford. I think I saw it three times (we didn't have video back in the dark ages of my childhood). I just realized it was directed by Peter Bogdanovich (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000953/) (Last Picture Show & Paper Moon - thank you IMDB).

Of my Disney favorites - The One and Only Genuine Family Band, Bambi, and Jungle Book were all favs for which I had the records and overplayed them. Poor Mom and Dad. :evil:

[Ghoulish Delight]

Beetlejuice. My siter and I rented that any chance we got.

[Prudence]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Sound of Music.

When I was younger, I had a strict bedtime. (Actually, this pretty much carried through until I was 18, but that's another story.) At the appointed time I had to go to bed, no matter what the occasion. Even on weekends. Those two movies ALWAYS went past bedtime, so I always saw the first half and not the second.

One weekend Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was on during the day. But I had the flu and strep throat and couldn't leave my bedroom with the humidifyer without coughing uncontrollably. So I still didn't get to see the end. Now if they're on I have to watch.

Also, I have read and re-read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There more times than I can count. At one point I had memorized nearly every poem in both books. I used to carry a copy around with me at all times -- just in case. I still read them every so often. I have a number of different versions -- my old, falling apart paperback, my complete works set, a version in French, a facsimile of the 1864 manuscript "Alice's Adventures Underground" hand-lettered and with illustrations by Carroll, and my best buddy gave me "The Annotated Alice" for my last birthday.

I am very nearly obsessed by Alice. I used to BBS under the moniker "March Hare." For my 30th birthday, spent at Disneyland, my husband had the guest services thing (official name escapes me) put together an Alice themed basket. The shopper went out for weeks trying to find things and came up with a puzzle, an ANCIENT black and white photo autographed photo of Alice and the White Rabbit, a mug, and a music box I've never seen for sale before or since. The shopper reported that there aren't too many Alice fans, but the ones that are out there tend to be fanatic. During our honeymoon trip, we came upon Alice, the Tweedles Dee and Dum, and the Queen of Hearts just inside the park. I asked Alice if it was her unbirthday and revealed that it was my unbirthday as well. She flung herself at me in a hug (we have a GREAT picture) and dragged me around to visit the Tweedles and Queen of Hearts and report the news. It was my most magical park experience ever.

I also read and re-read (only slightly less often) the whole Wizard of Oz series. I think those books are still at the 'rents somewhere. And Gone with the Wind and Jane Eyre. I read those books over and over again.

[SacTown Chronic]

Strange Brew and This Is Spinal Tap.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

The Producers. The library had a copy and we borrowed it constantly. Same goes for Swiss Family Robinson and Pollyanna and Mary Poppins.

The Love Bug was one of those movies they'd show on lazy Saturday afternoons on KTLA. I loved Buddy Hackett in that.

My first two non-kiddie records were The Cars Greatest Hits and Huey Lewis and the News' "Sports". My cool uncle bought me those. I played them until they were unplayable. One of our favorite games was lipsynching to the songs, playing tennis rackets and plastic pianos and my Rainbow Brite microphone. "Sports" is especially embedded in my head....every note of it.

[mousepod]

When I was 4 years old, I saw Yellow Submarine and I really loved "Nowhere Man". My parents went out and bought the original soundtrack for me, but the song wasn't on the record, so I made them exchange it for 'Yesterday and Today'. So my Beatles thing started really early.

We didn't have a VCR until I was in high school. My cousin gave me a videotape with A Clockwork Orange, The Man Who Fell to Earth and *ahem* Deep Throat. But I was already old by then.

For my true "old faves", I'd have to go with The Jungle Book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Sound of Music, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the book)...

[Name]

I remember at one point of my life watching The Crow over and over again.

[Ponine]

* Absolute Beginners,
* Gay Purree,
* this movie where a mouse and his dad wander the world..all I remember is that at one point they see themselves in a repeating picture.
oh.. yeah.. I watched the Crow over and over for a while too.. Name reminded me. I can recite Legends of the Fall too.

[MerryPrankster]

I loved Valley Girls. I rented it many, many times. Now, when I see a picture of Nicolas Cage in a magazine, I wonder...my gawd, what happened?

This is Spinal Tap is one of my all time favorites. Before my husband and I were married, we probably watched it together 30 times. We never got tired of it.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

When I was 4 years old, I saw Yellow Submarine and I really loved "Nowhere Man". My parents went out and bought the original soundtrack for me, but the song wasn't on the record, so I made them exchange it for 'Yesterday and Today'. So my Beatles thing started really early.

I got turned on to The Beatles when I was about 3. Dad would play the 8-track of Abbey Road all the time in the car. When I was about 11, my parents took me to "Beatlemania" on Broadway. Within 6 months, I had all of their albums and wore them all out rather quickly.

Concerning films, I always loved all of the Pink Panther movies. Hmm, what else? Smokey and the Bandit, Young Frankenstein, Jaws, Airplane, and Willie Wonka were all huge favorites and still are. (All of which I saw in the theater)

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Old favorites or Things I Run Into The Ground:

Music:
Chicago - Don't fall off you seat in shock. I have multiple copies of each cd because I ware them out. I go weeks without listening to anything but. The music was singular during my troubled "teen" years and I probably wouldn't be here without 'em. Air, Nurishment, Chicago..

Movies: Somewhere In Time (Sap) Star Wars, Airplane, All the Mel Brooks films. That Thing You Do. Grand Canyon. Classics like Casablanca, Citizen Kane & Maltese Falcon.

Comics: Ah, you would know 'em.

Books: Shakespear's Hamlet, A Movable Feast, A Wrinkle In Time, Bit Time Return, Where The Red Fern Grows, Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, The Sun Also Rises, Dune..

TV: Madtv, SNL, Benny Hill, Dukes of Hazzard, NYPD Blue, American Idol, Murphy Brown, South Park, Justice Leage Unlimited, Project Greenlight, Sopranos.

[Gn2Dlnd]

...my best buddy gave me "The Annotated Alice" for my last birthday.

What a great great book! I bought it at a library sale when I was, like, 10. I've given away many copies of it over the years.
I've read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn both several times.
Rudolph holds up, Mad Monster Party does not.
20,000 Leagues is my favorite live-action Disney, I love catching it in a real movie theater. Island at the Top of the World, not so good upon re-watching.
I drove my dad crazy by picking Bohemian Rhapsody on a jukebox every time we went to a particular restaurant when I was a kid. I still love just about anything by Queen.
ELO Out of the Blue, Manhattan Transfer, A Chorus Line, and the Star Wars soundtrack all got played to death when I was in high school.
Time Bandits was the first movie I paid to see more than once in its initial release. Raiders was the second.
I love both versions of Blade Runner.
And, in high school, The Rocky Horror Picture Show saved my life.
My very first (1979?) Official Album of Disneyland also got played to death, especially the MSEP track.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Oh, I'm with Merry. Valley Girl. Many times. My babysitter was just like those girls, and I so wanted to be my babysitter.

Others from my childhood:
The Sound of Music
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
The Goonies
Nightmare on Elm Street
Purple Rain (yeah, still my childhood; my parents should have hidden their betas better)
Red Sonja (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Sleeping Beauty
Peter Pan

I'm just mentioning the ones I watched over and over again.

The last film from my youth that I watched and watched and watched and loved and loved and loved and wrote diary entries about was Edward Scissorhands.

[Name]

Oh yeah, I used to get pissed as a young lad if I thought I might miss my daily(or was it weekly) episode of GI-Joe.

[Boss Radio]

Phantom of the Paradise (Stunning)
Dark Star (Wicked funny)
Harold and Maude (Perfect)
The Producers (Also perfect)
The Point (Trippy)
Hello, Down There (I guess I really liked Tony Randall)

[Claire]

Oh man.

I was nine when my parents got a beta machine and by the time I was ten, they had two VCRs and used to tape movies from rented videos and from HBO and Cinemax...this was back in 1982-3. The first movies I remember watching and re-watching endlessly were Elvis movies.

From there chronologically.....it was The Parent Trap, The Jerk, The Outsiders (this one got the most airplay--I had the dialogue memorized), The Goonies, Princess Bride (memorized), Adventures in Babysitting (memorized), Heathers (OMG, memorized, still), The Little Mermaid, Red Shoe Diaries (stole it from the video store once when I was high), and When Harry Met Sally. These are the movies I've seen at least twenty, maybe thirty times apiece since elementary school. In college, it was Heathers and all the Brat Pack movies and RSD....endlessly....over and over again night after night.

Of these movies, I've seen several of them in the past year.....okay....actually all of them except Red Shoe Diaries and Adventures in Babysitting. :rolleyes: And if I had them, I'd watch them this instant.

[scaeagles]

Music - Chicago VI, U2 Joshua Tree

Movies - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

[MickeyD]

My old favorite movies are all brat pack movies. First and formost Breakfast Club, then Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, etc.

[UvaGirl]

Princess Bride, Labyrinth (yes, I have a fairytale complex:p )

[scaeagles]

My old favorite movies are all brat pack movies. First and formost Breakfast Club, then Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, etc.

Breakfast Club rocked, but I don't watch it over and over. Did catch part of it on AMC the other night. I don't know if this is the right word, but at the time it came out, it seemed so....profound. By the way, Judd Nelson's nostrils scare the hell out of me.

The only DVD I've actually ever bought is Bill and Ted.

[DisneyDaniel]

Old favorites recently rewatched on DVD:

--Bambi
--Sleeping Beauty
--ROBOTECH (Japanese animation that was retooled as an American cartoon series)
--21 Jump Street (early Johnny Depp)
--MacGuyver (an anti-violence hero with brains!)
--Battlestar Galactica
--Breakfast Club
--Some Kind of Wonderful
--I Love Lucy
--Live Aid Concert
--V (One of the best sci-fi, mini-series in the '80s. Reptile aliens disguised as humans!)

[Claire]

--V (One of the best sci-fi, mini-series in the '80s. Reptile aliens disguised as humans!)

OMG, totally! I bought the series last year and I think we've watched it 3 times all the way through. My oldest daughter loves it!!

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

OMG, totally! I bought the series last year and I think we've watched it 3 times all the way through. My oldest daughter loves it!!

I love the mini-series. To pieces. Michael Ironside, you are still my hero and I still have your autographed photo (my mom used to be his talent agent; le sigh).

But when it became a tv series? My friend recently bought that for me as a gift. Oomph. Bad. And it only gets worse when Michael Ironside left the show. Man, that miffed me.