films that are sentimental to you.

[LivedOnMars]

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I badgered my parents for weeks to take me to see Grease at the cinema and eventually my Dad caved - that is still probably my best ever cinema memory. In those days the local cinema only had one screen and would show a new film until people got tired of it - Grease ran for months! We didn't have Netflix, dvds or even videos then and only 3 TV channels so seeing a new film at the cinema was a treat. Afterwards I badgered my parents until Christmas for the Grease LP...I still have it

[darren]

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what a great story mate.

grease is how long ago early seventies and u still have the lp brilliant stuff i never got into he film although i know how popular it is.

I badgered my parents for weeks to take me to see Grease at the cinema and eventually my Dad caved - that is still probably my best ever cinema memory. In those days the local cinema only had one screen and would show a new film until people got tired of it - Grease ran for months! We didn't have Netflix, dvds or even videos then and only 3 TV channels so seeing a new film at the cinema was a treat. Afterwards I badgered my parents until Christmas for the Grease LP...I still have it

[LivedOnMars]

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Grease was in the cinemas in 1978, and the music from the soundtrack dominated the charts that year. Summer Nights seemed to be at number 1 for ages and when The Boomtown Rats finally knocked it off the top spot, Bob Geldof ripped up a poster of John Travolta on Top of the Pops

[Jedi Knight]

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E.T.

It was the first film I saw at the cinema. Honourable mentions must also go to

Star Wars Trilogy
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Back to the Future Trilogy
Ghostbusters
Rocky 3 & 4

[darren]

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interesting you choose rocky 3 and 4 over 1 and 2 any reason in particular mate.
e.t sentimental to me too.

E.T.

It was the first film I saw at the cinema. Honourable mentions must also go to

Star Wars Trilogy
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Back to the Future Trilogy
Ghostbusters
Rocky 3 & 4

[havasack]

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Gregory's girl
Donnie Darko
Vagabonde (french)

Films I watched over and over and certain times of my life.

Bizzarely I also have a thing for Matilda and Madeline as due to technology not available to us as kids but available to my kids these are the films I've probably watched more than any others.

[darren]

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oh yeah gregorys girl forgot to add it.

never miss it if i can help it

[Jacqueline]

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Whistle Down the Wind - watched as a child. Just brilliant for so many reasons.

The Wizard of Oz - I freaked when she stepped out of the house into technicolour!

Meet Me in St Louis - my kids loved this film so much, we must have watched it a 100 times.

Some Like it Hot - The best film ever.

The Breakfast Club - I wanted to go to that school and know those kids *punches air

The Breakfast Club

[Jedi Knight]

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interesting you choose rocky 3 and 4 over 1 and 2 any reason in particular mate.
e.t sentimental to me too.

I guess because I was too young to see Rocky 1 & 2 at the cinema (I also missed Rocky 3 at the cinema) but saw 4 on the big screen, which is my personal favourite.

I don't know, I kind of find 1 & 2 a bit boring, whereas 3 & 4 seem to be more fun and have better villains (even if they are a bit over the top or stereotypical) I also prefer Apollo as a good guy.

E.T. just blew me away, I think the combination of it being such a great film and it was my first cinema experience, it just had such a profound effect on me, I knew I was going to be heavily into film from that point on really (and I was only about 6).

Spielberg is a genius, the best films of my childhood all pretty much involved him somehow.

[victorbrunswick]

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Grease was in the cinemas in 1978, and the music from the soundtrack dominated the charts that year. Summer Nights seemed to be at number 1 for ages and when The Boomtown Rats finally knocked it off the top spot, Bob Geldof ripped up a poster of John Travolta on Top of the Pops

I've always loved this German parody of "You, You're The One That I Want" which is half in English and half in German. It's called "Die Wanne Ist Voll" ("The Tub Is Full")

[Jacqueline]

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Crikey that's weird and a bit creepy!

[battyrat]

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Watership Down. It was the last year at my primary school that we were allowed to hear the audio tapes of Watership down over a few weeks. We later put on a play based around a part of it which I can still remember taking part in. Funny thing is the school offered us the chance to buy the book like many kids I did. I left the school in 1978 and read the book during the summer holiday. After the summer holiday I started up my secondary school by then the film had started it's rounds of the cinemas so I went to see it. My cousin had also brought the single from the film Bright eyes. To me it represents all that was good about my primary school and in a way the feeling of sadness that I had about moving on to another school. It seemed to be a continuing theme all through 1978.

[xmark1234]

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i agree with great selection classics and always watch when on

Whistle Down the Wind - watched as a child. Just brilliant for so many reasons.

The Wizard of Oz - I freaked when she stepped out of the house into technicolour!

Meet Me in St Louis - my kids loved this film so much, we must have watched it a 100 times.

Some Like it Hot - The best film ever.

The Breakfast Club - I wanted to go to that school and know those kids *punches air

The Breakfast Club

[Palazzo]

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1994's Street Fighter starring Jean Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia. Loved the game growing up, collected the stickers, toys and the comics. Just loved it. Street Fighter 2 is in my top ten games of all-time. When I heard they were making an actual movie with real people as characters from the game I couldn't have been more excited. The movie came out and despite actually making a profit at the box office, was pretty much panned by every critic ever during the time. It was pretty bad and throughout the following years it became cool to remember how bad it was and how bad the game-to-movie execution ended up.

A few years back I bought it on DVD and the memories came flooding back. Sounds stupid but I remember walking round Liverpool very early one saturday morning back during its release and a bus passed me with a poster for the movie running down the side, it had all the characters lined up across it, honestly blew my mind. I watched it again a week or so back and it just takes me back to a less innocent time, Van Damme was like superman to me as a kid. This is a daft, cheesy, typically 90's action film but that's why I love it, you just leave your brain at the door and let it do its thing. Daft but quotable dialogue, awesome 90's soundtrack and Van Damme just being himself. Raul Julia's final film performance adds to it also, he's the best thing about it and he owns every scene in typically over-the-top style. Awesome.

So yeah, I love Street Fighter haha.

[Richard1978]

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It also has Kylie Minogue in it, to add to the pop-culture quota.