Looking for a certain type of film

[Darth Mandarb]

I also liked Legend (did someone already say that one?) ...

I can't believe I forgot Legend!!  Yes, a great movie!  Most people aren't aware of the fact that it was directed by Ridley Scott (Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven).  I have the special edition DVD which changed/added a few things, but still a great movie!

And Darth... I remember Explorers.  I LOVED that one.

Glad somebody else remembers Explorers!

What about Enemy Mine ... I loved that movie.  Just recently found it on DVD and, though a little hoakier than I remember it was still quite good.

[nihilyst]

I really loved the Care Bears when I was young. Well, they're still cool, but I wouldn't consider it something near of "good" or "acceptable".

Not to forget Mary Poppins.

[Potch]

Mary Poppins... awesome.

Loved care Bears as well... and there was this movie I saw once that I thought was great.  I don't remember what it was called, but it was this fantasy thing, where these dolls came to life (I think) and they went through the closet in the kids room to this land, where there was this witch, and the witch had to eat these cherries or something to stay young.  I remember the dolls or whatever they were foiled her in the end by trapping her had with the cover of the cherry tree or something.  I remember it vaguely, but I remember that I LOVED it.  I think the dolls were some kind of doll that were really popular at the time, like the  cabbage patch kids or something like that.

[Creed Malay]

Labyrinth is indeed fantastic.

But the Princess Bride is better.

That one gives me the ice-cube-down-the-spine feeling every time. I do wonder about stuff like this, though, that it's maybe the fact that we did see it when we were kids that makes it great to us. Everyone has "special" shows from the ones they watched when they were kids, but any ones out of their age bracket, they wont remember at all.

[Domino]

I remember a movie from my childhood that i will never forget.  It was called The Water Babies.

It was a live action/animated movie.  I haven't seen it in ages, but would like to watch it again soon.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078477/

Oh, somebody mentioned the Princess Bride.(duh, right above me. My Bad) One of my most favorite movies of all time.  That movie used to inspire me to write adventure games in Basic a long time ago.  I love it.

[Kinoko]

Man, Water Babies! I love that movie, watched it ALL the time. "High high high high high cochalorum!" There' a book of it too, I always meant to read it ^_^ I think everyone loves the Princess Bride... certainly all my friends are nuts about it.

Potch: I TOTALLY saw whatever movie you're describing, I've thought about it before but for the life of me I don't know what it was called! Wow, I never remembered about the withc though, you have an even better memory of it than me.

[Darth Mandarb]

Speaking of Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal ...

While standing in line for Episode III tonight I started talking to the people in front of us.  Turns out the guy is Michael McCormick who was a puppeteer on both movies!  He was in charge of the skeksis on tDC and in Labyrinth he said there's a spot on the DVD special features where you can see him in the background!

Before tonight my coolest story was that I worked with the sister of the first guy who gets killed in Evil Dead ... this is WAY cooler than that!!

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Heh, I love these coincidences.

[TheYak]

Coincidences?  I work at the same place as Steve Purcell! Alright, at least I think its cool.

Back on topic..  I, as well, remember Explorers fondly.  I'm pretty sure I thought it sucked as a kid, but kept watching it.. I checked it out a couple years later, remembered it as not being that great, and watched the whole thing anyway.  Must have some sorta draw. 

Most of the movies/cartoons mentioned have some special place in my memories..  it's nice to see there's a lot of cross-generation appreciation, not just in the (obvious) adventure game connection. 

I wish I could contribute another title but the above cover most of what I watched and re-watched.. (aside from a hell of a lot of Transformers)

[RickJ]

One of my favourite films from my childhood is The 7 Faces of Dr Lao. My parents introduced it to me when I was a kid, and I think you'll like it a lot. It's on oldie, made in 1964...

Hehe,  my parents took me to see it when it first came out. 

[Potch]

Man, Water Babies! I love that movie, watched it ALL the time. "High high high high high cochalorum!" There' a book of it too, I always meant to read it ^_^ I think everyone loves the Princess Bride... certainly all my friends are nuts about it.

Potch: I TOTALLY saw whatever movie you're describing, I've thought about it before but for the life of me I don't know what it was called! Wow, I never remembered about the withc though, you have an even better memory of it than me.

Kinoko... leaving my post yesterday inspired me to do go on an internet quest to find the movie.  After doing numerous searches for strings like... witch eats cherries to make her young, 80s tv movies (i remembered that much as well) and numerous other dead ends... I decided to try a different approach, and did a search for 80s toys.... I had a feeling that the thing started with an H... and I was right.  It was The Huggabunch.  Such a cheesey stupid movie, but for some reason, I thought it was cool.

[Kinoko]

THAT'S IT!!! Wow. The mystery is solved.

I'm not sure I overly liked it, I remember only watching it once, and I think it was over some other kid's house. Still, the memory is intruiging. I just remember that fruit tree...

[dgunpluggered]

I remember The Huggabunch.

It was about this girl who was sad because her grandmother was going away somewhere and these creepy animatronic dolls akin to Chucky from Child's Play come through her bedroom mirror and take her to save their village from a wicked witch... or something like that, I can't remember... I sniffed a lot of glue as a kid. But in the end, she defeats the witch and returns home to learn a valuable lesson about caring for your family. She gives grandma a hug just as the old bat gets carted away to the glue factory.

I give it a B- out of ten!

[Potch]

The thing I remember the most was the witch reaching for the cherries on the tree, and the dome of the tree closing on her hand, and her going all gross and dying.  It freaked me out bad!

[dgunpluggered]

That's the Emmy-winning special effects at work.

I'm not shitting you either... look it up. The Hugga Bunch won a freakin' Emmy for its special effects!

I also remember the girl had a brother who was a little shit. But then he broke down crying at the end when grandma was leaving.

Then he went back to being a little shit.

[Pelican]

A few of my faves have already been mentioned - Goonies, Labyrinth. I just recently got them on DVD, on a bit of a nostlagia trip lately! Another one is Castle in the Sky (Laputa). It was on ITV at christmas when I was a kid, and it always brings back happy memories. And its a great movie too.

I remember watching Flight of the Navigator, and Enemy Mine too. Only when someone mentions a movie do I remember all these classics I saw as a kid!

[Blackthorne]

Where the Wind Blows - animated, Roger Waters score.... crazy.

The Flight Of Dragons - I believe this was a Rankin-Bass production

The BRAT Patrol - a Disney TV movie, but I dug it.

Mr. Boogidy - Again, another Disney TV movie.

Flight of The Navigator - saw in in the theatres, 1986.

I could think of more, but I'm drunk and tired.


Bt

[evenwolf]

I'll just list off some of my favorites from my childhood. Whether or not they fit your tastes, they'll at least be nostalgic for a lot of you:

Big, the Tom Hanks movie where a kid magically becomes an adult

Willy Wonka, naturally

Milo and Otis the talking cat and dog movie voiced by Dudley Moore

Homeward Bound the clear rip-off, but arguably superior talking cat and dog movie

Roger Rabbit the classic humans interacting with cartoon movie

Cool World the obvious rip-off, and clearly inferior human/cartoon movie

Mannequin the most ridiculous movie ever made

Mannequin 2 the worst movie ever made

Short Circuit 1 & 2 the talking robot made by the government that goes AWOL

Batteries Not Included flying saucers help elderly people from being evicted

The Toy  Richard Pryor gets the deal a lifetime to babysit a huge brat with the coolest toys ever

Toys Robin Williams attempts to save his father's toy factory from being over-run by a general who plans to produce military weapons.

[Haddas]

Short Circuit 1 & 2 the talking robot made by the government that goes AWOL

the "NO DISSASSEMBLE!" one? I remember that, and a lot of the others too. I like most of them

[Potch]

Oh my god... I dind't think ANYONE but me remembered the Mr Boogidy movies!  Those were great.

Short Circuit... LOVE IT.

Oh oh... remember another Wonderful World of Disney movie... Not Quite Human?  There were a couple, and they were so fun.