This is a thread to talk about movies from our childhood and whether they or good or not they just throw us back to a time before puberty so please use this thread to talk about those movies. I’ll start with:
-Flubber
-Short Circuits
This is a thread to talk about movies from our childhood and whether they or good or not they just throw us back to a time before puberty so please use this thread to talk about those movies. I’ll start with:
-Flubber
-Short Circuits
Honey I shrunk the kids
The whole Bethoven (Think that’s his name) series
Edward scissorhands
I have more I know it, but that’s all I can remember so far
Yes! This movie!
The one with the dog?
YEAH, YEAH THAT ONE!
Dude it’s so good
I knowww!
I almost cried when he had a family
Cats
Matilda
Has anybody got anymore movies that make you nostalgic?
Resident evil-
reminds me of the games I played as a kid with my family.
Hook
Always reminds me of cuddling up to my mum when I was super young in my grandparents’ house
The Sound of Music
It’s now my favorite movie… no idea why, I only watched it once before watching it again and got all the hidden jokes and stuff and its now SO GOOD!
Sound of Music is a good one for me too.
I would say all Astrid Lindgren’s stories that have been turned into movies. Many of you probably know about Pippi Longstocking. I’m too lazy to list them in English so I’ll just write their names in Swedish:
Okay, I’m not sure which if all of them are written by Astrid Lindgren… Most of them at least. They used to go on TV and my family probably owns some VHS tapes of them.
I think the reason why movies like The Sound of Music are so good is because of the music. The Sound of Music uses it masterfully in a way that other movies don’t. It kinda plays the same songs over and over again but with different tunes, I’d say. Different variations? Like there are certain songs being played in the background that definitely foreshadow what is going to happen, like when the Captain goes to Maria to confess his love, the music matches the scene perfectly.
There are also other aspects of it that are done very well to show certain emotions without being obvious. Or again, foreshadowing in a way. Like again when the captain is talking to (the dutchess?) and saying how he feels kind of overwhelmed and she asks him how she can bring him back to “her world” (which she can’t) in that very moment Maria comes back with the singing children, bringing him back to their world.
It’s those very subtle things that make me really love these types of movies. I like movies with symbolism like this that you can just soak in, but that is easy to understand. I didn’t get all of it the first time watching, but then after seeing it again after a while and watching it again… couldn’t believe how much I soaked in. I think I got a lot more of what the film was trying to say and show than I did the first time watching (which was a while ago).
There were subtle funny dirty jokes in there that weren’t being “pushy” like some films now. (Disney does this now oof- an example being the live-action Cat In the Hat). Lol a joke I loved from The Sound of Music was when they were drinking pink lemonade and the kids were in the scene and they were talking about the lemonade being, “lemonade laced with… lemonade”.
They were saying it in front of the kids, they had a purpose for “hiding it” they said it, then didn’t really go back to it making it feel very light and the kind of thing you might’ve heard adults around you say or joke about when you were younger.
And there is also that mix of adult and child that you can see in the movie, making it appropriate for a lot of people. Music for the children, romance for the teens (lol), and for the adults the whole Nazi history and the seriousness that that comes with. But none of it being “pushy” I guess, it’s just there and present and amazing.
It’s the type of movie where you can watch it at any age and get a different perspective from it I think. Which is why I’m gonna hold off on watching it again until I’m older, and maybe then I’ll get more out of it than I do now.
Ghostbusters,
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,
Toy Story,
Jaws,
Titanic, and
Scarface. (“Say hello to my little friend,” is a classic).
Haha sorry, I was chocked by the very long paragraph at first glance. But this is awesome!
I like these types of movies too, not always but sometimes.
Yes, I like this very much about Sound of Music.
Lol I can probably write a ton about The Sound of Music! I’m uh… very passionate about films and nostalgia. Idk why. I think I wanna write something like that so I really focus in on things like that.
Home Alone!
I watch it every Christmas with my parents. We’ve been doing it ever since I was little