Comments on: Summer Cinema

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:32:16 +0000

My kids favorites not already mentioned include:
Man From Snowy River,
Across the Great Divide,
Breaking Away
and Miracle on 34th Street both old & new versions.

By: ev

ev — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:52:55 +0000

another chat missed.

besides many of those mentioned, one of our favorites we like to watch is the Original “Yours, Mine and Ours” with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda. And a very young Tim Matheson- it was his first big roll. I hate the remake, they had to be so PC.:thumbsdown:

Also, the John Wayne film “Hatari”. No animals die in it, I promise. But it is set in Africa and where the music Baby Elephant Walk is put to the best use in the end. It never fails to make me laugh. Daughter always enjoyed it too and the scenery is awesome, even as old as it is.

By: Tina Martinesi

Tina Martinesi — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:58:43 +0000

OH my goodness, after all this talk about childhood movies, I just watched the Parent Trap (Lindsay Lohan version) with my kids and cried my eyes out…I know I’m lame but its been a long time since I’ve watched it and I sooo enjoyed it I’m a sucker for happy endings. Thank God for the Abc family channel because there is nothing on tv anymore.

By: erin

erin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:42:34 +0000

The Goonies is one of my favorite childhood I laugh everytime I see it on TV. I remember Pippi I wanted to be her for so long!! Grease was a great one. Everytime the Sound of Music comes on I think of when I was little and my parents would turn our living room into a giant bed, pillows everywhere, and we would all watch it together. The Never Ending Story used to scary me, that thing in the cave at the end The movie with David Bowie as the bad guy is Labyrinth–its a great 80’s movie!

By: Lynn Matherly

Lynn Matherly — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:51:07 +0000

I loved the cartoon version of Rikki Tikki Tavi! It’s such a great Rudyard Kipling book, too! I read Pippy Longstocking. That was a terrific book. She was the ulitimate young rebel.

Movie wise? Gone With the Wind, Sound of Music, South Pacific, and I :love2: The Quiet Man! I had it on VHS but bought the DVD last week so I could watch it more. It always makes me laugh.

But… My all time favorites, I don’t care what season, are “An American Tail” and “Santa Claus - The Movie”. The first is the sweetest story and has great songs (Somewhere Out There, No Cats in America…. The second is also such a sweet, funny movie. Dudley Moore, John Lithgow. I went to see this with my fiance’s room mate because he didn’t want to go. His friend and I both had sentimental cries together…. :cry: Sentimental crying movies are “da bomb” for me.

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:57:54 +0000

I never understood the Ainken thing either - there was NOTHING heroic about him. All the Godzilla films, East Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, Love the Goonies too

By: Tina Martinesi

Tina Martinesi — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:28:17 +0000

LoL Leslie you beat me to it!

By: Tina Martinesi

Tina Martinesi — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:26:30 +0000

Julie, I think it was called The Time of Their Lives, which is one of my favorite, of course I love them all.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:25:29 +0000

Julie! I have that Abbott & Costello movie, both on VHS and on DVD, and it is also MY VERY FAVORITE A&C flick. It’s called THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES and even though they made it specifically because A&C weren’t getting along and they tried to do something different that wouldn’t have them together on screen very much, I absolutely love, love, love it!

When you come up we’ll have an A&C night!

By: Liza

Liza — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:08:49 +0000

I forgot about The Goonies and Pollyanna. I still love those movies and actually watched the Goonies when they were on last week. I’ll have to see if I can find Shirley Temple in Blue Bird. I think I’ve seen just about all of her movies except that one.