Best movies from *your* generation growing up?

[Hobby Drifter]

Thanks to modern technology, folks have access to and knowledge of movies from the beginning of the genre to current micro-budget genre offerings. And I think that’s awesome, but it has kind of lessened the impact that movies have “in the moment” if that makes any sense.

So, I’m curious about what movies were released in your lifetime, that you feel have had the biggest impact on you?

Mine are
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
Robocop
Bill and Ted
Terminator (and T2)
Jurassic Park

Honorable mention goes to the original Star Wars Trilogy which was a bit before my time, but was still referenced basically EVERYWHERE in the stuff I watched as a young kid.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

From 1984 onwards that I’ll always watch, not counting super recent stuff? Off the top of my head:

Back To The Future, American Tail, Dirty Dancing, Ghostbusters (give or take three months), The Last Dragon, Beverly Hills Cop, Lion King, Aliens, Robocop, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Falling Down, Balto 1, A Goofy Movie, Fifth Element, Nightmare Before Christmas, Demolition Man, Bill and Ted, Moonstruck, Friday, Goodfellas, The Rock (1996), Space Jam, The Big Lebowski, TMNT 1990, New Jack City, Dumb and Dumber, Men In Black 1, Last Action Hero, Billy Madison, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Aladdin, Jurassic Park, Akira, Cobra, Spirited Away, Terminator 1 and 2, Dick Tracy, UHF, William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, The Truman Show, Die Hard, Fargo, Goldeneye.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Grew up in the 90s and early 2000s

Jurassic Park, Toy Story 1, 2 and 3, Shrek, The Lion King, Aladdin, The Blair Witch Project, Star Wars Episode 3, Saw, Saving Private Ryan --- all spring to mind as best films I saw during my childhood and teenage years.

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The Lion King
Batman & Robin (first I realized kind of sucked)
Mrs. Doubtfire
The Mask
Air Bud (first to make me cry)
Waterboy
Dude, Where’s my Car?
Titanic
The Matrix
Oceans 11
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Collateral
Romeo & Juliet
Garden State

Trying to keep it to “growing up” but those are the ones off the top of my head from youth to like, late high school thst effected me that weren’t older movies.

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Aug 8, 2023 10:25:26 GMT -5 Ryback on a Pole! said:

Grew up in the 90s and early 2000s

Jurassic Park, Toy Story 1, 2 and 3, Shrek, The Lion King, Aladdin, The Blair Witch Project, Star Wars Episode 3, Saw, Saving Private Ryan --- all spring to mind as best films I saw during my childhood and teenage years.

Blair Witch definitely was “a moment” type of film. I dunno how I forgot Saving Private Ryan. Shit had me f***ed up. In a good way.

[4real]

Was born in 84. Going to just try and limit this to pre 2000.

Jurassic Park was easily the most excited I’ve been to see a film. I was 8 when it came out and was probably the scariest thing I’d seen up to that point.

Also E.T., Back to the Future, Terminator 1 & 2, Home Alone, Ghostbusters, Dumb & Dumber (Any Jim Carey film I was a big mark for in the 90’s right up to the brilliant Truman Show), Se7en, Lion King, Men In Black. Too many to name really.

[Deleted]

Born in 1985, growing up, it was:

-Who Framed Roger Rabbit
-Terminator 2
-Jurassic Park
-Free Willy
-Forrest Gump
-Independence Day
-Titanic
-Matrix
-Spiderman Trilogy
-X-Men Trilogy

Movies that I didn't grow up with, but like now within the era:
-Shawshank Redemption
-Green Mile
-Heat
-Contact
-Collateral
-Seven
-Fight Club

[SmashTV]

Aug 8, 2023 8:03:24 GMT -5 Hobby Drifter said:

Thanks to modern technology, folks have access to and knowledge of movies from the beginning of the genre to current micro-budget genre offerings. And I think that’s awesome, but it has kind of lessened the impact that movies have “in the moment” if that makes any sense.

So, I’m curious about what movies were released in your lifetime, that you feel have had the biggest impact on you?

Mine are
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
Robocop
Bill and Ted
Terminator (and T2)
Jurassic Park

Honorable mention goes to the original Star Wars Trilogy which was a bit before my time, but was still referenced basically EVERYWHERE in the stuff I watched as a young kid.

Born in 1975, so this basically sums it up for me with honourable mention to The Shawshank Redemption, which is the best film of all time.

[darbus alan]

Born in 1985 so going with stuff from the 90's and early 00's.

Jurassic Park
Aladdin
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Original Star Wars trilogy (special editions came out in theaters during my generation so I count them)
Star Trek: First Contact
Spider-Man
The Birdcage
Mrs Doubtfire

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

Yeah I’d also add Seven, Heat and The Birdcage as other favorites growing up. “So this is hell- and there’s a crucifix in it!”

Should also definitely throw in Independence Day, Tales From The Crypt Demon Knight and the 1990 Total Recall in there too.

Also, All Dogs Go To Heaven still wrecks me.

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

seventies kid ...

101 dalmatians
the deep (instead of the amazing spider-man because full DAMN YOU OTHER PEOPLE!!!)
the bermuda triangle (1979)
encounter with disaster (1979)
superman the movie (went in 20 minutes in, asked if we could see it again, and did!)
1941
empire strikes back (went in half way through, asked to see it again ... DENIED ... so seen the first half IN THIS ORDER!)
herbie goes bananas (definitely a herbie movie, either this one or monte carlo)
the black angel

eighties

clash of the titans
superman 4 the quest for peace
predator (4x)
robocop (4x)
indiana jones and the last crusade (2x)
licence to kill (2x)
batman (4x)
lethal weapon 2

nineties (each year)

dick tracy (2x)
total recall (4x)
die hard 2 (2x)
ghost (2x dust in eye)
robocop 2 (2x)
teenage mutant ninja turtles (4x)

highlander 2 (yes i did)
predator 2 (4x)
misery (2x)
silence of the lambs (2x)
robin hood prince of thieves (2x)
terminator 2 judgment day (2x ... both doubles with highlander 2 and silence of the lmabs)

cape fear (2x)
batman returns (3x)

reservoir dogs (re-release midnight showing)
falling down (2x)
cliffhanger (2x)
jurassic park (4x)
last action hero (2x)

the crow

star trek generations (2x)
batman forever (2x)
die hard with a vengeance
mortal kombat (2x)

kingpin
independence day (4x, including first saturday morning)
star trek first contact

mars attacks! (2x)
dante's peak
the fifth element
the lost world jurassic park (2x)
event horizon (twice in one week)
spawn (2x)
alien resurrection

starship troopers (4x)
deep impact (2x)
lost in space (2x)

the lord of the rings - the fellowship of the rings (2x)
lost in la mancha

oh you meant GENERALLY ...
ain't got time to list them all

[Push R Truth]

Not enough Roadhouse or Conan the Barbarian (the Arnold one of course) in this thread

[peaches1]

Ghostbusters (1984)
Caddyshack (1980)
Terminator (1984)
Aliens (1986)
Robocop (1987)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Die Hard (1988)
Superman (1978)
Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Time Bandits (1981)

Edit: Shame on me for forgetting Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

[Ultimo Gallos]

Summer of 74

Star Wars
TCM original
River's Edge
Dazed and Confused
Clerks
Blade Runner
Rocky Horror Picture Show

[sabretooth]

Born in 73

The Breakfast Club
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Nightmare on Elm Street series

[fw91]

Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore
Wedding Singer
Waterboy
Big Daddy

You might be noticing a theme here…

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Until I turned 18 (born in 82)
Ghostbusters
Muppets Take Manhattan
Transformers ‘86
Spaceballs
Batman ‘89
Batman Returns
Bill and Ted (both Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey)
The Sandlot
Muppet’s Christmas Carol
Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
Toys (that weird Robin Williams movie, I was obsessed with it)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Dumb and Dumber
The Truman Show
Austin Powers
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (of course not until I was in high school and my older siblings showed it to me)

[ayumidah]

I was born in '87 so
Hunchback of Notre Dame, Lion King, and Pocahontas. Home Alone 1 & 2. Land Before Time. Fox and the Hound. Sleeping Beauty. Mrs. Doubtfire. Pokemon the First Movie. Spirited Away. Aladdin and Return of Jafar.

[Hobby Drifter]

Independence Day and Men in Black not getting as much love as I’d have expected.

[schma]

I was born in 83, so a lot of my choices have already been mentioned. I will add the Land Before Time. At 40 years old that movie still hits me in the feels like a Mac truck.

One that was when I was a teenager but never got the attention it deserves is The Emperor's New Groove.