11.17.2009

Favorite Movie as a Child (or My First Favorite Movie)

"Murdered by pirates is good!"
-The Princess Bride (1987)

Carol's pick: Swiss Family Robinson (1960)- Adventure, romance, and an awesome tree house.
Posted by Joe Metz at 10:15 PM

9 comments:

  1. elizabethJanuary 9, 2010 at 9:10 PM

    The Wizard of Oz, no contest here.

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  2. AJJanuary 11, 2010 at 10:21 PM

    Anni: ET, Little Women, ...Escape to Witch Mountain?
    Rachel: Anne of Green Gables, Sound of Music, Robin Hood, Rescuers Down Under

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  3. LeahJanuary 12, 2010 at 1:42 AM

    Creature from the Black Lagoon- played on the good old projector.

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  4. mary pat turnerJanuary 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM

    "Sound of Music", "Annie", Shirley Temple's "Heidi" and "The Little Princess", "Escape to Witch Mountain", "The Ewok Adventure", Disney's "The Three Musketeers", "Big"

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  5. heather sJanuary 12, 2010 at 9:11 PM

    The My Little Pony movie! :-)
    Also Sleeping Beauty (the first movie I saw in the theater, after which I made my parents call me Briar Rose for a week) and the Little Mermaid
    And I used to get sooo excited for The Wizard of Oz which was on TV every year around Easter, and we would all watch it as a family.

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  6. UnknownJanuary 18, 2010 at 9:51 PM

    Dear God. I can't really explain it, but my brother and I must have watched that movie 500 times.

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  7. elizabethJanuary 19, 2010 at 12:07 AM

    I should also mention An American Tale.

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  8. UnknownDecember 15, 2010 at 9:05 AM

    The Incredible Mr. Limpet (a 1964 American live-action/animated film from Warner Bros) where Don Knotts (a fish lover) falls into the water off a Coney Island Pier, turns into a talking fish, and helps the US destroy enemy war ships. There are some great quotes but for the sake of keeping it short I chose a dialogue between Limpet's wife and him (as a fish) that took place by the pier sometime after she thought he'd drowned:
    Bessie Limpet (Carole Cook): Henry, am I the widow of a man or the wife of a fish?
    Henry Limpet (Don Knotts): Well, let's be logical, Bessie. You can't very well keep me in the bathtub, can you?

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  9. UnknownDecember 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM

    The Horn Blows At Midnight with Jack Benny (1945). I first discovered it around late 60's when it used to air New Year's Eve and, given the plot, it was fun and goofy to watch. Quick summary taken from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037790/plotsummary:
    "Falling asleep during the Paradise Coffee ("The Coffee that Makes You Sleep") Program, the band's third trumpeter (Benny) dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to [destroy the earth] by blowing the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth". Mayhem erupts through the entire movie. There are two fallen angels living it up on earth who failed to do the job he's sent to do and will try anything to stop him, and Benny and other angels take the hotel elevator back and forth between heaven and earth for their assignments and jam the hotel lobby. The character actor playing hotel security is hysterical.

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