Does your childhood influence the films you buy?

[jroadley]

I am 26 years old, and going through some of my collection I am buying films I remember watching as a kid. Not all the films are great, but they do hold nice memories for me :)

I am the only who lets his childhood memories influence the DVD's I buy?

Examples being:

The Pink Panther Collection I have so many memories of watching them with my sister and laughing so hard it hurt.

Young Sherlock Holmes

Jaws - sitting on the sofa being so scared when Robert Shaw's character gets eaten

[Jon B]

I've done this with varying degrees of success.

I've got to admit that most of the time, I don't think it's a good idea. I remember renting Police Academy, telling my girlfriend "you'll love it, it's hilarious!" :|
Mind you, thinking about the movies I liked when I was a kid, most of them were crap anyway (House, Ghoulies, the Police Academy films)

I bought Krull when it was released on dvd because I had a huge crush on Lysette Anthony. I'm still keeping it, even though it's poo! ;)


There are exceptions to the rule though. Watched the Karate Kid on Channel 5 a few months ago and thought it was great! (got to buy it) and I still think Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my favourite movies of all time (and it has been for 20 years!)

[LooNaTiK]

one of my first DVDs was Transformers the movie :thumbs:


LooN

[ChrisParrott]

My first DVD was The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I think I had a disturbed childhood.

[Squirrel God]

Yeah, bought a fair few DVDs to remind me of my childhood. But as Jon B says, it's rarely a positive experience. I even bought the Flumps DVD as I remember loving it. Couldn't even sit through one episode :lol: Oddly, I love a lot of stuff now that I absolutely HATED when younger!

[nashie]

hmmmm trying to think if I've rewatched one of the films I loved as a kid and hated it. Can't think of one...

Movies I loved as a kid and would definately buy are films like 'The Goonies' and 'Gremlins' etc. I haven't seen 'Labyrinth' in a while but I loved that.

[kfung]

Would love to see a release of 'The Phantom Tollbooth'.

[TheDot]

I loved rocky as I kid, god i remember renting Rocky 4 nearly every week from my old Video Shop- the rocky anthology was the first DVD box set I ever bought!

thats about it really, I definatley wanna buy the goonies (hopefully r2 shud come sometime b4 I have my own kids:p), that film got taped sooo many times, the chinese kid in it (from indiana) used to make me laugh for ages as a kid, and not forgetting the truffle shuffle.::clap:

Another collection I loved as a kid but not got round to buying yet was the Indy trilogy, i cant remember which one but I think Indy had this little black book (not tha type;)) with sketches and ancient maps etc in, I sooooooo wanted that book as a kid- weird eh? It was indy with the black book yeah? didnt he used it in a library or summat? lol its ages since i seen em!!! :thinking: :luv:

[dorgan]

Originally posted by TheDot
I definatley wanna buy the goonies (hopefully r2 shud come sometime b4 I have my own kids:p), that film got taped sooo many times, the chinese kid in it (from indiana) used to make me laugh for ages as a kid, and not forgetting the truffle shuffle.::clap:

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005UK3F/qid=1077275768/sr=2-1/ref=sr_aps_prod_1_1/028-7158806-8525318

R2 version for around £7

[jahangir79]

as a kid along with my family used to watch laurel and hardy especially the shorts, cant wait to get them all on dvd.