memorable films??(films that mean a lot)

[penny]

hello everyone, hope you all enjoying lovely weather, which incidently means we watch less tv!! good or bad??

anyway to point, many years ago when i was a teenager i remember watching something with my dad about a group of supernatural experts who found stuff out and sorted it. bit like cross between x files/ buffy/ doctor who(without the fwoor factor) and primeval. anyhow for many months i have tried to remember what it was called i have even emailed tv channels it meant so much to me as my dad worked long hours. He had a day and night job to make ends meet, and i did not see much of him but once a week we would settle down with our crisps and watch this together and we both loved it and would try and second guess the next episode all week. YEAHHHH i finally found it. "Poltergeist, the legacy" i have bought it from amazon and cant wait to watch it, with my dad of course.

apparently they axed it after first series?!?!?! shows not everyone likes same stuff. anyway i will let you know if it is as good as first time round, seen as its been a few years!!!!

what films mean something/have memories for you??

[sarah]

hi penny

well done tracking it down !

mine would have to be Top Gun - the first time i saw it Coventry City FC (I was born in Coventry) had won the FA Cup the day before and i started my a level exams the day after - oh gosh, i've just given away my age

love sarah.x

[jaycee]

O goodness! Mine was Bambi - I cried and cried!

Such a softie...

Judy xxx

[Anita]

Sound of Music Film when it was first released in 1965 made an impression on me. I was 7 nearly 8 when we saw it first. My family and I went to Cardiff to see it at the Capitol Theatre as a treat and I was just mesmerized by it all - it was the first musical film I had seen in the cinema in colour. ;D
I liked the fact that goodness triumphed right to the very end and that the right people ended up together as fate intended them to. I still find the Wedding scenes very moving many years on
A xxx

[bandstage]

:)I remember Poltergiest the Legacy too Penny though never really watched it as it wasnt my thing. I bought Top Gun Vidio too Sarah and watched it over and over. Tom Cruise never did it for me but liked his friend with the moustache who was married to Meg Ryans Character and got killed . I went to the Odeon to see Bambi and cried too Judy, i cried reading the book aswell. Totally agreeing Anita on the Sound of Music, that along with the Wizard of Oz i was passionate about as a kid and had to watch them every time they were shown. I have them on Vidio and DVD today. Julie Andrews was an excellant Maria and looked ethereal stunning in the wedding scene. I too find it very touching as the Nuns watch her from the gates of the church as she lowers her veil over her face and then makes her lone walk down the aisle to the Maria song. Oh film nostalgia. I keep all my vidios and dvds. Others i love are The Amazing Mr Blunden, Beaches (another sob every time) and i do like When Harry Met Sally. I always cry at that too when they run to each other realising they are inlove at the New Years Eve party. Meg Ryan is beautiful i think.

Carl xx

[groovycart.co.uk]

My special film would be Saturday Night Fever. I went to see it on my first date with my first boyfriend. It was an X film and we were only 15 or 16 we managed to get in. Didn't need ID cards in my day and it hasn't hurt me!
After that we went to see Halloween, Mad Max, Amityville horror no stopping us

Jill

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[greentrixiepixie]

Did anyone see "basket case" It was truly horrid
I bought it for my daughter "on Video" last Christmas She wont watch it Bless ;D
Lisa

[susan68]

Ergh, no I haven't seen 'Basket Case', but I was curious and googled it and it looks pretty grusome! ;D

One movie that made me sob and sob was the Italian movie, 'Life Is Beautiful'. It starts off as quite a comedy but then comes WWII and the main character is an Italian Jew. It's about how he get's his small son through the concentration camp. Won't give any more away, but I wept buckets at the end.

Love 'Sound of Music' too. I enjoyed seeing it when I was young, but hadn't seen it for years. Then while on holiday in Austria we went on a 'Sound of Music' tour, for a laugh really, but it was really great and they played all the songs on the coach, which sparked my interest in the movie again.

In fact I have an short, auburn haired Sindy who I've called Maria after Maria von Trapp. Hang on...

here she is!

[greentrixiepixie]

It was a horrid movie But I was only about 10 or 11 when I watched it It was probably only scary because I was too young to be watching it
I wouldn't watch something like 'Life Is Beautiful' because it is too real and would upset me for days Any movie that is based on a true story I avoid
Your Maria sindy is lovely ;D Real pretty
Lisa

[susan68]

Thanks Lisa. I picked her up in a charity shop (wish that happened more often). Her hair was all stuck up but I managed to flatten it.

Yes, I try to avoid 'weepies' if possible! I much prefer a comedy or an old musical...I love the classic old musicals.

[scotty]

Very good topic!

I remember my grandad taking me to see Bambi (I must have been very young as he died when I was 5).

I can also remember going to the 'big cinema' in town which was a huge treat, to see the Sound of Music (probably at around age 8).

I went to see 'Airplane' when it was first released at the cinema and can't remember ever laughing so much at a film. I still love it now.

Cinema has a lot of happy memories for me as it used to be a regular feature of my childhood. Every Saturday morning was for the kids and from 10am until 1pm we went to the local fleapit and watched a selection of children's films, cartoons and a weekly mini-series (flash gordon in black and white was one such offering). We used to get terribly overexcited and have a wonderful time while our parents got a much needed lie-in. I think it's a real shame that this isn't on offer today for kids.

[sindyfan]

has to be Dirty Dancing, there's nothing like it, i have loved it since i first saw it in 1988