Movies You Must Show Your Kids

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We've been taking the kids back over the classics we grew up with. It's funny, they enjoy the movies we grew up with more than the new movies now. They clap during the movie. And Indiana Jones 2 really freaked them out with the whole Mola Ram heart sucking spell. Let me know if I've missed anything. So far, we've seen:

Ghostbusters
Aliens
Back to the Future 1 and 2
Indiana Jones 1 and 2
ET
Jaws
The Last Dragon
Star Wars 1-6
The Goonies
Gremlins
Batman
Superman 1 and 2

I know I've got to be missing more. I have employees that I consider to be culturally illiterate. You make a movie quote and they look at you funny. It starts with us. Each one teach one.

What else am I missing?
 
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Blade Runner
Fight Club (depending on how old the kids are)
The Princess Bride
 
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Alien
Aliens
Terminator 1 and 2
Robocop
Die Hard
Predator
Commando
Indiana jones 1-3
Back to the future 1 and 2
Mad Max 1 and 2
Hard Boiled
Leon
Taxi Driver
The Thing
The Fly
La Haine
Once upon a time in America
 
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Scoresby

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Labyrinth
Willow
Alien
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Exorcist
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
C.H.U.D. (so terrible, but so awesome)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Secret of NIMH
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (Motion Picture is good, but Khan was awesome)
The Toy
Child's Play
Friday the 13th (4-6 were big when I was growing up)
The Puppet Master (boobs)
Terminator
Terminator 2
Jurassic Park
Phantasm II (some boobs, all the death in the above are worse IMO)

So yeah, I watched a lot of horror as a kid....list is tilted obviously that way. Scale back if your kids would struggle with those.

Edit, also trying to make my nephew more well rounded (weird), so I introduced him to Hayao Miyazaki...

Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service

Can't go wrong with Miyazaki, dude makes awesome stories.
 
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Shonuff

Shonuff

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Scoresby_sl said:
Labyrinth
Willow
Alien
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Exorcist
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
C.H.U.D. (so terrible, but so awesome)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Secret of NIMH
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (Motion Picture is good, but Khan was awesome)
The Toy
Child's Play
Friday the 13th (4-6 were big when I was growing up)
The Puppet Master (boobs)
Terminator
Terminator 2
Jurassic Park
Phantasm II (some boobs, all the death in the above are worse IMO)

So yeah, I watched a lot of horror as a kid....list is tilted obviously that way. Scale back if your kids would struggle with those.

Edit, also trying to make my nephew more well rounded (weird), so I introduced him to Hayao Miyazaki...

Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service

Can't go wrong with Miyazaki, dude makes awesome stories.
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My kids think horror movies are funny.
 
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Void

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Most of the really good ones have been covered already, but a few I could think of quickly (I'm going off of enjoyment and movies I think everyone should know when referenced more than "classic" status):

Conan
Rambos (mainly 2)
Better Off Dead
Breakfast Club (and any other John Hughes movies you feel like)
Watership Down
Bill & Ted

Fifth Element is actually older than I realized, so add that one.

EDIT: Just heard Blaze of Glory on the way home, so add
Young Guns

Which also makes me remember
The Outsiders
 
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Kuriin

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Lyrical_sl said:
We've been taking the kids back over the classics we grew up with. It's funny, they enjoy the movies we grew up with more than the new movies now. They clap during the movie. And Indiana Jones 2 really freaked them out with the whole Mola Ram heart sucking spell. Let me know if I've missed anything. So far, we've seen:

Ghostbusters
Aliens
Back to the Future 1 and 2
Indiana Jones 1 and 2
ET
Jaws
The Last Dragon
Star Wars 1-6
The Goonies
Gremlins
Batman
Superman 1 and 2

I know I've got to be missing more. I have employees that I consider to be culturally illiterate. You make a movie quote and they look at you funny. It starts with us. Each one teach one.

What else am I missing?
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This is such a great list. Brings back memories.


edit:
Last Starfighter
Jingle All The Way
Kindergarten Cop
Last Action Hero
Lethal Weapon I, II, III
 
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Srathor

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The Princess Bride
The Last Starfighter
Toy Story 123
Iron Giant
Die Hard
Buckaroo Banzi
 
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Quaid

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The Sandlot
Stand by Me
Field of Dreams
The Great Escape
Bridge on the River Kwai
Risky Business
High Fidelity
 
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Tron
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
 
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We did this last year

Looking for a list of movies

Terial did a good job of putting all the suggestions into one list in the OP

Looking for a list of movies
I (oddly enough) trust the opinions of you guys more than random google searching.
What i'm looking to have is a list of movies we all grew up with that impacted us... that we remember as being really awesome. Now i know we have a varied age difference here, as i was born in the mid 70's. But i get the feeling, that the lists and suggestions you all provide would be the best list i can find

I'm looking for this for my 2 boys, currently ages 6 & 9
I've started them on a journey of movies from my childhood, because they really just don't make movies like that anymore.
Oddly enough they don't like Horror, so i've left those off my list for now, but i'll work on them getting into those later, as i watched so many horror movies growing up.

Thank you guys very much for the help!

So far, and i'll get the list started (hopefully you can all use this list as well):

Edit: List Updated 6-26 (thank you all for the suggestions, keep em coming if you have more)

Watched:

Big Trouble in Little China
Dark Crystal
E.T.
Explorers
Flight of Navigator
Ghostbusters
Goonies
Home Alone
Short Circuit
Star Wars movies (All staring with 4, 5 & 6 obviously)
Superman I and II
Uncle Buck
Jurrasic Park I
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Mask


Movies not yet watched:

Back to Future
Batman (Tim Burton)
Batteries not included
Beetlejuice
Big
Bill and Ted
Conan
D.A.R.Y.L
Edward Scissorhands
Ernest Goes to ?.
Gremlins
Hook
Independence Day
Indiana Jones (excluding crystal skull)
Invaders from Mars
Iron Giant
Jewel of Nile
Karate Kid I and II
Kindergarten Cop
Krull
Labyrinth
Last Starfighter
Monster Squad
NeverEnding Story
Princess Bride
Romancing Stone
Sandlot
Secret of Nimh
Spaceballs
Stand By Me
Star Trek (all)
The Toy
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willow
Wizard
Mrs. Doubtfire
My Girl


Movies to watch when y are a bit older:

12 Monkeys
Abyss
Adventures in Babysitting
Akira
Aliens
Animal House
Better off dead
Beverly Hills Cop
Bladerunner
Bloodsport
Blues Brors
Braveheart
Breakfast Club
Caddyshack
Cocoon
Coming to America
Die Hard
Dune
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller
Fight Club
Fly
Forrest Gump
Full Metal Jacket
Godfather I and II
Goodfellas
Holy Grail
Hot Shots
House Party
Hunt For The Red October
Lethal Weapon
Lost Boys
Matrix part 1
Meatballs
National Lampoon's Vacation
Point Break (Original)
Police Academy
Porky's
Predator
Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Real Genius
Red Dawn
Revenge of the Nerds
Risky Business
Robocop (original)
Rocky
Rudy
Saving Private Ryan
Say Anything
Schindler?s List
Seven
Shawshank Redemption
Silence of Lambs
Sixith Sense
Sixteen Candles
Terminator
Terminator 2
The Naked Gun
Titanic
Top Gun
Untouchables
Usual Suspects
Weird Science
Ghost
Total Recall (Original)
First Blood
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Peewee's Big Adventure
An American Tail
Waiting
The Shining
Jackie Chan: The Legend of Drunken Master
 
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predator was on cable tonight and of course i had to watch the entire movie, probably saw that movie 30 times. its a timeless classic. perfect in every way. when it came out i was 15 or 16 and one of our buddies had seen it first, and hes telling us that Ahnold gets the shit beaten out of him in it. none of us believed him, so that saturday we all went to the movies to see for ourselves. 3 dollars back then and it was an R ratd movie and nobody even bothered to ask us how old we were. that one friend was kind of right. arnold did get his ass beat when he went toe to toe with the predator. im still amazed at how well the special effects hold up today. was that invisibility all just green screen filming?
some more to add from my childhood.
Bad News Bears 1&2
Smokey and The Bandit
Over The Edge
Pet Semetary(yes i saw that as a teen and yes it is fucked up)
Creepshow
Silver Bullet
Salem's Lot
Dragonslayer
Wiseguys
DC Cab
Megaforce
Damnation Alley
Demons(italian horror)
Creepers(italian horror)
Videodrome
The Brood
Scanners
Swamp Thing
Modern Problems
Stripes
Student Bodies
Stir Crazy
Cheech n Chong Up In Smoke, Next Movie, Nice Dreams and Things Are Tough All Over
The Fog
 
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flight of the navigator 1986

Short Circuit 1986

Explorers 1985

Batteries not included 1987
 
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