Nostalgic Films
Discussion
This is a thread for the films that make you reminisce about your childhood or perhaps just simply spark great memories with friends, loved ones etc.
For me, from childhood I remember watching Stand By Me (a superb 50's set 4-youngster road-trip in search of a dead body - if you haven't see it - do it! Sad, funny, heart-warming; it has it all in equal measure) I have it on DVD now and watch it every now and again just to remind myself that life is sometimes all about friendships...
Also, I remember a film I recorded (onto VHS via the TV Times 'recording number' dontcha know!)late one night called 'The Lady in White' - I'd love to see that one again - a strange, low-budget horror which I can remember being s
t-scared by a little girl ghost (the worst kind of ghost) in some american primary-school...
Finally, think it's got to be Total Recall. For the three breasts, the Johnny cab, and that weird goblin stomach bloke. That's all. Remember this film as one of the first science fiction (never been a topic I've really been interested in to be honest) that actually grabbed my attention. Say what? They're going to Mars? Coooool.
Gav-lar
For me, from childhood I remember watching Stand By Me (a superb 50's set 4-youngster road-trip in search of a dead body - if you haven't see it - do it! Sad, funny, heart-warming; it has it all in equal measure) I have it on DVD now and watch it every now and again just to remind myself that life is sometimes all about friendships...
Also, I remember a film I recorded (onto VHS via the TV Times 'recording number' dontcha know!)late one night called 'The Lady in White' - I'd love to see that one again - a strange, low-budget horror which I can remember being s
t-scared by a little girl ghost (the worst kind of ghost) in some american primary-school...Finally, think it's got to be Total Recall. For the three breasts, the Johnny cab, and that weird goblin stomach bloke. That's all. Remember this film as one of the first science fiction (never been a topic I've really been interested in to be honest) that actually grabbed my attention. Say what? They're going to Mars? Coooool.
Gav-lar
Aside from the fact we had a b/w TV anyway, my childhood is littered with those great films from the 50's like Norman Wisdom's "One Good turn" and "The Square Peg" (on earlier this morning oddly) and many Danny Kaye films like "Knock On Wood", the early (good) Carry On films and the many Ealing comedies. We were often allowed to stay up late to watch "The Hollywood Musical" like "South Pacific" which my mother loved and we endured as we got sweets too.
I also loved the Marx Brothers films. Not that many colour films really stick in my mind when we got a colour TV as even then, they replayed a lot of the old b/w films. Even now, i still look out for b/w films as they depict a far simpler time (well, wars apart...).
I also loved the Marx Brothers films. Not that many colour films really stick in my mind when we got a colour TV as even then, they replayed a lot of the old b/w films. Even now, i still look out for b/w films as they depict a far simpler time (well, wars apart...).
welsh blackbird said:
Where Eagles Dare. Saw it in the cinema aged about 12, and have seen it many times since! I watch it again at every opportunity.
Also, The Devil Rides Out. Scared me witless when I was a kid when I didn't notice the dodgy special effects. Mow I watch it for the nostalgia.
Where Eagles Dares is the perfect Adventure War film, (along with The Heroes of Telemark). Modern films of that genre utterly fail to live up to it. In fact, war films seem to have gotten gradually worse over time for various reasons. For me, the greats were the simple, non-yeehaa type films. The Cockleshell Heroes, The Eagle has Landed, Ice Cold in Alex, Where Eagles Dare, The Great Escape, etc. they really do not make them like that anymore. Also, The Devil Rides Out. Scared me witless when I was a kid when I didn't notice the dodgy special effects. Mow I watch it for the nostalgia.
HOVERBUG (1969) Dick and Jenny Brewster hope to win a race for home-made Hoverbugs. (Hoverbugs, incidentally, were sort of lashed-together miniature hovercraft often built by the ‘brighter’ kids for a CDT project in the sort of well-appointed public schools that could afford to subsidise this sort of thing. You’d see them occasionally on Newsround, rattling around the spacious school grounds on their platform-plus-big-fk-off-fan-plus-one-wooden-school-chair-tied-to-the-front. The show-offs.) They build their own Hoverbug but their rivals Charlie and Sidney bend the rules by enlisting professional help. The main trouble with the Brewster Hoverbug is that it keeps falling apart. until Dick and Jenny meet Mr Watts, a real inventor, who has developed an instant glue, Wattstick. But Wattstick proves to be only a temporary adhesive. Tch. 
k-off-fan-plus-one-wooden-school-chair-tied-to-the-front. The show-offs.) They build their own Hoverbug but their rivals Charlie and Sidney bend the rules by enlisting professional help. The main trouble with the Brewster Hoverbug is that it keeps falling apart. until Dick and Jenny meet Mr Watts, a real inventor, who has developed an instant glue, Wattstick. But Wattstick proves to be only a temporary adhesive. Tch. Gassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff