Movie memories

[Zguy28]

Do you have a specific movie(s) that when you watch it, it takes you back to a time in the past that you experienced?

For instance, when I watch "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" it kind of makes me kind of nostalgic about the 70's when I was just a little kid. The clothes, the television programs, cars, etc.

Not to mention that sound:



Jaws is another one. It reminds of going to the beach out on the Patuxent River or Ocean City when I was a kid. Minus the shark of course.

What are your nostalgic movies?

[d0ublestr0ker0ll]

Back to the Future 1. One of the first movies I ever loved, it makes me remember the nights I'd come in from a day of playing hide & seek and going around on the Big Wheel.

Return of the Jedi is the first movie I remember watching, reminds me of my grandfather's house on the bay. Watching that movie there for the first time is one of the only memories I have of the place.

Terminator 2 just puts me back in the early/mid 90's. That movie probably creates the biggest feeling of nostalgia for me.

[USS Redskins]

Star Wars in 1977. It had just opened and my dad took me and my 2 brothers and stood in line for 2hrs at the Uptown theatre. And we missed the 1st 5 minutes - luckily I saw it like 5 other times over the summer.

[Burgold]

Probably not what you mean, but every time I see the Wizard of Oz... I flash back to being a kid with the whole family gathered around to watch it. We used to watch it every year. There were a couple other family event movies, but that one and maybe "Sound of Music" were the biggest.

[Zguy28]

Probably not what you mean, but every time I see the Wizard of Oz... I flash back to being a kid with the whole family gathered around to watch it. We used to watch it every year. There were a couple other family event movies, but that one and maybe "Sound of Music" were the biggest.

That works too. It can either be the content or the personal history related to the viewing of it.

Mine just happened to be the content that more reminded me of those times.

[sith lord]

There's so many. I remember watching The Empire Strikes Back in the theaters back in the day. I'll never forget that. Another memory that stands out is the double feature of The Thing and Cat People at the drive in.

[PleaseBlitz]

When i see "Gangs of New York" it reminds me of seeing it in the theatre and telling a fat couple that was talking to shut the **** up, as they were talking loudly the whole first 20 minutes. The theatre applauded me.

[KAOSkins]

I'm with you on the Wizard of Oz, reminds me of family and innocent fun times too. The last couple years I've been working on the niece and nephews to have the same kind of association with a Christmas Story. We've watched it together and had it on all day in the background while opening presents and playing with them, cooking good food and such. Hoepfully, they'll look back on it and think of Uncle KAO and some good times. I know I already do.

[ECU-ALUM]

Star Wars in 1977. It had just opened and my dad took me and my 2 brothers and stood in line for 2hrs at the Uptown theatre. And we missed the 1st 5 minutes - luckily I saw it like 5 other times over the summer.

Me too...the last time I saw it in the theater in 1981 especially...I went on a Saturday afternoon and sat in the middle of the theater...and then in the front row I saw this girl who I was madly in love with...and we sat together and had a really good time.

I am a huge Star Wars fan (still have the toys from 1977) and I saw it about 4 times but I think that time was the best.

"The Empire Strikes BacK"...when Vader said his famous line and hearing a packed movie theater gasp all at once is forever etched in my ears.

The first "Superman" movie...seeing Clark run across the street and rip open his shirt revealing that big red "S"...I remember my jaw just dropping and thinking, "Wow it really is him!"

[DGreenistheBest]

The back to the future movies remind me of being a kid.

[Roborob132]

Everytime I watch candyman, I remember when I got a hummer in the theater.. Man that rocked..

[Zguy28]

The back to the future movies remind me of being a kid.

Sometimes I just look back at those times and am like "Man, life was so much simpler then." Then I look at how much homework and other crud my 7 year old boy is starting to have to deal with and it makes me feel sad. Its a lot harder for kids to be kids these days.


Does anybody remember those old soda/beer cans with the metal strip that you pulled off and threw away? You had to be careful walking in your barefeet back in the 70's!

I also remember back in the day, it seemed like there were always bees in the clover on the lawn. Don't see them anymore either.

[RVAbrendan]

I remember the first time I saw Ferris Beuller's Day Off...I was probably about 8 and was loving every minute of it because Ferris was the coolest guy ever. PLUS it was the first time I ever heard the Beatles (Twist and Shout). That parade scene remains one of my favorite in cinema.

[TK]

Opening scene in A New Hope.

That changed everything.

[ECU-ALUM]

The 1986 version of "The Fly"...the only time I ever thought I would get sick in a movie theater.

It wasn't a bad movie at all...very powerful...by the end of the movie I had felt i had been hit in the chest with a baseball bat.

"Saving Pvt. Ryan" the entire theater leaving in silence.