Dark Jezter said:
Everybody has movies that they loved when they were younger, and watching them nowadays causes them to recall fond memories associated with those movies. This thread is so that people can list such films.
I like, even LOVE a lot of the movies mentioned, but many don't qualify as "movies that take me back." The ones that do qualify in that regard:
Star Wars Parents took me for my 16th birthday. Like he said - EVERYTHING changed.
Star Trek (I) Terrible movie but I remember the time so well. Freshman year at small college in a small Iowa town. Had to drive into another state to see it.
Sword and the Sorceror At the heart of my ancient gaming days. Still waiting for "Tales of the Ancient Empire", cheezy as the movie was.
Dragonslayer STILL the best dragon ever on film.
Excalibur Inspired an endless stream of "Doesn't doing that in Plate Mail CHAFE?" jokes.
Alien First R movie I ever saw. Went with a HS friend who'd already seen it. HE sat through it with his hands to his face peeking through his fingers. I finally had to tell him to warn me when the scary parts were coming up.
Aliens Quite probably the single most quoted movie ev-ahr.
Krull More ancient gaming era cheeze, but we liked it anyway.
Flash Gordon More gamers cheeze. Too much fun to actually be as lame as it really is.
Highlander Now WHY didn't they ever make a sequel to THAT one. So much wasted potential. Maybe even a TV series...?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Nearly every day for MONTHS my brother and I would take off after school, drive to downtown Seattle and the now-demolished UA Cinema 150 and catch a matinee of Star Wars, get out and then frequently walk across the street to the King Theater and watch the last matinee of CE3K too.
Bridge on the River Kwai Odd choice, and not that I saw it in theaters even. I saw it as a young kid on TV. Too young to even begin to understand what was really happening but it's a "take you back" movie because I can remember WHEN I watched it. On at least two Sunday nights when my parents were hosting friends we'd be allowed to move the TV into the bedroom I shared with my two brothers and watch the Sunday Night Movie. I remember seeing it on TWO such occasions, and I remembered not just the bridge blowing up, but the flocks of bats - and the man who would eventually play Obi-Wan Kenobi in the movie that MOST affected my entire life.
- my mother has this stupid door stop that looks like a mouse with glasses in a mother hubbard outfit (you know one of those cheesy souvenier things). When I would stay with my folks over the holidays I would always have to put that damn thing in the closet, it was just too creepy to wake up and see it looking at me 
