Seeing Race to Witch Mountain take the top spot at the weekend box office got me all nostalgic for the original Witch Mountain movies. Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain — both now out in special edition DVDs, which, frankly, I can't wait to buy — were two of my most frequent video rentals when I was a kid.
I'm not sure if they're the movies I watched the most, though — but they're up there with The NeverEnding Story, Labyrinth, and Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, which I think I begged my parents to rent every time I stayed home sick from school. So, what about you? Which were your most frequently viewed movies as a kid?
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All those that you named were favorites of mine. We must be around the same age. I'm a little embarrassed to admit this but I used to love the Huggabunch movie. And every time I went to visit my Grandma I would watch Jem.
1"Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken" (I wanted to BE Sonora) and this DCOM called "Perfect Harmony" when I was younger and then - in middle school - I think I watched "Newsies" every single day. And, in graduate school, I still might.
2OMG!!! My friend has a copy of the Huggabunch movie on VHS! It's so creepy watching it now. lol
3labyrinth is def one of my all time favorite movies.
Wild hearts cant be broken is also a great one.
Flight of the Navigator!
4We rented it every weekend from the video store. LOL!
Labyrinth and White Fang. I LOVED White Fang.
5I don't remember any. I think my parent's thought they already paid for cable, so use it. I loved She-Ra, Inspector Gadget, and the like.
6I LOVED Now and Then, watched that one over and over. I also watched Mary Kate and Ashley's TV movies ALOT.
7Even though it came out before my time, Mary Poppins was and still is my all time favorite movie. I have watched it more times than I can count.
8I love, love LOVE Labyrinth; LOVE Escape to Witch Mountain, the Neverending Story... I'll also throw in The Dark Crystal-- loved that too!
9Oh wow, the Huggabunch movie! I watched that a ton, too.
10I think Mary Poppins
11Olsen twin movies, I think I almost watched all their movies.
12Olsen twin movies, I think I almost watched all their movies.
13sorry it posted twice
14*looks over at her shelf at the only VHS tape she has*
15Heh... I still have "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken." I never got into "The NeverEnding Story" and "Labyrinth," though.
My absolute favorites were Annie and Pippi Longstocking!
16Troop Beverly Hills
17my girl was my favourite, such a sad movie. also home alone and richie rich (I used to have a crush on Macaulay Culkin haha) and also all the Disney movies like Beauty and the Beast, the little mermaid and alladin
18What didn't I watch as a kid would be easier to answer. I have never seen Richie Rich, Free Willy, all of Mary Poppins, or any of the Home Alone movies.
19I do love The Labyrinth! I only started watching it a few years ago though. I have taken care of the DVD so well.
1. Labrynth - i always switched between this and the "making of Labryth"
202. Never Ending Story
3. Willow
4. Hugabunch
5. Pippi Long Stocking
6. Witches
7. Chipmunks around the world
8. Monster Squad
Labyrinth, NeverEnding Story, Troop Beverly Hills, Teen Witch and She's Out of Control...
But none as many times as Adventures in Babysitting, it was my absolute fave.
21Wizard of Oz
I would have watched it every single day (multiple times) if I could have had my way.
22How could I have forgotten Wizard of Oz! I even made people call me Dorothy for a while.
My brain must not be turned on today.
23I find that I watched a lot of child inappropriate movies like Purple Rain, Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon, and Fast Forward.
I watched The Muppet's movies all the time.
24I also watched Creepshow, Tales From the Crypt, The Princess Bride, and Puppetmaster ALOT.
Like once a week.
25omg....Hugabunch....i completely forgot about that movie, but i LOVED it.
Newsies...i still watch that and can sing along to every song!!!
26Newsies, The Neverending Story, Pippy Longstocking, Princess Bride and Disney movies
27Grease, Dirty Dancing, Grease 2, She's Out of Control, Adventures in Babysitting, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and just about anything Disney.
28Pippi Longstocking. I watched that thing well over a million times.
29Adventures in Babysitting for the win!! I still know it by heart, and so do my sisters. Also: The Goonies (filmed in Oregon!), Troop Beverly Hills, Labyrinth, Wayne's World and Dirty Dancing.
30I LOVED Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. Such a great movie. I watched Mary Poppins, Anne of Green Gables, and Home Alone the most. I know every word in Home Alone.
31Advah, I also love White Fang. I still cry at the end even though I've seen it more times than I can possibly count.
32My top 5:
1. Troop Beverly Hills
2. D.A.R.Y.L.
3. War Games
4. Adventures in Babysitting
5. Flight of the Navigator
My brother absolutely loved Short Circuit so I have also seen it so many times that I wish never to see it again! LOL
33The Goonies
Return to Oz
Neverending Story
Alice in Wonderland
Escape to Witch Mountain/Return to Witch Mountain
The Watcher in the Woods
Pollyanna
Parent Trap (the original with Hayley Mills)
Those were my favorites when I was in the 8-12 age range or so. Some of them still are! Haha.
34how can i forget parent trap?
35I loved that movie and watched it many times, I thought lindsay lohan was a twin at first, lol! That movie made me want to be a twin.
Also loved the disney movies especially cinderella.
The Three Lives of Thomasina (which I always thought was called The Nine lives... but according to IMDB I'm wrong)
36The Last Unicorn
Land Before Time
Parent Trap
Troop Beverly Hills
Pippi Longstocking
Poltergeist (My mom wouldnt let me watch R rated movies when I was a kid and this was like the only non-R rated horror movie there was)
Wild hearts can be broken, the cutting edge, heidi, pippy longstocking, the great outdoors
37oh and pretty in pink!
38For me, it was totally Mannequin, The Goonies, Troop Beverly Hills, Ferris Bueller, and my brother liked Tron but I always dozed off
39Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, The Last Unicorn, The Parent Trap (1961), but my absolute favorites were the Star Wars films. I would have watched episodes 4, 5, & 6 everyday if my mom would have let me. Especially Return of the Jedi.
40- Thumbelina
41- Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Grease
- Alice In Wonderland
- Mary Poppins
- The Neverending Story
- Toy Story
- The Karate Kid sequel with Hilary Swank
- Land Before Time series
- The Santa Clause
- Home Alone
- Prehysteria! 2
Three Men & A Little Lady
42Homeward Bound
The Chipmunk Adventure
The Sound of Music
That would be D2: The Mighty Ducks and Three Ninjas (the original, Kick Back AND Knuckle Up).
43little mermaid, all of the movies played on the disney chanel, and halloween movies!
44The Goonies
45Labyrinth
Alice in Wonderland - it was a tv movie that came in two separate videos
The Goonies
46Labyrinth
Alice in Wonderland - it was a tv movie that came in two separate videos
The Goonies
47Monster Squad
Howard the Duck
Adventures in Babysitting
Space Balls
Wizard of Oz
Neverending Story
Labyrinth
Witches
Tron
and almost anything Godzilla related.
Parent Trap (1960s)
48Father of the Bride 1&2
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
She's Out of Control
My Father the Hero
All the Disney movies
Troop Beverly Hills, Howard the Duck, She's Out Of Control, Last Unicorn, Wild Hearts, The Witches, Adventures in Babysitting, My Little Pony (haha)
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