Movies as a kid that changed you

[Gordylew]

Another thread brought up the movie JAWS, So that got me to thinking about the summer of 1975. It was brutally hot in Far Rockaway New York and I remember standing in line for hours to see the new JAWS Movie. I grew up on the beach and would cool off in the summer wading around in the water off of Rock Away beach. Being 7 years old I had a great interest in sharks, I remember drawing them all over my brown paper sack homemade book covers covering my schoolbooks. I walked into the that air conditioned movie theater, oh, felt so good. The lights went down, I was eating my popcorn, soaking up the grandness of it all. I remember when that damn head popped out of the boat, scarred the beloved Jesus out of me. I remember never going back to the beach again, I started taking showers because I was afraid a damn shark would come up through the pipes and get me. The movie was filmed a few miles down the beach around Amityville, I think. Less than year a
prior some nut named DeFeo shot up his family with a Marlin 35 in that same community, of course that house reminded me a lot of the house where we lived, but that's another topic for later. So, what Movie as a kid left an indelible mark on your psyche?

 

[Gubydooc]

Coming home

 

[mrauditor]

The Exorcist. I caught a late night showing that ended near midnight and put me home later. My house had an attic opening like in the movies and I kept hearing noises that night that seemed to come from the attic. Thanks.

 

[Farmer 2]

True Grit first time I heard my hero say a cuss word movies are so different now they can’t make one without bad language

 

[karlvv30]

Debby does Dallas. Actually it was field of dreams. Made me think there was some magic out there.

 

[coach482]

Not a movie, it was a series. Dark Shadows, The scene where the buried brother reaches up through the grass from his grave. Night mares for days, still get the heebie jeebies in a grave yard.

 

[CAMSDADDY]

Top Gun
Was the first movie I went to see in theatre without parental supervision. A friend and I watched it everyday for years, enough that we wore out a copy that was bootlegged off of showtime. When my wife and I met she came with two movies, top gun and toy story. We didnt have cable so we watched them often. Its where I was bitten by the motorcycle bug.

 

[hamburglar3]

Mom let me go the Bad News Bears as my first solo movie. She could never figure out where i picked up all my cussin'. LOL

 

[Bulldog Man]

Porn ! as a teenage as a young kid It was True Grit with John Wayne

 

[Rolling_trip]

The boy that could fly. great movie as a young child.