Favorite Movie from your childhood?

[Amazee Dayzee]

I honestly never really picked up a difference between any of the Popeye cartoons like you have. I thought it was all fun and just a cute little cartoon to remind kids to eat their spinach.

My favorite Popeye clip is this one though. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGrL6KTp1gE

[NHWestoN]

The Popeye cartoons I grew up with were the high-quality theatre cartoons made by the Max Fleisher Studio and later by Paramount during the 30s, 40s, and 50s. They were shown on TV as "fillers" especially on Saturday mornings.

King Features Syndicate, which controlled the Popeye newspaper comics, decided to start making TV cartoons of the characters using the low-animtion techniques of Hanna-Barbera. They did have some legal issues with Paramount which, among other notables, led them to change the name of Popeye's nemisis, Bluto, to Brutus. In the 80, they sold the Silor and his crew to Hanna-Barbera themselves - who made a couple hundred more low grade cartoons, mostly copying plots of the old Fleishers.

To quote Conrad's Heart of Darkness ... "The horror, the horror ..."

[Amazee Dayzee]

I do remember some of the shorts also being used as fillers on Cartoon Network also when I was growing up in the early 2000s. When Cartoon Network was created (the same year I was born), they used the shorts from before 1986 when there was one on. So they most likely used the cartoons from Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios and none from King Features.

I don't think they ever used King Features as they made a cartoon show instead of animated clips and there never was a dedicated Popeye's show on Cartoon Network.

[NHWestoN]

I remember the beginnings of Cartoon Network. Havent been back there for a while.

Somewhere. I'm sure there's a list of all the cartoon shows Hanna-Barb fielded - most were one season wonders, feeding off of each other, and they all had basement-level production and story quality.

So ... back on topic ... another movie all of my family loved was The Last Unicorn. Rankin-Bass, I think.

[NHWestoN]

Tom Terrific toons on Captain Kangaroo. Besides Mighty Manfred the Wonderdog's lugubrious observations on the ridiculous plots, you had to love a villain named Crabby Appleton.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

When I was a kid, my favorite movie was Pete's Dragon. I'm not talking about that horrible, boring CG remake from 2016. The ORIGINAL Pete's Dragon, from 1977. Red Buttons, Mickey Rooney, lots of singing, and takes place in the town of Passamaquoddy.
Even to this day, though I've been watching it all my life, that movie is SO FUNNY. Disney REALLY dropped the ball with the remake when they tried to turn it into a serious drama. I was SO MAD. I'm STILL mad.

[NHWestoN]

When I was a kid, my favorite movie was Pete's Dragon. I'm not talking about that horrible, boring CG remake from 2016. The ORIGINAL Pete's Dragon, from 1977. Red Buttons, Mickey Rooney, lots of singing, and takes place in the town of Passamaquoddy.
Even to this day, though I've been watching it all my life, that movie is SO FUNNY. Disney REALLY dropped the ball with the remake when they tried to turn it into a serious drama. I was SO MAD. I'm STILL mad.

Agreed !!

[Amazee Dayzee]

Some movies just aren't supposed to be remade with a different genre altogether at all. It will completely ruin it as it messes up the whole atmosphere of it and leads to people hating it.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

To be fair I hate ALL the remakes. There's no heart in it. They're doing it for money, and only for money. Half the time they don't even bother to rewrite the songs, they just record the same ones with the new actors and add some "flair" to make them "modern" (read: worse).

[Amazee Dayzee]

Some remakes honestly can be better than the original even if it is rare and doesn't happen a lot. I mean the 1971 version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory has a few people not enjoying it because it took some liberties with the book while the version made 34 years later in 2005 is more faithful to the book (or at least in how the children are eliminated).

Speaking of the 1971 version, it is a bit melancholic when you realize that out of the 7 main actors in that movie, 3 of them (Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson and Denise Nickerson) are now no longer with us. At least Wilder (WIlly Wonka) lived to a ripe old age but Jack Albertson (Joe Bucket) died at the young age of 74. Denise Nickerson (Violet Beauregard) committed suicide and Peter Ostrum and Michael Böllner (Charlie Bucket and August Gloop) couldn't get anymore acting jobs. Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) and Paris Themmen (Mike Teavee) did last longer before retiring.

[NHWestoN]

"Singing in the Rain" ... after all these years. Still.

[Amazee Dayzee]

Anybody ever hear of a film called "The Borrowers" that I think came out in the early-to-mid 90s and was about a group of small people borrowing things? I vaguely remember seeing it in the theater when I was 3 or 4 and all of a sudden it just came to me for some reason when I saw new posts in this topic.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

Anybody ever hear of a film called "The Borrowers" that I think came out in the early-to-mid 90s and was about a group of small people borrowing things? I vaguely remember seeing it in the theater when I was 3 or 4 and all of a sudden it just came to me for some reason when I saw new posts in this topic.

The Secret Life of Arriety, unless there was another movie based off the same book. It's a Studio Ghibli classic dubbed by the Walt Disney company for its United States release.

Edit: Apologies, I did look it up and there are two movies based off the book, "The Borrowers."

The Borrowers was a 1997 live action film starring John Goodman; The Secret Life of Arriety was animated and was released in 2010.

[NHWestoN]

Me, too. My youngest daughter loved it, and my older children knew the books.

Many of my favorites came from my children's childhoods (ex. The Last Unicorn) - me and the missus made sure they got a good grounding in animation as Space and SuperHeroes began their bid for Global Domination.

[Amazee Dayzee]

I am pretty sure it was the live action film that I saw seeing how in 2010 I was in my last year of high school before graduating and going on to college. I could have sworn that it was older than 1997 though as I would have been 4 or 5 and I feel like I was younger than that but I guess it just feels like I was.

[IsraeliDisneyFan]

I remember I used to own All Dogs Go To Heaven DVD as a kid