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The problem with my childhood movie selections is that they are the same as the movies I watch now. My father was very liberal about what movies I watched from an early age, and many of my fondest memories are of watching movies like The Fly(remake), Rambo, Predator, Nightmare on Elm Street, and numerous direct to VHS action flics with my dad late at night on the weekends. I was never really exposed to too many kid's movies, except for maybe TMNT 1-3, and I was older by then.
The one I remember loving that was an annual event was the network broadcast of The Ten Commandments with Heston. It was often a 2 night event around easter, and I loved watching it with my parents, even though I wasn't, and still am not, religious.
Our personal favorites were any and all Bond flics, and I was allowed to stay up past my bedtime on school nights to finish watching them. They were pretty long on network tv.
I also had to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark everytime it came on, as well as the annual Halloween showing of Night of the Living Dead.
And the first movie I can remember seeing in a theater was Empire Strikes Back, and we waited in a very long line for it. I actually saw that before I saw the original Star Wars, but I still loved it.
Beyond this, I have always been a movie lover, so the list goes on and on.
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