TheJabbaWookie
Sith Lord
I sat down and watched E.T. with my 3 year old daughter today for the first time and watched her go through a rollercoaster of emotions with a smile on my face and a tear in my eye. It was awesome sharing something with her that was so fundamental to my own childhood memories. I'd also forgotten how many nods to Star Wars there were in it, like when Elliott entices E.T. back to his house the first time with a load of Skittles and then goes through his Star Wars collection...
"These are toys. Little men. This is Greedo. And then this is Hammerhead. You see, this is Walrus Man. And then this is Snaggletooth. And this is Lando Calrissian. See? And this is Boba Fett. Look. They can even have wars."
Anyway it got me to thinking apart from the Star Wars Trilogy what were your three most favourite childhood films and why.
I remember watching Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang loads and my little girl loves them too, though my fav musical was Bugsy Malone with Jodie Foster (Freya's a little too young to watch that yet). And of course Tron, the Indiana Jones Trilogy and Ghostbusters, but my real 3 favourites were The Goonies, BMX Bandits and Condorman.
Who doesn't love The Goonies with Chunk's Truffle Shuffle and Confession, Data's Booty Traps, that's what I said Booby Traps.
BMX Bandits just captured the coolness of BMXing in the 80s and I used to fancy Nicole Kidman in it something rotten.
And the great car chase in Condorman. Michael Crawford in his Condormobile chased by the awesome black Porsches of the KGB Prognoviach led by Oliver Reed.
I'm so looking forward to watching them with Freya when she's big enough.
Over to you guys...
"These are toys. Little men. This is Greedo. And then this is Hammerhead. You see, this is Walrus Man. And then this is Snaggletooth. And this is Lando Calrissian. See? And this is Boba Fett. Look. They can even have wars."
Anyway it got me to thinking apart from the Star Wars Trilogy what were your three most favourite childhood films and why.
I remember watching Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang loads and my little girl loves them too, though my fav musical was Bugsy Malone with Jodie Foster (Freya's a little too young to watch that yet). And of course Tron, the Indiana Jones Trilogy and Ghostbusters, but my real 3 favourites were The Goonies, BMX Bandits and Condorman.
Who doesn't love The Goonies with Chunk's Truffle Shuffle and Confession, Data's Booty Traps, that's what I said Booby Traps.
BMX Bandits just captured the coolness of BMXing in the 80s and I used to fancy Nicole Kidman in it something rotten.
And the great car chase in Condorman. Michael Crawford in his Condormobile chased by the awesome black Porsches of the KGB Prognoviach led by Oliver Reed.
I'm so looking forward to watching them with Freya when she's big enough.
Over to you guys...
