What were your favorite movies from when you were a kid, from when you were a teen, and right now?

Mine were (coming to mind right now):
E.T.

Batman 1989

Batman Returns

BTTF pt2

The Crow

Dark City

Mortal Kombat

T2

Halloween

Friday The 13th

Batman Begins

TDK

Predator

All I can think of right now.

Hmm,
When I was a kid, The Great Race.
As a teenager, Star Wars.
Now... I don't have a favorite film anymore, and trying to list them all would take days. So here's a representative sample in roughly chronological order:
Captain Blood, the first four Thin Man movies, The 39 Steps, Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Rope, The Big Heat, A Christmas Carol (1951), The Lavender Hill Mob, The Knack (and How to Get It), Seven Days in May, The Train, Juggernaut, The Godfather (parts 1 and 2), Star Wars (still,) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Totoro, The Hunt for Red October, Aliens, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Noises Off, Bowfinger, Tokyo Godfathers, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, Up
There's a bunch more of important ones that have slipped my mind, but hopefully you get the idea.
JonC

Of all the movies you named, I have only seen Star Wars. I've heard of some others that you mentioned. Just never saw them.

When I was a kid (in the 80's, imo the BEST era for movies and music): MegaForce, Star Wars Trilogy (I know the first came out in 1977, but I first saw it in '82 along with Empire Strikes Back. Following year saw Return of the Jedi at a drive in with my family), Krull, Conan The Barbarian, Red Sonja, Predator, Terminator, Police Academy series, The Cannonball Run, The Cannonball Run II, Smokey and the Bandit Trilogy and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension. My ultimate favorite movie, was the animated feature The Transformers, The Movie released in 1986.

As a teen in the 90's: Predator 2, The Hunt for Red October, Aliens Special Edition, Young Frankenstein (Discovered this around 95... classic), Speed, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Highlander, Highlander III: The Sorceror, M*A*S*H (discovered around 97), Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and many more.

Now: Thor, Red Dog, Red Cliff, Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon, Pirates of the Caribbean Quadrilogy, Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest, Evan Almighty, Blackhawk Down, Con Air as well as a lot more.

Favorite Move Series: Police Academy, Star Trek.

Those are only ones I can actually see in my DVD collection at the moment, as I do have a lot more.

Superbad, nuff said.

Kid
E.T.
The Land Before Time
Ronja R�vardotter
Valhalla
Teen
The Empire Strikes Back
Conan The Barbarian
Superman
Aliens
... Star Trek Franchise
Now...
The Godfather Part I
Alien
Blade Runner
Cinema Paradiso
... Bond Franchise

I mostly like to watch romantic movies.Notebook and Titanic i \s my favorite movies.These story are based on a real love story and romantic movies.Both movies are good.I watched many times in free times.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
True Lies (1994)
Tom Hanks' movies
Angels & Demons (2009) - My mom loves this movie :)

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Demolition Man (1993)
Event Horizon (1997)
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

My list of favourite films is very short and including Terminator II and Gladiator. : )

I still love the classic Disney movies from my childhood, with Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, Cinderella, and Aladdin currently at the top of my list.

Also, currently, my favorite film of all time is Little Shop of Horrors, with or without the original ending. It's the only movie I can pop in my DVD player no matter what, sit down, and watch all the way through, multiple times in a row, and it never gets old.

Kid: The Lion King, a whole bunch of Disney movies, Star Wars, the Super Mario Bros. Movie, the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies, and some others, but The Lion King was my absolute favorite!

Teen: Underworld, Underworld Evolution, the Japanese Godzilla movies, Dragonheart, and was really into dragon and werewolf movies.

Now: The Lion King (got back into it after not seeing it for a long time), Wreck-It-Ralph, Back To The Future, Kill Bill Vol.1+2, Star Wars, Rush Hour 1+2, Underworld movies (all 4), Total Recall (1990 and 2012), Terminator, The Avengers, Space Balls, Scary Movie 1-4, Resident Evil Degeneration and Damnation, Clash of the Titans (2010), Wrath of the Titans, Halloween, and more probably.

ohhh when i was a kid...

ET
bringing up baby
12 angry men
wait until dark
close encounter of the 3rd kind
last countdown
star trek :D


general reply:

12 angry men (the Fonda one)
the bear (Jean Jacques Annaud)
witness (Harrison Ford)
a beautiful mind (Crowe)
bringing up baby (Katharine Hepburn)
the name of the rose (Connery)
midnight express (Alan Parker)

all die hard movies
all alien movies
Matrix

all star trek movies (no surprise)

inception

far from heaven (Dennis Quaid, Julianne Moore)

Hurricane (D. Washington)

Blade Runner

Sophie's Choice (Streep)

One flew over the cuckoo's nest (Nicholson)

I never promised you a rosegarden

Fight Club
Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind
Inception
Gladiator
The Pursuit Of Happiness

and lots of others I forget

Some more to add...
Fight Club
Inception
Pursuit Of Happyness
Seven Pounds
Note: The last two were pretty sad for me.
I Am Legend
Pagemaster
All Tim Burton movies
Momento
Nolan's Batman trilogy
Christopher Reeve Superman movies - I actually like 4 the best even though for sentimental reasons as I still have the VHS I got for a bday gift as a kid. It was the worst but at that time, I didn't care. Still don't to be honest.
Wizard Of Oz
Neverending Story
Karate Kid 1
All DC animated movies that had Batman in them
LOTR Extended trilogy
Enemy Of The State

In no particular order

When I was a kid:
E.T., literally wore out the VHS tape (Spielberg)
Star Wars Trilogy (Lucas/Kershner/Marquand)
The Lion King (Allers/Minkoff)

Now:
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
Being There (Ashby)
Se7en (Fincher)
Akira (Otomo)
Ran (Kurosawa)
Chungking Express (Wong)
The Fountain (Aronofsky)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
The Royal Tennenbaums (W. Anderson)
Casablanca (Curtiz)
The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger)
Die Hard (McTiernan)
Gettysburg (Maxwell)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
Chinatown (Polanski)
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)
The Big Lebowski (Coen)