December 3, 2012

Crowd-sourcing a List of "Classic Movies"


I am breaking the Kasdan Family Blog out of retirement to post the results of a request for some help picking out an awesome movie of our youth

“As part of our kids' ongoing education, we have been introducing Jacob (and Lauren) to the game-changing movies of our youth. To give you a sense of the category we have so far gone for, over the past years we done Short Circuit, Goonies, and Spaceballs.  What are your ideas for more "must see" movies from our youth!?"

Here are the results (in alphabetical order) from a host of our Facebook friends.  Yay crowd-sourcing!  Thanks to everyone for participating.  

I think its quite a list:

1.         2001: A Space Odyssey
2.         A League of Their Own
3.         Ace Ventura
4.         Adventures in Babysitting
5.         Akilah and the Bee
6.         Amadeus
7.         An American Tail
8.         Animal House
9.         Annie
10.       Apollo 13
11.       Back to the Future 1, 2, and 3
12.       Bad News Bears Movies
13.       Bambi
14.       Batteries not Included
15.       Beatlejuice
16.       Bedknobs and Broomsticks
17.       Ben
18.       Benji
19.       Better off Dead
20.       Big
21.       Biloxi Blues
22.       Black Beauty
23.       Blues Brothers
24.       Breakfast Club
25.       Breaking Away
26.       Brewster's Millions
27.       Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
28.       Cinema Paradiso (foreign)
29.       City Slickers
30.       Clash of the Titans
31.       Cloak and Dagger
32.       Close Encounters of the Third Kind
33.       Coming to America
34.       Crocodile Dundee
35.       Dead Poets' Society
36.       Die Hard
37.       Dot and the Kangaroo (foreign)
38.       Dumbo
39.       Empire of the Sun
40.       E.T.
41.       Fame
42.       Fandango
43.       Fantasia
44.       Ferris Bueller
45.       Field of Dreams

46.       Flash Gordon

47.       Flashdance
48.       Flight of the Navigator
49.       Footloose
50.       Ghost
51.       Ghostbusters
52.       Glory
53.       Good Morning Vietnam
54.       Goonies
55.       Gotcha
56.       Grease
57.       Grease 2
58.       Gremlins
59.       Groundhog Day
60.       Hackers
61.       Happy Gilmore
62.       Heaven Can Wait
63.       Herbie Goes Bananas
64.       Home Alone
65.       Honey I Shrunk the Kids
66.       Innerspace
67.       Jaws
68.       Jewel of the Nile
69.       Karate Kid Movies
70.       Kimba
71.       Labyrinth
72.       Lady and the Tramp
73.       Ladyhawke
74.       License to Drive
75.       Little Big Man
76.       Little Shop of Horrors
77.       Look Who's Talking
78.       Mannequin
79.       Mary Poppins
80.       Meatballs
81.       Memphis Belle
82.       Monty Pythons Holy Grail
83.       My Bodyguard
84.       My Cousin Vinny
85.       My Girl
86.       Naked Gun Series
87.       Never Ending Story
88.       Nightmare Before Christmas
89.       On The Right Track
90.       Overboard
91.       Parent Trap
92.       Parenthood
93.       Peewee Herman’s Big Adventure
94.       Planes Trains and Automobiles
95.       Pollyanna
96.       Poltergeist
97.       Princess Bride
98.       Raiders of the Lost Ark Movies
99.       Raising Arizona
100.    Real Genius
101.    Red Dawn
102.    Romancing the Stone
103.    Roxanne
104.    Sandlot
105.    Say Anything
106.    Searching for Bobby Fischer
107.    Short Circuit
108.    Six Pack (Kenny Rogers)
109.    Sixteen Candles
110.    Snoopy Comes Home
111.    Spaceballs
112.    Splash
113.    Stand and Deliver
114.    Stand by Me
115.    Star Wars Trilogy Movies (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi)
116.    Storm Boy (foreign)
117.    Stripes
118.    Superman 1 and 2
119.    Taps
120.    Teen Wolf
121.    The Big Blue (foreign)
122.    The Black Stallion
123.    The Boy Who Could Fly
124.    The Court Jester (with Danny Kaye)
125.    The Dark Crystal
126.    The Dead Poets Society.
127.    The Flamingo Kid
128.    The Great Debaters
129.    The Great Outdoors
130.    The Journey of Natty Gann

131.    The Last Emperor
132.    The Last Starfighter
133.    The Learning Tree
134.    The Man from Snowy River (foreign)
135.    The Man with One Red Shoe
136.    The Muppet Movies
137.    The Natural
138.    The Outsiders
139.    The Right Stuff
140.    The Secret of NIMH
141.    The Shaggy Dog movies
142.    The Three Amigos
143.    The Toy
144.    The Wizard of Oz
145.    Time Bandits
146.    Tootsie
147.    Top Gun
148.    Top Secret
149.    Trading Places
150.    Tron
151.    Turner & Hooch
152.    Uncle Buck
153.    Vacation
154.    Volunteers
155.    Wargames
156.    Weekend at Bernie's
157.    Weird Science
158.    What About Bob
159.    Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
160.    Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
161.    Young Guns



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