Growing up, and right to this very day, there remains three trilogies that I enjoy:

Star Wars (original)

Indiana Jones

Back to the Future

These are my favourite movies, remaining so from my farthest memory to today. I was born in 1983.

Other movies that I continue to enjoy are Inner Space, Hunt for Red October, Willow, Ben Hur and Zulu.

Krull, Beastmaster and Dune are films I remember enjoying as a boy, but I haven't seen in over a decade. If not longer. There are other movies, but these were the ones I watched most growing up.

But always OT Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Back to the Future were, are and will continue to be my favourite and best movies. My favourite movie from each of the trilogies are:

Empire Strikes Back

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Back to the Future 2

Just wanted to share as I watched all four Indiana Jones movies between Thursday and Friday. I'm right now watching Hunt for Red October.

Share your nostalgia.

Are there movies you've loved from being a youngling until now?

Oh a bunch, a bunch.

Alien & Aliens of course, the Terminators, Gremlins, Never Ending Story, Dark Crystal

I've watched too many movies that I like.

And with most I can still reclaim the feelings, seeing a bike fly still gives me shivers.

Ok then: from the trilogies:

Return of the Jedi

Temple of doom

Back to the future 2

Movies I loved = movies I still love.

I think i have pretty much all of them either on DVD or something else .

Here's some stuff (in no particular order) :

Tron, Alien, Aliens, Predator I and II, The Running man, Terminator I and II, Total recall, Conan the Barbarian, Willow, Krull, The dark crystal, The last unicorn, Labyrinth, Legend, Star wars, Dune, Star trek, Indiana Jones, The assasination Bureau, Revenge of the ninja, reservoir dogs, A clockwork orange, Charly and the chocolate factory, Halloween, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jurassic park, Zombi II, Night of the living dead, Ghostbusters I and II, War of the worlds, Clue, Army off darkness, The Thing, The Swarm, Them, King Kong, Flash Gordon, Gremlins, Critters, Tremors, Island of Terror, ...

That's movies I saw mostly up 'till I was in my mid teens. I'm from 1979. (Wich is why some obvious ones might be missing)

Also I've managed to get trough the 80s without seeing E.T.

Movie trilogies/series that I love and my favorite film from each

Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith

Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring

Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark

Jurassic Park - Jurassic Park

Chronicles of Narnia - Lion Witch & Wardrobe

Back to the Future - Back to the Future

X-Men - X2

American Pie - American Pie 2

Movie trilogies/series that are good, but not great and my favorite film from each

Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

The Matrix - The Matrix

Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery

Star Trek - First Contact

Transformers - Transformers

Lord of the Rings is the only one that can stir me on an emotional level.

The Lord of the Rings is my all time favorite film franchise, though that is with the extended editions. The theatrical cuts are missing a ton of important material and rank lower on my list.

Also really enjoy Aliens (even though the Alien franchise is a quadrilogy).

And Terminator 2 (tetrailogy)

Indiana Jones Last Crusade (quadrilogy again)

I think I am breaking the rules.

The Lord of the Rings is my all time favorite film franchise, though that is with the extended editions. The theatrical cuts are missing a ton of important material and rank lower on my list.

Also really enjoy Aliens (even though the Alien franchise is a quadrilogy).

And Terminator 2 (tetrailogy)

Indiana Jones Last Crusade (quadrilogy again)

I think I am breaking the rules.

Trilogy of trilogies was just the movies I enjoyed the most from childhood to now. I've been around for three decades

Quadrilogies are allowed (since I do like Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls).

The Matrix - All three of which are amazing and underrated.

The Matrix - All three of which are amazing and underrated.

Then there was the fight scene with the Smiths.

Most people I knew who complained the movies said it looked too computerized.....I think they missed the point.

Edit: the car chase was also done in one take and the actress who played Trinity was really riding the bike....while pregnant! Seriously, an awesome car chase.

The Matrix - All three of which are amazing and underrated.

I really like the Matrix and the Animatrix. The other two... Yeah, not so much. But, hey, to each his own.

Have you ever seen the Animatrix?

I own all 4 but feel the original was the height of the series. I liked some of the Animatrix shorts including the ones showing the history of the first war though I wonder which incarnation of Zion that was set in. It couldn't be the one from the trilogy because that Zion didn't know who started the war so I'm guessing a very early one maybe even the first.

The Lord of the Rings is my all time favorite film franchise, though that is with the extended editions. The theatrical cuts are missing a ton of important material and rank lower on my list.

To me even the extended editions focus too much on making it an action flick and drop too many scenes that I consider necessary for the story. I loved seeing Middle Earth realized, and it did a lot of stuff right, but there was just too much missing. Especially RotK. Saruman taking over the Shire and the Hobbits returning to safe themselves, basically the entire point of the book, but also the growing despair in Pippin, and Minas Tirith, in the weeks leading up to Pellenor Fields with little groups of reinforcements arriving. Aragorn arriving, not with the green nuclear army of ghostly doom but with the army of Gondor from the south, humanity relying on itself and not the supernatural. The wodu wasa, the other Rangers, all gone, all integral to the story as far as I'm concerned.

Still shivers with the ride of the Rohirrim though, still goosebumbs at the beacons.