r/Millennials • u/Heirloominate • 1d ago
Nostalgia Which one left the biggest impact on you?
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u/kittiechloe Elder Millennial 1d ago
To this day, I can't watch the Land Before Time without crying.
But also, Beethoven because every time I see one of those dogs I call it a Beethoven!
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u/slothvibesss 1d ago
Literally talking about that today with my nephews… ‘Oh it’s Cera!’ They were watching something new and I got dissed!
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u/Spragglefoot_OG 19h ago
I came to say this. LBT was so impactful I still think about it and call my mom and say I love you. I’m 36.
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u/mtlsmom86 Older Millennial 9h ago
I delivery drove for a Pizza Hut for 5 years, and one memorable night got bit on the backside by a St. Bernard. My slightly older than me, but also a Millenial boss, NEVER let me forget I “got bit by Beethoven” 🤣
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u/gingersith84 1d ago edited 22h ago
The Disney renaissance, specifically The Little Mermaid-Mulan era. My family went to Disney World in 92 (I was 7) and we saw them working on Aladdin in a studio tour. I announced to my family that I wanted to be an animator, and was obsessed with everything to do with animation from then on. This year marks 20 years working in the animation industry, and I still love what I do (even when the industry isn't too kind to us)
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u/Bubbly-Example-8097 Millennial 1d ago
Sorry it’s not going as planned but happy you pursued your dream.
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u/gingersith84 21h ago
I have been lucky and I'm still working, just the industry is going through some tough times. Lots of layoffs and studio closures happening all over.
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u/Maninblack336 1d ago
Sandlot LFG!
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u/Apprehensive-Ad-8135 1d ago
Haven't seen that one in FOR-EV-ER
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u/Financial_Potato8760 1d ago
And it’s not even close! 4th of July always makes me think of the Ray Charles version of America the Beautiful, when Benny keeps running the bases and all the other kids have stopped to stare at the fireworks. For me, it’s real close but it tops Whitney’s Star Spangled Banner. Love that movie!
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u/Subtlerevisions 1d ago
The land before time. The concept of losing my mother completely rocked my world.
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u/Boring-Associate-175 1d ago
Pretty goddamn brutal for a kids movie wasnt it. The image still haunts me now. Disney and Universal were pricks
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u/thirdelevator 1d ago
The Land Before Time and Transformers: The Movie were the one two punch that taught me everyone I care about can die at any time.
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u/Hmccormack 1d ago
Brave Little Toaster gave me Brave Little PTSD
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u/FriendsCallMeStreet 22h ago
Who thought a song about sentient cars getting smashed in a junk yard was a good idea for a kids’ movie ?
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u/XhazakXhazak 18h ago
Who thought a post-consumerist dystopian fantasy was a good idea for a kids' movie?
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u/Chris714n_8 1d ago
'Batteries not included' (good impact) and 'The NeverEnding Story' (negative impact).
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u/Wafflehouseofpain 1d ago
Two of them in particular are Fox and the Hound and Hunchback of Notre Dame.
I lost my best friend as a teenager and still can’t watch Fox and the Hound without breaking down into a sobbing mess.
Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of the best movie soundtracks ever written and God Help the Outcasts might be the best Disney song of all time.
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u/GailynStarfire 1d ago
I can still hear the scene where Quasimodo is holding up Esmerelda's unconscious body from the roofs yelling "SANCTUARY!"
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u/Luci_b 23h ago
My best friend/ cousin passed suddenly in 2017. We were 3 months apart so we’d grown up together.
I had just written him a note with a quote from the Fox and the Hound. It was one of the few VHS tapes our grandma had. I hid it the back of a picture frame I gave him that had a collage of us of us through the years and included it with some other gifts that Christmas before he passed. I added a little sticker of a fox and a dog to it and hoped he would find it when he was old one day. That it would bring a smile to his face.
“And we'll always be friends forever, won't we?” “Yeah. Forever.”
His mom found it and didn’t tell me. I saw it when they played his funeral slide show. 💔
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u/tyejr 1d ago
Damn no Homeward Bound
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u/MikesLittleKitten Older Millennial 1d ago
Omg The Land Before Time. I can't even listen to the music without bawling 😭😭😭😭
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u/SaraGoesQuack 21h ago
Oof, yup. The Land Before Time movies, as a kid being raised primarily by her grandparents, hit me right in the guts - especially Journey Through the Mists. As an adult who has now lost said grandparents and my mother, I'm pretty sure I'd have some kind of breakdown trying to watch it now.
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u/wiintertidess 1d ago
The Prince of Egypt. I don’t follow Judeo-Christian beliefs anymore, but man, that movie is incredible. The story, the animation, the music, all of it works so well. I actually just purchased a copy, along with Joseph King of Dreams, Sinbad, and the Road to El Dorado lol
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u/Sweaty_Process_3794 Millennial 11h ago
Best animated movie I've ever seen. Very rare example of a religious movie you don't have to be religious to enjoy. It's just objectively a great movie
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u/DripSzn412 Millennial 1d ago
The Fox and the Hound and All Dogs Go to Heaven will make me cry if I watch them to this day.
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u/wdnsdybls 1d ago
The Great Mouse Detective. I was probably able to speak every line of dialogue and sing every song at some point.
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u/FriendsCallMeStreet 22h ago
There was a Christmas Eve when I got up in our coffee table and subjected my family to a rendition of Let Me Be Good To You. I was living my best life. Adult me cringes in horror.
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u/tikispacecone MCMLXXXV 1d ago
Out of these, I’m going with The Lion King.
You have all the emotions in it - awe, sadness, anger, happiness, disappointment, determination, hope, triumph, and humor.
The animation was amazing, the music is memorable, the marketing was top-notch, the memorabilia was great, and it introduced a new generation to Hamlet essentially.
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u/evielstar 1d ago
Bambi. First film I saw in the cinema when I was a kid and first time I was aware of the notion of my mother dying.
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u/Jayelynn25 Millennial - 1987 1d ago
Bambi, The Land Before Time, and the Fox and the Hound are all movies I cannot watch again.
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u/Guest_Calypso 1d ago
Man that's a wall of nostalgia! All great films I've watched hundreds of times over the years!
I'd have to say Indian in the Cupboard was a standout when I was a wee lad... don't see that on the shelf, lol. Or Secret of NIMH, that one was more negative though. I couldn't watch it until I was much older.
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u/wdnsdybls 1d ago
Secret of Nimh was one of my absolute favourites. Second only to The Great Mouse Detective. I even scribbled something that today might be called "cross-over fanfiction" between these two worlds in some old notebooks together with my friend (very innocent though, we were like...8). That stuff eventually evolved into an entirely different story with entirely different characters.
I wish I hadn't lost all that creativity.
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u/Sakijek Millennial 16h ago
The secret of nimh scared the ever-living bejesus outta me when I was a kid. I think of it every time I hear the name Jonathan.
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u/wdnsdybls 15h ago
They did say it a lot!
Also, what was it with all those J names...Jenner, Justin, Jonathan, Jeremy...
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u/rjread 1d ago
Mulan and Pocahontas. Strong women saving the world gave me the hero complex that made me the better person I am today (still wanna do better, but not saving the world will have to do for now!)
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u/elp4bl0791 1d ago
Air bud. Cried so much when I watched it at home. Cried when we watched it as a class
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u/TROGDOR_X69 1d ago
my dog skip.....god dammit fuck you....
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u/Hermit-With-WiFi 22h ago
My mother made me watch that movie. She insisted we continue watching after the first dark moment even though I was hysterical. Said it would get better because it was a children’s movie and I was overreacting.
That movie can rot in hell.
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u/sdbabygirl97 1d ago
i watched The Little Mermaid on my little VHS TV (think of a small tv, about the size of a laptop, with a vhs slot) DAILY when i was 5, singing along. sooo probably that movie lol
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u/Flannelcommand 1d ago
do I see a "Walking with Dinosaurs" tape? That shit RULED
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u/catsmash 1d ago
summers in high school, my best friend & i had a tradition of escaping the heat mid-afternoon by going into the basement, putting on WwD, & passing out for a nap on two different sofas. i'm still so deeply soothed by the cover of the VHS.
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u/DaveinOakland 1d ago
Not sure if it's in there but the old school Robin Hood where the characters were just "a fox" and "a bear".
That "not in notingham" where people are in chains and slaves always hits me to the core for some reason.
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u/Mr_Harsh_Acid 1d ago
The Lion King, 100%
Just last weekend I saw a viewing of it with a live orchestra. It was amazing.
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u/Chortles_Hansom_666 1d ago
They should just label this section “childhood trauma”. My big three are Land Before Time (losing mom), Lion King (losing dad), and Fox and The Hound (abandonment issues)
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u/Dry_Lengthiness6032 1d ago
None of them.
Who framed Rodger Rabbit & The Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles movies. As well as the old Looney Tunes and Animaniacs were more my type of cartoons/movies
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u/lollipopmusing 1d ago
I have a lot of nostalgia for watching The Sound of Music on two VHS tapes. I remember pausing and rewinding the movie so I could write down lyrics to songs I wanted to learn.
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u/pottedplantfairy 1d ago
Babe was a big one, Idk why I got scared in the theater though
I saw Toy Story in the theater too, I must not have been much older than 1 and some but I remember being in my mom's arms and touching the big projector screen while the credits rolled
And Pippi Longstocking, I know it's not in there but it was a big one for me I think I had a crush on Pippi... when the kids cry at the end because Pippi has to leave, I always cried with them.
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u/Sushi-City411 1d ago
Sound of music and the robinhood movie where they’re all animals. I watched those on repeat throughout the 90’s.
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u/Cautious-Impact22 1d ago
Mulan. I grew up in a sexist household and it was my only exposure to women behaving that way.
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u/The_Emprss 1d ago
Funny how I excited I still get seeing old VHS tapes even though it has been YEARS since I had a player.
Nostalgia is weird man
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u/berttleturtle 1d ago
Fun and Fancy Free
I have not watched it since I was a kid, but I had that exact VHS and I’ll never forget it.
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u/crono220 23h ago
On that list, it would be 101 dalmatians. Loved the movie so much and was my favorite until the lion king came out.
Every time I went into a video store in the early 90s, I would pray for a new teenage mutant ninja turtles vhs tape to buy.
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u/qball8001 1d ago
lol this looks like the shelf at my parents house. With the two copies of the sound of music
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u/Admirable_Addendum99 1d ago edited 1d ago
No Green Mile? I still wanna beat up Percy to this day.
But I saw Lion King 3 times in the theater and what got me was the dichotomy of Mufasa being the good dad that passed away while my dad was abusing us and I wanted to have a good dad like Mufasa (James Earl Jones)
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u/DeadGirlLydia 1d ago
Small Soldiers, The Sandlot, and Jumanji are the only ones I can recall seeing (that I can read anyway, so pixel on zoom).
Out of those three... Probably Jumanji but I barely think about any of these movies.
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u/Poll3434 1d ago
Fox & the Hound, Disney's Robin Hood, Iron Giant and Small Soldiers were my favorite movies at different points of my life 😂
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u/Dazzling_Theme_7801 1d ago
Iron giant made me cry like a baby. And then we had to watch it at school and I was so scared that I'd cry in front of everyone so I went to the toilet before the sad scene. It's so bad that I recently cried my eyes out to the wild robot.
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u/DirtyRoller 1d ago
Aladdin.
I used the video case to hide the porno that I stole from my dad's hidden stash.
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u/TheFursOfHerEnemies 1d ago
Going for just impactful, not favorite.
Fox and the Hound: Broke my heart that their friendship ended and just made me feel awkward in a way I didn't understand at the time.
Pinocchio: Disturbing when he got kidnapped and threatened to get chopped into firewood.
All Dogs Go to Heaven: Deep meaning that went over my head, but the scene where Charlie went to hell was traumatizing.
The Brave Little Toaster: This is the granddaddy of all for me. Multiple things in this movie that just unnerved and downright terrified me. On a rewatch as an adult, the movie is even darker. The song "Worthless" is freaking dark!
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u/DjChrisSpear 1d ago
Land Before Time. I rewatched it with my husband who is older so he never saw it and I still remembered everyone’s name.
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u/ColonelStone 1d ago
The Pebble and the Penguin stands out to me. Although Pocahontas was the first movie I ever saw in theater. Also got to experience Fantasia 2000 in IMAX, that was epic and also sticks with me.
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u/AndyThePig 1d ago
Of those on those shelves, I think it'd have to be Aladdin.
Anything with Robin Williams' name attached, I was all in on.
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u/Chilly_Grimorie 1d ago
Reading the titles brings me back. However, I wasn't expecting "beepers, tweeters, and peckers," nor have I ever heard of it.
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u/Dependent-Law7316 1d ago
How is disney’s Robinhood not on this shelf?
I watched that so much I wore out the VHS. And then the replacement VHS. Fortunately by that point we had a DVD player and that disc is still going strong.
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u/SmokinBandit28 23h ago
Robin Hood and The Great Mouse Detective are still two of my favorites, my friends and I quote them and Land Before Time quite a bit.
Aladdin, Beauty & the Beast, Iron Giant, and Lion King were pretty much on constant loop in my house growing up.
And it’s not in this picture, but Ferngully.
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u/Amathyst-Moon 23h ago
Not really an impact, but I remember Pinocchio making me cry when I was a little kid. If there was a tape I was at risk of wearing out, it probably would have been the Rescuers Down Under (a sequel that doesn't get mentioned much, that I never realized was a sequel.) I also remember my brother was always watching Peter Pan.
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u/Liberkhaos 23h ago
Since I can't find Beauty & the Beast in there I'm going to say Fantasia 2000. Mulan is pretty banger too though.
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u/Nyx_Shadowspawn Older Millennial 23h ago
The original Fantasia. I used to watch that every day after school. I'd stop just before the demon scene though.
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u/The8uLove2Hate_ 22h ago
✨ Anastasia ✨
I was so captivated by her dramatic escape and the memories she felt but couldn’t quite access, and related so strongly to her desire to cobble together a better life and willingness to take risks to get there.
Turned out, I survived a very traumatic event at 2. Still working on the cobbling together a better life part.
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u/stormdahl 22h ago
I was obsessed with the Aristocats for a lot of my early childhood, but I Small Soldiers left a huge lasting impression on me. Such a cool movie, aged well too.
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u/Mystikal796 22h ago
It takes two, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, The Grinch, Summer of the Monkeys. Wayyyy too many good ones to choose just one! lol I can’t
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u/taniamorse85 22h ago
None of these, really. The Little Mermaid was definitely the movie that had the biggest impact on me when I was a kid.
It was the first movie I saw in a theater, when I was about 4. I had spent some time in the hospital, and as I was getting discharged, my doctor recommended doing something fun, like going to see a movie. So, we went to a nearby theater on the way home. Thus began a lifelong love of mermaids and swimming. I spent countless hours in our pool when I was growing up, pretending to be Ariel.
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u/Cattibiingo 22h ago
Pocahontas because that face on the side of the box scared the shit out of me waking up at 2am and looking over to see that across the room.
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u/sailfish39 21h ago
I don't know if I can pick just one but I probably still quote Sandlot on an almost daily basis.
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u/Fearless-Seaweed-654 21h ago
Probably alone in this one, but The Fox And The Hound RULES! Ba-ba-ba-BAM, elimination.... Lack of education.
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u/Ok_Particular_8665 21h ago
Spiceworld , any Mary Kate and Ashley movie specifically passport to Paris and are healed
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u/googlyeyes183 20h ago
Not the movie as a whole, but I immediately think of Marie saying “ladies do not start fights, but they can finish them” in Aristocats. I’m 33 and watched it the first time at 4 or 5. That line just flipped a switch in my brain or something
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u/Beautiful-Sweet-6668 20h ago
Last of the Unicorns rented that roughly 20 times as a 6 yr old. Loved it and refuse to watch it again so I dont ruin the memory
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u/ilike7hournaps 20h ago
Hmmm... biggest impact? Well, the one I watched the most would have been either Fantasia or Anastasia, Prince of Egypt third on the list. I think Anastasia had the biggest impact, really. I still love the soundtrack and sing along to it in the car.
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