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In reply to the discussion: Jason and the Argonauts [View all]countryjake
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I only saw it once when I was a silly little kid but to this day, if I ever spot a balloon on the loose or tangled on something, I will always do my best to rescue it. I've got quite the collection of lost mylar balloons, one of which I shinnied up a pole to get, just like the movie, (it said, "Happy B'day!" with a big 10 on it) and I had helium put back in that one later, when my daughter finally had her tenth birthday. (she had watched me climb up to save it when she was a toddler)
A couple of others that came out when I was older that I still love as magical were "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" and "The Three Lives of Thomasina". I'll re-watch both of those anytime I see that they're on tv. Both are excellent for children.
For movies that were supposed to scare the bejeebus out of kids when I was young, I think that "The Giant Claw" was the one which affected me the most. While that dumb-looking monster bird did frighten me at the thought of it and I may have squeezed under the car seat (at the drive-in) when it was destroying buildings and trains and such, I was very sad by the end of the movie when they finally shot it down.
I also loved that "Jason and the Argonauts" flick and thought it was ahead of it's time, regarding the special effects with that battle scene.