5 Favourite Nostalgic/Comfort Films
E.T.
Just look at that little face – aaaaw! E.T. is the story of baby alien who gets accidentally left behind by his family and meets a young boy who’s family has recently been disrupted. The whole human family (including a very young but wonderful Drew Barrymore) help to keep ET safe. There are equally joyful, funny and harrowing moments, including a race against time and the authorities. What makes this film wonderful however, is the connection between alien and human and the true meaning of love and friendship. I will never tire of watching E.T. ever.
Flight Of The Navigator
This is another one of my favourite 80’s childhood films that I still watch when it’s on telly about a kid who gets to drive a rather dry humoured space ship “Compliance”. Unfortunately, time passes quicker on earth than it does on the ship, leading to a rather surprising return!
Short Circuit
“No disassemble!” A robot designed to be a deadly weapon becomes self aware and has very different ideas – including dancing to the Bee Gees and doing John Wayne impersonations. It’s better than I’m making it sound, honestly!
Labyrinth 
This has to be one of the most magical films I watched as a kid (I managed to totally miss The Never Ending Story) and not liking babies very much I kept on wondering why Sarah didn’t want to just stay there with him!
Batteries Not Included
The 80’s had a big effect on me cinema-wise obviously! A film about a family of tiny droids who visit earth and help an elderly couple who’s restaurant is planned for compulsory demolition. A strange heartwarming little story which works really well.
Which are your faves?
Chrissie ❤
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ET is one of the greatest sch-fi stories and films ever!
Aww, I agree! I think it gets overlooked because it’s set in suburbia not space but it raises so many questions and has such feeling to it (O..O)
I need to catch up on some old movies. 😉 ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
OMG This list!!! Love the movies! ET was one of my favourites! Also Labyrinth! And Short Circuit!!! ❤ Thank you for bringing back so many memories from childhood ❤
It was good that I could only pick 5 otherwise I would have just gone on and on with it, ha! ET is definitely a very special film ^_^
“Johnny 5 is alive!”
I haven’t seen Short Circuit in years!! I have to say my all time favorite would be The Goonies. I use to watch that movie over and over again as a kid. I finally saw the Goonies in a theater last year and I felt like a kid again.
I have to check out Batteries Not Included. I never heard of that one before.
How on earth have I left out the Goonies!!! Mind you I could only pick 5 but I totally forgot about it doh! Batteries not included is a really sweet film revolving around grown up issues, which is unusual.
It’s been a long time since I’ve watched any of these. Now I’ll definitely have to re-visit them. 🙂
Ah, glad I reminded you of them 😊
ET used to give me nightmares! He still kind of does. I love the Labyrinth though!
Ahh these are all great! I loved watching Short Circuit with my dad when I was a kid 🙂
Thinking about it, It was one of the few kids fantasy/sc-if films that Dad’s didn’t mind watching :0)
I used to be afraid of ET when I was little, but now I find it so cute! 🙂
Second person to say this today! :o)
I remember being so scared of E.T as a kid for some reason. I don’t know why, I love the movie now. I must’ve watched Short Curcuit a million times! And now as an adult I take pleasure in watching The Labyrinth with my son, and that he enjoys it too!
No way – well I suppose he was a pretty strange little dude. Aww that’s nice that you’ve passed Labyrinth on to your son. I remember the first time I went to a gym on my own and it was on the TV in front of the exercise bikes, I must have stayed on there for like an hour watching it lol
Lol well that’s one way of getting your workout on!!
Never exercised so much before or since 😄
I am SO glad to see someone else talk about Batteries Not Included! I loved that movie as a kid!
It seems to be so underrated for some reason. Maybe because it didn’t have any cool young actors in it or any unicorns or fairies lol
Labyrinth is one of my all-time favorites. I would also lump in The Princess Bride, The Dark Crystal, Neverending Story, and the Last Unicorn to make my five. Now I want to watch more 80s movies.
For some odd reason I totally missed Neverending Story, The Princess Bride and The Last Unicorn when I was young. OMG I’ve missed out Legend, with a really young Tom Cruise and Tim Curry as the devil!
I have Labyrinth, Princess Bride and Legend on DVD, I think I might need to procure a couple of more and have a 80s marathon weekend in. Pick them up!!
That sounds like an awesome idea! I’ve not got any since I threw my VHS player away. I wonder if there is a fantasy box set of them available?
I’m willing to start a campaign! 😉
I’d have to agree with ET as well! ❤ I used to watch that movie all the time as a kid! I wasn't even born in the 80's so I haven't seen any of these except for ET, but you've brought a great idea to mind–80's film movie marathon! 🙂
ET all the way, closely followed by Labyrinth. My soft toy ET (which my mum queued for) still sits on my bed. His eyes are a bit worse for wear now, I remember hugging him so much as a child that the colour came off, so I filled it in with felt-tip!
That’s exactly what I did with mine ^_^ I got given the brown leather look one by a neighbour because her son was too old to appreciate it as a prezzie and I was in tears because they’d sold out. We were very lucky :0)