Submitted by Don D

Have you guys heard of this movie? Music by Elton John and Tim Rice, FTW. Lose the next twenty minutes of your life watching clips of every song from the film after the jump.
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This gorgeous 1940 classic won our hearts as young children, despite featuring classical music and no dialogue, except for a few intros (and they say kids have no attention span!). There’s not much more I can say about it. Enjoy!

Feel free to post your favorite parts of Fantasia in the comments.

Submitted by Mary D

As a female, I’m not sure why this film resonated with me so much. Perhaps it just reminded me of the good old summer days filled with sports and scary enemies who seemed a lot worse than they really were. It was all sort-of universal for all kids that grew up in the suburbs.

This was one of a handful of kids’ baseball movies from the early ’90s, though I think The Sandlot hit home with so many people (get it?) was because it didn’t play into childhood fantasies. Of course, I was pretty fond of Little Big League and Rookie of the Year too.

Submitted by J Wallace

Jurassic Park is a blockbuster classic, and is an epic win for its quality, influence on pop culture, and the John Williams-composed theme song that middle school bands are still performing today.

I watched Jurassic Park fairly recently and was pleasantly surprised just how well it held up (read: the raptors are still terrifying). The choice of animatronics over CGI as often as possible has kept this Steven Spielberg masterpiece looking sharp, even 16 years after its release.

This scene reenactment is actually pretty good:

Hold onto your butts!

Submitted by Tom S

Better known as the “Man of 10,000 Sound Effects,” Michael Winslow was the best part of the Police Academy films (all four hundred of them). His talents had nothing to do with post-production sound editing, but real-life vocal wizardry. Behold!