Everyone has movies in their childhood that they loved and some they didn't. I could watch the following movies over and over. I could still watch them today if it wouldn't change my opinion of them. Some of these films are based on books so if you're the kind that likes to read check these out.

Here we go...

1. "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"

The film starts off with the beginning clip of "The Happy Little Elf." Then the narrator says this film is not happy but there is still time to see a film about a happy little elf. The actual film starts with the Baudelaire home and parents being destroyed in a fire. The children are then taken to their Count Olaf, who is a despicable creature. He gives the children an unfortunate amount of ridiculous task to do. After getting legal custody of the children he tries to kill them by having a train run them while they are stuck in a car. The children get free and are moved to the next relative. He gets killed by Olaf. Then the children are moved to another relative and as you could guess it she gets killed off. The books extend farther but the movie wraps up the ending with Olaf forcing Violet into a ridiculous marriage. Though when the proper authorities find out they take the children away again. Before they leave they stop by their house one last time and find The Letter That Never Came.

This is one of my favorite films since I was a child because I always sort of felt like I could relate even though my childhood wasn't bad. At school it was and I felt like at school I had A Series of Unfortunate Events. I know my events weren't as unfortunate as theirs, but they were my own problems and obstacles to face. My own Count Olaf. Watching it now, I just love the acting, the costuming, the sets, the props and the score, but I still remember seeing it in theaters as a kid and watching the cartoon flash across the screen and being happy.

2. "Finding Nemo"

"Finding Nemo" is about Nemo, the last living son to Marlin. He has a gimpy fin, and swims out into the ocean to touch a boat because his father said he couldn't and then gets kidnapped by a dentist. His father goes after him, and meets Dory, who helps him try to find his son. Nemo's taken to the dentist office and is almost given away as a pet to the dentist's niece Darla but miraculously escapes back into the ocean to be found by Marlin and Dory.

This will always be one of my favorites because it reminds me of my mom. My mom was a single parent and I know it must not have been easy raising me alone. I know my mom would be just like Marlin and do anything she could to get me back if I was stolen and I constantly feared being kidnapped as a child. This is a great film to show kids who don't understand how much their parents love them.

3. "Bridge to Terabithia"

Everyone always said I was strange for loving, "Bridge to Terabithia," but this movie was the very definition of my being.

It's about Jess, the only boy in a full household of girls who just wants a friend and when Leslie Brook moves next door he gets one. They start playing outside in this forest they find. You have to cross a stream using a rope to get to it and they create an entire world for themselves, where they get to rule. One day Jess makes a decision that changes his entire life. Leslie goes to the stream alone and Jess returns to learn of Leslie's death. The rope broke and she fell into the risen creek and drown. Out of his grief he decides to build a bridge for his little sister Mabel to play in the kingdom with him.

Some people see this story as bad because Leslie dies. A lot of people say it's a reference to heaven and it could very well be but for me it was simply kids playing make believe, playing and having fun until death struck.

I had a lot of deaths happen in my childhood and looking back on it now it made me who I am. It made me play more, it made me create more and maybe build bridge to myself more.

4. "Peter Pan"

I'm not talking about the Disney animation version but the live-action version.

Peter Pan is a boy who never grows old. He takes the darling child away to Neverland on the verge of them having to grow up. There they meet The Lost Boys, and The Lost Boys want Wendy to become their mother. Forcing her into an adult position when she decides she wants to go home The Lost Boys want to go with her and grow up. When they do go home, her family adopts the Lost Boys and Peter is left to Neverland.

Kind of like "Bridge to Terabithia," Peter Pan has been thought of as an innuendo to heaven, but even if it is or even if it's not, to me it was where you never had to grow old. You never had to become a grown up. You could just be a kid and play forever, never wondering about adult things and stress. I think that's a wonderful thing and I kind of wish that Neverland existed because being an adult sucks.

5. "Tuck Everlasting"

This has to come right after "Peter Pan" because it kind of falls into the same realm. "Tuck Everlasting" is about this family that drinks from this everlasting water well thing, it's by a tree, I don't know how to describe it. Drink it and basically become immortal, but when Jesse falls in love with Winnie he tells her about the tree (In the book it's not so much a romance as a friendship). When the family is found out (by the Man in the Yellow Suit), they have to leave, leaving Winnie with a choice, to drink it and be with the Tucks or live out her life normally. She chooses to live out her life and gets buried in front of the tree so no one can ever have the same fate.

Though the film seems extremely sad this movie is full of the meaningful laughs and some tender moments. It's a beautiful story of love and loss and family. I remember it clearly and yet also really blurry; more like bits and pieces, I haven't watched it in a while. It was one of my favorites, because my sister liked it a lot and she made me watch it. I really liked it because, you know, I said I liked the idea of everlasting childhood. I always loved this film because of Jonathan Jackson and Alexis Bledel as well as the storyline. By the way this book is becoming a musical starring Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Sarah Charles Lewis! Previews start March 31!

Other favorites of the same importance...

"The Parent Trap," "Nanny Mcphee" 1 & 2, "Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire," "The Phantom of the Megaplex," "Life-Sized," "Lizzie McGuire Movie," "Zenon," "Smart House" and "The Luck of the Irish."

I don't have all the time in the world to talk about them. Keep watching you guys.