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Agreed. Although what I like about it also is the wit between Han/Leia/Chewy. Some lol moments there for me.
Best Star Wars movie by far.
What was your favorite movie as a kid that wasn't a kid's movie?
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Agreed. Although what I like about it also is the wit between Han/Leia/Chewy. Some lol moments there for me.
Best Star Wars movie by far.
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I'm not seeing a lot of comedies in here. I think my family had a Chevy Chase fetish as I recall watching a lot of The 3 Amigos, Vacation and Spies Like Us.
Charlie's mention of his dad recording shit off of HBO reminded me that our copy of Vacation was some weird VHS recording off of network TV. One of the TV edits that always cracked me up was when the Griswalds lost their way and found themselves in the ghetto. Clark asks one of the brothas how to get back to the interstate. Instead of the scripted "fuck yo momma" reply, the network spliced in an awkward "who do I look like?! Christopher COLUMBO!!??" It was funny as hell as the guy's lips stopped moving yet the voiceover was still on COLUMBO. There are many other flicks I associate with my childhood but some of my best memories were around some of these kinds of comedies.
Charlie's mention of his dad recording shit off of HBO reminded me that our copy of Vacation was some weird VHS recording off of network TV. One of the TV edits that always cracked me up was when the Griswalds lost their way and found themselves in the ghetto. Clark asks one of the brothas how to get back to the interstate. Instead of the scripted "fuck yo momma" reply, the network spliced in an awkward "who do I look like?! Christopher COLUMBO!!??" It was funny as hell as the guy's lips stopped moving yet the voiceover was still on COLUMBO. There are many other flicks I associate with my childhood but some of my best memories were around some of these kinds of comedies.
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I LOVED the Blues Brothers as a kid...but with a catch. This was all before you could actually buy the VHS tapes of the movies so my family taped it off of ABC in the early 80's and it was all edited for television. So lines like "Yer' gonna look funny trying to eat corn on the cob without any FUCKING TEETH!" and "I took the liberty of bullshitting you." and Ray Charles pulling out a gun on the little kid where all gone. It wasn't until I got the real VHS copy in the 90's did I find out it was a rated R movie. (Nowadays it'd be at least a PG-13)
The original Star Wars Trilogy was and still is a personal yearly tradition. My folks had the TV edits reordered and my dad even cut a version for me of A New Hope that just had the Death Star escape and the Battle of Yavin. Once I got the real official VHS tapes on Christmas I always watch them once a night during what used to be Christmas Break.
Pretty much as a kid if we didn't get it off the TV version or rent it I didn't get to see it until much later. All of the Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies I didn't see until the 90's. Most of the stuff I watched was more family friendly fare. Like Flight of The Navigator, Explorers, the Love Bug movies and pretty much anything Disney. I don't know why I took me until I was in my 20's to see The Last Starfighter. I would have ate that shit up as a kid. Same with The Monster Squad I didn't see until they re-released the DVD and now I watch that every Halloween like I do with Star Wars at Christmas.
The original Star Wars Trilogy was and still is a personal yearly tradition. My folks had the TV edits reordered and my dad even cut a version for me of A New Hope that just had the Death Star escape and the Battle of Yavin. Once I got the real official VHS tapes on Christmas I always watch them once a night during what used to be Christmas Break.
Pretty much as a kid if we didn't get it off the TV version or rent it I didn't get to see it until much later. All of the Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies I didn't see until the 90's. Most of the stuff I watched was more family friendly fare. Like Flight of The Navigator, Explorers, the Love Bug movies and pretty much anything Disney. I don't know why I took me until I was in my 20's to see The Last Starfighter. I would have ate that shit up as a kid. Same with The Monster Squad I didn't see until they re-released the DVD and now I watch that every Halloween like I do with Star Wars at Christmas.
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Dawn of the Dead. I loved zombie movies as a kid, before everyone got into them and ruined it. Kind of like "retro" gaming really. I had all the Italian and American gore fests on bootleg VHS when they were banned in the UK. All that did was increase the bloodlust of a generation of pimple-faced teenagers. By today's standards they seem positively quaint.
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I still haven't seen that movie, but all the clips I've see are great. I know I'd love it even now.
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I really think you would, just be prepared for the most absolute cheese. A guy drinks antifreeze like moonshine out of a jug. Antifreeze.
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Ahahahahaha, I gotta see this damn movie. I wonder if it will ever come out on blu-ray.
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anything with JCVD
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The Last Dragon and Gremlins 1&2.
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You can't say that word without adding WONDER to it.
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And here I was thinking that JCVD, Schwarzenegger, Aliens, Robocop movies were for kids. They were definitely my favorites! Never liked horror/slashers though.
(not exactly favorites, but NOT FOR KIDS)
Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill, Apocalypse Now
THE MIRACLE MILE (I have no idea how/why I ended up watching this at a friend's, but it's still a favorite to this day. Made quite an impression, for better or worse. Go see it).
(not exactly favorites, but NOT FOR KIDS)
Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill, Apocalypse Now
THE MIRACLE MILE (I have no idea how/why I ended up watching this at a friend's, but it's still a favorite to this day. Made quite an impression, for better or worse. Go see it).
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He was one of many jokes in that movie.
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I remember when I was maybe 8 or so and was sick all the time I always wanted to watch goonies (kids movie?) and spaceballs.
tango and cash
people under the stairs
poltergeist
predator
Van damme movies
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tango and cash
people under the stairs
poltergeist
predator
Van damme movies
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Naaah. The "Wonder" part is only (when) applicable for Transsexual/Shemale/Ladyboy sluts. I didn't know anything about such gender bending porn whores back as a kid. The concept still Blows my mind. I'm talking straight up TABOO original porno flick with Kay Parker (the hottie above) of a torrid MILF so randy one night she sucked and fucked her own son. *LOL* ---that film turned me onto older women/Cougars. Flashforward to now and the love of my life is a (legit) Cougar/MILF. Hell I just got done (seriously) fucking her brains out after she woke me up (just like Kay Parker did in that film) by sucking me off. My life is now a xXX film and I LOVE IT.
To be more serious though and ON TOPIC.
I'd have to go on record for saying that the following were some faves of mine as a kid that was not a kid movie...
RAMBO Trilogy (it was only 3 parts back then)
Hard to Kill
Aliens
No Man's Land
Red Dawn
Steel Dawn
Mad Max 2: Road Warrior
Commando
Predator
Blood Sport
The Wraith
Rollerball
Logan's Run
Truck Turner
Trouble Man
Shaft
Shaft's Big Score
Black Moon Rising
TOP GUN
American Ninja
Invasion USA
Angel 1 - 3 (good girl by day, prostitute vigilante by night)
Johnny Handsome
I could go on, but why?
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Growing up, I watched a lot of films on Saturdays when I wasn't playing outside. Fox 5 in NJ used to play all sorts of films, plus I used to catch the Late Late Movie on ABC 7 when I couldn't sleep. Most of the Rated R films was watched along with my father.
Here's a short (memorable) list:
Rambo
Red Dawn
Top Gun
Every Mad Max film
Godfather 1 & 2
Commando
Aliens
Cannonball Run
James Bond films
The World, The Flesh and the Devil (with Harry Belafonte)and a bunch of 50s 60 films my mother watched. Le Samurai was another film that we had at home, in French, without subs.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
O Sangue (saw it in a little Portuguese theater in Lisbon with cousins and owned a rough copy of it at home on VHS)
A shitload of Jack Nicholson films
There are plenty more, but these are the ones that came immediately to mind.
Here's a short (memorable) list:
Rambo
Red Dawn
Top Gun
Every Mad Max film
Godfather 1 & 2
Commando
Aliens
Cannonball Run
James Bond films
The World, The Flesh and the Devil (with Harry Belafonte)and a bunch of 50s 60 films my mother watched. Le Samurai was another film that we had at home, in French, without subs.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
O Sangue (saw it in a little Portuguese theater in Lisbon with cousins and owned a rough copy of it at home on VHS)
A shitload of Jack Nicholson films
There are plenty more, but these are the ones that came immediately to mind.
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I get the vibe for most of you parents were not too concerned about the rating of the movie.
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The whole smoldering corpses thing would be too much for my kids for sure.
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b rated ninja movies too. can't remember any titles and have never seen one that quite measures up to the ones I remember.
Last Hurrah for Chivalry and jackie chans to kill with intrigue sort of have the same 'vibe' but not quite it.
one I remember had the guy doing the reed breathing underwater thing in a river to hide then he popped out and took out the guys who were chasing him. blood would spray all over and the body counts were massive, I don't remember any plots in them? anybody else? someone that can remember a name for one?
Last Hurrah for Chivalry and jackie chans to kill with intrigue sort of have the same 'vibe' but not quite it.
one I remember had the guy doing the reed breathing underwater thing in a river to hide then he popped out and took out the guys who were chasing him. blood would spray all over and the body counts were massive, I don't remember any plots in them? anybody else? someone that can remember a name for one?