Movies from when we were kids

[faceman]

Gus the Kicking Mule
There was another Kurt Russel one, Worlds greatest athlete or something like that
Saw most of those at the Robt E Lee theatre in Lakeview

but you’re first paragraph reminded me that I must have seen ‘What’s Up Doc’ manymany times- always at my grandparents place outside of Memphis, not sure why it was always on there and seldom in NO but that was the way of TV back then

Kurt wasn't in the worlds greatest athlete. That starred Jan Michael Vincent.

My favorite was Blazing Saddles. It is still comic genius from start to finish.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

so i'm trying to remember (and i'm old, so...)
if we didn't see movies at the theater, where was it?
i vaguely remember 'Saturday Matinee Movies' or some such
Elvira for the schlock horror at night
but where else?

 

[bigdaddysaints]

so i'm trying to remember (and i'm old, so...)
if we didn't see movies at the theater, where was it?
i vaguely remember 'Saturday Matinee Movies' or some such
Elvira for the schlock horror at night
but where else?

Renting a VHS player for $10 and 3 for $5 movie rentals at the local video store (before Blockbuster put them out of business)

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Renting a VHS player for $10 and 3 for $5 movie rentals at the local video store (before Blockbuster put them out of business)

I mean before that my sweet summer child

 

[Doug B]

So quotable. I think I could communicate solely with Last Dragon quotes if I had to.

"Get up! This is Sho's row!"

"Catches bullets? With his teeth?"

"Why don't any fifty of y'all come down here and make me sit down and shut up?!?"

"Get up Leroy! I got something real for your [backside] in these hands."

"You wanna fight! Fight me! ... Rick James lookin' fool!"

"Kiss my Converse."

"Hey, my man ... what it look like?"

"There's art to making love, and you don't even have a paint brush."

"Who's The Master?" "I am!" (sing the theme song in the background - 'I can't teach you no more ...")

 

[DaveXA]

so i'm trying to remember (and i'm old, so...)
if we didn't see movies at the theater, where was it?
i vaguely remember 'Saturday Matinee Movies' or some such
Elvira for the schlock horror at night
but where else?

I remember my mom and dad going to the drive in theater and watching "Best little whorehouse in Texas". I was in the back seat. I must have been 11-12 years old at the time. They started me off on the right foot.

 

[Doug B]

i vaguely remember 'Saturday Matinee Movies' or some such
Elvira for the schlock horror at night
but where else?

Morgus came back in 1986 (?) after maybe a 20-year hiatus. I think he was on Friday nights in the 80s and 90s.

Not just Saturday Afternoon Matinee on N.O. television (which local station used to show the dubbed kung-fu movies on weekends? Channel 26?) -- channel 8 used to show some weird movies on their Sunday Morning Matinee show. For instance, any of y'all ever caught Bad Ronald on TV?

 

[Doug B]

Channel 8 on Sunday mornings was also good for catching 50s and 60s schlocky horror films. The Brain That Wouldn't Die was one that I watched a little too young -- creeped me out for a month.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I remember my mom and dad going to the drive in theater and watching "Best little whorehouse in Texas". I was in the back seat. I must have been 11-12 years old at the time. They started me off on the right foot.

And then you started preaching?

 

[DaveXA]

And then you started preaching?

I know right? Go figure.

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

A lot of Disney movies. Big time boy crush on Haley Mills.
The beach movies - many with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello
The Elvis movies
That campy Batman TV series that spun off into a campy movie
Jerry Lewis movies
Beatles Hard Days Night and Help

 

[Yatman]

2001 is my first memorable theater movie, and i still enjoy it

now it occurs to me that my grandmother took me to the saenger for the sound of music, but as a little kid i was not a fan

 

[nolaspe]

The Last Starfighter
The Goonies
Ghostbusters

Most have probably seen these though.

Smokey and the Bandit was another one I loved back in the day.

Yes to all of this. I also loved me some Rad, Gleaming the Cube, Police Academy, Weird Science, Short Circuit, The Toxic Avenger, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Real Genius, Ferris Bueller, Tron, Karate Kid, Iron Eagle (Chappie!), Naked Gun, Wargames, Indiana Jones, Star Wars (duh), Goonies, Gremlins, Big, Trading Places, Planes, Tranes, and Automobiles, Summer/Xmas Vacation, Bfast Club, Princess Bride, Summer School (those 2 dudes into the horror stuff cracked me up), One Crazy Summer, etc.

I had to watch the R-rated stuff at my friends' house like all of the Ah-nold/Stallone flicks, Die Hard, all of the horror stuff, and edgier comedies/stand up like anything Eddie Murphy. My parents were really strict w/ that stuff.

I remember my mom taking my sis and I with some of our friends to see Return to Oz in the theater and being completely terrified by that movie lol. Those monkeys were the stuff of nightmare fuel.

I also remember seeing Top Gun in the theater as well...

Optimus Prime dying in the Transformers movie pissed me off lol.,,

Before Blockbuster, we'd rent movies from a converted trailer-like building on West Esplanade a little over a block away from Clearview where there's a waffle place now b/c they still had Betamax movies. My dad refused to switch to VHS until it was impossible to avoid doing so since he swore Betamax was the better technology. That may have been true, but the market disagreed lol...

Those were fun times, renting movies and splitting a pizza w/ my sister on Friday nights as kids followed by Saturday morning cartoons from the first show all the way through Soul Train with eating like 2 bowls of cereal in the living room lol...

 

[Dago]

So quotable. I think I could communicate solely with Last Dragon quotes if I had to.

"Get up! This is Sho's row!"

"Catches bullets? With his teeth?"

"Why don't any fifty of y'all come down here and make me sit down and shut up?!?"

"Get up Leroy! I got something real for your [backside] in these hands."

"You wanna fight! Fight me! ... Rick James lookin' fool!"

"Kiss my Converse."

"Hey, my man ... what it look like?"

"There's art to making love, and you don't even have a paint brush."

"Who's The Master?" "I am!" (sing the theme song in the background - 'I can't teach you no more ...")

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Before Blockbuster, we'd rent movies from a converted trailer-like building on West Esplanade a little over a block away from Clearview where there's a waffle place now b/c they still had Betamax movies. My dad refused to switch to VHS until it was impossible to avoid doing so since he swore Betamax was the better technology. That may have been true, but the market disagreed lol...

My family all received Betamaxes as Christmas gifts from my uncle in the very early 80s, like 1980 or 81, right when they came out.. he was obviously doing really well, since they cost over $500 each at that time… so i was Team Betamax for years, and i cant remember all the movies we used to rent- but for some reason, the only two I remember renting were One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, since my dad said it was his favorite movie so i wanted to check it out.. and the movie MASH, which is weird becuase it’s so heavy and becuase i never liked the TV version of MASH.. both very intense movies for a 9 or 10 yr old, which is how old i was at that time.. which is why they’ve probably stuck with me over all the lgiht hearted stuff i know we rented as well.


ETA now I remember renting Romancing the Stone one time