Movies from when we were kids

[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

 

[Dago]

I did like this one as well

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Thinking about it, Betamax vs VHS was a real thing, for a long time…. Like Ford vs Chevy, Walmart vs Target, Jeopardy vs Wheel .. i am firmly Team Jeopardy on that one, and always will be…. Crazy that none of those other ‘wars’ resulted in the complete obliteration of the loser.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I did like this one as well

i actually just watched this again for the first time since late 80s just a few weeks ago

I saw it coming on so I recorded it

doesn’t hold up

 

[MajorLamont]

Like most of us, I could talk about 100 movies right now that we all grew up with and loved. But when I think of obscure movies, or ones that don't get brought up that much, these are the ones I think about.

Summer School
Project X
Toy Soldiers
Muppets Take Manhattan
The Dirt Bike Kid
The Rescue
The Money Pit

 

[JenningsTruckers]

Everyone remembers Neverending Story, but I am looking for favorites that I either didn't see or have forgotten about

This got brought on because I saw that Explorers with Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix is on Prime Video and I am watching it right now

Okay I'm 62 , so I remember going to the movies ( with my wife/girlfriend & friends ) to see The Exorcist , Blair Witch Project , Grease , The Rocky Horror Picture Show , " It's Alive " and The Silence of the Lambs . Crazy I know but I remember those the most .

 

[DaveXA]

Stand by me...the barf scene and the leeches...yeah.

 

[Doug B]

Like most of us, I could talk about 100 movies right now that we all grew up with and loved. But when I think of obscure movies, or ones that don't get brought up that much, these are the ones I think about out.

Summer School

This is a good one. Young Courtney Thorne-Smith

Love my dogs, but I was always a little grossed out when Mark Harmon licked the peanut-butter spoon after his dog ate some.

 

[Dan in Lafayette]

I think the first movie I saw in a theater was 101 Dalmations.

 

[Zack Lee]

I think the first movie I saw in a theater was 101 Dalmations.

Wow that’s actually my first. Mom brought me to a double feature of 101D and one of the Jody Foster movies - maybe Freaky Friday but feels like it was something else.

and that was the only double feature i ever went to. Think they became not a thing after that.

 

[Bleu Raeder]

The first movies I remember seeing were The Nutty Professor and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. We grew up on Disney movies and whatever was being shown on TV at the time. Mom and Dad never missed a James Bond flick and if they couldn't get a sitter my sister and I would go too.

@SystemShock mentioned The Wonderful World of Disney. I couldn't get enough of that. It was when Dad first told me about Imagineers.

 

[Madmarsha]

Thinking about it, Betamax vs VHS was a real thing, for a long time…. Like Ford vs Chevy, Walmart vs Target, Jeopardy vs Wheel .. i am firmly Team Jeopardy on that one, and always will be…. Crazy that none of those other ‘wars’ resulted in the complete obliteration of the loser.

Def. remember The Betamax Wars. A couple years later were the New Coke vs. Classic Coke wars. If there is a hell and I go to it, it's gonna be the '80s.