The Swamp

Suddenly recalling Seems Like Old Times in the trump thread made me try to think of other movies I watched a ton as a kid that I haven't thought about in years and they're not really on the pop culture landscape. So far I have the following:

Just You and Me, Kid
Six Pack
Three O'Clock High

Midnight Madness
Back to the Beach

Ice Pirates
Beastmaster

Convoy
(in Brian’s honor)

I almost put Convoy!

sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 11:11 am Convoy
(in Brian’s honor)

Always makes me thing of this:



For me, I used to love Cloak and Dagger and BMX Bandits. I don't remember much about BMX Bandits other than being infatuated with a 16 yo Nicole Kidman. (I was 7 when the movie came out, not sure how much later it was on HBO).

Best film ever based on a bad country song.

directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Uncle Paulie, and Franklyn Ajaye.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:29 am Back to the Beach

I thought I was the only one

Giff wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:14 am Three O'Clock High

Your face looks like nonfat milk.

Krull
Gotcha!
Seems Like Old Times (since Giff mentioned it)
Flight of the Navigator
Short Circuit

Plus movies I think about a lot but seem to be forgotten by others:

Dragnet
Club Paradise
Back to School
Blind Date
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Spies Like Us
Weekend at Bernie's

A_B wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:30 am Ice Pirates

I swear I saw this one at a theater, but it was a staple in my trips to the video store.

Summer School

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 11:51 am

Giff wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:14 am Three O'Clock High

Your face looks like nonfat milk.

Krull
Gotcha!
Seems Like Old Times (since Giff mentioned it)
Flight of the Navigator
Short Circuit

Plus movies I think about a lot but seem to be forgotten by others:

Dragnet
Club Paradise
Back to School
Blind Date
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Spies Like Us
Weekend at Bernie's

Almost mentioned Short Circuit (with Hugo from Succession in brown face!)

Watched a ton of Back to School, Spies Like Us, and Axe Murderer too.

Giff wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:27 pmSummer School

+1

Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo

+2

Also Ernest Goes to Camp

Courtesy HBO arriving to my house in 1983 and a summer at home -

Stoker Ace
Little Mo
The Right Stuff
Saturday the 14th
Cannonball Run 2
War Games
Superman 2

Some of those were on almost every day it felt like.

Summer Rental
The Great Outdoors
One Crazy Summer
Moving Violations

tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:25 pm Courtesy HBO arriving to my house in 1983 and a summer at home -

We never subscribed to any premium channels growing up, but for some reason we always had The Movie Channel. I remember thinking my Dad was somehow stealing it and getting all paranoid when there were all those ads about going to prison if you steal cable.

Cocktail
Coyote Ugly

Back to School was a staple.

As was Rodney's other masterpiece Easy Money

Thief
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Poseidon Adventure
My Favorite Year
Play It Again Sam

Ooooooh, I LOVED this bad boy.

Movies I saw many times back in the 80s / early 90s, but now not so much:

The Sure Thing
Eight Men Out
Better Off Dead
Midnight Run
Brazil
Heaven Help Us
Men at Work

Giff wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:18 pm Ooooooh, I LOVED this bad boy.

I saw all the Airport movies. I was such a sucker for disaster films. And that one featured Emmanuelle herself!

not sure how dad justified getting HBO from the mid-70s on but it was awesome for a kid - i often say jokingly (but...) that i've only ever seen like 50 movies in my life and/yet most of those i've seen 50 times. Top of my head incomplete selection from my lethargic living room youth:

The Black Hole
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the Sutherland/Goldblum one, i think there have been...3??)
Flash Gordon
Poltergeist
Cannonball Run

.... now about to blow this entire morning looking at old HBO guides (again)....

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 6:59 am

Giff wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:18 pm Ooooooh, I LOVED this bad boy.

I saw all the Airport movies. I was such a sucker for disaster films. And that one featured Emmanuelle herself!

The subject of my first-ever extreme guilt.

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 6:59 am

Giff wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:18 pm Ooooooh, I LOVED this bad boy.

I saw all the Airport movies. I was such a sucker for disaster films. And that one featured Emmanuelle herself!

Short Circuit and Men at Work are definitely up there, too.

I'm a phrenologist!