abby [email] said at 11:40 AM 09-14-2004: hot dog, those are MY favorite childhood movies! except for the black stallion, i don't remember it. but flight of the navigator? that movie fucking RULED
boudet [email] said at 11:41 AM 09-14-2004: I watched The Secret of NIMH for the first time in about 20 years the other day. Never realized what NIHM stood for til then.
kristi said at 11:51 AM 09-14-2004: go to http://members.tripod.com/m_roxburgh/froud/froud.html
it has a gallery of brian froud's, the conceptual designer for the dark crystal and labyrith, art. if not there, www.worldoffroud.com both will show you at least the style. i am a big fan of his drawings.
meredith [email] said at 12:22 PM 09-14-2004: Labyrinth!!! I knew I wasn't spelling it right, but I was too lazy to look up the real spelling. I am having cramps today.
julie [email] said at 11:51 AM 09-14-2004: Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
Willow
Goonies
The Mighty Pawns*
(*My "favorite movies" in the 80s ended up being any movies that we had on tape, after we inherited a Beta tape player from my grandma, because we watched the fuck out of them. Oh, and the 'remote control' for the Beta VCR was connected to the VCR by a think black cord about 5 feet long!!! Anyway, we had this cheesy movie The Mighty Pawns about an inner-city school that, against all odds, advances a team of young thugz and street hustlers to the national chess finalists under the tutelage of a sympathetic, idealistic white teacher. Not unlike Stand By Me, but with black kids and a white dude. Anyway, I loved that movie.)
julie [email] said at 11:56 AM 09-14-2004: Ok, I was just inspired to look up Mighty Pawns on imdb. It was a made-for-TV movie in 1987, and it had the venerable Alfonso Ribeiro in it!!! Also, I may have been wrong about the teacher being white. Hard to tell...I think a viewing is in order.
julie [email] said at 1:33 PM 09-14-2004: Well, I think by using the word "best," I've already made my opinion clear. So I understand both of your questions to be rhetorical and/or incredulous, and will therefore ignore them. Watch Willow.
ed [email] said at 2:10 PM 09-14-2004: Tim Curry was the evil thing. That and the song over the closing titles (Bryan Ferry's, "Is Your Love Strong Enough?") were almost enough to make up for all the damned glitter floating around. Almost.
zack [email] said at 1:47 PM 09-14-2004: i was a little disappointed in Willow. Moebius did a lot of the character designs, and I went in expecting the movie to live up to the drawings I'd seen in COMICS SCENE magazine..
zack [email] said at 2:26 PM 09-14-2004: let's see.. it came out in '88 according to imdb, so i was 13. Yeah, I was reading Comics Scene.. it was my favorite mag at the time, cause it had lots and lots of cool color pictures, and one issue right before Willow came out had a big article on Moebius's involvement.. It was a couple years before I started reading the Comic Journal with any regularity.
I actually liked willow pretty much, now that i think about it.
julie [email] said at 12:13 PM 09-14-2004: An American Tale! I learned how to play the theme song ("Somewhere Out There") on the piano. I think it was on the Billboard charts at some point, recorded by ... Peabo Bryson and some lady? Oh god, why do I remember this, and not the formula to find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
julie [email] said at 12:15 PM 09-14-2004: Ah, Abby. Thank god I have you to cling to while we both go over the waterfall of pop culture dorkdom together.
meredith [email] said at 12:25 PM 09-14-2004: I learned how to play the theme song ("Somewhere Out There") on the piano.
OMG! MEEE TOOOOO!!!
(I impressed all my friends.)
cecil [email] said at 1:19 PM 09-14-2004: Watership Down
Willy Wonka
The Point
Smokey and the Bandit
and I have to say Star Wars was a childhood movie for me. I was 7 when it came out, in 1977. I saw it 7 times in the theater.
meredith [email] said at 1:24 PM 09-14-2004: I forgot about Watership Down!!!
And I really didn't like Willy Wonka. When I was in first grade we started watching it and I got all emotionally involved and when they sucked that one kid up the tube I was imagining him suffocating and stuff. I squished my eyes shut, put my hands over my ears and tried to keep the tears from leaking out until some girl next to me got the teacher. I got to be taken to another classroom and I read books in their reading area for the rest of the day.
Also, I was not born when StarWars came out, but I liked it when I saw it on TV later.
rick [email] said at 2:33 PM 09-14-2004: No, I meant I thought you would have thought the story was wonderful: a video game sent across the Universe to find a savior for the forces of freedom, and one video game junkie shows their mettle and thus, becomes the hero who defeats the opposing armada.
But come to think of it, I do not recall you being very big on spaceship-fighting games.
dave. said at 2:16 PM 09-14-2004: i live in the town that poltergeist was filmed in (well, at least the external shots with the house). simi valley, ca. the house still stands, and still looks the same, except for the paint.
zack [email] said at 2:21 PM 09-14-2004: oh duh, man, your list is a lot closer to what I should have written on my list, with the exception of yours suffering from a noticable lack of RED DAWN. But yeah, Raiders, man!
ed [email] said at 1:54 PM 09-14-2004: The first five that came to mind, because if I overanalyze, I'll never be able to say 5. Same goes if I read anyone else's responses.
*Real Genius
*Labyrinth
*Stripes
*Blue Velvet
*Beetlejuice
That said, if you asked me again tomorrow, it's likely only Real Genius would be on the list again.
Shell said at 4:14 PM 09-14-2004: Only five? Goonies was so much fun! The Neverending Story made me cry. My list is movies that I will always watch given the opportunity.
"Strange game...the only winning move is not to play."
"Ben, why didn’t you tell me?"
"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits. Of all unicorns, she is the only one who knows what regret is - and love."
"Lorraine, my density has bought me to you."
"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together. Mass hysteria!"
Shell said at 4:34 PM 09-14-2004: I'm ambiguous about it myself. On the one hand, why mess with something so grand? Otoh, it seems Beagle's still trying to bring his vision to the screen since he's involved with the new one. Maybe we'll see it the way he wants us to see it. Or not. It's still in development :).
In trying to find a decent picture of (let's all say it together) Catherine Mary Stewart, I discovered she played at least a bit part in one of my other dark-horse faves of the 80s, 1981's "Nighthawks" (Sly Stallone, Rutger Hauer). I have this movie on VHS, and now must remember to watch it to see if I can spot her.
/not obsessed much.
//the sad part is, my obsession is directly linked to my mom's obsession with "Days of our Lives", in which CMS starred as the original Kayla.
ed [email] said at 8:41 PM 09-14-2004: And finally...
A picture that doesn't do her justice (since she looks like her eyes are trying to jump out of her skull), but one that isn't either totally posed and fake looking, or totally ripped from a movie, pixellated, and less than 70 pixels wide.
The goodness that is... ahh, hell, I'm not gonna type her name again.
angie [email] said at 11:01 PM 09-14-2004: I just want to add my list.
big top pee wee
labyrinth
the night before
little monsters [which was on tv tonight!]
teen witch
reggie [email] said at 11:10 PM 09-14-2004: little monsters is freakin' brilliant. i tear up to this day at that last scene. that's right i'll admit it.
