Friday OT - Nostalgic Cinema

[cyclones500]

For us it was either Christmas '72 or '73. I think '72. It was a tube set when fully transistorized was pretty much the norm. It actually only lasted 2-3 years. Not a very reliable set nor a great picture. Either that, or we watched it way too much and it died to escape.

Cool. I think our first one we got just prior to "the fall TV season" in 1973. I recall the year because my oldest sister was a senior in HS when we got it. I remember watching first season of "Happy Days" in full-color. Heyyyy!

Our first color TV endured for quite a few years -- I can't remember the brand at this point. Our last non-portable B&W set was leftover from the era of cabinet-on-legs; the initial color unit was the classic, heavier-than-*** wooden-console style that requires four grown men to move it more than 4 feet.

 

[Sparkplug]

Beach Party movies with Annette and Frankie

Or

Gidget

 

[cyputz]

Jules Verne - Mysterious Island. Graphics today make you laugh

 

[CascadeClone]

Jules Verne - Mysterious Island. Graphics today make you laugh

Oooh, on that note:

CLASH OF THE TITANS! Big budget claymation's last stand!

 

[EYEoftheSTORM]

Jurassic Park is my most nostalgic movie. That movie would scare the hell out of me as a 5 year old but I loved it. Had all the toys (dinosaurs and figures). I can recite that movie line for line to this day.

 

[arobb]

You guys have already listed most of the popular movies that I could think of, so here are a couple cheesy ones my brother and I used to watch the hell out of:
Megaforce


Beastmaster

 

[Cyder91]

Fast times at ridgemont high

 

[arobb]

I always loved this one. Way ahead of its time.

 

[drlove]

the Aristocrats,and I was six for Star Wars

Aristocrats > Aristocats

 

[enisthemenace]

I liked a lot of the movies already mentioned, but I also loved watching really bad movies as a kid such as Krull, Conan the Barbarian, Clash of the Titans, Beastmaster, Willow, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Critters, Goulies, Howard the Duck. The list goes on but those are ones I can think of.

This is an incredible list, by the way. Krull, Conan movies, Clash of the Titans and Critters in particular. Well done!

We always used to rent movies like Bloodsport and Kickboxer. American Ninja was one too. Man...terrible movie in retrospect, but we got a charge out of it.

Another one mentioned in this thread is The Last Dragon. When Leroy figures out “the glow”??? That is incredible cinema.

 

[madguy30]

Blasphemy! Willow was awesome!

Critters is a sneaky good B-movie type in that it feels like everyone's in on the joke.

 

[madguy30]

This is an incredible list, by the way. Krull, Conan movies, Clash of the Titans and Critters in particular. Well done!

We always used to rent movies like Bloodsport and Kickboxer. American Ninja was one too. Man...terrible movie in retrospect, but we got a charge out of it.

Another one mentioned in this thread is The Last Dragon. When Leroy figures out “the glow”??? That is incredible cinema.

We had kickboxing matches in our living room with friends in our neighborhood, inspired by Kickboxer and Bloodsport.

 

[Farnsworth]

Mine would probably be Big Trouble in Little China. It was on tv ALL the time and I always watched it. Convinced my college girlfriend to watch it with me so we rented it from Family Video, and it was terrible, but still awesome in that terrible sort of way, like Snakes on a Plane.

 

[Farnsworth]

Also A League of their own, I was 8 when it came out, and probably 10-11 when it ran on TV nonstop.

 

[matclone]

The Wizard of Oz
Mary Poppins
Skinny and Fatty

 

[CloneGuy8]

Hook

 

[isucy86]

The first movie that came to mind was original Bad News Bears. The other two were Jaws and the Spy Who Loved Me. The Spy Who Loved me was the first Bond movie I saw in the theater, but when older Bond movies were must see when shown as "Movie of the Week"..

The original Brian's Song is a movie I love to this day. If it is on, I have to watch it. The original Thomas Crown Affair falls is another must watch for me.

 

[dahliaclone]

I have a few:

SpaceCamp. Which had a cast that ended up being incredibly impressive years later:

• Kate Capshaw
• Lea Thompson
• Kelly Preston
• Joaquin Phoenix
• Tate Donovan
• Tom Skerritt
• Terry O'Quinn

Monster Squad
Krull
Goonies
Clue
Fox and the Hound
Secret of NIMH
Heart Like a Wheel
Jewel of the Nile
Romancing the Stone


And then a few TV movies that I always remember watching countless times:

The Midnight Hour
Dark Night of the Scarecrow
ABC's Afterschool Special The Red Room Riddle

 

[dahliaclone]

For some reason I remember watching the movie Clue a bunch when a kid. Probably because I loved the board game so much, also maybe because of the maid...

It's one of the most underrated movies of any kind, any genre. I have watched it probably 200 times and that might be on the low side.

 

[arobb]

I remember watching this one at the Burlington drive-in. I was probably about 8 or 9 at the time. The kid who cussed like a sailor in the movie was pretty epic at the time.