Five years ago I wouldn’t have understood, but I do now. I was just ‘a kid’ back then. 
House, which is about a Vietnam vet, trying to forget his past, who moves into a spooky house to write a novel when all kinds of evil, monstrous hijinks ensue. I actually saw this movie in a theater with my mother when I was 7.
There’s one part where he freaks out and thinks his ex-wife has turned into some kind of troll, so he blows her away with a shotgun and buries her in the backyard. At some point he severed the monster’s hand. Later, his hot neighbor who he has a thing for asks him to babysit her son (which, on review, makes no sense at all; you just met some handsome guy that you’re interested in, who’s basically still a stranger to you, and you ask him to watch your son for a bit?). While the boy is there, he notices the monster’s hand has grabbed the boy’s neck, so he grabs the boy, tears the hand off with his teeth, drops it into the toilet and flushes it.
I thought that movie was so damn scary. After I got home I had to take a wizz, so I was in the bathroom, looking ahead and peeing, when I heard a noise. My heart jumped into my chest because I thought for sure that the monster’s hand was crawling out of the toilet to get me. I quickly looked down and discovered that the noise I heard was the sound of my piss hitting the floor next to the toilet because I hadn’t been paying attention. Mom never let me forget doing that.
Anyway, I watched it again a few years ago late night on USA or something, and I couldn’t get over how silly it was, especially the whole hand scene.
Watch it again, and keep an eye on David Bowie’s crotch.
I read the book wayyyy before the movie came out, when I was 10 or so- sometime around 1991, I think. I didn’t know who Michael Crichton was, and I had no idea it was going to be a movie. I think I creamed myself when I saw the first trailer sometime in 1992 (which was just a big logo that said “Jurassic Park - coming summer 1993”). I was like, hey, they made my book into a movie?
Stink Fish Pot is talking about the kid at the beginning, who says that the raptor they’re digging up in Montana doesn’t look scary… not about Hammond’s kids.
Even as an 11 year old I wondered what another 11 year old was doing out in the badlands at an archaeological dig.
And because their parents are in the middle of a terrible divorce!
It was quite the movie during my formative years. Would you care for a cup of the ol’ chive? 
btw: it wasn’t a babysitter… it was a sister. It runs in the family. You should run in fear. And pray or be prey. We’re prolific.
Man, i loved this movie when it came out. i thought it was the coolest. i watched it again about a year ago and WOW. What was i thinking?
HEY! You take that back! :mad:
I’ll have you know I just ordered “Foxes” on DVD a few months ago and…
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You’re absolutely right…
It IS terrible! :smack:
Also, ANY of the “Godzilla” movies, and by extension the original “Ultraman” and “Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot”
I STILL can’t believe I ordered the complete sets of both of the “giant-fighting-man” shows on DVD.
UGH!
Chai.
The Ultraman link points to what looks like the Australian version made in the late 80’s or 90’s I believe not the original Ultraman. Which, at least for me is a classic. The original is cheesy with cheap Special effects from 1966, but hell, it was great as a kid. Giant Robo, too, though its pretty cheesey.
But then I like Godzilla movies. I think its an acquired taste. 
You’re right about the Ultraman link. Here’s the correct one. Thanks for the assist.
I recently relived part of my childhood by purchasing the whole first season of Star Blazers. While much of it lived up to my gradeschool fanboy memories, some aspects did come off not so well. These ranged from the merely grating (the same 5 or 6 pieces of music used in every episode) to the cringeworthy (Wildstar’s annoyingness is almost on par with Jar-Jar Binks). There are also plot holes you could pilot a space battleship through, and the animators’ inability to keep the Argo’s size and scale consistent throughout certainly detracts from the quality of the artwork.
Other than that, the series still remains a splendid treat, both visually and storywise, with much more depth and creativity than any other animated entertainment of its time.
Yup. I thought it all very intense and deeply, deeply significant when I was about 15. Times change.
I have to second Blazing Saddles. Comedy has changed somewhat (at least comedy in film) since it opened. I rented it a while back (to share with my kids). It is slower than molasses in January. The jokes are few and far between. And yet I remember crying I was laughing so hard when I saw it as a teen.
Tootsie is another one. I thought it was funny and had some genuine social commentary, but now I just think it’s meh.
[Hijack] Since I’ve got you all here, I remember loving a Japanese (?) show about a family that would turn into airplanes. They would do this “I Dream of Jeanie”/“Macarena” thing with their arms and turn into airplanes and save the day. I think the dad was silver and the mom was gold, or vice-versa. The young boy, I guess, would have to have been bronze. I remember 1 episode (this is a 30year old memory, so cut me some slack) where there was a Godzilla-type monster. They kept blowing it to pieces, but its body parts would keep reassembling. So finally they blew it to pieces again, then one of them swept in and caught the monster’s heart and carried it off, so that when the monster re-assembled, it was paralyzed. (I think that’s when I learned the word “Paralyze”)
Can somebody tell me the name of this show so that I can look for it on YouTube? [/hijack]
The Space Giants Link But the dad is Goldar and the mother is Silvar.
Easy Rider. I was fifteen in 1969 when it was released, and I was sure it was a profound masterpiece. The fact that I was in a bit of a cannabis haze when I saw it may have influenced my judgment. I rented it a year or so ago and was amazed at what a silly piece of wankery it is.
sputter You . . . You take that back THIS INSTANT!! 
I’ve actually got this in the DVD player as I type this. I didn’t see it until it came on AMC in 2005, and I was hooked. It’s one of three movies that I’m forbidden to watch if my wife’s in the same house.
The jokes between Gene Hackman and the black guy - can’t remember his name - are still funny in Blazing Saddles.
“Well, Jim, since you are my guest and I am your host, what’s your pleasure? What do you like to do?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Play chess… screw…”
"Well, let’s play chess. "
And I like the governor. The fart jokes are tres stupid but I always thought fart jokes were so, and only laughed at them when I was little to fit in. Now I refuse to even do that.
I still like Clash of the Titans, too - the special effects are not really the focus there, for me. Though I do want to smash up that owl because he reminds me of that sorry son of a bitch from King’s Quest. “ooo, Sir Graham!” shotgun blast to the face
Sorry, repressed memories surfacing there.
I don’t remember any others off-hand.
OK, you win. I take it back. It’s a MASTERPIECE!!