I fondly remember it as well! I watched it over and over on HBO back in the late 80s. I thought it was so cool that it had Doctor and the Medics performing what turned out to be their one and only hit. 
I like that movie, too. I also don’t know anyone else who likes it.
I always point at the Clancy Brown character for an example of someone selling out the entire world for a promise of power that’s going to bite them in the ass.
Can’t find the direct quote, but it goes something like this;
HPL: So what do you get out of this?
HB: I get to be King of the World!
AH: Yes. It will be a blasted, ruined, dead world…but you’ll be the most important thing in it.
HB: See!
Cameos by John Candy, Dan Akroyd, George Wendt, Jim Belushi. Some pretty funny little bits in it, even if it is something of a mess.
I love the bit with Smokey the Bear coming up to the campfire and scaring the shit out of them when they’re sitting around drinking Windex.
And Billy-Bob’s Tex-Mex Barbeque and Swedish Smorgasborg. With the Hindu Indian guy behind the counter. “Ello, I am Beelly-Bob!”
Oh, give me a break! You made me snort so forcefully that I choked on my own saliva.
Oh no…guys, I’m sorry but I have to do this. I just remembered a movie even worse than First Knight that I loved when I saw it the first time.
Masters of the Universe. There, I said it.
I watched Bubble Boy, liked it, and was genuinely surprised to find later that most reviewers think it’s a terrible movie. I mean, it’s not The Philadelphia Story, but I thought it was funny and watchable. But even the cable box on-screen guide–a generally forgiving medium–usually labels it a one-star movie. My explanation is, I saw the talent in Jake Gyllenhaal long before he made it big; and at least some of the humor was satirical, and lots of people just don’t get satire.
I’m normally a very discerning viewer. Guess I just got that one wrong.
And by the way, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut is a terrific movie, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a genuine classic. The OP has a lot of tongue-biting to do.
I bought S.F.W. as soon as I saw it on DVD, because I totally loved it when I was about 16. I thought it was hilarious, subtly transgressive, and took a lot of timely pot-shots at contemporary culture.
10 years later, I describe it with one word: EMBARRASSING.
Hey, that film did exactly what it intended to do. If I were to come across it on TV, I’d totally watch it.
Billy Jack. Okay, I admitted it. I might as well also admit that, for about a week after I saw it, I recommended it to everyone.
Then the effect wore off and I somehow, even retrospectively, recognized it as basically bad propaganda. Or maybe the drugs wore off…
I loved that movie as a kid. Micheal Crawford in his post-'Some Mother Do 'ave ‘em’ hollywood feature. Haven’t watched since I was 10, and I don’t want to watch it now and spoil the memories either.
The first live-action Ewok movie. I was a kid so I cant even remember the name, but god I watched the hell out of that.
Whoever mentioned Willow needs to shut their god-damn filthy mouth. That movie is awesome! 
Oh, and christ! Even I feel old hearing a poster say they saw the live action movie of Inspector Gadget at 6 or 7! I’m only 23 damn it! Do they even know that used to be a cartoon show? :eek:
My answer to the OP? Dark Crystal, I mean, come on! The movie is utter garbage! Anyone who’s ever bitched about the quality of any anime dub that makes it on tv needs to watch this movie ASAP and shut up about bad voice acting. The dialogue is the absolute worst too. I loved Dark Crystal the first time I saw it, and I have no idea why. I mean, Labrynth and Time Bandits were always awesomely bad, but I legitimately thought DC was a good movie for quite some time.
Waterworld? Eh, I think it’s pretty good. Not great, but actually a good movie. It’s the dog-pile effect though; it didn’t live up to people’s expectations and the hype, and then suddenly it became cool to hate it. I feel the same thing shaped a lot of people’s opinions about STAR WARS Episode 1 & Matrix Reloaded. Ep 1 is the worst SW, but still a fun movie, and the prequels just get better as they go (2’s good, 3’s better than most of RotJ).
The Matrix flicks are pretty good too, imo. I don’t know what the problem is, I mean, I thought any kind of sequel was a bad idea from the moment I heard it was going to be a trilogy up to when I saw Reloaded. And the ending? Not a surprise, no, but I guess I don’t see how else it could have ended. Especially if you watched the whole Animatrix; The Machines aren’t evil, and humanity kind of brought it on itself. The only end is to find a peaceful reconciliation.
8 years is yesterday?
What are you, 80? (Hell, 8 years is pretty signifigant even to my parents, I asked, and they are in their 50s)
I have not read the whole thread, but I just wanted to second this.
We had HBO intermittently throughout my childhood, and I enjoyed the abovementioned, as well as Mannequin and Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home
Mac and Me . :eek: What do I win?
Also, Titanic. It hasn’t aged well.
It’s like yesterday.
Not to hijack too badly, but the boundary of importance I’ve noticed is if something happened before or after I became an adult. I have friends who are just four or five years younger than I, but when they talk about how cool X was when they were fifteen and I was twenty at the time, I feel really old. So when someone was six or seven when a movie came out that I remember as a modern, recent movie hitting the cinemas when I was an adult, I feel really old.
The movie is related to my username.
And I’m not telling a soul, not here anyway, I gots me a reputation.
I liked View to a Kill! Chis Walken is the bad guy, and he has an airship! Bond sleeps with the menacing sidekick! There are no gadgets essential to the plot!
Then again, I liked Conan the Barbarian, Commando, Amazon Women on the Moon, Tank Girl, The Toxic Avenger, Dumb and Dumber, Night of the Comet, Clash of the Titans, and Hell Comes to Frogtown. Oh, and I’ll make time for anything along the lines of “Sinbad and the work of Ray Harryhausen” too.
Wow! That’s a list of my favorite guilty pleasures right there, although my wife likes Harryhausen more than I do.
I came into this thread to list Billy Jack. I saw it when I was 15 and pissed off at the world. A few years ago, I saw the DVD in the bargain rack and bought it on instinct, and shit, did it stink. I only watch the park fight scene to see a little Korean guy in a jean jacket and cowboy hat kick townie butt.
I saw SGT Bilko in the base theater when I was in the army, and loved it. The theater was packed with soldiers, and the scene where Phil Hartman drags out the bra in the inspection got a standing ovation. I rented it again a few years after the army, and without an audience of drunk soldiers, it’s lousy.
I’ve beaten my breast in here before about actually enjoying SGT Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when I saw it (again at 15). I was actually relieved when I Tivo’d it a year ago, and actually deleted it halfway through, because it sucked so hard. I suppose the reason I liked it is that I saw it before I got into the Beatles, so it was the first time hearing their music.
I have a recent one…Hot Rod! On its own, it’s not much of a movie, but I felt like a proud parent seeing the Lonely Island boys up on screen, and the many callbacks to their Internet shorts were great.
I’d be more specific, but I think I’m the only person who saw the movie.
My only complaint about the movie is that it was too conventional in spots; they should have gone whole hog with their usual off-the-wall humor.