Movie review thread...
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@Rancid-Schnitzel I downloaded Point Break and Speed last night. Some of the language may not work for an 11 and 8 year old, but I'm pretty damn excited about watching them myself!
BTTF is still my fave movie of all time.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Yes Gremlins! Thank you!
They've seen ET and were a bit underwhelmed. Actually I recall I was as well back in the day. Never really understood why that film was so huge.
I remember Never Ending Story being pretty cool. I wonder if that's stood the test of time.
Yeah never got the hype about ET.
Neverending Story though - my kids still liked that. Though that scene with the horse in the swamp.... fucking dust in my eye...
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@MajorRage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel I downloaded Point Break and Speed last night. Some of the language may not work for an 11 and 8 year old, but I'm pretty damn excited about watching them myself!
BTTF is still my fave movie of all time.
Yeah a bit too violent and those films are from the 90s.
A few more candidates are:
Batteries not included
Inner Space
Twins
No Retreat No Surrender (can't recall too much violence) -
Neverending Story doesn't hold up well IMO.
TR Jnr loves all the films I get for him, grabbed him Kickboxer, Universal Soldier, BTTF and was looking at Spies Like Us, Fletch, 3 Amigos to name a few.
Neither of my kids were that fussed with ET either.
Willow is another worth a look, although can be a little dark in places, Spiderwick Chronicles is cool too.
Cant go past goonies or Princess Bride though.
@Rancid-Schnitzel while it isn't a biggie for some, in Twins there is the scene when Arnie gets his rocks off that is quite blatant...hmmm Kelly Preston.
Kindergarton Cop is ok for kids
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Neverending Story doesn't hold up well IMO.
TR Jnr loves all the films I get for him, grabbed him Kickboxer, Universal Soldier, BTTF and was looking at Spies Like Us, Fletch, 3 Amigos to name a few.
Neither of my kids were that fussed with ET either.
Willow is another worth a look, although can be a little dark in places, Spiderwick Chronicles is cool too.
Cant go past goonies or Princess Bride though.
@Rancid-Schnitzel while it isn't a biggie for some, in Twins there is the scene when Arnie gets his rocks off that is quite blatant...hmmm Kelly Preston.
Kindergarton Cop is ok for kids
Willow and 3 Amigos!!! Some great suggestions here. I recall Project X being pretty good. Bit sad though. They might be a little too young for Dead Poets Society which is a big favourite of mine.
We've seen Spies Like Us (which is actually a bit educational in terms of the Cold War thing), Princess Bride and Ghostbusters. When we were watching BTTF I mentioned that I hope they never remake such an awesome film. My eldest wondered whether if they did remake it would Marty and Doc be girls. Hilarious.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel Perhaps The Last Starfighter? I think that's what it is called. About the dude who plays a game of spacies and then ends up having to save a galaxy?
I loved it as a Kid
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@Hooroo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel Perhaps The Last Starfighter? I think that's what it is called. About the dude who plays a game of spacies and then ends up having to save a galaxy?
I loved it as a Kid
Yes. 1000 likes!
I wonder how that one has aged. The thing is that a lot of the cartoons my kids watch are choc full of 80s references and they want to know all about them. I remember there being one reference to the Last Starfighter.
Cheers for the suggestions. These are gold!
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Hooroo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel Perhaps The Last Starfighter? I think that's what it is called. About the dude who plays a game of spacies and then ends up having to save a galaxy?
I loved it as a Kid
Yes. 1000 likes!
I wonder how that one has aged. The thing is that a lot of the cartoons my kids watch are choc full of 80s references and they want to know all about them. I remember there being one reference to the Last Starfighter.
Cheers for the suggestions. These are gold!
i watched it the other day. If you can handle the "CGI" looking like a bad 90s video game, then the rest is still pretty cool.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel I'm loving this for nostelia reasons! How about Karate Kid. That is a ripper of a movie and I watched it recently and enjoyed
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Flight of the Navigator was great. Wouldn't have a clue how it'd hold up over time.
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@Hooroo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel I'm loving this for nostelia reasons! How about Karate Kid. That is a ripper of a movie and I watched it recently and enjoyed
Oh yeah saw that a while back. They loved that too. Much more so than the remake with Will Smith's son and Jackie Chan.
The funny thing is that they want to know what the person looks like now. Was pretty funny with Ralph Macchio and the Goonies gang. Not so funny with Michael J. Fox unfortunately but he seems to be doing ok.
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@Toddy said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Flight of the Navigator was great. Wouldn't have a clue how it'd hold up over time.
Watched that about three dozen times when I had my boy in the weekends . Still awesome .
He was a big fan of Labyrinth too , particularly the fox type character . -
I watched dances with Wolves the other night, understood it a bit more after an American guy I know gave me some books about the plains Indians . Enjoyed it still.
Weird to think James Cameron was watching it thinking " this would be so much better if they were eight feet tall and blue".
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TR Jnr liked Ferris Buellers Day off, Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure, Ace Ventura, Dumb & Dumber...hasn't really taken to Waynes World.
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Reading the last few posts reminds me that I've not seen movies almost everyone else my age has, particularly E.T.
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@mariner4life I must've seen it on VHS twenty times when I was a kid. Great cast BTW.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel Have you tried Karate Kid?
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I think the reason I enjoyed 'Stranger Things" on Netflix was cos of so many of the movies mentioned above, the nostalgia value was great.
"Flight of the Navigator", wow there's one I haven't thought about for about 30 years, must give it a whirl to see if it's held up.
