Movie review thread...

[Tim]

@mariner4life I must've seen it on VHS twenty times when I was a kid. Great cast BTW.

[dK]

@Rancid-Schnitzel Have you tried Karate Kid?

[MN5]

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.

[antipodean]

Haven't watched that one either.

[Mokey]

I still love Labyrinth. Plenty of sly one liners that still get a laugh.

Another 80's movie I enjoyed as a kid was Annie (the Carol Burnett version). And Wargames with Matthew Broderick.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

@dK

Oh yes, they loved that one. They were doing that crane kick nonstop until one of them copped it in the nuts

[booboo]

@Rancid-Schnitzel

Short Circuit ("Number 5 is alive!")

[booboo]

Difficult to find movies for kids that age.

In the end we decided we didn't mind M movies as long as there was/is no sex (no sex please we're tweenagers) and the violence was kind of stylised. Some suggestions that worked for us ...

(not 80s movies):
All the Pirates movies (the ghosts weren't too scary)
Stardust.

80s movies:
Jumanji
Star Wars (ms boo jr didn't get it ...)
Indiana Jones (even if Temple and Skull were absolute rubbish)

[Rancid Schnitzel]

@booboo

Awesome. How could I forget Number 5! I loved that film. "Shit, where see shit?"

Some absolutely brilliant suggestions today. Thanks guys. That should keep us going for a while

[Kruse]

There are 3 movies which everybody must see, in order to become a well-rounded human being:

• Princess Bride
• The Neverending Story
• Labyrinth

If a person hasn't seen all three, their soul is incomplete.

[Bovidae]

Some other 1980s movies not mentioned:

• Stand By Me
• Romancing The Stone
• Ladyhawke

[MN5]

Re: Flight of the Navigator......looked it up and it isn't the one I was thinking of. ( still have fond memories of that one though )

I clearly got my 80s flicks confused, the movie I meant is actually this, anyone remember it ?

Explorers (1985) ⭐ 6.4 | Adventure, Comedy, Family

1h 49m | PG

[Rembrandt]

I used to love that Stallone Arm Wrestling movie 'Over the top'. Surely that still holds up...surely

[Hooroo]

@Bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:

Some other 1980s movies not mentioned:

• Stand By Me
• Romancing The Stone
• Ladyhawke

Oooooooo! Crocodile Dundee!!!! (Romancing the Stone just reminded me of it) Loved that movie and love Crocodile Dundee II as well.

[Milk]

@Rembrandt Not in my opinion, unfortunately.

The kid, 'Mikey' just sux sooo much. Much more than I remember, from watching it as a kid.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:

Re: Flight of the Navigator......looked it up and it isn't the one I was thinking of. ( still have fond memories of that one though )

I clearly got my 80s flicks confused, the movie I meant is actually this, anyone remember it ?

Explorers (1985) ⭐ 6.4 | Adventure, Comedy, Family

1h 49m | PG

I remember being at the video store and we had to choose between that film and Back to the Future. We chose BTTF of course. For some reason I never saw the other one. It has a very young Ethan Hawke right?

Bovadae: I've been considering Romancing the Stone but I recall that crocodile hand eating scene to be incredibly graphic. On the other hand I was about 8 when I saw that film and laughed my head off. I recall Jewel of the Nile being boring as hell, but I may view it differently now.

[taniwharugby]

TR Junior watched Forrest Gump on the weekend, he liked it.

[Hooroo]

I recently recorded it a few months back. Watched it three times since. I love that movie.

I remember disliking it the first time I watched it

[NTA]

Spectre

My least favourite of the Craig Bond movies. Suspect I'm not alone there, either.

It was just a bit sterile overall, with some really good stuff in there. Craig really dialled in this performance, and Waltz didn't give much else besides the bad guy he gave us in Basterds IMHO.

The quim was good. Lea Seydoux smoked it in various satiny silk things, although the lack of Isabella full-length in corsetry loses it half a mark.

3 out of 5 hard-bitten English noblemen

[MN5]

@NTA Agree with all you're saying but it was definitely superior to Quantum of Solace which loses marks for Bond not dusting up Olga whatshername and having THE lamest bad guy/henchman combo in Bond history.......