Movies that take you back.

[Hypersmurf]

Fire and Ice

Own it on DVD

("Die, die, why won't you die?")

-Hyp.

 

[Mark]

I understand it is available for UK and Australian fans and that the US fans were supposed to be able to get it this October but it has been pushed back to 2005 sometime.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I understand it is available for UK and Australian fans...

Hmm...

... yeah, mine's Zone 4.

-Hyp.

 

[johnsemlak]

Huh. I'm 32, but I guess I watched a lot of old movies as a kid; some of my favorite "classics" really are classics.

The Adventures of Robin Hood Quite possibly the best swashbuckler film ever made, back when Errol Flynn was still young enough to be swashbuckly, Olivia de Haviland was an incredibly beautiful teenager, and Basil Rathbone... well, Basil Rathbone is simply Basil Rathbone.


Captain Blood Pretty much the same cast as Robin Hood named above, but to really get swashbuckling, you do need some pirates, after all.
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Gotta luv Errol Flynn. The Sea Hawk offers much of the same, but not quite cast.

I don't know if I"ll get much agreement here on this one but Chariots of Fire is easily one of my top 10 movies, particularly from the 80s. The music certainly has to be among the most memorable film music from that, or any, period.

 

[Templetroll]

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Any Harryhausen film. The Sinbad things were great, Jason and the Argonauts.

Godzilla movies

The Clayton Moore "Lone Ranger" shows.

Anything with Annette Funicello in it, the Beach Party things are great!

When I was a kid in Philly they had "the Late Show" on after the Tonight Show and they played Leroy Anderson's "Syncopated Clock" as the theme. I used to sneak out to the living room in time to hear that and watch a movie in the dark with the sound down low. Great movies like "The Court Jester" with Danny Kaye or "the Long Ships" with Richard Widmark.

 

[Mark]

Hawkins : I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
Griselda : Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
Hawkins : They *broke* the chalice from the palace?
Griselda : And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins : A flagon...?
Griselda : With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins : Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda : Right.
Hawkins : But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Griselda : No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins : The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Griselda : Just remember that.



Anyway, what about The Captain from Tortuga for swashbuckling?

 

[Desdichado]

Mark, you rock! Did you just watch that, or is that transcribed somewhere online (duh, I'm sure it must be.)

Anyway, yeah, that movie takes me way back...

 

[DM_Jeff]

37 here...

Airplane-"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"

Blade Runner-"Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem."

Eddie & The Cruisers-"We ain't great. We're just some guys from Jersey."

Gremlins-"Hey, look! That one's got a cute little stripe on its head."

Last Unicorn-"They passed down all the roads long ago. And the Red Bull ran behind them, and covered their footsteps."

Pink Floyd The Wall-"What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? No! Poems, no less! Poems, everybody!"

Sneakers-"Too Many Secrets."

-DM Jeff

 

[Mark]

Mark, you rock! Did you just watch that, or is that transcribed somewhere online (duh, I'm sure it must be.)

Anyway, yeah, that movie takes me way back...

Oh, I remember most of it, but not word for word or in order, so I use the fun little features of www.IMDb.com to help my memory...

 

[Kai Lord]

Good list, Dyal.

The Black Hole -- can you believe this was made by Disney? Back in the day, they used to make real movies

Oh hell yeah. Don't even get me started on Watcher in the Woods and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Those two had me freaked out for weeks.

As for my list, here's a few:

1. Star Wars (original versions obviously)
2. The Black Stallion
3. Pete's Dragon (first movie I ever saw in the theater, to be followed by Star Wars.)
4. A lot of old Disney flicks (Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book, Lady and the Tramp, Aristocats, Fox and the Hound)
5. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
6. Gremlins (still one of my favorite films of all time)
7. Ghostbusters
8. The Dark Crystal
9. Tron
10. Dragonslayer
11. Smokey and the Bandit
12. Rocky II
13. The Muppet Movie
14. The Wilderness Family movies
15. Raiders/Temple of Doom
16. Godzilla King of the Monsters
17. King Kong (1978 version)
18. Kingdom of the Spiders
19. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger/Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
20. Clash of the Titans
21. The Karate Kid
22. Halloween
23. Romancing the Stone
24. ST II: The Wrath of Khan
25. Footloose
26. The Breakfast Club

Man, I've got a ton. I could just keep going with this. Great thread.

EDIT: Oooh I just noticed someone mentioned The Last Unicorn above. Good one! I'll have to throw in Flight of Dragons and the animated LOTR flicks as well. Plus the original The Blob, and Forbidden Planet, and Wizard of Oz, and Red Dawn, and Poltergeist, and, and...okay I'll stop.