13 Random Movies I Remember From My Childhood

I stole this idea from Jen @ Casual Slack

Good or bad, these are what popped in my head while trying to think up flicks. I LUVS movies, and I've been meaning to devote posts to some of my faves and ones that had a real effect on me (Night of the Living Dead changed my life.) or touched me in some way (Not my no-no place).
Here we go, in no particular order.


The Amazing Dobermans

This movie sucked. The first one is better, but I saw it YEARS later on late night cable. THIS lil gem I got to see in the theatre. How sad is it that Fred Astaire had to do this shit for work at the end of his career? Meh, the dogs were cool, the movie was lame. I remember it though.
woo.
hoo.

The Kentucky Fried Movie

I have an uncle who was in his teens for the late 70's and he would take me to see whatever he wanted to see if he was "watching" me. Therefore, I got to see TONS of stuff I probably shouldn't have, like The Kentucky Fried Movie. Violence, nudity, sexual inuendos that I didn't really get, nudity, cussing, nudity. It was awesome, and damn funny. Why people don't throw KFM lines around like they do with Airplane and the Naked Gun flicks I'll never know. Check out Amazon Women on the Moon sometime too. Good stuff Maynard.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Dude, do I REALLY have to tell you why this one is cool and I remember it? I can almost quote this thing ver-phuc-n-batim.
"I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her; marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet. Buried alive..... Buried aliiiivve....."
"....KHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!!"
or
"THIS IS CETI ALPHA FIVE!!!!"

I could go on.

I shant.

Better Off Dead

Better Off Dead, oh how I love thee. Don't get me wrong, One Crazy Summer is awesome too and anything Savage Steve Holland did was gold (Eek the Cat anyone?), but Better Off Dead is genius. I'll let you do your own fave quotes. All I will say is.."You don't mind if I ask Beth out do you?".

The GOONIES

The Truffle Shuffle. Need I say more? No.


Gremlins

OMG....Pheobe Cates in a tight Sweater!! OH, and Gizmo rollin in the Barbie Vette. OH, and an appearance by Robbie the Robot from Forbidden Planet.

Superman II

This movie was awesomer than Superman!!! Well, it was THEN, now it's really dated and sloooooow. The most popluar quote from this one is the whole "Kneel before Zod" thing. Personally, I would throw out the "I WIN......I always win... IS THERE NO ONE ON THIS PLANET TO EVEN CHALLENGE ME?!!" line when I schooled one of my friends at some video game. They loved it. No, really; they LOVED it when I'd say it.

Losers.

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Again, another UBER-quote filled flick I probably wasn't old enough to see. The Gremlin in this flick eats the gremlins from Gremlins for breakfast. Lithgow is the MAN. My fave quote? I thought you'd never ask.
"I can make you ALL go away. An-y-time. I. want to."
Close second?
"You wanna see something REALLY scary?"

Return of the Living Dead

Ditched one of the last days of school before summer break to see this one, if memory serves me.
C'mon, zombies.....I'm there dude. Not anywhere near as cool as the Romero stuff, but good fun. "Send more paramedics".


I shouldn't have to tell you what movie this is. Scared the SHIT out of me. It was awesome! Scariest thing in the movie? That little midget lady. Period.
"Carol Ann!!!"

"Something bit him..."

My Bodyguard

This movie dates me big time, man. My Bodyguard. Mom took me to see it. Summer camp took me to see it. I think they even screened it in schools for a few years afterwards. I believe I liked it the first time. Everybody but the starring, Leo Sayer wannabe kid, is still working. Geezus, I just dated myself even more with the Leo Sayer thing didn't I? I have no quotes from this one, so I'll say "You make me feel like dancin'. I wanna dance the night away.".

The Warriors.

I'll probably see the remake they're working on, but I don't know if you can top the cinematic kickass-ness that is The Warriors. Another one my uncle took me to see. The Baseball Furies were the coolest looking, but they get their asses kicked in like 30 seconds. THEY HAD BATS FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD and still, they got whupped. Baseball Wussies is more like it.
"Riffs!" and of course, "Warrioooorsss.....come out and play-eeee-yaaaaaay!".

Wait....that's only 12. Lemme find one here floating around in my noggin.

BRB

Ah, here we go...

Wargames

Remember when everybody was worried that some dumbass kid with way too much time on his hands and a computer could hack into any government system and wreak havoc or somehow crash it? Thank goodness it was just 80's computer geek paraoia. That stuff could never happen in the real world.
I caught this on cable awhile back. I HIGHLY suggest you see this one again, if for no other reason than to see all the cutting edge technology they used. The friggin modem alone is worth a few laughs, if not this little peice of sweet hardware...


They probably pack more computing power in toaster ovens now than poor ol' WOPR here.
"Shall we play a game?"

This was fun. I think I might actually write about some other movies from the olden days soon. I hope you enjoyed this as...well, geez, I hope you at least scrolled by kinda slow on your way past to watch the porn info vid one more time.