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The Ace Ventura sequel, When Nature Calls. My gooey adolescent brain ate it up and it is one of the few movies from my childhood where I can set aside everything I've learned and just enjoy it.
I academically know it's bad and wildly problematic, I'm not blind, but nostalgia can be pretty powerful.
If somebody doesn't find that rhino birth scene funny, we can't be friends. I still shake violently watching that.
Any old Jim Carey movie for me tbh
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. Steve Oedekerk is a genius.
I will never understand people who think this movie isn't funny - endlessly quotable:
"That's a lot of nuts!" "You should be able to beat him now!" "Beware his song about big butts, he beats you up while he plays it!"
I could go on. In a just world he would have gotten to make more films, and not just thumb parody movies.
How do you like my face to your foot style? ^Squeak ^^Squeak ^^^Squeak
Space Jam. It's not a bad film, it's a good "bad film". It's like everyone involved from the writers to the voice actors to the lighting and camera crews knew this was going to be a pile of crap so they said screw it and just had the most fun making said crap pile. That shows through, and it totally saves the film! It is no longer just a lazily made cash grab, it's a "look what you get to do sometimes if you allow yourself to have fun" statement. As a film it should be bad but all that heart in it makes it good!
Joe dirt and Mr. deeds
Joe Dirt is a fantastic movie.
Time Bandits is still great, though.
Fern Gully
Tim Curry as the toxic Hexus dude is amazing
Tim Curry ~~as the toxic Hexus dude~~ is amazing
That movie was definitely part of my formative years growing up
But seriously, why are all these movies reminding me of all the great songs. Makes me realize we just don't have that many these days with great original soundtracks
David Lynch's Dune. It was weird, inaccurate to the book in remarkable ways (wtf is a "weirding module") but I sincerely love it anyway.
EDIT: Sting as Feyd-Rautha screaming "I WILL KILL HIM" is amazing and the music absolutely slaps too.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
"Maximum Overdrive" for me.
Also, great call on Megaforce.
Megaforce was 70s Command and Conquer. 
Anaconda is a masterpiece. Fight me.
The Flight of Dragons (1982)
I haven't seen that since I was a kid, but I still remember this part: "Eleven! Your dragon fire melts my eyes."
I might not even have the quote right but that's what kid-me remembers.
Yeah, itβs a bit off, LOL. But from now on Iβll hear it your way :)
They Live and The Stuff. Watched them again recently and really enjoyed them.
I saw the stuff for the first time recently and it's underrated. No nostalgia required
Sucker Punch
Zack snyder and female empowerment are like oil and water, but the cgi was purdy.
Good Burger
Rewatching Good Burger a week after I watched "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV" was a mistake. I could have remained nostalgia blind about the guy who plays the Good Burger General Manager, but no, I had to go and learn all the horrible dark shit he did.
Flight of the navigator.
An entire film to make one E.T. joke.
The FMV parts of Jedi Knight 2
Just the finest 90s shlock
Early Jean-Claude Van Damme Cyborg, Ultimate Soldier, Kickboxer, Lionheart, but mostly Bloodsport.
Anything muppets, I have so many positive memories, even the "so-so" movies make me smile ear to ear.
Moulin Rogue, it's been one-upped so hard in the movie-musical genre, but I saw it like 10 times in theaters (back when that wouldn't require a second mortgage) and still love it.
Back to the future trilogy
Are you kidding me? That was a masterpiece the first time I watched it and it continues to be one every time I rewatch it.
I agree with you, but I've met too many people who have a lot of criticism for it. Should I just remove the comment?
IMO, you should comment about your own opinion, not one you think others might have.
Also IMO, removing comments should rarely be done (i.e. only in extreme cases), to maintain the integrity of the discussion. This is one of the things I still miss about Slashdot: comments were immutable.
Oh man - hard disagree on this one for me. Still rates up there as one of the best adventure franchises of all time. We rewatch the trilogy as a family at least once every year or two, and always (re)notice awesome little easter eggs each time.
Plus, entirely safe for family viewing. It's getting harder and harder to find movies series like that where the teenagers will still enjoy it, and the young 'un can get into it.
Pretty much everything I liked as a kid I am lukewarm to now. However, there are a number of kid's books that I didn't "get" as a kid that I adore now
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