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You know, I hadn't seen any of the Star Wars original movies in their entirety before the DVDs came out...because I was deprived as a child and once I reached adulthood, I wanted to watch them on DVD (I don't even HAVE a VCR).
Anyway.
I got the DVDs the day they came out. I watched them straight through.
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Actually, one of the most striking things about The Neverending Story in retrospect is how silly the Luck Dragon looks.
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My dear friend Maria and I bawled at this one night when we realized that we had been living the past few months of our lives in the swamp of sorrows. I didn't find it cheesy at all, but then again, I may well be cheesy.
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Another one that is still cool, but not as cool as I thought it was when I was sixteen or so is Big Trouble in Little China. I can still watch it over and over again, but I see more of the flaws.
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I remember what I was thinking of - Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. The first time I saw it, I thought it was hilarious.
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Good lord Annie, were you ferverish to the point of delusion?
I loved Mr. Wrong when I saw it, many years ago. I *was* feverish to the point of delusion at the time, though, so I have an excuse.
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Prince of Theives. I saw this a couple of times in the theatre, and I loved it. But by the time it came out on video, I couldn't stand the idea of watching it again, and I haven't seen it since. Posts: 16551 | Registered: Feb 2003
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*raises hand* I really enjoyed Romy and Michelle the first time I saw, which remains as the only time I've seen it.
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Really kat? I went into that one expecting to love it, and was sorely disappointed. Maybe my expectations were just too high.
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It did help that I went to high school with all of those same people, but it still didn't help when I watched it again.
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I saw it late at night with roommates and cookie dough. This is also the manner in which I saw Dante's Peak, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Apparently a dog can outrace hot lava.
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There was this movie about some girl named Karen that disappeared when her friends were fooling around with witchcraft in an abandoned church. Then a girl her age shows up 20 years later and it freaks everyone out because they are similar and at one point she almost drowns and her little sister gets a puppy and names her "Narek" which is "Karen" backwards. Because someone was possessed and wrote it on a foggy window. I though that one was deep but I would fully expect to snort at it now.
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I saw The Swamp Thing at a friend's birthday party in elementary school (probably not age appropriate, but his family was just that way) and thought it was cool. Didn't understand a lot of it, but it was still cool.
I saw it on TV a couple of years ago and couldn't sit through it.
Now I think I need to see Dreamscape again. I saw that around sixth grade (against at a birthday party) and it has stuck with me ever since. I just know it won't be as cool as I though it was then, but I still want to make sure.
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quote:"Say my NAME, Bastian!" "STAR CHIIIIIILDDDDD!!!"
Um... It was "Moon Child." Say, has anyone else read the book? I loved the movie as a kid, but it's not magical for me anymore. The book, however, is.
quote:Another one that is still cool, but not as cool as I thought it was when I was sixteen or so is Big Trouble in Little China. I can still watch it over and over again, but I see more of the flaws.
I love Big Trouble in Little China, although I admit that these days I love it more for the quotations than the actual story.
quote:"What's in the flask, Egg? Magic potion?" "Yeah." "Good, thought so. What do we do? Drink it?" "Yeah." "Good, thought so."
quote:"What does that say?" "Hell of the Boiling Oil." "You're kidding." "Yeah, I am. It says 'Keep Out.'"
quote:There was this movie about some girl named Karen that disappeared when her friends were fooling around with witchcraft in an abandoned church. Then a girl her age shows up 20 years later and it freaks everyone out because they are similar and at one point she almost drowns and her little sister gets a puppy and names her "Narek" which is "Karen" backwards. Because someone was possessed and wrote it on a foggy window. I though that one was deep but I would fully expect to snort at it now.
Ah ha! Yes... that is a favorite of mine.. "The Watcher in the Woods".
It's still good and scary. And the neat thing is that it wasn't anything witchy... there was some sort of dimensional rip, and Karen and this alien being switched places... and that's why the area has been "haunted" by this unseen force.
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It's not your fault. You never got a chance to see it at its best -- and, hey, I still think the films are watchable and enjoyable; I just think they're less enjoyable than they were, which is why I'm not paying for the DVDs.
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Back in my day, we had to walk uphill in the snow to see Star Wars. and they didn't even have special effects, we had to act out our own using crude carboard cutouts that we fashioned from paper Pappy made out of discarded wasp nests.
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*owns the Ultimate Star Wars Collection on CAV laserdisc*
I used to love Japanese monster movies. My favorite was Ghidra, The Three-Headed Monster . I really dug the singing midget chicks in the shoebox. I'm watching for that one to come out on DVD even though I know it's gonna seem stupid.
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Yes, "Watcher in the Woods", Thank you! So why were they standing around her on the abandoned church altar chanting?
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I have no idea what any of you are talking about, and I've never seen most of the movies mentioned here. I did see Neverending Story, but I was desperately trying to sleep and kept getting poked in the side to see if I was awake. I'm not fond of the movie.
Although I do remember the Sorrows scene. Even in my annoyance, that made me cry.
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Speaking of Japanese Monster Movies - the Original Godzilla (ゴジラ) is finally being released uncut in its original Japanese form here in the states (sans the american-added Raymond Burr!). It's in very few selected theaters now.
And if ever presented with the opportunity, I would watch it in the original version.
But I hadn't seen the movies before and couldn't understand why folks liked them so much. Now, I think on some levels, I do.
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Okay, I guess maybe Lucas had to change the scene where Han kills Greedo because he had the little kid Greedo be one of Anakin's friends in the podrace. It all comes back to the podracing debacle.
This could have been easily solved by having Jar Jar Binks be the one that Han cleverly blows away. Now that would be an improvement.
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And then there are movies that you enjoy just as much now, but for a different reason.
Mysterious Island was a favorite as a child, even though I didn't pay much attention to Beth Rogan's buckskin minidress back then.
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quote:Yes, "Watcher in the Woods", Thank you! So why were they standing around her on the abandoned church altar chanting?
Because Karen and her buds were just playing around... and then there was this huge electrical disturbance involving lightning that switched Karen into the parallel dimension and the alien being into ours.
Hmmm... of course it could be that their playing around AND the lightning combined did the deed.
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1st time I saw it was at 3 in the morning and I was in a weird mood from exhaustion, and I thought it was hilarious. One afternoon a few weeks later I rented it and made my sister and BIL watch it with me -- and apologized to them once it was over for making them sit through that piece of garbage.
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quote:Of course, I was also the kid yelling battle tactics to "Star Blazers" at the tender age of 8.
I agree. You have a wave motion gun. There's an enemy fleet.
Why is the decision what to do next hard? There are few tactical problems that cannot be solved by correct application of the wave motion gun.
And why didn't they just form Voltron and then the Blazing Sword whenever they saw a ro-beast? I mean, really. We know you're going to do it. The ro-beast knows you're going to do it. Hagger knows you're going to do it.
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The Earth forces couldn't figure out why the Comet Empire launched wave after wave of fighters at their enemies well ahead of the main attack force.
My response was, "and you people managed to build a wave motion gun?"
Loved it as a kid. Tried watching it as an adult. Bored, couldn't watch more than half an hour -- NOT a film that adults can watch, too.
(Now, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -- there's a movie I saw as a kid, and that I STILL love as an adult -- lots of grown-up humor in there that I was oblivious to as a kid.)
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You know, as much as I despise the Greedo scene, it's not enough to bar me from getting these movies on dvd.
And lets look at all the positives. Tons of great background changes in all three movies. The best movie of the three of them(Empire) is also the best Special Edition, with mostly background changes only and it'd be worth it to have that alone on dvd. There's a great bonus dvd with some pretty cool special features. The main one being a 2 and half hour documentary about the history of Star Wars. And last, he's even gone back and redone the Greedo scene again. This time Han fires back lightning quick, like he was about to shoot anyway. And realistically he was. The whole scene building up to that is Han getting his blaster out of its holster and preparing to shoot. In the long run, if Greedo got his shot off first, is it really that bad? Especially now that they pretty much shoot at the same time anyway?
Also, the Neverending Story was and IS awesome to this day. Yet Sax is right that it pales in comparison to the book. Which is still one of my favorites and most read books of all time.
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I partially agree about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I found parts of it quite thrilling as a kid; especially when all the grubby little kids come pouring into the palace and take over. Now it's just so-so. Some of the songs, though, still make me smile.
"From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success."
Besides, I can now appreciate exactly how scrumptious Truly Scrumptious is. Yum.
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I loveChitty Chitty Bang Bang! I never cared for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, though, probably because I read the Dahl books long before I saw the movie, and it didn't conform to my expectations. The movie was cheesy.
My entry? Amazon Women on the Moon. I own it, so I still watch it from time to time, but the first half dozen times I watched it I thought it was freaking brilliant. Now it's just mildly funny much of the time.
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And the neat thing is that it wasn't anything witchy... there was some sort of dimensional rip, and Karen and this alien being switched places... and that's why the area has been "haunted" by this unseen force.
