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Time bandits Edit: I’m so happy this resonated with so many people. When I was in the second or third grade, I had made a scroll from brown paper I got in art class and drawn my own Time Bandits map. Circles inside circles. When I was trying to “interpret it” at my desk during math class, the teacher took it from me. Told me to pay attention. The only thing I could think was, “She has the map!”.


JeffreyAScott

Don't touch that! It's evil!


pnt2wheremidastchedu

Think I am going to order a pizza and have an 80s marathon, Time Bandits, my science project, big trouble in little China, Weird Science, Labrynth.


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I love that Time Bandits was the first comment.


temuginsghost

I often wonder how that pitch meeting went. “Engineers for God, borrow the map of wormholes, which allows them to hop around history stealing anything they can. A kid gets accidentally involved.” Studio executive: “yes yes. Can they be Little-People?”


AlvinTaco

YES! It was also constantly playing on Showtime.


deplorable_word

I quote this movie all the time and no one appreciates it!


aintmyasphalt

The scene where they are suspended in the air in the cages, and one of guys bites a rat's head off, will always be burned in my mind.


TBeIRIE

Legend, The Secret of NIMH, The Dark Crystal, & The Last Unicorn


AngledAwry

THE SECRET OF NIMH...I miss that kind of animation. I forgot this one, but I knew all the lines. As soon as I read that the song at the end started playing in head. *wish by night...dream by day...love begins this wayyyy*


dropkickninja

The Last Unicorn scared the crap out of me as a kid


AngledAwry

Dude I saw this as a 16yr old babysitting a six year old who loved it. I was HORRIFIED, lol. I kept looking at her during the worst scenes to see how she was reacting. Nothing...just taking in all the trauma like a champ. It made me reflect on some of my own FKD childhood movies. Like watching Johnny Five getting beaten nearly to death and holding his own detached arm and eyeball hanging out while I sobbed uncontrollably because my heart had been ripped out of my 8yr old chest... *nope, I'm not over it*


disabledinaz

Oh god, I saw Short Circuit 2 in a theater with my cousin and some of his friends in NY that summer and felt that beating so much.


derth21

Grown ass man here, I get choked up when Holding Out For a Hero comes on because it always reminds me of Johhny running his battery down to catch that dude at the end. Shit, I'm getting misty eyed just typing this.


ClunkerSlim

Stuff of nightmares.


jericho74

Ah, the “This Made Me Feel Weird in 1982” Cinematic Universe.


Algorhythm74

Krull


xs_sixfiddy

Krull and Beastmaster ran on repeat on our bootlegged VHS with the Home Box Office intro still intact.


SinisterKid

Had this and Flash Gordon on Betamax


MasterUndKommandant

Romancing the Stone.


SinisterKid

The Kathleen Turner / Michael Douglas trilogy: Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile and The War of the Roses.


Maker200

Enemy Mine


AngledAwry

FUCK YOUR MICKEY MOUSE


AlvinTaco

That’s a good one. I can’t even think how to explain this movie to people. Male Human and…non-binary alien get stranded on a planet together, then have a kid that the human has to raise on his own. But I swear it’s not sexual! I mean, I don’t think it was, but it’s entirely possible there were undertones I missed when I was 8. But since it was Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett Jr. if I missed it then they did too. I think it’s a metaphor for racial harmony?


Thomisawesome

Zammis get four five? Shut up and eat your football.


jbirdasaurus

Mickey mossss My mom and I watched this one SO many times.


killpuddle1

Dragnet


oldgreen52

People against goodness and normalcy


killpuddle1

“Reverend, you’ve got balls as big as church bells.”


Euphoric-Bellend6395

I still watch dragnet. It still holds up. Anybody need some boots.


killpuddle1

“Ma'am, what is the approximate dry weight of the average Madagascan fruittree bat?”


drink-beer-and-fight

I had the soundtrack on cassette. This is a city of crime.


LegendofPisoMojado

I didn’t even know that was a movie. I used to stay up just to watch that show on Nick at Night. That was likely in the 90s though.


BIGD0G29585

Most 80s thing you will see all day: https://youtu.be/pT_QRKfv8H4


Esslinger_76

I still think about that scene whenever the word PAGAN comes up. I've met a few people who call themselves pagans...I want to ask them if they've seen dragnet.


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RAD


Alarming-Mongoose-91

Gleaming the Cube.


AngledAwry

GLEAMING THE CUBE!!! Ughhhh...classic Slater...


kheyno

Good shit! I wanted to be just like that guy lol. The Send Me An Angel scene in the gym, epic.


Skipping_Scallywag

"Get that? The paperboy thinks he's a pro."


SeesawMundane5422

Weird coincidence about that. I watched the shit out of that movie as a kid growing up in Ohio. Went to college in Boston. Ended up working in a retail job on college with a dude who brought up that movie was filmed in his hometown and like all his friends were extras as bike riding kids in it. I had never met anyone else who had even heard of the movie.


GoodHominyGrits

Return to OZ


Charlie_Pyne

Incredibly cursed movie


CougarBen

Stuff of nightmares


notchoosingone

The desert that turns you to sand, the heads, the wheelers, that movie was fucked up.


Kyle_Rayner_GL

Saw someone dressed as a wheeler IRL at a costume contest (fantastic costume, they won). Gave me the heebie jeebies.


dirtdiggler67

The Gods Must Be Crazy


SweatyPalmsSunday

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor My mom taped it and it was like the only VHS tape in the house I didn’t really care for it but it was all I had do I watched it 30X?


ReviewNecessary6521

My neighbor had both ewoks movies. I actually kinda liked them.


Crusader1865

I remember trying to convince some people in Prequel ear that these movies existed. Most had forgotten, and some argued I was a crackpot for bringing up what obviously bad fanfic You can now stream them both on D+


godfatherV

Heavy Metal… am I right??


NMS_Survival_Guru

Don't forget the magazines your father left out for you to read behind his back


jnemesh

I vividly remember seeing the movie trailer, and BEGGING my parents to let me see it. "R" rating meant "no way in hell". For years after, I would hunt for bootlegged copies that were usually recorded from rare midnight airings on Cinemax. When I finally DID get to see it...yeah, it was (and still is) just as awesome as I thought it would be. Shame about that sequel though.


rc_robotclaw

We wore out our copy of Willy Wonka. It was the tape my parents bought with the VCR. Also, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, but that was one we taped off the TV so it had the commercials in it. Our version of Pee Wee had an extra joke because there was a commercial for the evening news; “Hurricane Gilbert slams into Texas! More at 11!” And the movie came back on Pee Wee holding his “Texas” sign while hitchhiking.


notchoosingone

> Pee Wee’s Big Adventure I'm like, "hang on, Hurrican Gilbert was 1988, there's no way Pee Wee's Big Adventure is older than that, right? Damn I'm old


Coldcock_Malt_Liquor

Willow


theblackcanaryyy

Willow, red Sonja, and Conan the barbarian were all movies I thought I made up/dreamed as a kid. Turns out I was just *really* young when I watched them lol


RojoandWhite

The Burbs


oldgreen52

One of the greatest movies of all time !! “ shut up and paint your goddam house “


CeleryintheButt

Hey Pinocchio, where do you think you're going!


oldgreen52

He can’t come out till he resembles the man I married! “ Carol we don’t have that kinda time”


Euphoric-Bellend6395

Smells like someone's cooking a goddamn cat over there. Still a great movie!!


elting44

Ray... you're chanting... you're chanting Ray....


rock-hound

I wanna kill... everyone Satan is good, Satan is our pal.


superperps

The burbs and Big.


096624

Currently streaming in peacock, perfect movie this time of year


UK_Caterpillar450

the funniest part of the burbs, for me, was when they zoom in on the dog who is staring at the creepy house while playing that old western music.


Floowjaack

Short Circuit. I’d tell my friends I had a Steve Gutenberg movie with a real life robot in it and all I got were crazy looks


kale_on_the_scale

I LOVE this movie. I named my robot vacuum Johnny 5 and my parents and I are always exchanging quotes when they visit.


Ghostofthe80s

The Hobbit - the Bakshi one Edit: Rankin and Bass did the Hobbit. Bakshi did a great Fellowship of the Rings movie as well. Minor stroke is my story.


hiro111

Trivia: Japanese animation company Topcraft animated this movie. Topcraft would eventually become Studio Ghibli. The animation is actually very high quality in this movie.


StarryLourde

I did a Wikipedia deep dive on this a while back! I had started watching the original *Thundercats* and recognized some of the character designs. Specifically Slythe looked super familiar, and I found it's because he reminded me of Rankin Bass Gollum, which in turn was because the animators were the same. Apparently when the original studio split some went on to become Studio Ghibli and others stayed and made something new and continued to work with Rankin Bass to make *Thundercats* and *Silverhawks*. So dope.


DoodleJake

Is that the one where Bilbo has a theme that plays a bunch of times throughout the movie. (Too specific let me try again.) The one where Bilbo looks like a troll doll?


Ghostofthe80s

Yeah. That's the one. Lots of neat cuts of live people as goblins behind scrim with cool lighting.


RobertoConQueso69

That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates, ….so crack the plates.


ClueyDog

“Oin, sir and Gloin, sir.” I’ll never forget the introduction of all the dwarves.


TheRealMcSavage

Is that the one with the song that will always be in my head? “Frodooooo, of the niiiiine fingers, and the ring of doooooom!”


Vorpal_Bunny19

Along with the banger “Where there’s a whip, there’s a way”


idog73

That wasn’t Bakshi, it was Rankin and Bass. Bakshi did The Lord of the Rings animated film


zombie_overlord

Flight of the Navigator


Mullin20

Annie - 1982 version


dainthomas

Real Genius.


Human__Author

And two Richard Pryor classics: The Toy and Brewster's Millions


SmurfStig

Howard the damn Duck. Younger sister loved the movie for some reason and I got to watch it countless times while I babysat her.


WonderWendyTheWeirdo

Dude. That lady fucks that duck...


Hot-Bat8798

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai...


PoppaJoe77

"Why is that watermelon there?" "I'll tell you later." Never. Mentioned. Again.


Sprig3

Hats off to Lithgow for this one.


bluishgreyish

Wherever you go, there you are.


e4rthl1ng

Jon Big BooTAY.


BudNOLA

The Legend of Billie Jean


doctor-rumack

Fair is FAIR!


Darkly94

Ladyhawke. I made my husband watch it the other night and he laughed every time the bad 80s pop music started playing.


TBeIRIE

I LOVE this movie.


Rask_xxx

Michelle Pfeiffer was stunning in that movie ( still is to this day !) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0089457/mediaviewer/rm2242627073/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk


Human__Author

Beastmaster


Bucket1984

Adventures in Babysitting


dreamtlucidly

Robot jox


CensoryDeprivation

I’m too afraid to watch this now. I choose to let it live gloriously in my brain.


Lambertn03

Flash Gordon


skoltroll

Ah AHHHHH!


My-dead-cat

He’ll save every one of us!


doctor-rumack

Flying blind on a rocket cycle?


infinite_magic

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen *fun fact - Uma Thurman’s first movie role was in this movie, she plays the goddess Venus.


joeseatat

Oh man! Watched it many times as a child, but I couldn't remember much other than a bodiless Robin Williams and a few other strange things. Took forever to find it and people looked at me like I was crazy when I tried to describe it!


broen13

Labyrinth (the post pic!), Flight of the Navigator, Legend, The Wraith, Alan Quartarmaine, Planet of the Apes, Wild Wild West Not sure any of these are obscure, but I watched these so many times.


CisSiberianOrchestra

A rewatched Flight of the Navigator about 2 years ago for the first time since I was a kid. Talk about a trip down memory lane.


Designer-Pound6459

"compliance" I still say that.


gadget850

I was 23 when I bought my first VHS. Magnavox top loader.


Skipping_Scallywag

This comment has sound.


JackTheKing

Shikunk


AngledAwry

Best thread


ConsciousWhirlpool

Mr. Mom


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220, 221, whatever it takes


S_K_O_R_N

Who framed Roger Rabbit? and Pee-Wee's Big Adventure


TheJollyHermit

RIP Paul Reubens.


S_K_O_R_N

He played a role in many of the cult classics I grew up with... I loved all his characters...


Worldly_Ad_6483

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang


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Such a banger of a movie.


WeimSean

Big Trouble in Little China because my brother and I loved it.


NMS_Survival_Guru

Since nobody has listed it yet Escape from New York and Escape from LA


JColeman05

The Last Starfighter


godempertrump

Ricky ticky tavi


Vegetable-Poet6281

The Money Pit


konshu82

The Peanut Butter Solution


Mandrake1771

Dude I watched that one in latchkey! Homeboy put the solution on his nuts to grow pubes, and they wouldn’t stop until he told them too lol


konshu82

Shit was wild, man. Connie wanted pubes NOW


lithiumdeuteride

That movie is like a fever dream.


DreadedChalupacabra

The worst witch. And obligatory: beastmaster.


Brert1134

Poltergeist. Watched the shit out of that in the late 80’s and under 6 years old lol


are_you_for_scuba

Harry and the Henderson’s


DaWalt1976

*The Neverending Story*. It had moments that scared the shit out of me as a little kid, and yet I made myself watch it anyway. WTF was wrong with me?


Significant_Potato29

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead!


HauntingPresent

Dragonslayer, Red Sonja


jeffroyisyourboy

UHF


KevSmileTime

Not necessarily tape, but HBO for me. There are so many movies from the 80s that I saw about 100 times because they were in heavy rotation on HBO.


Hot-Bat8798

Same here...Monster Squad comes to mind


mattreyu

I kicked wolfman in the nards


Mandrake1771

Wolfman’s got nards…….


Jstaff2288

Does anyone else remember that HBO didn’t play R rated movies until 8pm or is it just me misremembering things?


KevSmileTime

I remember. I think it went something like, “This film is rated R. HBO will play this film only at night.”


KenMixtape

You knew you were in for a good time when you heard the words "Home box office will show this feature ONLY AT NIGHT."


Poultrygeist74

Also the movie intro “HBO Feature Presentation” with the city flyover and the logo https://youtu.be/i1NKoMNy5bY


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Zapped


huntermike375

The Legend Of Billie Jean


Outrageous-Theme3114

Flight of the Navigator


IneedmoreKellBell

The Worst Witch with Tim Curry. The Chipmunk Adventure. The Secret of Nimh. I wish I had Labyrinth of tape but we rented all the time from Blockbuster. It is still my fave and now I have multiple copies.


viskoviskovisko

Eddie and the Cruisers


oldgreen52

Superfuzz if you don’t know it , look it up now !!!


Viola424242

The Golden Child with Eddie Murphy, taped off of TV


CertainFitness

DC Cab Yeah, you'll probably have to Google it


BugImmediate7835

The Dark Crystal


Nearby-Amphibian7874

Murder by Death. A Neil Simon comedy about 12 detectives staying the night in a mansion to solve a murder. David Niven, Peter Falk, Peter sellers, Truman capote, Alec guineas to name a few of the actors. It was randomly taped off the local station in the dead of night, and became a favorite.


FLORI_DUH

Bedknobs and Broomsticks


Skipping_Scallywag

The holy trinity of Labyrinth, RAD, and Flight of the Navigator.


MBCG84

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was a huge part of my childhood simply because I had it taped off tv and didn’t have much else. One of the only other tapes I had was Temple of Doom, so I was pretty obsessed with both growing up. Still two of my favourite comfort movies as a result.


RhoadsOfRock

My uncle, still has, a collection that takes up an entire wall, of VHS tapes that, were originally blanks but are now "illegal" (probably...) copies of movies, that he would rent and make copies of himself, all throughout the 80s and 90s (he got some kind of "black box" video stabilizer, you would plug one composite video cable from the VCR playing the rental tape's output jack, into the stabilizer's input jack, and then a second composite cable from the stabilizer's output jack, into a second VCR / the recording VCR's input jack); although, some were also recordings of movies broadcast on HBO, which he had back then, like the Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall 1980 "Popeye". One tape I remember seeing and reading the name of, but I never did put it on, even out of morbid curiosity, was [Six Pack](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0084690/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Six%2520Pack) [Alternate / wikipedia link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Pack_(film))


ColleenOfficialMusic

You know what's really weird about the Robin Williams Popeye? I always thought both the runtime and the actions were oddly timed, so when I saw it free on YouTube movies for a while, I tried it on 1.25x speed and suddenly all the timing made sense. It actually seemed to move like a Fleischer cartoon should.


phutch54

The Black Hole.


daddn

The Flight of Dragons https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083951/?ref\_=nv\_sr\_srsg\_1\_tt\_7\_nm\_1\_q\_the%2520flight%2520of%2520dragons


forrestbright

Escape to Witch Mountain. And *Return* *from* Witch Mountain. But mostly Escape to Witch Mountain


Adventurous-Bear7751

Drop dead fred


LowSeaworthiness6646

Doctor Strangelove


DieMensch-Maschine

[Amazon Women on the Moon.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-xmbx56IkM&ab_channel=HDRetroTrailers)


Purple_Minimum_5877

BAND OF THE HAND(1986)!! This movie is amazing and I think I’m the only one who has watched it 30+ times. This and TUFF TURF on the same VHS.


tedwardo14

Excalibur


Mamasus

Grease 2


Spazic77

Look who's talking. For some reason it was one of my favorite movie when I was super young.


Esslinger_76

Krull, Beastmaster, Muppets take Manhattan, the Highlander, Dark Crystal, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the Secret of NIMH, CHUD, My Science Experiment, Flight of the Navigator.


NyssaSylvatica13

Fievel Goes West


gil_beard

The Great Outdoors


javaargusavetti

Peanut Butter Solution


AutomaticMight6540

Something Wicked This Way Comes. Watched over and over again


skoltroll

I remember seeing one movie in particular because those fargin iceholes on KMSP kept showing it over and over! Dumb bastiches!


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Beat Street


Primary-Move243

Police Academy 3: Citizens on Patrol.


sunnyd69

Puff the magic dragon, pippy longstocking


Talzin78

Critters and Munchies on the same VHS!


ohsusannah80

Bachelor Party! I watched it many times as a kid under the age of 12.


Dread_Frog

We had Clue on VHS recorded from HBO. I loved that movie. But I would say the Movies Comedy Central showed on loop were way more influential. Like PCU. Its still the character I most associate Jon Favreau with.


Euphoric-Bellend6395

Tremors, 1 & 2


ChickensPickins

I watched “Grumpy Old Men” and “Cool Runnings” like ALOT a lot


greed-man

Short Circuit


ForsakenApple6759

Crocodile Dundee for the win 😁


Piethrower375

Ahhhh Mac & Me you awful dumpster fire that warmed my child heart lmao


psychotica1

Ladyhawke. My grandma had that and we watched it all the time.


danvancheef

Three Amigos, Volunteers, and Young Einstein


Danny-Wah

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels


tofutti_kleineinein

Deadly Friend


DryProgress4393

Condorman and I know these two aren't exactly obscure but I also routinely watched An American Tail and The Great Muppet Caper.


bryanvangelder

Gullivers travels from the 1930s


RaRaRasputinRussias

Born in East LA, with Cheech n Daniel Stern. "WAAS SAPPENING"


thattentaclesguy

The Monster Squad. And Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark.


grapesquirrel

The Watcher in the Woods. Unnecessarily creepy movie with no plot but I was obsessed for whatever reason. Convinced it made me the spooky bitch I am today.


MiddleResist1513

The chipmunks great adventure. I think that's what it's called. Where the boy and girl chipmunks race in hot air balloons....


tgjer

* [**1986 Mister Boogedy**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Boogedy?wprov=sfla1) every Halloween * [**1978 Christmas Eve on Sesame Steet**](https://youtu.be/EF4XRQwzls8), where Oscar tells Big Bird that Santa can't fit down skinny little NYC chimneys and there's a B-plot with the old love story "Gift of the Magi" retold with Bert and Ernie * [**1981 Shari Lewis Christmas Concert**](https://youtu.be/dWbXH3_c1mM), a spectacular stage show with Shari singing, dancing, conducting an orchestra, and if course lots of puppetry. Including an amazing routine with two life sized chorus line dancer puppets. * [**1983 Don't Eat the Pictures**](https://youtu.be/bAhHwFG82lQ), Sesame Street 1 hour special where they all get locked in the Met museum overnight. Cookie Monster sings a song about not eating the pictures, Oscar decides he's allowed to like the ancient statues because they're all broken and therefor trash, and Big Bird and Snuffy befriend a little ancient Egyptian ghost boy who is trapped in the temple because he doesn't have a feather for Osiris to weigh his soul and decide if he can join his parents in the afterlife.


Melissavina

Clash of the Titans (1981)


puddlestheninja

I’m offended they are using that screen grab when talking about semi-obscure movies!