Nostalgic movies swallowed by time, or Holy crap I remember that...

[Art_of_Crime]

Sometimes I get into discussions with my friends about old movies that we remember but seem to have dropped off the face of the earth. I figured I would start a thread where we can post memories of odd old movies that we enjoyed but no one seems to have seen but you. You may think you had made it up until it pops up someplace. Here are a few that I saw on cable somewhere in the 80's.

The Quest AKA Frog Dreaming. The kid from ET living in Australia hears a legend about a monster called Donkeegan living in a nearby Quarry. He also has this bike he modified so it can ride on railroad tracks. I remember seeing the box in rental places. It was a really odd movie.

Christopher Lee as a badass knight and Christian Bale when he was 11ish. For a few years I thought I had made this up. Then I found it on youtube. Bread to end all hunger, a giant disembodied head that takes a kid to the land of faraway, a knight with a stone heart.

This movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. First person camera chasing people, cryptic storytelling visions in a mirror.

 

[C. Lee]

THE QUEST was a fun little movie. THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS was good, but not that scary to me...I mainly watched it because of Lynn Holly Johnson. I've heard of the FARAWAY movie, but never had the chance to see it.

 

[Art_of_Crime]

Before he died Jim Henson had a show called The Jim Henson Hour. He would show productions that were often darker and more intense than the Muppet show or Fraggle Rock. I think in there he ran episodes of a show called The Storyteller. I remember one called Hans My Hedgehog. Kind of a Beauty and the Beast story.

 

[C. Lee]

They put the STORYTELLER shows out on DVD a few years ago. It's a neat show...a combination of his makeup/muppetlike appliances and other special effects tricks. John Hurt is the "Storyteller" and it's full of various guest stars.

 

[Art_of_Crime]

They put the STORYTELLER shows out on DVD a few years ago. It's a neat show...a combination of his makeup/muppetlike appliances and other special effects tricks. John Hurt is the "Storyteller" and it's full of various guest stars.

Yeah I saw that it was on netflix along with the Greek stories.

 

[gwynplaine]

No nostalgia here. Just masterpieces swallowed by time:

_ Leo Mc Carey's Ruggles of Red Gap.
_ Raoul Walsh's The Roaring twenties.
_ Peckinpah's Ride the High country.
_ Michael Cimino's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

 

[danoyse]

I remember The Watcher in the Woods. They actually showed that in my elementary school and it scared the hell out of half the kids.

There were a ton of movies I remember because HBO ran them virtually on a loop when I was a kid:

Misunderstood: another Henry Thomas movie, with Gene Hackman as his dad who can't deal with his kids after their mother dies
Midnight Madness: a Disney movie about an all-night college scavenger hunt. I think it was Michael J. Fox's first movie and he looked about 9.
The Earthling: I'm still traumatized from seeing little Ricky Schroeder's parents accidentally drive off of a cliff in a camper.

 

[Art_of_Crime]

There were a lot of extreme sports movies in the 80's and 90's. they basically all had the same plot, but were fun nonetheless.

 

[bullets]

Airborne ...wow... used to watch that every time it was on tv.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Mans sex robot breaks, goes on adventure with hot lady to get new one, pair fall in love. sex robot eventually meaningless.
Good soundtrack.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Indian in the Cupboard.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Indian in the Cupboard.

I loved that movie as a child. The book it was based on too!

 

[Jochimus]

Midnight Madness: a Disney movie about an all-night college scavenger hunt. I think it was Michael J. Fox's first movie and he looked about 9.

Wow, I haven't that seen that movie in ages, and yet I still remember it. Gotta love any Disney movie aimed at teens that essentially plugs a major brewery as one of its locations.

 

[Gunga Diner]

This thread is gold.

Night of the Comet

Not sure if this is old enough, but it was certainly a blast from the past for me when I remembered it.

Maybe I'm so fascinated by that movie not so much because it's nostalgic. I think the best way to describe my feelings would be "Holy ****, this movie actually exists."

 

[Kane52630]

Indian in the Cupboard.

Yess! I remember having the VHS tape of that.

Who remembers these?

 

[Gunga Diner]

Yess! I remember having the VHS tape of that.

Who remembers these?

The latter two are hardly obscure. I remember seeing them in theaters.

 

[Banana-Hotdog]

I'm sure this movie would suck if I watched it today, but I loved watching it as a kid (was probably too young to be watching it...). Also, a lot of people don't want to believe it exists. Russel Crowe is a super serial killer created by a police virtual reality simulator. He escapes the system and Denzel Washington, the only cop to ever catch Russel Crowe in the simulator, is released from prison (yeah...) because he is the only chance we have of catching Russel Crowe who can also regenerate from his wounds if he eats glass shards.

 

[JoeyConQueso]

Willow was THE fantasy movie for me as a kid, and personally it seems to have been lost in time.

 

[danoyse]

Willow was THE fantasy movie for me as a kid, and personally it seems to have been lost in time.

Willow was awesome.

 

[Abaddon]

No one I know remembers the Josh Kirby movies.

 

[Timstuff]

This movie is quirky, cheesy, and awesome. It's like The Road Warrior meets Star Wars. Hunt down this under-appreciated gem if you have not already.

 

[Drizzle]

Two live-action/animated Disney movies from my childhood that nobody seems to acknowledge:

 

[WildcatNC]

Willow was THE fantasy movie for me as a kid, and personally it seems to have been lost in time.

Labyrinth is what got me on the fantasy wagon. That and the red Advanced Dungeons and Dragons boxed set, which got me into Tolkien.

I loved Willow back in the day too.

 

[Timstuff]

The animated version of The Hobbit is what got me into fantasy.

Even today it still looks great and holds up quite nicely.

 

[Drizzle]

The animated version of The Hobbit is what got me into fantasy.

Even today it still looks great and holds up quite nicely.

I remember Cartoon Network used to show that one constantly, especially around the time that the LOTR trilogy was in theaters.