This is a movie I used to love and had completely forgotten about until I stumbled upon it today. Anybody else know of any obscure movies like this I can't seem to remember. Some I've recently rented for my son: Flight of the navigator, Innerspace, the last starfighter.
shareBattle Beyond The Stars
Space Raiders
Galaxina
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Lifeforce
Stranded
Communion
Pulse
Slipstream
Blade Runner
Robot Jox
Space Mutiny
My Science Project
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
I-Man
The Quiet Earth
Alien Nation
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Masters of the Universe
Gremloids
Outland
to name but a few ;)
saw Explores on film4 , must of seen it years and years ago when i must of been really young, couldnt remember a lot but i rememberd some of the surreal imagery, funny how it stays in your memory,
ive got some more really vague memories of another film which i must of seen a good 15 or so years ago, involing a kid whos somewhere with some toy like creatures, monkey type thing and a trapdoor which was like a portal somewhere?
any clues?
Little Monsters starring Fred Savage?
shareHow about:
Space Camp
B.R.A.T.
I-Man
Not Quite Human
I'm going to make one big list of everyones names.
1.Monster Squad
2.Dreamscape
3.Flight of the Navigator
(some of my fave 80's chilhood films)
does anyone remeber a movie think it might have beena a tv movie, about two astronauts ins pace doing some repair work or something and one of the gets stranded directly in the glare of the sun and when he gets back to earth he has superpowers which turn his eyes red but are killing him when he uses them? ive been asking for ages everyone i know but no one remeber it, so please help!
shareI remember a similar film where a boy looked at the sun for too long, became blind then had superpowers. Maybe its the same film you're talking about, it was years ago!
Anyway, I'd like to add a cartoon movie to the list if I may.....
Starchaser, the legend of Orin! Classic film !
"Its the rebels Sir.... They're here, And they've brought a flag!" Eddie Izzard.
How about ...
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Somewhat of a bad movie, but I'll own a copy forever. Gotta love the 80's!
anyone remember a movie about a boy and he finds a doll and it becomes his friend but later the doll is crazy , No its not child's play!! or any chucky movie!!! it came out in mid 80's, I cannot remember this its killing me, it was a a little doll he finds and he finds a picture of the doll with someone and the doll is really alive!! what the hell is this??? lol!!! someone?? anyone??
shareahh I found the movie i have been wondering about for many moons, I saw this in the 80's im 27 years old now and the movie is called making contact, about a boy with powers to make his toys alive and he finds a vantriliquist doll and it has psychic powers just as the boy and i remember a hamburger monster in it, this is the movie, anyone remember this one??? it was a great flick back in the 80's childhood days!!
shareand don't forget....
the sheriff and the satelite kid
Hawk the slayer
weird science
battle beyond the stars
"I'd like to live forever but only for a little while!"
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie!!
ruled
Surprised no one (I think) mentioned The Last Starfighter... If you like Explorers you'll love TLS.
Plus, there's an episode of the TV show Amazing Stories that has a plot very similar to Explorers. The kid who played Albert on Little house on the prairie is in it... In this one the Aliens come to earth and everything they know about us is from picking up TV signals.
"Use the Force, Fluke!"
Do you mean "Flight The Navigator"?
shareNo, The Last Starfighter is a far superior film to Flight of the Navigator, even though Navigator was a fun film.
The Last Starfighter was simply fantastic and I really was surprised to not see it on the list of every other poster, or maybe even two-thirds of them. It is that much of a classic 80s film, that it needs to be mentioned at least as often as Goonies is on these lists.
The story was fun, the special effects are still used as a reference in CGI classes (this and Tron were the first two films that ever used full frame CGI) since for the time they were simply incredible, and the score was fantastic.
They keep talking about making a sequel to the film, and even as an adult I would be in line to see that.
I've always loved Explorers. Everyone has great lists, everything that has been mentioned is on my list.
Here are some other SCI-FI movies from the 80' that I fondly remember (though not necessarily all kids movies).
Alien
Back to the Future
Beastmaster
Cocoon
Conan
Empire Strikes Back!
Evil Dead
The Fly
Ghostbusters
Golden Child
LadyHawke
Little Shop of Horrors
MadMax 2 and 3
Mannequin
Masters of the Universe (HE-MAN)
Maximum Overdrive
Millenium
Predator
Princess Bride!!
Repo Man
Return of the Jedi!!
Star Trek
Teen Wolf
Tremors
Toxic Avenger
Young Einstein
Young Sherlock Holmes
-Tek
I may be the youngest person here (19), but growing up in the 90's there were movies from the 80's on tv all the time, plus I grew up listening to a lot of 80's music...here are some of my favorites I plan to add to my DVD collection..
Explorers (duh)
Flight of the Navigator (love this movie)
The Last Starfighter
The Goonies (have it, classic)
D.A.R.Y.L
Short Circuit 1 & 2 (have the first)
Mac and Me (not the best, but i like it anyway haha)
WarGames
Batteries not included
Teen Wolf
Adventures in Babysitting (have it)
Radio Flyer (90's)
Weird Science
The Boy Who Could Fly
E.T. (have it, classic)
Back to the Future
Labyrinth
The Neverending Story (I have part 2, but the first is better)
The Dark Crystal (have it, but on vhs)
The Dirt Bike Kid (I don't think its on dvd yet though)
hmmm theres more but I can't remember, I like alot of movies from the 90's also, but their not as good as the 80's
My faves:
Midnight Madness (Michael J. Fox's film debut)
Clue
Just One of the Guys
The Manhattan Project
National Lampoon's Vacation
Gotcha!
Night of the Comet ("Daddy would have gotten us Uzis")
Some Kind of Wonderful
This thread kick ass.
I spent hours going through some of the recommendation's & revisiting these old classic 80's movies that I seen (& forgot) when I was a kid.
No one seems to have mentioned:
-Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
A classic kids flick & one of the best "Ernest" movies!
I know this is a long shot because so many post here questions about old movies they don't remember the name but...
Could anyone tell me the name of a move (not really sci fi but more like fiction and drama) where a bunch of kids get stranded on an island and they form tribes and kill each other.. ?
And another movie.. but i have less info on this one.. It's about a problematic kid who does all types of vandalisms and his mother so fed up with him that in the end the kid burns his home all down. (ok, this one nor sci fi nor fiction sorry :p)
ok i hope someone out there can tell me a hint. i would appreciate a lot!
Don't know what the second film could be, but the first sounds like LORD OF THE FLIES, which was remade and shown in theatres in 1990.
sharethanks for replying! I guess I'll never find out about the second one in my life :p
cheers from portugal.
Ludovico_88, try the I Need To Know boards. They are pretty good with movie titles. Hope you find it!
I Need To Know: http://former.imdb.com/board/bd0000001/threads/
http://fathersloveletter.com/fllpreviewlarge.html
You know, ludovico 88, you may be remembering more than one film; perhaps two films that were similar to each other..? I would guess that it could be PROBLEM CHILD, from 1990, but I don't recall a house burning down in it... Anyways, good luck searching!
shareRad
Gleaming the cube
Both really good 80's movies
"dream a little dream" was good, too.
"anyone remember a movie about a boy and he finds a doll and it becomes his friend but later the doll is crazy , No its not child's play!! or any chucky movie!!! it came out in mid 80's, I cannot remember this its killing me, it was a a little doll he finds and he finds a picture of the doll with someone and the doll is really alive!! what the hell is this??? lol!!! someone?? anyone??"
I believe your talking about "making contact" also called "Joey" i believe.
some of my faves:
the worst witch
silver bullet
once bitten
clash of the titans
ladyhawke
twilight zone the movie
9 to 5
monster squad
solarbabies
innerspace
supergirl
witchboard
my science project
manhattan project
philadelphia experiment
the other
camerons closet
the gate/gate 2
firestarter
cats eye
god the 80's were great!
"anyone remember a movie about a boy and he finds a doll and it becomes his friend but later the doll is crazy , No its not child's play!! or any chucky movie!!! it came out in mid 80's, I cannot remember this its killing me, it was a a little doll he finds and he finds a picture of the doll with someone and the doll is really alive!! what the hell is this??? lol!!! someone?? anyone??"
I believe your talking about "making contact" also called "Joey" i believe.
some of my faves:
the worst witch
silver bullet
once bitten
clash of the titans
ladyhawke
twilight zone the movie
9 to 5
monster squad
solarbabies
innerspace
supergirl
witchboard
my science project
manhattan project
philadelphia experiment
the other
camerons closet
the gate/gate 2
firestarter
cats eye
god the 80's were great!
Great thread guys, a lot of good memories resurected. Most of the ones I can think of are on the list already but perhaps someone can help me locate another one I've been looking for.
Unfortuantely, I don't have much detail outside of a few vague memories. One thing I can remember is towards the end of the movie there is a fight on an island which sinks when a drop of blood hits the ground. It was a quirky adventure/comedy (slapstick type) with swordfights and possibly a pirate theme around the mid-late 80's.
Here are some from my childhood that I don't think have been mentioned:
The Dungeonmaster
Leonard Part 6
The Keep
Krull
The Cat From Outer Space
Escape to Witch Mountain
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Dune
UHF
The Burbs
Innerspace
I can't believe that EVERYONE forgot "the last starfighter" 1984 video-game based classic hero's journey account of a misunderstood youth who saves his galaxy as well as the alternate universe where he found he houses secret powers of survival and manhood etc. etc. the imdb page is found here
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/
I am amazed that in all those posts about 80's sci-fi flicks not one of you cats mentioned this flick.. tisk tisk..
Yes they did...
sharethe 1978 2 hr pilot of battlestar galatica has got to be in any dodgy sci fi collection
shareFilms I really liked
Airplane!
Big
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Gremlins
Romancing the Stone
Short Circuit
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
The Final Countdown
The Goonies
www.youtube.com/eastangliauk
Flash Gordon
Arena
Robot Jox
Transformers - The Movie
Short Circuit
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids