omg this movie used to scare the hell out of me when i was a kid..but of course now...




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Fury said:

I love Shazam! and Isis! Even better if you read the 1940's comics. So hokey!

Well done!

fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view) every comic book, cartoon and TV show from my childhood is a Hollywood movie or is currently in production.

the results are mixed. i think Spidey is as cool as he ever was, but everything else isn't as good as it was when i was a nipper.

whistle said:

I used to watch Battle of the Planets, and now I watch it and it's SO SLOW!!!!!

ZombieKitten said:

Thundercats Hooo!

i just watched THIS for the first time since i was little:



and OH MY GOD, talk about hidden subtext. who knew pete's dragon was a loosely concealed metaphor for queer love? they should have called it PETE'S DRAG QUEEN!

Anxiety said:

flippin 'ell, Anxiety! i never noticed that before. i never read queer subtext into anything when i was a kid, i just liked what i liked.

whistle said:

i guess i didn't even know what "queer" WAS when i was a kid, but listening to those lyrics NOW, oh my god. someone get adam lambert on the phone.

I watched The Lion King not too long ago and god damn those guys must have been doing some radical drugs because its so colourful and vibrant through most of the movie.

oh, and i used to LOVE superstretch and microwoman from the Super 7 cartoon. they usually dressed in disco formalwear, but this is the only clip i could find.
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I loved this movie when it first came out.



But I watched it many years later when it was on VH1, and other than the amazing dance moves, I was like "WTF was I thinking?"

After Farrah Fawcett passed away, I was talking to my kids about her past in the 70's. The Million Dollar Man, came up...my poor kids where looking at me like this.

omg what about this?

Yeah. Lidsville and HR PuffnStuff

FURY!!!!! OMG!

I have not thought about EQUINOX in such a long time. I get very obsessed sometimes over dumb stuff,and that was one movie I was always looking for. The obsession continues.

Shazam and Isis were the shiz!

This is all the stuff from mid elementary school!

I haven't rewatched Power Rangers since I was a kid seeing it for the first time, but even from what I remember I know now it was pure shit!

On the other hand, anyone remember Gargoyles? I recently bought season one on DVD and it's fucking brilliant! There's so much intensity that went right over my head as a kid -literary references, bits of real life history and world mythology thrown in, even social commentary. It's genius. I have a whole new, deeper appreciation for it now, though I'm convinced that being sold to Disney was a misstep on the creator's part. It seems to me it was supposed to have been a fairly serious animated fantasy show geared at adults.

meow85 said:

I freakin loved gargoyles.

And 'Mummies Alive'

A lot of cartoons. My brother downloaded the first season of "Thundercats""since we dug it as kids, we even had an action figure. Anyway if you watch it now it's pretty crap, one fighting scene only had sound effects and no music. Also no feeling in the voice acting at all.

DanceWme said:

Gargoyles was my shit. I used to run around pretending to be Demona. I made my little sister be Bronx.

Pretty sure I only ever saw a few eps of Mummies Alive, and I don't remember much about it.

meow85 said:

do u remember 'mighty ducks' ?

i made my brother memorize the song so we could sing it in two part harmony


he hates me till this day for that

DanceWme said:

I do!

How about Darkwing Duck?

Or Count Duckula?





Damn, there were a lot of duck-themed cartoons in the early 90's....

sinisterpentatonic said:

oh the memories - I'm sorry but still love the stuff!!

meow85 said:

Oh man, and ducktales right they aired that here too late 80s.

Dangermouse
Captain Pugwash (and Master Bates ---oh yes the jokes on that one!!)

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

All of those were great.

I think I read somewhere that Sam Raimi drew some inspiration for Evil Dead I and II from Equinox.

Two of my earliest crushes: The black and the blond Bugaloos...


These chicks might have been my first objects of diva worship...


And needless to say, I wanted one of these...


And, no, I don't look at these and think WTF?!?! In fact, I think they STILL are Emmy material!
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Howard the Duck.
Really....WTF was I thinking.

Big.
I used to love this movie, but now, I'm not sure why.

Family Matters.
This shit is corny as hell.

Full House.
See above.

Problem Child 1&2
Again... what was I thinking. Better yet, what was John Ritter thinking when he accepted the role as Junior's dad?

728huey said:

Me too! I must have watched this 100 times! Now, I can't believe I overlooked Lucinda Dickey's horrible acting, among other atrocities! I still like the dance moves though.