Not enough is done to thank them for their service
Even though Hollywood celebrity Rich Evans is kind enough to grace their miserable lives with his presence
Watching it as an adult it's amazing to see how little effort they put into it.
I played with my He-man shit constantly, and watched the cartoon. As an adult, it's apparent that the cartoon was extremely low effort.
The "Masters of the Universe" live action movie suuuuuuuuuuucks
Thankful was used to pirate HBO in my house, somehow the old analogue signal came in without us having to pay. ofc the cable company had no clue so it owned. Saw so many movies as a kid and shit I shouldn't have seen like Real Sex and Taxi Cab Confessions
Yeah we had a pirate cable box we inherited from my grandfather. Saw so much great shit for free until the damn cable companies changed shit up to make the tech obsolete
Not sure if it was a pirate box we had or what but I do remember those. Man shit sucks today, sucked back then, but still.
My dad had a descrambler box in the early 80s. Skin-a-max wouldn't come along until much later with their one of a kind late night programming, but holy shit did I watch a lot of HBO in 1981. For a while, I think HBO had Star Wars on a constant loop. That and Chariots of Fire, which theme is burned into my memories like a cattle brand.
Thanks to trump we now call cult classics “tax write offs no one will see”
My understanding is that it was part of a tax bill that allows a company to write off depreciation immediately by reducing the usable life of a product instead of taking a percentage of a loss over multiple years.
When I looked into it, there are a lot of “well ackshually” articles about how destroying Batgirl was not tax advantageous
'03 baby but grew up poor with a box tv, nobody else my age knew what VHS tapes were. The Land Before Time and The Little Toaster were dope
edit: I had both worlds eventually, when I was like 8 my parents got me a janky android tablet with netflix, so for a big part of my childhood I was switching between cable, VHS movies, and streaming
I swear I dreamed the entirety of The Little Toaster the night before I saw it for the first time. Then I saw it probably 40 more times. I have almost no memory of it now.
Went to the library and borrowed Star Wars: A New Hope I don't know how many times before my mom finally just bought a copy
This ignores a very important factor in decades that are defined by new technology: money
Doesn't matter what the latest gizmo is, if you grew up in a household that was strapped for cash, your childhood will have more in common with the previous generation than with your peers.
This was definitely my experience. I was born in '95, but we were still buying VHS tapes (from Goodwill) well into the late aughts. I still had a small collection of them up until I moved out, but I didn't bring them with me
If more people watched The Last Unicorn the world would be a better place
That scene where the one lady is yelling at the unicorn, asking the unicorn why she didn't visit 20 years ago, 10 years ago, back when the lady had more innocence and hope. She starts crying but the unicorn nuzzles into her face, accepting her as she is. It's the best scene.
I didn't get it as a kid cause I didn't know unicorns and virginity etc. Means a lot more with age.
oh, I had never connected it to virginity, although that angle works too. I just thought Molly had lost hope in ever seeing something magical. She had childhood imagination about magic, unicorns, fairies, etc but grew up into being a mundane normal sort of woman. The unicorn's answer is so good, "I'm here now."
Also, "Beware wousing a rizard's wrath!" lol
Sadly they won't be able to watch "Aliens for Breakfast", a made for tv movie we watched over and over featuring Sinbad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2XdeUum9n8 with commercials too
Not a lot of people know what I'm talking about when I bring up BeetleBorgs. They'll all know Power Rangers, but the BeetleBorgs are King.
BEETLEBORGS METALLIX!
I was about 28 when I realized that Jay Leno was not, in fact, in BeetleBorgs.
I somehow always forget about his character even though he's like the main plot device initiating the whole thing.
BeetleBorgs is the same tier as VR Troopers in the Power Rangers pyramid.
I'm still mad at that show for exactly one episode. The actress who played the Red Beetleborg gets replaced in episode 39. I'm not mad at her getting replaced, just the contrivance of the plot. She gets hit by some kind of space beam that makes her look slightly different (because it's a different actress now). And the episode's plot is about trying to make her look normal again. But all they manage to do is make her look normal to most people, but the audience and main characters will still see her altered appearance.
Just replace the character, holy shit. Make a new red beetleborg how hard is it
My family loved "Nothing But Trouble" and watched it all the time. It wasn't until last year I learned that the movie is almost universally panned as Akroyd's worst movie
Wow. I had a physical reaction processing anyone loving this movie.
Watched Robin Hood: Men in Tights for the first time while baked out of my mind and thought that movie was hilarious. On sober rewatch, it's kinda mid.
Actually only saw this a couple times, but the first time I saw it was in the theater, sitting in the front row like a dumbass.
I almost definitely saw it in theaters but all I remember about it is watching it on vhs, all day erryday.
Same with old games in the $5 bin. Whatch y'all know about fucking Zoop for SNES and Glover for the N64
Zoop for SNES
Pretty cool. My mom liked it.
Glover for the N64
What a mess. I'd rather be playing Chameleon Twist.
As a kid, I legit was like well we have no money so I should try to enjoy this game mom bought me because be it was thoughtful. A disaster of a game
I also had Zoop from a cheap bin. Never did figure out how to play it lmao.
Don't worry, theres an enormous amount of slop available for under a tenner on the Nintendo store
I long for the days when I got all my games on cd-r from my cousins because they had faster internet
