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Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!
When I was 11 or 12 my dad finally realized he didn't give a poo poo what I watched, so my friend and I were allowed to watch R-Rated Movies (as long as we didn't tell our moms.) Boy oh boy we didn't give a poo poo if they were any good, if it was an R-Rated action, horror, or sci-fi movie we were all the gently caress about it.

We loved:
Creepshow 1, 2 and 3 (actually the first one is pretty sweet)
Robocop 1 and 2 (we actually thought the 3rd one was dumb as poo poo. And we figured out why: IT IS PG-13 LIKE FOR BABIES!)
Death Race 2000
The Blob (The 1988 remake. It's actually kind of the poo poo, super gory and they kill off a kid towards the end, which we thought was loving awesome.)
Sleepwalkers
Total Recall (A sweet movie)
Starship Troopers! (This was the 1st r-rated movie we were allowed to see in the theaters. Some ticket lady tried to rat us out, telling my dad "This is very violent movie." but my dad was like "Then I'm sure they're going to love it. 3 please.")
Speed (This one we actually weren't too in love with, it wasn't quite r-rated enough in our opinions. But we owned the VHS so we still watched it all the time)
All of the Aliens and both Terminators. (Of course. Those were required viewing in the 90s.)

Oh poo poo, AND MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE! That movie was so bad that my mom knew it was R-Rated but she still didn't give a poo poo if we watched it. And she is a properly strict British lady too, so it had to be a properly dumb movie for her to let us watch it. "It's nonsense I don't know why you watch this one so much." Because it had killer trucks and steamrollers mom, duh.

And then basically every movie in the horror sections of video stores. We would spend a long-rear end time just staring at movie covers, trying to find the one with the grossest cover. Most of them were terrible, but they were R-Rated so they were also great. Oh yea, we LOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVED the Critter's movies. Basically anything where people got eaten by monsters was The poo poo.

We hated Ernest Scared Stupid though. I think both of us were just way too loving scared by it, because we used to love the other Ernest movies, but we'd always skip over Scared Stupid because it's actually pretty drat scary.

Tumble fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jun 27, 2017

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Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBI46ZkQpuM&t=86s


Nessa posted:

That's exactly why Ernest Scared Stupid was the best one.

My dad let me watch lots of r-rated movies when I was 4 years old, including the 80's remake of The Blob, Total Recall, and Rocky Horror Picture Show. He got me to laugh at the gory special effects so I wouldn't be scared.

From what my parents tell me, the only show that actually scared me as a child was an episode of Babar that featured a lake monster. I refused to take a bath until my parents swapped out the dark green tub mat with a different colour.

There was also an X-Files episode that creeped me out a lot too. I remember having a dream about hoards of glowing, green bugs in a dark forest.



that was a great episode, i love stuff where people struggle against monsters together. thats why i loved the Romero Dawn of the Dead so much as well. my dad and I used to watch the IFC halloween marathons.The Fly, Dawn of the Dead, all that good stuff.

Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!

LGD posted:

Bring It On is a substantially better film than most of the other movies being discussed in this thread, sorry it's been ruined for you

Bring it On is a better film that it should be. Josie and the Pussycats is another one like that. By all rights they should suck, but they're just clever enough to be fairly watchable.

A kids movie that is actually The poo poo despite not really having any right to be? Babe 2, a Pig in the City

Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!

Honky Dong Country posted:

I really liked Starship Troopers and I still do because gently caress you that's why. :colbert:

Nobody doesn't like Starship Troopers what are you on about?

Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!

King Vidiot posted:

I watched Boondock Saints for the first time like 5 years or so ago. My younger stepbrother loaned it to me and thought it was the coolest thing ever.

I was really straining not to mention how lovely and forgettable it was, so I was just like "EGGGGGGGGGGGGH it was okay!".

The best thing about Boondock Saints is the documentary it spawned about what a dumb fuckhead the director is and how his Hollywood downfall is all his stupid fault.

Tumble fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Jul 9, 2017

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