Me with the 1993 Mario Bros movie

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Hell yes. Pagemaster is top tier nostalgia. Loved it.

The Picard Maneuver

I haven't seen this since my childhood, so I still assume it's a fantastic movie.

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I would love to see a director's cut of that film because it was a victim of massive executive meddling after the fact.

It was directed by Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton, who created and directed both the British and U.S. versions of Max Headroom, which is why it has a cyberpunk look. It was co-written by Ed Solomon, who wrote Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Men in Black.

And then executives shat all over it.

You also have to remember that in 1993, there was almost no Mario lore. Mario was a guy who jumped on mushrooms and turtles to rescue the princess and sometimes got extra powers to help him. Luigi was his brother who could basically do the same thing. There was really no characterization and plot to speak of. They had a ton of freedom to do whatever they wanted and that freedom was taken away from them.

There is a cut out there done by my friend Garrett Gilchrist, who also restored The Thief and the Cobbler, where he tried to get it as close to Jankel and Morton's original cut as he could, using things like workprints. But we'll never know exactly how good it could have been.

Tank Girl was a very similar situation, but still ended up an okay film.

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I understand objectively why it is not a good movie

You fucking what, mate?

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Pitch Black is pretty alright, it isnt great, but it is far from terrible. The rest of the films have a pretty strong downward trend though.

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MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAATTTTT!

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I never liked him much, but he guest-hosted the Daily Show not too long ago and he was amazing. Maybe political satire was his true calling and he just never realized it.

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M. Bison's famous "It was Tuesday" line in Street Fighter (1994) is frequently misread by viewers as a statement of apathy. Instead, he is telling Chun Li that the day her father died was so important to him that he can instantly recall what day of the week it happened on.

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To be fair to Morton and Jankel, they had never directed a big budget feature film before. All of their experience was in TV

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Raul Julia was a legend... I firmly believe that, at least later in his career, the dude would do whatever shlocky film he could for a paycheck, so he could spend the rest of the time doing theater for fun. And he's often the best part of those movies.

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The langoliers will always have a spot for me to watch it.

Also : OH HI MARK

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I know I saw that movie, but I cannot remember a single detail about it. It's like my brain has purposely erased all traces of it from my memory.

I must have been pretty young when I watched it though, because I'm certain my born again Christian parents would not have allowed it in our house once that became the thing.

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Oh, I forgot to mention the not good movies that I watched over and over again on VHS in my childhood.

Number one would be the 1959 version of Journey to the Center of the Earth where James Mason plays a Scotsman and doesn't even bother with an accent and Pat Boone also plays a Scotsman but gives up on the accent after about 10 minutes. The whole plot is moronic and the effects are terrible and I love every single minute of it. The only true compliment I can give it is that Bernard Herrmann's soundtrack is terrific.

Then there was the 1980 attempt that Disney made to appeal to college kids, Midnight Madness. It was a total flop and I love every single minute of it. FAGABEEFE!

Third would be an animated movie that was made in France and dubbed into English called The Secret of the Selenites. It was a Baron Munchausen film, but I'm guessing they thought Americans wouldn't know who that was, so they left his name out of the title. It has a terrible pop song in the beginning that is in the "so bad it's good" territory.

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At grandma's, raining outside, fire in the living room, small-ish CRT tv with a VCR, granny on a rocker with the cat in her lap. Sitting on the floor.

Nostalgia used to be fatal, better take care to avoid too much of it.

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lmao reads like Big Trouble in Little China … just take out only the ‘black’ part keep the ‘sploitation’

I love that movie

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Hell yeah pagemaster.

Also that one movie with a cubby that brings toys to life. Kid brought an native american to life and his friend brought a cowboy to life... The Indian in the Cupboard

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Underrated classic

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I didn't know I had that memory.

Ah, thanks for unlocking some more nostalgia.

That was one sassy Indian guy if I recall correctly.

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I can count on one hand how many people I've met that have seen Maximum Overdrive. That was one of my favorite movies growing up, and now I'm a huge fan of Stephen King.