Movies only you knew about - (A pre internet thread)

I was 15 at the time. If I saw it today who knows?

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Another one, a slightly less obscure was the Dark Crystal. We had a copy that my dad taped off of HBO or some other paid channel. None of the kids I went to school knew about that one either. They probably wouldn't know about it until Disney channel played it a few times int he 90s. So for almost 10 years, I sounded like this crazy kid talking about gelflings

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It was a Jim Henson movie. I thought that all of the kids knew about that movie.


Mine probably was well know by the kids that had cable back then, but The Ice Pirates earned a mere $14 million in the box office and was considered another movie trying to tag along with the other Star Wars wannabes. It's comedy gold.

It’s true. Dark Crystal was huge.

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Originally Posted by gamevet

It was a Jim Henson movie. I thought that all of the kids knew about that movie.

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I didn't know a single kid that had watched it. I had an old copy my dad taped off of cinemax. On beta.

Ice Pirates was one of those movies that all us nerds knew about, but nobody else.
Same goes for Cherry 2000 and Solarbabies.

I had completely forgotten the Ice Pirates existed.

I think maximum overdrive was one. I never knew any kids that had seen it.

WHO MADE WHO, WHO MADE WHO

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

I think maximum overdrive was one. I never knew any kids that had seen it.

WHO MADE WHO, WHO MADE WHO

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Are you talking like a decade after these movies came out?

The movie was pretty much known as well as the AC/DC song from the sound track. It was also a Stephen King movie, which were pretty popular in the 80's.

I remember watching Flight of the Navigator as a kid and it was amazing at the time, but nobody around here had even heard of it and so I never got to talk about it with anyone but my brother. I'd love to watch that again, I mentioned it to the wife a year or so ago and she'd never heard of it either. Same situation with The Last Starfighter (which she has since seen, holds up well!) Both were movies my dad rented from Wegmans (local grocery store).

I miss those kid sci-fi movies. The Last Starfighter is awesome. I still need to get the fanmade arcade game running on my PC one of these days.
I thought Batteries Not Included and The Explorers were great when I was a kid, too, but I've never rewatched them as an adult.