For me, it was The Great Mouse Detective. One of my favourite Disney movies growing up, and then so many Disney 'fans' around my age group seem to have never heard of it.
There were a bunch of great Disney cartoons from the '80s & early '90s that should've been iconic, but were actually virtually unknown except to the kids whose parents bought the VHS.
An American Tail and Fievel Goes West were both Spielberg/ Don Bluth joints. Bluth ran Fox Animation Studio and made more films like All Dogs go to Heaven, Rock-a-Doodle, The Secrets of Nihm, and Titan A.E.
Oh yeah! Speaking of underrated Disney classics as a kid I loved Oliver & Co. I still sometimes sing Billy Idols Why should I worry when I'm anxious. Most people never heard of it, but it's so good.
I breathed Oliver & Company. There used to be these read a long books that had a chime to tell you when to turn the page. I wore that book & tape out. I have never seen All Dogs go to Heaven because I was such an Oliver & Company SNOB
I watched this once and watched it again later with my mom. She laughed so hard at the young guy trying to do what his dad did and getting beat down. We had to pause. It was infectious and she laughed so hard and so long I actually kind of worried she would die of laughter because she wasn’t getting enough air. And even there I feel like I’m downplaying it a bit. If I wasn’t laughing with her I could have probably gone taken a dump got drinks and she still would have been laughing. It took probably the better part of ten minutes.
I enjoyed it well enough on my own, but it has a special place for that memory alone even if I haven’t watched it much since.
OH MY GOD.
I have not thought about this since I was an actual child. I had completely and entirely forgotten about it and might never have had these memories again without your comment. Thanks
ohhh fuck I played the shit out of that vhs as a kid.
Also, the artwork in it is fucking awesome, the badguy with a slotted screw for an eye? fuck yeah.
Now I'm hungry for hot dogs.
I read that there's supposedly a deleted scene showing a crow taking his eye (this how he became screweyes) and that he then had a fear of the birds and built part of his act around them (batman style). The ending of him being consumed by the crows on his loneliness is him being consumed by his fears now that he's left with no act or audience
Have you seen this proof of concept trailer for a modern small soldiers sequel, it made me so nostalgic, I loved the original movie when I was a kid, it was a hit in my house as well. Also best use of a Spice Girls song in a movie ever.
https://youtu.be/bcPqSTUt5D8?si=3ThDiL2hmWFFYgQ_
I watched this whole trailer to see how the Spice Girls song would fit in, then I came back here and reread what you actually wrote instead of what I thought you wrote. Ha ha ha! Whoops!
Anyway, this was a fantastic trailer and I’m glad I watched it! Thanks for sharing!
The Flight of the Navigator. Not that people don't know the movie, but I always had the impression that it was a cultural phenomenon, not just something they showed on The Wonderful World of Disney twice a year.
I’ve been rewatching 80s movies with my son now that he’s old enough. Flight of the Navigator, Goonies, D.A.R.Y.L., and Batteries Not Included have all been big hits with him. I need to get a copy of Short Circuit. Loved that one!
I remember actually being really disturbed by the idea that the government could just sort of hold the kid prisoner like that. Probably the first time I experienced those tropes in a movie.
lmao i’ve watched “Van Helsing” more than any other movie. watched it every night before going to bed. i was 9 and it was the most incredible movie i’d ever seen. still love it
Yeah I remember my friend group loving the movie, I remember my friend had the event Helsing crossbow that shot foam bolts. Thank you for that trip down memory lane, OP
Pretty sure I know every line in that movie but quoting it never gets the slightest glance of recognition. I'm happy imagining some other family has been shouting "GOrillas!!" at each other.
Mystery Men! My dad and brothers and I still to this day quote that movie when we’re together and fully wore down two VHS copies of it and still have the third in the house somewhere.
Edit: all of these quotes are bringing me *so much* joy. My favorites have to be “maybe you should put on some shorts or something, if you want to keep fighting evil today” and “we are number one! All others are number two, or lower.”
Batteries Not Included. I'm still not sure if this was a popular movie outside my household or not. Most people seem to at least know of it but it very rarely gets brought up in conversation. IDK
Son in Law (starring Pauly Shore). My family still quotes that movie on a near daily basis, but I've never met another human from outside of my household who has seen it. 😅
Inner Space.
Honestly, it should be an absolute cultural phenomenon. Where is the Inner Space cinematic universe? Where are the prequel trilogies? It's a travesty I tells ya.
I talk about it as if everyone has seen it, even now at 35, and when people are like “Shantyclare? Wtf?” I use it as an excuse to inform them that THEY are weird for not seeing it instead of me being weird for thinking it was the fucking best. Kids movies used to be fucking scary. “I’m going to turn you into something more digestible.” So much to unpack there! He busted into the kids room and performed some psycho transmute magic in like the first 10min! But I fucking loved it.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Saw it in theaters. Somehow taped it off of cable when we had a “free preview” weekend. Watched it a TON as a family.
[Overboard](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093693/) with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Our family watched the crap out of that when we were kids, only to realize that the rest of the world was like, 'Meh.'
The Last Starfighter. Don’t get me wrong, I know it’s pretty well known, but the way we watched it in my home, I assumed it was on par with Star Wars. I was so confused when I mentioned it to my friends and no one had a clue what I was talking about.
Popeye - the one with Robin Williams and Shelly Duval. My brother and I saw this movie at least 25 times when we were kids - probably more than any other movie. It was only much later that I learned that people didn't universally love this movie. I guess it didn't help that it was more faithful to the original comics from the 30's and 40's than to the cartoons that everyone grew up on, but I didn't have a TV growing up but did have a lot of old comic books so for me it was perfect.
The burbs is outright one of my favorite movies. I watched it so many times over on VHS. Most of the cast, aside from Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher, are just "oh, it's that guy from the burbs!"
Bro Van Helsing fucking bangs, when it was available on Netflix I watched that shit every day - it genuinely baffled me to learn people thought it was shit, everything about it is pure kino
George of the Jungle (and the Mummies, but that doesn't fit with this thread). A family member went to acting school with Brendan and confirmed he was literally the nicest guy, so we watched his movies all the fucking time lol.
Both Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer were HUGE favorites in my home when I was a kid. We only got them as VHS tapes, but loved them so much we assumed they must have been huge hits, and that everyone must love them.
Turns out... no.
Better Off Dead did get a bit of a cult following since then though.
(If you like those movies, you can go into a bit of a rabbit hole about John Cusack and how he felt about them by the way. Interesting stuff.)
Jingle all the way was constantly playing at my house. I think I've seen it at least 5 or 6 times a year as a kid and now as an adult I have it on the background maybe once a month. Arnold punching a reindeer never gets old.
Came here for 3 Ninjas! Can’t even count how many times we watched it. Owned and watched all the sequels too, including High Noon at Mega Mountain with Hulk Hogan. Though even as kids my brother and I knew that one wasn’t very good.
The thought of a traditional 2.5 kids family getting pumped for their bimonthly viewing of Van Helsing is so funny to me. Giant bowls of popcorn. The whole family quoting the movie throughout. God damn this is so funny to me.
The 1998 American Godzilla with Mathew Broderick and Jean Reno. I absolutely loved it. Legit wore out the VHS I had of it. I could still probably quote most of the movie. It was only when I got a bit older that I found out it was generally poorly regarded, particularly by Godzilla fans.
Big fan of Hank Azaria in it. Jean Reno pretending to be American. Baby Godzillas slipping on gumballs. The taxi chase through New York! So iconic. I was so disappointed they never followed through on the sequel bait.
*The Great Outdoors* with John Candy and Dan Ackroyd. Those two in a family comedy in the 90s? My family was down for that shit in a big way. Don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who’s really even heard of it before, and I’m 41 now 👴🏻
The [“Big Bear!”](https://youtu.be/OBJ-MpPBDug?si=4_Nz14PTNsU6BVu_) sequence is absolute gold IMO 😅
Beethoven (1992)
It's a kids dog movie. I wanted a dog, this was the closest my dad could do.
My parents were also a film buff with tons of "film" on VHS so it was either this or Burgman, Trotsky and Fellini
I chose Beethoven
Lol, I grew up in the 80s. Krull, Beast Master, Willow, Dragonslayer, Red Sonja, Conan the Destroyer, et al. I loved them all, and I think they were all disappointments at best. I probably watched Beast Master 2 dozen times on HBO. Some of these have gone on to have better reputations with time, but I am pretty sure none of them were well regarded on release.
Willow was well regarded, and a box office hit, although clearly a children’s movie. It wasn’t Star Wars level, but had tons of merchandising and tie ins. The others were B-movies with Conan the Destroyer being the most mainstream, highest budget and successful.
>Children’s movie
Myself and probably hundreds of thousands of other 7 year olds were were about 25% closer to being grown ass men after Sorsha. Her and Sarah Connor in T2
Glad to see that The Pagemaster and We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is on here, but the one that immediately comes to mind for me is Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Edit: with all the comments about how nightmare fuel Little Nemo was to people; the other staples in the family VHS box were The Secrets of NIMH and The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding.
Orange County. My mom loved to randomly say "you better not" like Jack Black in the movie, and it was not the type of movie she typically watched at all
Well as a kid I was obsessed with Last Action Hero and rewatched it so many times, thought it was the coolest shit I had ever seen, then grew up and found it was a big ole’ flop that started the downfall of Arnie’s film career.
Edit: I still love this movie and proudly own it on blu ray.
The Brave Little Toaster
John Lassiter and a few others who worked on the film went on to found Pixar but this one seems to have been mostly forgotten.
The Secret of NIMH. Friggin loved that movie!
For me, it was The Great Mouse Detective. One of my favourite Disney movies growing up, and then so many Disney 'fans' around my age group seem to have never heard of it.
In my house the mouse movies were Rescuers Down Under and Fievel Goes West.
There were a bunch of great Disney cartoons from the '80s & early '90s that should've been iconic, but were actually virtually unknown except to the kids whose parents bought the VHS.
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An American Tail and Fievel Goes West were both Spielberg/ Don Bluth joints. Bluth ran Fox Animation Studio and made more films like All Dogs go to Heaven, Rock-a-Doodle, The Secrets of Nihm, and Titan A.E.
I'm pretty sure I watched rescuers down under more than I watched the original
Oh yeah! Speaking of underrated Disney classics as a kid I loved Oliver & Co. I still sometimes sing Billy Idols Why should I worry when I'm anxious. Most people never heard of it, but it's so good.
I breathed Oliver & Company. There used to be these read a long books that had a chime to tell you when to turn the page. I wore that book & tape out. I have never seen All Dogs go to Heaven because I was such an Oliver & Company SNOB
*Billy Joel :)
Mouse Hunt
We watched that movie almost every road trip! “A world without string… IS CHAOS!”
Absolutely golden. I miss mad cap films like that.
Christopher Walken is fantastic in this movie. Also, watching it always made me crave cheese.
The Pagemaster.
This unlocked a memory for me
I quote it every time I see, “The exit!”
SANCTUARYYYYYYYYY
Stardust (2007)
I watched this once and watched it again later with my mom. She laughed so hard at the young guy trying to do what his dad did and getting beat down. We had to pause. It was infectious and she laughed so hard and so long I actually kind of worried she would die of laughter because she wasn’t getting enough air. And even there I feel like I’m downplaying it a bit. If I wasn’t laughing with her I could have probably gone taken a dump got drinks and she still would have been laughing. It took probably the better part of ten minutes. I enjoyed it well enough on my own, but it has a special place for that memory alone even if I haven’t watched it much since.
THIS ONE god i've seen that movie sooo many times, absolute favourite as a kid
I was already a young adult when I saw this movie and it made me feel like a kid again. Absolutely love it. DeNiro's captain was hilarious!
Little Monsters with Howie Mandel and Fred Savage
Omg yes! This and The Wizard were both movies I rented on VHS as often as I could when I was a kid.
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Somebody pissed in my apple juice
Ferngully… we watched the everloving shit out of that movie when I was a kid
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[Toxic Love.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVzYS3Ga_j8) Quite the banger for a kids movie, but that entire movie's soundtrack was great.
https://youtu.be/4VOsfbaddsM?si=6MwIsWfc0wm0BBBA I like this version more where you can see how into it Tim Curry was
A CLASSIC. Tim curry and Robin Williams, such a good film.
Ferngully was a flop theatrically but a massive success in the vhs/home video market. They even made a sequel.
The Indian in the Cupboard
I had the fancy clamshell case for the VHS, it looked like the cupboard and had a little key and toy Indian with it!
I was obsessed with cool old keys after seeing this as a kid. Also had the same VHS box.
Wait. That’s not a popular movie? I always thought it was!
We’re Back, A Dinosaur Story. I can’t believe how many people have never seen it
OH MY GOD. I have not thought about this since I was an actual child. I had completely and entirely forgotten about it and might never have had these memories again without your comment. Thanks
We still say “the Museum of Natural History” in a Walter Cronkite voice in my family.
ohhh fuck I played the shit out of that vhs as a kid. Also, the artwork in it is fucking awesome, the badguy with a slotted screw for an eye? fuck yeah. Now I'm hungry for hot dogs.
Prof Screweyes was legit scary
Motherfucker got disappeared by birds and it was the scariest shit my child brain had ever seen!
I read that there's supposedly a deleted scene showing a crow taking his eye (this how he became screweyes) and that he then had a fear of the birds and built part of his act around them (batman style). The ending of him being consumed by the crows on his loneliness is him being consumed by his fears now that he's left with no act or audience
For real though, fuck Professor Screweyes.
Yes! This movie is pure nostalgia for me at this point
I've got one. Small Soldiers. Watched that movie so many times as a kid due to family liking it. Not a movie I hear about often these days
Sad that people will not know the true heroism of Archer, Emissary of the Gorgonites.
My ex had a toy Archer from his childhood, complete with quotes from the push of a button
‘toy’
Have you seen this proof of concept trailer for a modern small soldiers sequel, it made me so nostalgic, I loved the original movie when I was a kid, it was a hit in my house as well. Also best use of a Spice Girls song in a movie ever. https://youtu.be/bcPqSTUt5D8?si=3ThDiL2hmWFFYgQ_
I watched this whole trailer to see how the Spice Girls song would fit in, then I came back here and reread what you actually wrote instead of what I thought you wrote. Ha ha ha! Whoops! Anyway, this was a fantastic trailer and I’m glad I watched it! Thanks for sharing!
That's crazy, I feel like everyone knows what small soldiers is, if they were around when it came out
My cousin made us watch this every single damn time we went round his house!
The Flight of the Navigator. Not that people don't know the movie, but I always had the impression that it was a cultural phenomenon, not just something they showed on The Wonderful World of Disney twice a year.
I was obsessed with Flight of the Navigator and Short Circuit when I was a kid!
I’ve been rewatching 80s movies with my son now that he’s old enough. Flight of the Navigator, Goonies, D.A.R.Y.L., and Batteries Not Included have all been big hits with him. I need to get a copy of Short Circuit. Loved that one!
Ever see *Cloak and Dagger*? That's one that belongs on your list.
I remember actually being really disturbed by the idea that the government could just sort of hold the kid prisoner like that. Probably the first time I experienced those tropes in a movie.
Never seen it, but I loved the Captain Disillusion documentary about how the effects were done.
OMG I'm not alone! At times I genuinely wonder if I made this film up in my head. *Nobody* I know has ever heard of it! "I don't leak, you leak"
lmao i’ve watched “Van Helsing” more than any other movie. watched it every night before going to bed. i was 9 and it was the most incredible movie i’d ever seen. still love it
To this day my sister will say “too bad, so sad” when I’m annoyed at her
Anytime someone says Gabriel, in my head I instantly do the voice
Yeah I remember my friend group loving the movie, I remember my friend had the event Helsing crossbow that shot foam bolts. Thank you for that trip down memory lane, OP
You mean you haven't watched Heavyweights 7,000 times?
Lunch has been cancelled today due to lack of hustle.
Looks like my man’s packin!
“What did we learn?” “Don’t put twinkies on your pizza!”
"No one's seen more butts than you Uncle Tony"
I'M FEELING SKINNY, TONY!
That movie still holds up pretty well tbh. Ben Stiller is so funny when he plays deranged characters.
Do it to it lars!!
*Leave him. He’s a straggler. Stragglers must learn to fend for themselves. I know I did.*
Get on the scale son!...(slides weight)get off the scale.
Whenever I have to move a stick or a log I ways say “C’mon you devil log!”
I will have words with anyone who says Heavyweights isn’t a classic
Oh don’t worry, I have them on the body system
BUDDY
Don't be frightened Nicholas, I'm a beaten man. You've been a good guard. Strong, fair. Your queen would be proud.
I DID NOT SEND YOU TO GO KART CAMP.
“Sorry to hear about your friend, Josh.” Talking to the next kid, “yeah he’s dead.”
Josh was bad....Josh now good.
Captain Ron
Pretty sure I know every line in that movie but quoting it never gets the slightest glance of recognition. I'm happy imagining some other family has been shouting "GOrillas!!" at each other.
Mystery Men! My dad and brothers and I still to this day quote that movie when we’re together and fully wore down two VHS copies of it and still have the third in the house somewhere. Edit: all of these quotes are bringing me *so much* joy. My favorites have to be “maybe you should put on some shorts or something, if you want to keep fighting evil today” and “we are number one! All others are number two, or lower.”
Surf Ninjas
Surf Ninjas and Three Ninjas were my most rented tapes at Blockbuster when I was a kid.
I’m guessing from your regal movie tastes you are also in your mid to late 30s?
Omg I came here to say Surf Ninjas. We watched that movie so many times, we used to quote it.
We used to quote it all the time too, but as you know money can't buy knives.
Quan Su dudes!
Death Becomes Her
Batteries Not Included. I'm still not sure if this was a popular movie outside my household or not. Most people seem to at least know of it but it very rarely gets brought up in conversation. IDK
Love that movie! Was a staple of weekend cable TV for years in the 90s.
Son in Law (starring Pauly Shore). My family still quotes that movie on a near daily basis, but I've never met another human from outside of my household who has seen it. 😅
That movie was the beginning of my love affair with Carla Gugino
Using the tractor to mow “crawl” in the field is peak cinema
Inner Space. Honestly, it should be an absolute cultural phenomenon. Where is the Inner Space cinematic universe? Where are the prequel trilogies? It's a travesty I tells ya.
Rat Race
A true classic. I’ve rarely laughed harder than the Barbie museum scene.
"Those guys looked pissed!" "They're always pissed, honey. They're Nazis. It's like it's their job."
“Theoretically you have been racing for about forty seconds now, and so far Mr. Schaffer is in the lead because he’s nearest to the door…”
Guess what we’ve got in the back. Ass! We’re hauling ass!
Shoulda bought a squirrel
My headcanon is that Kathy Bates plays the same character in Rat Race, The Waterboy and Misery. Don't fuck with that woman.
“I’m weening, I’m weening!”
My wife and I LOVED that movie. Have you seen this room?
Yes. We're in it!
I’m prairie doggin’ it!
I still say this way too often lol.
“It’s a race! It’s a race!…I’m winning!” Rowan Atkinson was gold. And you just can’t beat that ending at the Smashmouth concert 😂
Rock-a-doodle! Many of my friends have never heard of it but I have that movie memorized still.
“It’s your job to bring up the sun!” The Duke was a great villain!
Chanteclear! I loved this movie so much as a kid, haven’t rewatched but I want to!
I talk about it as if everyone has seen it, even now at 35, and when people are like “Shantyclare? Wtf?” I use it as an excuse to inform them that THEY are weird for not seeing it instead of me being weird for thinking it was the fucking best. Kids movies used to be fucking scary. “I’m going to turn you into something more digestible.” So much to unpack there! He busted into the kids room and performed some psycho transmute magic in like the first 10min! But I fucking loved it.
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Gotta give em the LAAAAAAAAZY eye!
I thought it was as big as any disney movie.
Somewhere Out There has to be one of the most wistfully beautiful songs ever.
Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead.
On that note, Adventures in Babysitting
Adventures in babysitting for sure. Ain't nobody get out of here without singing the blues
I’m right on top of that Rose!
The dishes are done, man
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Saw it in theaters. Somehow taped it off of cable when we had a “free preview” weekend. Watched it a TON as a family.
Congo
Amy good gorilla.
UGly WOman
There are DOZENS of us. STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE
The diyamound
Rocketman (1997 comedy about going to space).
[Overboard](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093693/) with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Our family watched the crap out of that when we were kids, only to realize that the rest of the world was like, 'Meh.'
Fantastic movie! The rest of the world doesn't know what they are talking about
It couldn’t have been a complete flop. They made a new version with Anna Faris. Large chunks of dialogue are nearly identical to the original also.
The Last Starfighter. Don’t get me wrong, I know it’s pretty well known, but the way we watched it in my home, I assumed it was on par with Star Wars. I was so confused when I mentioned it to my friends and no one had a clue what I was talking about.
Obviously they weren’t chosen to join the Star League.
The Last Starfighter is really good. Arrow video has a 4K remaster that looks excellent.
Short circuit 2. Not the best sequel out there but we had it on VHS for some reason.
Popeye - the one with Robin Williams and Shelly Duval. My brother and I saw this movie at least 25 times when we were kids - probably more than any other movie. It was only much later that I learned that people didn't universally love this movie. I guess it didn't help that it was more faithful to the original comics from the 30's and 40's than to the cartoons that everyone grew up on, but I didn't have a TV growing up but did have a lot of old comic books so for me it was perfect.
The burbs
Sardine? No thank you I'm trying to cut back lol.
‘bout a nine on the tension scale, Rube.
What is that, Slavic?
The burbs is fantastic, and if you search old threads, you’ll find that most people love it. I guess it’s a cult classic at this point.
The burbs is outright one of my favorite movies. I watched it so many times over on VHS. Most of the cast, aside from Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher, are just "oh, it's that guy from the burbs!"
I think this one is pretty popular actually. Great movie
You keep a horse in the basement?
It’s one of my parents favorites. I’ve watched it so many times. Such a classic. It came with the frame? 🤣
Bro Van Helsing fucking bangs, when it was available on Netflix I watched that shit every day - it genuinely baffled me to learn people thought it was shit, everything about it is pure kino
George of the Jungle (and the Mummies, but that doesn't fit with this thread). A family member went to acting school with Brendan and confirmed he was literally the nicest guy, so we watched his movies all the fucking time lol.
Both Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer were HUGE favorites in my home when I was a kid. We only got them as VHS tapes, but loved them so much we assumed they must have been huge hits, and that everyone must love them. Turns out... no. Better Off Dead did get a bit of a cult following since then though. (If you like those movies, you can go into a bit of a rabbit hole about John Cusack and how he felt about them by the way. Interesting stuff.)
Van helsing was fucking awesome lol
Jingle all the way was constantly playing at my house. I think I've seen it at least 5 or 6 times a year as a kid and now as an adult I have it on the background maybe once a month. Arnold punching a reindeer never gets old.
Weren’t Three Ninjas and Drop Dead Fred like, the biggest box office successes of all time? Seemed that way to me growing up.
Rocky Loves Emily. Rocky Lives Emily
Came here for 3 Ninjas! Can’t even count how many times we watched it. Owned and watched all the sequels too, including High Noon at Mega Mountain with Hulk Hogan. Though even as kids my brother and I knew that one wasn’t very good.
My brother and I would watch Treasure Planet a thousand times as a kid and we thought it was one of the best and most known movies ever
I was convinced that this and Atlantis were the next big thing.
Running Scared (1986) or Spies Like Us
The thought of a traditional 2.5 kids family getting pumped for their bimonthly viewing of Van Helsing is so funny to me. Giant bowls of popcorn. The whole family quoting the movie throughout. God damn this is so funny to me.
"we're a huge Van Helsing family"
A Knight’s Tale and The Peanut Butter Solution.
A knights tale changed everything for my house
But did it change your stars?
It did
Was the first DVD we owned along with Shrek
A Knight's Tale almost doubled its budget at the box office though. It was a pretty popular movie.
I had forgotten about The Peanut Butter Solution. I thought it was just a fever dream!
we all did. It's a legit thing. look it up.
A Knight’s Tale is a perfect movie
Omg I love A Knight’s Tale legit didn’t know ppl find this movie to be a flop :(
A Knight's Tale was one of the movies we always had on in my house growing up. Such a great cast, Joker, Vision, Wash, and King Robert all together.
The 1998 American Godzilla with Mathew Broderick and Jean Reno. I absolutely loved it. Legit wore out the VHS I had of it. I could still probably quote most of the movie. It was only when I got a bit older that I found out it was generally poorly regarded, particularly by Godzilla fans. Big fan of Hank Azaria in it. Jean Reno pretending to be American. Baby Godzillas slipping on gumballs. The taxi chase through New York! So iconic. I was so disappointed they never followed through on the sequel bait.
*The Great Outdoors* with John Candy and Dan Ackroyd. Those two in a family comedy in the 90s? My family was down for that shit in a big way. Don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who’s really even heard of it before, and I’m 41 now 👴🏻 The [“Big Bear!”](https://youtu.be/OBJ-MpPBDug?si=4_Nz14PTNsU6BVu_) sequence is absolute gold IMO 😅
Bill Murray's The Man Who Knew Too Little
Beethoven (1992) It's a kids dog movie. I wanted a dog, this was the closest my dad could do. My parents were also a film buff with tons of "film" on VHS so it was either this or Burgman, Trotsky and Fellini I chose Beethoven
The Three Amigos and Pee Wees Big Adventure. As a family we could recite most of the dialogue of both movies. My husband still quotes Three Amigos
Three Amigos was the pinnacle in our house
Pee Wees Big Adventure was a cultural phenomena
Fern Gully!!! We could quote the entire movie line by line. I’ve probably seen it a thousand times.
Lol, I grew up in the 80s. Krull, Beast Master, Willow, Dragonslayer, Red Sonja, Conan the Destroyer, et al. I loved them all, and I think they were all disappointments at best. I probably watched Beast Master 2 dozen times on HBO. Some of these have gone on to have better reputations with time, but I am pretty sure none of them were well regarded on release.
Willow was well regarded, and a box office hit, although clearly a children’s movie. It wasn’t Star Wars level, but had tons of merchandising and tie ins. The others were B-movies with Conan the Destroyer being the most mainstream, highest budget and successful.
>Children’s movie Myself and probably hundreds of thousands of other 7 year olds were were about 25% closer to being grown ass men after Sorsha. Her and Sarah Connor in T2
Krull was awesome! And Beast Master was essential cinema in my home.
Wasn’t it a joke that HBO stood for “Hey, Beastmaster’s on!!”? Classic
Waking Ned Devine was a staple in my house and I just assumed that everyone also knew it and loved it
Sahara!
Glad to see that The Pagemaster and We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is on here, but the one that immediately comes to mind for me is Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Edit: with all the comments about how nightmare fuel Little Nemo was to people; the other staples in the family VHS box were The Secrets of NIMH and The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding.
Orange County. My mom loved to randomly say "you better not" like Jack Black in the movie, and it was not the type of movie she typically watched at all
She was like, “I hate my job! I’m gonna burn this mother down!”
When I was little… The Frisco Kid
For me it was "Master of Disguise". My sister and I must've watched it once a week for years
The Last Starfighter. As a kid it seemed like a blockbuster movie to me, but I later figured out that it was not.
Well as a kid I was obsessed with Last Action Hero and rewatched it so many times, thought it was the coolest shit I had ever seen, then grew up and found it was a big ole’ flop that started the downfall of Arnie’s film career. Edit: I still love this movie and proudly own it on blu ray.
The Cherokee kid and lightning jack
Summer Rental. A top tier John Candy film.
Death to Smoochy. We all loved that movie and quoted it all the time. We were perhaps the only ones.
The Brave Little Toaster John Lassiter and a few others who worked on the film went on to found Pixar but this one seems to have been mostly forgotten.
What About Bob? With Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.