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Do you ever watch a bad movie from your childhood just to soak in the nostalgia?


I'm not gonna lie. I just saw Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I & II. I haven't seen them in a while. The first one came out when I was 7 and from 7 to about 12, I've seen it an embarrassing amount of times.

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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

Kristanna Loken was my crush at 17.

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Will you be back to see it again?

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Yes. Lots of nostalgia about the end of the world as predicted in 2003.

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Most of the movies I watched as a kid were pretty terrible, but I'm too close to some of them to be able to tell. But Death Becomes (1992) her is probably one of the worst. No it isn't, it's Earth Girls Are Easy (1988). That has to be the worst one. But I still enjoy it.

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It's amazing how many of the movies we loved as a kid were bad and we just accepted it because it was put on us by older people.

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I can't say most of them were put upon me. I think kids just have a different experience with film because there's less bias and everything is new.

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Home Alone 1,2

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I'm sure people do that a lot for Christmas movies. I've been known to watch "Jingle All the Way" during the holidays because I have nostalgia for watching that in the theatre.

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The first Home Alone is NOT a bad movie.

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Spot on. I watched the 2nd one and that's as far as I went. It was just a rerun of the first - same schtick, different location is all. I had no interest in watching any of the others. The original I've watched multiple times, but the 2nd? Once was enough.

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Totally agree. I happen to catch the second one during the holidays sometimes and I dislike it more every time I see it!

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Yeah quite often. Although sometimes those "bad movies" can also be a lot more fun than alleged masterpieces.

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I've seen "Batman & Robin" maybe 7 or 8 times and "Gone With the Wind" once. I give one of them a 4/10 and the other a 9/10.

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I fell asleep during Gone With the Wind, I didn't like those Batman films either.

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Batman & Robin sucks. That's why I've seen it 7 or 8 times

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And if I had to choose between one of those two films I would choose that one too because it at least would have some fun elements to it.

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Mommie Dearest is one of the biggest flops ever but I love it😃

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I hear it's not as bad as people say. Or maybe you just like it because of your wire hanger fetish.

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NO WIRE HANGERS!!!

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Re-watched "Aces Go Places" some time ago, felt like a guilty pleasure.

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I've never heard of that.

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It's a classic Hong Kong movie.

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On IMDb, it's credited as Mad Mission.

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I rewatched Maximum Overdrive recently
It's hilariously bad, laugh out loud stupid in fact and it stars Emilio Estevez against a bunch of murderous machines at a truck stop

I urge everyone to watch this, a soda machine kicks the hell out of a baseball team and it's awesome

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What was AC/DC thinking doing the soundtrack to that movie?

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Boat payments?

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I wonder if that is what led some bands to not contribute songs to movies that actually ended up being huge. Judas Priest for example declined to have their song "Reckless" in Top Gun.

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I don't know. We never see bands do entire soundtracks for movies anymore.

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THEY SHOULD.

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Yeah! Phil Collin's Tarzan OST and Elton John's The Lion King OST were great!

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MY DAUGHTER AND I HAD A BLAST WATCHING MY BLU RAY COPY ON DADDY DAUGHTER NIGHT A FEW MONTHS AGO.👍

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They really need to make more awesome dumb shit like Maximum Overdrive👍

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STEPHEN KING'S LONE DIRECTING JOB...HE DEFINITELY HAD A "STYLE"(?)

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Oh indeed
He may have been preoccupied with his US ski team tryouts that year😆

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i think maximum overdrive is a very good time. it's one of my favourite lovably incompetent films.

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I totally agree
It's no The Room but honestly, what the hell could possibly equal The Room in the lovably incompetent category😂

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Sounds like one of those so-bad-it's-good movies.
I like Em Est. I get the feeling he actually Cared at some time. (That Was Then ...)

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> Do you ever watch a bad movie from your childhood just to soak in the nostalgia?

Sometimes. Cyborg 2087 (1966) and Journey To The Center Of Time (1967) are both wretchedly bad. I liked them both when I was a child, because I lacked any sophistication. I watch them every once in a while just for fun. Not too often though. They're both really bad. Alcohol helps.

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But the awfulness is what makes nostalgia so special.

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