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"Waxwork" was some good shit. Kinda racy too.

Well, as evidenced by my posts in the MTV thread, I gueass I am old fart. I was a kid before the advent of VCRs and, frankly, I didn't have the money to go to the theater that frequently. So, I was pretty much stuck with whatever was on TV. But, there was a local station out of Dallas that would play old and/or cheesy movies in the afternoons and I always made a point to watch whatever they were playing. One week they did a Planet of the Apes marathon. I also saw a movie about some folks that wre shrunk and did battle with a huge spider. And the best one was the movie X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes. I clearly remember the station airing that movie more than once and me watching it every time.

Teen Witch was the absolute best movie ever made. I wanna be the most popular giiirl! Top that!

Okay, this isn't a e-zactly a movie I watched in the summer, um, okay, not at all - college happens during every other season, but anyway! It qualifies because it holds a large part of my heart simply because of the memories it engenders: Dazed and Confused.

During my sophmore year of college (otherwise known as one of the greatest and foggiest of my life) we had a sloid routine. Skip class. Sleep late. Gather the troops. Smoke copious amounts of ganja. Watch Dazed and Confused. Repeat as needed. Every. Single. Day. I can't hear that opening music without flashing back to tiny dorm rooms and friends packed in like smoked sardines.

We laughed over nothing and quoted the movie endlessly - it was a very good time, the kind that everyone hopes college will turn out to be. Dazed and Confused was a big part of that, so I love it for that reason alone and have no idea if it's actually a good movie or not - who cares?

Solid routine, that is! Groan.

Grease 2. You heard me. I was young, and the songs were super fun to sing along to. "Reproduction," "Cool Rider?" Those were the days.

This is more like a list of movies we didn't turn off when we were in-between FFTactics play-throughs and utter Mario Kart madness:

Wayne's World (I could definitely do this line-for-line at one point, and it's not that easy, mind you)

Akira (Tetsuoooooooooooooooooo!)

And last but certainly not least, The 13th Warrior. That movie gets shit on all the god damn time, but it's got large Vikings ruining people's shit for a damn long time. Short on effects, solid on visuals, with a bit of brevity and alot of decapitations thrown in. Sure it's not flippin Braveheart, but that end scene (Lo there do I see my father...), and the unparalleled badassery of Ecthgow (all-black dark haired asskicker-Viking-ninja-extraordinaire) was more than enough on our impressionable young minds.

Star Wars, obviously. We had Return of the Jedi on tape. Dubbed in Spanish. We watched the hell out of it every summer.

Some others were Mary Poppins, Sound of Music and for me, The Little Mermaid. I made my dad get that from the video store so many times that he became known as "Sirenito" at the store.

D-Day, I love The 13th Warrior. Yeah it's little hoakey, but it's just so much fun and screw it, Vikings are always awesome.

It was the summer of my freshman year of high school. Mine was the house of the continuously absent parents and so basically the whole of my high school basically took it upon themselves to make it the town flop house. Anyway, I was in love with a junior who happened to be my neighbor, so he was over there all the time, much to my delight.

Not so much to my delight? His favorite movie that summer... Bio Dome. He wanted to watch it alll day every day that summer and would sit there staring, laughing dumbly with me looking on awestruck at his beautiful "OMG he is going to be a SENIOR, next year!!!" face. Eventually, we would move the movie into my room when everyone else was sick of it. But I wasn't sick of it, ohhhh not me! I saw it as my chance, "He's finally going to make a move!"

Not so much. 3 months of my life, 3 months I watched that movie. Every day, for 3 fucking months! And nothing! He was waaaay to engrossed in this stupid movie to pay attention to me.

Shortly after that summer he got with super slut of the school, immediately impregnated her & I recently found out that they still live in the same shithole town and have like 4 kids now. I guess what I am trying to say here is thanks Biodome!!

Wait, what was this diversion about again?

My three best girlfriends and I were obsessed with slumber parties and watching movies all night in the summer. Some that got played a billion times were Dazed and Confused, Princess Bride, Now and Then, Romeo and Juliet, Happy Gilmore and The Craft. Some of those are better than others but we had pretty good taste even back in the day. Still love those girls.

I feel you pain, ashes. Bio Dome was my little brother's favorite movie for a year or so and we only had one tv in the house so it wasn't like I could go watch something else when he put it in the vcr for the billionth time.
Also, I forgot but I was kind of a Trekkie in my younger days, so I watched lots of Star Trek movies during the summer. Particularly Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home (don't judge me).

superasente, I take that responsibility with great humility. In the wrong hands, who knows where we could end up! Kids swinging through jungles with monkeys?

D-Day, I'm prone to consider those "almost perfect" movies from time to time. You know, movies that had something going but, for one reason or another, didn't quite get there. I've always thought The 13th Warrior fits squarely in that category.

dr. Piz, If anyone judges you for your Star Trek love they deserve a punch. Right in their cock-face.

Maximum Overdrive existed specifically to satisfy this purpose and my midnight addiction to B-movies on Monstervision. AC/DC, Emilioooooo and Lisa Simpson back when all she had done was the Legend of Billie Jean (also a perennial fave).

Pump up the Volume, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, and Gleaming the Cube.

What the hell is gleaming anyway?

Lake, I still sing that horrible rap from Teen Witch.

"I'm hot. You're not. But if you wanna hang with me I'll give you one shot! Top that! Top that! You can give all that you can but you will never top that!"

Fucking poetic.

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Nightmare on Elm Street and Terminator, VHS of coarse.

Vampire's Kiss recommended by Nadine and Alex has made many a gloomy winter evening (since its Summer over there it be Winter in Oz aye?) cheerful with hot chocolate

The Breakfast Club and Ferris Buellers Day Off also rock our worlds, as do Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, She's the Man, 40 Year old Virgin, Anchorman, Zoolander, Mean Girls, Billy Madison & The Wedding Singer

I'm in my teen years now, but I cannot resist a good 80s, 90s throwback, as you can see

We had a one-movie-a-day rule during the summer months, but man, did we enjoy that one movie a day. Of course, between me, my brother and our visiting cousins, picking that movie every day was a battle to near-death.

My favorites memories are Jurassic Park, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Ever After, and Fern Gully.

I still love all those movies*. They seemed more epic (not to mention longer) back in the day, but they always bring me back to that happy place of mosquito bites, bruised knees, a little too much sun, and Nestle iced tea.

*Well...maybe not Ever After. But I didn't hesitate to pick it up on dvd a few years ago.

Robocop, bitches! Robocop, Robocop, Robocop. He's a robot and a cop! His gun dissapears in his leg! He can punch through a wall! Tits! Made by a crazy Dutchman! Explosions! Carchases! Directive 5! You're Fired!

.....sorry about that, my adolescence gland accidentally got activated. I'll go back to work now.

My carefree summer of yore was the summer I moved out of my parents house. A friend and I sublet rooms in house of not-quite-hippies. It was so hot that summer, all we had energy for was sitting around watching MTV back when they played videos. "Pour Some Sugar On Me" and "Sweet Child of Mine" were very big that summer. I still have a soft spot for Def Leppard, much to my BF's horror.

In the Fall we moved into another house where it was all Princess Bride all the time.

Why in MY day, we didn't even HAVE these new-fangled Dee Vee Dee things you kids today have. We had to watch EVERYTHING on VHS.

Let's see, let's see... summer of '87. I was 16, there were 5 of us, none of us had driver licenses yet. We'd all meet at the video store, pick a bunch of crap, and head up to Brian's house, who had the most "we'd rather they drink here where we can keep an eye on them" parents. I believe our poison of choice, after wine coolers of course, was vodka, because it was cheap and easily mixed with whatever sweet things we used to get it down.

The ones we watched over and over and over? The first two Evil Deads (Army of Darkness wasn't even invented yet), Basket Case, and the first 3 Nightmare on Elm Streets, because those were the only ones that existed at the time. Sure, we threw tons of other crap in there, but those were the ones we kept going back to. Oh, summer of '87, you were a DELIGHT.

pickled tink, That's how my family was with Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We'd quote it to no end at the dinner table.

AvB, I used to watch everything on VHS and I wasn't even alive in '87.

Does it count as going full retard for Jeff Fahey if he ends up a diabolical genius?

I spent an entire summer watching Romeo + Juliet every day. Seriously. Sad, I know. I still break out those soundtracks every once in a while.

My other favorite summer movie was Camp Nowhere. Christopher Lloyd and cute boys! How can you lose?

@Lake: Teen Witch for the win! Oh Robin Lively, where have you gone?

@Julie: Now and Then was part of my Devin Sawa obsession. See also: Little Giants and Casper.

Pfft! And you call yourself an officer.

Lord of the Rings and the Thirteenth Warrior. I will defend the merits of both if need be.