Originally Posted By Lady Starlight I had a few flashbacks of movies I saw years and years ago. For whatever reason , wether I liked them or just thought that they were weird. They have stuck with me all these years. If you can remember odd or really good movies you saw years ago too, I think it would be fun to post them. Perhaps it might jog someones memory of them too. Here are a few of mine. I'll add others as I think of them. Think peeps think! ( I thought this one was weird but liked it)>The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. Starring Joanne Woodward. (Weird but I liked it too)>The Mafu Cage. Starring Carol Kane. ( weird but I liked it)>You'l like my Mother. Starring Richard Thomas and Patty Duke. (One terriffic movie!!)>We're no Angels. Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray & Peter Ustinov.
Originally Posted By Main Street Dad I remember- "Were no Angels. It was good. When I was little, early-mid 70's, I used to love a Japanese movie about a little boy that controled a giant robot by talking into his watch. The robot was great, he could shoot rockets from his finger tips and fly. Turns out it was actually a tv show in Japan and they'd pieced together a movie from episodes for US viewing. Johnny Sokko. Awesome! I bought a copy from ebay to show to my seven year old step son. He watched for about five minutes and told me it was no good, sigh.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight MSD, I SO know the feeling. My DD isn't much into them oldies but goodies, but my DS sometimes really like's them.lol I also, remember watching that movie too. Giant Robot, I believe the boy called him , Right?
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Btw, I'm 41 so I bet we grew up watching just about the same stuff I think.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove The Court Jester, Danny Kaye The Devil at 4 O'Clock, Spencer Tracy Heaven Knows, Mr Allison, Deborah Kerr Calamity Jane, Doris Day Midnight Lace, Doris Day Pillow Talk, Doris Day (what can I say? the LA tv stations were big on Doris Day) Boys Town, Spencer Tracy Father Goose, Cary Grant Yours, Mine, and Ours, Lucille Ball Lili, Leslie Caron Gigi, Leslie Caron Teahouse of the August Moon, Marlon Brando Cry For Happy, Glenn Ford Arsenic and Old Lace, Cary Grant It Happened One Night, Clark Gable Gone With The Wind, Clark Gable Funny Face, Audrey Hepburn High Society, Grace Kelly Guys and Dolls, Marlon Brando Rear Window, Jimmy Stewart Carousel, Shirley Jones Brigadoon, Gene Kelly Laura, Gene Tierney The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Gene Tierney Meet Me In St Louis, Judy Garland The Road To Rio, Bob Hope The Bells of St Mary's, Bing Crosby Paleface (and Son of Paleface), Bob Hope It's A Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart The African Queen, Humphrey Bogart The King and I, Yul Brynner Spartacus, Kirk Douglas All of the Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland movies Grand Prix, James Garner Weird musical, but I love some of the songs: Flower Drum Song South Pacific, Mitzi Gaynor All of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movies Buster Keaton was a genius...Charlie Chaplin, too... I can't think of any truly weird ones, unless you are the kind of person who finds musicals to be weird. It's pathetic. I could do this all day...and as soon as I hit "post", I'll think of 50 more good movies....it's an addiction.
Originally Posted By Main Street Dad LS-Yeah, he called him giant robot. I think the premise was the robot would only respond to the first voice he ever heard and somehow the kid spoke to him first, by mistake I think. And since the kid was the only one that could control the robot he got to join the secret evil fighting forces of the time! I'm 40 this month so we were watching the same stuff, pre-cable! I think we had something like 7-8 channels. STIL- My mom was a child actor in the 50's. Maybe you've seen some of the movies she was in? The Seven Little Foys with Bob Hope The Big Heat with Glen Ford Queen Bee with Joan Crawford Anything Goes with Dennis Day The Creature with the Atom Brain-Pure 50's B movie!
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Dad, I did see The Seven Little Foys. So, I'll have to see it again and look for your mom....e-mail me? Anything Goes......was that a Cole Porter-type musical? If so, I probably saw it, but not the others. I'll be happy to watch them all to see her. And, to sort of bond with you two: I like to watch the Mothra movies (LOL!...they are soooo, um....you know) and I couldn't get enough of MST 3k. Hope that counts as getting me a little more hip.... Thanks for the info on your mom. That's so cool.
Originally Posted By ophellia oh STIL, I could watch movies with you all day...my son is doing the play Laura now, he has the role Vincent Price had in the movie... Who was the girl in the You'll like my mother movie? suspense Thriller, love that movie...and the marigold/moon movie too... how about Sole Survivor? a TV movie with William Shatner and Richard Basehart and Ben Casey(can't think of his name)...
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove {{{ophellia}}} That's good to hear that we have similar tastes and give your son a "break a leg" from me. For you young 40-somethings...have you seen "Red Sky At Morning" or "Summer of '42" (incredible theme song) or "Love Story" or "Bless The Beasts and the Children". Good '70's fare. And who could forget (for plain weird): The Legend of Boggy Creek (it's about Bigfoot)
Originally Posted By disneylandfan8 I remember watching "Wizards", a more 'adult' cartoon. And "The Point" with Oblio and his dog Arrow. Love the Harry Nilsson song "Me and My Arrow".
Originally Posted By disneylandfan8 And I have a cat named Arrow. Not because his head is pointed tho!!! LOL He kinda has an arrow going from his nose pointing to his forehead!
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I've seen about 90% of those STiL ones and most of them are great. I recently watched The Black Rose and that was so strange. They had Orson Wells and a blonde french-accented actress as representatives of the Middle East! I love The Black Swan with him and Maureen O-Hara though.
Originally Posted By DAR I saw something a few months back where Cary Grant was the manager of a signing/dancing grasshopper. It was very strange.
Originally Posted By Disneydanny omg I have quite a few. Home Alone - when a critic rates a film sometimes they'll give a movie 4 stars or two thums up. I had my own unique revie...4 pairs of pajama bottoms Airplane-- it's a REALLY funny movie,but that's not important right now National Lampoon's Vacation "PRAISE MARTY MOOSE!" European Vacation "Jack you wait here" Vegas Vacation
Originally Posted By mapleservo I loved the Point as a kid - I think I only ever saw it once but it stuck with me. I think I have the song memorized. I used to watch a lot of Sunday afternoon movies when I was little. Sunday favorites include: •Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein •The Long, Long Trailer with Lucy and Desi and • It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World • the Matt Helm movies with Dean Martin (I didn't know any better). For weirder stuff, I used to watch the late night "World's Worst Film Festival". The one film that sticks out from that show was: • J-Men Forever by Firesign Theatre ...which featured a bunch of black and white movie serials (Shazam, Captain America, Commander Cody etc.) spliced together and re-dubbed into a very silly story - it had a bit of an MST3K feel to it.
Originally Posted By markymouse I saw Bob Hope's Son of Pale Face when I was a kid, and I don't know if I've ever laughed as hard as I laughed at that movie. I woke my parents up laughing so hard. Man, if my kids had any idea how late kids got to stay up back in the old days.
Originally Posted By Ursus J Bear The Phantom Tollbooth Those late 60's Hells Angel's movies with real hells angels, and jack nicholson and bruce dern. Dolemite!!
