Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

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omg i love the Snow White watching gremlins so much

it's almost as good as when they sing NY, NY in TNB which is one of the best things ever imo

Been trying to figure out when to let my older daughter see Ghostbusters (another action movie!).

How old is she?

7

I saw Ghostbusters, Temple of Doom AND Gremlins all with my dad when I spent the summer of 1984 with him in Hawaii. (The latter two at a drive-in! As a double feature!) What a summer!

most of ghostbusters isn't scary.... but the lady in the library....

oh that's true yeah the script is online. the tone in the finished version is bang on because the tied-up dog is really scary at first but then they pull him down and he's not got a scratch on him. it's kinda nasty-not-nasty.

I mean, she has friends who have seen it and other stuff. but then again, having volunteered in her class, I can also say she has friends who are fucked up.

but then, I was seeing Alien and Jaws when I was five or so.

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Hmmmm. I wouldn't not have been able to handle it at 7 but I was a wimp and really easily scared. Ghostbusters isn't even that scary! Of course I know this now but at the time I was singing an entirely different tune. Maybe wait until 8. That sounds more grown-up some how.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjFKsJjCP0

. but the lady in the library....

Is exactly what made me lose my shit and gave me nightmares. That's in the beginning of the movie too, right? Needless to say I BSd my way though a lot of convos about how great that movie was that year since I hardly saw any of it.

oops sorry if I youtube ptsd'd you

Yeah, thanks E3. Totally not watching that.

One of my brothers wanted REALLY BADLY an ET-themed birthday, so all his presents revolved around it, and the candles on his cake were made up as little rockets and there were Reese's Pieces everywhere, and then he and all his friends went to actually SEE the movie as part of the party and he was so scared/sad that he cried.

The reason that this is a funny store that we tell sometimes in my family is that my brother's kind of a hardass now.

If you did not cry at ET you are probably a Cylon or a zombie.

prolly a hardass due to childhood ET trauma

Probably. I think it was the part about not having a home? And possibly not having a mother to make it okay. What year did that thing come out? My bro was probably only...5? 7?

ET is '82

if somebody had made a cylon vs zombies movie in 1978 I would have been the happiest 8 yo alive

1982 - At least that's the year ohn the tag on my ET Doll.

That is so sad Laurel! I watch ET once every couple years and p much start crying when he first gets lost straight through to the end. The final scene where he has to say goodbye to Elliot and the ship is there with his family - OMG forget about it. Full-on blubbering.

1982. (Same year as Poltergeist!)

The ghost librarian made me jump, but I wasn't scared. There's a long build up to it, and it's a sudden shock, but there's nothing else in Ghostbusters that's purposely designed to make you crap yourself.

I swear my sister got scared & bawled her eyes out at every movie we saw in the theater as kids...she cried at the whale scene in Pinocchio, she cried when Christopher Lloyd revealed his cartoony eyes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit...pretty sure she cried in Ghostbusters...I don't remember getting super-scared that much.

I was afraid of the idea of horror movies for a long time though. The covers in the video store's horror section was enough to keep me good and scared for at least 13 years, lol.

I have never seen ET.

If you are not crying by AT LEAST the time the older brother finds ET in the drainage ditch after he disappears on Halloween, you are probably not a person I want to be friends with.

I saw poltergeist and ET on their respective opening nights within a week of each other, 11yo me preferred the former

i saw so much fucked-up shit in the 70's on t.v. starsky & hutch alone...probably a lot of it went over my head. saw so many hookers get murdered by the time i was 10.

aged 8 that ET-in-a-ditch bit was the most shocking scene ever, still getting over that one. horrifying!

same here. I was watching old episodes of the night stalker on netflix recently and couldn't believe how gritty it was. one scene took place in a brothel.

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don't be afraid of the dark, though. jesus. that was on regular t.v. in the middle of the day when i first saw that. severe trauma.

Mr Veg still has his recorded-off-the-tv vhs cassette of Assault on Precinct 13. We watched it a few years ago and it is kind of awesome that the icecream truck scene happens and then *boop* commercial break. O_O

night stalker was a great find on KCPQ back in the days of yore.

"hi, lil' scott. see ya later when you're in bed..."

http://campblood.org/Newblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dbaotd.jpg

Hill Street Blues was way grittier than any movie i'd seen and yet no one seemed to mind me watching it as a pre-teen kid just cause it was on TV. it's like *proper* gritty if you're 9.

http://www.kindertrauma.com/

a) Christopher Lloyd revealed his cartoony eyes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit This is terrifying.

b) If you are not crying by AT LEAST the time the older brother finds ET in the drainage ditch after he disappears on Halloween - This is the part I mean!! I am a goner from that point straight through to the end.

c) AP you should see it. It's wonderful.

Sick ET is the saddest. He's all pale and transparent and I bet if I thought hard enough about it or looked for pics online I would get misty-eyed.

Poltergeist and ET both had their origins in the unmade script for Night Skies

large marge hella freaked out my son a year or two ago, took a lot of coaching to get him to finish watching the movie

and yeah, Christopher Lloyd in Roger Rabbit was the scariest thing i'd ever seen as a kid

More disturbing for me in "Roger Rabbit" was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwPkAUBr4Sc

http://www.kindertrauma.com/

a website started and run by my best friend, fyi.

The scariest thing I ever saw on TV was an episode of a Nightmare on Elm St TV SERIES that only I seem to remember. Anyway, a babysitter let me watch it and I freaked the fuck out. I made my parents let me fall asleep downstairs for months afterward because I was too scared to be alone in the dark in my own room. It was a bad scene.

This is why we were not allowed to watch tv. Or movies.

Or stay up late.

uncle lancifer of kindertrauma and i spent our childhood and young adulthood watching the scariest things we could find.

The biohazard suits and contamination chambers and all those big plastic tunnels everywhere in ET were v scary to me, I remember that much

ya that was so freaky

V-The Series scared the pants off me
That creepyass preacher in Poltergeist II definitely gave me nightmares

that fucking clown doll in poltergeist gah