Childhood Movies Revisited - Expectations Lacking

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Escapay wrote:What exactly was "Garbage Pail Kids"?
BELIEVE me, you don't want to know!!! It's been ions since I've seen the movie, but from what I remember they are these big, fat, adult-sized young children. They're as dumb as babies, they whine and talk, and they all have the most DISGUSTING habits you could imagine. It's a gross-out movie that really, really lives up to it's name. Yeah and I do think they were created by people who hated Cabbage Patch Kids or created to market to young children and piss off parents. Which it did to the tune of mass protesting, the kind not seen since Silent Night Deadly Night.
Siren wrote:Lazario>LOL, I have both Unico's on VHS tape that I bought on Ebay. I just ordered the DVDs (bootlegs of course)
Yeah, I was reading about people who had done that too. Some guy swears by a seller named Jazzy something.
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Escapay wrote:Sesame Street: Follow that Bird. Definitely a children's movie. I tried to watch it a summer ago...I think I fell asleep. But every so often, I pop the tape in and watch a few choice segments.
Holy crap, I remember that movie! I used to love it so much when I was a kid. I'm curious to know what I'd think about it now, especially since you yourself just revisited it and found it dull.
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Well, I haven't recieved them yet, but should any day now. The seller had really good feedback, 100%. He has screenshots of the movie and menus and everything looked good. So I await the package and a night of full fledge childhood memory fun!

But anyways, the seller's name is photofett He put a lot of effort into his auctions and DVDs from the looks of it. I also bought the anime Swan Lake and Mouse and His Child too :)http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrp ... Zphotofett

There was another seller of Unico DVDs, but he had private feedback and I could see he received recent negative. So I avoided him.

I have Follow That Bird on VHS! I love that movie to this day! Poor Big Blue Bird :P
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Escapay wrote:Another movie I loved as a kid but find rather dull today would have to be the cartoon version of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

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Is that the version where they start with Lucy (or whatever she is called) having a flash back of her first encounter in Narnia with the half goat person? If so, I remember that movie! Also, has anyone seen the BBC version from the 1980s where the wolves jump from costumed people when interacting with human characters to cartoon characters when running from place to place?

Another film that I would like to mention (no offence to Aaron here) is Pete's Dragon. I liked that film as a kid, but my parents didn't and they wouldn't stop moaning how bad they thought it was. I saw it again last year and to my dismay...I have to say that I think that my parents may have had a case won here.
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Wonderlicious wrote:Another film that I would like to mention (no offence to Aaron here) is Pete's Dragon. I liked that film as a kid, but my parents didn't and they wouldn't stop moaning how bad they thought it was. I saw it again last year and to my dismay...I have to say that I think that my parents may have had a case won here.
I loved that as a kid too, but when I got older I became a bit disenchanted. I remember it had its moments, but as a whole?

At least Elliott is cool. And I *love* his name! 8) :lol:

I just had a thought. With the pattern they've been following lately, I wonder if they'll ever remake it?
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Spielberg said he never would have made his Elliot movie (E.T.) if it wasn't for Pete's Dragon :)
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Siren wrote:Spielberg said he never would have made his Elliot movie (E.T.) if it wasn't for Pete's Dragon :)
Oh wow, that's cool! I didn't know about that.

Back when E.T. was so popular (I was 6 years old) kids in my class started calling me E.T. (my last name is Elliott). :lol:

That name actually stuck with me for two or three years.
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