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The Wave Master posted...

Clash of the Titans is fun, but my mom loved that more than I did

I was a big fan of that film as a kid. It probably helped that I was always into Greek myths in general.

Sam Worthington can choke to death on a sack filled with 1000 dicks, though. The remake is trash.



The Wave Master posted...

and my dad loved Conan, and it wasn't for me.

I couldn't really get into it as a kid, though I absolutely love it now. A lot of that is because of the fantastic soundtrack - in some ways it's less a movie/story and more like an operatic movement with accompanying pictures. Pure narrative is usually what I want out of stories (which is why I prefer it even in video games), but every once in a while one grabs me in a purely aesthetic sense.

The aforementioned Excalibur sort of falls into that same category - it's a large part of what kicked off my later love of Wagner and Carl Off (and Germanic opera in general). The somewhat surrealist lighting and the soundtrack almost make it more of an experience than a solid story in its own right (and helps offset the fact that it's kind of all over the place and not necessarily accurate with its take on Arthurian myth).

Hero (the Jet Li film from 2002) is another film I'll throw into that pile - the visual design is fantastic, and is a large part of the appeal (though the story is fine, too). Hero was also one of the films my girlfriend dragged me to back in the early 2000s, when she kept wanting to go to artsy films (and assumed I was going to hate them), only for her to wind up hating them while I was actually a fan of them.



The Wave Master posted...

I prefer Real Genius, Better Off Dead, Zapped, or Up The Academy. Those were my 80's movies

Interesting - other than Real Genius (which is a brilliant film), I don't think I ever watched any of the others. Hell, while I'm vaguely aware of what Better Off Dead is (though little more than the fact that John Cusack is in it.

I'd have a hard time pinning down what I'd consider my quintessential 80s films. Though I do talk up stuff like Big Trouble in Little China and The Last Dragon way too often. Cannonball Run for a more mainstream pick. Ghostbusters is obviously great.

I could also point out the handful of films where I can repeat every single line of dialogue to this day because of how often I watched them as a kid. The Ralph Bakshi animated Lord of the Rings, Transformers, and Clue definitely fall into that category. Probably a few others as well, though I ironically can't think of them right now.
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