September Film Challenge 🎬

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 1: A movie that reminds you of your childhood

First movie I ever saw in a theater

Whilst I was momentarily confused as to what todays prompt was, I saw that this was also your response to the first prompt last year

 

[Bry1313]

Whilst I was momentarily confused as to what todays prompt was, I saw that this was also your response to the first prompt last year

I truly love that movie, and I’m impressed by your research

 

[morelikeasong]

Whilst I was momentarily confused as to what todays prompt was, I saw that this was also your response to the first prompt last year

And we’ll get to see it again on day 4! Lol

 

[Bry1313]

And we’ll get to see it again on day 4! Lol

I promise to vary my choices going forward (but yeah I guess if I’m being honest, I have to find more fun scenes)

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

And we’ll get to see it again on day 4! Lol

I can barely focus on tonight, let alone Tuesday.

 

[morelikeasong]

I promise to vary my choices going forward (but yeah I guess if I’m being honest, I have to find more fun scenes)

Haha no worries I’m sure there will be many repeats but also new participants who never saw our answers last time! And hopefully a
decent variation of prompts.

 

[MindYaBitness]

Day 1: A movie that reminds you of your childhood
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was the first movie we bought for our fancy VCR when I was a kid. We thought we were so cool!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 1: A movie that reminds you of your childhood
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was the first movie we bought for our fancy VCR when I was a kid. We thought we were so cool!

I can viscerally feel the excitement of bringing home a VCR

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 1: A movie that reminds you of your childhood

There are sooooo many that come to mind, but I need to pick one so... I watched this on VHS over and over when I was a kid.

Fun fact! Abraham Lincoln didn't actually say this.

Pollyanna 1960

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 1: A movie that reminds you of your childhood

I was five years old when I sat in my parent's car and watched strawberry jam eat a fucking cat. A kitten.

Okay, back up. In 1958, Steve McQueen took his first starring role in The Blob, a teen horror film about an extraterrestrial, carnivorous amoeba that looks like pile of strawberry jam which crash lands in small town. The Blob finds the townspeople tasty and goes on a rampage. It grows, and tries to eat Steve McQueen's friends in a movie theater. Steve figures out it hates cold, so an army of teenagers breaks into the school, steal all of the fire extinguishers, freeze The Blob, saving the world through wanton breaking and entering. The Army airdrops it onto the North Pole, and suck it, Santa! The end.

Jump forward to the 70s. Larry Hagmen, of I Dream Of Jeanie fame, decided to take that premise and make it into a comedy horror film for his first (and only) directorial role. A construction worker in the North Pole -- because that really is a thing --brings home a can'o'Blob, not sure what it was, and sticks it in his freezer-- as people do. His wife accidentally left it out to thaw when getting dinner together, and what does it do? Yes! It eats a fucking kitten! Then it eats the construction worker, his wife, and a bunch of hippies. There are a lot of hippies in this movie. Not much good acting, but countless hippies. But it is different from the first movie, because it doesn't attack a movie theater --it attacks a bowling ally. Completely different. The hippies this time figure out the cold thing, and lure it into an unused ice rink and freeze it. Completely different. Then the sheriff brings in a film crew for a photo op, and the lights thaw out the Blob just enough to start eating the sheriff by crawling down his boot. The end.

I was five years old. Five. My parents took me to see this at a drive-in theater. This "comedy" terrified me. It ate a kitten! I still remember that scene, with the poor kitty's paw stuck to the alien jelly monster. I had no context, no understating of the humor and bad...everything, acting, directing, special effects, the whole thing. Nope, I saw the Blob crawling down my hallway to my bedroom every night for years. It scarred me. I am what I am because of that movie. Because hippies are terrifying. Poor kitten...

Welcome to my childhood...

Beware! The Blob , AKA The Son of Blob (1972)

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 1: A movie that reminds you of your childhood

There are sooooo many that come to mind, but I need to pick one so... I watched this on VHS over and over when I was a kid.

Fun fact! Abraham Lincoln didn't actually say this.

Pollyanna 1960

I remember renting this one at the Hollywood Video one year for a slumber party. I didn’t want to but my mom insisted that it was a good choice. I ended up loving it.

I think it’s so interesting thinking about how times change and access changes. Like… I only saw Pollyanna the one time because we didn’t own it. The movies we owned on tape were watched over and over again.

 

[lavendersilk]

I remember renting this one at the Hollywood Video one year for a slumber party. I didn’t want to but my mom insisted that it was a good choice. I ended up loving it.

I think it’s so interesting thinking about how times change and access changes. Like… I only saw Pollyanna the one time because we didn’t own it. The movies we owned on tape were watched over and over again.

I kind of miss not going to a video store and picking out a video. So many movies are at our fingertips now and yet it can be more overwhelming then going to Blockbuster and picking from the New Releases section. There are more movies now too.

 

[UnquietDreams]

I kind of miss not going to a video store and picking out a video. So many movies are at our fingertips now and yet it can be more overwhelming then going to Blockbuster and picking from the New Releases section. There are more movies now too.

Oh yes, I found so many new films I loved just by perusing Blockbuster. Some wonderful, many very very very not wonderful, heh. But that joy of discovery, because you rent it, and physically have it, you have to commit, unlike streaming.

Also, I think covers are a lost art.

 

[Grant55]

Day 1: Top Hat

 

[Lmizzler]

Day 1

 

[curious_slut]

Day 1: A movie that reminds you of your childhood

I was lucky to have a new Disney movie right around my birthday every year growing up so often times my mom would take me and my friends to the theater before going home for a birthday party. Iirc Mulan came out on my birthday that year. I used to watch it somewhat obsessively on VHS too.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 1: A movie that reminds you of your childhood

I was lucky to have a new Disney movie right around my birthday every year growing up so often times my mom would take me and my friends to the theater before going home for a birthday party. Iirc Mulan came out on my birthday that year. I used to watch it somewhat obsessively on VHS too.

The Disney Princess with the largest body count...literally.

 

[curious_slut]

The Disney Princess with the largest body count...literally.

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Day 1: A movie that reminds you of your childhood

There were a couple but it had to be this. I could ( and probably still can) quote this entire movie.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 1: A movie that reminds you of your childhood

"The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" (1974)
I remember watching this on TV when I was a little kid.... the ending made quite the impact on me. A very cool movie.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 2: The movie with the best opening scene.

There are some great movies with incredible opening scenes. I, instead, chose a horrible movie with as good a first ten minutes as anything I have seen. From there, it stinks like a pile of rotten raccoon carcasses on an August day. No, probably worse. But that opening...

It starts with a conversation over coffee about Hollywood heist movies. You are instantly mesmerized by the film's two starts: John Travolta's horrible hairpiece and terrifying facial hair, a soul patch gone feral and running down his chin. Just kidding. No, the camera spins around Travolta, who is honestly mesmerizing here, horrible coiffure choices notwithstanding. You hear the other two people at the table sharing coffee, Don Cheadle and Hugh Jackman, but the camera is on Travolta the whole time, panning around him in Dutch angles, and moving in and out of focus. They take a calculated risk, discussing a far better film, Sidney Lumet's brilliant 1975 bank robbery film staring Al Pachino, and what would have happened if the robbers had started out by killing hostages right off the bat to show they were serious. It is a risk, but it works. And slowly the creep factor rises, but Travolta seems calm and in control the whole time. And then they pull back...

There isn't a clip with the whole opening, and you really need the payoff, so I have both linked below. The final special effects shot is still impressive 23 years later. And the whole movie goes to rat shit after that. Well, except for Halle Berry's utterly gratuitous, meaningless, and beautiful boob flash, her first on camera for a rumored additional half-a-million dollar salary increase, worth every penny. The rest is a logic-free mess of conspiracy, double (and triple, and maybe quadruple)-crosses, ridiculous computer crime, trying to make computer cracking look sexy (you really can't make typing sexy, even with Hugh Jackman at the keyboard), and a flying bus which, wonder of wonders, they make boring. How can you make that boring? Well, they do.

Swordfish (2001) Opening scene Part One and Part Two.

It is honestly as good a ten minutes of film as you will see in an action thriller. Oh, the movie never explains the title. Again, it is referencing a much better film. Swordfish is about hacking government computers. In a Marx Brother's film, Grocho bluffs his way into a speakeasy, stating "the password is always 'swordfish.'" That bit is far more cleaver that then rest of the film.


(edited to remove two film names in respect of The One Rule to Rule Them All)

 

[vagrantx]

Aaaahh! This thread's alive! It's alive, it's aliiiiiive!!! Thank you @morelikeasong I really wanted to take part in this. I'll try to be less long-winded than I am in the song-thread

I kind of miss not going to a video store and picking out a video. So many movies are at our fingertips now and yet it can be more overwhelming then going to Blockbuster and picking from the New Releases section. There are more movies now too.

Right!?! I was in stockholm a while back and went by the block that had our video store in it. Ground level with ceiling-high windows. It's now an office-space for a chain of real estate agents... There's a split-level inside, a little cat-walk with a steep staircase leading up to it, used to hold all the Adult stuff. We tried sneaking up there so often back then! Now it's just file cabinets... Sterile and boring..

Anyway!
Day 1: A movie that reminds me of my childhood.

If I'm going to go back far enough, I'll have to pick The Sound of Music. It was the only english-speaking movie we had back in Laos. We watched that thing over and over until the tape wore out, then watched it some more. Haven't seen it ever since, and just hearing a note sung by Julie Andrews now sends shivers through me. Good, and bad. Mostly bad. Never going to watch it ever again.

Day 2: The movie with the best opening scene.

MEMENTO!!! Those first few... moments... in the movie are etched into my brain for ever. Nolan is a genius. First, the murder going in reverse to set the mood, and then the running scene! I was instantly hooked. I needed to know absolutely everything about what was going on.

"Okay, so, what am I doing? Oh, I'm chasing this guy.....No? He's chasing me..."

 

[UnquietDreams]

I'll try to be less long-winded than I am in the song-thread

I, obviously, am making no such promises.

 

[vagrantx]

I, obviously, am making no such promises.

I should've put more emphasis on the try

 

[vagrantx]

Also, I think covers are a lost art.

Dropout has a show called Dimension20, where they play D&D or other TTRPGs on camera. I don't watch it, other than highlights, because it's so incredibly time consuming, but their latest adventure is a homebrew 80's action flick game.

A few years ago an artist tagged the CEO of Dropout in some fan-art, and they casually spoke about him being commissioned for some of their shows, but nothing came of it. Now, when this latest D20 homebrew kicked off, the CEO (Sam Reich) contacted this artist again out of the blew and asked him to do some old-school art for the show.

This is what he created. It's so beautiful