you remind me of the fat guy from Hot Fuzz. Yeah I remember my parents recording a star wars movie on VHS when we had cable, and I would watch it and fell in love with it. And I remember my dad showing my sister and I Blade Runner when we were pretty young.

silence of the lambs!

all of the die hards, predator, aliens, psycho, American psycho, the Halloweens, Friday the 13, and Jackass. and nice job guessing my nickname there, "Psychopath." OH! and the Indiana Jones movies.

sounds great

Child's Play (always scared the crap out of me when I was a kid), IT, The Monster Squad (ridiculous yet too nostalgic for me to hate), The Goonies, This Is Spinal Tap, Crossroads (1986 version NOT 2002!), and Killer Clowns From Outer Space. And almost those already listed.

I went outside instead of watching movies :(

Die Hard
Robocop
Gremlins
Star Wars (Original)
Rumble in the Bronx

Wow those movies bring back memories. My all time favorites would have to be The Monster Squad, The Last Boy Scout, The Mask, Virtuosity and Fallen. Not to mention "Creature Double Feature" which was the only time my friends and I were ever quiet on Saturdays. Just mentioning the previous sentence makes me feel old :-)

Shit, I forgot the Last Boy Scout, in fact, anything Willis touches is pretty much good,

oh, and Passenger 57

"Always bet on black"

Haha. Those were the days.

Donald Duck: An Officer and a Duck
Pinnochio
Robin Hood
RoboCop
Indiana Jones le Temple du Doom
Superman
Batman: The Animated Series

Evil Dead1,2 &Army of Darkness
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
The Howling series
Willow
pretty much anything Steven Segal or Chuck Norris

Star Wars was all I needed, considering I'd watch the movies at least once a week.

Haven't seen.
Have seen.
Haven't seen.
haven't seen.
Have seen and Have seen.
Have seen (and I watched 4 tonight, and despite the rating was AWESOME. The henchmen weren't pussies who died left and right, hence less violence)
Haven't seen (I saw Escape from LA though. "Hey Snake man, thanks for not killing me, I owe you one".)
have seen.
Have seen.
Have, have, have seen.
Have seen GET IN THE CHOPPAH.
Have, have seen.
Have seen (alt ending = a gaylord banquet, HE WASNT A GODDAMN ROBOT)
Have seen.
Have seen...but come on Jeff, are you kidding me? You had me up until here. nay, you TOOK MY BREATH AWAY. That was kind of like a joke, only not funny.

I watched movies over & over when I was 5 too.
They were barney & pinocchio.

When I look at all the movies & TV shows I watched when I was little, I just think...
What was I thinking?!

Of your list, the only ones I've seen are terminator and indiana jones

I never watched movies when I was little. All we had was an antenna, with the local channels. My parents never owned movies, and we rarely, almost never, saw movies in theaters. Like, the only thing I even REMEMBER seeing with my parents is Batman Returns.

I get made fun of to this day about my poor selection of viewed movies =(

Lol I remember recording movies on VHS with my older brother! One time we tried to record Aliens over a copy of the Power Rangers Movie. Our mom was WAAAY Pissed! Good times, good times.

I would name some of the movies I grew up on, but you already did. We may be psychopaths, but at least while shouting those one lines we know the diabolical solution to the apocalyptic situation.

Shit man, we psychopaths gotta stick together. Only we save the world!

YAY for mind twisting, sleep depriving, thought devouring movies!!!

Oh oh on your next Tankmen episode you should have someone empty an entire clip into the air while screaming or someone jumping through the air in slow-mo while shooting a gun! Better yet TWO guns! That'd be awesome.

Robocop
Terminator
Indiana Jones
Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead

Those movies are awesome.

I mostly grew up with my mom, so I'm well knowledged on such classics as Pretty Woman, Truly Madly Deeply, and most other movies that single mothers try to relate to.

Other movies were a few of what you listed. Mine particularly, though, were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 and 2, Jurassic Park, Die Hard, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Predator, the Indiana Jones trilogy, and Quigley Down Under on a Super 8 tape.

Sorry, I got that wrong. It's Video 8, not Super 8.

Accelerate 88mph!

DISTURBINGGGG XD.
i dont.. hate ur tankmen flashes and ur guts for being super lame. :3
"Naked Weapon" is a really goods movie. idk im not an psychopath sorry. im to happy to be one ~_^. all the movie u listed are good i watched almost of them. u forgot kill bill nuuu and sins city nuuu. </3

I used to have them all bought for me :)
You must like me.
Evil Dead
Back to the Future
Alien
Shaun of the dead and his other films
Indiana Jones films

Then again you must hate me.
All Jet Li films
Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children
Akira
FullMetal Alchemist Conqueror of Shamballa
well you should give them a go anyway you never know.

I grew up on horror, I think I've seen almost every single Zombie movie there is.

My favorite movies by FAR were the zombie movies:

- Zombi 2 ( a.k.a. Zombie)

- Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 and 1990 )

- Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 )

- Day of the Dead

- Land of the Dead

- The Dead Next Door

- Jungle Holocaust

- Cannibal Ferox

- Mountain of the Cannibal God

- Hell of the Living Dead ( a.k.a. Night of the Zombies )

- Nightmare City ( a.k.a. City of the Walking Dead )

- The Toxic Avenger

- Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror

- City of the Living Dead ( a.k.a. Gates of Hell )

- Re-Animator

- Bride of Re-Animator

- Beyond Re-Animator

- The Return of the Living Dead

- Flesh for Frankenstein

- Dawn of the Dead ( 2004 )

- Zombi 3

- Man from Deep River

- Cannibal Apocalypse

- I Drink Your Blood

- Eaten Alive! ( 1980 )

Day of the Dead is the best zombie movie ever to grace this fine earth.

Dude, Terminator 2 is better than Terminator. C'mon.

Good luck on Tankmen. Only a douchebag would hate you for them.
BTW, I know you can put easing in those conversation scenes. I'll prove it if I have to.

Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Run Fatboy Run, the funniest movies I've ever bothered to watch :P.

You missed out Tenacious D in the pick of destiny, SEE THE MOVIE AND BE AMAZED!!!

Musn't forget about UHF, man...

Oh hell yeah! I also would tape movie off TV in SLP mode!

I also love almost all the movies on your list except for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome... compared to The Road Warrior I think it stunk but thats just my opinion .

I would like to add to the list:
The Breakfast Club
Toxic Advenger

Johnny dangeriously was one of my favorites growing up, ah the ol VHS days.

I remember my younger brother used to tape over all my movie recordings with cartoons and sesame street.

Goddamn did that suck.

p.s "It shoots threw schools."

How could you forget:
Ghostbusters
Spaceballs

Lmao. Out of cable boundries? That's horrible. The average kid couldn't deal with that these days. Frothing at the mouth? I can imagine that.

Never seen johnny dangerously?!
aw man that was a great movie.

It had a ton of great actors
Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Peter Boyle, Dom DeLuise,Danny DeVito.

Probably one of the best movies from the 80's.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0087507/

silent hill
resident evil
300
sawn of the dead
space balls

dude, you are awesome!

the original trilogys: star wars, indiana jones, back to the future.
Heavy Metal
The Die Hard movies
Gremlins
E.T.

Bruce Lee movies, the Chinese Connection is the best.

I can't forget Mad Max, The Road Warrior is one of my favorite movies (omg did thunder dome suck!)

Akira was weird

no one can be a psychpath unless they've seen Natural Born Killers (which I don't suggest anyone does, it changed me for life)

Also: The Warriors

p.s. keep up the good work with Tankmen.

I did the same thing as a kid

I think Cyborg with Jean Claude was my number one influence, have you seen that? It has the same early 90s grungy feel as most of the movies you listed do. Then The Kickboxer, The Crow, and The Warriors, and every Bruce Lee movie were big influences on me.

I see all the disturbing or violent films : D
To name a few: A Clockwork Orange, Event Horizon, Toxic Avenger, 28 Days Later, Night of the Living Dead (Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, etc. All the "of the Deads").
The Day the Earth Stood Still and the Twilight Zone are also fun for messing with me ^^

I watch my share of everything, but nothing has made me more psychopathic than the above films.

Oh right and American History X. I think I have seen every movie with Edward Norton (maybe he will be able to save the Incredible Hulk movie)

Nightmare on Elmstreet and Friday the 13th movies. I watched a lot of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies

Total Recall - "get your ass to mars!"
Predator
Terminator 1 and 2
Running man
Twins....hahaha

and then some Jean-Claude Van Damme movies
Blood Sport
Kick Boxer
Cyborg
Lionheart

Watch 12 angry men, one of the best damn movies I've ever seen in my life (just make sure you get the black and white version)

Rocky, Rocky 2, Rocky 3, Rocky 4, Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Lionheart, Running Man, Judge Dredd, Jurassic Park, Fifth Element, Batman Forever, Robocop, Face Off, Resevoir Dogs, Boondock Saints, Casino, Terminator, Terminator 2

in b4 faggot /b/ fanboys start chanting fight club

Best movie ever, Army of Darkness, guy with chainsaw arm and shot gun goes back in time to the medival ages and makes witty remarks to primitive villagers and fights old school animated skeletons. And I often taped things myself.

I have to admit that I have not seen a lot of these movies. I saw Mad Max, but I haven't seen Road Warrior or Thunderdome. I only saw the first half of Highlander, and I haven't seen any of the Conan movies.
Over the past few months, I have been on a movie-watching spree, trying to to get my hands on all of the movies that I should have watched ages ago. Now I'll remember to add the movies in your post to my list.

Hmmm Lets See
Spongebob the movie!!!
just j/k!!!
i cant belive it
i feel like im the only person in the universe
who hasnt seen The 300
:[
im ashamed of myself

american psycho is teh awesome

Heh, you know jeff. what I admire of ya as a flash artist is the capacity to laff at yerself. its a value that most people i know dont share because they are gay and they dont want to look weak with their gay friends. Ive watched top gun. and some other movies that you said (being in mexico kinda doesnt promote gringo cinema).
but Ive never watched point break. ¿shall I rent it or something?

I'm the same as Afro-Ninja, I've only seen Terminator and Indiana Jones. Well I have seen more movies, but not the ones on your list. I get lazy, don't go to the theatre, and usually watch them on DVD, if I feel like it...

I've seen Jackass, did get a real effect on me for about a year, then later realizing, WTF, those damn attention whores.

O man, I feel your pain! My parents didn't get cable when I was a child either. We could have, they just didn't want us to become TV zombies as kids, finally broke them down around my 12th B-Day. However, we had 2 VCR's and a mom & pop rental place less than 4 blocks away. So yes, my vhs collection was also quite extensive. There wasn't a single movie on your list I haven't seen, and to this day I would still watch any one of them!

Keep in mind these were all pre-High school...
UHF
Flight of the Navigator
Howard the Duck
Legend
The Wizard
Evil Dead Trilogy
TraumaRama Films
Robinhood Prince of Thieves
Blazing Saddles
The Professional
Last Man Standing

My parents have a stack of 25 tapes all filled with at least 3 movies...all from HBO :D

one thing The Running Man and Beverly Hills Cop have in common: Music I will NEVER get out of my mind. Those evil ear worms. I cant get rid of them. The only solution would be a shotgun mouthwash. But who wants to get rid of those songs anways? They are playing on my mind 24/7 and I am happy about it. Who needs an iPod anyways? I'm the HUMAN JUKEBOX

I have about half of those listed on VHS. I have one that has Predator and Top Gun on the same tape. I think another one was the live action He-Man Movie + Red Sonja (was supposed to be another Conan I think). There's also one with Superman 2 and the Duck Tales movie. Kind of a strange combo. The movies that destroyed my fragile young mind go as such:

Batman(2)
Alien(s)
Back to the Future(1&2)
Jason and the Argonauts - that shits oldschool
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Terminator(2)
Ghost Busters
Predator

Killer Slugs
Killer Bees
The Stuff (best horror movie that has ever existed)

ive seen like half of the movies on your list, die hard, conan, predator, terminator (and the second one:D), and point break(parts of it). But then again i'm still young enough to watch psychopathic films to shape me into an insane maniac! (reading the comments and i watched the second half of american history X yesterday, and now i wanna watch the whole thing just to see the curb stomp!) (( and also my fave movies right now consist of: Donnie Darko, Troy, South Park Movie, Jay and Silent Bob, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Jet Li's Fearless, Monty Pythons Holy Grail, Terminator 2, and my youthful fave would be the Mortal Kombat(s).))

Yeah, I used to have tons of SLP VHS, too, up until I bought my PS2 and started investing in DVDs. I used to love taping movies off of the Independent Film Channel (I had cable). That's how I saw some of favorite movies, like the original Assault on Prescient 13 (John Carpenters rules; writing, directing, and making the music?!), Blue Velvet (David Lynch is awesome weird!), Falling Down ("wait, I"m the bad guy?!"), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (and the earlier Bill Murray version "Where the Buffalo Roam") and the wonderfully god awful Demolition Man ("he doesn't know how to use the shells...").
Those were the days.

Those movies kick ass. I've seen all a few times.

Anyways:
-Terminator 2
-Children of the Corn
-Blade 1 and 2
-Half Baked
-Saw (oh yes...)
-Pokemon the first movie.

Turns out, the psychopath in me is a demented, blood crazed stoner that also happens to be a kid at times...

Aliens. Fucking Aliens is the best god damn movie ever. Alien is also kick in the dick awesome on it's own forever pedestal of awesome but fucking Jim Cameron's Aliens fucking oh my god I want to swear my fucking dick off about it for a hundred years it's that good. Aliens. Fucking... God dammit. I mean that's it, that's all I have to say. It's just really good and that's a fact, that's it. That's all there is too it. Aliens.

i grew up on donnie darko, resivoir dogs, the godfather's (the two good ones) rocky horror, starwars *orig* pulp fiction, any clint eastwood western, and barney, who had the balls to dress in a purple trex suit yet was still awesome *especialy if your tripping..try it out...his words of wisdom will BLOW YOUR FUCKING MIND.

And Blade Runner.

One time when I was young and bored, I looked through the family stash of VHS tapes. I found a tape that had a cover that said "Family Memories" which I later found out was a lie. I pulled the tape out of the cover and it was labeled "Caligula." I though it was a funny name so I played it. What I saw was the worst god damn porno ever. My sick fuck of a dad tryed to hide his dirty porno in a falsely labeled cover.

i have seen most of those movies, i love predator :3

wasnt caligula some schizophrenic roman dude?

Wow i grew up watching weird polsih and russian cartoons on a public service channel, and i think that influenced me alot

spaceballs, indiana jones, terminator, all conan movies, deer hunter,evil dead series + army of darkness

I can confidently say I have only seen one of those movies on that list (The Terminator). I haven't even seen Star Wars or The Matrix though. LOL.

I like Bond movies, amicoolnow?

I seen just about all of them but
Action Jackson
Beverly Hills Cop
Escape From New York

are those 3 any good and if so I need to run out and find them to watch them

wow lol i cant even count how many times i have bet super mario world and super mario bros. lol!

LOLOLOLOLOL, Keanu Reeves in Point Break.

all the Die Hard films, yes even Live Free,
the indiana jones flicks(cant wait for the fourth),
the Alien Quadrilogy and the two predator films
(im leaving out AVP because i detest WSAnderson, guys a moron)
the quest, lionheart,and hard target with Jean Claude van fuckin' damme lol.
uhm...lol the bill and ted movies, beverly hills cop, and the ghostbusters.

i'd say those movies shaped me into the man i am today. action packed, with a little bit of comedy lol.

Cool Runnings

I SEE PRIDE
I SEE POWAH
I SEE A BAD ASS MOTHA WHO DONT TAKE NO CRAP FROM NOBODY

My dad has an assload of DVDs and no cable so I feel you there. But these are the ones I watch over and over and know like every word from.

-Space Balls
-Blazing Saddles
-Ferris Buelers day off
-Mars Attacks
-Naked Gun
Airplane
-Die Hard
-Trading Places
and Hot Shots!

There is no other movie besides Mad Max as far as I'm concerned.

I love movies. I'll try to name older ones first.

Back to the Future
Ghost busters
Star Wars
Enter the dragon
Young Frankenstein
Drunken Master
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Dazed and Confused
The Matrix (first one)
Termanater 2
Out Cold (This is my favorite stupid comedy)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Boondock saints
Sin City

Anime:
Cowboy Bebop the Movie (Anime aside, this is one of my favorite movies)
Akira
Endless Waltz

I'm bad at making lists of movies. The best movie conversations are face to face when you can both comment off of each other and do that thing where you agree with something and get all excited.

Needs more Blues Brothers

One time hen I was 11, my mom brought me to see "Freddy got fingered." That movie was so fucked up and I think that accounts for my sick sense of humor. I also saw "Beavis and Butthead do America" when I was like 10.

I saw quite a few of those movies thanks to my dad. I think the movie that shaped me the most might be Predator. Army of darkness would be up there too. Makes me wish I was more of a badass.

Damnit, I knew I'd think of a good movie and run back to post it...
Guess I better start making a list.

13th Warrior.

I can't get enough of the Mad Max series. There is something about that post apocolypitical "genre" of sorts that I love.

Uno what i miss, and im sure someones mentioned it but i couldn't be bothered reading all the comments. I miss real bad guys. Like in films today you get bad guys who are bad but somewhat good. Remember the bad guy from Robocop 2 his name eludes me when hes cutting that fat fucking cop up THATS A FUCKING BAD GUY "Dosen't he look scared". And Captain Ivan Drago in Rocky 4 "You will loose". I blame George Lucas. "I know theres some good in you" shut the fuck up luke fucking farm boy. Movies fuck around too much these days too, Remember Red Dawn that movie just started no charcter intros no real plot development just bam russians are here fucking run. Nowadays movies have weak bull shit bad guys and too much fucking around before u get to the meat of the actual movie. I salute you

i think i have seen four of those movies

I read through the comments and MY GOD, i feel like we should all be best friends lmao

with a few exceptions Ive seen pretty much every movie mentioned here, and as for your list Johnny those are all among my absolute favorites.

of course you lack Zatoichi, Wasabi, Leon the Professional, Terminator 2, Shaun of the Dead, The Boondock Saints, and the very few animes that, when translated into English, actually still make sense - like Ghost In The Shell and Cowboy Bebop - but since Tankmen is one of the funniest damn things Ive ever seen, I will more than forgive you.

bob-swiv, you are a genius.

"Remember Red Dawn... bam russians are here fucking run."

LMFAO

No Bronson?

"Death Hunt"

preditor #1, godzilla, all starwars at the time, & pitch black. when i was 5

why'd they make predator good in alien vs. predator tho?

Ever try dubbing a rental tape using 2 VCRs only it has that copyright shit on it so the picture brightness fades in and out the whole movie?

I still have my collection on VHS taped off HBO. I would sometimes buy VHS tapes just so I could record them in SP though. I would obsessively watch the Alien trilogy, Robin Hood Men In Tights, 2001 A Space Odyssey, and Congo.

What part of Georgia are you from? South Central?

I've seen commando so many times, i've taken to trying to keep track of how many guys he kills. I loose track when starts blowing up buildings in the complex towards the end.

And nothing beats the RANDOM TOOLSHED!!!! with RACKS of fucking table saw blades. YES! god DAMN i love that movie.

I pretty much grew up on godzilla movies. My collections at 16 movies and I'm getting a godzilla tatoo this Saturday. HELLZ YEAH.

Who is going to hate your guts for making more TANKMEN episodes? I mean, honestly, there like, some of the best flashes ever. There is not one person who i've showed TANKMEN to who has not laughed their ass off! Please make more man, there just soo damn funny!

Does anyone remember the cartoon series "Centurions" or "Power Rangers"?

My parents thought it would be a good idea to show me "Deliverance" when I was 11...

Since i'm not very old (no offense!), i haven't seen a lot of the old-time movies. I did see and liked:
Beavis and Butthead do America
The Matrix
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolution
IT
The Shining
Pet Semetary
The Running Man (great movie!)
never saw The Terminator (sorry...)
Star Wars (didn't care for it)
Gladiator
Grease (only cause my mom watched it!)
Blade
Blade II
Blade Trinity
Silent Hill
Borat (stupid movie)
Tenacious D (stupid movie, but FUNNY)
Resident Evil
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Doom
Born to Fight
Un-leashed

That's pretty much what i can list off of the top of my head

Panty Hose 3, a Bondage porno I saw on HBO 2 when I was 7, ever since then I can't stop twitching or mastrubating. Let me think, uhh... All the Pokemon movies were TORTURE, and I guess Rocky IV. By the way, every movie except Top Gun, All the Mad Max movies, and Escape from New York I saw early on too.

Oh and Children of the Corn O.O OUTLANDER, WE HAVE YOUR WOMAN.

"Double Trouble" from 1992, with The Barbarian Brothers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104135/
Be sure to read the "plot keywords" and review on IMDB

also, "They Live" and, heh, "Steel Dawn"

Same here. Except as a kid, I grew up with 100+ VHS tapes of bugs bunny/tweety, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, etc, etc.

I am so badass.

great layout for the site

I just read EVERY response, and I have seen every movie mentioned at least twice.

If you can stomach reading subtitles, check out the work of Takashi Miike, Ichi the Killer is horrifyingly delicious.

Also if you want to see something REALLY fucked up, check out the movie VULGAR it's produced by Kevin Smith and it's about a clown that gets gang raped. It stars the guy who plays Dante (Brian O'Halloran). Really mindraping stuff.

I could go on, and, on, and on, and on, but I won't because I don't want to type that much.

I too taped VHS movies at low qualities and then would play them back. We're practically twins.

A Clockwork Orange - Great movie. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

I think a tribute to these movies is that they are enjoyed consistantly by the same demographic. I was born in '91 and i have seen and loved 95% of the movies you listed. Commando being a particular favorite as you can see by my latest submission.

You're in luck.

I haven't seen ANY of those movies AT ALL, with the exception of the latter half of running man.

I'll sum it up with one movie...'Shodown in Little Tokyo'.

youtube.com/watch?v=SY6GvTY7E5U

(WHAT)

Um... unless im mistaken, nobodies mentioned 'Ferris Beuller' yet!? Seriously one of the funniest movies out there!
But yeah action wise, i really liked 'The Saint' and 'Hard Target.'

Oh by far though the best and scariest movie is 'Labyrinth.' David Bowie's 'Package' is enough to give anybody nightmares for years!

formative films.

dumb and dumber.
back to the future trilogy.
toy story 1 and 2. (toy story 2 is the most beautiful film about childhood ever made)
the second austin powers film.
dr. no.
moonraker
all indiana jones films about 400 times
the original star wars films
robin hood (the animated fox version...)
the shining (the most terrifying film ever, fuck the exorcist)
groundhog day
ken park (it's exploitative porn, but at least the director was trying to show teenagers as they are, as opposed to hollywood bullshit)
big (a classic film, brilliantly written)
american beauty - every time i sit down to write something, my starting point is plagiarism of this film.
ghost world - in my opinion, the best film ever made, and i've seen a lot of films
face/off (it's essentially trash, but nic cage is a cool bad guy)
the return of jafar - i don't know why, this always appealled more than the original aladdin.
mother
edward scissorhands
fantasia
high fidelity
say anything - i'd see anything with john cusack in it, because of this film.
ferris bueller's day club - shake it up baby now.
about a boy - just for toni collette in this film, i normally hate her, but my god she's amazing in this film. it's such a bizarre film and you know where it's going but some lines just stick in your head and when she says to her son nicholas "when you sing it brings sunshine and happiness into my heart", it's such an awkward, out of touch but loving moment it's brilliant. it just summarizes her character and it's classic.

I used to do the same thing too. I used to live above a shop so got tapes for free. I have the first Matrix recorded three different times.

Also there's a trick you can do for copying tapes. If you have a TV with a built in VHS, you could plug another VHS in and record what it's playing from the telly. It is also a naff way of editing movies without a computer.

Original Star Wars Trilogy (screw the new crap)
Kingpin
The Big Lebowski
Predator
Friday the 13th
Starship Troopers
Terminator 1-2
Otherwise, back then I really couldn't watch movies that much, or tv (though I did watch my fair share of DBZ as a kid) unlike now, where I'm constantly seeing more and more movies (but not TV). Ever see "Bubba Hotep"? Genius movie.

PS- Great job on the new layout man. It's awesome.

Oh yeah, and Godzilla movies, Big Trouble in Little China, and Escape from New York.

I think halloween made me a bit mental because my babysitter let me watch it when i was 5. And Gremlins and Diehard

As a fellow cable-less kid, but without HBO-subscribing grandparents, I think the only ones on your list that I saw before college were "Die Hard" (on HBO in a motel), "Robocop" (friend taped it off his HBO), and "Temple of Doom" (hard to miss). Though I still haven't seen about half of those...

The movies I watched over and over as a kid were an odd mix. I think my top three were "Ghostbusters", "The Naked Gun", and "What About Bob". Taping them off broadcast TV led to me being shocked to find out years later that the versions I watched/memorized were missing scenes.

"Ice to meet you"

um..Ghostbusters, Goldeneye (movie and game), and Austin powers

Alien verses predator. dear god what was that director thinking. i hope somebody got fired for that film.

most of the old-but-not-too-old movies are the best, terminator 3 was a dissapointment, it shouldve ended at #2, although i have to say the hitman movie looks awesome

Ah shit. I thought I invented the name Action Jackson. Although with a name that awesome, it's not hard to believe someone took it already. The character I made was way fuckin cooler than Carl Weathers though. He had an afro, and some long ass pants, with one of those mustaches like a goatee without the chin part. yeah.

I hate when people haven't seen the Serpent and the Rainbow!!

dammit you beat me to the punch in making a themed header for my userpage. >:(

Nothing like a real badass but you somehow forgot the masterpiece that is total recall 'Get your ass to mars!' not to mention kindergarten cop, perhaps the most badass film of all time, wait, fuck me! The last action hero!!!

Trying to watch scrambled porn is a poor attempt. I'd probably cry atleast attempting. But Ghostbusters was the shit. "IT" had me traumatized at a young age. Terminator 1 & 2 were dope as hell. "I'll be back" no one can ever forget that. Hot fuzz was the shit. Disturbia had me laughing most of the time but scaried me little. Chucky Movies. Freddy Kugar...or however you spell it. That ugly bastard that will appear in your dreams and kill you or...as my brother said "When your taking a dump freddy is gonna stick his hand up your ass."

Good stuff....except for the hand part....including when your brother will knock on the bathroom door saying that shit while you were taking a shit. Which is...well...some mean shit.

Man that gets annoying! If someone hasn't seen a movie I liked I just tell them its a good movie... but how can you not see it? quite easily really :D

:D
All action movie. I'm glad I have an older brother who LOVES good movies, and so he always gets me to watch em.
Not just action movies.
And there is nothing wrong with them, but people who won't enjoy a movie unless there is an explosion or blood every 5 seconds piss me off...
CHEERs to more tankmen :D.

GJ with the new layout.

Seen every film on the list. Pride is quite a sensation. The thing is, about half those movies came back with shitty sequels or terrible thirds'.

Though my generation hasn't produced half good movies as the ones on that list.

Oh well, anyways nice layout!

Haven't seen
Have seen
Have seen
Haven't seen
Haven't seen, haven't seen
Have seen
Have seen
Have seen
Haven't seen
Haven't seen, haven't seen, haven't seen (unfortunately)
Have seen
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Anyone who hasn't seen Commando, Die Hard, Escape from New York, Terminator, or Total Recall is wrong.

Also Army of Darkness.

Flatliners:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099582/

The Lost Boys:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093437/

These are 2 classics I watched all the time as a kid. Dunno if they've been mentioned yet.

Did you like highlander the series?

Most of my background in movies is scifi and... something else probably.

actualy now that I think about it scifi doesn't cover my background even in part so I don't know why I said it.

I like your interests though. I can't separate the 80's from robocop... just looks like it was some sorta dark time. As if every place was like detroit, dark and filled with criminal punks.

Growing up, I've seen pretty much everyone of those movies, and on the good ol' VHS as well. But alas, VHS is dead now, as we are all quite content with our BlurayHdSuperResolution movies.

So you wanna take out the popcorn and sit on the couch with a blanket, and watch Die Hard and Highlander wiff me? :3

Seriously.

TOTAL RECALL
amazing movie
if anyone hasnt seen it i suggest it like hell

charlie chaplin
mel brooks
kreepy kat
yea

I am proud to say that I am 15 and have more VHS tapes than DVD's.

And yes, I still watch the movie Road Trip which was taped off HBO seven years ago. The sound is so fucked up on it, I have to turn the volume almost to maximum just to hear it, and sometimes the sound goes to normal and my eardrums explode.

Long live magnetic tape.

Scary move 2 :D

starwars
terminator
predator
robocop
last but not least, back to the future

point break is the shit
via con Dios

Only Action Jackson have I not seen.
I think some of my biggest influence's for good or bad were:
Wizards
Goonies
Robocop
Indiana Jones (all of em)
Flight of the Navigator
Roger Rabbit (scarily so, am a goofy red head with a smokin hot fience' with awesome fuckin curves!)
Nightmare on Elmstreet
The Secret of Nim
Braveheart
Begotten (have been scarred for life)
Also I still proudly have and watch all of my old VHS tapes tapes and they'll pry them from my cold dead fingers.

Cheech & Chong and look at me now!!! WOoooooooo!

this is for you, buddy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Kg_w -0y_w

Wait wait wait, you love both Conan's, but not Red Sonja? What kind of fan are you?

I did't grew up on movies, so to speak. There were movies I watched as a kid, but none that I can recall now, or that shaped my current psyche.

also nice layout

terminator 1&2, rambo 1-3, apocalyspe now, heat and every arnold movie or steven segal movie oh and the goonies

that was quite interesting my good sir

nice layout. but where's hank?

I've seen five movies from your list....
Anyways here my favorites:
Space Balls
Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead
Diehard (all of them)
Terminator 2
Dr. StrangeLove

um.......

where the fuck is scarface. that movie turned me to the bad ass i an today.

Wow you like really stupid action movies Johnny....really really stupid action movies.

Anyways in the offchance you havent seen them you should see A Clockwork Orange and Fight Club, my two favorite movies ever.
Action is nothing without out a moral, dark comedy and some nudity of possible!

Ups to Johnny Dangerously, you do need to see that one. I did the whole taping movies off TV thing too (I'm even a year older than you!), but I was more "shaped" by later stuff... all the bad early-90s cyber-punk shit... Lawnmower Man, The Matrix (but not those shit sequels), eXistenZe, Hackers... I got that fucking CS degree I'll never use because my grand dream was to either design games or do movie CG... also, I have tried to watch scrambled porn and it hurt my eyes :(

Short Circuit...and the sequel, Short Circuit 2 (how creative)...reminds me that I need to snag those sometime.

The Naked Gun movies were also good ones, if I had good cable I think I may still be able to see them somewhere. Leslie Nielsen really made those moves, the goofy bastard.

I...never saw Point Break.

Ever.

=/

I've never seen any of those movies. I've only seen part of Top Gun and part of Die Hard.

You'd be very disappointed with me then.

so you basically grew up in the golden age of movies, before shitty remakes were made such as all the ones today. No matter how many times you beat super mario bros, its always fun.

I had a similar problem growing up except my tv reception was really shit and I had to get taped shows off friends and family.

Shows like The Simpsons, and Goosebumps (Go grandma!!) etc.

Have you seen Universal Soldier? I tell ya, we don't get movies like that anymore, what ever happened to the oldschool action heros like Van Damme and Schwarznegger and Stalone, movies these days are either sequels to shitty films or romantic comedies, and that's just bullshit.

Cheers.
-Dan

Cliffhanger isn't amongst your cheesy classics? I thought it might be.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0106582/

I watched the first 4 Alien movies probably before I was 10.
I've watched every one time and time again, except three, because in my opinion, it sucked...

Anyway, my list is...

Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection
Predator
Big Trouble in Little China
Halloween (most of them, cant remember them all)
Evil Dead
The Exorcist
The Terminator
Blade 1 & 2
Die Hard 1, 2 & Vengeance.
The (original) Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

And some more, but I really can't be bothered with them all...

My dad was a horror fan also...

YOu should see the cabinet i had as a kid. three deep of VHS of every damn thing i've ever seen. Worse off, my mother recylcling them right now to tape every friggin reality show ever, and House. Over and over. Course, I had three refrigerator boxes of VHS from the blockbuster that ended up throwing them up. They THREW EM OUT!!!?! My property now...until i stopped watching movies. SLP was a godsend.

I haven't even heard of a couple of those.

I'm 16, and while everyone else was watching ghetto shit, I was watching movies considered far too old for My generation. It was especially sad that in primary school I was the only one who could read and write properly, yet laughed at because I didn't talk like Ali G. I've also seen nearly all of the movies on this page, even if it was just to laugh at hammy acting.

hahah i remember doing the same thing with the tapes. were you one of those people who tried to put movies of the same actor or a series of movies on the same tapes?

movies that rocked my youth. Rock n Rule, Fastimes at Ridgemont High, Can't Buy me Love, Gremlins, Hawk the Slayer (funny stuff) and tons and tons more.

I'm curious to know how you rate your favs. those are mostly pretty standard movies for their time, save blade runner, terminator, indiana jones and predator. but the rest...do you have a personal way to rate? i usually go for music quality (not popularity), presentation/ cinematography, and story. for those reasons my tops would be 300, shawshank redemption and empire of the sun.seen em??

ha those are all the movies i grew up on! an im only 16 so thyre way past my time lol. cept i hade more of a fascination with martial arts movies than action movies.

Dude... I wasn't about to spend hours reading all of those comments... I did notice someone finally mentioned The Breakfast Club! Awesome, John Hughes was popular in the 80's with his renowned Brat Pack films! 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink & St. Elmos fire are definitely cult classics! I grew up on all of the said aforementioned movies in your list! I also really liked American History X (pretty much anything with Ed Norton is good)! Ravenous was a good flick... I saw it back when it came out like 11 years ago, before Wal-Devil (aka WallyWorld) repackaged it to sell as a twin pack sold next to Pathfinder (a rather disappointing movie if you ask me)! I like thought provoking films as well as good American cheese! I also spent many nights at my Grandparents watching cable (trying to catch TnA movies late at night when they were asleep, & my Grandfather was a light sleeper let me tell ya)! You can pretty much name a Movie that is 5 years old or better, & there's a good chance I've seen it, or it's on my "to see" list! They definitely don't make films now like they did then! Do you think that this current screenwriters strike could inevitably affect Moviemakers as well? God, I hope not!

i tottaly relate with you at that. i had many vhs tapes where i recoredr movies i liked, in not so good quallity. its so many years before that.

Here y'go, Johnny:

Apocalypse Now, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, 300, Million Dollar Baby, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Shining, King Arthur, Broken Arrow, Hannibal Rising, Seven, and, of course, We Were Soldiers.

Literally the most amazing, hilarious blog I've read in a while. My buddy and I were sitting there reading it like, "Wow... this dude is like... our long lost brother... We must have spawned from the same postman". So here's the million dollar question, Johnny; Do you ever get the urge to sort things?

In any case, I'm a huge fan. And I do remember that hideous collection of beat-up VHS tapes with the sloppy labels that ALWAYS managed to get eaten by the VCR in the MIDDLE of your FAVORITE godamn movie..........

Pulp Fiction
Grindhouse
Sin City

Thats all I need

God i do loves me some predator. One of my favorite movies of all time (along side pulp fiction)