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Mars Attacks

Puppet Master

Puppet Master 2

Puppet Master 3

Puppet Master 4

Puppet Master 5

Curse of the Puppet Master

Retro Puppet Master

Puppet Master the Legacy


Puppet master VS The Demonic Toys

The Spongebob movie

Etc.

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I was born in 1943, became 21 in 1964, so the classics from my youth really were classics that I saw in theaters for the first time or in re-release.

Like the rereleases of the original Stagecoach, Casablanca, the Marx Brothers, Disney's Cinderella and Snow White. I was in elementary school when our teachers one day took several of our classes from our segreated school to a segregated theater downtown to see for the first time (for us) a rerelease of Gone With the Wind (I think I can safely say that gave us a perspective on that film that can't be matched by theater audiences today). Took a train trip once with my Cub Scout Pack from Gladewater in East Texas to a Dallas theater to see the first Cinerama film, a mix of roller coaster rides, white rapids, and flights through the Grand Canyon that was a super thrill on that wide, wide, wide screen. I also saw my first 3-D film, House of Wax, in a theater full of spectacled people trying to dodge that paddle-ball bouncing in our faces. Saw Steve McQueen in his first starring role in a theater full of teens at a mid-night showing of the original The Blob; at the time McQueen was the hot star of a TV Western series, Wanted: Dead or Alive. The moment he appeared on the screen, everyone shouted, "Hey, it's Josh Randall!" (his TV character.) I was working at that theater at another midnight show when I met Gabe, one of the Dead End Kids, who at the time was no longer a kid and had a traveling MC act in which he hired local teens to dress up as the mummy, Frankenstein, Dracula and come from behind the screen to "attack" the audience. That may have been the forerunner of audience participation ala The Rocky Horror Show. There also was an impromtu audience participation when a bunch of us in a primarily teenage audience started dancing in the aisles to Bill Haley and the Comets doing "Rock Arund the Clock" during the opening credits of Blackboard Jungle. Saw The Greatest Show on Earth when it first came out--the concession stand sold cotton candy and pink limonade (some of the Big City theaters even had circus acts in the lobby for that movie). Ogled Marilyn Monroe in Niagra and River of No Return, but comic Tom Ewell was the best thing in The Seven Year Itch. Saw all of Judy Holiday's films (she being smart and pretty and as funny as Ewell with whom she appeared in Adam's Rib). Caught Jack Lemmon in his first starring role opposite Holiday, then saw him in the role that made him a star in Mr. Roberts. Had the hots for Kim Novak all through my teens, especially her performance in Bell, Book, and Candle. Was totally floored with the "discoveries" of Brando in The Wild One, and Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. I'd never heard of these guys before, didn't know a thing about them--I was just going to the movies and bam! Saw Paul Newman in his first movie role in The Silver Chalice, where Jack Palance chewed up the scenery as the heavy. Caught Gary Cooper in High Noon and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Saw Sinatra become a real actor, not just a movie star, in From Here to Eternity, Suddenly!, and Man With the Golden Arm. Went to all of Randolph Scott's westerns to get an occational glimpse of Lee Marvin. Went to all of Audey Murphy's movies because to us then pre-teens, he was just the coolest thing ever. Was there to appreciate the superiority of the original 3:10 to Yuma and Moulin Rouge and The Thing. Saw the original The Haunting, which is still the scariest movie ever filmed. But then the Sci-Fi classics like Them!, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and It Came From Another World were fun, as was the series of films starting with The Creature from the Black Lagoon, who I thought of for years everytime I swam in a river, a lake, or just the deep end of the pool.

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By the way, did you know that, while John Wayne took a deferment for a wife and family to avoid military service in World War II, Sabu (in picture 2) became a naturalized US citizen, joined the Army Air Corps, and flew bombing missions as the belly-gunner on B17s? Sabu is my idea of a real American.

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Movies that I was raised on are:

Terminater
Jaws
Overboard
Cash an tango
The goonies
Dawn of the dead
The princess bride
Old John Wayners an Clint Eastwood movies

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Star Wars Trilogy
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
A Christmas Story
Ghostbusters

These were big when I was a kid.

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Terminator 2
Predator
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Aliens
The Breakfast Club
The Neverending Story
The Dark Crystal
The Labyrinth
Flight Of The Navigator
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, II, III
Aladin
Fern Gully
Hook
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Gremlins

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How did I forget Ferris Bueller, and Back to the Future?

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"Life moves pretty fast if you don't stop and look around once in a while you might miss it"

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It doesn't get much more classic than Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Well, to each his own, but films that I took my kids to see in their first release just don't seem to me old enough to be judged "classics." :)

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The films I consider classics these days didn't come out while I was growing up...

If I have to stick to that paradigm, I think I would have to choose Raiders of the Lost Ark, as well, as that came out when I was a teen.

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I just watched Krull the other day(hence my new avatar) This movie is classic and I used to love watching it as a kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py5dRkvsAkM

also.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3DcWtkKeIY

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Okay...here we go again, folks:

Sound of Music
West Side Story
Georgy Girl
Lawrence of Arabia
Mutiny on the Bounty
Midnight Cowboy
The Graduate
How the West was Won
Cat Ballou
2001: A Space Odyssey
Planet of the Apes
James Bond movies
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Spartacus
The Incredible Journey
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
A Hard Day's Night
Help!
Murder She Said
A Shot in the Dark
The Pink Panther
Endless Summer
Lion in Winter
Oliver
My Fair Lady
The Music Man
Merrill's Marauders
Bon Voyage!
The Monster that Challenged the World
Putney Swope
If
The Two of Us
Easy Rider
Sleeping Beauty
Pinocchio
True Grit
Charlie Chaplin movies: i. e. Gold Rush, Modern Times, The Great Dictator
Mary Poppins
Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
The Time Machine
The Mouse that Roared
Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck movies
Old Yeller



All these in addition to my ten favorite movies on my profile!

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Well, outside of whatever old Disney films or Bond films I watched on video (and maybe even Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but I'm not entirely sure if that could really be deemed a "classic" - I guess it should be, though), Raiders of the Lost Ark seemed like an obvious choice to me.

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Raiders is the only Spielberg film I've ever really liked. Don't know if it will prove to be a classic still being watched after those of us who saw its first run in the theaters are all gone (it might) or if it is really just a homage to the Saturday matinee serials or action classics like King Solomon's Mines that I grew up with as a kid. Actually, I think it may be both; It stands alone on its own merits, which is more than I can say about the two--no, three knockoffs that followed it. The original was good, but now it's time to put away the hat and whip.