These are my top 5,
but here are some more (oh, & after these, for me, there are no more.... I promise....):
10. ABBA: The Movie (1977)
I love ABBA.
And sayin' that does not make my pimp-ass any less hairier.
So, you know....
Shut up.
9. Destroy All Monsters (1968)
For the first time ever, Godzilla, Minilla, Mothra, Rodan, Gorosaurus, Anguirus, Kumonga, Manda, Baragon, and Varan, all together in one movie, kicking all sorts of ass with their big, floppy rubber feet (or any other appendages of like-minded floppy purposes).
And it's all because of those stupid aliens!
This is the original Monsters Versus Aliens epic,
not to mention, the battle royale of all battle royales! With cheese!
So y'know.....
Run for your lives!!!!
8. Flashdance (1983)
A bad early 80's dance flick.
Really bad.
But, boy,
that Jennifer Beals......
what a feeling.
She's definitely what you'd call a guilty pleasure.
7. The Hindenburg (1975)
I remember this 'historical" diaster pic getting murdered by critics at the time of it's release.
But as a kid, I thought that as far as thriller escapist fares go, this movie, just like many of the other 70's diaster flicks of the time, was pretty bad-ass.
But, then again, this is coming from someone who, considering my age at the time, thought that stop-motion effects were the sh#t.
6. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
Boy.....
.... remember back when stop-motion was the sh#t?
5. 2 Days in the Valley (1996)
Teri Hatcher & Charlize Theron.
Now, those are my kind of cats in a fight.
4. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Selma Hayek.
Now,
those are my kind of creatures in the night.
3. Tron (1982)
Before there was the Matrix,
there was TRON.
Okay,
so maybe there really isn't all that much as far as compelling storyline goes in this cyber-epic-fantasy. But, boy, those visuals were unlike anything we had seen before. The science of computer graphic effects were fully upon us & in a land not too far away, the force known as CGI was gestating to become the meat that would make the eyes of sci-fan's drool from here to the eternity of this genre's future.
Maybe I look upon this film with the nostaglcic affection that held my young visual senses in a unblinking attention at the time, but it also represented of what was possible when man & modem meet.
I won't try to convince anyone out there that this is a great film on any level (especially since this was the same year the superior sci-fi world of Blade Runner was also released), but I do feel that it's a step in science fiction that was inevitable.
You are now entering the infinite possibilities of cyber-space. Not to mention the matrix of my own personal guilty pleasures.
2. The Fog (1980)
There are a couple of reasons why I like this movie so much.
And they both have to do with Adrienne Barbeau.
1. The Last Dragon (1985)
Is it possible for Prince ex-nasty girl, Vanity, to be able to hook up with a dragon that can catch bullets with his teeth?
Sho-Nuff.
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"Jaws:The Revenge", I have no idea why but have watched these flicks hundreds of times, "Friday the 13th 1-8" also get screened @ home on a regular basis when there's nothing to watch!
