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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Just been watching Cobra Kai and got talking to a male family member who said he had never watched karate kid. My son laughed and said it was part of growing up for him.

My son was forced to watch all the classics growing up: karate kid, goonies, back to the future, big etc

What are your favourite retro films?

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By *opilotMan
over a year ago

Heathrow

I've just started watching cobra kai as well, brought back some great memories of films from the 80s.

Top gun

Smokey and the bandit

Convoy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was a big horror fan in the eighties (even though I had to wait for them to come on TV first) so some of mine would be

Evil Dead II

Poltergeist

Nightmare on Elm Street

Night of the Living Dead

Ghostbusters

Beverley Hills Cop

Come to think of it not sure if I've ever seen Karate Kid

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

Ferris Buellers day off

See no evil, hear no evil

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By *rNaughtyNickMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

80s was a fine era for movies action comedy sci fi etc..

Too many to list

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I was a big horror fan in the eighties (even though I had to wait for them to come on TV first) so some of mine would be

Evil Dead II

Poltergeist

Nightmare on Elm Street

Night of the Living Dead

Ghostbusters

Beverley Hills Cop

Come to think of it not sure if I've ever seen Karate Kid

Im a wimp when it comes to horrors you need to check out karate kid!

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By *iddle ManMan
over a year ago

Walsall

Same here, so much so I've had the start watching the originals again. They played such a huge role with me growing up, loved all martial arts films back then, along with all van dame films too, they pushed me into it, along with pushy parents too.

I love the sound track to cobra and karate kid.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cannon ball run other night

Flight of the navigator

Krull

Red sonja

Hawk the slayer

Big trouble in little China

Never ending story

Princess bride

Watched all of these last week

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Raiders of the Lost Arc

Flight of the Navigator

E.T

The Goonies

Dirty Dancing

The Lost Boys

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Flight of the Navigator

Mac & Me

Innerspace

Short Ciruit

The Secret of Nimh

Love a good retro movie

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By *hanetnightsCouple
over a year ago

Ramsgate

The Breakfast Club, BTTF 1, 2 and 3, Indiana Jones, Weird Science, Robocop, lost boys, space balls to name but a few.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Cobra Kai made me rewatch the original Karate Kid trilogy.

Love 80’s films such as ET Monster Squad etc.

World was a simpler place.

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By *itty9899Man
over a year ago

Craggy Island

"Just been watching Cobra Kai and got talking to a male family member who said he had never watched karate kid. My son laughed and said it was part of growing up for him.

My son was forced to watch all the classics growing up: karate kid, goonies, back to the future, big etc

What are your favourite retro films? "

Flash Gordon.

Gordon alive....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I was a big horror fan in the eighties (even though I had to wait for them to come on TV first) so some of mine would be

Evil Dead II

Poltergeist

Nightmare on Elm Street

Night of the Living Dead

Ghostbusters

Beverley Hills Cop

Come to think of it not sure if I've ever seen Karate Kid

Im a wimp when it comes to horrors you need to check out karate kid! "

I don't think growing up watching horrors affected me too much

I'd probably add the original Carrie to that list (scared the bejesus out of me when I first saw it).

The only one to really freak me out was Poltergeist - only coz my sister had a clown similar to the one in the film and she put it in my room. So I woke up in the early hours with a bloody clown staring at me from the bottom of my bed.

Might check out Karate Kid

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

Grease, dirty dancing, the goodies, home alone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Goonies, stand by me, police academy, topgun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ghostbusters

Free Willy

Karate Kid

Stand By Me

Big Trouble in Little China

Weird Science

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Grease, dirty dancing, the goodies, home alone

Home Alone is still one of my favourites

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

"Grease, dirty dancing, the goodies, home alone

Home Alone is still one of my favourites"

It’s not Christmas until you have watched home alone

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

Apart from the 80s already mentioned, I’d add

Batteries not included

The Untouchables

Stand by Me

The Mission

Mississippi Burning

Glory

Fatal Attraction

Footloose

Field of Dreams

Flight of the Navigator

70s there is

Midnight Express

Close encounters of the third kind

Willy wonka and the chocolate factory

Grease

Papillon

Rocky

Herbie

Aristocats

Freaky Friday

Star Wars

I could go on and on !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know what you did last summer

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

"I know what you did last summer "

Imagine that coming out in 2021

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jaws (my favourite film of all time)

The Thing (John Carpenter)

Back to the Future

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Casablanca

The Godfather

The Exorcist.....

I could go on lol

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By *orthantsblueeyesMan
over a year ago

Northampton

"I know what you did last summer "

Don't you mean what WE did last summer

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By *i winkersCouple
over a year ago

manchester

Stand by me such an amazing movie,

Make me cry. Neil x

My girl.

Flight of the navigator

Loved a good horror aliens 2 scared the hell out of me begged my dad to let me watch it aged 8

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Holiday on the buses

Norman wisdom films

First Star Wars

Weekend at bernies

The wanderers

Saturday night fever

Porkys

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

Stand By Me has always been my favourite film. I love it and still cry when I watch it.

But Goonies, Top Gun, Dirty Dancing, all the usual ones. But I was (and still am) a massive horror fan. So Amityville Horror, Pet Semetry, Poltergeist. Watched Christine the other day. Great movie, before films relied on jump scares.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Some brilliant suggestions I think I need a film fest on my next day off

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By *i winkersCouple
over a year ago

manchester

Original star wars movies, all the decent mov had amazing music scores.

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By *i winkersCouple
over a year ago

manchester

Oh the warriors

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some brilliant suggestions I think I need a film fest on my next day off "

I'll come round and hold your hand for the horrors

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Grease, dirty dancing, the goodies, home alone

Home Alone is still one of my favourites

It’s not Christmas until you have watched home alone

Absolutely!

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By *i winkersCouple
over a year ago

manchester

"Jaws (my favourite film of all time)

The Thing (John Carpenter)

Back to the Future

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Casablanca

The Godfather

The Exorcist.....

Jaws took me 30 years to get over a fear of being out my depth in the sea, that music.

I could go on lol "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Batteries Not Included

Flight Of The Navigator

Wayne's World 1 and 2

Overboard

Captain Ron

The List is endless.....

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Some brilliant suggestions I think I need a film fest on my next day off

I'll come round and hold your hand for the horrors

Nope the horrors are not happening!!

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

Dune was one I’d like to watch again, oddly slow yet very engaging.

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Lara croft

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm looking forward to season 3 of cobra Kai, I think the show is brilliant!

With the movies there are far too many for me to list but..

Karate kid

Ghostbusters

Die hard

Labrynth

Airplane

Naked gun

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

The black and white films that were shown on the BBC on Sunday afternoons defined my love of cinema. All the Errol Flynn, Boggart, Cagney and Carey Grant. I hate to think theyve been consigned to the dustbin of history.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So many 80s films (that mostly saw at cinema too when they were released!)

Here just some ..

Innerspace

Untouchables

Midnight Run

Big Trouble in Little China

Gremlins

Flight of the Navigator

Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2

Over the Top

Weird Science

Ferris Buellers Day Off

Starman

Top Gun

Legend ......and loads more lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are a good few here I’d forgotten about, I may have to take a trip down memory lane at this rate.

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe

Weird Science - Teenage aches in the groin that movie gave me.

Him.

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By *onnyJohnMan
over a year ago

Doncaster

"Just been watching Cobra Kai and got talking to a male family member who said he had never watched karate kid. My son laughed and said it was part of growing up for him.

My son was forced to watch all the classics growing up: karate kid, goonies, back to the future, big etc

What are your favourite retro films? "

Define retro ? What are the parameters ??

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By *i winkersCouple
over a year ago

manchester

Just watched the outsiders for the first time, very good movie.

Surprising how many movies from that era I haven't seen yet.

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By *B69Woman
over a year ago

Wiltshire

Agree with many above and will add

Fame

Flash dance

Road house

Saturday night Fever

Ghost

Staying Alive

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Rambo

Full metal jacket

Back to the future

Officer and a gentleman

Dirty dancing

The blues brothers

Cool runnings

Ghost busters

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Binged Kobra Kai couple of days ago. Wasn't bad, will look forward to season 3 and the outcome.

Brought my kids up on the 80s films.

We have a fair few on blue ray and DVD.

The Goonies is always top of my list.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

had big trouble in little china on vhs and watched it dozens of times as a kid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

made me chuckle how flash gordon now comes with a warning on now tv about how some people might get offended by it

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

"Rambo

Full metal jacket

Back to the future

Officer and a gentleman

Dirty dancing

The blues brothers

Cool runnings

Ghost busters

How could I forget officer and a gentleman

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

"The black and white films that were shown on the BBC on Sunday afternoons defined my love of cinema. All the Errol Flynn, Boggart, Cagney and Carey Grant. I hate to think theyve been consigned to the dustbin of history."

Can’t beat the old black and white movies

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By *ickyMac69Man
over a year ago

alfreton

I remember watching a lot growing up;

Goonies

Never Ending Story

Highlander

Flash dance

Breakfast club......

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

"Agree with many above and will add

Fame

Flash dance

Road house

Saturday night Fever

Ghost

Staying Alive"

You have a thing for dancers then.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used lockdown for this. They have seen a lot of movies. And enjoyed watching some oldies..

I always loved Back to the future.

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

The Great Escape

Rooster Cogburn

Magnificent 7

And anything with Jimmy Stuart in

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By *B69Woman
over a year ago

Wiltshire

"Agree with many above and will add

Fame

Flash dance

Road house

Saturday night Fever

Ghost

Staying Alive

You have a thing for dancers then.

I know, realised that as I was writing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love the classics

GOONIES

BACK TO THE FUTURE

GHOSTBUSTERS

GREMLINS

LOST BOYS

ROCKY

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

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