"Willow". I love it, this is where I know Val Kilmer from, and both Warwick Davis and him make the movie work. It's very by-the-numbers, and there's a lot of dialogue about how "it's just fantasy Star Wars!". It's not, it's really... not.
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"Clash of the Titans". The 1981 version, which is full of stop-motion stuff. It's also been said to be dull, but I honestly enjoyed it growing up. These days I'd recommend it because said stop-motion is a lost (and expensive!) art.
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"Johnny Mnemonic". It's not 'good' but Keanu is interesting in it as a courier who carries data files in his brain. It's weird because I saw this before I actually saw "Blade Runner". Also, home to a scene I really love. (Source of the GIF) Problem is, the rest of the movie feels "bleh".
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One more now that I recall, and it's because I was familiar with the source material: "Always Watching". It isn't exactly connected to the original source, and it relies a lot on already having some cursory knowledge about the Slender Man mythos. Which is in the "fad" territory. It was interesting.
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But it's also an acquired taste: - Slender Man tangential. - A found footage horror movie. - Using "Marble Hornets" without being directly connected to it. (Even in writers.) - FULL of jumpscares and occasional digital distortions. - The protagonists are not really good people, really.
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Ah, you know, still need to do that one! I liked the VHS cover, at the time, thought it was clever ^^
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It used to blur with me as a kid, with Jason and the Argonauts X3
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Willow terrified me near the end as a kid, we watched it at a hotel during a trip and I wasn't prepared XD The arcade game was fun, too!
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The NES game was... look, I'm 90% convinced it was another game with the license plastered over it. But it was still a fun game.
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Poltergeist, the original. It scared me as a kid. I never wanted to be in a room with a tv showing snow.
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I stayed up all night the first viewing, with the lights on XD I feel that
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