“The nearest toilet was in a tiny graveyard” is a pretty great eight-word horror story.

I’ven’t seen #1, #2, or #5, but without even checking I’m fairly certain #4 and #3 would make my top for that year.

The birth year idea is interesting. The IMDb top ten for 1980 has The Shining, Airplane!, and The Empire Strikes Back, so I prolly don’t even need to look any further…

Whoa, no Princess Bride? I guess you’ve seen it and made your decision about it and that’s fair; just wanna make sure it’s not an oversight… (Other than that, I prolly agree, prolly subbing in PB for Robocop.)

Also the piano in The Corpse Bride!

So, I remember the guitar-string thing and that CGI came to replace claymation on this movie from the documentary, but I found this videö to be charming and informative. I loved that part about the motion blur; that was so cool to see the videö of claymation before and after people started compensating for it. I…

Travolta’s comeback ruïned a perfectly good Simpsons joke in syndication, tho.

It is strange, tho. If you met someone from Uganda when it was ruled by Idi Amin (who is, at least, not better than Trump, altho now I fully expect someone to say he was), you’d be sympathetic to their plight, not attack them for supporting him. I wonder what the difference here is…

The weird thing to me is that I’m from the small part of America that pronounces most “or”s like “ar”s (the way most Americans do for “sorry”), so it’s weird to me when Americans make a big deal about getting an “or” sound in that one word, when they all use an “or” sound in “orange, horrible, corridor, foreign(er),…

Now I have to decide if I’d rather hang out with the boorish patriärch from Nate the Great’s story, or somebody who says “Americans abroad are the fucking worst.”

No BNL?

I would’ve! Those girl were both total foxes.

Wait a minute, aren’t you the same commenter who wanted to go back to the year that Mary Poppins came out so you could have sex with strangers? I’m noticing a theme here.

Praytell, what is the “it” in “because of it”?

You’ve got a future as a tvtropes editor!

I didn’t believe you, but Wikipedia lists it, and cites Rolling Stone’s 25 Best Cult Movies of All Time, so you’re definitely not alone in your impression.

I cited those last two (Hunchback and Phantom) as silent movies I’d caught in one of those modern showings with an organist present. Now I’m disappointed to learn that I haven’t strictly seen them. (Not surprising considering what I know about the history of the surviving bits of Metropolis.)

I missed Lawrence of Arabiä in cinemas because I was only -18 at the time, but it was pretty incredible even on TV, so I can’t even imagine.

That’s one of only two movies (the other beïng Roger Rabbit) that I saw twice in the cinema. Reading thru these threads is always a little foreign for me because so many commenters casually drop that they saw a movie three or four times in original release. (Then there’s my freshman year college roommate, who saw Phant…

I saw each of the re-released on opening night, and while that can’t compare, it was pretty great. I was a sophomore in high school, and the same three couples triple dated to all three. I’d of course seen bits and pieces on videö and TV broadcast over the years, but I’d never actually bothered to put the whole story…