1980s Sci-Fi Movies I watched on HBO as a kid
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- As a Gen X kid in the 1980s..
Sci-Fi movies I watched at home.
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This video is simply an homage and in loving memory-highlighting 14 of my favorite sci-fi movies I grew up with; and to inform some people that may not know these old films ever existed.
Timestamps:
00:02 TV Turn On
00:06 The Philadelphia Experiment HBO Promo
01:04 HBO Feature Presentation
01:47 Flash Gordon 1980
03:40 Outland 1981
06:25 Timerider 1982
08:43 Krull 1983
10:06 Yor 1983
11:16 The Last Starfighter 1984
14:21 Trancers 1984
17:07 Enemy Mine 1985
18:54 Explorers 1985
20:12 Solarbabies 1986
22:00 Cherry 2000 1987
24:22 Innerspace 1987
25:44 Earth Girls are Easy 1988
27:08 Millennium 1989
28:34 HBO Behind the Scenes - Dune
33:27 TV Turn Off
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Great times in the 80's as a Gen X. Commando - Teen Wolf - Fright Night - Weird Science - Brewster Millions - Pee Wee's Big adventure - The Breakfast Club - Police Academy 2 - Cat's Eye - Back to the Future - The Last Dragon - The Goonies - Red Sonja - The Jewel of the Nile - Legend - Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome - Rocky 4 - A Nightmare on Elm st. 2 - Friday the 13th 5 - Silver Bullet - and House. Just a few movies released in 1985
Maybe I was just a child, but these movie seemed larger than life. Every weekend was adventure.
I think they’re still larger than life.. I mean many of them highlighted concepts that are just now being produced & implemented.. especially Cherry 2000
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TIME BANDITS! That was one I watched all the time!
I'll never get over the memory of watching Flash Gordon over and over again with my brothers. Those were the days.
Great movie right?! I used to think the music was a bit cheesy as a kid, but now I freakin love it!!! Thanks for your comment 👍👍👍
@@1walicki It's the best kind of cheesy movie. And Queen walks on water.
Flash is my all time favorite film! I saw some of the props from the movie come up for sale at auction a couple of years ago, and I gave in and bought the actual white dress Melody Anderson is wearing when she's trapped in Ming's bedroom.
@@billybatson8657 awesome auction find!!! Very cool thanks for your comment🫵🤩👍
Some really good ones here I remember watching as a kid on HBO. A few more honorable mentions for sci-fi....My Science Project, Night of the comet and you can’t forget The Ice Pirates. Maybe even Spacehunter adventures in the forbidden zone starring one Molly Ringwald. Cool video!!! Thanks for the flashback.
Every movie you mentioned I already put in my 1st video..
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Yes, I’d say they’re more than just honorable mentions, but my All Time Favs!!! Thanks for your comment 👍👍👍👍
The Wraith
Rest in Peace Louis Gossett Jr.
That performance today would have earned an Oscar.
I remember this intro for HBO Movies as a kid.
Everytime you saw that opening you knew it was going to be an event.
Couldn’t wait to go to my grandparents house to see if Escape from New York was going to be on. We didn’t have HBO growing up 🥺
Well it was a good excuse to visit the grandparents Hey?! 😀😀😀
Enemy Mine was a great movie!!!
With a double entendre .. mine as in his and the mine that humans were forcing the aliens to work in! Thanks for commenting 👍👍
RIP Louis Gossett Jr, his portrayal of Drill Instructor Foley in An Officer And A Gentleman won him an Oscar, and as a Drill Instructor could only ever be topped by an actual one.
@@dukecraig2402 Very well said! Thank you for your comment 🫡
Hell on the Pacific... In the space!!!
Molly Ringwald in "Space hunter" greetings from Mexico!
Ah yes what a great space movie from the past! Creating and salutations to you!! Thanks for your comment 👌😎👍
Time rider…the adventures of remo Williams begins, 150 years in the past.
Yes.. he was great in that too!!!
@@1walicki "You must run very fast."
Born in 1974, so I was 8-12 years old during this era. Perfect timing for myself. Seeing SW in re-release, Empire and Jedi first run, Close Encounters and ST:TMP on TV and all of these at my buddy’s house who had cable and by summer 1984, on VHS at home.
He and I also saw The Last Starfighter in the theater together on opening night in our (then) small town of Fayetteville, GA in July 1984!
It’s seems really odd that the Cherry2000 trailer used music from Taxi Driver and Tangerine Dream stuff from The Soldier! Heheh
Never came across that before. Odd.
Fun vid! Thanks! Cheers!
Hey man.. nice call on the music.. did get recycled sometimes in dif movies; kinda like character types & scripts right?! Very cool that ya saw TLS in theater!! Ya, towns were a lot smaller back then, before roads were expanded and more homes were built (a time before McMansions) Hey?!
Thank you very much for your comment- it makes me feel good to learn so many peoples’ different stories of life before the new world [order]!!! 🫵🤩🤘
No widescreen in those days, but it didn’t matter because it was a major miracle we could watch those movies unedited and commercial free on HBO, Cinemax or Showtime.
Just a big heavy square box with maybe 2 speakers or most likely 1 on the side or bottom lol 1 time a put a magnet in front of it to see how the colors changed.. took 2 years for the screen to come back normal-ish.. Dad was Not happy lol Thanks for your comment 👌😎👍
These times were wonderful. Waiting all week for the premier and gathering with the family to watch the latest blockbuster on HBO. I still have vivid memories of talking about the movie afterward and how some people loved a movie while others hated it! It created a love of film that I still carry to this day. Unfortunately these days they only make a few good movies a year.
Your words are so true. Whatever new presentation HBO was showing the whole family would gather around for and enjoy together. And yes afterwards everyone would discuss like a forum; it really felt like after you had gone out to a movie and then reminisced at a diner or whatever. Those days are gone but never forgotten. And in some ways HBO still carries that promise of family fun entertainment with all its original programming; sure it’s evolved and there is much to appeal to today’s wider audience variety. However, HBO remains the #1 pay cable channel. Thank you so much for your excellent words-definitely brings me back!! 🫵🤩👍
No good movies or original ideas anymore, plus with streaming everything is on demand . Nobody has to wait anymore,it seems small but this has affected society in my opinion.
@@keithschultz4187 couldn’t agree more!! Life was much better back then when everything wasn’t always On at all times.. there’s something to be said about waiting for something to play at a certain time; anticipation is very underrated nowadays. And yes seems like everything since the 80s has been done and redone to nothing but boredom. Thank you very much for your comment 👌😎👍
Yup watched those too and most of them my dad took to the movies to see.
I still like to watch some of those movies to this day.
Nice Dad!!! Yup, I still watch em too, some/most better than anything made today! Thanks for for your comment 👍👍👍
Great video. I still remember watching those same movies back in the day. There are some more movies like Space Raiders, The Ice Pirates, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, and others that also aired on HBO back in the day as well.
Yes.. you mention some good ones, there are just so many movies from the 80s that I would prefer very much if HBO added a Retro channel to their cable group so we could all watch em again and get lost in the memories we have from when we were kids!! Thanks for commenting 👍👍👍👍
I have seen almost all on tv. I do have several on dvd like Flash Gordon, Krull, Enemy Mine and Dune.
So damn cool. I love those days
I miss em.. wish I could go back!! 👍👍👍
Starting your day with the cereal with the most sugar- playing outside until sundown- playing dungeons and dragons until midnight- then watching HBO until sun up - we never aged.
Flash: Best Movie EVER (especially for kids).
The Black Hole, Battle Beyond The Stars, Scanners, Starman, Flight Of The Navigator...
I used to always watch Starchaser, the Legend of Orin on cable all the time in the 80s. Cant even remember what the movie was about now but this video has me wanting to look it up for nostalgia.
Yes, hunt it down.. find it, watch it… whole or in pieces!!! I don’t recall it but know you have me curious. Thanks for your comment👌😎👍
@@1walicki it's actually on UA-cam! Thanks for the video!
@@markshadows3667 I’m gonna watch it!
That HBO theme intro made me tear up a little!
This brought me happiness
So glad you enjoyed.. please check out more of my HBO Retro series by genre. Thanks for your comment 👍👍👍
I want a Cherry 2000.
Yeah I’ve seen all of those I always really liked Inner Space and the Last Starfighter.
I think Cherry 2000 is now being produced lol Isn’t amazing how it was predicted almost 40 years ago?! Thanks for your comment 👌😎👍
Thank you for the upload. Great job ❤😂
I appreciate that!!! Thank you very much for you comment 🫵😎🤘
@@1walicki ❤️💯💋
ahhh.. the 80’s…. 😊😊😊
Krull was one of my favorites as a kid. The Glaive is a weapon that i still want to this day.
What a boutique "The Keep" that was in heavy rotation on HBO @ that time.😅😊
Ohh that’s a good one.. only seen it a couple times and only vaguely remember.. Thanks so much for your comment👌😎👍
There are classic movies i make a point to watch at least once a year, Flash Gordan is one of them ,along with "the last starfighter" which is my first memory of watching a movie at the Drive-in as a kid.
Ahh the drive-ins… I remember seeing Star Wars at one. That was such a unique experience. We have 1 left here if you can believe that; it still plays a double feature during the Summers and has also found a way to replay old movies from the 80s every once and a while to keep paying its bills I imagine. Thanks for your comment👍👍👍👍
@@1walicki we actually have one left here also that does the same with classic movies (upstate NY)
@@algorasm2565 lol Are we both talking about the Overlook? Ha!
@@1walicki No 😂...its just called the fair oaks drive-in lol
Another great memory inducer of seeing movies for the first time in the early 1980's on HBO.
My god I forgot about Solarbabies and the Explorers (Ethan Hawke was really young).
I could never get thru Krull.
Did anyone else notice Timerider: The adventure of Lyle Swann was co written by The Monkees' Michael Nesmith. Music was composed by Nesmith, too (imagine that). I, somehow, have NEVER seen Timerider.
I already grabbed my last year purchase of Flash Gordon and am getting ready to watch the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Just remember the good bad or are they good cheap special FX(?) is all part of a camp sci Fi classic 80's style (I say). Ming is truly merciless and his Princess daughter is just about too sexy for PG. phew, in tight black leather.
Enemy Mine may be so good I forgot it came out in 1985. Enemy Mine was/is so well done I remember it as a 1990's release but that is not the case.
I may go out of my way to watch 'cult-ish following' movies Cherry 2000 (Melanie Griffith: "You will not find anyone better than me, Mister. I'm not a machine!" amen. mister) and Earth Girls Are Easy which I have the feeling will be funnier now, especially Earth Girls. I haven't seen Cherry or The Girls in 30 years.
I remember watching Millennium and not being able to decide if I was about to laugh AT it or ... wait a sec ... this is kind of an interesting time travel extravaganza. Plus Cheryl Ladd being cute and sexy (and smart!) with that hairstyle from 1000 years in the future!
Dune: The Blockbuster that was a bust that , still, is not a bad watch ... although it is freaking long.
Again, great memories. Always love hearing the HBO opening theme!
Wow.. that Mike Nesmith was into everything Ha! I couldn’t have said everything you just did any better!!!
Thank you so very much for your awesome comment 🫵🤩🤘
Thanks for this video!
You’re very welcome! 👍👍👍
Dune was Epic ...3 and a half hours of yes they nailed it, went back to the same theater the next day and it was 1 and a half hours...WTF!!! Haven't seen the original since
It’s an odd 1 of a kind movie.. still haven’t seen the remake on HBO. I’ve heard the book was always better anyways; how many hours would it take to read it? Ha! Thanks for your comment👍👍👍
Hahaha awesome flashback!
These were the days I certainly miss Them. I mentioned on your channels before that. I have every HBO guide from February the 82.
86. Every now and again, I will post recover of what months we were in forty years ago on facebook.. Showing the h b o cover and some of the highlights from that month. It's a lot of Fun thinking about these years
You should definitely upload a video of your HBO guides!!! I may only have 1 hidden somewhere amongst old papers. I don’t even remember what they looked like 😂😂 Thanks very much for your comment🫵🤩🤘
@@1walicki I am embarrassed to say I don't know how to do all of that. I would be glad to take pictures of my stuff and display it.
@@patricklena9062 Pictures back to back is a slideshow, which is a video with maybe some background music… I bet you could figure that out and do it!! Maybe give it a shot 👌😎👍
@1walicki I will have to ask around how I go about doing this. Certainly photographing these guys would be fun. I have them right at my disposal. It's not like I have to look for them. And seeing them in a slideshow fashion would be great. I just have to find somebody who knows how to upload that stuff to UA-cam with a little music. Maybe the old h b o Music looping.
@1walicki The very first guide that I have february 82 has fort apache the Bronx on the cover
Ice Pirates, Metalstorm, Battle Beyond the Stars
Such a special time for kid-friendly genre films. Home video made it possible for movies like this to make money beyond the theater. There were still some creative artists in Hollywood with original ideas and vision. And producers were willing to finance risky original concepts. Not everything was great - I mean Yor was as silly as they come - but there was lots of room for diamonds in the rough to be emerge on home video. At 8 or 10, watching these movies the world seemed huge and full of wonder, the future bright and the possibilities endless.
Very well said!! Especially when most if not all productions aimed directly at that time. The burgeoning new target demographic… kids. Thank you very much for your comment👍👍👍👍
FLASH AHHHAHH!!!
Trailer for Outland was pretty much the whole movie
Oh wow.. I never really thought about that Hahaa you’re totally right!! Thanks for your comment, for sure 🫵🤩🤘
Flash
Ah-ah
Saviour of the universe
Seeing that elite 150 made me miss mine on transcers. Such a great scooter.
Never owned but I did want to when I heard Tony Hawk saying he once bought one… we kids called it a float bike when watching Gleaming the Cube! Thanks for your comment👍👍👍
Enemy Mine😂🎉
Krull was the bomb! I don't care what anyone says ;)
@@AISoundDesigns when I was a kid I made that spiral hand throwing star outta wood!!! 1 of the great sci fi movies most have never seen!
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@@1walicki of course! I had this weird toy space ninja star I got in one of those cheapo weapons set. I used to pretend that was the glave ;) Time Bandits was another fav of mine.
Outland - Why is it that when they're inside, the gravity is perfectly normal, but when they go outside in space sits, the gravity is much lighter, and everything moves in slow motion? Outland was supposed to be more realistic with less fantastical sci-fi elements, but yet they have artificial gravity? Or did the makers of this film just screw up and assume that everything weighs less in a vacuum?
The Last Starfighter - I always wondered why the commanders of the Kodan ship seemed to be a different race than the rest of the crew.
Trancers - "Dry hair's for squids." :) I always appreciated that in the sequel, they got the same girl to play the teenaged version of McNulty's ancestor, as the girl who played the part in the original. She'd changed enough that they could have just cast anyone in the role and nobody would have known the difference, but they went out of their way to bring back the original actress.
Wow, ya bring up so many good points! I never even thought about the gravity in Outland. Yup the Koran discrepancy. I think I only saw the Trancers sequel a few times, not enough to have a good memory. Thank you so very much for your excellent comment.. pinned for sure!!! 🫵🤩🤘
1 happens pretty much across the board, even in shows that love to tout that they're hard sci-fi. In The Martian, there's 1/3 Earth gravity outside the hab module as it should be on Mars, but 1G inside the hab module. Same thing in For All Mankind, both on the Moon and Mars.
@@CantankerousDave Yes!! Excellent point regarding both those movies. There’s never any explanation about any tech that allows for the gravity inside any hab or even underground just like in Ad Astra too! Thank you very much for your comment👍👍👍👍
@@CantankerousDave I guess they figure that it's just standard that when you have people in spacesuits, they have to move as if they're in reduced gravity. Sure, having normal gravity outside wouldn't be realistic, but it would at least be consistent.
I suppose it's not as bad as the film Gravity, where George Clooney is being pulled with so much force that he has to cut the tether to save Sandra Bullock, even though his momentum is gone, and gravity shouldn't be pulling him any harder than it's pulling the station. If the station isn't being pulled out of orbit, neither should he.
The same reason there's gravity inside the Enterprise but not outside, because you're not supposed to think about it.
01:08 The Best presentation for HBO.
I gotta be real here - I grew up with HBO in the 80’s and 90’s. I don’t think the Jack Deth one was ever on there. That’s more Cinemax, if you ask me. Not HBO.
cool video, and channel
Aww Thanks for commenting.. I’m doing this in an attempt to generate interest in an HBO Retro channel 👌😎👍
so many fun memories
Great videos! I’m enjoying your compilations. Do you remember a movie that included a man beheading another man with crossed samurai swords? I think reincarnation was a theme and I saw it on HBO in the early 80s. It wasn’t a Kung Fu movie, but the swords were a big part of the story. I’ve been asking movie buffs for years. People remember it vaguely, but no leads as of yet.
Was it Highlander? There have only been a small number of movies with swords and even fewer w/ 2 for a scissor beheading. Don’t recall off the top of me own head lol, I’ll look into it. Thanks for your comment 👍👍👍👍
Explores was so underrated
Indeed agreed, but memorable! Thanks for your comment 👍👍
The last star fighter... Thats a classic
If it had a black outline it was special....if you know what I'm talking about, so are you.
Remember Heavy Metal (cartoon porn)
Flash! Aaayaa!
Trancers 💯
Flash!!!!
I was a true navy brat….lived on navy bases for 10 years of childhood….
We got free Cable in 1979 on….every chsnnel (until they blocked the porn chsnnel….& playboy chsnnel)….but we kept everything else.
Even got to wstch MTV commercials for a week before it started, and the first show (which they bessicslly just repeated for a few days).
This is an awesome idea for a series...but I greatly dislike this setup. I'd like to watch this via my TV, not my phone, and not have to zoom in. Zooming in doesn't fill your phone's screen anyway...the aspect ratio won't allow it.
If the reason is monetization/avoiding copyright, I get it, but it doesn't make the video watchable.
These videos are not monetized.. this is all copyright material and I can not avoid that; I gain nothing monetarily from the views.
The reason for the tv template is to showcase what life was like to watch this on a tv in the original aspect ratio back in the 1980s.
Of course I am open to ideas.
Thank you very much for your comment
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Krull….”they must fight an invincible army…” just as the cyclops takes out a fighter with his staff. Good thing the edit cut right before that or man, we may have been duped. Heh heh …so cheese/
😂😂🤣 Right?! The editor of the trailer lol Real cheese Haha Thanks for your comment 👍👍👍👍
Nancy Allen was so hot back then. Didn't know she was in philadelphia experiment.
Oh yeah!! Remember her in Robocop too!!! Thanks for your comment 👍👍👍
Wavelength, Brainstorm, Brain Waves
Fuuuck. I forgot about Time Rider.
Gordons ALIVE?
Second wave.. Dive!!!
I forgot it was Fred Ward who starred in "Timerider". But who was the smoke show who played his 19th century love interest / grandmother(?--ewwww)
Ya Fred Ward’s been in quite a few movies always plays rugged characters, like in Secret Admirer as a cop dad lol.. Belinda Bauer.. don’t know off hand what else she’s been in but wow back then Ha! Thanks for your comment 👍👍👍
@@1walicki She was in a lot of films at this time, usually in small to medium parts. She was in Robocop 2 for example and Winter Kills, and in a couple of episodes of The Hitchhiker, an anthology series that started on SHowtime (I think) and then went to the USA network, back when it was good.
@@Laceykat66 "The Hitchhiker" was originally on HBO--off the cuff, wanna say '83 or '84 with its first "season" (since they would replay the bjeezus out of episodes, tough to call strictly from memory). First season, particularly, had a lot of TnA, so '80s teenage boys sought it out with some enthusiasm,lol.
But The Wraith???
Saw Yor and Krull on double feature at admiral twin theatres in West Seattle as a kid. We walked out of yor. Probably the worst non Roger Dorman Roger corman movie ever made. Blonde Neanderthals, and cavewomen who had perfect teeth and makeup. Ye yeah, he product of aliens….explainign his blond hair and elevated intelligence but still the stuff of nightmares for anyone with half a brain.
Damn you saw it in a theater?! Wow.. ya I probably woulda walked out too! I mean the special effects and futuristic set/props seemed like an afterthought or def under budget Ha!
Enemy mine was soooo boring. I have a hard time believing you watched this movie at all. It was just awful. Woke before its time. The mail having a baby and then the human has to raise it. I think it was nominated for awards for some such reason…which just underlines my point. Sooooo Boeing as a kid.
You bring up some good points.. all I can say is I appreciate the double entendre of the title. Thanks you very much for your comment👍👍👍👍
Sorry it was not a Star Wars ripoff, but there are different types of science fiction. The idea of a species changing its gender is not WOKE, it is as old as the 1930 pulp magazines.
@peterrichards Mail is what you get in your mailbox. A MALE is the opposite of a female
Gen x was a great Billy idol band. Lol