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I saw this movie as a kid and it haunted me. Somehow, when the internet was still in its infancy (pre-WWW), the title popped into my head—I still don’t know how

by dhosek 3y ago

I saw this movie as a kid and it haunted me. Somehow, when the internet was still in its infancy (pre-WWW), the title popped into my head—I still don’t know how—and I was able to rent it on VHS at the local video rental store. It was startling how much I remembered from seeing it on TV at the age of 6 or 7.

technothrasher 3y ago
> I saw this movie as a kid and it haunted me. Me too. I still to this day have an original theater poster from it hanging in my office, next to my Collossus The Forbin Project one. I do remember as a kid being very confused when the forest ships from the movie showed up in the fleet of ships following the Battlestar Galactica.
jordanb 3y ago
I had a similar reaction seeing Logans Run as a kid on TV (it must have been edited pretty aggressively as the movie is very racy). I had no idea what I had watched but I remember this show about these people who are stuck inside a mall and can never go outside ever. It really affected me incredibly deeply and filled me with melancholy whenever I thought about it. Finally in College I was renting old sci-fi and watching it, and as I was watching Logans Run I suddenly realized that it was the show I had seen as a child about the people who couldn't go outside. A lot of 70s dystopian sci-fi hits pretty hard to be honest. Two more that come off as incredibly prescient are The Network (about a media company that will do anything for viewership) and THX1138 (about people who take drugs to control all their emotions, confess their sins to chatbots, and masturbate to porn every night).
- jamiek88 3y ago
  >about people who take drugs to control all their emotions, confess their sins to chatbots, and masturbate to porn every night Woah. Prescient.
  - xen2xen1 3y ago
    And, of course, being a film school movie by George Lucas if I recall correctly.
- ildjarn 3y ago
  A Boy and His Dog is another one.
  - chasil 3y ago
    ...which was written by author Harlan Ellison, also notable for the Star Trek (TOS) episode known as "The City on the Edge of Forever." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Foreve...
    - aidenn0 3y ago
      And the short story that gave me nightmares as a kid: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
  - retrocryptid 3y ago
    I keep calling it "A Dog and His Boy."
- readingnews 3y ago
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antonvs 3y ago
> I saw this movie as a kid and it haunted me. Same here, a very enduring memory. Although I had largely forgotten about it until I heard a song (well, some sort of psychill instrumental I guess) by Carbon Based Lifeforms, named Photosynthesis, that samples a couple of lines from this movie: https://youtu.be/KQE29az48gM?si=9q3aVxcvV7TLxBa4&t=770 https://youtu.be/KQE29az48gM?si=9q3aVxcvV7TLxBa4&t=770 For those who haven't seen the movie, here's a 16 sec non-spoiler clip that gives a little context to the lines in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Xhzo6VAWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Xhzo6VAWg
- namaria 3y ago
  Oh wow I've been listening to this song my whole adult life and never new where that line came from! That's an incredible connection, I love haunting scifi movies from the 70s, and Carbon Based Lifeforms! Thank you for this!
  - moritzwarhier 3y ago
    What a thread. I am enjoying the movie recommendations as well, and too like Carbon Based Lifeforms. Glad this thread motivated me to finally write down the movie titles.
Angostura 3y ago
Same. I watched it on TV probably aged about 10 and was I think one of the first films that made me cry

by dhosek 3y ago

technothrasher 3y ago

> I saw this movie as a kid and it haunted me. Me too. I still to this day have an original theater poster from it hanging in my office, next to my Collossus The Forbin Project one. I do remember as a kid being very confused when the forest ships from the movie showed up in the fleet of ships following the Battlestar Galactica.

jordanb 3y ago

I had a similar reaction seeing Logans Run as a kid on TV (it must have been edited pretty aggressively as the movie is very racy). I had no idea what I had watched but I remember this show about these people who are stuck inside a mall and can never go outside ever. It really affected me incredibly deeply and filled me with melancholy whenever I thought about it. Finally in College I was renting old sci-fi and watching it, and as I was watching Logans Run I suddenly realized that it was the show I had seen as a child about the people who couldn't go outside. A lot of 70s dystopian sci-fi hits pretty hard to be honest. Two more that come off as incredibly prescient are The Network (about a media company that will do anything for viewership) and THX1138 (about people who take drugs to control all their emotions, confess their sins to chatbots, and masturbate to porn every night).

jamiek88 3y ago
>about people who take drugs to control all their emotions, confess their sins to chatbots, and masturbate to porn every night Woah. Prescient.
- xen2xen1 3y ago
  And, of course, being a film school movie by George Lucas if I recall correctly.
ildjarn 3y ago
A Boy and His Dog is another one.
- chasil 3y ago
  ...which was written by author Harlan Ellison, also notable for the Star Trek (TOS) episode known as "The City on the Edge of Forever." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Foreve...
  - aidenn0 3y ago
    And the short story that gave me nightmares as a kid: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
- retrocryptid 3y ago
  I keep calling it "A Dog and His Boy."
readingnews 3y ago
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antonvs 3y ago

> I saw this movie as a kid and it haunted me. Same here, a very enduring memory. Although I had largely forgotten about it until I heard a song (well, some sort of psychill instrumental I guess) by Carbon Based Lifeforms, named Photosynthesis, that samples a couple of lines from this movie: https://youtu.be/KQE29az48gM?si=9q3aVxcvV7TLxBa4&t=770 https://youtu.be/KQE29az48gM?si=9q3aVxcvV7TLxBa4&t=770 For those who haven't seen the movie, here's a 16 sec non-spoiler clip that gives a little context to the lines in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Xhzo6VAWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Xhzo6VAWg

namaria 3y ago
Oh wow I've been listening to this song my whole adult life and never new where that line came from! That's an incredible connection, I love haunting scifi movies from the 70s, and Carbon Based Lifeforms! Thank you for this!
- moritzwarhier 3y ago
  What a thread. I am enjoying the movie recommendations as well, and too like Carbon Based Lifeforms. Glad this thread motivated me to finally write down the movie titles.

Angostura 3y ago

Same. I watched it on TV probably aged about 10 and was I think one of the first films that made me cry