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Post by Schizo on May 21, 2024 11:07:15 GMT -5
You’ve just remembered this movie, and also how awesome it was!
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Post by brettappedout (BLM) on May 21, 2024 16:16:56 GMT -5
I love that movie. Rented from video stores alot.
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Post by Hypnosis on May 21, 2024 17:29:32 GMT -5
I thought of the Rodeo Burger commercial when I saw this thread.
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Post by CMWaters on May 21, 2024 19:57:21 GMT -5
Fan concept trailer for a sequel/spin-off.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on May 21, 2024 19:59:10 GMT -5
the effects are genuinely awesome.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 21, 2024 20:11:12 GMT -5
It's a fun little movie. It's sort of wild seeing David Cross playing this naive, hapless scientist, though, since I am so used to him playing cynical asshole characters.
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Post by thechase on May 22, 2024 5:11:23 GMT -5
Fan concept trailer for a sequel/spin-off. So something DID come out of that, and here I thought it had a reputation for being a massive grift
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on May 22, 2024 5:45:38 GMT -5
I rewatched it earlier this year. The effects still hold up today.
I also fondly remember the PS1 game too.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on May 22, 2024 7:38:25 GMT -5
This has been on my "share with my kid" list for awhile.
Lots of Gremlins vibes. Joe Dante directed both, and here's what he had to say about the production, from wikipedia:
There was a remake in the works but that died when Disney bought Fox.
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Post by tafkaga on May 22, 2024 10:28:42 GMT -5
Remember the game, Army Men, that came out around the same time. Pretty cool little game that was.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on May 22, 2024 10:41:35 GMT -5
Remember the game, Army Men, that came out around the same time. Pretty cool little game that was. My dad, now 64, was never a gamer but he played and enjoyed 2 games that I recall - that and Blast Corps on my N64.
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Post by Soultastic on May 22, 2024 11:03:09 GMT -5
Remember the game, Army Men, that came out around the same time. Pretty cool little game that was. My dad, now 64, was never a gamer but he played and enjoyed 2 games that I recall - that and Blast Corps on my N64. Non gaming dads getting into specific games is always awesome. my dad had some sort of pirtaed Famicom multi game system but he never really used it much, but by the time we got a PS1 he got hooked on Gran Turismo 2 and Colin McRae Rally 2. Now that he's 60 he still occasionally plays Dirt. Back on topic, that movie rules.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on May 22, 2024 11:38:24 GMT -5
Definitely a VHS staple for me as a kid.
I have fond memories of the toy line.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on May 24, 2024 6:52:15 GMT -5
I haven't seen this movie since it came out 26 years ago.
Now I feel old.
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Post by darbus alan on May 24, 2024 12:04:45 GMT -5
I like that it subverted expectations about the good and bad guys. Like you expected the badass soldiers to be the heroes and the freaky monsters to be the villains. But the monsters were peaceful and friendly while the soldiers were ultraviolent psychos.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 24, 2024 17:03:55 GMT -5
My dad, now 64, was never a gamer but he played and enjoyed 2 games that I recall - that and Blast Corps on my N64. Non gaming dads getting into specific games is always awesome. my dad had some sort of pirtaed Famicom multi game system but he never really used it much, but by the time we got a PS1 he got hooked on Gran Turismo 2 and Colin McRae Rally 2. Now that he's 60 he still occasionally plays Dirt. Back on topic, that movie rules. Outside of playing a tiny bit of Combat on the Atari VCS back in the late 70s my dad,turning 80 in Sept,only played gun games. Duckhunt,hogans alley all the various zapper games on the NES. Then one summer after the Genesis came out I drove out ot Texas to stay 2 weeks with him. He got hardcore into one of the EA golf games and Toejam and Earl. By the end of the two weeks he had bought himself a Genesis,model 2, and those two games. No other video games for him. Far as Small Soldiers,it is a film that I was in my mid 20s I think when it came out. Never saw it back then. Then 10 years ago when my youngest son was visiting during the summer my GF was talking about it and realized neither him or I had seen it. 1 Hour later after she found a store locally that had a copy we watchedd it. Fun film.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on May 25, 2024 6:56:51 GMT -5
This has been on my "share with my kid" list for awhile. Lots of Gremlins vibes. Joe Dante directed both, and here's what he had to say about the production, from wikipedia: There was a remake in the works but that died when Disney bought Fox. That mix is why I liked it, a children's story but with an edge, same reason I like Roald Dahl and the Willy Wonka/Matilda movies. They had this nastiness under them. Small Soldiers is pretty much a horror movie by the end, if Chicky came out with the Commando Elite it wouldn't be totally out of place. After seeing this thread, I realised its not on streaming very often so it's been added to my physical media collection.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on May 25, 2024 7:28:11 GMT -5
I like that it subverted expectations about the good and bad guys. Like you expected the badass soldiers to be the heroes and the freaky monsters to be the villains. But the monsters were peaceful and friendly while the soldiers were ultraviolent psychos. IIRC, the film’s initial marketing was intentionally vague about it, playing up the toy soldiers as the good guys and the monsters as the bad guys.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on May 25, 2024 8:19:30 GMT -5
IIRC this was Phil Hartman's last performance, yes?
I saw it in the theaters...and I am today years old when I realized it was JOE DANTE directing. Maybe I should check it out again as such. I liked Krampus for being a throwback goofy/scary movie, perhaps this will give me the same feeling?
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on May 26, 2024 7:21:50 GMT -5
For some reason, the douche dad's line "I think World War 2 was my favorite war" has stuck with me ever since I first watched it. I still quote it from time to time if the situation is appropriate--at a war museum, watching a war movie etc.
There's just something so hilarious, and yet true about it.
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