Flashback to flims of my childhood...

We watch a lot of bad movies over here. One of my coworkers commented on our selection of films and said it read like the playlist on TBS. It's all the bad sequels and not the original good versions. That said, what better time to waste on movies I'd never watch otherwise than while I'm stranded in a desert watching the sand and rocks grow? What better first world problem could I have over here?

The other day, I was able to watch a cheesy but great flick from my childhood - The Last Starfighter.

It dawned on me while watching this... they just don't make them like they used to. Sure, the special effects are leaps and bounds advanced, but that innocent yet clever plot is gone.

I sometimes wonder if it's that we're out-thinking movies because many of us understand our universe more so there lacks that mystery. Another problem I believe is with all the flashy cool special effects producers and directors are taking short cuts - ehem... George Lucus & James Cameron.

Just compare the original Star Wars: A New Hope to any of the latest ones. They replaced emotion and creativity with Jar Jar Binks and midichlorians. Now we're being assaulted with mostly terrible movies that try to sell themselves on the latest reinvented technology - 3D. No matter how many Ds you throw at unobtainium... it's still obtainably dumb.

Ranting aside, my latest viewing of  The Last Starfighter gave me a renewed taste for the Sci-Fi of my youth. For kicks, I looked a bunch of them up and thought I'd share. Now, I didn't pick the obvious ones like E.T.

What's your favorite Sci-Fi flick from your childhood and which of these can you remember?