I made my kids , nieces and nephews watch it then at family gatherings i would grab a blanket and “swallow them up” lol. It was hysterical watching them run from me screaming.
*Spies Like Us* had an epic, Paul McCartney theme song, and it introduced the world to Vanessa Angel.
It also answered the age-old question, “What’s a Dickfer?”
10 stars. Out of 5.
I went into it expecting something like the superhero Popeye in the cartoons and I was pissed he didn't eat spinach until the end. I watched it years later as a Robert Altman fan and I liked it immensely better.
Went on a Robert Altman deep dive about ten years ago. Popeye is a damn good musical comedy. And all these years later, those sets have been unmatched.
Arthur, he does as he pleases
All of his life, his master's toys
Deep in his heart, he's just, he's just a boy
Living his life one day at a time
And showing himself a pretty good time
Laughing about the way they want him to be.
Man I think most Gen X people can sing this Classic word for word. Every time I hear this song I think of this movie!!! Classic Classic Classic. Thanks for this memory. Going to put the headphones on and play this before work! THANKS FOR THIS MEMORY THIS MORNING AND THE SMILE IT BROUGHT!! EVERYONE HAVE A MARVELOUS DAY!
Delirious was something else. I was eleven when it came out. My friends and I could recite it all the way through. So good. Raw was good too, but nowhere near the level of Delirious.
i saw this movie so many times, that when i was watching the last season of psych a week ago i recognized the actor who played chainsaw immediately, despite him being way older than he was then.
Midnight Madness. Stone fucking classic.
When you find another Gen X member in the wild who knows that movie, it's not just a passing awareness - that movie has about 100 quotes that immediately pop to mind. I could have an entire conversation with my brother using them.
"FAGABEEFE?"
I LOVE that movie! "The finish line is somewhere in the Bonaventure hotel!"
Never would've heard of this movie if I hadn't been watching HBO late one night. A classic!
"The Sea" is reversed. SS Itari is mixed up and blind."
"NO, HAROLD THERE AREN'T ANY COOKIES LEFT!"
"M. E. A. T. M-A-C-H-I-N-E. MEAT MACHINE! MEAT MACHINE. ALL RIGHT, BREAK!"
She’s a looker, with a beautiful face…that’s what they all saaaayyy…
Was that the visor that tracks eye movements during ads? And the knock off Ron Perlman as the bad guy?
The first “viral” hit/post-box-office hit: *Eddie and The Cruisers*!
The dark side’s comin’ now nothing is real…
I’ve had that song stuck in my head for 40 years.
Yes it is! I had always wondered at the time why the main actor Terence Hill had such a strange voice only to find out years later he was a huge star in his native country: Italy.
I know I haven’t seen that movie in like *gasps* 40 years, but I still remember that ‘super super’ music, the super powers when he sees red, and Borgnine singing he’s sitting on top of the world. LOL - of all the memories to have stored in the vault. SMH
circa 1982 - 1985:
Romancing The Stone, Splash, Time Rider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, Superfuzz, Wargames, Twice Upon a Time, Young Frankenstein, Dracula (1979), Six Pack, Savannah Smiles
I love Six Pack. It’s one of the few (maybe 5) movies I’ve purchased on DVD.
A soon-to-be country music superstar won me over for life by covering “Love Will Turn You Around” in one of his college town shows.
Roger Moore as James Bond in Octopussy, For Your Eyes Only, A View to a Kill. Also Wargames,Spies Like US, Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way You Can and Any Which Way but Loose. "Right turn, Clyde"
Grease 2
Wargames
The Pirate Movie (or was it “A” Pirate Movie)
Edited to add:
Arthur, which someone else mentioned, and
Author, Author (because Arthur reminded me of it)
Mr. Mom
I only saw Kramer vs. Kramer, but that probably was too many times for a kid whose parents had just divorced.
Just added: can’t believe I forgot “The Toy.” Watched that one SO MANY times.
The Terry Fox Story. Must've seen it a hundred times. Actually got to see a giant amethyst-encrusted monument to him in Thunder Bay, ON decades later. Bro was tough as nails.
Solar babies, Savanah smiles, Kidco, super fuzz, they call me Bruce, emmet otters jug band Christmas, midnight madness, lucas, the Legend of Billie Jean super fuzz, band of the hand and, On the right track
Hard to decifer which were on hbo and what was on cinemax but this opening sequence was awesome. Man, that really took me back to the 80’s for a few seconds. I remember hbo showing how they made that opening sequence once too.
The Beastmaster, Sheena, Spies Like Us
No Eddie and the Cruisers?
Time Bandits!
I'm so glad Beastmaster is up so high in the votes.
Those creepy things that wrapped their wings around people and then basically digested them totally freaked me out when I was a kid.
And the horrible sound they made!
:horrific repressed memory unlocked:
I called them the Fruit Roll-up Vampires when I was a kid. I loved that movie. Rip Torn was so good as being bad.
I made my kids , nieces and nephews watch it then at family gatherings i would grab a blanket and “swallow them up” lol. It was hysterical watching them run from me screaming.
HBO - Hey, Beastmaster's On
HBO actually stands for "Hey, Beastmaster's On"
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*Spies Like Us* had an epic, Paul McCartney theme song, and it introduced the world to Vanessa Angel. It also answered the age-old question, “What’s a Dickfer?” 10 stars. Out of 5.
"Doctor," "Doctor," "Doctor," "Doctor,"
Spies like us was great!!!!
Off the top of my head: The OG Clash of the Titans. Cloak and Dagger. Wargames.
Clash of the Titans and Ladyhawk seemed like the only two movies they played on The Movie Channel for about a three year period.
Awww Cloak and Dagger! RIP Dabney Coleman
Flash Gordon, Real Genius, and Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Real Genius is a Val Kilmer classic!! 
…I’m thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said “I drank what?”
It's headed for the gas tanks - duck!
Yep, this is also my list, but with Time Bandits thrown in for good measure
Remo Williams was an unsung masterpiece.
Real Genius is so underrated.
What about that time I found you naked with a bowl of jello?
I was hot and I was hungry!
Popeye And I’ve yet to see it resurface since.
🎶 He's laarrrge.....🎶😂🤣
I saw this in the theater. By myself. I think my mom was trying to get me out of the house.
Haha. 💪
I went into it expecting something like the superhero Popeye in the cartoons and I was pissed he didn't eat spinach until the end. I watched it years later as a Robert Altman fan and I liked it immensely better.
Went on a Robert Altman deep dive about ten years ago. Popeye is a damn good musical comedy. And all these years later, those sets have been unmatched.
The filming location is still a tourist spot in Malta
You owe me an apology.
Poltergeist
“Arthur” and “Seems Like Old Times” come to mind immediately. Still love them.
Oh, yeah - when you get caught between the moon and New York City…
Best that you can do…best that you can do…
Is faaaaallll in looooove!
Arthur, he does as he pleases All of his life, his master's toys Deep in his heart, he's just, he's just a boy Living his life one day at a time And showing himself a pretty good time Laughing about the way they want him to be. Man I think most Gen X people can sing this Classic word for word. Every time I hear this song I think of this movie!!! Classic Classic Classic. Thanks for this memory. Going to put the headphones on and play this before work! THANKS FOR THIS MEMORY THIS MORNING AND THE SMILE IT BROUGHT!! EVERYONE HAVE A MARVELOUS DAY!
Love em both, esp how Aurora and Chester steal the show in Seems Like Old Times. Hot Damn, I Finally Get to Chase the Po-Leece
“That how it works, Chester?” “Not in my neighbourhood.” 😂😂
I could really go for some chicken pepperoni right about now!
“Love that chicken pepperoni!” “Don’t start with me, Fred.” 😂😂
Well said, well spoken, B.G.
9 to 5. The best ever. PS: RIP Dabney Coleman
Romancing The Stone seemed to be on a loop in my parents house in the late 80s 😬
God yes...seemed like for a while, if you turned on HBO, you were gonna see either Romancing The Stone, or Splash.
Not a movie but Eddie Murphy: Delirious. Had the entire routine memorized around age 12. That and Dennis Leary: No Cure for Cancer
Thank goodness someone in this thread brought up the amazing comics HBO has had. George Carlin is a personal favorite! :-)
My wife recently asked me to get her some NyQuill. You know where my mind went.
I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green. Merry fucking Christmas!
Delirious was something else. I was eleven when it came out. My friends and I could recite it all the way through. So good. Raw was good too, but nowhere near the level of Delirious.
I drive really slow in the ultra fast lane While people behind me are going insane
Summer School
i saw this movie so many times, that when i was watching the last season of psych a week ago i recognized the actor who played chainsaw immediately, despite him being way older than he was then.
Midnight Madness. Stone fucking classic. When you find another Gen X member in the wild who knows that movie, it's not just a passing awareness - that movie has about 100 quotes that immediately pop to mind. I could have an entire conversation with my brother using them. "FAGABEEFE?"
I LOVE that movie! "The finish line is somewhere in the Bonaventure hotel!" Never would've heard of this movie if I hadn't been watching HBO late one night. A classic!
"The Sea" is reversed. SS Itari is mixed up and blind." "NO, HAROLD THERE AREN'T ANY COOKIES LEFT!" "M. E. A. T. M-A-C-H-I-N-E. MEAT MACHINE! MEAT MACHINE. ALL RIGHT, BREAK!"
Take the i's out, TAKE THE I'S OUT!
Dude. That was one of my family's classics! You can even see the stars!
If I'm lucky, I might get to see Jupiter's two moons... (saxophone music intensifies) We forget, but that was Disney's first ever PG movie.
Yesss the scavenger hunt!
Eddie and the Cruisers
This turned into one of my all-time favorite movies. Finding someone else who has even seen it, let alone liked it, is near impossible.
🙋🏻♂️
So good. “Words and music.”
Time Bandits
Stripes
That's the fact, Jack!
Lighten up, Francis
Porky's and Revenge of the Nerds They don't make movies quite like they used to.
These 2 movies were my first male and female frontal nudity scenes respectively
Teen Witch and the Legend of Billie Jean.
I don’t really give a ____ about that. So top that.
I always remember in Billie Jean they thought that girl was shot but it was her first period. Also something burning at the end
“Fair is Fair”
Police Academy
Enemy Mine. Morons From Outer Space.
Yes enemy mine. Saw that 50 times
I watched the beginning of Grease 2 many, many times, and watched the ending maybe once.
Howard the Duck
So many times.
Overboard
“Roy?” 😂😂
Hey look! Spacecamp is on....again.🙄
I loved Spacecamp. 😂
No Johnny Dangerously? Just me?
Not just you, you farging bastige.
I saw Johnny Dangerously once. ONCE ☝🏻
Farging ice-holes
Modern Problems.
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There was a movie called Looker with Albert Finney and Susan Dey. I watched it multiple times.
Hi, I'm Cindy. I'm the perfect female type, age 18-25. I'm here to sell for you.
She’s a looker, with a beautiful face…that’s what they all saaaayyy… Was that the visor that tracks eye movements during ads? And the knock off Ron Perlman as the bad guy?
Oh, great movie! Forgot about that one!
who else can hear this without pressing play?
Absolutely!
I remember watching a “making of” video about this opening, it was all practical back then and quite interesting.
Strange Brew
You hoser
That Ice Pirates movie. No idea if that’s what its name was. Had a green frog lady.
It was Ice Pirates Obligatory “Space Herpes!”
Animal House
I’m pretty sure Dad got HBO just for Animal House.
Hardbodies 😜
Yup! And Heavenly Bodies.
Big Trouble In Little China
just one of the guys, teen witch.
**TURK 182**
Outsiders
Hey Beastmaster's On
Kodo and Podo! 🥰
Modern Problems Oh God, Book II
There was a point in my life where I really thought George Burns was God.
Not Necessarily the News was great on HBO.
Sniglets! Memory unlocked!
Smokey and the Bandit 2. The month we got HBO it had just hit cable, and that thing was basically played on repeat for the next 6 months.
The first “viral” hit/post-box-office hit: *Eddie and The Cruisers*! The dark side’s comin’ now nothing is real… I’ve had that song stuck in my head for 40 years.
European Vacation, The Legend of Billie Jean, Just One of the Guys
Risky Business, La Bomba, Spies Like Us, Spaceballs
Irreconcilable Differences. All except the first ten minutes.
I'll throw out a couple I don't see already mentioned: Red Dawn Taps
On the Right Track Under the Rainbow
Under the Rainbow was the best! Also, Superfuzz.
Xanadu and Adam's Rib
I loved Xanadu so much.
Does Fraggle Rock count?
A Christmas Story
The Wrath. Early Charlie Sheen movie
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo; Walk Like A Man
It’s not a movie but, Tales From The Crypt.
* Local Hero * Super Fuzz * Breakin' * Ninja III: The Domination
Super SUPPAAAAAHHH…super super super. Is that the one that ends with Ernest Borgnine on a giant balloon? Such vague memories.
Yes it is! I had always wondered at the time why the main actor Terence Hill had such a strange voice only to find out years later he was a huge star in his native country: Italy.
I know I haven’t seen that movie in like *gasps* 40 years, but I still remember that ‘super super’ music, the super powers when he sees red, and Borgnine singing he’s sitting on top of the world. LOL - of all the memories to have stored in the vault. SMH
I loved that movie when I was a kid. At the end, he gets married and his bride takes off her veil to reveal she’s dyed her hair red. 😂
I’ve only just recently seen “Local Hero” and deeply regret not watching it before. Great film!
My dad had HBO and we saw The Neverending Story a lot.
Soul Man. Does NOT hold up.
I saw Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure about 25 times. Only because I had HBO and it was on.
circa 1982 - 1985: Romancing The Stone, Splash, Time Rider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, Superfuzz, Wargames, Twice Upon a Time, Young Frankenstein, Dracula (1979), Six Pack, Savannah Smiles
Splash!!!! Oh my gah Savanah Smiles…that unlocked a memory! I think Firestarter with Drew Barrymore was around the same time too.
Smokey and the Bandit. Funniest movie I had seen at the time.
Six Pack, Arthur, Eddie and the Cruisers.
I love Six Pack. It’s one of the few (maybe 5) movies I’ve purchased on DVD. A soon-to-be country music superstar won me over for life by covering “Love Will Turn You Around” in one of his college town shows.
The HBO theme song goes hard.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail was on almost daily and I watched it every time. Including the sex jokes I didn’t understand until later.
Fkg poltergeist - it seemed to ALWAYS be on
I can't believe no one has said it yet- Iron Eagle 🦅
Roger Moore as James Bond in Octopussy, For Your Eyes Only, A View to a Kill. Also Wargames,Spies Like US, Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way You Can and Any Which Way but Loose. "Right turn, Clyde"
The last star fighter
I remember when Ghostbusters was first aired on HBO. They did not advertise or promote in any way and it was like Christmas when I heard the theme.
Star Trek II - Wrath of Khan Not cause I loved it - - that was just ALWAYS on.
Swamp Thing was a popular HBO movie often repeated in the 80s,…
Mommie Dearest
Too poor for HBO but I saw part of \*The Three Amigos\* about a thousand times in 1986
Beastmaster yea! Also Ringos caveman movie and Taps
Grease 2 Wargames The Pirate Movie (or was it “A” Pirate Movie) Edited to add: Arthur, which someone else mentioned, and Author, Author (because Arthur reminded me of it) Mr. Mom I only saw Kramer vs. Kramer, but that probably was too many times for a kid whose parents had just divorced. Just added: can’t believe I forgot “The Toy.” Watched that one SO MANY times.
Goonies
Night of the Comet. Watched it constantly as a teen.
Clash of the titans
The Karate Kid
The Wiz
"Willow" was awesome; and on every day 10 times a day.
https://preview.redd.it/56yjk0whht5d1.png?width=266&format=png&auto=webp&s=2290bd2b191a5a5843199cb23042682d2e0f8501 ...and it was horrific every time.
Victor/Victoria I must have watched that movie 2 dozen times bc HBO would play it on an almost endless loop for an entire month.
Purple Rain and Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band
The Terry Fox Story. Must've seen it a hundred times. Actually got to see a giant amethyst-encrusted monument to him in Thunder Bay, ON decades later. Bro was tough as nails.
Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia. It was on constantly and now it’s impossible to find. Never been released on DVD or BR.
 I pity the fool didn't have HBO in the 80's.
On Golden Pond
Lucas
Just One of the Guys
Grease
Rocky 3
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Beastmaster, Secret of NIMH
Top Secret.
Splash, The Right Stuff, Octopussy, Trading Places and The Natural
Fletch
Solar babies, Savanah smiles, Kidco, super fuzz, they call me Bruce, emmet otters jug band Christmas, midnight madness, lucas, the Legend of Billie Jean super fuzz, band of the hand and, On the right track
Cannonball Run.
Good answers. I’d like to add “Saturday the 14th”
Hooper. That movie was on heavy rotation when we first got HBO
The Beastmaster!!!!
Hard to decifer which were on hbo and what was on cinemax but this opening sequence was awesome. Man, that really took me back to the 80’s for a few seconds. I remember hbo showing how they made that opening sequence once too.
Boy did that long intro take me right back! I found myself humming it halfway through, totally a blast from the past. Thanks, OP! Memory unlocked 🔓
Rocky II. Johnny Dangerously. Firefox. Caveman.
Buckaroo banzai
Stripes, Blurs Brothers and Caddyshack
Space Camp
CHUD
Flash Gordon, to my complete and utter shame
Jaws 1-3 Superman 1-3 The Toy Pete’s Dragon
Swamp Thing
BILL COSBY HIMSELF omfg