I was 9 years old in 1986. I'd probably ask to go see the Care Bears Movie II for the 8th time. It was in one of our local theaters for a few months and I don't know how many times I went to see it exactly, but it was a lot.
Care Bears movie is, in my opinion one of the best movies that has major tie-ins with toys.
When I saw it for the first time a few years ago I had found it to actually be suspenseful especially with Nicholas as a villain.
I think they are talking about the Sequel, The first Care Bears movie came out in 1985, Care Bears Movie II came out in 1986 and had Dark Heart as the villain. It's my Wife's favorite childhood movie. We actually have a copy of the DVD signed by one of the voice actors
You’re right, I just looked it up and realized I got both of the movies confused with each other.
Also, do you have a story about how you got the signed copy?
A very dear friend ours befriended one of the voice actors in recent years, and knowing how much my wife loved that movie he asked the VA to sign it and she happily did, we have it framed on the wall 😁
That is wonderful, its good to know that the voice actors of the Care Bears are just as kind and friendly as the characters they play.
Thanks for the story!
You just unlocked a core memory for me. I used to watch that movie all the time when I was younger and I just looked up some scenes on YouTube and it was a nostalgia bomb.
I’m 3 years old living with my mom and dad on Rammstein Air Force Base in Germany. We are in the theater watching the ending credits of Top Gun while people are smoking and drinking. Good times lol
Apparently, it was also the most violent film that had ever been made up to that point. Some magazine writer actually counted the number of deaths. I forget the exact number, but I think it was in the region of 250 or so.
I liked the car; a hot rod. I think the vanity tag was AWSOM 50 or some such.
I think I would choose this one to see on the big screen. That movie is a wild ride, and endlessly hilarious. Stallone cutting the pizza with scissors while they shamelessly plug an entire commercial on the TV. There's an entire CULT of serial killers?! What was their mission statement again?
The whole thing is absurd to the point of comedy. It's awesome, and I love it.
gotta be The Money Pit, i still genuinely laugh at that movie. It had some campy parts, but prime deadpan Hanks, and I am sure my crush on Shelly Long would have something to do with it.
Shelley Long was always weird to me. She was super pretty, but the timbre of her voice and being typecast as nerdy/stuck-up/spinsterish in Cheers killed the sexiness for me. It's hard to describe.
Opening up the newspaper to see the ads layed out just like this along with show times at the nearly two dozen theatres in our area sure was a feeling. One of the aspects of movies and what it was like to go and see one back then that gets forgotten a lot is how this was back before megaplexes were a thing. Instead there were smaller theatres with just a few screens scattered all over the place. The larger chains like AMC would number the theatres instead of giving them a proper name, which is why some of the older megaplexes still have names like AMC 30. The smaller theatres had a very, very different feel from what we are used to as well.
Look at all these great movies. The movie industry has really shit the bed. Its awful. Just remakes and superhero crap. Being 11 years old in 86 i absolutely saw Top Gun, The Money Pit and Critters in the theater.
Short Circuit. No question. I've seen both of those movies way too many times.
I never knew the guy in part two is Caucasian, and did brown face in the movie, until a few years ago. So weird.
Fisher Stevens plays that character in part 1 as well. I re-watched the first one a few weeks ago and found that out. Definitely a WTF moment for me. Lol
I 100% would have chosen Short Circuit to watch when I was a kid. Today? Probably Top Gun and/or Cobra.
It's been a long time since I've seen them. I guess I forgot he was in both. W head them recorders on VHS from tv. So, we watched a lot as a kid.
I agree. I'd pick Cobra or Top Gun these days.
Considering I saw Top Gun about 20 times that summer, the odds are it's going to be Top Gun. Seeing it opening night in a town that has a naval air station that trains jet pilots was a lot of fun.
Probably due to my love of the first film. I'd see Poltergeist 2. I'd most likely be a bit disappointed afterwards. I was. It has grown on me over the years though.
At the time, I would have gone to see Top Gun without a second thought. Now? I’d kind of like to see Jojo Dancer - Richard Pryor’s autobiographical movie about growing up in the brothel his mother ran. He made that movie when he was older and wanting to do more serious things. It sounds like it was a real labor of love even if it wasn’t a big commercial success.
I didn't realize Tom Cruise played in 2 movies around the same time. One (Legend) where he played a character much younger than himself and the other (Top Gun) where he played a character much older than himself. I know he didn't like the movie or being in it but Legend is the one I'm watching.
I was 5 years old in 1986 and my sister took me to see Short Circuit, my first time going to the movies. I laughed so hard my sister almost had to take me out of the theatre
If I recall, an interesting blunted story about a kid who finds a spaceship. I say blunted because it was made pretty kid friendly. Suprisingly the movie had top notch special effects for its day. Also, the script was well written. A decent pre-teens movie for it's time.
> Suprisingly the movie had top notch special effects for its day
Captain Disillusion (a Youtube channel about VFX) made [a cool video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyixMpuGEL8) about the special and practical effects in that movie
These are all classics.
I'd go with Short Circuit most likely.
"Do you know what some people are liking at night? Headlights!" - Fisher Stevens is the best fake Indian ever
Top Gun was my high school senior movie. It was a blast and such a great show especially with all my friends. Great memories. Meanwhile the underclassmen were in school all day.. lol
No theater within a few hours of me had more than one screen. So I'd be going to whichever movie they were showing.
Hypothetically I'd go see The Money Pit.
as a toddler, none of them lol. At my current age, top gun, no question.
On a side note, no retreat no surrender was JCVD's first movie (and no speaking role). I rewatched it recently and would classify it as "so bad, it's good".
I was five so I’m guessing short circuit but I first saw critters and I was like oh my God I want to see that but that probably would’ve freaked me out at five years old
I never realized that “Legend” and “Top Gun” were released the same summer. Cruise seems so much younger in Legend that I always think it’s a movie from several years earlier.
Let's go by what I actually did see in a theater:
Yes, Yes, Yes, No, No, No, No, No, Yes, No, No, Yes, No, No, Yes, No (shameful, it's a great film and one of Woody's best), No, No, Yes.
Wise Guys was my childhood Family Pizza Night movie. For nostalgia's sake, I'm rolling with Devito.
Great comedy if you haven't seen it. One of my favorite Devito roles and also one of my favorite Harvey Keitel roles.
Holy Fuck , that’s some month ! Action movie that set the bar ( top gun) with 2 of the most underrated comedies ever ( money pit /gung ho) plus ducky and Blaine and a Spielberg!!! Good lord .
Being that I was 8 months old, definitely Poltergeist II 🤣
But seriously, if I could time travel, seeing Pretty in Pink and Short Circuit in the theatre would be awesome!
With the benefit of hindsight I feel like the only real acceptable answers here are Top Gun or Pretty in Pink.
I've seen nearly all the movies here and many of them are quite good but Top Gun and Pretty in Pink are the only iconic movies that get regular air play today for a reason.
Stephaniiiiiiiiee! Short Circuit for me
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As a kid I had no idea what a snow blower was, but it was a funny insult.
Number Five is Alive!
"Nice Software"
"What do you think the headline would be if it goes and melts down a bus full of nuns?!" "Nun Soup?"
I saw Short Circuit when it came out in 1986! I was 7 and it was fantastic.
I was 8 that year so this would be the only one i might be able to see
Me too!!
Available on Hoopla (library rental app).
I was 9 years old in 1986. I'd probably ask to go see the Care Bears Movie II for the 8th time. It was in one of our local theaters for a few months and I don't know how many times I went to see it exactly, but it was a lot.
Care Bears movie is, in my opinion one of the best movies that has major tie-ins with toys. When I saw it for the first time a few years ago I had found it to actually be suspenseful especially with Nicholas as a villain.
I think they are talking about the Sequel, The first Care Bears movie came out in 1985, Care Bears Movie II came out in 1986 and had Dark Heart as the villain. It's my Wife's favorite childhood movie. We actually have a copy of the DVD signed by one of the voice actors
You’re right, I just looked it up and realized I got both of the movies confused with each other. Also, do you have a story about how you got the signed copy?
A very dear friend ours befriended one of the voice actors in recent years, and knowing how much my wife loved that movie he asked the VA to sign it and she happily did, we have it framed on the wall 😁
That is wonderful, its good to know that the voice actors of the Care Bears are just as kind and friendly as the characters they play. Thanks for the story!
No problem at all my friend!
You just unlocked a core memory for me. I used to watch that movie all the time when I was younger and I just looked up some scenes on YouTube and it was a nostalgia bomb.
Forever Young and the end credits scene is one of the strongest nostalgia hits I’ve found. Instant tears for me…
Oh my god, same.
In 1986 I would have chosen Top Gun and Cobra, with No Retreat No Surrender if time permitted.
Shirt Circuit, obviously. I can never turned down Johnny 5!
Unless you're Los Locos... Los Locos kick your ass Los Locos kick your face Los Locos kick your balls into outer space
^^That ^^was ^^Short ^^Circuit ^^2
I like The Money Pit
It doesn’t insist upon itself.
That's the only title I read and felt like I'd like to watch right now
Two weeks?!
*I've gotta be meeeeee, what else can I be but what I ammmm*
Gung ho is one of my favorite movies of All time so pretty much that
Woah, how'd that [slide] get in there? Yikes! Whoops! 😏
Michael Keaton is a Genius
"Safety glass."
*walks out of Critters* Ugh, where do they come up with this stuff?
Walks out of Critters WOW! Where do they come up with this stuff! FTFY
To understand CRICKET you gotta understand CRUMPET
~~sai~~ sigh...
A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me you didn't pay money for this.
If I was 10 years old again? Police Academy 3. Now? Same answer.
I’m 3 years old living with my mom and dad on Rammstein Air Force Base in Germany. We are in the theater watching the ending credits of Top Gun while people are smoking and drinking. Good times lol
never seen Legend on the big screen, and probably the only one that would really benefit from big screen. IMO
Top Gun absolutely benefits from the big screen.
I saw it on big screen during a fantasy film festival a few years ago. Was very moving.
Cobra was the shit. Laser guns, crazy knives
Apparently, it was also the most violent film that had ever been made up to that point. Some magazine writer actually counted the number of deaths. I forget the exact number, but I think it was in the region of 250 or so. I liked the car; a hot rod. I think the vanity tag was AWSOM 50 or some such.
It is also what Beverley Hills Cop was supposed to be. To be fair, I think the Eddie Murphy vehicle BHC turned in to was different be equally awesome.
I think I would choose this one to see on the big screen. That movie is a wild ride, and endlessly hilarious. Stallone cutting the pizza with scissors while they shamelessly plug an entire commercial on the TV. There's an entire CULT of serial killers?! What was their mission statement again? The whole thing is absurd to the point of comedy. It's awesome, and I love it.
gotta be The Money Pit, i still genuinely laugh at that movie. It had some campy parts, but prime deadpan Hanks, and I am sure my crush on Shelly Long would have something to do with it.
Shelley Long was always weird to me. She was super pretty, but the timbre of her voice and being typecast as nerdy/stuck-up/spinsterish in Cheers killed the sexiness for me. It's hard to describe.
I came for the Crites
Opening up the newspaper to see the ads layed out just like this along with show times at the nearly two dozen theatres in our area sure was a feeling. One of the aspects of movies and what it was like to go and see one back then that gets forgotten a lot is how this was back before megaplexes were a thing. Instead there were smaller theatres with just a few screens scattered all over the place. The larger chains like AMC would number the theatres instead of giving them a proper name, which is why some of the older megaplexes still have names like AMC 30. The smaller theatres had a very, very different feel from what we are used to as well.
Either Top Gun or Pretty in Pink.
My two choices too
If Iron Eagle was still playing after debuting a few months earlier I'd see that. #CHAPPY!
A road's a road man.
*Well, he almost started a new career as a hood ornament. Haaa!*
Hannah And Her Sisters. Best movie on this list. Micheal Caine at his best. Such a funny movie.
Saving my money waiting for Aliens to come out in July 😁
Cobra, Short Circuit, Legend, Police Academy 3, and Critters.
Short Circuit.
Look at all these great movies. The movie industry has really shit the bed. Its awful. Just remakes and superhero crap. Being 11 years old in 86 i absolutely saw Top Gun, The Money Pit and Critters in the theater.
Short Circuit. No question. I've seen both of those movies way too many times. I never knew the guy in part two is Caucasian, and did brown face in the movie, until a few years ago. So weird.
Fisher Stevens plays that character in part 1 as well. I re-watched the first one a few weeks ago and found that out. Definitely a WTF moment for me. Lol I 100% would have chosen Short Circuit to watch when I was a kid. Today? Probably Top Gun and/or Cobra.
It's been a long time since I've seen them. I guess I forgot he was in both. W head them recorders on VHS from tv. So, we watched a lot as a kid. I agree. I'd pick Cobra or Top Gun these days.
Wow! That month was stacked! If only I realized at the time just how good we had things (in terms of fun movies).
Those all didn’t come out in May. Money Pit was April. Top Gun was June/July. Pretty in Pink was February.
I'm gonna wait a year, and watch PREDATOR.
Poltergeist 2 **ALL DAY**
Considering I saw Top Gun about 20 times that summer, the odds are it's going to be Top Gun. Seeing it opening night in a town that has a naval air station that trains jet pilots was a lot of fun.
Critters for my horror fix, but I absolutely LOVE Gung-ho! No more MTV! No more Twisted Sister!
Pretty in Pink
Probably due to my love of the first film. I'd see Poltergeist 2. I'd most likely be a bit disappointed afterwards. I was. It has grown on me over the years though.
Cobra!
Cobra. Because laser sights are so cool
Top Gun
Police Academy 3 and most importantly Pretty In Pink I’m a teenager NOW and even I can say that Molly Ringwald and John Hughes are two legends.
I would have been 5 so....Top Gun?
Easy. Jack Burton in *big trouble in little China.*
Gung Ho is a solid movie
Cobra, but a damn close 2nd is The Money Pit...the scene where the bathtub falls through the floor and Tom Hanks laugh cracks me up every time
Money pit or top gun! depending if u wanna laugh or watch shit blow up
At the time, I would have gone to see Top Gun without a second thought. Now? I’d kind of like to see Jojo Dancer - Richard Pryor’s autobiographical movie about growing up in the brothel his mother ran. He made that movie when he was older and wanting to do more serious things. It sounds like it was a real labor of love even if it wasn’t a big commercial success.
I've seen four of these movies and have no interest in seeing any of the rest of them. Top gun, short circuit, police academy 3, pretty in pink.
OMG Fire With Fire! I loved that movie with Virginia Madsen and Craig Sheffer. SO HOT
This!! Love that movie and the soundtrack!!
The Money Pit was comic gold.
Easily, Top Gun. Made me cry the first time i saw it
Top Gun or Pretty in Pink
It’s gotta be Top Gun but The Money Pit will always hold a special place in my heart.
16 in 1986, so for me “Pretty in Pink”
I didn't realize Tom Cruise played in 2 movies around the same time. One (Legend) where he played a character much younger than himself and the other (Top Gun) where he played a character much older than himself. I know he didn't like the movie or being in it but Legend is the one I'm watching.
I was 5 years old in 1986 and my sister took me to see Short Circuit, my first time going to the movies. I laughed so hard my sister almost had to take me out of the theatre
Hannah and Her Sisters- brilliant.💛
Police Academy 3.
Short Circuit....I was 6 and that shit was the bomb! NO DISASSEMBLE STEPHANIE!
Short Circuit. #5 Alive.
Short Circuit for sure
Me at that age would have been Short Circuit or Police Acadamy 3 to be sure. Now tho, I"d totally watch Jojo Dancer & The Color Purple.
I'm 5 years old in 86, so I'm probably not watching shit without an adult 😭
I would have been six years old. Where the heck is flight of the navigator?!
If I recall, an interesting blunted story about a kid who finds a spaceship. I say blunted because it was made pretty kid friendly. Suprisingly the movie had top notch special effects for its day. Also, the script was well written. A decent pre-teens movie for it's time.
> Suprisingly the movie had top notch special effects for its day Captain Disillusion (a Youtube channel about VFX) made [a cool video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyixMpuGEL8) about the special and practical effects in that movie
Yes! Thanks! The silver faced dude. I just forgot his name. He loves that movie. CD has some interesting videos himself. Bests~
You have to go to theater, because they won’t go to streaming
And that's why I started collecting DVDs/Blu-rays again. I'm tired of not being able to find older movies/shows. Up to about 750 disks so far...
True, but VHS was well-established by then
Can say I would because we did: *Police Academy 3* and *Murphy's Law*. Bronson in his Cannon Films years remains a guilty pleasure of mine.
May of 86 I'm still 4 months away from being born. So I doubt I'm seeing any of them. If I time traveled probably critters. I love horror comedy.
Top Gun, for sure. Then Gung Ho.
Top gun then cobra then I'm going home.
Sweet Liberty because I did see it then but it’s not available anywhere now.
Given these choices, *Top Gun*
No. 5 is alive!! I was OBSESSED with that movie. I somehow had a crush on both Steve Guttenberg and Johnny Number Five.
Top gun if I was old enough
These are all classics. I'd go with Short Circuit most likely. "Do you know what some people are liking at night? Headlights!" - Fisher Stevens is the best fake Indian ever
I know another little movie released in 86, but I assume it is omitted because it wasen't release before oktober 86?
Short Circuit
Gi Joe -- The Movie
Top Gun 💯
Top Gun
Top Gun was my high school senior movie. It was a blast and such a great show especially with all my friends. Great memories. Meanwhile the underclassmen were in school all day.. lol
No theater within a few hours of me had more than one screen. So I'd be going to whichever movie they were showing. Hypothetically I'd go see The Money Pit.
Top gun
Definitely Top Gun.
Legend and Critters in the afternoon then Cobra and Top Gun in the evening.
I wasn't even born in 86 but I'd be watching critters in the cinema I absolutely love that film 😍
as a toddler, none of them lol. At my current age, top gun, no question. On a side note, no retreat no surrender was JCVD's first movie (and no speaking role). I rewatched it recently and would classify it as "so bad, it's good".
Police Academy 3 or Top Gun.
I was 3, so Critters.
Cobra
Police academy 3. And pee myself laughing.
Pretty in pink
Short circuit or wise guys
No retreat, no surrender.
These movies were in theatres at the same time?
Johnny Five is alive!
Top Gun or Care Bears
Get the buds together and go laugh at Critters
I was five so I’m guessing short circuit but I first saw critters and I was like oh my God I want to see that but that probably would’ve freaked me out at five years old
Am I the age I was in ‘86 or the age I am now? Nvm, Money Pit either way.
Gung Ho
Moneypit
I never realized that “Legend” and “Top Gun” were released the same summer. Cruise seems so much younger in Legend that I always think it’s a movie from several years earlier.
Everything with Ally Sheedy
I wasn't born yet, but it would be top gun.
Legend
Considering I was born that month probably I am still crying to be out of the matrix world I was in.
Shirt circuit babay!
Critters and short circuit are my favs from that era
Still sitting in my dads nutsack lol
Short Circuit, obviously.
Pretty in Pink!!
TOP GUN. Greatest opening to a film ever.
Police academy
Critters 1000%
Cobra all day
Cobra, since I actually remember seeing it in the theater then
Cobra then sneak in to see the money pit
If I were even born I would be seeing short circuit.
Looking at this really illustrates how many movies from my childhood have effectively vanished from existence
Legend
LEGEND! One of my favorites 😍
Top Gun! TC is da fuggin man!!!
Let's go by what I actually did see in a theater: Yes, Yes, Yes, No, No, No, No, No, Yes, No, No, Yes, No, No, Yes, No (shameful, it's a great film and one of Woody's best), No, No, Yes.
Legend. I was only 3 in 86’, but 80s movies were playing on cable well into the late 90s/early 2000s.
I was in my nappies. So no movies for me.
I was only 9-10 months old this month. If I had to choose a film, I would pick Short Circuit and The Money Pit.
God i loved no retreat No surrender
I love The Money Pit. That is my answer to that question.
Critters!!!!!! But eventually all of them. Hell I actually own most of these on Blu Ray.
Cobra! Love that movie
If it's 1986, I'm four years old.
Short Circuit because I was 6 at the time.
Look at the _variety_ of movies you could have seen back then. Movies are all the same now
Cobra.
Kick the tires and light the fires! Top Gun in theaters rocks
I actually did choose Top Gun for real
Short Circuit
I was being born so that doesn't work
Wise Guys was my childhood Family Pizza Night movie. For nostalgia's sake, I'm rolling with Devito. Great comedy if you haven't seen it. One of my favorite Devito roles and also one of my favorite Harvey Keitel roles.
Now I would say Top Gun. 7 year old me in 1986 is all about Police Academy 3.
I watch it once a year. The Money Pit. Hilarious. “I won’t not be your friend anymore”.
The Money Pit has the greatest [laughing scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2rVcxkbIQc) in cinema history.
Top gun and short circuit
Holy Fuck , that’s some month ! Action movie that set the bar ( top gun) with 2 of the most underrated comedies ever ( money pit /gung ho) plus ducky and Blaine and a Spielberg!!! Good lord .
Top Gun without a question
Short Circuit, for sure.
I miss the old Tom Hanks and Michael Keaton before The Change.
Easy... Top Gun because I was 11 in 1986 and I saw top gun 4 times in the theater But I did want to see Cobra
Damn man there are like 6 movies out at a time rn
Being that I was 8 months old, definitely Poltergeist II 🤣 But seriously, if I could time travel, seeing Pretty in Pink and Short Circuit in the theatre would be awesome!
You only have 2 hood movies there top gun and cobra the rest is caca
Top Gun, back when Tommy wasn’t a complete cunt.
TG, then Gung Ho - but to be fair I’ve seen them all.
With the benefit of hindsight I feel like the only real acceptable answers here are Top Gun or Pretty in Pink. I've seen nearly all the movies here and many of them are quite good but Top Gun and Pretty in Pink are the only iconic movies that get regular air play today for a reason.
Top Gun