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That is a very nice action.

Love the Ocean advert. Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road was a brilliant game on the Amiga. Total Recall less so, but I remember being mesmerised by the advert/box art, which was near identical to the movie poster.

What actor’s facial expression in a movie/TV show will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Arnie's other Christmas movie 'End Of Days'.

I know sometimes we all get caught up in "things were better when I was a kid" trap, but honestly where is this stuff nowadays? I want my Fudge Hand and giant Crunchie bar Cadburys!

I love this film. Has a belting James Horner score as well.

I've seen two ads for google phones powered with AI, and in both cases it the advertisements features idiots. One person who can't think to ask a florist for advice on some flowers they want to buy and another where two chumps need to be told to visit Korean artefacts in a Korean museum.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Imagine if you went into your local newsagents today and asked them to gift wrap your tin of Quality Street. They'd look at you like you'd grown an extra head.

If you see this, quote with your model of positive masculinity:

Yeah, I'll have everything on these pages please.

What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party:

Convinced Love Actually is the answer people give for their favourite Christmas film in the same way people always vote for Bohemian Rhapsody as their top song of all time. Just the most bland of bland goop.

Post something random, or you’ll have an awful December.

Went to Costco when they were having a 'Black Friday' sale.

Pretty sure this was the year that BBC2 had an Akira Kurosawa season, which I still remember to this day, as it was the first time I'd seen The Hidden Fortress. They were on fairly late, but I was on school Christmas holiday, so it didn't matter ho-ho-ho.

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. I'm saved!

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

Never seen it, never even accidentally come across it on TV, but given that it was released in the era when films had commercially successful songs associated with them, I doubt I'll ever forget that this movie quite prominently features Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus.

what perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

The Amiga 500 Screen Gems pack was the first ever computer me and my brother owned. My mum saved up the £399.99 all year to get it for us, and back in 1990 that was a whole chunk of change. Suspect today it would equate to about a thousand quid. Good job we loved it. Thanks mum!

The late and much missed Barry Norman recommending the wonderful 'The Man Who Would Be King' as his top Christmas Day film in the double issue Radio Times is up there as one of the most festive things of the Christmas period.

Imagine waking up on Christmas Day morning and unwrapping the Mr. Blobby game. Still, it probably wasn't as bad as Rise Of The Robots.

That 1.7kg Dairy Milk would cost as much as a bar of gold if you bought it today.

Good to see them going with two of definitive hairstyles popular at this time: the Bros spiky buzz cut and Roxette's Marie Fredriksson's epic quiff.

Of the two movies that stick out to me on here, it probably wouldn't surprise anyone who's seen them that I would rate the "children's film" Return To Oz scarier than Poltergeist III.

Sexy Brian Clough.

Love this little touch with the section promoting the PlayStation: 'Equal processing power to the computers used to make Jurassic Park'. Roarsome!

I know things aren't going to go back, but streaming has obliterated the music business and a lot of jobs that go with it, hasn't it? Thinking back to the mid/late 90s in a small place like Wakefield, you'd have the choice of HMV, Our Price, Woolworths, WH Smiths plus all the independent shops.

I went out and bought The Simpsons, Futurama and Back To The Future Box sets on DVD when they first came out, so I'm pretty sure I would have paid full price for them. 😬

An American Werewolf In London when I was about 7 or 8 and The Thing when I was about 10. After that I soon became desensitised to horror.

RIP Diane Keaton.

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid. (Yes, really)

Some recent crackerjack episodes of The X Files watched in the last couple of days. 'Irresistible', with a creepy as f**k performance from Nick Chinlund and some great jump scares.

Even though you ended up with all kinds of stuff during the DVD era, I don't think anything matched the peak era of VHS Christmas gift oddities; Bat Out Of Hell II Picture Show to go along with your Danny Baker's Own Goals & Gaffs video perhaps.

Me, after driving through an area with St George crosses on road markings, zebra crossings, etc, etc.

Sadly all these have been discontinued, which is a shame as they look proper nice. Then again, maybe a change of name might have helped avoid this, as asking someone if they like to have a bite of your 'Autumn Nuts' or a nibble some 'Almond Charms' might result in a slap.

No four guys have ever looked as happy as Dan Hartman and his backing group did this day.

One for @sallymcsurly.bsky.social.

Actually thought this was an advert for a drug company on how to rid yourself of internal parasites. Didn't they look at the deflating balloon and think: "erm the pinkish hue and ridged effect sure makes it look wormy".

I don't know. I occasionally sound like I know what I'm talking about when it comes to things...I'm kind nice.

Sting and Denholm Elliott in the same movie? Screenplay by Dennis Potter! Music by The Police and...The Go-Gos? I'm confused.

Presuming it's on YouTube, though I've not looked it up yet, but I reckon I still remember at least a small part of the Gino Ginelli advertisement. There was a section where it went "Tutti Frutti, what a cutie, take-a Gino home with you, Gino oh Gino Ginelli".