Robocop is arguably the most badass cyborg of all time; he had no qualms about blowing up as much stuff as possible, all in the name of the law. The movie was so over-the-top violent that it originally earned an X rating and had to be re-edited eleven times to bring it down to an R.

Submitted by Shauna P

Cool Runnings was a ‘93 comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team. True story. The movie also inspired a friend of mine to put an egg in his pants when he went sledding, like one of the characters from the film. The point was to see if it would crack. It cracked. True story.

Submitted by Kelly H

Remember when Zorro was about more than just poorly executed CGI and Catherine Zeta-Jones’ boobs? It was a simpler time, when kids regarded him as a hero and would emulate him by cutting masks out of their mother’s best fabric instead of regarding him as just another crappy Hollywood remake.

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“This means something. This is important.”

Richard Dreyfus’ slow decline into insanity and the revelation that he wasn’t really insane, coupled with Steven Speilberg’s incredible vision and cinematography for the time period made Close Encounters of the Third Kind a totally Epic Win. Anyone old enough to remember the film can probably still hum the first few notes that aliens played after the landed, not to mention the most memorable line in the film, as Richard Dreyfus builds a mountain of mashed potatoes.

If you’re a young’un who’s never seen CEo3K, you should go out and rent it so you can see what good storytelling used to look like.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was an Epic Win for turning any seemingly harmless brook, bridge, or foggy night into a spooky, impassable path. It inspired fear in so many of us as youth. One of our writers (at the time, a grown man) often recounts not being able to stay in the theater anytime the trailer for the ‘99 version of Sleep Hollow starring Johnny Depp came on.
It’s amazing that a story almost 190 years old can still inspire so much fear.