Technically we’re already writing a song about this, so it’s not exactly in the “Should We Write a Song About This?” category, but nonetheless….
We’re writing a song about the moments in movies we saw as children, and how they’ve made us the people we are today. We’re currently researching a list of these moments. Some examples include:
-Eating monkey brains in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
-Macaulay Culkin’s character dying in My Girl
-The Nazi’s faces melting in Raiders of the Lost Ark
-And of course, the horse sinking into the swamp in The Neverending Story.
We’re looking for those cinematic moments that for whatever reason have impressed themselves on the minds of our generation….did they scare you, make you cry, a little bit of both?
If you give us a moment and it makes it into the song, and the song makes us a million dollars, we’ll give you $2!
Thanks for supporting the relevant and current song-stylings of the Axis of Awesome.
May 25th, 2008 at 9:53 am
The Goonies, when Chunk befriends Sloth over a chocolate bar. In fact, anything from The Goonies.
May 25th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
1.When that dam George Henderson slaps big Harry in the face to get him to go back to his “real home”. Yeah right George, he was nothing but a misunderstood man monster who just needed love. *tear*
2.’Trains Planes and Automobiles’, when Steve Martin discovers that the late great John Candy is really just a lonely homeless guy. And after all those 2 clowns got up to it was really just a tale of man’s relationship with man. Acceptance, tolerance and bum love.
3. ‘Flight of the navigator’. Enter a fresh Sarah Jessica Parker in full 80’s attire (schwing), buts thats a whole other song. David discovers that, you know what, yeah his little brother and parents are sometimes drags, but you get kidnapped by a weird silver,talking walnut, and life ain’t so bad.
4. ‘Back to the future’. “1.21 gigawatts”, thats crazy talk Mr Fox. I wonder what the “J” stands for??…anyway, I never really understood those films. In the 2nd one, Marty goes into the future to see himself. But if he was taken out of the present to go into the future, then he wouldn’t be present in the future would he!! And his son looks exactly like him which just wouldn’t happen. No, no nothing about this makes sense at all.
5. ‘Superman II’. “Yeah General Zod, I’ll hop in this ice capsule which will take my powers away. Kneel before you?, sure. But hold on, i’ve tricked ya. I was really safe in there while it took your powers away” Cue tingly hair on end music. Cue marshmallow hand. “Aaahhhh, aaaahhhhhhhh”. Jobs a good’n
6. ‘Best of the Best’. Good job Eric Roberts by the way. “Pop it, pop it Tommy”. Anyway, after all the family history between Tommy and that Pirate dude, he just can’t finish him at the end. One eyed willy wins, but it’s a morale victory for the Yanky doodles. Makes me choke up when old Captain Cook comes hobbling over at the end and gives Tommy his medal. To right you cheeky c#@t.
7. Another revenge, karate theme here since your askin’. ‘Kickboxer’. If uncle Xian asks you to kick a palm tree, then fuckin kick the palm tree you ungrateful shit. “Your brother, remember?” Hold on there short stuff, don’t go provoking Jean Claude va…. too late his kick it to buggery. Nice scene!!
8. ‘Big trouble in Little China’ The whole thing is just bloody awesome!!
9. ‘American werewolf in London’. Holy shit, you watch this when your 12 and oh yeah it’ll stay with ya. When Sam Cooke is blarring out “Blue Moon” and ya hands start looking like garden spades, seek a little help.
Well i’ve had fun. I was gonna do 10 but i need a poo so gotta go. If any of you have not seen any of the above, all what i’ve written is hilarious. Peace out my brothers and keep singing those songs.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:40 am
The bit where the man in the pants says, “Hello.”
May 31st, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Guys! Just got on to the Axis bandwagon (hmm, is that a pun?) and loving it.
Great movie moments:
T2; “Ill be back” and “come with me if you want to live”.
Jurassic Park: Where the lawer gets eaten off the toilet.
Bill and Ted: “what number are we thinking of? 69!”
Batman: michelle pfifer in that cat suit!
Original TMNT movie: When michelangelo spins on his shell to kick some foot soldier arse - “wheel of fortune!”
Anything directed by john hughs in the 80’s : ferris bueller, sixteen candles, breakfast club, weird science, etc.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:31 pm
ALSO!
can you pls pls pls do a song which is a parody of alanis morissette’s “ironic” where the scenarios that are givin are NOT ironic, just coincidental, etc.
(so many people use the term ironic when its not fuckn ironic!)
“and isnt it ironic, dont you think? Stop saying its ironic! cos its not what you think!”
something like that. i dunno.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I have a couple:
1. When a Stranger calls - “the call is coming from inside the house”…..
and of course
2. ET - “phone home” - like mum wouldn’t be pissed at a phone bill that high!!!!!
Love your stuff - keep it coming….
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
DO YOU HAVE A SONG ABOUT STAR WARS???? OR PIRATES OF THE CARRABEAN?
June 26th, 2008 at 12:02 am
David Bowie’s skin tight pants in Labyrinth - dance, magic, dance!
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Lil rascals:
“oh look, there’s my mum”
“Whoopie…” *rolls eyes*
Camera cuts to the mother…played by Whoopi Goldberg.
And now i love puns…thanks Little Rascals
July 5th, 2008 at 10:50 am
I love James’ idea about Whoopi-very droll (funny too)
July 29th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I think there is definitely something creepy about Disney’s obsession with ‘charming’ princes going around kissing dead girls.
Cases in Point: Sleeping Beauty, Snow White
I mean, who does that?!?! Quite frankly I find it a MASSIVE turn-off…
September 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Optimus Prime dying in the 1986 Transformers movie.
January 17th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
When Danny LaRusso spares the other guy’s life at the end of The Karate Kid 2 with the same “Live or Die” stunt Mr. Miyagi pulled on the Cobra Kai leader at the beginning of the movie. Also, the fight between Miyagi and Cobra at the beginning of the movie. Until I saw it again recently I couldn’t recall anything else from the film.
The garbage monster from Star Wars. For some reason that thing used to haunt my nightmares.
When the ant died defending the kids from a scorpion in Honey I Shrunk The Kids.
Fozzie Bear’s inspirational speech in The Great Muppet Caper.
Harrison Ford jumping off of the dam in The Fugitive.
Sassy being found by the lonely mountain man in Homeward Bound. Wow, I can be extremely sappy when I want to be. I think I’m going to refrain from mentioning Milo and Otis.
Doh!
The Last Starfighter. I don’t know if I could pick out a specific moment from that one. I watched it so many times growing up. I’m sure it has something to do with my continuing to game into adulthood.
It’s weird, some of this stuff I haven’t thought about in a long time, but I have vivid memories of the first time I saw it.
January 19th, 2009 at 5:15 am
I have to admit at getting a bit of a teenage boner watching the custard pie fight in ‘The Great Race’.
Perhaps you could slip that one in.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Fern Gully - When Hexus comes out of the lumber machine at the end.
Wayne’s World - The Foxy Lady song Garth does, or “Game On!”
January 21st, 2009 at 3:13 pm
This list is incomplete without Darth Vader in the Empire Strikes back revealing “Luke, I am your father!”
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:27 am
Well ..gotta be wierd science when she comes outta the capsule..wow..really i still recall that and the sports cars
I agree with the goonies need some definite goonies stuff best would be super chunk and the final trap by taking ol one eyed willy’s gold.
star wars about blowing up a death star or sleeping in a taun taun
Optimus prime’s death a definite.
the dying alien in cocoon
last starfighter beng chosen by his video game score
Bloodsport jean claude van Damme and the split kicks and big bad bolo yeung
big trouble in little china was awesome
not to forget wax on wax off..from the karate kid who doesn’t remember that…daniel san
maybe footloose …and the crazy heathen dancing kids
rocky..fighting the russian
the chariots of fire theme song..i don’t recall the movie though
eddie murphy comedy when he was still funny in raw and deleirious…and then the big brown shark came people need to remember that
some RAMBO and killin people while wearing a red headband..
Conan the barbarian when he went from that little kid to being that big burly barbarian through years of slavery and now he kicks everyone’s ass.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 am
really and who can EVER forget Ol’ Yeller still so sad of a movie..stupid rabies…
January 31st, 2009 at 1:11 am
“Stay gold, Ponyboy!”
February 4th, 2009 at 6:50 am
Howard The Duck - “Space Rabies!”
February 8th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
“What have you done!” - The Last Unicorn, when the appentice wizard turns the unicorn into a woman, though the theme song at the beginning itself is a pretty good moment as well.
Also the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, for everytime there was a song, how could you forget those poor kids and the orange Oompa Loompas.
Masters of the Universe, “I have the POWER!”
March 19th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
princess bride - its andre the mother-f*cking giant, a few months later he died… a likely story… hollywood didnt want to pay him out for being awesome
willow - he rides a freaking dog!
the dark crystal - where the hell do i start with that one
gremlins - where gizmo makes his own bow and arrow.. how the hell did he survive? gizmo is such a douche…
batteries not included - do you really think aliens would live in some run down old peoples house just for their amusement?
bedknobs and broomsticks - stick to solving crimes “murder she wrote”, witch craft isnt for you, or your weird homeless child molesting friend, i mean your flying around with 3 kids and a homeless guy on a bed… enough said
Porkys - showing a young kim catrell, before she was a washed up whore, wait, she always was!
i could go on and on, pee wee, revenge of the nerds, hot shots, naked gun, all the national lampoon movies and find faults with them all….
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Hello there - great show in Sydney on 02nd May….
Outsiders - Stay Gold Ponyboy
ET - phone home - I mean serioulsy - that is the what he wants to do….
Jaws - “I think we need a bigger boat”
Stand by Me - when they saw the dead body
Alien - seesh gotta say something about what she ate to have that thing in her stomach
Lost boys - so many magical moments - but “death by stero” is pretty cool
DIrty Dancing - “nobody puts baby in a corner” such a classic
May 27th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Jaws… I second the gonna need a bigger boat.
Die Hard… Yippie Ki Yay Motherfucker.
Jurassic Park… the lawyer is great, but come on! NUH-UH-UH!! YOU DIDN’T SAY THE MAGIC WORD! ftw.
Dumb and Dumber… Mock. Yeah. Ing. Yeah. Bird. Yeah (and so forth)
Tommy Boy… Fat guy in a little coat.
Kindergarten Cop… any Arnold line, but who can forget “Boys have a penis, girls have a va-gi-na”
Scream… the rules of a horror film!! I lived by those until I lost my V-Card!
Hook… Oh you gotta love Dustin Hoffman lecturing on “bad form”, or the imaginary food fight.
Top Gun… “Negative Ghost Rider the pattern is full” and the song that will make any bar full of pilots break out into song (you’ve lost that loving feeling)
What About Bob… Two words: Baby Steps
Ghost Busters… Gate Keepers and Key Masters (who would of thought that it actually DID have a sexual tone to it rather than just immature giggling?)
Silence of the Lambs… It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
Wayne’s World… The glory that is the Bohemian Rhapsody.
Congo… I know it wasn’t a wide hit, but talking gorilla aside. “Did you just serve that ape a martini?!” I’ve been afraid of hippos ever since watching that movie. And white killer apes with diamonds.
Ferris Bueller… the ultimate fake-sick strategy. And the ultimate sick day. Danke schoen!
OH GOD WHERE TO STOP… I’m trying so hard not to mention every Schwartzenegger movie, you could probably make a hit song using his endless corny quotes. GET TO THE CHOPPER!
And I’m spent.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:25 am
1. The Secret of NIMH -
The intelligent run-away rats that built their rat nest/city using electricity.
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom -
The booby-trapped boulder chasing after Short Round and the screaming woman in the run-away mine cart.
3. Labrynth -
The Worm: “Ello.”
Sarah: “Did you say ‘Hello’?”
The Worm: “No, I said ‘Ello’, but that’s close enough”
4. War Games -
Computer: “Would you like to play a game?”
5. 2001: a Space Odyssey -
When Hal is reading the lips of Dave and Frank.
OR
When Hal kills Frank
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes -
The kid is lying there, staring at the ceiling in his bed one night and suddenly millions of of spiders come out of nowhere and cover the walls and ceiling… altravelling in alignment and in the same direction… creepy.
7. The Watcher in the Woods -
When the girl is out walking in the woods and falls in the pond and the camera cuts to her view from underwater of Bette Davis poking a huge stick at her to hold her under with, trying to drown her.
Agree with these already mentioned moments:
1. Harry and the Hendersons -
When George Henderson slaps big Harry
2. Stand by Me -
When they saw the dead body.
3. ET -
ET: “Phone home”
4. The Goonies -
When Chunk befriends Sloth over a chocolate bar.
5. ummm, i dunno what movie it’s from either -
‘Chariots of Fire’ song
Also agree that these already mentioned movies need to be in there somewhere; Any scene from these movies is good as, for each of them… the entire movie has left an imprint.
1. The Princess Bride
2. Big Trouble in Little China
3. Outsiders
4. The Dark Crystal
5. The Breakfast Club
6. Lost Boys
7. Sixteen Candles
June 9th, 2009 at 11:31 am
OH! and also agree with
Star Wars -
Sleeping in a Taun Taun
OR
The giant, garbage disposal, worm thing.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:59 am
When Luke and Leia kissed in Star Wars- The Empire Strikes Back XD
And then later when they were revealed to be twins ._.