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Does anyone remember what Spicoli did with the reward money he got for saving Brook Shields from drowning?
He hired Van Halen to play at his birthday party.
He hired Van Halen to play at his birthday party.
Nice! I'm still Moving in Stereo...
Adolecent tripe.
Return of the Living Dead is where the action was at. :D
Not that Heavy Metal or American Pop were junk mind you.
And the very last of the true slasher flicks before the gov't got all involved, Happy Birthday to Me.
QuietShootr
03-20-12, 08:57
Tripe, my ass... Damone was an unappreciated genius who was ahead of his time.
Mike Damone: I mean don't just walk in. You move across the room. And you don't talk to her. You use your face. You use your body. You use everything. That's what I do. I mean I just send out this vibe and I have personally found that women do respond. I mean, something happens.
Mark Ratner: Well, naturally something happens. I mean, you put the vibe out to 30 million chicks, something is gonna happen.
Mike Damone: That's the idea, Rat. That's the attitude.
Mark Ratner: The attitude?
Mike Damone: Yeah! The attitude dictates that you don't care whether she comes, stays, lays, or prays. I mean whatever happens, your toes are still tappin'. Now when you got that, then you have the attitude.
I'm writing a paper right now on masculinity in Red Dawn and Rocky IV as it applies to the Cold War for History 325. Ironic.
Damone was an unappreciated genius....
... who didn't last 5 seconds when he finally got a chance at some cooze ;)
CarlosDJackal
03-20-12, 11:08
... who didn't last 5 seconds when he finally got a chance at some cooze ;)
At least he got some and evidently his little fellers could swim!!
ICANHITHIMMAN
03-20-12, 11:39
I read the title and the first thing that came to mind was "dude I can fix it my dads a TV repair man and he's got a wicked set of tools in the garage"
He hired Van Halen to play at his birthday party.
"Wait a minute, there's no birthday party for me here!"
Classic movie, and the best thing Phoebe Cates ever did on film.
And then he jetted over to London with Mick to jam with the Stones, and you two are invited!
"Wait a minute, there's no birthday party for me here!"
Classic movie, and the best thing Phoebe Cates ever did on film.
+1 on that.
Any kid that went through puberty has paused that scene at least once and used the image for the "spank bank"
Airplane! (1980)
Still makes me laugh.
Vanishing Point.
Animal House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjCRUvX2D0E&feature=youtube_gdata_player
montanadave
03-20-12, 23:22
+1 on that.
Any kid that went through puberty has paused that scene at least once and used the image for the "spank bank"
Let us not forget Jamie Lee Curtiss in Trading Places and Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science.
Let us not forget Jamie Lee Curtiss in Trading Places and Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science.
And Betsy Russell in Private School, also starring Phoebe Cates.
Well if it's gotta be a strictly 'hot chicks of 80's movies' not actual 80's movies, then I submit that Shauna Grant was far more than the equal of Ms. Cates and a goodly pile of other cream dream chicks of the era.
"Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
"No. Have you?"
turdbocharged
03-21-12, 13:22
My absolute favorites:
From the top:
Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ghostbusters
Terminator
Predator
Die Hard
Aliens
Running Man
Conan 1&2
Big Trouble in Little China
The Road Warrior
Full Metal Jacket
Commando
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
I know there are some that I'm missing. Empire is by far my favorite. Gotta love when the bad guys win.
(can you tell I was born in the early 80s?)
Well if it's gotta be a strictly 'hot chicks of 80's movies' not actual 80's movies, then I submit that Shauna Grant was far more than the equal of Ms. Cates and a goodly pile of other cream dream chicks of the era.
Well if we are going to include "adult" then I will see your Shauna Grant and raise you a Ginger Lynn, Christy Canyon, Keisha, Buffy Davis and a "not quite legal in 85" Traci Lords. Shauna was cute in a Dorothy Stratten kind of way (ironically).
Animal House
Technically 1978.
Some of my personal 80s favorites:
The Exterminator (1980)
Hope and Glory (1987)
The Emerald Forest (1985)
Excalibur (1981)
Scarface (1983)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
And of course John Hughes pretty much dominated the 80s.
The Vacation series, Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful and the slightly overrated but still good The Breakfast Club.
Mostly "fun" films that helped define the decade.
Roadhouse (1989)
Dalton:"Its a job. Its nothing personal."
Steve:"Being called a cocksucker isn't personal?"
Dalton:"No. It's two nouns combined to elicit a prescribed response."
Steve:"Well, what if somebody calls my momma a whore?"
Dalton: "Is she?"
Red Dawn
Aliens
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Empire
Walkers rule!
Friday 13th 3D
Not a line from the movie, but always neat when that one guy in the audience jumps up and yells 'I got it!' when the eyeball comes out over the crowd.
Aliens
Awe man, I was gettin' short too followed shortly thereafter by c'mon, get some!! oh, you want some too huh?! I got enough for all of ya!
Heavy Metal
How do you plead to this enornous list of charges cpt Stern? Not guilty
Pink Floyd, The Wall
this room is bigger than our whole apartment!
(trivia bit, that groupie who said that line was also the naughty girl next door in Robin Williams 'The World According To Garp' with her best line in that being 'no glove, no love')
BTW, Vanishing Point as listed a few posts up was made in '71
Ginger Lynn, Tracy Lords nor even Savanna or Cristy Canyon did it for me. either too angular or two fat for my tastes. Buffy Davis was just a flat out fat pig who was seen most often with pubes that made one wonder if it was hair or if she was wearing a blacksmiths apron.
Oh, and I can't forget:
Pale Rider (1985)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Thief (1981)
Caddyshack - The Gold standard, Colt 6920 of comedy movies.
Caddyshack - The Gold standard, Colt 6920 of comedy movies.
Didn't Caddyshack come out in '79? Otherwise, I agree fully. Caddyshack and Animal House are the progenitors of the modern raunch-com.
Didn't Caddyshack come out in '79? Otherwise, I agree fully. Caddyshack and Animal House are the progenitors of the modern raunch-com.
1980.
SPARTAN HOPLITE ARMS
03-22-12, 10:14
My absolute favorites:
From the top:
Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ghostbusters
Terminator
Predator
Die Hard
Aliens
Running Man
Conan 1&2
Big Trouble in Little China
The Road Warrior
Full Metal Jacket
Commando
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
I know there are some that I'm missing. Empire is by far my favorite. Gotta love when the bad guys win.
(can you tell I was born in the early 80s?)
You have just listed some of the best of all time. I bow to you. I recall some of my other favorites like The Thing, Red Heat, Legend, Top Gun, The Goonies, the first 2 Robocop films. Is it just me or do movies, and society in general, suck compared to the 80's. Even the cartoons for crying out loud. Not emasculated feel good crap. Transformers, voltron, centurions, thundercats, C.O.P.S., silver hawks, He Man, GI Joe, etc. everything is wussy crap now with the exception of the remade thundercats. Yes I have never outgrown this stuff.
Didn't Caddyshack come out in '79? Otherwise, I agree fully. Caddyshack and Animal House are the progenitors of the modern raunch-com.
1980.
And I agree those two were really pioneering films. I'd even give an honorary mention to Meatballs (1979).
The talent pools coming from SCTV, SNL and John Landis produced some great stuff.
And of course there was STRIPES (1981). Easily one of my favorite comedies.
The scene in FT when Brad is cleaning the mirror in the bathroom of the fast food restaurant.......Big Hairy Pussy written across the mirror....:lol:
Caddy shack....all time classic. "I smell Varmint Poontang" "and you know what he said to me?.. What?....Gunga gunoonga, Unga gunga gunooga"
turdbocharged
03-22-12, 14:18
You have just listed some of the best of all time. I bow to you. I recall some of my other favorites like The Thing, Red Heat, Legend, Top Gun, The Goonies, the first 2 Robocop films. Is it just me or do movies, and society in general, suck compared to the 80's. Even the cartoons for crying out loud. Not emasculated feel good crap. Transformers, voltron, centurions, thundercats, C.O.P.S., silver hawks, He Man, GI Joe, etc. everything is wussy crap now with the exception of the remade thundercats. Yes I have never outgrown this stuff.
I want to add Spaceballs to my list :)
LOL yeah I forgot about Top Gun but I can't really stand Tom Cruise. Like you I grew up watching those movies and cartoons and of course I've romanticized them. I made the mistake of going back to watch Voltron(it's on netflix) and holy hell is it an AWFUL show to watch now that I'm older.
I am not a fan of dramatic Oscar type performances. I could not care less how well someone acted in a given film. Movies about normal people doing normal things are god awful and boring to me. I have enough normality in day to day life. I want story, an epic story, so Empire does it for me. It will forever be my #1 unless Lucas dies and gives me the rights so I can make a better trilogy.
turdbocharged
03-22-12, 14:21
1980
And of course there was STRIPES (1981). Easily one of my favorite comedies.
Stripes is hilarious!
montanadave
03-22-12, 16:11
From the days of my misspent youth, one of our more frequent sayings derived from Caddyshack, that being the ever popular "Cannonball! Back at ya!" :lol:
And the classic pickup line, "Hey, baby, wanna make fourteen dollars the hard way?"
"I'll bet you were something before electricity". :dance3: RD was a comic genius, along with many of the other actors in Caddy Shack.
Reagans Rascals
03-22-12, 16:27
Adolecent tripe.
Return of the Living Dead is where the action was at. :D
Not that Heavy Metal or American Pop were junk mind you.
And the very last of the true slasher flicks before the gov't got all involved, Happy Birthday to Me.
+1
Return of the Living Dead was the tits... plain and simple... the one and only true kickass zombie movie
Doc Safari
03-22-12, 16:33
Flesh + Blood with Rutger Hauer
The Hitcher (also with Rutger Hauer coincidentally)
The guy's a heck of an actor. Plays the villain like he is one. I don't think he ever got the credit he deserved.
Repo Man
To Live and Die in LA
No Way Out (pretty much the only Kevin Costner movie where he really acts)
48 Hours
plus pretty much what everyone else has named.
To those of you who listed Shauna Grant, et al, how could you forget Seka, Annette Haven, and Bridgette Monet?
Flesh + Blood with Rutger Hauer
The Hitcher (also with Rutger Hauer coincidentally)
The guy's a heck of an actor. Plays the villain like he is one. I don't think he ever got the credit he deserved.
Repo Man
To Live and Die in LA
No Way Out (pretty much the only Kevin Costner movie where he really acts)
48 Hours
plus pretty much what everyone else has named.
To those of you who listed Shauna Grant, et al, how could you forget Seka, Annette Haven, and Bridgette Monet?
You'd probably enjoy Nighthawks with Hauer as Wulfgar if you haven't seen it already. To Live and Die in LA might be the quintessential 80s movie. Grossly underrated film.
Seka was of course the goods, Annette wasn't IMO a major player. Monet of course was incredible. And from that era my favorite might be Desiree Cousteau and we can't forget Vanessa Del Rio.
Doc Safari
03-22-12, 17:20
And from that era my favorite might be Desiree Cousteau and we can't forget Vanessa Del Rio.
And who could forget Hyapatia Lee, Kay Parker, Veronica Hart, Aunt Peg (Juliet Anderson), or Lisa DeLeeuw?
Trivia: Lisa DeLeeuw is the only female porn star to die of AIDS.
I miss that era. Those were my college years.
I wouldn't watch the crap that passes for "adult" movies now if you paid me.
Sports Illustrated recently called Caddyshack the best sports movie of all time. I'm hard pressed to argue.
Also, Major League.
And who could forget Hyapatia Lee, Kay Parker, Veronica Hart, Aunt Peg (Juliet Anderson), or Lisa DeLeeuw?
Trivia: Lisa DeLeeuw is the only female porn star to die of AIDS.
I miss that era. Those were my college years.
I wouldn't watch the crap that passes for "adult" movies now if you paid me.
Lisa is in my all time Top Ten. Sad too because she had mostly retired before she got AIDS and died.
However she is not the only one, might have been the first however.
http://www.rame.net/faq/deadporn/
And yeah, those were the days. No tattooed losers and a minimum of cartoonishly big implants. My other faves were Loni Sanders, Serena, Colleen Brennan, Annie Sprinkle, Mindy Rae and Rachel Ashley.
Alpha Blue is releasing a metric ton of 70s/80s titles on DVD.
Doc Safari
03-22-12, 17:49
Alpha Blue is releasing a metric ton of 70s/80s titles on DVD.
Wow. Other than Swedish Erotica I'm not sure I'd even know any of the movies by title. (I did think Debbie Does Dallas sucked, though).
A friend had one of the first satellite dishes, you know, the big ones about the size of a car.
He was pulling in the Johnny Carson Tonight Show without commercials. They told some filthy jokes during the breaks. He could also get sports programs from the other side of the world before anyone thought of actually deliberately broadcasting that for Americans.
I guess he was pulling in the porn flicks fed to the hotels, or something.
A bunch of us guys used to get some beer and watch like six hours of those things when we were too broke to do anything else.
Now it's all pay-per-view bullcrap, or DVD's, not that I indulge in that anymore.
No wonder the internet is killing the video porn industry.
Man, this thread makes me nostalgic for that era. I can still smell that dude's mobile home. He lived near the river and his whole house smelled like wet dog and dirty dishes.
Ah, those were the days.
Wow. Other than Swedish Erotica I'm not sure I'd even know any of the movies by title. (I did think Debbie Does Dallas sucked, though).
Well you are in luck, they are mostly titled according to the featured star, such as Vanessa Del Rio Triple Feature, Seka Triple Feature, Loni Sanders Collection, Christy Canyon Collection, etc.
Man, this thread makes me nostalgic for that era. I can still smell that dude's mobile home. He lived near the river and his whole house smelled like wet dog and dirty dishes.
Ah, those were the days.
His name wasn't Matt Foley was it?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qYF5clawQmQ/Txd2C9xUKFI/AAAAAAAAAYw/SLFkU690gMo/s1600/matt+foley.jpg
When I was in college, we rented a ton of old pornos and watched them with half the (co-ed) dorm floor. It was hilarious. Deep Throat had us all falling out of our seats, we were laughing so hard. The doctor doggy-styling his nurse while dictating into a recorder just struck me as uproarious.
Back to the subject at hand: The Thing was one of the greatest suspense/sci-fi/horror films ever made. Freaking excellent. Even John Carpenter doesn't really know who was a Thing and who wasn't at any given point in the film.
The doctor doggy-styling his nurse while dictating into a recorder just struck me as uproarious.
That was actually Thora Birch's mom. At this point I'd nominate Patriot Games but it came out in 92.
That was actually Thora Birch's mom. At this point I'd nominate Patriot Games but it came out in 92.
Really? I hated that film. Other than HFRO, they haven't made a decent rendition of any of Clancy's books. Kind of like Stephen King, come to think of it.
Really? I hated that film. Other than HFRO, they haven't made a decent rendition of any of Clancy's books. Kind of like Stephen King, come to think of it.
I only mentioned it because Thora Birch was in it. Personally of the 4 Clancy movies, I probably like Clear and Present Danger the best. Hunt for Red October was probably the best film but I despise Baldwin as Ryan. Patriot Games was a decent film, Sum of all Fears of course was the worst.
As far as Stephen King, I thought "It" was great. A few others like Pet Cemetery were decent.
I only mentioned it because Thora Birch was in it. Personally of the 4 Clancy movies, I probably like Clear and Present Danger the best. Hunt for Red October was probably the best film but I despise Baldwin as Ryan. Patriot Games was a decent film, Sum of all Fears of course was the worst.
As far as Stephen King, I thought "It" was great. A few others like Pet Cemetery were decent.
I thought Baldwin was a decent young Ryan. Even if it was weird to hear Ramius speaking Russian with a Scottish accent :) I didn't like Harrison Ford, he was just too overdramatic. He looked like he was constipated all through both movies.
They eventually did make a few good treatments of King movies. Despite being somewhat unfaithful to the books/novellas, I enjoyed Needful Things, Apt Pupil, and the Shawshank Redemption. The Green Mile was excellent. Dreamcatcher at least had the excuse of being one of his shittier books. "It" was my favorite King book, so I've never been brave enough to risk watching the miniseries/movie, in the fear that it might rape my childhood. I live in fear of the day when they decide to do The Dark Tower.
Another with excellent soundtrack: Flash Gordon
One for the Rutger Haur fans: The Blood of Heroes
Caddyshack line?
Nanananana, nanananana
My absolute favorites:
From the top:
Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ghostbusters
Terminator
Predator
Die Hard
Aliens
Running Man
Conan 1&2
Big Trouble in Little China
The Road Warrior
Full Metal Jacket
Commando
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
I know there are some that I'm missing.
Just add Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Lethal Weapon, Platoon, 48 Hrs, Dragnet, Beverly Hills Cop, and Scarface and you've got my list
Sports Illustrated recently called Caddyshack the best sports movie of all time. I'm hard pressed to argue.
Also, Major League.
Impossible... Golf isn't even a sport! :jester:
Doc Safari
03-23-12, 08:55
Well you are in luck, they are mostly titled according to the featured star, such as Vanessa Del Rio Triple Feature, Seka Triple Feature, Loni Sanders Collection, Christy Canyon Collection, etc.
I won't indulge. In a way, I'm glad that stuff survived just for the history of it, but that was then; this is now. That was for my younger wilder days and I don't miss it. I don't smoke cigarettes anymore, either, but I can appreciate that I used to really like it.
Still, if I could take a time machine back there for one Saturday night I'd do it....
Back on topic:
I like John Carpenter's The Thing. The recent "remake" (more of a prequel) did justice to it for the most part.
I like John Carpenter's The Thing. The recent "remake" (more of a prequel) did justice to it for the most part.
That's good to hear. The Thing was one of my favorite 80s movies, and I was hoping they wouldn't screw up the prequel.
turdbocharged
03-23-12, 10:11
Originally Posted by LHS
Sports Illustrated recently called Caddyshack the best sports movie of all time. I'm hard pressed to argue.
Also, Major League.
I am biased towards Major League for obvious reasons. BUT Caddy Shack is wayyyy better. IMO it's much more humorous. I'm a huge fan of Bill Murray.
Vanishing Point.
Animal House
I guess the '70s just seemed like the '80s for you, huh?:lol:
1971 and 1978 respectively.
I thought Baldwin was a decent young Ryan. Even if it was weird to hear Ramius speaking Russian with a Scottish accent :) I didn't like Harrison Ford, he was just too overdramatic. He looked like he was constipated all through both movies.
They eventually did make a few good treatments of King movies. Despite being somewhat unfaithful to the books/novellas, I enjoyed Needful Things, Apt Pupil, and the Shawshank Redemption. The Green Mile was excellent. Dreamcatcher at least had the excuse of being one of his shittier books. "It" was my favorite King book, so I've never been brave enough to risk watching the miniseries/movie, in the fear that it might rape my childhood. I live in fear of the day when they decide to do The Dark Tower.
Did you see Salem's Lot?
I'm a huge fan of Bill Murray.
And that reminds me, The Razor's Edge (1984), it was an excellent remake of the 1946 original. Strange to see Murray not doing comedy back then but once you got over it he did a really good job.
John Carpenter......awesome visionary with his campy style. Who can forget the likes of...."Assault on Precinct 13", "The Fog" (Adrienne Barbeau...oh baby love me long time) and of course Snake Plisken in "Escape From NY" with Lee Van Cleef. Some of his horror flicks are timeless. Halloween, the Prince of Darkness, Christine, the Thing and In the Mouths of Madness to name a few.
Did you see Salem's Lot?
I did not. I enjoyed the book quite a bit, was the movie worth it?
I did not. I enjoyed the book quite a bit, was the movie worth it?
So long as we are talking about the first one, yes it was very good. You might want to break down and watch "It" as well.
So long as we are talking about the first one, yes it was very good. You might want to break down and watch "It" as well.
"It" has been added to my Netflix queue. Both the 1979 version of Salem's Lot and the 2004 version (Rob Lowe and Rutger Hauer? Sounds cheesy to me) are unavailable via Netflix. C'est la vie.
PdxMotoxer
03-24-12, 03:26
"It" has been added to my Netflix queue. Both the 1979 version of Salem's Lot and the 2004 version (Rob Lowe and Rutger Hauer? Sounds cheesy to me) are unavailable via Netflix. C'est la vie.
I seen the 79 version with David Soul when i was a kid and freaked me out pretty good!!
I seen the first part of the 04 version with Rob Lowe and freaked me out on a whole nother level. :blink:
(i couldn't even watch it all kinda like the remake of vanishing point)
another one that's one year before "classic 80's" (the thread topic)
was without a doubt The Warriors!!
"It" has been added to my Netflix queue. Both the 1979 version of Salem's Lot and the 2004 version (Rob Lowe and Rutger Hauer? Sounds cheesy to me) are unavailable via Netflix. C'est la vie.
Avoid the Rob Lowe version.
For some reason Salems Lot (1979) is $39.99 even on Amazon.
You could always grab it here:
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5074064
Anyone go back and watch old movies you remember being cool as a kid only to find they really do suck? I did that recently with Buckaroo Banzai. I used to love that movie when I was a little kid. I hadn't seen it in years, and saw it was on Netflix. My wife hadn't ever seen it, so I grabbed it and sat her down, telling her she was about to witness sci-fi gold. UGH. It was horrible.
And some just hold up quite well to the test of time. For instance, the second-greatest Christmas movie ever made (behind Die Hard): A Christmas Story (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/)
You'll shoot yer eye out kid!
Anyone go back and watch old movies you remember being cool as a kid only to find they really do suck? I did that recently with Buckaroo Banzai. I used to love that movie when I was a little kid. I hadn't seen it in years, and saw it was on Netflix. My wife hadn't ever seen it, so I grabbed it and sat her down, telling her she was about to witness sci-fi gold. UGH. It was horrible.
And some just hold up quite well to the test of time. For instance, the second-greatest Christmas movie ever made (behind Die Hard): A Christmas Story (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/)
You'll shoot yer eye out kid!
More often the case than not. Some movies I can still enjoy for pure nostalgia and the associated memories, others I'm amazed that I was ever entertained at all and a rare few are still great to this day.
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