1. Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez must be busier these days than I thought.
2. Yes, your nostrils get even larger as you age. Either that, or I spent the 80s deceiving myself about Judd Nelson.
3. You can never have too much Wang Chung.
4.
1. Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez must be busier these days than I thought.
2. Yes, your nostrils get even larger as you age. Either that, or I spent the 80s deceiving myself about Judd Nelson.
3. You can never have too much Wang Chung.
4.
I suspect ol’ Judd and the brat pack were doing a lot of blow during their later, St. Elmo’s Fire/Less Than Zero period.
4. If you mess with the bull, you’ll get the INTARTUBEZ COCKSLAP O’ DEATH!!!!11!!1!!!
I assume Molly and Emilio couldn’t be bothered to provide some content for the disk. Overall, I get the impression of you being a tad underwhelmed by the extras.
12 hours in a minivan with the Time Life Best of The 80’s CD box set says you can have enough Wang Chung, but it is very hard to to top any song with the word ‘whip’ in the title. eg ‘Whip it’, ‘Let it Whip’, ‘When the Whip Comes Down (close enough for government work)’
I indulge in a little Wang Chung listening every now and then.
Is one of the “Extras” the end of Nelson’s joke when he was trying to escape?
I’ve been dying to know the punchline since 1988.
5. Wang Chung is associated with music? Who knew.
6. I’ve never seen Breakfast Club.
Everybody wang chung tonight is really fun to say.
Any Wang Chung is more than enough Wang Chung.
Ella has never seen “Breakfast Club.” She is a pariah. Shun her!
lots of days even 25 years later I pull the elephant’s trunk and hold my bref
The Smiths – Music to Commit Suicide To.
Ella’s not the only one.
I will add Ernst to the shunning list.
#14:
I’m ready for shunning Mr. -d!
I’ve never seen Fast Times either. So perhaps something more strenuous than shunning might be in order?
5. Despite all his efforts, Anthony Michael Hall will never be able to completely shake his teen persona.
The reason I saw “Fast Times” and “The Breakfast Club” is simply that they came out at a time when I was in the target demographic and usually saw two movies per week. I saw almost everything. Also, fast times was purportedly about the class one year ahead of me at the high school I attended (a few filed lawsuits over it, with the “Ratner” guy claiming he wasn’t that skeezy).
Still, you people disappoint me. I shun you all.
perhaps we should come up with a list of must-see ’80s flicks so we know who’s the cool and who’s the drool? Xtra coolness being awarded for being of the appropriate age to have actually seen them at the time (and the hall of shame for those of us who went and saw something else).
That movie with Nick Cage and that chick was cool…or ghey, depending.
Then there was that one with the zombies.
Then there was that one with Wesley Crusher gettin leeches on his pay-pay.
Dude, I graduated in 84 and I can tell you that most, if not almost all 80’s (teen) movies sucked donkey balz. Purple Rain, all the brat pack crap… it all sucked. All “full of angst for no good reason and too much hair mousse.” Yeah… lets watch Downey JR kill himself with blow in Less than Zero. Sounds like a great flick! Cripes. The only one that wasn’t brimming with suk-a-tude was Weird Science… and only because Kelly LeBrock was the masterbatory fantasy of every non-gay teenager in America back then.
The Road Warrior, now there is a kick ass movie. Escape from New York, ditto.
And I get cool points for having grown up in and survived the 80’s.
I saw Pretty in Pink once and that was more the enough. It was one of those throwaway Saturday movies on, like, the WB or Fox or something, and I was folding laundry. I really don’t get why anyone remembers that movie; it was awful, and the male lead was teh ghey. I can’t believe she didn’t go with Ducky. I mean, really. The other guy’s gonna cheat on her when she’s 6 month pregnant and she’ll go through a soggy divorce and then have to struggle to complete a course at DeVry just to make ends meet. Wasn’t that patently obvious?
In the 1980s, I saw “Joe vs The Volcano” and “The Princess Bride” in the theaters. That’s all I remember. I think those stand the test of time waaaaaay better than Pretty in Pink. Or Jersey Girl. (I switched laundry day from Saturday to a weekday FOR A REASON.)
Kelly LeBrock …no effing joke! No cool points for me though. I only saw that on VHS in ’88 or ’89.
Stand By Me Another 80s movie I’ve never seen!
If God had wanted us to watch movies, He wouldn’t have given us epilepsy.
“Stand By Me Another 80s movie I’ve never seen!”
BANNED!
If you’re going to ban me, do it for the right reasons. I saw two Star Warses, three Indians Joneses, four Star Treks, a couple of Supermans and a really bad Robert Urich movie about buccaneers in space stealing ice or something. There’s probably a muppet movie or two in there as well.
When’s Judd Nelson gonna come back and guestblog?
4. Some people look better when they’re younger.
In 1984, I saw Wang Chung at the Paladium. They were the warmup band for the Romantics. WC played four songs, and Everybody Wang Chung Tonight was two of them. Other than Dixie’s Midnight Runners, Wang Chung may be the most overrated band ever.
it’s the singular film what captures the flavor of life in these forlorn times we live in but will the Academy acknowledge it I bet not just no Hell no
Ernst, that would be “Ice Pirates.”
Denounced and condemned.
I saw all Star Wars movies, all Indiana Jones movies, all Star Trek movies, all Superman movies, etc. There is a pattern here.
Ernst, on the other hand, lives in a cave somewhere.
Breakfast Club aged well.
Fast times at Ridgemont High did not.
Die Hard aged well.
Moomlighting did not.
Not only that, but don’t let Ernst near any html.
Judd!
I knew a family of Maronis growing up, their son, one year my elder, was one of my best friends. He was a mechanical genius (who goes on to invent an autonomous cupcake maker I imagine).
autonomous cupcake maker
the beginnings of skynet
or obiesinet, if the CDC has any say
Neither did Moonlighting.
I think Fast Times aged pretty well.
Yep, still works for me.
Greatest movie of the period is still Strange Brew though.
Strange Brew or Tapeheads.
But did Phoebe Cates age well? That is the question.
Valley Girl. That was the movie.
The Smiths – Music to Commit Suicide To.
Hush yo mouf.
sy as rambo in a remake of pretty in pink w/alot of dead commies
the pat benatar look..
with the spandex and leg warmers and headband
was irritating…
unless the guys from loverboy were wearing it..
then it was awesome!
The Story of Obama in under 7 minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu-p_OQChKQ
Olivia started it
– The music (Musak) they use in the background of that anti-depression medicine ad is definitely designed to drive you to suicide. The same monotonous 8 bars repeated over and over and over….
this song is supposed to drive you insane
just pop our pills and get on that train
take a trip to happyland, forget the pain
you won’t care when you take that ride
we help you get away to the other side
– Does Geico really save you 15% on your car insurance?
– Doe a Marine drill Sargent make a really bad therapist?
….it just makes me so sad…
You know what makes me sad. YOU DO. Lets just mozy on over to namby-pamby land and see if we can find your nutsack you jackwagget pussy.
Terry Gilliam did Time Bandits, Brazil, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen in the eighties. Ridley Scott did Blade Runner, and Clint Eastwood did a shitload of good ones, like he always does.
I thought the chick in Flashdance started the legwarmer/spandex thing.
Or Meg Tilley in the Big Chill.
I’ll be in my bunk.
“Let me hear your body talk…” <farts loudly>
the governmentemployee insurance company certainly saves 15% they say so
I vote for Better off Dead for unexpectedly enjoyable 80’s movie.
The Breakfast Club were pikers. Now this is how to do it.
Slater was later arrested at his home in Belle Harbor, Queens by Port Authority officials. He was found by police in a sexual embrace with his partner, sources said.
I do not want to be judgmental, but the mean things said about the Prop 8 judge must have prompted this.
It’s a “Weird Science” effect.
Agree, ya hoser.
are we gonna debate who started the “pat benatar” look?
she owns it!
also..why didn’t donald runfeld kill more
people in th 8o’s?
cuz he coulda’
and/frankly mr shankly/ shoulda’
– What the Bleep?
I’ll put us back together at heart BAY-BAY!
flashdance beale
Ice Pirates gets mentioned but “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” doesn’t?
I tried to grow a mullet in the 80s, but quit when I started to look like this.
the greatest movies of the 80’s were anything it
lt with farrah fawcett in them..
cuz u can turn ur faucet on…or off
but fawcett movies/or genre
leave an indelible mark on ur brain…
drip/drip/drip
did someone say “chinese water torture?”
u rascist bastards!
Heh.
i have an autographed box set
of farrahs best work…
i haven’t opened yet cuz im thinkin
they might be more valuable in the future..
i/m kinda like warren buffet that way..
I’ll show some love here for the 80’s comedic genius of Real Genius, 48 hours, Trading Places, Beetlejuice, A Christmas Story, Vacation and of course Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Later we can talk of the exquisite torture that is 80’s hairband heavy metal.
when i grow up i want to be
in an 80’s hairmetal band.. already wrote a song..
well two songs..
ones a ballad..
“” one is/ “my love is like a nuclear winter..” the other is
“because ur in the same room as me…”
i can dream/can’t i?
Make sure to work a reality tv show into your record contract pd.
I’ve been contemplating writing a power ballad about Michelle Obama’s love of tapas. I’m leaning towards asking Annie Lennox or maybe Grace Jones to sing a part.
wicked freaking cool it’s not even the future it’s as Darleen would say RIGHT NOW
will u direct me makewi?
partners?
will u teach me how to change a guitar..
guitar/right? thats what u call em
guitar string?
will u help me kill the ozone with hair spray?
cuz im all in
hey/ wrote another lil ditty..
well/ it’s like a trilogy
called- “the last best adventures of the body/ not the mynd”
it’s got little doodley guitar..
guitar/right? thats what u call them?
parts in it..
we need porn stars for the video..
and / of course
to run errands
i only sing like geddy lee
when i stub my toes on large immovable coffee tables..
sometime i even hit the note?
cats scramble though/ in a hurry..
but/ in a funny weird way/ eggs flip over-easy..
u don’t hate eggs/ do ya?
Thanks for that man! I will dine at Pick Up Styx tonight. one of the few magnets my little girl left on my frig.
I will teach you how to change a guitar string.
And also how to set a guitar on fire with hairspray
and a lighter
porn stars optional
I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony,
I’d like to buy the world a coke, and keep it company.
I’ve seen Fast Times probably 150 or more times. I also love Valley Girl. And of course, Risky Business.
All of these still regularly make it into jokes with friends:
Mike Damone: First of all Rat, you never let on how much you like a girl. “Oh, Debbie. Hi.” Two, you always call the shots. “Kiss me. You won’t regret it.” Now three, act like wherever you are, that’s the place to be. “Isn’t this great?” Four, when ordering food, you find out what she wants, then order for the both of you. It’s a classy move. “Now, the lady will have the linguini and white clam sauce, and a Coke with no ice.” And five, now this is the most important, Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.
Yeah, bh. Plus, what you said. Fast Times was a very, very, very seminal film.
if u light a guitar
or guitars..
on fire in the parking lot
of a who concert in ciccinati
and people get trampled to death..
and u leave cuz of cops and all that..
and u go to a chinese restaraunt cuz ur hungy..
one question..
should u read the fortune cookie?
while u watch the news
“tragedy in cincinati!”
i think it makes food a lil tastier when
u cause human suffering..
but/ hey.. thats just me..
i’m a gourmand
Spicoli! And Bobby Orr.
Yes, very seminal. Heh. Which is why it was so damn clever to have her walk in on Judge Rheinhold.*
jeepers pablo/ ur lil rhodey
and im mass..
anyway…
if u or anybot want’s to go to the john quincy
mansion u can stay at my place for free..
only have one request…
a million bucks..
for the crippled farm children who often
get stepped on by bigger farm animals..
and they often get pecked!
don’t forget the pecking!
one in 6 crippled farm babies have peck related diseases..
can u send me money for some colt 45 malt liqour..
for the lil’ crawlers../
u don’t hate crippled farm baby kiddies
do u?
wheres paul newman when u need him?
u got ur mind right..luke!
(Harry shove muzzle og his massive silver handgun in perps mouth)
….This is a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum, one of the worlds most powerful handguns, capable of blowing a persons head clean off….
….Now I know what your thinking…. Did he fire 5 rounds or six….. Well now, to tell you the truth in all the excitement I kinda lost count…..
(sound of single action hammer being pulled back)
*s-c-h-t-h-h-CLICK*
What you have to ask yourself, is do I feel lucky….
Well……do.you……PUNK….
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I’ll show some love here for the 80’s comedic genius…
What? No love for Beverly Hills Cop? How about Fletch?
“Foul play” – off the hook
That’s the ’70s Dirty Harry, BBH. The ’80s Harry said “Go Ahead, Make my Day.” And then the black partner doomed to die did by giving him a .45 Mag Auto-Mag.
i dressed a lil crippled farm baby
up as an armidillio for fun one year
as a lil crippled farm baby joke..
it’s missing!
now i just rock on the porch/ eating cold beans outa a can.. whistleling
oh where oh where has my crippled farm baby gone?
oh where oh where has she gone..?
jeepers!/ i hope she hasn’t shuffled of to buffalo!
Phoebe rocks. Okay, Darleen and I agree on something, as I have watched Better Off Dead about 500 times. A Sure Thing was killer too. Ditto Strange Brew. Ditto Slapshot.
Oh yeah, Ernst, I came across something today that might make a Hun like yourself smile.
bh – I now lurv thechive, and cannot believe I had never seen that before.
– Yeh, you’re right, but then my 70’s and 80’s thing sort of blurs…..
andy warhol made lil crippled farm baby movies in
the eighties but the liberal media didn’t report it!
Yeah, thechive is awesome. The Daily Afternoon Randomness is a guaranteed laugh or two.
Btw, that girl in the first photo might have the cutest face in Germany.
three lil crippled farm babies square off in
a death match against mickey rooney!
place ur bets/ place ur bets..
I would like to be a Judge in the Cutest Face in Germany contest.
Ohhhh we are the gentleman of Japan….
We take our enjoyment when we can…..
Dudley Moores bachelor pad with the neon lit heart shaped Murphy bed…
“Now let me get this straight….you were chased by a giant albino and a midget?”
Molly Ringwald was yummy in Malicious. Or, at least her boobies were. The movie itself was a pretty dreary ripoff of Fatal Attraction.
Alas bh, those girls are the seasonal help that the German tourist board hires because that’s what they want you to think the barmaids look like. A real Munich barmaid has arms like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
….and they’ve been known to open vacuum packed cans of bar nuts with their teeth…..
God bless the German tourist board. I can live with the lie.
once upon a time there were three lil crippled farm
kids/and the time came for them to go out in the world
to make fortunes
the first little retard cripple farm baby
said..! i’ll build my retarded crippled house outta straw
cuz it was easy.. and hey/ do u blame retarded cripple
farm kids 4 taking the easy way out?
the second lil fucked up kid built his hoouse outta sticks.. he drooled alot while building it btw
the third crippled farm baby built his house outta bricks..
which he pilfered from an abandoned construction site
and then one day bjork showed up a rockin and knockin/ i think gabriel announced her prescence
to the crippled farm retard babies
and bjork said/ not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!
and then the cripple farm babies died/ painfully
in their pathetic houses/
I’d let the brunette in 19 lie to me, but would I respect myself in the morning?
Ernst – If that is the case, what country are the freuleins hired from?
Mr. W
I’d say so.
’80’s movies ? No one’s mentioned Who Framed Roger Rabbit, an animation-genre-enhancing film. I had watched Breakfast Club by the early ’90’s, I’m sure of it. Fast Times I thought of as a Cheech & Chong rip-off, and not nearly as funny (oh, and speaking of rip-offs, I watched a rented copy of ‘Crazies‘ last night. Are those guys gonna send a few bucks to Michael Crichton’s estate? )
The Warriors was pretty damn good too.
one cripple farm baby said to
the other crippled russin farm baby..”goo goo!’
so the second crippled farm russian baby of course replied
“gaa gaa”
i’m a proffessor of language..
i’m writing a paper on the whole
goo goo gaa gaa dynamic and
why ur a rascict/ the fate of the us economy…
ever notice when one crippled french farm baby
says to the other crippled farm baby.. “boo boo”
and duh otre baby replies
“i blame boosh/ i blame boosh!”
fascinating!
i/ uh.. need more grant money..tho..
for my studies
and lunch
The Czech Republic?
The Day After, ur all gonna die! Red Dawn, great camping and hunting trip!
The Warriors was a ’70’s flick, JD. That flick was a late-night staple, midnight matinee, in a low-rent quad-plex, with another screen hosting some weird flick with a Transcendental Transvestite, whatever. We’d terrorize those sorts leaving that show, all in fun of course. Alcohol may have been involved, being the ’70’s and all…
Bohemian babes! =^D
then there’s ’81’s Raiders of the Lost Ark where I refused to leave the theater even though I was in labor ….
went to the hospital two hours after the end of the movie and had #2 within 20 minutes of arrival
Top Gun came out in ’86. Now there’s a movie I really enjoyed; at the time, Cruise wasn’t such an arrogant prick, at least not off the stage.
There’s another made for TV movie along the lines of The Day After. It was presented as a “we interrupt this program to bring you this special news bulletin…” a la Welles’ notorious War of the Worlds radio play. The premise was that a group of anti-nuke “peace” activists took Charleston hostage w/ a homemade nuke which they were going to set off unless Reagan signed SALT or START or some damn commie agitprop disarmament bullshit treaty. After a couple of hours of network style both sides of the story coverage (naturally sympathetic to the terrorists), SWAT stormed the boat, killed all the do-gooders and then the fumble fingered bomb squad set off the nuke. Somehow it was all Reagan’s fault. I was forced to watch that in a social studies class back in 87 or 88. Anybody else remember seeing that?
Damn, Darleen, that’s solid.
– You’re flirting with a Russain medal of motherhood there Darleen.
– Stop and squat next to the tractor, drop the kid in a proska basket, toss the basket in the back of the tractor, and go back to digging up potatoes.
phoebe cates opens gates..
with her fine fine ass
well.. ur just in time. to be too
late’ i tried to but i couldn;t wait
now i’ve got another date,,
phoebe cates!
you’re just in time
to miss the boat
so don’t take off ur hat n coat
be on ur way/thats all i’ll say
cuz phoebe cates aint coming home no more!
i stood around a month or two
and waited for ur call
now i.m too busy pitching woo
so come around next fall
i scractched a name right off my slate
your just in time to be too late..
and i won’t be home no more!
well ur just in time to turn around
and drive ur buggy back to town
u looked me up i turned u down
and i wont be home no more
ur just in time to change ur tune
go tell ur troubles to the moon
and call around next may or june cuz i won’t be home no more
thats the hillbilly shakespeare
hank william sr/ who’s birfday is sept 17/ so drink alot on that day..
but if phoebe cates would just answer my texts …
i keep saying to her/ reply/ my name is bond/ timmy bond..
ain’t happening..
World War III was a much better mini-series. The Soviets invade Alaska in order sieze the Alaska Pipeline so as to force us to abandon a grain embargo, with only the Alaska national guard to stop them. Damn I miss the Cold War.
You’re speaking of Special Bulletin, by Edward Zwick, who would later do Glory and the Siege, the annoying
guy from Thirtysomething, David Clennon, was the villain
Weren’t all the guys on Thirtysomething annoying?
Not that it matters, but for some reason I always get Phoebe Cates and Kim Cattrall mixed up.
True, but he was the insufferable advertising jerk, Miles Drentell, I didn’t really get the show either
“Lassie” from Porky’s? Shame on you! Shame! Shame!
o_O
Y’all forgot the other seminal movies of the 80s… Porky’s Porky’s II and Porky’s Revenge.
Kim Cattrall
The only gross-out comedies I’ve ever seen all starred Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid.
Another movie not to be overlooked is that lovely piece of Morning in America Americana Delta Force. Way better than Invasion USA
“Delta Force.”
or Lone Wolfe McQuade: the Chuck Norris masterpiece :^)
The whole Cannon Films oevre was to be savored, they used up all the ammunition in Atlanta in that finale
– Hunt for the red October.
“Next time Ryan, write a memo”
“This thing will get out of hand, and we’ll all be lucky to survive”
“Give me one ping, and one ping only Dimitri”
“Hell Ryan, my morse is so rusty I may be sending him measurements for the playboy centerfold of the month”
“Vladimir, you arrogant ass – you’ve just killed us….”
“The Russians don’t take a dump without a plan son…..What would it take to make the crew leave a submarine….want to get off a nuclear submarine…”
“Now that torpedo did not detonate, and I was never here….”
“Are you telling me you’ve lost another submarine?”
“…s-s-see Captain….I figure when the system can’t figure out what it’s looking at it sort of runs home to mama….”
“Relax Jonesy, I believe you”
“Sometimes a little revolution is a good thing, don’t you think”
“Welcome to the new world Captain”
– You know I’ll never understand how Baldwin could do these kinds of films, know the truth from both sides, and turn out to be such a flaming fucking braindead Libturd.
“This thing will get out of hand, and we’ll all be lucky to survive”
I think of that line every time I hear something about Obama and foreign policy.
Two more 80s flicks with important messages for today:
Mississippi Burning: Gene Hackman telling the too proud to use gutter tactics William Defoe character that the klan is something that’s crawled out of the sewer and maybe the gutter is where they need to be.
The Untouchables: “What. Are You. PREPARED to do!?!” (aaarggh gurggle glug glug).
– Ness apparently had seen enough blood and killing. After the Untouchables disbanded with the jailing of Capone and the temporary Collapse of the Chicago street gangs he spent the remainder of his years living quietly as a city hall official in Cleveland, and never went near the local Mafia.
Two guilty pleasures of mine, from 1981 is “Thief”, and from 1984 “Streets of Fire”.
In Lone Wolf McQuade he wakes up as they are trying to bury him in his truck, opens a beer, drinks some, pours some on his head, starts the truck and drives out of the hole.
Classic.
– So, over in Germany they’re tearing down a Mosque because they say it was used as a staging area for some of the Muslims who participated in 9/11, while we on the other hand, are arguing about a Mosque to be near ground zero.
– One strange fucking world we live in these days.
For bh, 1989 Santa Sangre, an acquired taste.
Ghostbusters was undoubtedly the most over-hyped movie of the decade, but it’s actually still funny 26 years later…
– Judging from the condition of things, somewhere along the line we must have crossed the streams.
Ah, ‘Streets of Fire’ one of my favorite on the Diane Lane series, and Defoe was notably creepiest on this, until he was the counterfeiter, in “To Live and Die in LA”
Streets of Fire has the greatest soundtrack album ever, but the greatest movie made in the 80s was Flash Gordon. Could very well be the second greatest soundtrack ever and Max von Syndow will forever be the Ming the Merciless all others are judged against. The lack of an Oscar there proved to me that the Academy Awards are a hollow marketing exercise and have nothing whatsoever to do with GREAT ART. Pant pant…
How about Lifeforce, with the faux Williams score and the vampires,
I don’t care for vampires. At all.
Scanners? Ka-blooey!
3. You can never have too much Wang Chung.
Fortunately, there’s William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A..