Well, you got your wish, Lloyd.
But tell me, did you really think Diane Court would stick around forever with a washed up amateur kickboxer on food stamps who stopped running his boom box for fear his batteries would wind up in some landfill and poison the great greenblue orb?
Lloyd.
Lloyd, Lloyd all null and void. Lloyd.
Any surprise the actor who played Lloyd Dobler is also a big Chomsky fan?
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dschultz/2009/03/16/the-liberal-bastille/
My wife laughs when Cusack and Adam Baldwin are tweeting at the same time. Makes her twitter feed look more than a little psychotic.
I have no idea what movie that’s from, but it’s apt.
Diane Court wasn’t really conventionally attractive, but I rarely go for convention. So I sent her a picture of my junk, clad only in a pair of MMA Elite support shorts.
I think it’s kind of cute how all the hep young folks like Slarti and Weiner have revived the quaint Victorian age custom of leaving calling cards –albeit with a digital age twist.
Any surprise the actor who played Lloyd Dobler is also a big Chomsky fan?
My best guess is that Cusack saw Altered States a whole bunch of times and thought that machine-gun streams of gibberish sound intelligent.
For some reason.
Say Anything. It might actually be most famous for putting the Peter Gabriel song “In Your Eyes” in the public’s consciousness.
You flatterer, you. And me about ready to roll over the half-century mark.
I’d pretty much worn out the grooves on the album it was released on by then.
As had the girl I was dating at the time. I think, on the whole, I liked the “scratching face” album better than So but “Sledgehammer” and IYE really pushed PG into the mainstream.
God I hate hate HATE that fucking movie. HATE IT! HAAAAAAAAAAATE it!
Really really don’t like it.
I like abortion more than that movie.
I like Nazis more than that movie.
I would rather circumcise myself (again!) with a spork than sit through that movie.
As a matter of fact, last time I got raped in prison, I thanked the guy for not making me watch that movie.
It’s a bad fucking movie.
I don’t know from the mainstream; I’d only been listening to Gabriel since about 1973.
IYE was a #1 single in 1986, a few years before the movie came out, but so was Red Rain and Sledgehammer. The whole album was double-platinum before Say Anything, and it took a couple more years to get to triple.
IMHO the best song from that album was the duet he did with Kate Bush, but as I said, my tastes aren’t that of the mainstream.
Edit: Red Rain wasn’t #1. Close, but no cigar.
Don’t Give Up. Used in The Chocolate War with Lex luthor’s dad and one of the goofs from Weird Science.
The Chocolate War is better than prison rape.
Slart: all true but in my recollection you didn’t start hearing about PG in what I consider mainstream pop culture circles until about Sledgehammer – remember seeing that on MTV with some regularity. So had been out for a while and I really like IYE before it caught on post-movie after which time it started getting airplay on pop radio, etc.
At least, that’s my recollection but we’re talking about something that happened (as you noted) 25 years ago.
That’s my opinion, anyway. Not a lot of things are worse than prison rape.
Except for that fucking movie…
and Billy Joel
Whenever I think of Kate Bush I remember that pink album she did – literally pink vinyl.
Now that you mention the song (Don’t Give Up), however, I remember that too.
I’m now fully in an 80s flashback. Given the current state of affairs, I might just stay there.
Yes, fuck it. I’m old.
Oh, and LMC likes surprize buttseks. Likes it better than some movies, anyway.
Billy Joel gets a lot of play in the new Hangover movie, including a very brilliant riff on Allentown sung by Stuart.
Just so you know, Cookies. You might want to avoid.
But there is also some synchronicity with that movie and this conversation that I won’t engage in for spoiler reasons.
Well shit. Didn’t really like the first one anyway.
I love Billy Joel.
Not in a physical way. But just so it’s out there.
Billy Joel’s music is mostly okay, but his not-guilty plea on charges of sociological arson? I still don’t buy it. And who nominated him to speak for all of his accomplices anyway?
Wasn’t as bad as prison rape, or that other fucking movie, or We Didn’t Start the Motherfucking Fire, Even Though By the Time I’m Finished Hooting Through This Shitty Song You’ll Swear I Just Jammed A Re Hot Iron Spiked Dildo Through Your Ear”
Allentown might be used as an instrument of torture on me. I’m strong; it might take a few hours of constant repetition to break me.
But hey, that’s just me.
And, I believe, the Nuremburg convention. At least on the subject of that fucking movie.
The Chocolate War was the worse damn book I was ever forced to read in high school.
LMC is just jealous because Billy Joel was really boinking Christie Brinkley when he was just pretending that was what he was doing.
I prefer to think it was her thinking of me.
“For the Longest Time”. The harmonies were guite good for mainstream pop and the accappella was novel. Til Boys to Men shat on the concept.
Ernst – Faulkner’s Light in August was it for me but I may be damning myself with that admission.
Was Billy Joel features on the soundtrack of the movie adaptation, do you recall?
Nope, that was “Triumph of the Will”
In general I’m with Jeff re. Billy Joel. Was a fan back in the late 70s; Glass Houses may have been the first album I ever owned (asked for it for Christmas).
His career – or let’s say the quality of his music – definitely reached a pinnacle right around the time Greatest Hits was released. “We Didn’t Start the Fire” was an amusing tune, and that song he sang with his wife in the video was OK but not his best work.
Again, I may be damning myself with the admission but I’m old enough to not care what you people think.
I didn’t know there was a movie adaptation of The Chocolate War until right now. The worst movie I was subjected to in H. S. was Coppola’s adaptation of The Outsiders.
Please. You haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen Maximum Overdrive, and that’s only pretty bad on the scale of movie badness. Or Battlefield Earth, which is an epic transformation of money into bad acting and mangled storyline, in an adaptation of what is arguably one of the worst books of fiction of all time to the cinema.
This thread is teh funny.
To this twelve-year-old boy Maximum Overdrive was an epic masterpiece. I mean, c’mon. Besides, a theme song by AC/DC? Pure gold.
Can anybody tell me why “Piano Man” is mostly harmonica? Is that kind of like how “Sultans of Swing” isn’t swing?
That clip of Maximum Overdrive looks totally awesome. Like, Killer Klowns from Outer Space awesome.
Heh. Yes, I think there are some distinct similarities.
Apparently it was pretty easy to get a script greenlit in the 80s. I imagine a lot of those pitch meetings ended with, “Let’s do this! You had me with five-seconds-of-topless-cheerleader and the montage with awesome synth music.”
Maximum Overdrive was all right, but it was no Transformers: The Movie.
Me Grimlock not nice dino! Me mash brains!
Maximum Overdrive was, I believe, intended to be a serious horror movie. If it had been a spoof, it would have been well done.
I liked Billy Joel.
WHEN I WAS 9.
When I hear him now, I’m reminded of how great a voice he used to have, and how depressing that must be for a singer. Like listening to Steve Tyler’s original recording of Dream On.
/ turns on Tool to make the Billy Joel stop
Mostly, because i’m a hater.
As for Kate Bush, my favorite tune of her’s was “Wuthering Heights” – she sounds like a fairy or something on the original. She was pretty young, I believe.
“This Woman’s Work” is a sweet song too.
Ya’ll are h8ers… I turned on the oldies station and damn if a goat didn’t come on. I fookin hate you guys.
Lloyd Dobler? Any relation to Conrad Dobler?
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Maximum Overdrive was supposed to be serious? You could have fooled me. I saw it when it came out, and I thought it was goofy. Then again, I used to see so many movies back then I probably saw most of what was available.
Maximum Overdrive is not even close to the worst movie of the era. Some stuff was so bad they have probably burned all the copies, and it damn well will never appear on dvd.
The 80’s were the golden age of movies; “Action Jackson”, “Roadhouse”, “Cobra”, “Delta Force”, “Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters” the list goes on and on…