listen to a movie podcast where they are fond of doing drafts of movies because they can banter for an hour or so while talking about a year in movies. recently they did an 80s comedy draft which was a little too broad because part of the "fun" is them stealing each others choices. with a whole decade there was no winnowing of options. no winnowing!!!
so i thought id throw up the categories. i even added one. i know you all love to laugh and love the 80s even more.
1) blockbuster (i think thats over 75 million domestic. can find numbers at box office mojo.)
2) oscar nominated (not clear but pretty sure its for any oscar which broadens the options.)
3) action/horror
4) romantic comedy
5) teen comedy (i added this one since it was a rich era as you 80s teens can attest!)
6) wild card (that means "wild card.")
not sure what else could be added other than most overrated but ill assume you think they all are. so cant imagine a draft but you can fill in your ballot. i guess foreign could be a category or non-english but they arent very funny, are they?
there is one obvious choice for me in action comedy but i thought id rewatch after hours first to see if it held up. i watched 5 minutes. so far so good!
looks interesting but do not know if its a comedy. it was referred to as offbeat which leans in to comedy but far enough? i was asking myself earlier is raiders of the lost ark a comedy? i only saw it under the banner of action/adventure though it is not without humor. begs the question ultimately, and its a big one. WHAT IS COMEDY?
does remind me about withnail & i and if i had a english speaking non hollywood designation that would certainly be under consideration. also thought of a black comedy category which it could tussle with the likes of brazil. nobody talks about brazil anymore.
as for porkys, well, how can you have any pudding if you dont eat your meat? amirite?
I enjoyed Brazil at the time but not sure if I would now. Never saw Withnail & I. But did see and like What Happened Was, an early sundance darling but maybe a 90's movie, def not a comedy, too lazy to google it. I rewatched The Hit recently and found it pretty humorous. Definitely my favorite Frears movie but I've only seen a smattering. Is Revenge Of The Nerds an 80's flick? Is it comedy?
revenge of the nerds has been canceled because carradines character pretends to be someone else or more likely mistaken for someone else im thinking it was a costume party and had sex with i assume a hot girl and apparently that is rape. in the 80s it was just good clean fun but now something about consent. its hard enough to get laid as a nerd and now you need consent? have a little personal agency hot co-ed!
i can survive in a world without booger but i draw a line at the caricature of the asian exchange student in 16 candles. the donger stays!.might have been some nerd drunken rapiness in that one too but lessons were learned by all and isnt that more important than nebulous laws?
Never did see ROTN but my friend Philip and I watched Porkey's in a motel somewhere in 1983 during our move to NYC from Portland. Maybe it was road fatigue but we found the movie hilarious.
ill count that as your teen comedy. saw it with my parents. im sure we thought it was funny. guessing it doesnt hold up. as far as i recall only involved sexual harassment. kids stuff, really.
i know im bogarting the best choices as my taste is unassailable but there are other albert brooks movies, or even mel brooks. no foster brooks movies that im aware of but dont lose hope! can i show you something in a bill murray or is eddie murphy more to your taste? whats that? youll have what shes having? haha. good ol' woody, where would we be without him. no? rob reiner? well surely it was in the idiom of allan stewart konigsberg unlike say anything or say john hughes.
gonna assign "everyone" a john hughes film because you can only complain about having a headache so many times.
clearly its ferris buellers day off for me because its his "jewish" film and his most glib and narcissistic character. also i have inadvertently wrecked a convertible. home alone would have worked for obvious reasons: cleverness, resourcefulness & my sense of childlike wonder.
bill gets uncle buck because of his canadian comedy fetish and because curly sue would have been too obnoxious a pick. that was in the 90s anyhow like home alone. now i could have gone with planes, trains & automobiles but im saving that for.... mike! that john candy performance is, dare i say, unduly optimistic. but what a travel companion!
steve is some kind of wonderful because he wouldnt find a comparison to eric stoltz objectionable and he is not deserving of molly ringwald as a love interest. hell say he would prefer lea thompson anyway but in his heart he knows its not true. sure in the movie he ends up with his tomboy friend but this is real life. case in point, lea thompson married the director. also, this is the choice of auterists everywhere not because its good but its just not the more popular ones.
jim is weird science obviously because of his love of tolkien. though maybe mr mom but only if he met michael keaton during the birdman years.
alex could be the great outdoors because im pretty sure he was never a teenager so... who knew john candy was really hughes' rosebud?
lets see. lets throw linda, our once a year tennis correspondent in as the breakfast club because ally sheedy.
and why not, mb get pretty in pink because she has the hair of james spader and the soul of annie potts.
what left, steve db. yeah probably vacation because he would absolutely tie his dead aunt to the roof of his station wagon if only in an effort to make good time. pretty sure all of his paintings depict walley world in one or another fashion.
guess that leaves 16 candles for ol' tom. could i see him trapped under a glass coffee table by the football team only to triumph in the end by having black out drunk sex with the prom queen in the back of a rolls royce convertible. if that isnt toms idea of heaven, well then, i didnt know tom.
There is really no excuse for you not to have a job in the industry. What with the whole work from home thing. Do they have work from home personal assistants positions where you never pick up dry cleaning?
just flitting by a tweet from criterion about ny film festival celebration blah blah blah but jim jarmusch. huh, huh? black comedy category. ripe for the picking. i only saw mystery train in the theatre.
also, hate john hughes. how about valley girl or fast times? more cage? cage has a bit part in fast times. theres raising arizona. definitely on my short, not so short list. and moonstruck. not my bag but gabagool. and who could forget peggy sue got married? again me but cage was in that too which opens up a can of kathleen turner whoop ass. you got romancing the stone, and prizzis honor. prizzis honor could lead you to witches of eastwick to bull durham to thelma and louise to beetlejuice and right back to the grandaddy of them all, gung ho. gung ho is a dead end. thats where all movie lists go to die.
Turner also criticized Cage for his decision to wear false teeth and to adopt a nasal fry for his character (Cage said he based it on Pokey from The Gumby Show).
will put this here as not to muck up the front page. im fairly confident the answer is none for me. the first summer we got cable which i think was 1983 i watched grease 2 and rocky 3 numerous times as hbo did not have deep bench but i dont recall repeating that. then i didnt really have cable til my mid 30s so thats just not something an adult does, right? i have watched mad men at least 3 times through, maybe 4. game of thrones at least twice. sopranos same. thats around 240 hours of mad men so i guess i cant throw stones. id love to see my most watched movie list though. can someone pull that up?
Name five films you’ve seen at least 25 times. I’ll go first:
Citizen Kane
The Third Man
Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon
Evil Dead 2
The Nightmare Before Christmas
None.
North By Northwest, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Vanishing Point, and It's A Wonderful Life would probably top my list. - steve 9-19-2022 9:19 pm [add a comment]
I don't remember ever seeing the trailer. it doesn't push any of the existential angst that seemed central to the theme of the film but I guess the suits knew that jazz wouldn't sell popcorn.
It was a regular re-run at the drive-in's in the mid 70's, my friends and I were fans. I think I probably last saw it in 1978. - steve 9-19-2022 11:17 pm [add a comment]
i forgot that everything wasnt necessarily first run.
listen to a movie podcast where they are fond of doing drafts of movies because they can banter for an hour or so while talking about a year in movies. recently they did an 80s comedy draft which was a little too broad because part of the "fun" is them stealing each others choices. with a whole decade there was no winnowing of options. no winnowing!!!
so i thought id throw up the categories. i even added one. i know you all love to laugh and love the 80s even more.
1) blockbuster (i think thats over 75 million domestic. can find numbers at box office mojo.)
2) oscar nominated (not clear but pretty sure its for any oscar which broadens the options.)
3) action/horror
4) romantic comedy
5) teen comedy (i added this one since it was a rich era as you 80s teens can attest!)
6) wild card (that means "wild card.")
not sure what else could be added other than most overrated but ill assume you think they all are. so cant imagine a draft but you can fill in your ballot. i guess foreign could be a category or non-english but they arent very funny, are they?
- dave 9-18-2022 1:08 pm
there is one obvious choice for me in action comedy but i thought id rewatch after hours first to see if it held up. i watched 5 minutes. so far so good!
- dave 9-18-2022 1:11 pm [add a comment]
The Hit
- steve 9-18-2022 8:58 pm [add a comment]
looks interesting but do not know if its a comedy. it was referred to as offbeat which leans in to comedy but far enough? i was asking myself earlier is raiders of the lost ark a comedy? i only saw it under the banner of action/adventure though it is not without humor. begs the question ultimately, and its a big one. WHAT IS COMEDY?
does remind me about withnail & i and if i had a english speaking non hollywood designation that would certainly be under consideration. also thought of a black comedy category which it could tussle with the likes of brazil. nobody talks about brazil anymore.
as for porkys, well, how can you have any pudding if you dont eat your meat? amirite?
- dave 9-18-2022 10:25 pm [add a comment]
frears has had a pretty stellar career.
https://www.allmovie.com/artist/stephen-frears-p90460/filmography
- dave 9-18-2022 10:28 pm [add a comment]
I enjoyed Brazil at the time but not sure if I would now. Never saw Withnail & I. But did see and like What Happened Was, an early sundance darling but maybe a 90's movie, def not a comedy, too lazy to google it. I rewatched The Hit recently and found it pretty humorous. Definitely my favorite Frears movie but I've only seen a smattering. Is Revenge Of The Nerds an 80's flick? Is it comedy?
- steve 9-19-2022 12:06 am [add a comment]
revenge of the nerds has been canceled because carradines character pretends to be someone else or more likely mistaken for someone else im thinking it was a costume party and had sex with i assume a hot girl and apparently that is rape. in the 80s it was just good clean fun but now something about consent. its hard enough to get laid as a nerd and now you need consent? have a little personal agency hot co-ed!
i can survive in a world without booger but i draw a line at the caricature of the asian exchange student in 16 candles. the donger stays!.might have been some nerd drunken rapiness in that one too but lessons were learned by all and isnt that more important than nebulous laws?
- dave 9-19-2022 12:23 am [add a comment]
Never did see ROTN but my friend Philip and I watched Porkey's in a motel somewhere in 1983 during our move to NYC from Portland. Maybe it was road fatigue but we found the movie hilarious.
- steve 9-19-2022 8:58 am [add a comment]
ill count that as your teen comedy. saw it with my parents. im sure we thought it was funny. guessing it doesnt hold up. as far as i recall only involved sexual harassment. kids stuff, really.
- dave 9-19-2022 9:09 am [add a comment]
this is spinal tap seems like my wild card.
- dave 9-18-2022 1:13 pm [add a comment]
oscar nominated first thing that comes to mind is tootsie though i think i like broadcast news more?
- dave 9-18-2022 1:49 pm [add a comment]
romantic comedy probably the princess bride.
- dave 9-18-2022 1:50 pm [add a comment]
1)
2) Broadcast News
3) After Hours
4)
5) The Princess Bride
6) This Is Spinal Tap
- dave 9-18-2022 1:57 pm [add a comment]
i know im bogarting the best choices as my taste is unassailable but there are other albert brooks movies, or even mel brooks. no foster brooks movies that im aware of but dont lose hope! can i show you something in a bill murray or is eddie murphy more to your taste? whats that? youll have what shes having? haha. good ol' woody, where would we be without him. no? rob reiner? well surely it was in the idiom of allan stewart konigsberg unlike say anything or say john hughes.
dont dont dont dont.
- dave 9-18-2022 8:37 pm [add a comment]
bills ballot: will this shut you up?
1) police academy 1
2) police academy 2
3) police academy 3
4) police academy 5
5) police academy 6
6) cocoon
police academy 4 was derivative.
- dave 9-18-2022 8:39 pm [add a comment]
Porkey's
- steve 9-18-2022 8:59 pm [add a comment]
Weekend at Bernie's #2
- bill 9-19-2022 7:50 am [add a comment]
gonna assign "everyone" a john hughes film because you can only complain about having a headache so many times.
clearly its ferris buellers day off for me because its his "jewish" film and his most glib and narcissistic character. also i have inadvertently wrecked a convertible. home alone would have worked for obvious reasons: cleverness, resourcefulness & my sense of childlike wonder.
bill gets uncle buck because of his canadian comedy fetish and because curly sue would have been too obnoxious a pick. that was in the 90s anyhow like home alone. now i could have gone with planes, trains & automobiles but im saving that for.... mike! that john candy performance is, dare i say, unduly optimistic. but what a travel companion!
steve is some kind of wonderful because he wouldnt find a comparison to eric stoltz objectionable and he is not deserving of molly ringwald as a love interest. hell say he would prefer lea thompson anyway but in his heart he knows its not true. sure in the movie he ends up with his tomboy friend but this is real life. case in point, lea thompson married the director. also, this is the choice of auterists everywhere not because its good but its just not the more popular ones.
jim is weird science obviously because of his love of tolkien. though maybe mr mom but only if he met michael keaton during the birdman years.
alex could be the great outdoors because im pretty sure he was never a teenager so... who knew john candy was really hughes' rosebud?
lets see. lets throw linda, our once a year tennis correspondent in as the breakfast club because ally sheedy.
and why not, mb get pretty in pink because she has the hair of james spader and the soul of annie potts.
what left, steve db. yeah probably vacation because he would absolutely tie his dead aunt to the roof of his station wagon if only in an effort to make good time. pretty sure all of his paintings depict walley world in one or another fashion.
guess that leaves 16 candles for ol' tom. could i see him trapped under a glass coffee table by the football team only to triumph in the end by having black out drunk sex with the prom queen in the back of a rolls royce convertible. if that isnt toms idea of heaven, well then, i didnt know tom.
- dave 9-19-2022 12:27 pm [add a comment]
There is really no excuse for you not to have a job in the industry. What with the whole work from home thing. Do they have work from home personal assistants positions where you never pick up dry cleaning?
- bill 9-19-2022 2:51 pm [add a comment]
i only want to pick up dry cleaning.
- dave 9-19-2022 3:06 pm [add a comment]
just flitting by a tweet from criterion about ny film festival celebration blah blah blah but jim jarmusch. huh, huh? black comedy category. ripe for the picking. i only saw mystery train in the theatre.
also, hate john hughes. how about valley girl or fast times? more cage? cage has a bit part in fast times. theres raising arizona. definitely on my short, not so short list. and moonstruck. not my bag but gabagool. and who could forget peggy sue got married? again me but cage was in that too which opens up a can of kathleen turner whoop ass. you got romancing the stone, and prizzis honor. prizzis honor could lead you to witches of eastwick to bull durham to thelma and louise to beetlejuice and right back to the grandaddy of them all, gung ho. gung ho is a dead end. thats where all movie lists go to die.
- dave 9-19-2022 3:37 pm [add a comment]
peggy sue
- dave 9-19-2022 3:48 pm [add a comment]
will put this here as not to muck up the front page. im fairly confident the answer is none for me. the first summer we got cable which i think was 1983 i watched grease 2 and rocky 3 numerous times as hbo did not have deep bench but i dont recall repeating that. then i didnt really have cable til my mid 30s so thats just not something an adult does, right? i have watched mad men at least 3 times through, maybe 4. game of thrones at least twice. sopranos same. thats around 240 hours of mad men so i guess i cant throw stones. id love to see my most watched movie list though. can someone pull that up?
- dave 9-19-2022 9:10 pm [add a comment]
None. North By Northwest, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Vanishing Point, and It's A Wonderful Life would probably top my list.
- steve 9-19-2022 9:19 pm [add a comment]
and Wizard of Oz
- steve 9-19-2022 9:19 pm [add a comment]
Actually, the tops would probably be Merry Christmas Charlie Brown, The Great Pumpkin, Rudolph and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
- steve 9-19-2022 9:21 pm [add a comment]
i dont think those are movies as we generally think of them. they were 1/2 hour long animated tv specials.
- dave 9-19-2022 9:28 pm [add a comment]
Ha! I guess they seemed like feature-length projects.
- steve 9-19-2022 10:07 pm [add a comment]
i wonder how many of these types of movies had the radio dj as narrator trope. also, this voice over guy is creepy. he did a lot though, right?
- dave 9-19-2022 9:39 pm [add a comment]
I don't remember ever seeing the trailer. it doesn't push any of the existential angst that seemed central to the theme of the film but I guess the suits knew that jazz wouldn't sell popcorn.
- steve 9-19-2022 10:15 pm [add a comment]
was it a 70s late night or saturday afternoon tv staple or did you rewatch it in the 80s and beyond on vhs/dvd?
- dave 9-19-2022 10:19 pm [add a comment]
It was a regular re-run at the drive-in's in the mid 70's, my friends and I were fans. I think I probably last saw it in 1978.
- steve 9-19-2022 11:17 pm [add a comment]
i forgot that everything wasnt necessarily first run.
- dave 9-20-2022 8:14 am [add a comment]
Many if not most movies in theaters were not first run
- steve 9-20-2022 10:01 am [add a comment]