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80's movies (that are still good)
Ummon:
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--- Quote from: Ummon on August 28, 2008, 06:52:55 pm ---And on that note, how about 80s Rated-R movies that are still good? Risky Business was still okay. Stripes wasn't bad.
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I still enjoy Robocop, which I'm sure has been mentioned already. Something I found interesting that I just learned a few weeks ago, Robocop was originally going to be rated X (this was before NC-17 existed), so they removed a fair amount of the gore to get it to rated R. I believe the now released "unrated" version is the original X-rated cut of the movie.
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I didn't know this. I thought it was pretty graphic at the time anyway. It certainly affected me. And though I watched it again a few, perhaps several, times I haven't been pressed to watch it again. I may soon though.
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 29, 2008, 09:25:55 am ---I don't see the love for Stripes. Half of it was good, but the other half sucked, and it did not hold up well.
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Dude. As a kid*, this was a funny and riske' movie. It's still cute, it's just not as juvenilely interesting as back then.
* When we got cable, there were no restrictions in my house, so I saw all these movies as soon as they were available - although I actually saw Stripes before we got cable at a neighbor kid's house whose dad had connections to bootleg videos and who got him this, Smokey and The Bandit, The Road Warrior, Conan, and others before anyone else saw them. And often long before other kids were allowed to see them.
billf:
I know it was mentioned on the first page, but my wife, son and myself just watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles tonight. Had a great time watching it. I've seen it enough to know almost every line. My wife thinks that was the first time she saw it start to finish and it was definitely my son's first time seeing it. I'm still amazed at all the movies John Hughes was a writer, director or producer of in the '80s.
Hockeyboy:
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was (and IS) so damn funny it's become a staple for me every Thanksgiving. There's parts that make me laugh, make me cry, and make me fall on the floor holding my gut. That one scene in the car where Steve Martin's character turns to John Candy's character and sees him as the devil...oh lord...
Stripes is also a "classic", as is Airplane!, Caddyshack, and several others in that genre alone. There's no way Hollywood could ever make Blazing Saddles again with the same lines that they used back then for fear of upsetting too many different groups, but I think that's part of the wonder of the movies made then.
My kids (3 teenagers) will watch some of those 80's movies with me and just wonder what the hell we were thinking by watching them back then -- the special effects are cheesy or whatever. I tell them that they have grown up in a generation where things have become possible that were impossible just 20 years ago but they still don't get it. All I know is I still enjoy lots of those 80's movies.
Ummon:
I think my (younger) brother really liked Trains... but I don't think I was into it. There seemed to emerge this weird humor in the late 80s that I felt was over the top.
--- Quote from: Hockeyboy on August 31, 2008, 02:19:56 am ---My kids (3 teenagers) will watch some of those 80's movies with me and just wonder what the hell we were thinking by watching them back then -- the special effects are cheesy or whatever. I tell them that they have grown up in a generation where things have become possible that were impossible just 20 years ago but they still don't get it. All I know is I still enjoy lots of those 80's movies.
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You know whats interesting is that we grew up watching movies from the 50s and we DID get it.
dmworking247:
--- Quote from: Ummon on September 01, 2008, 06:49:03 pm ---You know whats interesting is that we grew up watching movies from the 50s and we DID get it.
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Thats because we still had some imagination left... my kids/this generation don't, and it takes a lot to impress them the special effects (of movies) or superior graphics (of games) are the selling point.
Just look at the nitpicky nature of continuity flaws or 'those special effects werent good enough' being the main critique of movies these days, similar to how games are more about the 'instant gratification' and graphics than actual gameplay.
It comes as no suprise to me that members of a forum like this still have what it takes to appreciate a movie for its plot with a little imagination involved.
Having said all that, my youngest kids arent quite so 'spoiled' yet and I'm enjoying them playing the Arcade, watching 80s movies with me, and enjoying the Wii for actual gameplay... its not just money preventing me from giving them a xbox360/PS3.
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