Charlie Steiner
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May look like him but it's not Dan Schneider. Not heavy enough. For a reference at that time, check out Better Off Dead, made close to that time. Dan was a BIG boy, and the fat Cobra Kai was fat but short.
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My top 100 movies: #1: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1 Viewer)
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Thunderlips
Footballguy
Nah...one of the other nerds. Alan. He was the one who dressed in the tie and jacket.
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
Can't get enough of Miyagi breaking out the catcher's gear when it's time to teach Daniel some offense. And when Daniel lands a few shots and starts dancing around thinking he's Muhammad Ali, Miyagi literally takes him down a level. Again... balance.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
The Twin Pines Mall becomes the Lone Pine Mall and the ledge below the clock does not/does have a chunk out of it before/after Marty's trip due to Doc's stepping on it.
Sure, it's hits that nostalgic sweet spot for me. My first "date" at 10, loved Huey Lewis and the News, great 80s movie, etc.. However, as I watch it now, I am still in awe of how good the script and little details are. Like the name of something changing because Marty runs over one of Peabody's pine trees, etc.. Yeah, the time travel and disappearing photos are a bit wonky, but it is hard to do time travel in general, I just love all the little things on repeat viewings.
This is my #1 movie.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves here. Patience!
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Wassa matta? You some kinda GIRL or something? Focus power...one eensh. Drive a punch! Hut! Heeyah!
KarmaPolice
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Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
I checked Schneider's and the Karate Kid movie's IMDB pages and he's not listed on either of them.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Man, if only the nerds were around in KK. He could have dominated the tourney if they designed a technique to go along with his limp wristed punching style.
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
Such a great performance.One of my best friends from high school is in his third decade of leaving that line of Miyagi dialogue on my voicemail, often for no better reason than it popped into his head.
Really enjoying tracking this list and the POV behind it. We seem to be close in age and share a lot of favorites.
Thunderlips
Footballguy
I checked Schneider's and the Karate Kid movie's IMDB pages and he's not listed on either of them.
Bro, not the fat nerd, or the Chinese nerd or the nerdy nerd with glasses or the nerd that Mike Tyson porked or Richard Pryors nerd kid or the hot red headed nerd or the cool Fonzie nerd or the poetry nerd or the nerd that drove the limo in Die Hard...the other nerd.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
My HS best friend and I used to slap each other in the head at random times saying "Look eye! Always look eye!"
One of my best friends from high school is in his third decade of leaving that line of Miyagi dialogue on my voicemail, often for no better reason than it popped into his head.
Really enjoying tracking this list and the POV behind it. We seem to be close in age and share a lot of favorites.
rick6668
Footballguy
Was also in Iron Eagle and SpaceCampHoly smokes! He's Lamar!
Now that I did not know.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
He had a great moment in the first reel of Iron Eagle where he got to show off his pop-and-lock moves.
ETA: also portrayed the Flavor Flav-inspired Tasty Taste in the rap mockumentary "Fear Of A Black Hat".
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rick6668
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massraider
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Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
#38 - The Princess Bride
In situations where the answer is "it's possible" my wife or I always follow up with " pig".
The sword fight is awesome as is everything else Patinkin does in the movie.
We tease our son about being big and strong without even exercising.
You can guess my response when someone asks if I smell something.
I very often accuse someone speaking nonsense as truly having a dizzying intellect.
And on and on it goes...if only I had a holocaust cloak or a wheelbarrow.
Man in Black: You're that smart?
Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Man in Black: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons.
Trivia:
Mandy Patinkin revealed that acting out Inigo's quest to avenge his father's murder brought back memories of losing his own father to cancer in 1972. He said that when filming the scene when Inigo kills "The Six-Fingered Man" he felt like he had just "killed" the cancer that killed his father.
Despite his character Fezzik's almost-superhuman strength, André the Giant's back problems at the time prevented him from actually lifting anything heavy. Robin Wright had to be attached to wires in the scene where Buttercup jumps from the castle window into Fezzik's arms because he couldn't support her himself.
The Princess Bride (1987)
There really was a "Dread Pirate Roberts" (Bartholomew Roberts, also known as Black Bart) who operated in the Caribbean in the early 18th century. He is reckoned by many to have been the most successful pirate of all time.
In situations where the answer is "it's possible" my wife or I always follow up with " pig".
The sword fight is awesome as is everything else Patinkin does in the movie.
We tease our son about being big and strong without even exercising.
You can guess my response when someone asks if I smell something.
I very often accuse someone speaking nonsense as truly having a dizzying intellect.
And on and on it goes...if only I had a holocaust cloak or a wheelbarrow.
Man in Black: You're that smart?
Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Man in Black: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons.
Trivia:
Mandy Patinkin revealed that acting out Inigo's quest to avenge his father's murder brought back memories of losing his own father to cancer in 1972. He said that when filming the scene when Inigo kills "The Six-Fingered Man" he felt like he had just "killed" the cancer that killed his father.
Despite his character Fezzik's almost-superhuman strength, André the Giant's back problems at the time prevented him from actually lifting anything heavy. Robin Wright had to be attached to wires in the scene where Buttercup jumps from the castle window into Fezzik's arms because he couldn't support her himself.
The Princess Bride (1987)
There really was a "Dread Pirate Roberts" (Bartholomew Roberts, also known as Black Bart) who operated in the Caribbean in the early 18th century. He is reckoned by many to have been the most successful pirate of all time.
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Nick Vermeil
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Sweet J
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SkyRattlers
Anti-aliai
Karate Kid was 39...I assume Princess Bride is 38 unless you have a mistake and now have a list of 101 
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
My 14-year-old is in her 4th year of filling out those "Hello, my name is" name tag stickers with
"Inigo Montoya
You killed my father. *
*prepare to die"
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
Another classic I would have had higher (or there are a lot of movies I'm just not thinking of).
I chaperoned a field trip a couple of years ago for my then 6th grader. We went to Wolf Ridge in northern MN, and it is a 3+ hour bus ride from the twin cities. The van had a DVD player, so kids were asked to bring family friendly movies (private school) to watch on the way. The first movie selected was Princess Bride. We got to the first pit stop and some of the parents were talking. One mom was appalled that Princess Bride was chosen since it was a "girls movie" and the boys wouldn't like it. I stared at her with condescension and said "have you ever actually seen the movie?" and walked away in disgust.
I chaperoned a field trip a couple of years ago for my then 6th grader. We went to Wolf Ridge in northern MN, and it is a 3+ hour bus ride from the twin cities. The van had a DVD player, so kids were asked to bring family friendly movies (private school) to watch on the way. The first movie selected was Princess Bride. We got to the first pit stop and some of the parents were talking. One mom was appalled that Princess Bride was chosen since it was a "girls movie" and the boys wouldn't like it. I stared at her with condescension and said "have you ever actually seen the movie?" and walked away in disgust.
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
Also, anytime my 14 year old hears someone speak in rhyme accidentally, he always asks if they want a peanut.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
You could have shoehorned this line into the situation (as you stormed away),
"There's a shortage of prefect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours."
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
I haven't discouraged that behavior. And she says it works great - if someone reads it and starts laughing or throws back another Princess Bride quote, she knows this is a person she wants to talk to. I am fine with this.
I let her suggest a nickname for my fantasy football team a couple years ago. She suggested "Rodents Of Unusual Size". Went with it and haven't changed it since.
James Daulton
Footballguy
Now you're cooking again Andy. I'll forgive your early 40's indiscretions since you have righted the ship in a big way.
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
That seems a little harsh. My general go to quote for someone say something this stupid is the "and everyone is this room is now dummer for having listened to it," but I usually screw it up.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
A couple foreign movies coming up next...
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Okay, alternatively you could have said "Let me explain...No there is no time...let me sum up..."
msommer
Footballguy
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
When someone is running late and we need to leave the house, there's about a 50% chance someone drops "Sir... we're in a terrible rush."
dgreen
Footballguy
My wife hates this movie. Actually, it's more that she hates when a group of people just start quoting movies and obviously this movie is fully of memorable quotes. So now she says she hates The Princess Bride because she's heard friends on so many occasions spend large chunks of time quoting it.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
#37 - The Orphanage
It is the rare movie that has a tone so pitch perfect.
Belen Rueda plays a mother returning, along with her husband and young son, to live in the home where she grew up in as an orphan. A home that has a terrible secret surrounding the kids she knew at the orphanage.
Her child mysteriously vanishes after she loses patience with him, leading her first to a downward emotional spiral ("confronting" the spirits that populate the grounds) but eventually an uplifting, if bittersweet, denouement - in a moment of absolutely perfect reuinion.
I just love this movie.
Trivia:
When the writer told the little girl who plays the blind orphan that she had pretty eyes, she replied, "Oh, do you like them? I picked them out myself!" What he didn't know: She was diagnosed at a very young age with a degenerative eye disease that was going to leave her blind. One of the last things her parents did while she could still see was let her see a big selection of glass eyes and choose the ones she wanted.
The orphanage was an old colonial house in the town of Llanes. As a lot of J.A. Bayona's cinematic plans were impossible to achieve on location, several parts of the house had to be recreated on a soundstage. In fact, over 80% of the film was shot in a studio
It is the rare movie that has a tone so pitch perfect.
Belen Rueda plays a mother returning, along with her husband and young son, to live in the home where she grew up in as an orphan. A home that has a terrible secret surrounding the kids she knew at the orphanage.
Her child mysteriously vanishes after she loses patience with him, leading her first to a downward emotional spiral ("confronting" the spirits that populate the grounds) but eventually an uplifting, if bittersweet, denouement - in a moment of absolutely perfect reuinion.
I just love this movie.
Trivia:
When the writer told the little girl who plays the blind orphan that she had pretty eyes, she replied, "Oh, do you like them? I picked them out myself!" What he didn't know: She was diagnosed at a very young age with a degenerative eye disease that was going to leave her blind. One of the last things her parents did while she could still see was let her see a big selection of glass eyes and choose the ones she wanted.
The orphanage was an old colonial house in the town of Llanes. As a lot of J.A. Bayona's cinematic plans were impossible to achieve on location, several parts of the house had to be recreated on a soundstage. In fact, over 80% of the film was shot in a studio
B Maverick
Footballguy
I couldn't believe when I met the woman who is now my wife that she had not seen this movie. This was 12 years ago. So we watched it, she gave it a MEH....
But she has poor taste in movies overall.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
B Maverick
Footballguy
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
#36 - Downfall
It's too bad that the Hitler Reacts videos (funny as they are) diminish the seriousness of this epic work. Bruno Ganz is amazing as Adolf.
It shows what a religion Nazism was and how the military tried to follow orders to the end. Magda Goebbels was sure sold out to the cause.
I love all things WW II and this is one of the very best movies inspired by the subject.
Trivia:
Also helping Bruno Ganz in preparing for the role was the unique, only known recording of Adolf Hitler when he held a private conversation with Field Marshal Gustaf Mannerheim of Finland; at that time a World War II ally of Germany against the Soviet Union. Hitler unexpectedly showed up to congratulate Mannerheim on his 75th birthday on June 4, 1942. Finnish intelligence agents secretly made the recording in a train wagon; as Hitler did not allow recordings nor photographs to be taken in private. Some 11 minutes of the recording feature relaxed, normal-tone talk in which Hitler generally describe his views about the war. One of two copies of the tape was discovered in 1992 and has since been studied by scientists and historians.
Many of Adolf Hitler's lines are historically accurate, based on accounts from Albert Speer and Traudl Junge, most of them however are from earlier dates.
It's too bad that the Hitler Reacts videos (funny as they are) diminish the seriousness of this epic work. Bruno Ganz is amazing as Adolf.
It shows what a religion Nazism was and how the military tried to follow orders to the end. Magda Goebbels was sure sold out to the cause.
I love all things WW II and this is one of the very best movies inspired by the subject.
Trivia:
Also helping Bruno Ganz in preparing for the role was the unique, only known recording of Adolf Hitler when he held a private conversation with Field Marshal Gustaf Mannerheim of Finland; at that time a World War II ally of Germany against the Soviet Union. Hitler unexpectedly showed up to congratulate Mannerheim on his 75th birthday on June 4, 1942. Finnish intelligence agents secretly made the recording in a train wagon; as Hitler did not allow recordings nor photographs to be taken in private. Some 11 minutes of the recording feature relaxed, normal-tone talk in which Hitler generally describe his views about the war. One of two copies of the tape was discovered in 1992 and has since been studied by scientists and historians.
Many of Adolf Hitler's lines are historically accurate, based on accounts from Albert Speer and Traudl Junge, most of them however are from earlier dates.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I agree that The Princess Bride is one of those rare movies that is good for all ages and genders. However, I would be perfectly happy if I never saw it again in my life.
B Maverick
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KarmaPolice
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....and that's a big reason why.B Maverick said:
B Maverick
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