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[FarFromHome]

I watched both in the theaters as a teenager and didn't really like either tbh. or Breakfast club. But I loved 16 Candles.

I rewatched The Breakfast Club a few months ago and still loved it. Obviously more of a dialogue piece, but just solid conversation. My dope is in Johnson's pants. Ha ha

 

[Dan Lambskin]

I watched both in the theaters as a teenager and didn't really like either tbh. or Breakfast club. But I loved 16 Candles.

I rewatched The Breakfast Club a few months ago and still loved it. Obviously more of a dialogue piece, but just solid conversation. My dope is in Johnson's pants. Ha ha

“Did you slip her the hot beef injection”

 

[KarmaPolice]

"Could you describe the ruckus, sir?"

 

[KarmaPolice]

Decided on a sweet double feature from '88 that fits my monthly "family" theme: Twins and Dead Ringers.

 

[belljr]

I celebrate the entire hughes collection and those other films mentioned minus pretty in pink

 

[Ilov80s]

I’m anxious about rewatching some of the movies I loved as a kid from that era. When I watched The Great Outdoors a few years ago, I was pretty disappointed. I used to absolutely love Summer Rental. Have you seen that one?

I watched a brat pack doc that took me down the 80s rabbit hole. I rewatched Pretty in Pink with my 19 year old daughter. It was quite bad. Better Off Dead with John Cusack was a damn classic. I rewatched last month and couldn't get halfway through it. Smh. No way the Great Outdoors could be bad if I rewatched it? Right? Ha ha

I also rewatched Pretty in Pink the other weekend because so randomly my MIL who is dealing with dementia insisted on watching it (she fell asleep about 5 mins in) and I agree, it stunk. I remember thinking that was a pretty good movie. It wasn’t. For as problematic as it is for today’s standards, Sweet Sixteen somehow held up better.

I think Duckie is one of the worst 80s movie characters. Some Kind of Wonderful is the better version of the same movie.

He is at least unique and interesting- though very annoying. Andrew McCarthy and James Spader in Pretty in Pink are so bad in such a generic way too.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Decided on a sweet double feature from '88 that fits my monthly "family" theme: Twins and Dead Ringers.

I mean, I get it

 

[Ilov80s]

Decided on a sweet double feature from '88 that fits my monthly "family" theme: Twins and Dead Ringers.

Twins was all the rage in 1988. Check out Big Business, it has 2 pairs of twins!

 

[KarmaPolice]

Decided on a sweet double feature from '88 that fits my monthly "family" theme: Twins and Dead Ringers.

Twins was all the rage in 1988. Check out Big Business, it has 2 pairs of twins!

You are on. I've never seen it.

 

[Ilov80s]

Decided on a sweet double feature from '88 that fits my monthly "family" theme: Twins and Dead Ringers.

Twins was all the rage in 1988. Check out Big Business, it has 2 pairs of twins!

You are on. I've never seen it.

No promises it is good. My mom liked it and so I saw it a few times as a kid. From the director of Airplane so you know it’s going to be over the top.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

Decided on a sweet double feature from '88 that fits my monthly "family" theme: Twins and Dead Ringers.

Twins was all the rage in 1988. Check out Big Business, it has 2 pairs of twins!

double impact imo

 

[El Floppo]

Decided on a sweet double feature from '88 that fits my monthly "family" theme: Twins and Dead Ringers.

Twins was all the rage in 1988. Check out Big Business, it has 2 pairs of twins!

double impact imo

Drowning by Numbers imo

 

[beer 30]

Old Henry (Kanopy): 2021 western, IMDB 7.3. Tim Blake Nelson and his son find a man injured by a gunshot with a bag of cash. Pa seems pretty good with a gun.

This was 98 minutes, basically one simple story. I liked it - it’s a sort of story we’ve seen before, but it was well done here.

I've watched this a couple of times, thought it was a pretty solid western with a cool twist. Definitely worth a watch IMO.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Decided on a sweet double feature from '88 that fits my monthly "family" theme: Twins and Dead Ringers.

Twins was all the rage in 1988. Check out Big Business, it has 2 pairs of twins!

You are on. I've never seen it.

No promises it is good. My mom liked it and so I saw it a few times as a kid. From the director of Airplane so you know it’s going to be over the top.

...and I'm out.

 

[Ilov80s]

Noirvember Double Feature #10
United Artists

99 River Street feels like a punch thrown in a dive bar at 2 AM- sharp, sudden, a little sloppy. United Artists didn't have a stable of stars, a studio lot, etc. Instead they distributed independent productions. This story of a former boxer turned taxi driver is an Edward Small Production. He specialized in small budget noirs (Raw Deal, Kansas City Confidential), cranking out over 70 movies for UA, most shot in less than 2 weeks with the goal of being sold to TV. 99 River Street is one of his best. The freedom UA allowed producers led to gritty, morally gray, working class movies like this. I give this a big recommendation. It throws so many noir tropes into one movie but it's pure entertainment. I don't even need to describe the plot, it's about exactlty what you think it's about.

UA could handle movies that the big studios wouldn't touch. The Big Knife is a seering inside look at the darkness behind the bright lights of Hollywood. Jack Palance plays a Hollywood star who wants to retire but the studio boss is willing to blackmail him (and then some) to force him to sign a new deal. While 99 River Street is filmed on the streets of NYC and sprawls all over the city, this Robert Aldrich (directed and produced) movie takes place almost entirely inside Palance's LA mansion. Clifford Odets was the Mamet of his time. Sometimes that's a compliment and sometimes not. This can get a bit too over the top and be a bit stagey. But a stage production with Palance, Rod Steiger, Ida Lupino, Shelley Winters, Wendall Corey chewing on some very written dialogue is quite interesting.

Noirvember Double Feature #11
RKO

RKO is a halfway point between an independent distributor like UA and a major studio like MGM. They did have a small stable of stars, they did have room for the occassional big budget but they also focused on smaller, leaner productions. RKO went for atmosphere, shadows, psychological tension, and narrative experimentation. The Locket is one of the most experimental narratives of the 40s. A Russian nesting doll of flashbacks. Each flashack altering your opinion of the flashback prior. All examining the key question of who exactly is crazy here? Also notable for being Robert Mitchum's final film as a supporting player. It has a Memento like quality to it but with lots of melodrama. It certainly kept my interest even if the puzzle didn't all come together perfectly.

Ida Lupino was given a small deal with RKO to produce a few movies. This was RKO acting like UA style distributor. It led to the first mainstream movie directed by a woman: The Hitchhiker. This is a low budget attempt at true crime realism. Based on the true story of Billy Cook, a hitchiker with an urge to kill and an eye that never closed. Two men on a fishing trip pick up the wrong guy and their vacation becomes a nightmare. Gritty, solid.

Noirvember Double Feature #12
MGM

MGM was not a noir-first studio. It was the home of prestige, gloss, musicals, Irving Thalberg’s legacy, and carefully protected stars. When they do make a noir, it's got stars and is slicker than anything RKO or UA did. It also usually touched on bigger societal issues- like post war trauma in Act of Violence. This is a borderline essential noir IMO. Robert Ryan is the 1940s version of The Terminator, a war vet with a limp who has one persons name and nothing will stop him from killing that man. Van Helfin is the guy he's looking for, a successful war vet who's service record might not be what it seems. Janet Leigh is his young innocent wife who gets caught in the middle. Mary Astor, the hardened pro who is looking for any angle to get an edge. Oh and it's directed by the future Oscar darling Fred Zinneman. Check this one out.

The Tall Target with **** Powell is a unique noir. It's a highly fictionalized version of The Baltimore Plot to assassinate Abe Lincoln when he was traveling via train to his innaugeration. It starts with no sound except the coughs of a train as a Star Wars scroll brings up the credits and story introduction. Very cool start. It's directed by Anthony Mann right in the period where he was transitioning from noirs to westerns and that is basically what this movie is. Powell comes off as a Phillip Marlowe-transported to the 19th century (a reverse Altman Long Goodbye). For MGM, this was an uncommon lower budget movie and there are some scenes whre it shows- particularly the big action scenes at the end. Still, it's nice to see Hollywood take a side that wasn't Pro-Confederacy and a nice reminder that for as divided as we are now, it's nothing compared to how were. Big bonus for being a movie totally set on a train, we love that.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Any of you seen Death on the Nile? Worth watching?

 

[El Floppo]

Any of you seen Death on the Nile? Worth watching?

No

 

[Capella]

Saw the new Wicked. I don’t really know what to think about it. It was a LOT. People in the theater went from cheering to sobbing to yelling “THAT’S MY GIRL” over the 2.5 hours. Ariana Grande looks like she’s going to die. Strange experience.

 

[jamny]

Any of you seen Death on the Nile? Worth watching?

No

No you didn't see it?

 

[El Floppo]

Any of you seen Death on the Nile? Worth watching?

No

No you didn't see it?

Not worth watching.