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Fast Times ARH/80s Movies/Etc
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:36 pm
by Rspaight
At least Luke doesn't have to wear a damn uniform, like a theater usher or something.
Ryan
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:37 pm
by lukpac
Yeah, "business casual" here really means "no (blue) jeans".
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:51 pm
by Patrick M
Actual picture of Ryan at work:
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:15 pm
by Rspaight
Hey, don't laugh -- he got Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Ryan
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:42 pm
by Patrick M
By "got," do you mean "boinked"?
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:36 pm
by Rspaight
No, I mean in the pure, spiritual, soulful, romantic sense. Didn't the movie say that they never "went all the way"?
(What an odd little movie. So anti-sex for an 80s teensploitation flick. I still love it, though -- they got a lot of the details right.)
Ryan
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:40 pm
by Patrick M
Rspaight wrote:No, I mean in the pure, spiritual, soulful, romantic sense. Didn't the movie say that they never "went all the way"?
That's what I was thinking.
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:43 pm
by lukpac
And I still have no idea what either of you are talking about.
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:27 pm
by Patrick M
Surprise.
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:16 am
by Dob
Rspaight wrote:What an odd little movie. So anti-sex for an 80s teensploitation flick. I still love it, though -- they got a lot of the details right.
IMO it's a classic. It made Sean Penn a star and has many memorable characters (like Mike Damone) and
lines.
"Forgot the magnetism of Robin Zander, or the charisma of Rick Nielsen?"
The screenplay is by Cameron Crowe, his first.
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:13 am
by Rob P
I didn't see it until a few years ago, but I can say for sure that it hasn't aged one iota. It's one of a select few teensploitation movies that is sympathetic to its characters. It's funny, clever and highly influential. Plus, it features Phoebe Cates.
Did the Disraeli Gears DE come out yesterday?
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:42 am
by Rspaight
The director/writer commentary on the DVD is well worth hearing -- lots of stuff about the compromises between the movie they wanted to make and the movie Universal wanted to make (including with the soundtrack -- they apparently had to fight tooth and nail to open with something as "edgy" as the Go-Gos). I definitely agree with Rob that it treats it characters differently than most movies of its ilk -- they've all got at least two, if not three dimensions. (Well, except Spicoli, but that's on purpose...)
Ryan
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:29 am
by Patrick M
Wasn't Spicoli something of a blueprint for the Bill & Ted type characters of the world? I don't remember anything like him before that in the movies, but I could be wrong.
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:21 am
by Rspaight
I'm sure you could find "stoned surfer dude" characters before Spicoli, but he was probably the first superstar of the genre.
Ryan
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:00 pm
by krabapple
Spicoli is sort of an update of the 'beatnik' characters from the 60's...maybe Maynard G. Krebs for the 80's.
Anyone rememebr Foster Brooks? He used to make a living impersonating an alcoholic on Carson and other
variety shows your parent used to watch.