1980s wallow, Day 1
Thank you all for the awesome 1980s recs.
I shall start my 1980s nostalgic wallow (it really is the decade of my childhood - either in the Soviet Union, with Soviet movies and imported foreign ones, or when we moved to the USA in 1991 and watched 1980s movies on TV and that is, in part, how I learned English).
My first two start movies are Coming to America and An Officer and a Gentleman.
Made in 1988, Coming to America is (and yes, I have no shame in admitting this) one of my all-time favorite movies. It's probably the only Eddie Murphy movie I truly love. It was shown dubbed in the USSR and I remember my Dad telling me the plot during one of our many walks (he often would tell plots of books or movies to me as stories, instead of fairytales I was too old for). However, I first saw CtA while living in Queens NY in 1991 once we immigrated. I didn't yet understand that much English but it was ridiculously funny anyway, and hey, it was set where we lived! It was a nice mixture of fairytale and our present dinginess.
The plot is pretty simple: Crown Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) of a fictitious African Kingdom of Zamunda must marry. Akeem concocts a plan to travel to America to find a wife he can both love and respect and who accepts him for his personality, not his status. He and his servant & friend Semi (Arsenio Hall) arrive in Queens County, New York because according to Akheem "What better place to find a Queen than the city of Queens?" After several scrapes, find an apartment in the neighborhood of Jackson Heights amd Akeem and Semi decide to try hard work at the local fast food shop "McDowells" where Akeem falls for the owner's sharp and awesome daughter Lisa.
I love this movie. It's hilarious and clever and romantic and is set where I used to live. How can you not love it? I've rewatched it through the years and continue to adore it.
My second choice, An Officer and a Gentleman is not a movie I have ever seen but I want to check it out because I like younger Richard Gere with a ridiculous amount of hormonal adoration, it seems quintessentially eighties and...oh, who am I kidding! It's because I've seen and swooned for the famous final scene.
In order to deep into eighties trashier side, coming up, Mannequin and *gasp* Cocktail. And maybe Endless Love which sounds too ridiculous to miss.
I shall start my 1980s nostalgic wallow (it really is the decade of my childhood - either in the Soviet Union, with Soviet movies and imported foreign ones, or when we moved to the USA in 1991 and watched 1980s movies on TV and that is, in part, how I learned English).
My first two start movies are Coming to America and An Officer and a Gentleman.
Made in 1988, Coming to America is (and yes, I have no shame in admitting this) one of my all-time favorite movies. It's probably the only Eddie Murphy movie I truly love. It was shown dubbed in the USSR and I remember my Dad telling me the plot during one of our many walks (he often would tell plots of books or movies to me as stories, instead of fairytales I was too old for). However, I first saw CtA while living in Queens NY in 1991 once we immigrated. I didn't yet understand that much English but it was ridiculously funny anyway, and hey, it was set where we lived! It was a nice mixture of fairytale and our present dinginess.
The plot is pretty simple: Crown Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) of a fictitious African Kingdom of Zamunda must marry. Akeem concocts a plan to travel to America to find a wife he can both love and respect and who accepts him for his personality, not his status. He and his servant & friend Semi (Arsenio Hall) arrive in Queens County, New York because according to Akheem "What better place to find a Queen than the city of Queens?" After several scrapes, find an apartment in the neighborhood of Jackson Heights amd Akeem and Semi decide to try hard work at the local fast food shop "McDowells" where Akeem falls for the owner's sharp and awesome daughter Lisa.
I love this movie. It's hilarious and clever and romantic and is set where I used to live. How can you not love it? I've rewatched it through the years and continue to adore it.
My second choice, An Officer and a Gentleman is not a movie I have ever seen but I want to check it out because I like younger Richard Gere with a ridiculous amount of hormonal adoration, it seems quintessentially eighties and...oh, who am I kidding! It's because I've seen and swooned for the famous final scene.
In order to deep into eighties trashier side, coming up, Mannequin and *gasp* Cocktail. And maybe Endless Love which sounds too ridiculous to miss.