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davimye

PARTY, PARTY, PARTY LIKE IT'S 2007 OR 1980

Dec 13, 2006 05:14

It's that time again for the second MOVIE MARATHON NEW YEARS DAY 2! Open House New Years Day! Come over and start the New Years right! Special movie viewing on New Years Day so those who want can come over at 12 for movies and every one else can come for food and drink at any time. If you have a favorite movie bring it to be voted on by the group ( Read more... )

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drl909 December 13 2006, 10:02:48 UTC

My one issue here... and I'm trying not to be curmudgeonly here, but I for one am planning on attending an 80s themed party the night before (and I assume many of the people who will be at your place on New Year's Day will also be) and... two consecutive days of 80s themed stuff might just be an overdose. (And if you don't think it's possible... then you never really lived through the 80s.)

I'll freely admit it... I always considered the middle 80s a cultural wasteland, even at the time. Post-punk was interesting... and there was some really good stuff at the end of the decade as "alternative culture" shotgunned to the mainstream... but I found it hard to appreciate John Hughes, Culture Club and MacGyver at the time. (And MacGyver, I want to point out, was produced by the guy who created the Daleks for Doctor Who.) It's only now that I'm able to appreciate some of the cultural things... but in 1985 I was watching films from the 40s and 50s, TV shows from the 70s and music from the 60s. And much of the stuff I did like at the ( ... )

davimye December 13 2006, 13:28:28 UTC

There are a few rules to keep the majority happy.1 80's is just a sugesstion. 2 it a majority vote for a movie to be view. 3 there is two diffrent rooms for viewing, so if you don't like what is pick you can over start your own soveren nation and watch a diffrent movie in the other room. 4 You can play a game insteand of watching something. 5 I don't want to see Pretty in Pink eirther, I just like saying who look pretty in pink. So as of now there are two votes not to run that movie. :)

fuzzyscribble December 13 2006, 15:32:07 UTC

And I've seen The Breakfast Club way too many times too.

Speaking as someone who started high school in 1985...ah...well...I dunno...I don't think Sixteen Candles or St. Elmo's Fire count as great cinema...you know?

Maybe I can get my hands on a copy of American Hardcore...and drl909 and I can start a mosh pit. (I have the soundtrack...mmmm...bring on the noise!)

davimye December 13 2006, 16:05:25 UTC

Well you can bring your six string and we can have a sing along. Every one sing along with fuzzy! How many songs from the 80's or pop music can you play? Can you do the Ghostbuster song?
If the movies are mob rule we may have a Doctor Who movie day. :)

drl909 December 13 2006, 16:44:23 UTC

Well... to be pedantic... there are really only three Doctor Who movies. Two of them are reportedly not very good and don't take place within the established continuity. (i.e. they star Peter Cushing as an eccentric human scientist named Dr. Who, not as an eccentric alien monkeywrencher known only as the Doctor) I've never seen them.

The third... is part of the continuity... but is also widely seen as not very good (although, hey, I like it... it's got problems... but it works very well within the spirit of the original show)... and at any rate is not available on region 1 DVD. (I have it on a region 2 DVD.) Eric Roberts is the villain... and even though it was made in 1996 you really can't get much more 80s than that.

I think the next Doctor Who night is gonna be in February, after the second season of the new show is released. I have talked vaguely about it with blondibritecake, and asked Brian for his opinions on what to run, but no definite date yet. I'm overloading on it... what with the Torchwood spinoff... another spinoff on the ( ... )

80s shmeighties... it's all good . . . donutato_kun December 13 2006, 20:41:49 UTC

I like some 80s. Others, not so much ( ... )

Re: 80s shmeighties... it's all good . . . drl909 December 13 2006, 23:44:07 UTC

I think the stuff Hughes did with Candy works because Candy made it work... Candy simply was just that good. As good as Steve Martin is, I don't know if Planes would have worked with any other character in the Candy role. Ditto Uncle Buck... and ditto The Great Outdoors.

Same with Chevy Chase and the Vacation movies. (As a demonstration... even though Hughes wasn't writing them by that point... look what happened to that franchise after you take Chevy Chase out of them.)

The teen comedies... let's be honest here... some of the lead actors may be good actors now, but a lot of them weren't at the time. If a movie hinges on Molly Ringwald's character being sympathetic, it's not going to work, because Ringwald wasn't naturally sympathetic and she wasn't good enough an actress to pull it off. For that matter, even as an adult, she was one of the weaker links in the miniseries based on The Stand, because Frances (her character) is supposed to be an audience-identification character.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off... largely the same ( ... )

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