The 80s Club

We’ve got Ingrid Diaz on tap for this week’s Best of the Worst movie(s). Do you know Ingrid? She blogs personally at A Puerto Rican in France, and professionally for b5media at Play Girlz, Top Model Gossip, Ladies’ Court, Grey’s Anatomy News, and Offbeat Homes. Dang, girl! ;) Did I mention she also happens to be the channel editor for the Video Games and Personal Development b5 channels? Whew.

Ingrid cracks me up. Seriously, I don’t know that anyone else I’ve read on-line has actually made me laugh out loud more times than Ingrid. And, really, I’m laughing with her, I promise. :D

Here are Ingrid’s picks:

How about Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. I love that movie. Or Labyrinth. I love David Bowie in that movie. I spent my childhood with tights tucked into red santa boot-like stalkings (free from Burger King!) because I thought he dressed so cool in that movie.

OMG I am sharing too much.

Too much.

/me hides

Okay, I think it is all too appropriate that Ingrid wrote “red santa boot-like stalkings” instead of “stockings” because, well, she’s not only funny but quite scary as well. :D

Thanks, Ingrid, for participating!

We’re down to our last few weeks of the Best of the Worst of the 80’s movies. This week’s pick is from Kelley Saunders of Thrifty Mommy.

Mommie Dearest is one of those that I do remember seeing at what was probably a pretty young age. I remember the boy being strapped in his bed, the crazy eyes of Mommie Dearest, and the classic “NO WIRE HANGERS” line.

Here are Kelley’s thoughts on that infamous flick:

I still can’t use wire coat hangers. We watched Mommie Dearest a few times and was tramatized ever since. My mom let us stay with the sweet school secretary that lived across the street, Mrs. Helweg. She was wonderful. But for some reason, she let us try to watch Mommie Dearest. My sister and I would start it when we got to her house after school and would get to the same spot every time before our mom would pick us up. I was scarred for life.

Thanks for participating, Kelley!

What about you? Any wire hanger issues that you’re still holding onto? Any fears of being strapped in the bed? Hmm….maybe that’s why I have to keep a foot out of the covers at night. I need to have an escape! :D

Happy Monday! Time again for the Best of the Worst of the 80’s movies.

Duncan Riley, who writes at duncanriley.com, offered up three beauts for submission into this category. He says:

Worst..I’m going straight for the sequels:
Caddyshack 2
Lethal Weapon 2

and a non sequel
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Totally…Excellent…not!

Bald Man is always preaching to me on the hilarity of Caddyshack, but I can’t honestly say that I’ve ever even heard him mention the sequel. I’m guessing now that it’s not just an oversight.

I loved Bill and Ted, but it is another one of those movies that I can’t honestly remember seeing anytime in the last decade or more. Time borrow to that one from the library and see how much my tastes have changed! I can honestly say that Keanu Reeves is still a cutie, though. :)

Thank, Duncan, for participating! :)

btw-Have you voted in the Harrison Ford poll in the right sidebar? ;)

Welcome back to the Best of the Worst of the 80’s. Looks like we’ve got Rick Moranis up again! What it is about him and best of the worst? Do you think he’ll have a movie in when we do a plain old “best of the 80’s” survey?

Anyway, this pick comes from William Lehman who writes for b5media over at Artist Hideout. About Spaceballs , William says, “hmmm I’d classify it under best of the worst or worst of the best, you decide…”

Being that it was a spoof of a sci-fi flick, one of my least favorite genres anyway, I’d stick it in a best of the worst. I do remember it being kind of funny, though.

What do you think? Did you enjoy this one?

Thanks, William, for participating!

I LOVE Back to the Future. LOVE it! And so I’m so sad to see it being pimped now for a Direct TV commercial. Christopher Lloyd even reprised his Doc Brown role for the commercial. So sad to me. Now I’ll just have to stick to enjoying his character as The Hacker while my kids are watching Cyberchase.

Here’s the video. What do you think? Do you feel so nostalgic towards BTTF that the very suggestion of it being linked to Direct TV would sway you toward their company? Are you that easy? ;)

Not only did John Hughes quite ably portray the fears, desires, hopes and challenges of the 80’s teenager, he also did a phenomenal job of presenting the worst in the villians of his films. Steve Spears has a great list of Hughes’ villians and all of their awful attributes. Head on over there and join the conversation in the comments section, and let me know who you chose as your best of the worst villians!

As for me? Most definitely Hardy Jenns (played by Craig Sheffer) from Some Kind of Wonderful. He had a way of telling you that you were nothing, and making you believe it was true. Fortunately, Duncan had his own unique way of putting Hardy in his place. :)

via: PopCandy

ht: Arieanna

“The Lost Boys 2?,” you ask. “Yes,” I answer. “Seriously?,” you ask? “Yes,” I answer. “How do you know?” you ask. “Because I read it on the internet, so it must be true.” I answer. “But WHY?” you ask?

And there you have me stumped.

But, it does appear that there is a sequel being made to that crazy 80’s movie filled with the acting talents of Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland (he has a reeaaally long legal name, go check it out), Jami Gertz (really? didn’t remember that myself), Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, and Edward Herrmann.

What in the world were Dianne Wiest and Edward Herrmann doing in that movie? Maybe it wasn’t as bad as I remembered it? May have to put that on my “rewatch” list.

What 80’s movies do you think could be a good inspiration for a sequel now?

“While visions of BeeGees danced in my head…”

We now come to Sheila’s picks! Do you know Sheila? No? Oh, well, you should. She is hilarious, and is a stop on my blog trolling whenever she has a fresh post out! She blogs for b5media at Medium Dreams and personally at GetSheila. Check her out!

Sheila’s picks start with Staying Alive, the sequel to Saturday Night Fever. Of Staying Alive, Sheila says, “I so wanted to be a dancer.” But she says nothing about the handsome lead, John Travolta. Hmmm…maybe he’s not her type.

We actually learn more about her tastes when she comments on her other pick, Strange Brew. Says Sheila:

Yeah, no room in your heart for Travolta if Moranis is already there. ;)

Thanks, Sheila, for participating!

So, I’m not sure if this is really a “Best of the Worst” like the past posts in this category, or just the worst. I’m thinking the latter.

Here are Lorraine’s picks for the worst of the 80’s movies, and I’d have to agree with these! Lorraine writes at Pender Island Musings.

• Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Howard The Duck, and sorry for you Trekkie fans but #3 was horrible.

Howard the Duck came up when I was watching the extras on the Some Kind of Wonderful (Special Collector’s Edition)DVD. Leah Thompson talks about how she was approached for the film (maybe for the second time? I think she turned it down the first time.) right as Howard the Duck was being released and was totally flopping. That would be nervewracking to agree to help anchor a movie when the last one was so bad. Yikes!

Thanks, Lorraine, for participating.

So, I was talking to my friend Jackie the other day. She made a snarky comment on one of my posts (soooo unlike her, yeah right), and I said, “Why I oughta…” Partly, I’m sure, because Jonic had said it to me the day before, and it was apparently still stuck in my head. Anyway, (I did have a point here, right?), it immediately made Jackie think of Peggy Sue Got Married. I told her I always thought of The Honeymooners, thinking it was one of Ralph Kramden’s (Jackie Gleason) famous lines. Research has proven me wrong again, though, darn it. Of course, as you probably already know, it was a famous line of Moe (of The Three Stooges). So, I’ve set the record straight, now.

Anyway, Peggy Sue is a fun, goofy movie that I have a blast watching, though I am a sucker for those high school dramas (even if they are in a “back in time” fashion). Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Helen Hunt, Jim Carrey and many others join to create a fun and dramatic cast for the “blast to the past,” movie.

I’ve heard, too, that Cage showed up for the role with the (initially poorly received) odd voice, without the knowledge of the rest of the cast (I don’t remember if it mentioned whether or not the director, his uncle Francis Ford Coppola, knew beforehand).

One of my favorite bits from the movie is when Peggy Sue laughs at her dad when he buys an Edsel. Another is when she warns her little sister (played by Sophia Coppola) not to eat the red m&ms because they would make her sick. At the time the movie was released (1986), there were no red m&ms, and it was weird to think of them in the mix with our greens, tans, yellows, etc. I wonder if kids seeing the movie now are confused with that line and worry about the current red m&ms! I do miss those tan ones, though.