It's pretty sad.
Don't you watch Road House, too? Or is that just ita?
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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DavidS - Jul 25, 2005 1:26:00 pm PDT #6056 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
P.M. Marc - Jul 25, 2005 1:30:22 pm PDT #6057 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Don't you watch Road House, too? Or is that just ita?
Hey! I have good and happy Road House memories. It was the last thing the gang all watched together before we left for college.
Well, one of them. Double Impact might have been the last. But still! Same night!
Sean K - Jul 25, 2005 2:00:35 pm PDT #6058 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Speaking of, I'll have to start looking for the DVD of The Hidden. Lovelovelove that movie--so 1980s over-the-top, but with a quirky sense of humor and "WTF?"-ness.
Plus Kyle McLaughlin.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 25, 2005 2:10:46 pm PDT #6059 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Plus Claudia Christian as an alien-possessed machine gun-toting stripper.
Kalshane - Jul 25, 2005 2:19:38 pm PDT #6060 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Was 8 in 1984.
However, I have not seen Footloose, Flash Dance, Dirty Dancing, Point Break or Say Anything.
I have, unfortunately, seen Roadhouse.
t awaits being burned as a heritic
erikaj - Jul 25, 2005 2:23:29 pm PDT #6061 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Wow... did you grow up without a television?
Kalshane - Jul 25, 2005 2:28:08 pm PDT #6062 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Had a TV, just spent most of the TV-watching time watching cartoons or PBS. (I loved 3-2-1 Contact, Mr. Rogers and Nova as a kid.)
Kathy A - Jul 25, 2005 2:31:22 pm PDT #6063 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
National Geographic specials rocked. Loved the polar bears one, where the cameraman is inside the cage and the polar bears start rocking it--scary stuff!
Vonnie K - Jul 25, 2005 2:32:53 pm PDT #6064 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Well, I think Footloose and Dirty Dancing are huge fun but skippable, but Say Anything? OH MY GOD.
I was talking elsewhere a few days ago about how Lloyd Dobler ruined me for all other men, and someone in response linked to the first few pages of the book called "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs", which is the beginning of an essay on Say Anything. Excerpt:
It appears that countless women born between 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number one box office star in America, because very straight girl I know would sell her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker. For upwardly mobile women in their twenties and thirties, John Cusack is the neo-Elvis. But here's what none of these upwardly mobile women don't realize: They don't love John Cusack. They love Lloyd Dobler. When they see Mr. Cusack, they are still seeing the optimistic, charmingly loquacious teenager he played in Say Anything, a movie that came out more than a decade ago. That's the guy they think he is; when Cusack played Eddie Thomas in America's Sweetheart or the sensitive hitman in Grosse Pointe Blank, all his female fans knew he was only acting... but they assume that when the camera stopped rolling, he went back to his genuine self... which was someone like Lloyd Dobler... which was, in fact, someone who is Lloyd Dobler, and someone who continues to have a storybook romance with Diane Court (or with Ione Skye, depending on how you look at it.)
It's exaggerated, but not without a grain of truth, I think. Plus, you need to watch it to understand the context when someone throws a hissyfit on the board and everyone urges him/her to Doblerize.
DavidS - Jul 25, 2005 2:36:39 pm PDT #6065 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have often stated that Lloyd Dobler is one of the very few positive images of masculinity after feminism that appeals to both men and women.