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"Your mother is playing the back 9 at Bellaire."
"I was speaking in the future tense."

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What's Your Favorite 80's Movie?

Tell us your favorite 80's movie and what you liked about it. Share some information about where you lived or other memory about what was happening in your life at the time of the film.

Take Me Home Tonight

Take Me Home Tonight is a 2011 release. Though not a movie made in the 80’s, it is nevertheless is an outstanding 80’s movie. It’s got the setting, background, music, and vernacular that made the 80’s totally tubular. Take Me Home Tonight stars Topher Grace (That 70’s Show, Spider Man 3, Predators) as Matt Fanklin, Ana Faris (House Bunny, Yogi Bear) as Wendy Franklin, Dan Fogler (Kung Fu Panda, Good Luck Chuck) as Barry Nathan, and Teresa Palmer (I am Number Four, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) as Tori Frederking.

Matt just graduated from MIT, but has not idea of what to do with his life. As such he fills his time working at the mall chain Sun Coast video store, much to the chagrin of his father and friends. One day Tori, his secret crush walks in, turning his life upside down.

He’s got one chance to make an impression and change his destiny. He and his buddy Barry intercept her and follow her from party to party totally convincing her he is a high level banker.

Take Me Home Tonight has the formula for a great 80’s movie. Swimming pools, parties, drug use, exotic cars, beautiful women, young adult angst and a soundtrack of the most righteous songs from the decade. But wait, one last ingredient; the speech of all speeches Matt gives similar to those found at the end of great 80’s hits like Revenge of the Nerds.

Among the many in the awesome soundtrack, great songs include:

Video Killed The Radio Star-The Buggles

Hungry Like The Wolf-Duran Duran

Situation-Yaz

Der Kommisar-After the Fire

There’s even the one hit wonder Opus with Live is Life, a top hit in Europe.

I give Take Me Home Tonight 3.5 alligators for script, clothes and teen angst. The only reason it didn’t get four stars because it wasn’t filmed in the 80’s.

Take Me Home Tonight is rated R

Teen Wolf

Teen Wolf stars Michael J. Fox Family Ties, Back to the Future) as highschool spaz Scott Howard. Scott plays on the losing basketball team, is in love with super popular Pamela Wells (Lorie Griffin of Cheerleader Camp), and hangs out with ultra cool Rupert ‘Stiles’ Stilinski (Jerry Levine of Iron Eagle). Scott is slow to learn that his best friend Lisa ‘Boof’ Marconi (Susan Ursitti of Defense Play) has a crush on him.

Scott wants Pamela, the most popular girl in school. However, he has a problem; she doesn’t notice him. She has a totally jock boyfriend and knows that she is the bomb. What Scott needs is a way to stand out. How convenient that he is an heir to the family curse; turning into werewolves. Armed with a life changing transition, he finds himself big man on campus. He gets the girl, the basketball championship, and tons of respect.

Soon Scott learns that success, the girl and life as a top dog isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.  

Great lines include:

“I was hoping it (the werewolf curse) would pass you by”

“Well dad it didn’t pass me by. It landed on my face”

“Listen son. You're going to be able to do a lot of things the other guys aren't.”
“Oh yeah, like chase cars, and bite the mailman?”

Awesome sunglasses, 80’s jackets, vests and parachute pants bring Teen Wolf back to the best of times.

I give Teen Wolf 3.5 alligators for script, clothes and teen angst. The bogus soundtrack is a drawback.

Teen Wolf is rated PG

Blind Date

Blind Date stars Bruce Willis (Moonlighting Die Hard), Kim Bassinger (Never Say Never, 91/2 Weeks, No Mercy) and John Larroquette (Stripes, Cat People, Summer Rental), and a real cherry White Nissan 300ZX.

Willis is Walter Davis, an overstressed business man who works hard and plays little. His brother Ted (Phil Hartman) fixes him up with a beautiful but dangerous date Nadia Gates (Bassinger). It seems like love at first sight until alcohol is added to the ingredient.

Walter’s translation of the message of “if you get her drunk, she loses control” is wrong. Thinking it will improve the date, he gives her a glass of bubbly and bam, instant Dr. Jckle and Ms. Hyde. Nadia transforms into a divorce starting, party crashing, job ending bogusly CRAZY date.

As if that isn’t bad enough, Walter has to deal with love sick Nadia stalker David Bedford (Larroquette). Not able to take “good-bye” for an answer, David dogs Nadia all across the Los Angeles setting. Pushed to the limit, the mild mannered Walter explodes into righteous rage and loses his job, car, dignity and faces a lengthy sentence behind bars.

Blind Date is a very funny comedy. Great lines include, “Dance scumbag, now moonwalk. I hate that…(dance)...” and “ I only wish this was the army. So that I could have you shot... Twice!”

Blind Date has some great 80’s nostalgia including “Heeeere’s Johnny” as the TV plays in the background and a delivery truck featuring Emery Worldwide.