The Classics- I'm looking into why...

I rent movies that came out last week, last year, a decade ago and even in some cases five or six decades ago. Some of them I find totally sweet- others… not so much.

I recently got my hands on a copy of 1984’s Footloose…. I am quite annoyed that they would find this movie good enough to do a remake…. Then again- maybe they think it sucks so bad that they should remake it for that purpose. It had it’s moments (few and far between) that made me smile. But that’s all I’ll give it.

The Last Days of Pompeii. When you read that title you think volcanoes, chaos, ash and smoke- all around peril. That is not what you get. Sure it came out in 1935 so you won’t get the wonderful graphics as said in movies like… I dunno… Dante’s Peak? Anyways- literally the last four- maybe five minutes is the actual volcano eruption and it’s… lame… lame… lame…

I borrowed 1998’s Can’t Hardly Wait with Ethan Embry and Jennifer Love Hewitt… I remember Melani loved it and I didn’t want to see it because… well the cover didn’t exactly make me feel comfortable… and she recently asked me if I had seen it. (Peter Facinelli- Carlisle- Mike Dexter- ya know..) Anyways… Every once in a while I will come across a movie about a teenage party and think it’s awesome and sometimes I won’t… This one sit right in the middle. I didn’t “Oh I love this movie I need a copy,” but should I ever find it on DVD for seven bucks and I happen to have seven bucks- I just might buy it.

(Though when it comes to teenage party movies and Peter Facinelli- I’d rather watch Riding in Cars With Boys. Sure that is not completely focused on a teenage party but the very basis of the movie starts there.:)

 

And last- but not least on my recent movie rentals- 1980’s My Bodyguard. Holy heckler. I wish I owned that movie.

A kid named, Clifford Peache, hires another kid, named Ricky Linderman, who’s a foot or more taller than him, to be his bodyguard- from a small group of bully’s that are trying to force him to pay them protection money against the very person who becomes his bodyguard. It makes me happy.

Ricky Linderman (the bodyguard) is played by Adam Baldwin when he was just a kid. You know… Adam Baldwin… No? Well if you don’t know- he’s not one of the Baldwin brothers- thank goodness. He’s the guy who always plays a nice, calm, un-violent and happy guy in everything… No? Well, in case you really don’t know who he is, He plays John Casey on the NBC series Chuck, Jayne in the canceled FOX series Firefly, The abusive step-dad in Radio Flyer- though you never actually see his face. Captain Wilkins- the Royalist traitor in the Patriot… Major Mitchell in Independence Day- you know, the guy who shot the can off the Ship... If you don’t know who he is still… You should watch more movies. But I am a huge fan of him.

 

Anyways- I think- I’m not positive- But I think that they got the general story for Drillbit Taylor from this movie. In Fact in the scene of Drillbit when the kids are interviewing guys to be their bodyguard, Adam Baldwin is one of them- wearing a similar- if not the same jacket that he wears as Linderman. The only thing he says is something like, “Kids hiring a bodyguard to take care of a bully? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” Hee hee… Good times… good times…

And Joan Cusack is in it… and Martin Mull… And…. Hmm… Matt Dillon is, but I’ve never actually seen anything else with him in it…. I need something else to put on my queue for blockbuster…