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Tag: 1985

  • Rocky IV

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    Wow, this was such a disappointment. I wasn’t expecting something great, but so far I’ve been having a lot of fun even with the cheesiness of these 80s movies, but this, this is just kinda terrible. From the ridiculously long “memory lane” montage to the training montage, to the… huh… what was up with that robot?…

  • Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

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    Also known as Friday the 13th Part V, man was this funny – and I think I did the right thing in watching it after midnight. I mean, it’s hard to take it seriously as a horror movie, because it’s so tame in every sense of the genre, including the violence, gore, and level of…

  • Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

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    I gotta say, this was pretty funny, and I was expecting it to be pretty horrible. I haven’t watched any of the Police Academy films since those days, but I do remember that they were pretty fun, at least for a while (it did get ridiculous the longer the series went). All the classic characters…

  • National Lampoon’s European Vacation

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    This will never be as good as the first Vacation movie (”don’t know why they call it ‘Hamburger Helper,’ does just fine by itself”), and it always bugged me that they changed the kids – and I didn’t like the replacements – but I had fun watching this. It’s ridiculous, filled with hits and misses…

  • The Jewel of the Nile

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    My 1985 movie watching marathon continued with The Jewel of the Nile. Yup, Romancing the Stone (released in 1984) was definitely the better film, but sticking to my guns, I watched this inferior sequel. It’s got its moments, but overall it wasn’t that fun to watch, and the story is even less interesting than I…

  • The Breakfast Club

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    Although it came out in 1985 and so fits in my current movie watching marathon, I usually watch it on an annual basis anyway, as it’s still one of my favorite movies. I never tire of it.

  • Back to the Future

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    Still in 1985, the second movie I watched in 2017 was Back to the Future, which was the top grossing movie of that year (The Goonies was in at #9). I’ve watched this movie countless times, and it continues to be a joy to watch. The sequels never got it as good (although I quite…

  • The Goonies

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    So how did I kickstart my 2017 movie viewing slate? With a movie from 1985, and one that I was a bit worried on whether I would still like it or not (I think I re-watched it a few years ago, to mixed feelings). This time, I was watching it with my wife (her first…