Forgotten Films: Do You Remember?

[spaceytraci1208]

Hubby and I were watching this yesterday morning while cooking, and of course we had to reenact this scene:

That is the only scene in that movie that I remember somewhat "fondly" lmao

 

If you don't already listen to the podcast, I highly recommend listening to the How Did This Get Made? podcast where they discuss the movie.  I laughed so hard that I cried.  

I had no idea this existed...THANK YOU!! I listened to No Holds Barred and Leprechaun In The Hood at work this afternoon :D

[xls]

Not really a movie, but does anyone else remember an announcement on HBO, right before films that had Mature Subject Matter, that said, "HBO will show this film only at night"? Did I imagine that?

I remember that!

[RubyWoo72]

I remember that!

Omg my husband swore I made that up! Okay but do you remember exactly why they did that?

[xls]

The kids were supposed to be in bed by that hour, I think 9 or 10? I think the networks had more adult stuff later too. I don't know if the still practice that or not.

Yeah, it was called the family hour.http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/reports/familyhour/exsummary.asp

Edited August 6, 2014 by xls

[Crs97]

Now that I have kids, I miss family hour.

[Brooklynista]

I cant remember the year but there was an all kids gangster movie called Bugsy Malone. It was a musical. Jodie Foster was the sultry lounge singer. Scott Baio was the ganster trying to go straight. The tommy guns shot whip cream instead of bullets. No cursing.

It was great! Good clean fun.

Wow, even typing this I need to Google if this movie really existed or if i was in a drug induced haze.

ETA: I can't get the tune out of my head so maybe it'll help to type it

Ahem

My name is Tallulah, My first rule of thumb

I don't say where I'm going, or where I'm comin from

I try to leave a little reputation behind me

So if you really need to, ya know how to find me!

Edited August 6, 2014 by Brooklynista

[annzeepark914]

The best Phantom of the Opera movie IMO was the one that came out in 1962 and was made in England.  Very creepy and quite memorable (best scene is the back of the Phantom as he's madly playing the organ early in the film).

[Luckylyn]

My sisters and I love Bugsy Malone so much that one Christmas one of my sisters bought us the dvd and the soundtrack.  It's such a fun movie.  When I was little, I wanted to live in that world where the kids were grownups.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

I cant remember the year but there was an all kids gangster movie called Bugsy Malone. It was a musical. Jodie Foster was the sultry lounge singer.  Scott Baio was the ganster trying to go straight.  The tommy guns shot whip cream instead of bullets.  No cursing.

  It was great!  Good clean fun.

That was 1976, the same year Foster played Iris in Taxi Driver.

Edited August 6, 2014 by Cobalt Stargazer

[Brooklynista]

Really???

From Tallulah to Iris? Wow! Jodie is amazing.

[psychoticstate]

Michael Pare will always = Eddie and the Cruisers for me.  Loved that movie and loved the soundtrack (still do, actually).

 

 

How about Over the Edge? I think it was Matt Dillon first movie. Also My Bodyguard. Another early movie with him.

 

 

I remember Over the Edge.  I remember watching it on HBO in the early 80s.  It was about a group of "problem" or "out of control" teens (for late 70s standards anyhow).  I recall feeling very sad about that movie but it's been a long time since I've seen it. 

 

I used to love Matt Dillon.  He was everywhere it seemed in the early 80s. 

 

Anyone remember Sooner or Later with Rex Smith?  He played a rock and roll singer in his early 20s who started dating a girl he thought was 18 but she was actually something like 14 or 15.  I used to have the book and read it many times!  

[Sharpie66]

Back on page 1of this thread, someone mentioned My Bodyguard. I saw that film in the theater in its first release, and it remains my favorite teen movie of all time. So many actors either made their debut or made early appearances in their careers here: Adam Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, George Wendt, and Tim Kazurinsky, as well as wonderful performances from such veterans as Martin Mull, Ruth Gordon, and John Houseman.

Breaking Away was another fave of my teen years. I saw Dennis Christopher play a creepy prison warden on Criminal Minds several years ago.

The Last Starfighter is an overlooked classic! Lance Guest is terrific as Alex, Dan O'Herlihy is wonderful as Grig, and I love Robert Preston in his element as the conman. And the kid who played the kid brother Louis is hilarious.

[SeriousPurrs]

@Rick Kitchen Thanks for the clip. Marg was just a baby--so young and cute. I must get over mixing up actors with the characters they play, that is their job--to be convincing.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

I remember Over the Edge.  I remember watching it on HBO in the early 80s.  It was about a group of "problem" or "out of control" teens (for late 70s standards anyhow).  I recall feeling very sad about that movie but it's been a long time since I've seen it.

Over the Edge was also, I think Vincent Spano's first movie. And then there's River's Edge, which was kinda-sorta a companion piece made in the mid-80s. Crispin Glover was creepy-awesome in that one.

[xls]

@janie jones, because I live to help, here is the farting blueberry

 

 

Michael Pare will always = Eddie and the Cruisers for me.  Loved that movie and loved the soundtrack (still do, actually).

 

 

 

 

I remember Over the Edge.  I remember watching it on HBO in the early 80s.  It was about a group of "problem" or "out of control" teens (for late 70s standards anyhow).  I recall feeling very sad about that movie but it's been a long time since I've seen it. 

 

I used to love Matt Dillon.  He was everywhere it seemed in the early 80s. 

 

Love the Outsiders with Matt and so many other great young actors. I watch it every time its on. "Do it for Johnny!"

Edited August 10, 2014 by xls

[Cobalt Stargazer]

LOL, @xls, I think you quoted the wrong post. ;-)

[RubyWoo72]

LOL, @xls, I think you quoted the wrong post. ;-)

I thought that, too.

Or, maybe @xls was referring to a deleted scene where the Farting Blueberries opened for Eddie and the Cruisers. These threads and forums all start to run together after a while. Lol!

[Cobalt Stargazer]

*collapses into hilarity*

[xls]

I thought that, too.

Or, maybe @xls was referring to a deleted scene where the Farting Blueberries opened for Eddie and the Cruisers. These threads and forums all start to run together after a while. Lol!

Hahha, that quote must have stuck to my shoe when I came over from the commercials board!

[BooBear]

American Dreamer. So cute. This housewife is obessed with these novels about some spy named Rebecca Ryan. She wins a "Rebecca Ryan" themed trip to France and while there, gets in a car accident and hits her head. That bump has her believing she is "Rebecca Ryan" and in her deluded state actually does break up a criminal enterprise. Though quite by accident. I used to love this move.

Edited August 10, 2014 by BooBear

[spaceytraci1208]

Anyone else remember Renaissance Man where Danny DeVito plays a guy who teaches Shakespeare to a remedial reading class of boot camp cadets? I don't know that it'd be considered particularly good, but I remember it fondly and it actually piqued my interest in Shakespeare:

http://youtu.be/wHYeDqEngxU

The St. Crispin's Day speech remains my favorite from the works of Shakespeare that I've read :)

Edited August 13, 2014 by spaceytraci1208

[midge]

American Dreamer. So cute. This housewife is obessed with these novels about some spy named Rebecca Ryan. She wins a "Rebecca Ryan" themed trip to France and while there, gets in a car accident and hits her head. That bump has her believing she is "Rebecca Ryan" and in her deluded state actually does break up a criminal enterprise. Though quite by accident. I used to love this move.

I love this movie to pieces!  The scenery in France, JoBeth Williams being an adorable screwball, a super cute romance... it's just terrific.  

 

I have a copy of it on VHS that I simply have not been able to give up, even though I haven't had a VCR in 10 years or more.   It was on YouTube (in full) for a few years, they just recently took it down.   

 

I have one  - "Can't Stop the Music".   Terrible movie, but it premiered at the theater where my Dad worked nights so we got to go.  My poor sister was coerced into participating in an ice cream eating contest ("Can't stop the Nuts!" ) that has scarred her to this day. 

Edited August 13, 2014 by midge

[jennifer6973]

Anyone else remember Renaissance Man where Danny DeVito plays a guy who teaches Shakespeare to a remedial reading class of boot camp cadets? I don't know that it'd be considered particularly good, but I remember it fondly and it actually piqued my interest in Shakespeare:

 

 

 

Love that movie, Mark Wahlberg is in it also. Plus the guy who played Dwayne on A Different World.

[annzeepark914]

Another nice 1979 film is Starting Over. It stars Burt Reynolds as a recently divorced man, with Candice Bergen as his ex-wife and Jill Clayburgh as his new love interest. It's atypical for Reynolds in that he's not Mr. Super Macho Man; he's really vulnerable. He even has an anxiety attack on a display bed at Bloomingdale's!

I love this movie and watch it whenever it shows up on TV (rare occasion, unfortunately).  I have two favorite scenes: the first one takes place down the street from Burt's brother and sister-in-law's house where Jill thinks Burt's possibly a mugger.  The other are the scenes when the women's group clomps down the stairs to the church basement, usually ticked off since the men's group has run a bit overtime once again.  Of course, Candice Bergen's singing is something to be treasured.  What a pleasant surprise to see Burt do so well in this movie.

 

[Princess Sparkle]

Anyone else remember Renaissance Man where Danny DeVito plays a guy who teaches Shakespeare to a remedial reading class of boot camp cadets? I don't know that it'd be considered particularly good, but I remember it fondly and it actually piqued my interest in Shakespeare:

http://youtu.be/wHYeDqEngxU

The St. Crispin's Day speech remains my favorite from the works of Shakespeare that I've read :)

I freaking love that movie. "Hamlet's mother, she's the queen, buys it in the final scene. Drinks a glass of funky wine, now she's Satan's Valentine."

[DrSpaceman]

One film you don't hear too much about nowadays, but which was a sleeper hit in the summer of 1979, was Breaking Away. It was about a "town and gown" conflict in a college town that culminates in a bike race. Dennis Christopher (whatever happened to him?), Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern (voice of adult Kevin on The Wonder Years), and Jackie Earle Haley were the bike team of townies. The bike race is really secondary to the social comedy though.

 

  Breaking Away is a great movie.  Its a cult classic in Indiana, almost as much as the better known Hoosiers.  It was all filmed in and around Bloomington, extensive footage of the Indiana University campus and many still easily recognizable areas from around the town are seen in the film.  I've driven down SR-37 where he races the truck probably a couple of hundred times on the way to Bloomington.  I had forgotten Daniel Stern was in it.  Also based on a real bike race that still exists, the Little 500, every year in Bloomington the month before the Indy 500. 

[harrie]

Breaking Away is one of my favorite movies of all time.   I can watch it over and over, and it doesn't get old.  The fact that Dennis Quaid is in his prime in the movie is completely inconsequential. 

[MichelleAK]

One film that's pretty much completely disappeared (no longer shown, not on DVD) but that I loved, was Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, from 1982.  Directed by Robert Altman, and starring Cher, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis, and Kathy Bates. Kind of a quiet little movie, based on a play, but it was a definite rewatch for me every time it was on cable, until it disappeared.  If it ever shows up on DVD, I'll definitely be grabbing a copy.

[Rick Kitchen]

I love Breaking Away.  And another great bike racing movie is American Flyers, starring Kevin Costner and David Marshall Grant as brothers racing through the Rocky Mountains.  Rae Dawn Chong plays Costner's girlfriend.  Beautiful scenery, and a great brother relationship.  It was also written by Steve Tesich, who also wrote Breaking Away.

[smittykins]

Not really a movie, but does anyone else remember an announcement on HBO, right before films that had Mature Subject Matter, that said, "HBO will show this film only at night"? Did I imagine that?

 

 

I remember that!

The HBO R rating bumper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmVtlbQuD_4

 

My contribution to Movies Nobody's Seen But Me is Electra Glide In Blue from 1973, starring Robert Blake as a diminutive Arizona motorcycle cop with dreams of making the homicide squad.  I only became aware of this(which has supposedly become somewhat of a cult classic)as a fan of the band Chicago, as it was directed by the band's producer at the time(James William Guercio)and features cameos from four members, including guitarist Terry Kath, in a chilling premonition to what would happen in his own life a few years later.

[xls]

 

 

I have one  - "Can't Stop the Music".   Terrible movie, but it premiered at the theater where my Dad worked nights so we got to go.  My poor sister was coerced into participating in an ice cream eating contest ("Can't stop the Nuts!" ) that has scarred her to this day. 

I saw that too. It was full of nuts alright! The Village People were big back then. I do remember the one who sang "Danny Boy" had a beautiful voice though.

[methodwriter85]

Jodie Foster's 1980 movie, Foxes:

 

 

I caught the movie on Flixx like 5 or 6 years ago. Jodie Foster plays a 16-year old girl who deals with fast times and broken homes in the San Fernando Valley of the late 1970's. There are rough edges but for the most part, it's a pretty believable tale than the typical melodramas you get about rebellious teenagers. I thought it did a great job of making me feel like I was seeing a particular time, place, and mindset. These weren't kids from beautiful homes in beautiful suburbs/small towns throwing ragers because they're bored, but they also weren't thug kids from bad parts of town getting embroiled in gang life. It was so much more nuanced than that.

Edited August 15, 2014 by methodwriter85

[RubyWoo72]

The HBO R rating bumper:

My contribution to Movies Nobody's Seen But Me is Electra Glide In Blue from 1973, starring Robert Blake as a diminutive Arizona motorcycle cop with dreams of making the homicide squad. I only became aware of this(which has supposedly become somewhat of a cult classic)as a fan of the band Chicago, as it was directed by the band's producer at the time(James William Guercio)and features cameos from four members, including guitarist Terry Kath, in a chilling premonition to what would happen in his own life a few years later.

Omg thank you, @smittykins. I'm 'bout to play that clip for HubbyWoo72. Boo-yow!

[xls]

I love  Foxes too. Here's one. Squeak,squeak!

 

 

Edited August 15, 2014 by xls

[BooksRule]

Without Warning, an early Predator-type film (1980).  It starred Jack Palance, Martin Landau, and--in a small role as a doomed 'teenage'--David Caruso (in knee high athletic socks and really short jogging shorts).  A blue alien comes to earth and starts picking off people one by one in the woods.  It used a type of deadly jellyfish-like Frisbee thing to kill people.  I remember this movie scaring me as a young'un, but I watched the whole thing recently on youtube and it was kind of lame.  Ah, to be young and naïve again!

 

French Postcards, from 1979.  A movie about teenage American students studying in France for a year.  I mainly remember Blanche Baker's character wanting to see everything (museums, etc.) and finding love at the end of the movie with one of the other American students (who had fallen at first for a French girl).  It starred Blanche Baker, Miles Chapin, and Mandy Patinkin. 

 

A Little Romance (1979), starring Laurence Olivier, some French kid whose name I forget, and Diane Lane (in her film debut).  Lane is an American girl who falls in love with a French boy and they run away (with Olivier's help) to kiss under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice (because if they do, they will stay in love forever).  Kind of sappy, but cute.

[harrie]

I remember A Little Romance; Diane Lane got the cover of TIME right around when it came out.  

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Jodie Foster's 1980 movie, Foxes:

 

 

I caught the movie on Flixx like 5 or 6 years ago. Jodie Foster plays a 16-year old girl who deals with fast times and broken homes in the San Fernando Valley of the late 1970's. There are rough edges but for the most part, it's a pretty believable tale than the typical melodramas you get about rebellious teenagers. I thought it did a great job of making me feel like I was seeing a particular time, place, and mindset. These weren't kids from beautiful homes in beautiful suburbs/small towns throwing ragers because they're bored, but they also weren't thug kids from bad parts of town getting embroiled in gang life. It was so much more nuanced than that.

 

And Cherie Curie, of The Runaways, played Jodie's best friend Annie.

[jah1986]

Michael Pare will always = Eddie and the Cruisers for me.  Loved that movie and loved the soundtrack (still do, actually).

For me it will always be Streets of Fire. I have an unreasonable love for that terrible movie. Also, my introduction to Amy Madigan, what was she doing in that movie?

[psychoticstate]

what was she doing in that movie?

 

 

Isn't that a comment thought for a lot of 80s movies?  He he.

[Laurie4H]

Does anyone remember a movie called Old Enough? It was about a young rich girl befriending a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Alyssa Milano had a small roll as the girls sister.

I also recall a TV movie called Fallen Angel about a adult male who works in child porn and lures in a young girl to make movies. It was very disturbing.

[Rick Kitchen]

There was a pair of TV movies, Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, starring Eve Plumb as a teenage girl who gets trapped in teen prostitution in Los Angeles, and Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn, starring Leigh McCloskey as a teen aged boy who winds up as a male prostitute.  Very 70s-era specific movies, surprising subject matter for TV.

[grawlix]

Streets of Fire will always be one of my favorite films.  Stranger Than Fiction is a fun film with a sedate Will Farrell.  Also have a soft spot for Elizabethtown but mostly for the soundtrack.

[tribeca]

Johnny Dangerously with Michael Keaton

  He is a mobster.  Only his mom does not know.  Every time his mom needs an operation & illegal job will come up that pays exactly what the operation would cost.

There is also  mobster who swears a lot but his accent makes the swears all messed up.  Still to  this day my bother and I still say "Basdages!!"

[Shannon L.]

Sometimes when we're going through the city, one of us will say "The lower east side...this really sucks."  I could go on and on about that movie  :)

[xls]

Does anyone remember a movie called Old Enough? It was about a young rich girl befriending a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Alyssa Milano had a small roll as the girls sister.

I also recall a TV movie called Fallen Angel about a adult male who works in child porn and lures in a young girl to make movies. It was very disturbing.

I remember Old Enough! How about Welcome to the Doll House? Song of the same name kind of disturbing.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5p1iymHzN4

[Mindymoo]

Motel Hell. It stars Rory Calhoun and is about a farmer who sells sausages made of people. He stages accidents so he can plant people in the ground to tenderize them, then breaks their necks and turns them into sausage. The tagline? "All kinds of critters go into Farmer Vincent's fritters!" It has a Wolfman Jack cameo, too. It is on a DVD with a Canadian take on Ed Gein called Deranged, which is actually pretty amusing in some spots. His first victim, he tries to impress by showing her his drum that he is playing with a femur. I watch both of these periodically as a double feature, mostly when me and the missus are up at the lake and it's raining and we can't start a campfire, but Motel Hell is the real gem of the two.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

I remember Old Enough! How about Welcome to the Doll House? Song of the same name kind of disturbing.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5p1iymHzN4

 

Heather Matarazzo was awesome as Dawn Weiner. Who played the band guy, I can't remember right off the top of my head.

[methodwriter85]

Wasn't that Eric Mabius, of later Ugly Betty fame?

[xls]

Heather Matarazzo was awesome as Dawn Weiner. Who played the band guy, I can't remember right off the top of my head.

I agree-she was! One of the best coming-of-age movies. Her screen parents were horrible to her; nominees for Worse Screen Parents for sure.

In the Movie his name is Steve, played by  Eric Mabius.

[Laurie4H]

What about Sid and Nancy? Great movie with a haunting soundtrack.