Forgotten Films: Do You Remember?

[Shannon L.]

 

Anyone remember "Johnny Dangerously?" back when Michael Keeton was just flat out funny.  That one still makes me giggle today.

It had me from the very beginning when he was putting price tags on the puppies  :)

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Anyone remember "Johnny Dangerously?" back when Michael Keeton was just flat out funny.  That one still makes me giggle today.

 

Anyone remember "Bad Boys"? The original with Sean Penn and Ally Sheedy. I just remember it being really violent including a rape for Ally's character and a use of soft drinks as a weapon that I have never forgot.

 

How about Angel? There was a whole series of these... the first started with a teenager who was a prostitute by night to get money to live and attend private school during the day, that is, until some serial killer starts killing the other hookers. Sounds bad but it kept my attention.  I remember a really sad part when she is found out at her school and the geek who has been asking her out comes up with money to get her to date him.

 

I remember all of those!

 

The punks in Bad Boys were played by Esai Morales (the one who violated Ally's character) and Clancy Brown (the one Sean Penn hit in the face with a pillow case full of soda cans). It is obviously not to be confused with the later Will Smith movie.

 

One of the roles in the Angel movies was played by the late Susan Tyrell, one of her many forays into portraying bizarre characters. They weren't "good" movies, objectively, but given the subject matter (private school student by day, hooker by night) it'd be just another SVU episode today.

 

And of course, my favorite line from Johnny Dangerously was, "Are you aware that your last name is an adverb?"

[jennifer6973]

Love Johnny Dangerously 

[GreekGeek]

One of the only good live-action Disney films of the 1960's  ( in my opinion the best one, but I'll allow Mary Poppins:)) was The Three Lives of Thomasina.  There really aren't very many great cat movies, compared with great dog movies, but this is one of them.  The scene where Thomasina ascends into Cat Heaven (an homage to A Matter of Life and Death, mentioned earlier in this thread), walking up the stairs past dozens of cats and standing before Bast Herself - is one of the greatest scenes in the history of the movies. 

http://catsonfilm.net/2013/01/23/cat-of-the-day-095/

 

The blogger I linked to likes the film less than me - I don't think Thomasina is  a Cataphor and I admire the way the film explores difficult family relationships , also the complicated way a child tries to comprehend death - and the Good Animal Healing Witch!  Love.

I loved The Three Lives of Thomasina, although as a kid I had no idea what was going on in that weird out-of-body-experience scene. It was a very surreal and disturbing interlude in an otherwise realistic movie (once you accept the premise of a cat as narrator). Funny that it never gets mentioned among any of the other Disney Nightmare Fuel Scenes--"Pink Elephants on Parade," Lampwick in Pinocchio turning into a donkey, etc.

[proserpina65]

How about Angel? There was a whole series of these... the first started with a teenager who was a prostitute by night to get money to live and attend private school during the day, that is, until some serial killer starts killing the other hookers. Sounds bad but it kept my attention.  I remember a really sad part when she is found out at her school and the geek who has been asking her out comes up with money to get her to date him.

 

Angel is the only movie I've ever walked out on in my entire life.  A friend and I went to see it in the theater, lured in by the whole 'schoolgirl by day, hooker by night' premise (not one of my finer moments, I admit) and were so grossed out by the first serial killer scene that we got up and left.  Too bad we didn't have the sense to demand our money back.

[Shannon L.]

My husband came home with Fletch a couple of weeks ago because he saw it in the discount bin and he had fond memories of it (as did I--we quote it on occasion).  Last night we watched it with the kids and still enjoyed it.  Aside from having to explain a few references, it held up really well and, as an adult, it occurred to me that it had a somewhat sophisticated plot for a silly comedy.  And Chevy Chase was perfect for the role. 

[ratgirlagogo]

 

Funny that it never gets mentioned among any of the other Disney Nightmare Fuel Scenes--"Pink Elephants on Parade," Lampwick in Pinocchio turning into a donkey, etc.

It's interesting that you saw this scene as so frightening - when I saw it as so comforting!   Cats had a heaven, just like people did.  As long as they were GOOD cats. And after they'd gone through their nine lives.  In the movie Thomasina walks up that staircase and ends up being reborn in the basket..

[BooBear]

Ruby in Paradise not much of a plot but Ruby (Ashley Judd)  goes off to live on her own and it is sort of what happens to her from "in her head". When I first saw that I was too young to be out on my own but once I was, that really summed up my experience of how I felt breaking out in the world.