There are so many amazing things about this week's summer camp that I will now just copy and paste (basic information from) the event post (i still recommend clicking on the link for full info, btw):
from noon-8pm we’re gonna have:
-Free astronaut ice cream for the first 30 people in the door
-A moon bounce
-Model rockets
-Space disco DJs:
ED Dudes (Velodrome, The Affair)
Nitekrawler (Moneytown)
Deep Sang & Meistro (Dirty Bombs, Solid Gold Sound)
-Space crafts/games
-Space inflatables
-Space food and drinks
-Space hot lifeguards
-Space pool time fun
AND SO MUCH MORE
this is an all ages event and only $10 for the whole day.
Having said that, much like every week, we're here to give away a pair of tickets to one lucky soul.
All you have to do is leave a comment about which amazing 80s movie (much like "Space Camp") is your favorite not-so-guilty guilty pleasure and we'll pick a winner at random tomorrow by 5pm.
Cool deal?
Cool deal.
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
- 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
- 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
- 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)
God loves a cheerful giver.
Dune, 1984, directed by David Lynch, best space/science fiction film made EVER
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" hands down... Though I did enjoy "Flight of the Navigator"
Enemy Mine
Airplane! "You ever seen a grown man naked Johnny?"
Dirty Dancing!! Its so SO 80s, even thought its about 1960s
Labyrinth - David Bowie is amazing.
"the breakfast club." pure nostalgia.
Princess Bride!
"Oh Wesley"
Flight of the Navigator.
SHORT CIRCUIT.
Vice Versa
24 Hours of Explicit Sex
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.
A true classic.
Sorry everybody, but I'm going to have to step in and win this thread now with "Explorers".
Pre-douche-syndrome Ethan Hawke + River Phoenix + 1985 + Tilt-A-Whirl spaceship + aliens + some kind of magical floating sphere thing controlled by a Commodore 64, it's the greatest fantasy you-too-can-go-into-space movie of all time and it's only like $.50 on VHS at CD/Game Exchange.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_(film)
Honorable Mention: The Last Starfighter
Spaceballs! Do I get double tickets for keeping with the space theme?!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/quotes
FREE TICKETS!!
Oh yeah -- Back to the Future
Spaceballs is actually not that funny, except for this scene, which is in my top 10 funniest scenes in a movie ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtkK3eijBso
Jason I already won with Enemy Mine - I can't help it if people don't recognize the merits of Quaid and Gosset under the direction of Wolfgang Petersen.
Plus some of these choices are super way over the top obvious. Mine's a hidden gem. Cale should watch it for his Netflix thing.
Yes, Spaceballs is stupid.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure ftw.
The Toxic Avenger, without a doubt. My quality of life went up tenfold when I found out that it is on Hulu.
i feel like caddyshack is way too obvious, but... caddyshack.
"oh, karl. people don't say that about you as far as you know."
Gremlins! It's a classic underdog story!
Revenge of the Nerds
"The world cannot be free until nerd persecution ends!"
Nobody said Road House? Consider the climactic fight scene in which Patrick Swayze faces off against some important evil tough guy, who delivers the epic taunt "I used to fuck guys like you in prison." What??
Durrrhhh- Ghostbusters I, b/c the special effects were amazing and it introduced us to a cultural icon- Slimer
dark crystal...was gonna submit "breaking away" but released in 1979
the wizard....basically a 1.5 hour nintendo commercial
The Wizard is awful - you lose.
Enemy Mine will be avail on Netflix instant 7/3/2009
Road House just came out on Blu Ray
It was towards the end of the 80's
but "Troop Beverly Hills"
according to peter, it's "cocoon"
didn't anyone like "weird science"?
teen witch. clearly.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Masters of the Universe
I still remember going to that super shitty masters of the universe movie with Dolph Lundgren in 1987. It's my first childhood memory of feeling cheated. I remember being so confused as to why the film was nothing like the TV show or toys I knew and loved.
Speaking of childhood disapointments involving Dolph Lundgren, remember that shitty first Punisher movie? It's like the only thing that made The Punisher cool at all was the fact that he had a big giant skull on his chest and then they didn't put a skull on his chest. What was that development meeting like?
So I was gonna say Meatballs I but realized I was one year short of the 80s...grrr....so Meatballs II???
holy shit, toxic avenger is on hulu?!??
toxic avenger for the win.
Cale,
Sure, it's is terrible, but I still think Dolph Lundgren shouting "I HAVE THE POWERRRRRRR!!!!!" was meant to be funny. The weirdo Courtney Cox time travel subplot was totally unnecessary. I did also see the Punisher - pretty sure the movie was established as a tax shelter.
A similarly incongruous 80s film adaptation is the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (it came out in 1990, but bear with me). Why did they turn a lovable cartoon into an urban dystopia about the perils of gang life?
For some reason I have a memory burn of Raphael and Donatello playing trivial pursuit in which the correct answer is "War and Peace."
CLASS OF NUKE-EM HIGH. I look to them for office attire tips every morning.
Alan, the first Turtle movie was much more reminiscent of the violent comics than the later cartoon adaptation. Since I had the original comics as a kid prior to seeing the movie I thought it was awesome and remember having the opposite reaction to the He-Man movie: "wow, they actually did this right."
Ps. Go Ninja Go Ninja GO!
Caddy Shack. Bill Murray Gopher Goodness.
THREE MEN AND A LITTLE LADY (the sequel to three men and a baby)
war games. duh
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
or...
ROBOCOP
MY NAME IS UNIMPORTANT
Jason Bond would have won with Explorers if there was anything to feel guilty about, but it's just fucking awesome.
I have fond memories of the first Punisher movie, but that's because I've made a point of never rewatching it. All I remember is Dolph Lundgreen and Louis Gossett Jr. vs. Ninjas. That's fine with me.
Oh and put me down for Dragonslayer. Peter MacNicol as a wanna be wizard fighting a dragon? Awfulmazing. No fantasy movie touched this till Sam Neil did "Merlin".
Howard the Duck.... aka Howard the "space" Duck
I love questions about 80s movies, because nobody ever says mine. The most underrated John Hughes movie of that decade: Some Kind of Wonderful. "Yeah, well you're stupid. I always knew you were stupid."
Lay off the Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie.
If you want awfulmazing, check out this:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mcid_shine-on-me_music
My favorite guilty pleasure 80's movie is "Real Genius" starring Val Kilmer. The climatic scene where they use a space laser to pop tons of popcorn in the douchey/lecherous professor's house is totally awesome!
Opie Curious,
Some Kind of Wonderful is a really good movie. Since we were talking about 80s nostalgia, I didn't add it as I only saw it about a year ago.
Side question: do you think it's realistically plausible for Watts to subject herself to such treatment (ie, Keith's chauffeur)? I'm not so sure I do.
What do Tom Cruise, a unicorn, and a british devil have in common?
Legend.
the pleasure is great and oh so guilty.
CAPTAIN EO ftw.
the neverending story
always good. always.
Uncle Buck!
The Breakfast Club. I'm the basket case.
Alan: yes, because if you reversed the genders, I could see it as exactly the sort of emo bullshit I'd have pulled myself. That girl clearly had an emotional masochism streak a mile long. (Think about it. She says to Keith at one point, "The only things I care about in this goddamn world are me, my drums, and you." So the only things she loves are the source of her emotional torment, and a physical outlet for relieving anger and frustration. After the movie ended, she probably sold the drums, grew her hair out, and became a workaholic overachiever.)
Also, my sister maintains that Keith ends up with the wrong girl at the end. I, in turn, maintain that my sister does not understand the concept of love.
LOST BOYS
EXPLORERS! Ethan Hawke AND River Phoenix...in space! Need I say more?
pretty in pink, hands down.
Now I might say ferris bueller but I can't deny that at the time I had a huge crush on Sean Astin in Goonies.
Just One of the Boys a.k.a. the best sex education you never got in school. We ladies learned to shift it naturally, if we ever had one to shift. AND we learned that preppy blonde boys are A-holes, confirmed over and over later in life.
OMFG WTF!?!?! TEEN WITCH...top that? top that. i don't really give a **** about tryin' to top that...
my favorite guilty pleasure is a special monster of 80s fantasticness: flash gordon. maybe it's the super-campy soundtrack by queen, maybe it's ornella muti's lovely piece of spandexed ass getting whipped, maybe it's the bad assery that goes on as flash beats the crap outta evil in his spaceships... but it's beyond awesome. absolutely dork-tastic.
please do not tell anyone it's my favorite.
Starman, Adventures in Baby Sitting!!!(Classic) and The Boy who Could Fly.
PS. I should get bonus points because Starman is space related.
Just watched Enemy Mine this weekend - so amazingly awful in every way.
139065 @Alan Zilberman: Raphael: "What Russian novel, embracing more than 400 characters, was set in the Napoleonic War?"
Donatello: "War and Peace"
Raphael: "Arg!"