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thisbluespiritSorry for the slight spammage - the previous lot of icons were made mostly ages ago. These, um, well... I have no excuse, but 92 icons from the 1987 movie Mannequin. (A bonkers, tacky but joyful 1980s tale of true love, wacky time travel and window dressing, not forgetting the pop video montage in the middle... For those who don't know it, it's the film Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now is from. It may the most 1980s thing ever.) Featuring Kim Cattrall, Andrew McCarthy, James Spader, and Meshach Taylor. (What can I say? I watched this as a teenager and I still find it ridiculously cheering.)
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Date: 16 Jan 2011 01:09 pm (UTC)mannequin part 6 - try about 7.30 onwards. Um. If you want to, anyway. ;-)
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Date: 16 Jan 2011 11:50 am (UTC)Look, there's the bloke out of Police Academy...playing a policeman... Gotta love typecasting. ;D
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Date: 16 Jan 2011 12:40 pm (UTC)My Dad taped it when my sister and I were teenagers, so we watched it to death, until the day he cruelly taped over it. Hmm. I've definitely seen him playing a policeman in something else, too. (It is very possible that I may have seen Police Academy, cos that's definitely the sort of thing my Dad would have watched.)
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Date: 17 Jan 2011 06:56 pm (UTC)Yeah, I think the original Police Academy is actually pretty passable, as 80s film comedies go, as far as I remember. It did have approximately sixty-seven increasingly inane sequels, however (I'm only exaggerating the numbers slightly :D). I have a particular memory of watching the one with the shark in it, whichever one that is, at some kid's house back in the day and thinking it was brilliant at the time. I wonder, if I saw it again today...? XD
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Date: 17 Jan 2011 08:53 pm (UTC)I do remember watching (I think) one or two of the sequels, but evidently, my Dad recorded over them pretty quick, or me and my sister preferred things with magical shop window dummies, I dunno.
That is the danger, isn't it? Some things are just great, and some thing aren't? Mannequin is a bit of shock - it's bizarre and tacky, and actually much ruder in places than I ever noticed as a teen, but it's too busy being so happy and not caring about that, that criticism seems just irrelevant. And certainly daring to rewatch Dungeons & Dragons, Press Gang, and Maid Marian proved great, too. There are some things I would never dare even try with, though. I got the definite feeling childhood memories could be shattered into tiny pieces... :-D
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Date: 18 Jan 2011 08:35 am (UTC)Yeah. Good point about things being ruder than you remember. That's true of a lot of 80s comedies, I think. Ghostbusters is an excellent example - I had (probably still do somewhere) this literally 15-20-yr-old tape of it off the telly that I must have watched a hundred times growing up, but only when I rewatched it on DVD a couple of years ago did I realise how...salty it is. :D I think in Ghostbusters' case, that may be down to it being marketed over here as a kids' film when in reality it actually came from the same stable/group of collaborators associated with Saturday Night Live as definitely-not-for-kids films like Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Stripes and 1941, and it's a lot closer in tone etc to those other films than was maybe obvious at the time due to all the ghosty sfx etc. And the other factor, of course, which may be the case with Mannequin, is that if you were watching any of these films on Brit TV in the 80s or 90s, then you were almost certainly watching an edited version with the more offensive dialogue (and in Ghostbusters' case, many of the really funny lines) dubbed over with something more family-friendly.
You're right about the danger/potential reward of rewatching these things in later life. I think you're on fairly safe ground with things like Ghostbusters and Maid Marian. In the case of Police Academy XXVIII: The One With The Shark...I have no illusions, really. ;D
Is that the time? Gotta run now! :)
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Date: 19 Jan 2011 05:25 pm (UTC)Name me an 80s movie that doesn't!
Yeah, true, although my Dad was equally likely to set the video for something on in the middle of the night as any other time. I think any of the lines in it would have sailed over my head, anyway. And, they still do it, certainly if they show things early enough - I noticed a few years ago that ITV had Grease on on a bank holiday, minus the ear-piercing scene (I suppose showing teens how to pierce your ears in your own bathroom is not the thing, but it makes for a really weird cut.)
I think with rewatching things, it is okay if you have a feeling they will be good, or if you really don't care, but the ones you really liked and have a sneaking feeling were probably pretty naff... (I mean, I used to like Galloping Galaxies... *stares at YouTube thoughtfully*)
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Date: 19 Jan 2011 09:49 pm (UTC)Yeah, they certainly still do edit films for TV, but not quite to the same extent. And on channels like ITV, they tend to edit even evening/nighttime things for length nowadays instead of content, which can be kind of annoying if it's something you've seen before and it's suddenly missing scenes you remember watching previously. And even if you haven't seen it before, as you say, sometimes it's painfully obvious.
I do kind of miss those dubbed/hacked about versions of films, though - they were pretty amusing in themselves, especially if you were familiar with the uncut version. Probably the prize-winning example is the edit of Robocop they used to show on ITV in the early 90s, with practically every other line of dialogue (badly) redubbed and big whacking great jump-cuts in the middle of every action sequence to avoid the nasty bits. Hilarious stuff, really. I remember Hale and Pace doing a sketch parodying that sort of thing, which made me laugh a lot at the time (I was a teenage boy, probably the only demographic who ever laughed at Hale and Pace). So they were funny at least once in the course of their "comedy" career...and they were in Survival, so they had that too. ;D
Yeah, rewatching these things is all about expectations, I think, and management of same. Or just accepting them for what they are. The best feeling is when you watch something you hsve no great hopes for, and it turns out to be rather better than you were expecting.
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Date: 16 Jan 2011 04:44 pm (UTC)(And I can't help wondering now if anyone's ever written fanfic of Emmy's wacky time-travel adventures. Preferably crossed with DW meeting Leonardo da Vinci or something, but anyway... Probably not. Heh.)
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