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Category Archives: Eighties Tutorial
RIP Carl Weathers
What a pisser! Right before Black History Month and more episodes of The Mandalorian! Carl was a great presence on Twitter too. He didn’t shit talk, always pushed for peace and understanding. I read other obits about him and didn’t know … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Celebrity Obituary, Comedy, Eighties, Regular Show, Science Fiction, Seventies, Star Wars
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Repo Man
First up for my favorite and a movie that influenced me from 1984…the cult fave and cable staple Repo Man! It was produced by Mike Nesmith with unknown Emilio Estevez in the lead alongside Harry Dean Stanton and Tracy Walter. Beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Dystopia, Eighties, Satire, Science Fiction
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1983: The Day After airs on ABC
Remember how I mentioned my ongoing nightmare of dying in a nuclear conflict because St. Reagan had an itchy trigger finger? The Day After didn’t help and was my continuous fear’s source until college. Before ABC became a monopoly hotel … Continue reading
Posted in Eighties Tutorial, History, Movies, On the TV, TV
Tagged Cold War, Eighties, Nuclear War
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Day of the Dead
This was George Romero’s lesser known third installment of his Dead movies in which the social commentary isn’t as obvious; Night was racism, Dawn was consumerism and Day I think it’s how much we shouldn’t trust the military? You can tell it was an indie … Continue reading
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Tagged Eighties, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic, Zombies
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Valley Girl: 40 years later and not as bad as I feared
I remember this movie when it was released in 1983 and it just made me roll my eyes due to its title…Valley Girl. Hollywood was trying to cash in on a dead fad created by Zappa’s 1982 hit single but … Continue reading
A birthday gift to myself from Fright Rags #2
In honor of War Games turning 40 along with how well the artist combined the artwork from all those awesome Atari 2600 game boxes…I wanted this! I was never wild about the movie when it was in theaters and I didn’t … Continue reading
RIP Paul “Pee-wee Herman” Reubens
CRAP! I hate it when a link on Twitter leads to bad news but those bastards behind Social Media got us! Now to wait for the Fresh Air episode of when he was a guest. Paul was a very talented Comedian … Continue reading
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Tagged Animation, Comedy, Eighties, Seventies, Stand-up Comedy, Voice Acting
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A birthday gift to myself from Fright Rags #1
It’s an obscure little joke from Weird Al’s movie UHF. Not sure why the only reseller I’ve ever found that make this focuses on Horror but I’m good. Much like my Star Wars shirt with Bea Arthur and Harvey Korman on it, … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Eighties, Geek Culture
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Surrounded by Assholes!
My co-worker/friend Jason ran into these Assholes at the San Diego Comic Convention last weekend!
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Tagged Comedy, Eighties, Parody, Science Fiction
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The Return of the Jedi as the header
It’s the movie that gets the least respect in the first trilogy. In many ways, Lucas deserved the grief he received over it but then again Empire was a tough film and story to follow. He could’ve lessened the disappointment if … Continue reading
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
My movie review procrastination is semi-over! It was mostly driven by way too many things but I’m using the Texas Snowmageddon 2021 – Volume II‘s conclusion to get this new overdue subcategory rolling It’s based my attempt to bring Jennifer … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Eighties, Time Travel
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Firstborn: 35 years later, still great
Darned Hulu, finding favorite movies of mine with a looming deadline! I’ve also come to suspect that if the movie is getting yanked from the service in a few days, they’ve reduced its bandwidth or something. Every time, be it 1984 or … Continue reading
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Tagged Coming-of-Age, Drama, Eighties, Hulu
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1988: The Naked Gun, still holds up
Another entry for the Lost Tales or “Steve didn’t post this in a timely fashion.” In the end, does anyone really care? Maybe. I really wanted to get my recollection posted closer to the New Year because that’s when I saw this … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Eighties, Parody
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1984: Still holds up and remains a warning
Part two of three on showing Marx’s influence to celebrate his 200th birthday is the movie 1984, which also was Richard Burton’s last performance. There were many jokes made about the film’s release…the Spring of 1985. If you stayed to watch … Continue reading