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Post by Warmonger on Oct 6, 2020 8:51:50 GMT -5
True, but I’ll take The Monster Squad over Van Helsing any day. I never heard of the Monster Squad. Old movie ? Mid-80’s Fun movie about a group of horror movie fanatic kids who end up teaming with Frankenstein’s Monster to combat Dracula, The Mummy, The Gill-Man and The Wolf Man. I’ve always loved it |
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 6, 2020 11:53:11 GMT -5
I'll never understand the whole Goonies fandom thing. Astoria has all this tourist stuff connected to it and you can point out all kinds of places there in the film yet it doesn't mean a lot to me, even a house I've lived in is in the background for a big chase. Maybe it's because they will have someone coming off Skyline turning into a place a mile away running in the other direction? There's a Mel Gibson movie they filmed in my home town and they run out of one side of Market Square into Chinatown on the other side and then up instead of down to the Johnson Street bridge. But just generally The Goonies isn't that funny (or scary) or really anything but a generic kids movie to me. I remember they were handing out promo stuff for it at some convention before it was even out and I might still have that stuff someplace that a fan might like. Why don't great films get made anywhere I've lived? At least there was an early episode of Supergirl that showed part of Vancouver I knew fairly well. I did see a recent San Francisco located film too that showed areas I'd been around, very low budget indie, but actually pretty cool! Cinderella Liberty (with James Caan) shows the Pike Place Market in the early '70s and Kolchak's second tv movie also showed some '70s Seattle (and a fantasy addition to the underground city tour).  So, anything on film or tv from places you've lived? And is the film or tv show really good aside from that? |
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Post by impulse on Oct 6, 2020 11:59:24 GMT -5
I can't speak to your experiences, but I know it to be a beloved classic. I'm sure there is a nostalgia aspect to it, and people generally like 80s adventure movies. I definitely liked it a lot more when I was younger. I tried to rewatch it a few years ago and found all the kids constantly yelling really annoying. It's probably not a coincidence that I now have kids but didn't when I first saw it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 12:24:50 GMT -5
My favourite Roger Moore movie isn't one of his Bond films, it's The Wild Geese.
Best scene has him forcing a druglord to eat a bag of his own heroin.
Got a remastered blu-ray edition, gonna crank that up later.
There, I said it about the ol' Rog.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 6, 2020 12:31:20 GMT -5
So, anything on film or tv from places you've lived? And is the film or tv show really good aside from that? Most of Pale Rider was filmed in the Wood River Valley (Sun Valley/Ketchum). Not that I've lived there, but I've spent a lot of time there. It's a good film. See also, Bus Stop and Sun Valley Serenade. Bronco Billy was filmed all over Boise, Meridian, Eagle and Nampa. It's been eons since I've watched it but the Ada County Fairgrounds is immediately recognizable. There have been a handful of movies filmed in Twin Falls but I don't think I've seen any of them. Breakheart Pass was filmed in Lewiston. I never lived in Lewiston itself, but lived up the goat-trail in Moscow for three years. I want to say that the train scenes in Wild Wild West (the shitty movie) were also filmed on the same railroad. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 12:39:31 GMT -5
Never cared for The Goonies....maybe because I can't stand that Cyndi Lauper song....
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 6, 2020 13:12:39 GMT -5
I'll never understand the whole Goonies fandom thing. Astoria has all this tourist stuff connected to it and you can point out all kinds of places there in the film yet it doesn't mean a lot to me, even a house I've lived in is in the background for a big chase. Maybe it's because they will have someone coming off Skyline turning into a place a mile away running in the other direction? There's a Mel Gibson movie they filmed in my home town and they run out of one side of Market Square into Chinatown on the other side and then up instead of down to the Johnson Street bridge. But just generally The Goonies isn't that funny (or scary) or really anything but a generic kids movie to me. I remember they were handing out promo stuff for it at some convention before it was even out and I might still have that stuff someplace that a fan might like. Why don't great films get made anywhere I've lived? At least there was an early episode of Supergirl that showed part of Vancouver I knew fairly well. I did see a recent San Francisco located film too that showed areas I'd been around, very low budget indie, but actually pretty cool! Cinderella Liberty (with James Caan) shows the Pike Place Market in the early '70s and Kolchak's second tv movie also showed some '70s Seattle (and a fantasy addition to the underground city tour). So, anything on film or tv from places you've lived? And is the film or tv show really good aside from that? I love Goonies because it's pretty much exactly the movie 9-year-old Cei-U! would've created given the resources. My best friend and I spent several weeks making up an elaborate adventure movie while riding the school bus, and damned if Goonies doesn't duplicate a lot of it bet for beat, including the gangster family and the hidden pirate ship.
Cei-U! I summon the spring of '67!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 6, 2020 13:17:17 GMT -5
As to Goonies, it came out the summer between my junior and senior year of high school. Needless to say I was not watching movies aimed at the the late grade-school/junior high set. I really wasn't watching many movies at all.
I've seen it since with my boys. It's a fairly cute movie and they liked it when they were in the 10-12 age groups, so there you have it.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 6, 2020 13:19:54 GMT -5
Most of Pale Rider was filmed in the Wood River Valley (Sun Valley/Ketchum). Not that I've lived there, but I've spent a lot of time there. It's a good film. See also, Bus Stop and Sun Valley Serenade. Bronco Billy was filmed all over Boise, Meridian, Eagle and Nampa. It's been eons since I've watched it but the Ada County Fairgrounds is immediately recognizable. There have been a handful of movies filmed in Twin Falls but I don't think I've seen any of them. Breakheart Pass was filmed in Lewiston. I never lived in Lewiston itself, but lived up the goat-trail in Moscow for three years. I want to say that the train scenes in Wild Wild West (the shitty movie) were also filmed on the same railroad. Bus Stop is a classic! I remember some movie about twins set in Twin Falls, I'm pretty sure that was the title of it too. My Own Private Idaho was a decent film too. I've been around some of those places like Nampa and Pocatello, Rexburg and Rigby. I might recognize around the Reno area a bit more though. The older the movie the more there's a time travel bonus! |
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 6, 2020 13:22:31 GMT -5
My Goonies might be Escape To Witch Mountain. I remember something at the matinee theater where they handed out 'What's Tiki Tiki Anyway?' buttons. It was part animated and part live I think, but I can't remember the title. It may've been this... the biker looks familiar...  "1971. Canadian filmmaker Gerald Potterton utilizes extensive footage from the Soviet adventure film Dr. Abolit in his Tiki Tiki. Abolit boards a rocket with two monkeys and blasts off into space, bent on rescuing a group of monkey kids from extraterrestrial bandits. Framing the live-action storyline are a few animated cartoon sequences involving the efforts of a producer to sell his concept to an apelike movie mogul. This device works as effectively here as it did thirty years earlier in W.C. Fields’ Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. As a payoff, the studio boss is revealed to be King Kong, who sees a lot of potential in a story about heroic simians." |
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 6, 2020 14:12:12 GMT -5
So, anything on film or tv from places you've lived? And is the film or tv show really good aside from that? filmed exteriors all over my hometown and neighboring areas. My mother worked in Livia's nursing home, for instance. I walked past her house every time I went to the library. The FBI harassed a Russian maid across the street from my sister's house. I played baseball on and later worked for the rec department on the same fields where Meadow and AJ played soccer and football. Drove past AJ's high school whenever we visit NJ and go to our favorite bakery to buy real rye bread to bring back home with us. When I watch it, it's like watching a home movie. Well, the background is, anyway. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 6, 2020 14:28:22 GMT -5
So, anything on film or tv from places you've lived? And is the film or tv show really good aside from that? filmed exteriors all over my hometown and neighboring areas. My mother worked in Livia's nursing home, for instance. I walked past her house every time I went to the library. The FBI harassed a Russian maid across the street from my sister's house. I played baseball on and later worked for the rec department on the same fields where Meadow and AJ played soccer and football. Drove past AJ's high school whenever we visit NJ and go to our favorite bakery to buy real rye bread to bring back home with us. When I watch it, it's like watching a home movie. Well, the background is, anyway. Yeah, sure. Just the background. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 6, 2020 14:46:40 GMT -5
The Sopranos filmed exteriors all over my hometown and neighboring areas. My mother worked in Livia's nursing home, for instance. I walked past her house every time I went to the library. The FBI harassed a Russian maid across the street from my sister's house. I played baseball on and later worked for the rec department on the same fields where Meadow and AJ played soccer and football. Drove past AJ's high school whenever we visit NJ and go to our favorite bakery to buy real rye bread to bring back home with us. When I watch it, it's like watching a home movie. Well, the background is, anyway. Yeah, sure. Just the background. What are you, a cop? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 6, 2020 14:48:26 GMT -5
So, anything on film or tv from places you've lived? And is the film or tv show really good aside from that? filmed exteriors all over my hometown and neighboring areas. My mother worked in Livia's nursing home, for instance. I walked past her house every time I went to the library. The FBI harassed a Russian maid across the street from my sister's house. I played baseball on and later worked for the rec department on the same fields where Meadow and AJ played soccer and football. Drove past AJ's high school whenever we visit NJ and go to our favorite bakery to buy real rye bread to bring back home with us. When I watch it, it's like watching a home movie. Well, the background is, anyway. There's a scene in the first Superman with Christopher Reeve where a mugger tries to rip off Clark and Lois and it was filmed in my neighborhood. It's amazing when you see stuff like that in movies. |
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Post by impulse on Oct 6, 2020 14:52:01 GMT -5
Looks like Eddie Van Halen passed away. Well, SHIT. There, I said it.  |
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