Alec and I had a fantastic time at a Back to the Future charity screening to raise money for the Parkinson’s Foundation.
Check us out in the DeLorean.
This is heavy!
Great Scott!
vintage movies
"The Extreme Always Seems To Make An Impression"
Tonight was the long-awaited ’80s movie night.
Calman, Janice, Alice and Jamie came over for a feast and awesome ’80s movies.
We started with Heathers, one of my faves. Mean Girls recently ripped it off, but it can’t compete with the black humour of the original. Plus, the original had Christian Slater, everything a bad boy should be – hot, with a great head of hair, and a psychotic look in his eyes.
The movie really highlights what bitches girls are in their teens – it’s all about the queen bees and wannabes. It’s also funny and has some fabulous ’80s fashion and hair. My personal favourites are the bright tights. Who could pull off blue tights these days apart from Winona in her Heathers heyday?
I also loved that in the movie, getting rid of the head bitch doesn’t actually change anything – there’s always a new head bitch waiting to spring up in her place. Shannon Doherty, as always, makes an awesome queen bee.
Movie number two was the very cool Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Janice watches this movie once a month apparently. It’s a worthy movie to watch that frequently, even after all these years.
Matthew Broderick is fabulous as the cocky Ferris. It’s a shame that this was his one and only really great film as he is really entertaining to watch.
Watching Ferris always makes me want to have more fun and be more daring. I’m most like Cameron in the movie – cautious and anxious. I want to be like Ferris, taking chances and having “you can never go too far” as my motto.
I really love Jennifer Grey in this movie as Ferris’ evil older sister. She has so much rage towards Ferris and the lengths she goes to to catch him out are hilarious.
Equally hilarious is the cameo by Charlie Sheen in his very young, very hot stage.
After Ferris, the troops headed home, leaving me and Alec to watch The Breakfast Club. When I watched this when I was a kid, I thought it was really deep and meaningful. Now I just think it’s a pretty cool coming-of-age movie.
I like teen movies like this. They seem more real to me then the current ones as I can relate to them a lot easier.
The conversations they have in the movie are very real, unlike recent teen movies that really stereotype teens into categories, The Breakfast Club starts out with stereotypes and breaks them down so that at the end, they’re all brought down to the same level – just people with problems and opinions.
Zombie Day
Alec’s favourite day finally arrived. Sebastian, Alice & Jamie came over today for a festival of zombie movies.
We started with 28 Days Later, then, after some Chinese from Chatswood BBQ Kitchen, we watched 28 Weeks Later at the movies.
While I really enjoyed 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later lacked the main feature of the first film – sympathetic central characters to drive the story along. Without these characters it’s hard to get too involved in a story and care about how it ends.
The first film also focused on the evolution of its main characters, making it as much of a human drama as a scary movie. 28 Days Later reminded me of Lord of the Flies in that it commented on the thin veneer of civilisation that keeps our society in check. Take it away and we all revert to animals.
Holding on to your humanity in the face of monstrosity was a central theme in 28 Days Later, but not so much in 28 Weeks Later, which seemed to be more about gratuitous violence and death. With the lack of substantial lead characters who saw the movie all the way through, it also lacked the complexity of the original film.
On a less intellectual level, there were also no cute guys in 28 Weeks Later. Bring back Cillian Murphy and the naked shower scenes!
It was still a great day – and Jamie even made a new friend. Cecil the snake. A bargain from Coles, only $8!
