I need help identifying a movie...

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: Arkaign

Originally posted by: Genx87
Maximum Overdrive is a cult classic. Estevez did some great B movies in the 1980s. Repo Man is another cult classic.

Ooo how about Freejack? Came out in '90 or so, costarring Anthony Hopkins and Mick Jagger? Interesting film, and had a youngish Rene Russo as well I think.

Mission: Impossible (1996)
Judgment Night (1993) (with Denis Leary playing a really, REALLY bad guy)
Another Stakeout (1993)
Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
The Mighty Ducks (1992)
Freejack (1992)
Men at Work (1990) ("Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy!")
Young Guns (1988)
Stakeout (1987)
Wisdom (1986) (with a very young and very hot Demi Moore, but a terrible ending)
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Repo Man (1984)

To name a few.

MotionMan

Nice! I'd forgotten about a couple of those, though a few of them are absolute crap. I remember thinking Young Guns was the coolest movie ever when I saw it in the theatre. :thumbsup:

KT

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: sirjonk
I like this game.

I remember an 80s movie where a comet flew too close to the earth and everyone got turned into red dust or zombies...anyone?

I have a funny story about a similar movie: When I was in the 1st grade, I had a small part in the school play. They kept all the students who were not on stage, mostly us young kids who had just a few minutes of action, in the teachers lounge. Somehow, the TV in there got turned on and ended up on a TV movie. I recognized Peter Graves from 'Mission: Impossible', so I watched pretty intently. It was probably about half an hour before an adult realized what we were watching and changed the channel.

The movie? Where Have All the People Gone.

Which movie were you talking about?

MotionMan

 

[GasX]

AC/DC makes that movie.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
AC/DC makes that movie.

LOL. Once, I watched that movie on mute using closed captioning (baby was sleeping on me).

Not quite the same.

MotionMan

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: sirjonk
I like this game.

I remember an 80s movie where a comet flew too close to the earth and everyone got turned into red dust or zombies...anyone?

I have a funny story about a similar movie: When I was in the 1st grade, I had a small part in the school play. They kept all the students who were not on stage, mostly us young kids who had just a few minutes of action, in the teachers lounge. Somehow, the TV in there got turned on and ended up on a TV movie. I recognized Peter Graves from 'Mission: Impossible', so I watched pretty intently. It was probably about half an hour before an adult realized what we were watching and changed the channel.

The movie? Where Have All the People Gone.

Which movie were you talking about?

MotionMan

Night of the Comet

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: sirjonk
I like this game.

I remember an 80s movie where a comet flew too close to the earth and everyone got turned into red dust or zombies...anyone?

I have a funny story about a similar movie: When I was in the 1st grade, I had a small part in the school play. They kept all the students who were not on stage, mostly us young kids who had just a few minutes of action, in the teachers lounge. Somehow, the TV in there got turned on and ended up on a TV movie. I recognized Peter Graves from 'Mission: Impossible', so I watched pretty intently. It was probably about half an hour before an adult realized what we were watching and changed the channel.

The movie? Where Have All the People Gone.

Which movie were you talking about?

MotionMan

Night of the Comet

"A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive."

Sounds great

OUCH!

MotionMan

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: sirjonk
I like this game.

I remember an 80s movie where a comet flew too close to the earth and everyone got turned into red dust or zombies...anyone?

I have a funny story about a similar movie: When I was in the 1st grade, I had a small part in the school play. They kept all the students who were not on stage, mostly us young kids who had just a few minutes of action, in the teachers lounge. Somehow, the TV in there got turned on and ended up on a TV movie. I recognized Peter Graves from 'Mission: Impossible', so I watched pretty intently. It was probably about half an hour before an adult realized what we were watching and changed the channel.

The movie? Where Have All the People Gone.

Which movie were you talking about?

MotionMan

Night of the Comet

"A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive."

Sounds great

OUCH!

MotionMan

hehe, it's ok. Get the cheapest Rental rate you can find. They've shown it twice on SciFi within the last month.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: sirjonk
I like this game.

I remember an 80s movie where a comet flew too close to the earth and everyone got turned into red dust or zombies...anyone?

oh snap! i just watched that last month! cant recall the name now... the outfits were kickin hehe.


heh night of the comet, not sure why i couldnt recall that one...

 

[Mursilis]

Originally posted by: MotionMan
Men at Work (1990) ("Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy!")

Either you're remembering the wrong movie, or the writers stole that line from "Better Off Dead", a 1985 Jon Cusack movie. Hilarious 80's comedy, BTW.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: Captante
Based on a short story originally called Trucks by Stephen King ... the story was pretty good but the movie was meh.

I joke that I do not read books because it ruins the movie.

Maximum Overdrive is one of the few movies made from a book (or story) that I read. The movie did not live up to the story.

MotionMan

I don't think I've ever seen a movie which was better than the book, ever.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Mursilis

Originally posted by: MotionMan
Men at Work (1990) ("Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy!")

Either you're remembering the wrong movie, or the writers stole that line from "Better Off Dead", a 1985 Jon Cusack movie. Hilarious 80's comedy, BTW.

It was used in both movies.

MotionMan

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: sirjonk
Any Emilio Estevez movie where a soda machine kills someone is ok in my book.

Have you seen Repo Man? If you haven't, you should.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Mursilis

Originally posted by: MotionMan
Men at Work (1990) ("Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy!")

Either you're remembering the wrong movie, or the writers stole that line from "Better Off Dead", a 1985 Jon Cusack movie. Hilarious 80's comedy, BTW.

it was in men at work too. i like cusack flicks too.

 

[GasX]

The Better Off Dead line was a bit different.

"It's a damn shame when folks be throwin away a perfectly good white boy like that..."

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
The Better Off Dead line was a bit different.

"It's a damn shame when folks be throwin away a perfectly good white boy like that..."

Confirmed.

MotionMan

 

[pyonir]

My last job, no one i worked with had seen Maximum Overdrive. I was astounded. It was on network tv hundreds of times growing up...and just couldn't imagine not one of like 25 people had seen it other than me. lol

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: Mwilding
The Better Off Dead line was a bit different.

"It's a damn shame when folks be throwin away a perfectly good white boy like that..."

Confirmed.

MotionMan

Don't be doubting my movie quotage!

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: Mwilding
The Better Off Dead line was a bit different.

"It's a damn shame when folks be throwin away a perfectly good white boy like that..."

Confirmed.

MotionMan

Don't be doubting my movie quotage!

Never!

MotionMan

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Originally posted by: MotionMan[...] When I was in the 1st grade, I had a small part in the school play. They kept all the students who were not on stage, mostly us young kids who had just a few minutes of action, in the teachers lounge. Somehow, the TV in there got turned on and ended up on a TV movie. I recognized Peter Graves from 'Mission: Impossible', so I watched pretty intently. It was probably about half an hour before an adult realized what we were watching and changed the channel.

The movie? Where Have All the People Gone.

I hadn't thought about that movie in a while... I remember seeing it on a tape recorded from Italian TV - and renamed as "Dove sono gli altri?" Quite an impression...