I got on another kick recently where I rented a bunch of movies from the era where HBO just ran the same 8 bad teen films over and over again. You know, Alien from L.A., Lucas, Teen Witch, Solarbabies and so forth? Not to mention they ran the two Unico movies constantly for a while too.

Well one of those movies was The Wraith, starring Charlie Sheen. I forgot how short it is, almost like a made for TV movie but still kind of funny and good. So I make my husband watch it and he LOVES it. Like a child he keeps asking me technical and theoretical questions, trying to figure out if these people are supposed to be in high school and gets bent out of shape about certain plot holes. Mostly we are disturbed by the hair-do Nick Cassavettes is sporting.

The next day after watching it he did really good in a competitive road race. He thinks The Wraith possessed him and that helped him win. So we watched it again. The movie is only and hour and 20 minutes long, so no big deal. I just thought it was really funny.

Here's the trailor...

The Wraith

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I don't for how long now, but Fat Boys fever has gripped our pad! It all started with a friend who made an insane multi-disc compilation of hip hop/rap from 1979 to 1992 and The Fat Boys stuck out if anything for the beatboxing and other odd noises. Quote the hubby, "Screw playing guitar like Kevin Sheilds, I wanna learn to beatbox like The Fat Boys! Now that's talent!" and so the mental illness began. We even rented the movie Disorderlies which is so bad yet you can't help but admire it somehow. I remember it was one of the heavy rotation daytime HBO movies when I was a kid; usually it was flip-flopped for days with Teen Witch, and Solar Babies at times.

Since then I've had "Baby You're A Rich Man" stuck in my head. It won't go away anytime soon. Around the time (1987) this movie came out I seem to remember it was also when The Fat Boys teamed up with Chubby Checker and The Beach Boys. They were probably told by their management that this was a great idea. I found some video clips, it is almost like watching their careers lose cred and go down the tubes with each video. "All You Can Eat" borders on genius, and the rest...oh just watch and see:

Fat Boys - All you can eat

chubby Checker & the Fat Boys

Fat Boys "Wipeout" feat./ The Beach Boys

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I have a weird thing about the movie Roadhouse. I thought I was alone, but when some friends and I decided to have a Roadhouse Night, all the copies in ALL of the library branches and videos stores in Greater Cleveland had been stolen. Yes, stolen! I am not joking, we spent a month trying to track a copy down until finally my friend had to just buy it online. I also found out there was once a stage production of Roadhouse, I wish I could have seen that!

When it was discovered that Roadhouse 2 had been made last year, well, we just had to see it. This was supposed to be the Patrick Swayze character's son and his story -- also involving a redneck bar and fighting coolers gone bad. There are evil villans and a hot blond who we find out not only is a school teacher and was in the army, but she knows martial arts and doesn't drink alcohol or...know how to change a tire. And everyone actually knows martial arts at redneck bars in the South, that is just a given.

(forgive the screen capture quality, my camera sucks)
It doesn't matter that the movie stars that actor dude who is married to Christina Applegate and was in the movie Doom Generation; it doesn't matter that Will Patton is also in it -- and knows martial arts; it doesn't matter about the weak plot or predictable tie-ins with the original movie, what matters is that it has Jake Busey!

He plays a silly drug dealer ex-cooler, martial arts bad guy who hangs out in hot tubs with bi-sexual girls and can't dress to save his life. Hey, anything with Jake Busey is gold, and you know it. Just look at the opening credits that establish there are some drug dealers out in the swamps by day...

And you can't have opening credits without showing some tits at night...

Orangeboobs

Jurrasicpelican

Yeah, thought so. But what you really need to look out for is the Pelican itself. Will Patton likes to talk to it about the guys he kicks out of his bar ...

Gotthatpelican

And look, you can even purchse the Pelican itself and have your very own! But the Black Pelican has a very sharp head we soon find out, because this is how evil Jake Busey dies (mirroring slightly the taxidermy death on the bad guy in the original)

Yeah who knew pelicans had such pointy heads huh? I tried to pet one on a dock once as a kid, damn thing neary took my hand off. But at least he didn't try to head-butt me, right? Roadhouse 2 is a stupid stupid movie, but if you love the camp value of the first one, you have to watch the sequel. It is no classic, but it does leave you feeling complete in an odd way.

The same night, after eating a meat loaded pizza and drinking way too much beer, the Dirty Harry movie Death Pool was then popped in. This stars very young Liam Neeson, Patricia Clarkson and even a little known Jim Carrey as the rock star junky, Johnny Squares. I enjoyed Death Pool quite a bit, and look even when he plays a loser junky, Jim's face can be as expressive and elastic as ever...

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Here are 3 that were rerun non-stop for a VERY long time to the point where I just loved these movies. Seriously, I could watch them again and again.

Kathy Ireland is nerdy, then she falls down a big ass hole into the earth's core and discovers Atlantis is really a big ole crashed spaceship. She meets a cute dude down there, goes on some adventures, and comes back to the surface all hot looking and stuff. Because all you had to do for a makeover in the 80s was get a perm and lose the glasses, dig?

A magic glowing orb falls to earth and gets found by a bunch of orphans who go on a big adventure. Its the future by the way, and although there's been a drought and an evil corporation/government/whatever controls all the water, there's still hockey teams. Okay not a hockey team, a hybrid of hockey, rollerblading and basketball. Look for almost the entire cast of The Lost Boys. There's more to it obviously, you can read about it here

All I have to say is that I Wanna Be the Most Popular Girl...you will have that stuck in your head, along with the awesome white boy band rap song "Top That". Nerdy girl finds out she's a reincarnated witch, and thus casts spells to get back at mean people and then make herself popular. Not only does it star Robyn Lively, but Zelda Rubenstein (you know, creepy psychic from the Poltergeist movies?). I love how this was the era where every stud in the high school was named Brad. Is it just me, or does that pop star Shana (a poor woman's Madonna character) look like Elvira?

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