My Bodyguard
If there's anyone who would like to discuss this movie, please let me know.
shareIt used to be on Starcase all the time, a forerunner to cable. So I spent a lot of time watching flash gordon xanadu and my bodyguard, like them all very much. My bodyguard does not come on Tv like it used to before all the local stations were bought up by big companies to show crap
shareI've noticed that, as well. I too love 80's movies. Would you believe I've never seen Flash Gordon and Xanadu?? I need to rent them, don't I?
Other 80's movies I really like are:
Sixteen Candles
Urban Cowboy
Breakfast Club
Fright Night
St. Elmo's Fire
Fast Times @ Ridgemont High!
I grew up in the 80's and just have a soft spot for most of the movies of that decade (particularly the 'coming of age' ones).
Also, there's one about high school wrestling, and all I can remember is it has a Journey song in it. Loved it and love the song. This high school guy falls for a little older woman, and it's just about him coming of age, and being an athlete, etc. Do you know the one I'm talking about?
'Desert Bloom' is another movie, that, if you haven't seen, I highly recommend. It has Jon Voight in it, who is always great.
I know EXACTLY what movie you are talking about because I saw it at the movies when it came out. The Movie is called Vision Quest and it starrred a young Matthew Modine as the main character Loudon Swain I think his last name was. The Older woman Carla was played by Linda Fiorentino. One of the wrestlers on Loudon's high school team was played by Michael Schoeffling who played jake Ryan in 16 Candles, AND by the way I was 15 in 1980 when My Bodyguard came out I hust turned 39 this week(YIKES) and it is STILL on my list of the best teen movies ever!!!! I love talking movies and movie trivia!!
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Very cool. I'm 38, so I can relate. (Didn't mean for that to rhyme...).
Growing up in that era was awesome. And yes, Vision Quest is the one. Like yourself, I love movies and movie trivia (and have a soft spot for the 80s movies, music, etc.). I actually saw the Rick Springfield movie when it came out in theatres. I don't remember the name of the movie offhand. My sister and her best friend were huge fans, and, okay I'll admit, me too.
I love tracing down what these people are doing now. The main guy in 16 candles is now like a carpenter or something. We saw him on a 'where are they now' deal on VH-1.
Speaking of 80's teen movies, can you answer my trivia question that appears at the bottom of all of my posts? (another great one..).
"Balls itch, it's a fact." (which movie?)
I have enjoyed the IMBD site for a long time so I thought I would register. To best describe my self:" I AM STUCK IN THE 80'S AND THAT'S WHERE I'M STAYING". I am 35 years old. The 80's were the absolute best as far as movies and music go. A lot of the movies and music listed on this thread are my all time favorites, I won't waste time and space naming them again. I seen this thread and seen a lot of guys from my era of time and the discussions are something of great interest to me. I look very forward to future posts and/or discussions.
PS. In response to MisterMovie masterMind's trivia question. I don't know if this is correct or not because I don't remember if: "balls itch, it's a fact" is the exact quote. However, I'LL TAKE A STAB AT IT! Was it from the movie: THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN. MisterMovie masterMind I hope you are on quite frequently and you could let me know if this is the answer or not very soon.
"Better off Dead" is another classic of this genre. It is also one of my all time favorites. I'm just a big Cusack fan, I guess. Remember how obsessed he was with his girlfriend, and then, falls for the exchange student across the street? She was, of course, a big draw for myself and most other teenage boys, I guess. The street racing scenes with the two oriental guys are hilarious. The one who "learned English by watching Howard Cosell"...priceless. The neighbor "Ricky" was great, as well. Great quotes, too: "Gee Ricky, I'm sorry your mom blew up." "Language lessons." "You know...friend." and "I want my two dollars!"
Also, you gotta love the usual high school students who can't possibly be any younger than 25. That was part of the appeal, though I guess. Someone else put it best: "-- but that's typical for the movies...people want to remember themselves as being older, more mature than any HS students are anywhere -- talk about twisted views of reality!"
"Valley Girl" with Nicholas Cage is a great one of this genre.
"Balls itch, it's a fact." (which movie?)
Well Hey I been checking daily to see if I would get replies to my post. I am pretty new here. I have been coming on for a while but hust never registered, matter of fact i registered so i could respond to your post and question about Vision quest. The rick Springfield movie you mentioned is called Hard To Hold I know this because i went to see it at the theater when it came out. Valley Girl well what can I say about that movie except that I love that movie!! I never saw it at the theater but I rented it when I got a VCR and when it comes on tv I always try to watch it. The one song from the movie Melt with you is like(*L*) one of my fav 80's songs. That movie quote hmmmm I will have to think on that a bit and see if I can remember that, hope to hear back soon.
sharewell I would like to say that I remembered the quote but I did not; i did a quote search and it came up as being from Just One of the guys. I did see that movie but I really did not remember that quote without help.
shareProbably a guy thing (ha). That character was sooo funny to me (probably because I could relate to him so well as a teenager.
Yes, we saw the Hard to Hold movie when it came out in the theatre, as well, and I still remember all the girls gasping when it showed his naked butt. Pretty funny.
Melt with You is one of my all time favorite songs and the Cure is one of my all time favorites. Love them.
I was trying to think of other 80s movies.
Btw, we were in San Antonio this weekend when 'the Alamo' premiered and some of my friends got to talk to Billy Bob Thornton and get Dennis Quaid's autograph. They said Billy Bob was very cool.
"Balls itch, it's a fact." (which movie?)
Hey to you! I am really getting hooked on this site, I keep thinking up all these movies to look up and see trivia and goofs and all kinds of fun stuff for. I was kind of into some of the 80's horror movies not that I saw them at the theater but that i have rented some like April fool's day and this is not a horror movie but i also Like Night of the Comet also. um you said you liked The Cure but i thought Modern Ennglish did melt with you?
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Yea, you're exactly right, it's Modern English. I would always hear it, though, and think "hey, Cure!". But you're right. I like "night of the comet" as well. The Vacation movies are great, but the original is still the best. Fletch Lives pretty funny, too. Any Chevy Chase movies. Do you remember "1941"? I saw it in the theatre. Blues Brothers another masterpiece. The second one (Blues Brothers 2000) blew, though.
What are some of your favorite 80's bands? I love Duran Duran, the Cure, the Cult, Depeche Mode, Level 42 (big time!), Violent Femmes, Men @ Work, Prince, (and okay, I gotta say these quietly - Rick Springfield and WEIRD AL - oh yea, I think he was - and is - hilarious).
Did you ever see a movie called "Desert Bloom"? A good rental if you didn't. It has John Voight, who is always good.
I don't remember when it came out, but it's a good one.
I also liked the horror ones.
I actually liked "Coal Miner's Daughter". It showed like all summer on Showtime or something one time and my sister and I ended up memorizing like all the lines. Pretty funny.
"Balls itch, it's a fact." (which movie?)
well I l liked Risk Springfield and duran duran and I also like aerosmith and journey and um one song by adam ant called goody2 shoes and I like Turning japanese by the vapors and I wanna be sedated by the ramones. my computer is on the fritz right now using a library computer.
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Same with all. Not so much Aerosmith anymore.
How's the computer doing now?
"Balls itch, it's a fact." (which movie?)
Hey I have not been on in ages cos i am still without a computer and have not been coming to library as much. hope all is well with you who may read this
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I couldn't agree more with what's been stated in this post thread. For some reason, all of the movies from the '80's that I watched over and over again, just seem to have burrowed their way into memory. I think it's funny too, that we all seem to be around the same age. Kind of supports a theory that I have about teens and early twenty-ers, and how they absorb things like a pack of fanatics,....my theory being that that is why they send young men to war. People that age take everything to heart so easily. (Sounds like a decent idea for a thesis paper, huh?)
Anyway, I saw this movie again last night on FMC, and was immediately and magically transported back to that time in my life again. Is that why we hold these movies so near and dear to our hearts, because they take us back to a simpler time in our lives? Granted, the movie was great (especially for its time), but it reminds me so much of a time when I didn't have to take life so damned seriously. The information age has its high points, but it also has a way of beating you down by making you feel responsible for acting on every piece of info that your brain assimilates in a day. The '80's weren't so overbearing, and it was a time when watching movies 20 or 30 times was a perfectly fine way of passing time for the sake of being entertained. It was also an age where movies didn't have to try so hard, so to speak. Today, a movie isn't hardly discussed at all unless it has about $10 billion dollars worth of CGI. They are no longer about just entertaining, now they have to "wow" people.
I thoroughly enjoyed traveling back into time last night watching this movie again. The music was awesome (it sounds like it could be the soundtrack to every childhood memory I have), and I miss the innocence of that kind of pure entertainment.
What a classic!!
"I'm not a has-been. I'm a never-was. I aspire to be a has-been!"
Oops,.....the above comments were about "My Bodyguard".
And by the way, it's nice talking to a group of people who know what I'm talking about when I mention the movie "My Bodyguard". I can't tell you how many times I've mentioned that movie, only to have the person I'm talking to assume that I mean the lame Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston vehicle "The Bodyguard".
Obviously, I'm among friends. :)
"I'm not a has-been. I'm a never-was. I aspire to be a has-been!"
All right I have seen this flick when it came out and I was a kid there and it was such good acting on Matt Dillon's part that I was convinced that he was a bully in the flick. Really I was. And he had his career nourishing way after that flick.
shareI remember when this first came out. I was only eight, but I remember seeing it at the theater. I just cought it on cable today and had to watch it. So much different than I remember, but a pretty good movie nonetheless. Almost looks like one of those "after school" specials. Ha ha.
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I'm 38 and I loved "My Bodyguard" when it came out. It's been making the rounds again on cable on the Fox Movie Channel.
80's stuff was cool because there was none of the crying about the violence in films, the language, etc.
Here's what I mean: my wife found an old New York Post from Febraury 1985 in her closet. As I was looking through it, I found the film section to be fascinating. There were so many R rated films that were clearly directed at OUR age group. The prime example was "The Breakfast Club". That sucker was rated R! Back then, no one made a big friggin' deal if a film had "frank" dialogue and used <GASP> the "F" word and the film was aimed at teenagers. Why? Because in High School everyone USED the "F" word! Today's "teenage" films are all rated PG-13, contain hardly any four letter words and forget about nudity of any kind. Even the above mentioned "Vision Quest" was rated R and that, again, was geared to the late teenage youth market.
Ok, so I'm not endorsing this stuff like nudity and violence. It's just that things today for teenagers seem so sanitized and unrealistic. Looking back on the 80's, there seemed to have been more "stuff". Today all the movies and music seems all to be the same. There are no big, influential music groups or artists from the U.K. around.
Anyone agree?
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