...it's rating is pretty high. This is one of my favourite movies but on IMDb I wouldn't expect this to get more than a 5.3 considering how esoteric its appeal is. Even it's "cult" status is pretty small. I guess the people who like this movie REALLY like it!
shareI do!
I can't understand why doesn't this have way more votes. It has a star cast, directed by Landis, excellent theme tune and a classic 80s movie all around
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It's just not very good.
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It's obscure because it was a critical and commercial flop when it was released, not to mention just being some sort of vanity project for John Landis and a bunch of other directors.🐭
shareI think sometimes movies are to obscure to get the attention of haters, so only the likers rate it.
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If only the likers rated it, Into the Night would have gotten a higher score than 6.3, which is kind of mediocre.
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If only the likers rated it, Into the Night would have gotten a higher score than 6.3, which is kind of mediocre.
I would not say this is an obscure film although its not been shown in the UK for a few years, it used to be on regularly because of its cast and Landis is highly rated in the UK.
Its that man again!!
I like it a lot. John Landis needs a comeback.
sharei just watched it again tonight -- cannot remember the last time i saw this. what blew me away was how many "names" are in this film with bit/cameo appearances. from david bowie to paul bartel to lawrence kasdan to roger vadim to carl perkins to paul mazursky -- kind of amazing!
I saw it the first weekend it came out -- and loved it -- but it seems to have gained speed as a video/cable item over the years.
It proves that John Landis was a key reason why "Animal House" was so funny -- he really knows how to time his jokes and keep the story moving, and how to involve us with the characters and their "mission." Jeff Goldblum was starting his brief "star period" and he's a perfect tall and deadpan match to the pitiful, untrustworthy, but beautiful Pfeiffer. They make a nice couple...if they can make it there.
As noted elsewhere on the boards, "Into the Night" was then, and is now a "perfect time capsule" of a certain part of LA(Westside) in a certain era(80's.). I lived there for a time and the perfect example of that "scene," is the scene at "Ships" restaurant, late night, with pie. Except the waitress is too nice -- its film director Amy Heckerling. "Ships" waitresses were older and tough cookies as I recall them.
The BB King music bookends the film wonderfully(the title tune at the beginning, "The Midnight Hour" at the soulful end), and the techno-stuff music in the movie proper has a bit of the "Beverly Hills Cop" 80's thing.