Teen Wolf (1985)

[metirish]

I remember actually liking this as a 13 or 14 year old, anyway it was on cable yesterday and I watched it....the Fox to werewolf special effects hold up well.......the basketball is still crap and features nothing special on defense.

Fox plays the average Joe type pining for the popular girl whose dating the jock form a different school and rival basketball team, his team sucks of course and at this rate he'll never get the girl... nothing like a family curse to turn things around....long story short Fox turns werewolf and fuck it instead of hiding it he flaunts it and all of a sudden he's Chris Mullin out there....the team goes from last to first , some terrible 80's music features here in the basketball scenes, no one really thinks it's odd that a student turns in to a werewolf in this town.....Wolfie wins the girl buuuuuuuuuuuuut......is blind to the affections of his best friend Boof who has always loved him.....Some Kind of Wonderful?......did Hughes steal from this?

The ending is not to be missed as Fox refuses to play the biggest game of the season against the jerks team as a werewlf.... dammit he's going to beat them as his true self...cue bad music and even worse basketball...the basketball scenes in this movie are so bad they really stick out.........speaking of sticking out....I couldn't help but notice only the most token of token black persons in this movie .....a movie that could loosely be seen as talking about treating people who look different with respect yyybbb it features nothing but white people..

[Edgy MD]

It was bad worth celebrating, though. The coach was the most worthwhile part to me.

I thnk all free throws should be taken with the guy who just fouled you staring at you threateningly from under the hoop. You know that guy was Mike Piazza, right?

[Willets Point]

I gave stars based on how I liked it 25 years ago.

[Edgy MD]

Number 55 was Pee-Wee Herman's nemesis and fellow manchild Francis, right?

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: Number 55 was Pee-Wee Herman's nemesis and fellow manchild Francis, right?

Not only that, but "

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[metirish]

Looking at the list of actors I don't think any of them went on to be household names except Fox of course.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090142/

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I remember thinking that truck surfing looked really fun. (I was 7 or 8 when I saw this.)

I also remember thinking even then-- having just been to basketball camp for two summers-- that Teen Wolf carried the ball virtually whenever he dribbled. And I mean, it was like every time; he was Allen Iverson but much worse, and much, much slower.

Speed, ferocity or extraneous backflips aside, if the refs in that high school sectional actually called the rulebook, he wouldn't be able to handle regularly or create his own shot, and Fox and the gang wouldn't have made it past, like, the quarterfinals.

[Edgy MD]

Yabbut, the refs always give unfair leeway to the guys with the razzle-dazzle. I thought that was one of the themes.

It was to me, anyhow.

[metirish]

Edgy DC wrote: It was bad worth celebrating, though. The coach was the most worthwhile part to me. I thnk all free throws should be taken with the guy who just fouled you staring at you threateningly from under the hoop. You know that guy was Mike Piazza, right?

I wonder if a then 17 year old Piazza got the piss taken out of him for looking like that guy.