Johnny Lunchbucket

Out of 4, 2.75? Nice visual spectacle, but bothered me that songs were matched out of sequence with his career. Didn't like that they included Pinball Wizard. Stunned they didn't include the the whole Someone Saved My Life story. Also I fell asleep at the end.

I like how Fonz blinged up his jacket, obviously inspiring Bobby Munson (also a 50s-era teen and Elvis wannabe) in SONS OF ANARCHY.

Yeah this flick's influence outkicked its coverage. As mentioned above Stallone and Gere had it out. According to Rocky, it was over Gere spilling mustard on his stageclothes

How about the Lords of Flatbush? What's up with the fake 50s music?

So what? It's not like you're in jail. MFS62 is the main perpatrator of blind link crimes and he's not bleeding all over the film review forum

it's not a personal thing though it's a community thing.

Do you really have to demonstrate so much persecution? It's just a thing, and as expressed in the thread, not the only practice of coupling of published stuff we oughta be changing. I just watched this flick for the first time the other day. One of my issues with it is that it makes heavy use of music but it would appear that the songs only sound like 50s tunes and aren't recognizable 50s tunes, like those used in American Graffiti and Happy Days. It sorta looks and feels like a low budget flick. Also, it's not as good as American Graffiti (by a long shot), but probably better than most Happy Days episodes. I was hoping to see more authentic old Brooklyn locales than I did. The plot isn't all that compelling but admirable in that it doesn't really have one, just the coming-of-age sorta thing in a real way--some guys grow up, some have grown-up-ism forced upon them, others don't grow up at all. The violence could be better. Would have liked more nudity too. Hard time believing a gang with painted leather jackets had only 4 guys in it. I liked Fonzie and Rocky in this movie though. Read where the "main" character of Chico was to have been played by Richard Gere but he didn't get along with Stallone on set and was swapped out--bad blood remains between them ever since. All the characters yell a lot. None of them look like high schoolers.

Rocky and Fonzie are minor league hoodlums in 1958 Brooklyn. Hijinx ensue.

Jeesus H, KC, go watch Breaking Away. It might be one of my favorite movies ever, not even slicing it up to "sports movies." We've broken this down before but its nearly perfect. The only issue I really have with it is the too-convenient coincidences of the very same jock villain happening to be the guy whose frisbee they run over, and brawl with in the bowling alley, and whose girl gets involved with Stoller, and who heads the rival bike team. Other than that, a masterpiece.

He does have a nice ass.

I also did this on a date. She did not turn out to be my wife. In fact, she later became someone else's wife, if you can believe that shit.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking, especially as this rain is leaking into the house through a shit window. I had zero interest in concerns of the Yuppie Class in '86. At the story, I can remember being more exasperated than entertained and don't recall what Gudenov did in this flick.

I remember seeing this new in the theater and absolutely hating it. Was I wrong?

That's funny, I zonked out on the couch during the final Hunters ep last night, woke up and asked Wifey Bucket "what happened" and she said "a lot." Getting through that show was a real chore at times -- did they have to exaggerate Nazi crimes? -- and the whole superhero thing didn't really make sense to me. In the end a show that was interesting but way out of scale to the hype, and Pacino was largely unitelligible. Wanted to put on captions.

Yeah, it was pretty good, suspenseful and parts were funny, and taught us all The True Meaning Of White Privilege. We're watching Peele's HUNTERS show now, some of the same odd mix of over the top violence, message and humor but don't love it altogether

Young interracial couple plan a "meet the parents" weekend, deadly hijinx ensue.

I heard this sucked. I read the book too

ammyzon prime has lots of em. We had to pay to rent Parasite. I believe there is a Korean channel available on the Amazon box we have

We're on a regular Korean film kick, letting the streamer AI tell us which one to next watch. Last weekend we checked out EXIT, a sweethearted action film that was only okay (poison gas attack makes loser guy perform acts of urban rooftop heroism, hijinx ensue).

This was terrible

Yeah we liked it a lot too. It was interesting how it also told the story of how poor people turning the tables on the rich really affected other poor people.

Poor kid tutors rich kid in Korea, family hjinx ensue. Stars the same guy who played the titular A TAXI DRIVER which we really liked.

Hmmm... Maybe we'll watch WESTERN STARS instead. The book was called Greetings from Bury Park and wasn't entirely great itself. I got the most out of description of his family and sort of rode with his Bruce admiration, but by the end he's like Bruce's best buddy, which made that bit of it harder to relate to. It's like, I had a hard childhood but it's ok now that I grew up to be cool.

The book didn't come off as though it would make a movie, much less a comedy as the trailer seems to suggest. It's mostly a personal and sober examination of growing up as a minority in London and, um, being a fan of Springsteen.

On the list. I read the book over the summer