80s Commercial Night

The focus this week is on the commercials but, so we can enjoy them in their natural habitat, we're going to watch some things that were on TV when these commercials were originally shown. It's going to be about a 50/50 split so these commercial breaks are going to be long. Like last-half-of-a-movie-showing-on-Saturday-afternoon long.

The infamous Too Close For Comfort episode "For Every Man, There's Two Women" aired late in the show's run. You probably gave up on it before July 20, 1985, the day it aired. Heck, all you remember from Too Close For Comfort is the cow puppet.



Well, the cow isn't even in this episode.

Shattered If Your Kid's on Drugs stars Burt Reynolds, Judd Nelson and Anne of Green Gables's Megan Follows:



It's also Dermot Mulroney's debut, beating Dylan McDermott to the screen by one year. So if anyone needs to bow out so I don't confuse them anymore, it's Dylan. Now if I could have a few words about Isla Fisher and Amy Adams...

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Cat Movie Night

I've been thinking of Cat Movie Night ever since I thought my cat was on her last legs. It could have been like a tribute. But then she hung on



So I went ahead and showed the best killer cat movie ever made, Uninvited,

 

along with a non-cat movie. Although they use the word cat a lot in Black Dynamite:



See? There was one. Brickwilla?

So I've finally assembled two more cat movies. They aren't killer cats exactly.

The Cat in Cat's Eye mostly just observes. It's a horror anthology and the best story is the first one so hopefully people come early (on time). The movie is from the same director as Alligator, which was a great, early BMN movie.

The cat in Catman in Lethal Track makes a brief appearance, only serving to pass on its cat powers to a guy named Sam. This is a Godfrey Ho movie, the second in two weeks. It also makes Ho and John Carpenter tied for most movies at BMN. Who's up for a Carpenter/Ho Down?

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Roboco-opt Movie Night

Late spring has been a very fluid time for Bad Movie Night. There's probably an ice-melting metaphor in there somewhere, I want you to work on it. The Turkish Star Trek remake came a week after Fan Remake Night. Then we segued into a night that saw Leonard Nimoy singing about Bilbo Baggins. Then a bunch of other stuff happened that worked out quite well. Trust me. And now RoboCop gets deconstructed by two movies.



I'm told that's not what deconstruction is. Well, if Robo Vampire sounds familiar it's because I was going to show it three years ago. Looks like we watched Scorpion Thunderbolt instead.



Both of those movies are by Godfrey Ho. He's second only to John Carpenter in the amount of movies a director has at BMN, 6 to 7. Wes Craven and Larry Cohen have horses in that race too but they forgot to make a kerbillion cut-and-paste, Asian-side/American-side movies. Wait, does Music of the Heart fit that description?



Psycho Cop's Wikipedia entry says, "this film was criticized by the Police Interest Group for what they considered an unrealistic portrayal of police". Good one Wikipedia. I was about to write how nobody from the movie did anything else of note but then I noticed the writer/director was "story researcher" for Perfect. But what really blew my mind, because I've seen the movie, was that the titular character is played by Robert R. Shafer, AKA



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Today's Movies

Levi Movie Night

The kid turns three on Friday, here's his first appearance on this blog, so I thought I'd go with a movie that wouldn't scare him, like Critters did, and a movie about one of his favorite things, robots, that he won't see because he'll be asleep.

Foodfight! has been a long time coming. When, finally, news of a DVD surfaced it was after the owners were forced to sell the movie. Since being released it's already joined the bad movie conversation. Which isn't a real thing but if you start one I have some thoughts Jamaa Fanaka.



What an interestingly edited video.

RoboCop is the return of director Paul Verhoeven after being absent for three years. Showgirls was our 200th movie. We watched 300 additional movies without Verhoeven? Why did we watch all those Godfrey Ho movies? Oh, because they're amazing.



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