March 21, 2006

But of course

The editors at the Washington Post, unsurprisingly ignorant of the greatest movie of the 1980s.

And no, I'm not talking about "Out of Africa."

Posted by Steve at March 21, 2006 12:50 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Wolverines!

Posted by: The Colossus at March 21, 2006 02:25 PM

Dang, everyone beats me to the punch.

Wolverines!

*sigh*

Posted by: jen at March 21, 2006 02:43 PM

Have you all noticed that Red Dawn seems to be on cable a lot recently? I think I've seen it about 3 times in the past month thanks to various sub-HBO's and sub-Encore movie channels.

Posted by: The Maximum Leader at March 21, 2006 03:25 PM

And I thought Escape From New York was the greatest movie of the 80's . . .

Posted by: Chai-rista at March 21, 2006 04:36 PM

Funny you should mention EFNY because I've often wondered whether Kurt Russell and Patrick Swazye aren't, in fact, really the same person.

[Ducks as Steve-O begins to hurl ninja stars.]

Posted by: Robbo the LB at March 21, 2006 05:02 PM

Everyone knows that the greatest movie of the 80's was The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

Duh.

Posted by: LB Buddy at March 21, 2006 05:21 PM

Heh, indeed, peeps. While driving the kids to and fro swimming I was thinking of doing a "greatest bad movies of the 80s" thing. The short answer is Escape from New York is really a movie about the late 1970s, and plus it's in the category of greatest truly bad films of all time, so no sense in pig-piling. LB Buddy's assertion of the primacy of Buckaroo Banzai is very important---I'm sensing a hidden juxtaposition between these two great movies.

More later.

Posted by: Steve the LLamabutcher at March 21, 2006 05:49 PM