tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post5340791920485846898..comments2024-03-27T15:16:57.305-05:00Comments on F This Movie!: Junesploitation 2018 Day 18: High School!Patrick Bromleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00771837625286775607noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-1082581888863978042022-10-21T02:57:26.045-05:002022-10-21T02:57:26.045-05:00I liked being in high school. It was a very bright...I liked being in high school. It was a very bright time with good events. At the university, life is a little more difficult, especially because of the large number of assignments. In such situations, I used the <a href="https://www.phdresearchproposal.org/" rel="nofollow">dissertation proposal service</a> to write term papers or essays. It somehow made my life easier and I had time to study subjects and hobbies.JeffThorsen777https://www.blogger.com/profile/01444214970070994178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-21209902738272646522022-10-21T02:56:46.821-05:002022-10-21T02:56:46.821-05:00Nice film, I like it!Nice film, I like it!Janet Locanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05654467180852817824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-31892535972719216152018-06-19T10:29:44.856-05:002018-06-19T10:29:44.856-05:00And the Ramones. Gabba-Gabba-Hey!And the Ramones. Gabba-Gabba-Hey!A Casual Listenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395983733474039015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-6350234681042481112018-06-19T07:30:52.008-05:002018-06-19T07:30:52.008-05:00Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979):
Come fo...Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979):<br /><br />Come for P.J. Soles. Stay for P.J. Soles. Rob DiCristinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13402698333999727219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-7317128887874316192018-06-19T01:55:16.475-05:002018-06-19T01:55:16.475-05:00Class of Nuke ‘Em High (1986)
I’m convinced that ...Class of Nuke ‘Em High (1986)<br /><br />I’m convinced that no one in Tromaville knows how to talk without yelling. I remember seeing this movie in a bar playing on the background TVs and being absolutely captivated. I might’ve been just the right amount of buzzed at the time, but it made an impression on me. Watching it again tonight with audio and in its entirety, I’m a bit underwhelmed. I’ve seen ‘The Toxic Avenger’ so many times that my expectations were a bit high. ‘Nuke ‘Em High’ has the same level of insanity but lacks the forward propulsion, action, and heart of the Toxie movies. Aaron Mansfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11738380648317649232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-77242388931720298402018-06-18T21:32:40.545-05:002018-06-18T21:32:40.545-05:00Three O'Clock High (1987)
This was one of tho...<i>Three O'Clock High</i> (1987)<br /><br />This was one of those movies that I watched most of when I was like 10 and getting up super early on weekends to watch the West Coast late-night show, and knew was something special, but didn't know what it was called and never saw it again. I think it was an episode of Pure Cinema that tweaked my memory and I picked up the Shout! Select blu-ray and finally watched it tonight. It's so great! Don't know what to say other than it's brilliant in pretty much every way - a top-notch 80s high school comedy for sure.Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03114869401584310369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-25324698808782134702018-06-18T20:19:19.253-05:002018-06-18T20:19:19.253-05:00Dazed and Confused (1993)
I was going to watch so...Dazed and Confused (1993)<br /><br />I was going to watch something new today, but I'm a bit down right now and I wanted something that would cheer me up. Not much I can say about DAZED AND CONFUSED that hasn't been said a million times before. It's one of my comfort movies and it means a lot to me. I love, love it. Michael Pomarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04209918617642114880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-40401386794316869012018-06-18T20:13:45.012-05:002018-06-18T20:13:45.012-05:00Summer School Teachers (1974)
It's a decent a...Summer School Teachers (1974)<br /><br />It's a decent although not particularly memorable '70's High School sex comedy. I noticed though that the wikipedia entry suggests it's an unofficial follow-up to The Student Teachers which released the year previously, although aside from Dick Miller playing a Coach in both of them the movies don't share any characters, cast, writers, or director. Aside from the story focusing on young women getting their start as teachers and coming from New World Pictures there isn't really anything linking them.<br /><br />Having watched The Student Teachers on Prime, I have to say that is the better Junesploitation movie as the plot takes crazy turns halfway through, and then ends in an even more unexpected sequence. It's like pages from two unrelated scripts somehow ended up getting mixed in with a high school sexploitation film.Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05129602094443434975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-19746540562422198282018-06-18T18:29:29.421-05:002018-06-18T18:29:29.421-05:00No Retreat No Surrender (1986) Dir: Corey Yuen
Th...No Retreat No Surrender (1986) Dir: Corey Yuen<br /><br />The last in my bender of high school martial arts films is the movie that gave us our lord and savior Jean-Claude Van Damme. It's a bit of a stretch since none of the movie takes place in high school, but the main character, his friends, and his bullies are all clearly supposed to be in high school based on the way they act. Maybe it was summer break?<br /><br />Anyway, this is essentially another Karate Kid rip-off, only in addition to the bullying karate gang we get JCVD as an evil kickboxer working for the mob. And for the wise mentor we get the ghost of Bruce Lee, yup that's right. He's played by Tai Chung Kim who was Bruce's double in the horrific Game of Death. It all pretty much plays out like you'd expect but the lively action by Corey Yuen and a crazy early JCVD performance keeps it moving.hibachijusticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746187565371540594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-62876391427000453602018-06-18T18:06:22.161-05:002018-06-18T18:06:22.161-05:00Prom Night (1980, dir. Paul Lynch)
Glad to have f...<i>Prom Night</i> (1980, dir. Paul Lynch)<br /><br />Glad to have finally checked this off, as it's been one of my biggest slasher blind spots for so long. It's not great and I didn't totally love it, but I think it's a lot better than it's reputation seems to be. I think the biggest problem with <i>Prom Night</i> is there's way too much time spent on a really lame love triangle that I didn't understand (really girls? that piece of white bread?), and was given no reason to care about. Too much petty squabbling. But '80s Jamie Lee Curtis is one of the greatest gifts to humankind, and the final showdown on the disco floor is pretty awesome. I also liked the girl and the guy in the van (remembering character names from this is hard) because they were charming and on the same page. There's so much of people trying to force themselves on other people, so that couple was a breathe of fresh air. Anyway, it's not a bad slasher at all and there's a great moment of #decapitationsploitation.Daniel Eplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01866855763520017556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-43312405400987765492018-06-18T17:16:15.144-05:002018-06-18T17:16:15.144-05:00Return to Horror High (1987, dir. Froehlich)
Prob...Return to Horror High (1987, dir. Froehlich)<br /><br />Probably my favourite find of the month, but definitely not my favourite movie of the month. I thought it might be, for a bit there, but this movie really goes off the rails in a fascinating way. It’s not surprising that there’s four writers credited on this thing, because as much clever observations of the filmmaking process the characters make in the first half of this movie, it couldn’t help but trip over its feet into the very things it was making fun of. The climax tries to pick up the self-aware stick and run with it, but again, doubles over itself at the finish line. <br /><br />Still, there’s a lot to like initially. Whichever writer came up with the narrative device should be lauded. (It’s disappointing that another writer seemed to not understand the narrative device and started to tangle it all up, but that’s me making assumptions in an attempt to understand what happened here.) Many scenes are genuinely funny — I audibly laughed twice, and I’m hardly a laugher — and whenever the film tries to comment on itself or the genre, it mostly lands. But in that second half, it’s like it remembers that it wants to be taken seriously as a slasher film in its own right, and when it tries to juggle both the meta-commentary and the film it’s, I guess, supposed to be, it fumbles. Still, the second to last line in the film (“And this time, bo more rewrites”) makes me think at least one of those four writers was aware of what the movie had and what the movie lost. Heck, at one point, George Clooney walks off the set of the low budget B-movie the characters are shooting for “bigger things” and never comes back. Someone here knew what they were doing. It’s just unfortunate that maybe someone else didn’t, and the whole thing got tangled. Moviemaking is hard, and Return to Horror High both tells and shows it.TedSchmosbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04230349217031985069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-54239072999255705772018-06-18T16:00:17.992-05:002018-06-18T16:00:17.992-05:00Fight Back to School (1991) Dir: Gordon Chan
Earl...Fight Back to School (1991) Dir: Gordon Chan<br /><br />Early Stephen Chow comedy. He plays an elite HK officer who, after getting in trouble, is sent undercover to local high school to find a superior's missing gun. While there he falls for the guidance counselor and uncovers a gun running plot in the school.<br /><br />Very early Chow action/comedy with most of the emphasis on comedy. Disappointingly light on action since the film is directed by Fist of Legend's Gordon Chan, and the few there are aren't very memorable. Chow's patented silliness is on full display but, like many of his early films, the humor doesn't translate that well so it just seems kind of juvenile and silly. Not a total time waster but far from the delirious heights Chow would reach a decade later.hibachijusticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746187565371540594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-851333311631770322018-06-18T15:52:53.438-05:002018-06-18T15:52:53.438-05:00I forgot he directed The Substitute 4! That was s...I forgot he directed The Substitute 4! That was some DTV Treat Williams goodness. I'll have to seek out the disc to listen to the commentary. Radler is a really underappreciated action director. I wish he had gone on to bigger things.hibachijusticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746187565371540594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-52188725813163012572018-06-18T15:32:53.771-05:002018-06-18T15:32:53.771-05:00Radler also directed The Substitute 4: Failure is ...Radler also directed The Substitute 4: Failure is Not an Option, which is a surprisingly good DTV action movie. His commentary track on it is legitimately great too, it’s like a film school class on low-budget filmmaking.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17867827164062216789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-79460758190160331942018-06-18T15:30:48.323-05:002018-06-18T15:30:48.323-05:00You're not wrong.You're not wrong.Patrick Bromleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771837625286775607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-38936090189158589232018-06-18T15:28:53.415-05:002018-06-18T15:28:53.415-05:00Malibu High (1979)
Today in school I learned that...Malibu High (1979)<br /><br />Today in school I learned that it’s a very short road from disaffected teen to prostitute to assassin. Jill Lansing is Kim, an obnoxious high school senior (seriously, she’s intensely unlikable) who spends the majority of her time topless (to the point where it feels like Ronnie Mund may have been involved in the production at some level) and decides to use that to her advantage, turning to prostitution both because she likes the power trip and because she knows she can use her body to raise her grades.<br /><br />Eventually prostitution leads to murder (sure, why not?) which leads to Kim branching out to become an assassin (sure, why not?) and killing a couple other people that she hasn’t been paid to kill just for the hell of it. All this, plus I’m 99% sure that the climactic chase scene, in which she’s chased by her ex-boyfriend who looks alarmingly like Bill Hader in his Californians outfit, was scored to the theme from The People’s Court. Not music that sounds like the People’s Court theme, but the actual People’s Court theme. Confession: I think I love this movie. JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17867827164062216789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-52957048646062890182018-06-18T14:54:15.653-05:002018-06-18T14:54:15.653-05:00Yeah and still tried to make fun of the genre, and...Yeah and still tried to make fun of the genre, and not just go full pop culture reference. But is this the last of the good spoof movie? after this the Scary Movie franchise went downhill real fast.Thor Fejerskov Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11536258081859819164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-88720792184702988852018-06-18T14:12:18.915-05:002018-06-18T14:12:18.915-05:00Those wacky Canadians. :-PThose wacky Canadians. :-PJ.M. Vargashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18293452334926334389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-14793744993105235582018-06-18T14:04:39.787-05:002018-06-18T14:04:39.787-05:00That end race is a legitimately great piece of act...That end race is a legitimately great piece of action filmmaking. My heart was pounding watching it! Only other scene I can remember affecting me that much was the bridge scene in Sorceror. Yes I just compared Airborne to Sorceror...Matt Sollenbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088555561067804979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-63844870834941438522018-06-18T14:00:16.747-05:002018-06-18T14:00:16.747-05:00Showdown (1993) Dir: Robert Radler
I love this mo...Showdown (1993) Dir: Robert Radler<br /><br />I love this movie more than anyone should. Saw it in high school and revisit it every couple of years. It's your standard Karate Kid knockoff wherein kid moves to new school, falls for bully's girl, gets beaten up by bully, and then learns martial arts and life lessons from a wise instructor. <br /><br />These Karate Kid knock offs were super common in the 90's but Showdown stands out for a couple of reasons: 1) Pre Tae-Bo Billy Blanks plays the instructor, 2) Pre-fame Christine Taylor plays the love interest and is about as adorable as a human can be, and 3) it's directed by Best of the Best's Robert Radler, which means the fights are incredibly well shot and edited and the acting is far above average for this type of movie. If you're looking for a more family friendly martial arts film you could definitely do worse than this one.hibachijusticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746187565371540594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-71342075901673919592018-06-18T13:56:30.506-05:002018-06-18T13:56:30.506-05:00ZAPPED (1982)
A teen dude gets telekinetic powers...ZAPPED (1982) <br />A teen dude gets telekinetic powers and uses them to cause all kinds of mischief, including but not limited to making girls’ clothes fly off their bodies. That’s the part everyone mentions because there’s not much else going in this movie, sadly. The plot meanders all over the place, a lot of the jokes don’t land, and the romance is inconsistent (she likes him, she’s mad at him, she likes him, she’s mad at him, and so on). It’s fun in a novelty/nostalgia way, but not much else.<br /><br />ZAPPED AGAIN (1990) <br />It’s a practical joke war between the nerds in science club and popular kids in the “key club.” The main character has telekinesis, but not much is done with it. This watered down sequel-in-name-only has nothing to offer. The first film isn’t exactly good, but it does have that novelty factor. This thing is just plain boring.<br /><br />ZAPPED (2014) <br />A girl has a magic smartphone, which she can use to mind-control all boys to do her bidding. This is the usual Disney Channel cotton candy filmmaking, so don’t expect any salaciousness from the rather salacious premise. Instead, it’s life lessons about family, friendship, and being true to yourself, etc., with a few mild laughs thrown in. What can I say? You’re either down with this type of movie or you’re not.<br />Mac McEntirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04665675426679622487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-24266458588066153502018-06-18T13:53:46.184-05:002018-06-18T13:53:46.184-05:00Charlie speaks the truth about Airborne. It's...Charlie speaks the truth about Airborne. It's such a good time!hibachijusticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746187565371540594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-9722391384860794112018-06-18T13:36:07.992-05:002018-06-18T13:36:07.992-05:00I didn't even know Fox played a female Batman ...I didn't even know Fox played a female Batman villain. That guy's got range!Mikko Viinikkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16045016331246302112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-3735896955202967302018-06-18T13:27:45.019-05:002018-06-18T13:27:45.019-05:00Cherry Hill High (1977, dir. Alex E. Goitein)
A h...Cherry Hill High (1977, dir. Alex E. Goitein)<br /><br />A high school teacher challenges five girls to lose their virginity in the most creative way based on a point system. There has to be an easier way to watch people have sex than sitting through this movie.Patrick Bromleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771837625286775607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-58323597011141282342018-06-18T12:44:22.053-05:002018-06-18T12:44:22.053-05:00Airborne (1993)
Pretty great cast. Unreasonably w...Airborne (1993)<br /><br />Pretty great cast. Unreasonably well shot and edited. Kinda blown away right now. Saw chunks of this movie many times as a teenager, but was not prepared for how awesome it is. Someone do a double feature with Gleaming The Cube and tell me if can ever wipe the smile off your face. Charles Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08135869584272794906noreply@blogger.com