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Then Disappointing
Just iii years after "The Breakfast Club", this film reunites Michael Anthony Hall and Paul Gleason. It aims to achieve the irreverent humor of a moving-picture show like "Stripes" combined with the titillation of "Porky's". About every graphic symbol in this movie is a extravaganza. You tin tell a lot of people put a lot of work into this film, and then where does it go wrong?
First, the film'south primary story--nearly a football phenom who is unscrupulously recruited past every powerhouse program in the country--is a serious drag on the sense of humour. There is nothing funny about the cede of educational values to the football money auto.
Secondly, the film tries to include every standard feature of every youth comedy film--the clueless adults, the topless scenes, the humor centering on sex activity and alcohol--and in and so doing, becomes a parody of itself.
I am deducting one point just for the colossal waste of talent.
Robert Downey Jr. is wasted here, playing the wacky sidekick. Uma Thurman's performance as the hometown girlfriend is lost in the silliness.
The unabridged film is anticipated, sometimes cringe-worthy, and irksome.
In a scene almost the end of the film Hall, Downey and Thurman drive off in a convertible to begin their post-high school lives and in that location is a sense of what this film could have been: an interesting exploration of the lives of three kids who have problems to face and things to learn. It might even have been funny, likewise.
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unfunny comedy
Johnny Walker (Anthony Michael Hall) is the star high school football quarterback and punter. Backup quarterback Leo Wiggins (Robert Downey Jr.) is his best friend that never gets into the game. Wayne Hisler (Paul Gleason) is the hated coach. They win the championship and Johnny is recruited by everybody. His girlfriend Georgia Elkans (Uma Thurman) wants him to follow her to State college for a solid education.
There are nobody to like in this movie. This is trying to be a one-act just information technology's not funny. This subject could allow for a dark gritty realistic tale of bad recruitment practices but information technology's so fake. The writing is nowhere nearly sharp enough. It'due south always fascinating to see a young star and this one has Uma Thurman. Hall isn't convincing or likable. Downey is mugging for the camera too much without getting whatever laughs. This is Bud S. Smith'south ane and only directing credit. There'southward a reason for that.
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Are We Supposed to Experience Sorry For This Jerk? (SPOILERS)
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At that place is and then much wrong with Johnny Be Practiced, I can't believe there was one viewer that actually had something skilful to say about it. And I'm an idiot for having bought this garbage.
In short, the story goes like this. Senior football game player is the highlight of recruiters all over, and they all desire Johnny to play for their school. He spends time, though, going to two schools who hope the near crap--money, girls, beer, whatever he wants. His coach, on the other hand, is going to blackball him if Johnny doesn't get to the school that his coach tells him considering he's expecting a coaching job out of it. Meanwhile, there'south an NCAA investigation going on into recruitment procedures. Blah...blah...blah...Johnny realizes what a jerk he's been (in reality, I don't think a guy like that would ever say no to incredulous amounts of textile pampering) and says no mode. So, he gets some sense. The end.
First of all, nosotros have the lame story of some stud high school football game player enjoying the cut throat recruitment of some hot shot colleges who promises every kind of material incentive to get him to go to schoolhouse. Perhaps the film is making a valid bespeak most the disgusting lengths colleges become to to get players on their squad (a cost allocated to the rest of the students, no less). Withal, the movie, which plays out like a baffling unrealistic boyish fantasy of wild romps and beer busts, absorbs whatever sort of validity the story might have.
And my copy of the video is certain to notify viewers that more sexually suggestive footage had been added than was in the original release, like any of it is worth watching anyways.
Non simply is the story boring watching Johnny Walker go from school to schoolhouse to be pampered, but the "hero" of the story is unbearably obnoxious. It figures. Somewhere afterwards his great performances in John Hughes'southward movies, Anthony Michael Hall seemed to turn into an unlikeable teenager, and one that never really looked similar he enjoyed acting in any of the movies he was in (encounter Out of Premises). Johnny Walker is some wiggle kid who expects everyone to just fall in love with him. One of those characters where, no matter what he does, everything will work out his way. (Just look at the sequence where he takes revenge on his coach--what the hell are we supposed to make of that? Especially when anybody'southward attitude is and then apathetic).
Robert Downey, Jr. is an even bigger waste, and also a confusion, babbling the nigh idiotic lines throughout the movie. He'southward hardly interesting, much less funny. And, Uma Thurman, who plays Johnny's girlfriend, Georgia, doesn't seem to go anything but crap from her boyfriend.
Johnny Walker epitomizes the kind of kids I hated in high school. Jocks who ever got a free ride, and walked around with a holier than thou attitude like the rest of the globe should kiss their anxiety because they knew how to toss around a football. And he'south supposed to be our hero?
I can learn to like 80s teen trash, but this pic is just god awful.
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Clichéd and Unfunny
Lame sports one-act with a miscast Anthony Michael Hall as the hottest high school football prospect who ever lived. It's really a vanity project for Hall, who had been playing nerd characters his whole career. Here he's trying to buff upwards and exist taken seriously every bit something more than a geek. He fails. Robert Downey, Jr. plays the wacky best friend, as he often did back then. Downey's the nearly entertaining function of this, which isn't saying much. Decent support from Paul Gleason and Jennifer Tilly. Early on office by Uma Thurman. She'south beautiful and does fine in a worthless function in a worthless movie. I pretty much hated every minute of this. Most every character is unlikable, especially the lead. The satire about college sports and other things is heavy-handed and never funny. Oh, and the music is dreadful. Avoid this unless you lot are a massive fan of Hall, Downey, or Thurman.
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Not that bad
Not the best movie I've ever seen merely a good coming of age comedy. Echo comedy. Some people might not similar this movie but I idea it was good. If you like movies in general and can deal or like the 1980's and early 1990's era movies you lot'll enjoy this.
If yous like the Breakfast Club or whatever of the Deviling Pack era movies you'll like this. Information technology also has some expert football game scenes but just a few brusk ones then those that hate football tin can manage through them.
Basically this movie is almost higher recruiting of a star high school football quarterback. He struggles with the moral question of does he go to the flashy money schools or the one where he might become an pedagogy. In the mean time his family, motorbus and friends all fall victim to college recruiters.
Non a practiced film for immature children due to sexual overtones, drinking, etc. Men and women should both savor this motion-picture show.
My favorite scene is early in the movie with Johnny in his room playing the drums with the Television receiver and stereo going. I could really chronicle to this scene from my loftier school years. I measure movies by the question of, would I exist disappointed if I had paid $ten to see it at the movie theatre. This one exceeds the form. Savour.
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Practiced ol' boy one-act tailor-fabricated for the emotionally-stunted...
Dreadful would-be vehicle for Anthony Michael Hall has a loftier school football game star--unable to decide where he wants to play college brawl--catered to by slavering University recruiters, each of whom are offer the child a lucrative scholarship. What makes this young man then incredibly special? Judging from Hall's extra-banal demeanor, he certainly isn't capable of arousing a large crowd with his enthusiasm for the sport. The three screenwriters (who likewise served equally co-producers!) do charmless work; they cannot wait to get the leading graphic symbol out of town in guild to contain wild parties and strip-joints into the mix. The raunch is almost likely what sold the movie to Orion Pictures, who were obviously hoping to tap into the and so-popular John Hughes marketplace (the company afterward added more sex activity to the home-video version after the flick did modest business in theaters). Unfortunately, writers Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai, and David Obst show absolutely none of Hughes' comic sensibility or sensitivity, and director Bud Smith directs with a leaden touch. True to form in '80s teen flicks, all the adults are ignorant, money-grubbing whores while our well-scrubbed hero stands caput-and-shoulders above the chaos. Sports announcer Howard Cosell and real-life athletes make cameos, Uma Thurman is attractive in one of her earliest roles, merely Hall and smutty buddy Robert Downey Jr. are 1-dimensional. * from ****
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Johnny Be Poo: D
A catatonic-ally atrocious jock-ball pic form the late 80s seems to take been made as a vanity project past some BOOGIE NIGHTS mode producers clearly in beloved with the cute twink looks of Anthiony Michael Hall. He is very desired apparently but all his charm and Domicile ALONE star manner looks were lost on me. JBG also stars the gorgeous Uma Thurman in a practice role to get a casting reel together, and the great Robert Downey Jnr scoring some easy coin earlier becoming less than zippo for a few years. Even Million Tilly appears for a few squawks. The same iii scriptwriters are the 3 producers and I would bet any money you similar at that place was three big posters of AMH in each of their studio lockers. JBG is terrible, an embarrassment and a fawning leer at a teen actor bearded equally a footy comedy. No wonder Orion Pictures went broke. It looks like a subterfuge gay moving picture pretending to be a mid-west college comedy. Mayhap a gay remake would be amend. It would have to be.
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I good scene in a ocean of mediocrity
There is ane good scene in this flick, and it'southward pretty skilful. Anthony Michael Hall has just been on a recruitment tour of private colleges who desire to give him football scholarships and he has come back to his hometown to negotiate a deal with the athletic managing director of a public university. The interplay between the two, especially the unspoken lines, is done beautifully.
Other than that, this is a pretty standard (sub-standard) teen flick posing as a cautionary tale. I recollect this flick wanted to be a comedic version of "All the Right Moves", only didn't accept the guts to tell a real story.
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Well, I finally made information technology all the manner through this garbage
Well, I did it. I had heard virtually how bad this moving-picture show was and I went downwardly to the Borders Books & Music and bought it. Later on having turned it on and shut information technology off on at to the lowest degree 10 successive occasions, I finally made information technology to the stop this evening. You see, every time I fired it upwardly I thought, "The remainder of information technology can't possibly exist every bit awful as the function I only watched. They can't peradventure insult the viewer's intelligence any more than they have." The filmmakers proved me wrong each time.
The script was clunky, the photography is badly framed and poorly shot, and much of the film just doesn't brand any sense. Also, there isn't a single sequence the conclusion of which you can't run across coming from a mile away- come on, of Class Johhny's "side" was going to win the impromptu football game game when he has one hand shackled behind his dorsum- and his girl is the prize! And Johnny Walker strutting down the Main street of his staid, middle-American town dressed like he'due south on his way to a Gay bar on Cowboy Night?! How ELSE would his straight-laced family react than with stupor, indignation and cloy? As to the actors, Uma is lovely, Downey is Downey (and I acknowledge is pretty good in his standard hopped-up sidekick part, specially in the motel scenes,) but Hall seems completely uninterested in what he'southward doing. He really acts as if he didn't really want to do this film, in spite of the fact that he DID desire a vehicle that would interruption his Brat Pack Geek-in-Principal image. I felt sorry for him. He was really cute, but that was it. His character, Johnny Walker, speaks to a crowd of having embarrassed himself towards the end of the picture. To me, information technology seemed that Hall delivered those lines with utter conviction, and I'm not surprised. If this were on my resume, I'd deny it. Hall has, of grade, gone on to a feasible and even admirable career. I guess it'due south really true that you tin can't keep a good man downward, even if he makes such a potentially suicidal career choice as this film. Information technology'due south a testament to the man's drive and conclusion to succeed that he left trash like this far behind him and kept working.
Another gripe I have: screenwriters Zacharias and Buhai wrote the original "Revenge of the Nerds," and then they ought to have known what would work in a Youth comedy. Plainly they forgot.
The two worst aspects of this film, however, were these: first, it was unbelievably irksome (and a bad movie that is dull is the worst bad movie of all); secondly, the lampooning of corruption in collegiate football is a feasible topic and it could accept worked if the script had been decent, the story been told in a logically plotted arc, Bud Smith hadn't directed and Hall had acted similar he cared (and not mumbled his lines equally if he were auditioning for the first time at a Junior Loftier Schoolhouse'due south offering of Romeo and Juliet.) I requite this ludicrous waste of my time a one.
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A comedy with some centre and a good message but gets hung up on frivolities
Life lessons are not always the most prevalent in coming of age genre films. Sometimes they're existent obvious, while others are more obscure and await to take their viewers find the deeper meaning themselves. It's also difficult to say how significant a coming of age film tin be when it is a Rated R comedy. Some take worked brilliantly - The 40 Yr Old Virgin (2005) is ane. This on the other paw is a foreign mix of elements that plays its cards correct in some respects, while at other moments it's questionable to what the crew was thinking here. This is the story of Johnny Walker (Anthony Michael Hall), a high school athlete who has quite a fan gild. Afterwards winning the last football game of the season (past cheating no less), Walker is approached by recruiter upon recruiter to play for their college team.
There are also other people who want Johnny to go with their stance. Wayne Hisler (Paul Gleason), the loftier schoolhouse omnibus wants him to attend a college of his pick so he can larn special benefits and he'll exercise annihilation to make certain it happens. Johnny's mom and grandad want him to get an instruction more than than a sports scholarship and his girlfriend Georgia (Uma Thurman) wants him to nourish State with her. So many opinions, which i will he choose?! Well, Johnny ends up attention mostly all of their open up houses. This ends up having him beingness bribed with things that seem nearly unrealistic or things that take nada to practise with getting an instruction or playing football. Of course fame grants several of these things but at a high school level? The kid and his team didn't even play fairly winning the last game so how does that even qualify? Are the refs that blind?
Plus, what'south even more shocking is to how this product was able to gather now famous actors when they were starting off and the chemistry feels virtually nonexistent. And, the screenplay was completed by iii writers, all of which worked on Revenge of the Nerds (1984). How is that barely any charm are given to these characters? There are just a couple of moments that Johnny goes through that actually develop him as a character. Other than that he's placed in silly events that should trigger his conscience proverb he shouldn't be at that place. The best parts of the picture are when Johnny's family is on screen. Somehow they seem to have the best lines and character arcs. My favorite family unit member was the granddaddy (George Hall). Such a overnice old human being.
Uma Thurman's character has a very typical character arc, loves her boyfriend - finds him as a wiggle briefly - and then resorts back to him. Possibly the strangest of all is Robert Downey Jr.'southward character. Either he tries too hard to be funny or his jokes don't make any sense. It's baffling, I guess Downey Jr. didn't realize how much funnier he is when he says his lines deadpan than really trying to be comical. Fans might too get a kick out of actor Marshal Bell'southward performance every bit Uma Thurman's dad, too the chief of police. He has some funny one liners at times too. All right enough of the characters. Jay Ferguson's music to the picture is appropriately gear up but doesn't have anything to remember about it. Was it a comedy that had laughs galore? Not and so much. Does it feel like a coming of historic period movie? Non really.
The cast contains famous actors of today in their youth and has a moral somewhere in its story but its commitment is overshadowed by striking and miss one-act. Much of the events that accept identify feel impossible too, decreasing its believability.
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Lots of problems hither
This picture show has 2 chief things going for it - nostalgia and the ability to daydream about having Uma Thurmann as your girlfriend in 1988. There are many fantastic shots of her in all measure of garb, including a wonderful body-length pajamas. Lots of squeamish white tops and jeans. Phew and Rowrrrrr.....
Anthony Michael Hall is an actor I decided I liked later all in his subsequently career when he played Bill Gates in Pirates of Silicon Valley. He's got a measured confidence mixed with some menace underneath that all-american blonde facade. Despite what some might some might say about Hall's depth, he is well-nigh the only thing saving this movie from absolute disaster.
I really found Robert Downey Jr to exist by and large detestable in this moving picture, and its very early for him, just he isn't given a lot to work with. He does have a few good lines, though.
Structurally, this picture show has a lot of problems. The plot is insanely thin, and it sort of purports to a certain amount of morality, but then it does not a lot to back up that assumption. It lays out Hall'south grapheme compromise of his graphic symbol in such an extreme, laughable manner, it's pretty hard to take it seriously. It's a movie that is sort of making fun of itself, or maybe the director and actors are mocking the script. Information technology's got that experience of not existence taken super seriously, something that happened quite a bit in the 80s and made for some charming fare, but as well fabricated for some not denoting films. The production values and soundtrack are good, still. The music is period, and well curated, simply featuring lesser known tracks, not all well-known hits. I likewise always similar seeing the uncluttered life of the 1980s, no cel phones, nonetheless a certain amount of neon, nice 1970s and 1980s cars, and the general party atmosphere of the time.
As I said, however, the number 1 reason to spotter this is for Uma Thurmann. The i realistic thing nigh this movie is that in existent life, this guy probably would be stupid plenty to lose Uma Thurmann. Of course in real life, he never would take been dating her in the first place.
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Almost the worst...
I'm astounded that anyone has anything positive to say about this thing. It's almost the worst picture show I've ever seen (Doom Generation still holds the title for me). This thing has zippo going for it. The storyline doesn't progress, it bounces all over the place. I'm not even sure the scenes were put together in the right order. Johnny'southward above the recruitment tactics, then he's suckered by them, and so he's above them, and and then he's falling for them again. Zippo seems to follow from what comes immediately before it. It'south a mess.
If any gag in the thing were funny, I wouldn't mind the fact that it's a very poorly made picture, but there'southward not a laugh to be establish in it. It's garbage. Precious few movies can claim to be worse.
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Just Awful
Honestly, this is probably 1 of the worst movies I've always seen. It's certainly one of the least-competently made studio releases always. In that location are entire scenes in this movie in which the sound is so poorly handled that you can barely hear what characters are saying. This isn't helped by Anthony Michael Hall's decision to mumble all of his lines. He seemed very unenthusiastic almost this role--like he could barely work up the energy even to say the words.
There is a scene in the film in which Hall'south graphic symbol and some friends have an impromptu football game on his girlfriend's front lawn, confronting her father (who hates Hall for some reason that is never explained) and some other boobs, that is so badly edited that you just cannot tell what is happening. Characters come in and out of that scene without rhyme or reason--continuity errors abound. In that location are too many scenes in which weird dialog was looped in during post-production to span bad-mannered narrative gaps. This is a certain sign that the director didn't really know what he was doing, and just failed to capture footage that made sense on its own.
Besides, Robert Downey, Jr. is unbelievably obnoxious in this film. I hateful really icky.
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Generally Airheaded.
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Uma Thurman, in her movie debut at the age of 17 or 18, is every bit gangly and succulent equally ever, and maybe more so. She's awfully piece of cake on the eyes. Too bad there isn't more than of her.
That's about it, as far equally I'm concerned. I can imagine others getting more than out of this noisy and ridiculous motion picture near a high-schoolhouse football hero being courted by various colleges who offer him money, bribes, margaritas, and of course sexy women.
I tin can imagine most of those others beingness adolescents because the pic illustrates and endorses all the adolescent virtues. That wouldn't in itself exist the buss of death. Some very agreeable movies have been fabricated nigh adolescence.
Just -- well, let me give two examples of humor in this movie. Y'all're supposed to laugh at both of them.
The story opens with a football game game. One of the cheer leaders on our side has removed her pants. The ii rival teams line up. The quarterback on our team shouts, "Hey, that cheerleader has no pants on!" The rival team glances over and our side bursts through their line.
Case number two. The happy family of the hero is seated effectually the family dinner table and chatting abroad. Even the niggling daughter with the missing front teeth asks impudent questions. The scene closes with the family members and the guest throwing pieces of food at each other and laughing.
If you find this funny, if you like loud electronic guitars and pounding percussion, if you find raunchy comments about genitals amusing in themselves, you lot will enjoy this movie.
I don't know how information technology concluded considering I couldn't lookout man it all the way through, just I imagine that Johnny the football hero gives up money, glory, beer, and girls, joins a monastery and becomes a contemplative monk.
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Fun 80'southward motion-picture show, if y'all enjoy Hall and Downey, Jr having fun
I of my favs of all time. I enjoy information technology every time I watch information technology. No, it's not Oscar material, only it is fun. And it has Uma, who looks better in this movie than anything she has ever been in. If you looking for a serious movie dealing with college recruiting, and then this is not for y'all..only it is entertaining to watch Downey and Hall human action retarded, they're probably drunk the entire moving-picture show, but it is nevertheless fun..And Gleason is nifty as usual. He seems to still scenes in every movie he's in.. The strip gild scene, which is cut out on TNT and comedy cardinal is pretty good. Plus, it has a cameo by the punky QB..Lighten up. It's just a goofy 80's motion picture. Beside, Hall passed up on Farris Bueller and Full Metallic Jacket for this..So it must exist good, Right..
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The worst of all films
Despite the presence of Robert Downey Jr. and Uma Thurman, this could very well be the worst movie I take always seen. (Information technology's a toss-up between this and Mixed Nuts). It embodies everything that was incorrect with movies during the 80s, the worst decade for cinema ever. MTV motion picture technique, vapid scripts, no story depth, nostalgic happy endings and the typical, irresponsible "Let'southward brownnose to teens by portraying the parents as incorrect when they're really not all incorrect" attitude. I hate this moving-picture show.
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Underrated fourscore's comedy
I'm surprised at the negativity. It'southward a great dumb comedy with a tiny bit of morality thrown in. The recruitment tactics may non be an exaggeration of reality - trying to schmooze the all-American QB.
How is it possible that Aye Human being averages a 7 out of 10 and this moving-picture show is a 4.? Yes Man was barely watchable.
The cast was perfect and the picture show probably wouldn't have worked without them. Robert Downey Jr.'southward grapheme is and so disturbed and hilarious. It seems to be a carryover from his function in Back to Schoolhouse. Which is another great 80'southward one-act. Uma Thurman is so cute in one of her first acting roles. Paul Gleason plays is a-hole character to perfection.
Maybe I am just old enough to still dearest the John Hughes-way high school comedies of the 1980'southward. This isn't the best of brood, just definitely worth enjoying.
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Very expert comedy picture show
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Its a fiddling slapstick, but very expert. Not perfect acting, but dandy movie. I accept seen the Theater version PG-13, and the Video Rated R version. The theater one is simply a cut scenes of the rated R version. It is about a high school quarterback that is very popular, and excellent at playing football in high schoolhouse. He gets swamped of college recruiters trying to recruit him to play for them. It only shows him going to 2 colleges though.
While he is ditching his high school coach of visiting the colleges that the omnibus wants to exist hired on equally a coach for that college, Johnny is visiting other colleges. Johnny finds out that the coach fabricated a deal with a college without his knowledge, and Johnny gets back at him. I say people that don't like this are either younger than the time that it was release or old, and hate football movies. Either fashion why did you hire or buy it then if you don't like those kind of movies? It is your fault, not anyone else.
I say sentinel this movie, but if your in those categories above said, and then look elsewhere.
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Johnny non then good.....
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It'south recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest immature football prospect.
But he has a major dilemma, should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give upwards his football game career........
I don't know what is worse. Downey Jrs utterly dreadful performance, or seeing Uma Thurman in a light I've never seen before, wooden and god ugly.
The moving-picture show itself? Information technology's the pits. Hall has all the screen presence of a one-half digested pineapple, and considering he was hilarious in Weird Science, in only a couple of years, his talent got up and left him.
Gleason is the all-time thing in this, channelling his Breakfast Club master slightly and delivering a decent performance.
The film isn't funny, it grates after 30 minutes, and if yous stick with it, considering it's an eighties moving picture with 2 big stars so it must become better, ready yourself, its torture.
But I bet Anthony Michael Hall watches this constantly screaming at the Tv set 'I was bigger than you Downey Jr!!! Bigger!!!!'
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Great 80's Comedy
I don't know why there are and so many bad comments from people about this film, I laugh through the entire moving picture. Robert Downey Jr. gives i his funniest performances I have ever seen as Hall's sidekick oddball friend and Anthony Michael Hall is surprisingly good at playing the "super-jock" role. Paul Gleason, the master from The Breakfast Club, is hilarious as the high school motorcoach trying to go a college job and Uma Thurman isn't bad as Hall'southward girlfriend. The all-time parts of the film happen when Hall and Downey Jr. are interacting, and the joke they play on Gleason when he is home is then funny. Don't take this motion-picture show seriously, it's non intended to have any deep theoretical meaning; it'southward but supposed to brand you lot laugh.
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Pretty much what I expected
But a run of the mill 80's try hard comedy, a few funny scenes...naught to get excited about (one and done)
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Non bad.
Finally Anthony Michael Hall doesn't play the geek/dork/nerd. He's the stud quarterback all the girls and college coaches wants, and he's good as good a stud as he is a nerd. Not a bad hr and a one-half, and oh... Uma! Gotta dear Uma!
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Not very good, but not equally bad equally some comments here!
Maybe you have to appreciate the type of sense of humor that makes this picture funny for me. I sometimes enjoy the stupid, throw-away lines that are liberally sprinkled throughout this i. For case, when Robert Downey Jr. is talking to the 2 girls in the cabin room, his description of a previous sexual encounter is hilarious and odd as only RDJ can get in.
There's a lot almost this movie that doesn't work. Simply I choose to focus on what is funny. Over the years, I have repeated many a line from this stupid flick. Like "What'southward shaking' coach....motorcoach, how do you feel" or "UCC is your only movement, UCC is your always most GROOVE!"
One thing that stands out for me is the utilize of footage from the sixty's classic "Putney Swope" which happens to be a moving picture written and directed by RDJ'south begetter, Robert Downey Sr. But virtually people wouldn't even pick upward on that! For those that did, or wondered where they had come beyond the scene at the bulldoze-in before, that's what it was. Robert Downey Sr.'southward character even makes a comment nigh how bad the movie is. An insider's joke, perhaps.
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This is the WORST
movie that i take ever seen in my life, too BMX Bandits and Jaws: The Revenge. I don't fifty-fifty think it'south worth commenting further, but I have to. Are we to believe that the guy from the Breakfast Order's scrawny ass would fifty-fifty Make a high school football team, much less be a star? Oh, and the colleges offering cars and stuff it is only horrible.
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Johnny Exist Meh
Johnny Exist Good: Directed by Bud Smith and written by Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai and David Obst.
Tomatometer rating is 0%. That's right folks this movie has admittedly no positive reviews out of 11. I didn't detest this movie. This reminded me a lot of the New Guy in the sense that it reeks of the era in which it was made. It has such an 80s feel that it can be made no other time.
This is an over the superlative one-act where every movement and line reading is cartoonishly inflated to grand proportions. It has non cease musical moments. It has montages out of the wazoo. It is taking the serious allegations of college trying lure loftier schoolhouse athletes to certain colleges with deals meant to cater to their baser instincts and making information technology seem outlandish. Information technology's not. Information technology is something that happens and it'south okay to lampoon information technology. This movie though merely gave me a headache. It was a barrage of music and terrible unfunny comedy.
The performances were right on the edge. I liked Anthony Michael Hall and Paul Gleason simply Robert Downey Jr was detestable in this motion-picture show. He was wild and crazy for every unmarried affair he did and it became too much very rapidly. Thankfully though the film was very short. It clocks in at 82 minutes.
I wanted to like this movie. I actually did but something felt off well-nigh the entire film from the very beginning. Nothing could be done to shake no matter how many lavish over the top mockery of Texas football there was. I requite this film a D.
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