Right?? It's critically acclaimed.

Agreed 👍 👍

Yeah erm it's a classic to Gene a guilty pleasure lmfao 😂😂🤣🤣 these two were something else weren't they hopefully not many people listened to them

At the time, it was a box office bomb and pretty heavily maligned as a failure, which is probably why they call it a "guilty pleasure". Over the years, however, it's obtained a classic status, especially as Alan Parker 's career developed. You have to look at these things from the perspective of when they were made and when these episodes were shot. "Bugsy Malone" was not seen as a "classic" in 1981. For that matter, "The Thing" and "Blade Runner" and many other films now seen as "classics" from the 80's, weren't seen that way at the time and were box office failures.

It's a cute movie.

It was a bit weird hearing Gene say Scott "by-oh" instead of "bay-oh".

Great performances all around. Alan Parker directed this original movie.

You've watched it as an adult? I revisited it recently and it was impossibly bad.

@@JustWasted3HoursHere I thought it was Scott Bye-eeh-eye-eeh-eye-oh?

Hey, I liked Ice Pirates...

Oh well. Not all predictions come true.

Haha

@@ZyxthePest Me too! In fact, "Ice Pirates" is _MY_ guilty pleasure. I've recommended it to several people and they all thought it was juvenile (which it is!), but that's one of the reasons I liked it. Oddly, I think if it had been made with a big budget it would not have worked as well.

Hilarious...some future, eh?

One of the best cult movies ever!

It's an incredibly intelligent film with severe po!itical overtones. It's one of the most underrated exploitation films ever made.

I was such a nerdy kid, I'd come in from playing outside so I wouldn't miss an episode. Loved it.

This show was my highlight of the weekend! 😁

I get a similar warm feeling from screenwipes (especially the clockwipe)

@@zetetick395 Is it Oblivion, where they use the squeaky gate sound effect so much it gets burned into your brain. And every movie after that, if you hear it it knocks you out of the movie? RLM burned the pottery sound effect into my mind so bad i can hear it in a sound effect where multiple effects are combined. When vision and scarlet witch crashed through the skylight and into an iron gate they used just like 20% of it and i still heard it.

Uh-oh ...

I agree, having first read about it in Danny Peary's Cult Movies book series and then luckily catching it on a late night cable TV showing, and later home video. By the time Heather's came out in the late 80s I was able to pick out several plot and character elements that seemed to have lifted wholesale from Daalder's original premise.

It is a great movie.

I agree.

A plus in my book.

Sully lived in the building next to my grandmother.

Yup. Commando is one of my guilty pleasures. It's a fun 80s popcorn flick!

@@reneedennis2011 Yeah, Commando is by Mark L Lester: The same guy who directed the punk exploitation revenge corker _Class of '84_ (1982) 👌😸 (which among other things has a TINY 14 year old Michael J Fox - smoking meth and going fkn CRAZY) 🤣

Good point!

She had four films out in 1976:Taxi Driver,Bugsy Malone,Echoes Of A Summer and Freaky Friday. The latter had a one week Oscar qualifying run in Los Angeles and opened wide in 1977. She was also the youngest person to ever host Saturday Night Live at age 13. She would hold the record until 8 year old Drew Barrymore hosted in 1982.

I like The Little Girl who Lives Down the Lane. Martin Sheen is a creep in that movie!

@@rickjr37 Thanks for the info!

@@reneedennis2011 Yeah, he really knows how to _hover_ over someone @_@ (Like Randy Quaid as 'father' in the unforgettable _Parents_ (1989)

@@zetetick395 Yup.

He went wrong by not having Bugsy as his trusty wingman.

They fell out of favor in the late 70s. There was a theater in my hometown that had one until 1981.

You must be 20

@@pawsnclaws2115 No... 58.

Me neither and I'm 57. I sure would've loved to try some of that "non-carbonated grape" drink.

It'd be preddy loud, I would think.......KLUNK! - I remember they did used to have cigarette vending machines in the theatre entrance corridor... (and ashtrays on the back of every cinema seat)

This James Ryan film and it's similarly well received follow ups were filmed and financed in Apartheid South Africa. It's quite likely that increasing public censure of South African's race policies put a damper on Ryan's career going into the 80s.

@@Al_NERi umm interesting. I'm thinking Cannon could have made him an offer.

@@Al_NERi Yeah, South Africa offered all kinds of tax incentives to get ppl doing business cheaply there, - Apartheid S.A. were becoming *seriously* unpopular by the 1980s with the general public. (So very few ppl wanted to be connected with 'em, biz wise)

Good point.

It was a definite change of pace, from Taxi Driver.

Anitra Ford, and she was a model on The Price is Right from 1972-76.

Yeah, she had made about a dozen movies before "Taxi Driver". She was the one consoling the cast and crew on that set, saying she was fine, when they were worried about the material affecting her. She'd made more movies than DeNiro at that point, I think. lol

That was a real campy, trip of a movie, but the chicks were Smokin hot!! I assume Ebert wrote it that way.

That movie ROCKS! Russ Meyer movies are _so much fun!_ - pure camp!

Leftists have a lot of hate in their hearts!

He did a stint in Taxi (the sitcom) as well, didn't he?

Hmm... I had to look up the phonetic chart on Wikipedia to confirm, but you are correct.

Who cares?

Bow-wow-wow-yippee-yo-yippee-yay, Bow-wow-yippee-yo-yippee-yay.

@@zetetick395 Lmfao!!