OVER THE EDGE (1979): The film that changed Kurt Cobain's life

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OVER THE EDGE (1979): The film that changed Kurt Cobain's life

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Episode 48: We go one fucking hour on Jonathan Kaplan's supremely authentic portrait of late '70s teenage rebellion in the dawn of American's sterile suburban frontier. Set in the town of New Granada, material-obsessed baby boomer parents and authority figures clash with the local youth which erupts into an all out war precipitated by the murder of local dirtbag hero Richie, played to perfection by a 14 year-old Matt Dillon.
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@sherimoldenhauer2463 Жыл бұрын

My brother was an extra in this movie, he is in many scenes, he is the blonde who hands the star a joint walking up the stairs in the party scene.

@OneFuckingHour Жыл бұрын

Wow!!

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

That is awesome!

@miketaylor2083 4 ай бұрын

Your brother is awesome.

@finalascent 7 ай бұрын

1:00:23 - Always thought that Ooh, Child was absolutely perfect and struck the right tone.

@dustinpetersen7730 5 ай бұрын

I remember Over the Edge playing on HBO all the time around 1981.

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

That's how I got into this movie. I was born in 1970, so HBO was the ticket. They really had a knack for getting movies like this that are good but didn't do well at the box office due to poor marketing. Heavy Metal was like that. It only made $20 million at the box office but is a total cult-classic and made crazy money on video. I've never heard anybody say, "Heavy Metal, what a crap garbage movie that is!" Same with Night of the Comet, which should've been just another crap post-apocalypse movie that was never anything but a tax write-off for the studio. Just one problem, it actually is a good movie.

@BadWolf762 5 ай бұрын

Yes. Must have watched this about 20 times at a friends house in '81, always with a joint. I think they played this flick about 5 times a day.

@brianmeen2158 Ай бұрын

I remember hbo playing it in the mid 90s as that’s how I watched it. It always struck something on me as I could really relate to the kids in the movie.. we were bored and full of angst n aggression and no way to release it. Tech has completely eliminated this problem for modern kids - I rarely see them outside at all and that’s strange lol

@philipdefibaugh5683 Жыл бұрын

Over the edge is one of my favorite movies of all time. I remember 1st watching this on HBO as a child and would watch it every year that it appeared on TV back in the 80's-early 90's.

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 10 ай бұрын

That's when I first saw it, too. Early 80s on HBO. I taped it on VHS and watched it a lot.

@edpowers443 9 ай бұрын

I watched it at 14 in 79. It's a forgotten time between Disco and MTV. The clothes, the kids and the Music take me back to Jr High.

@ClaraOneill1967 3 ай бұрын

Same

@FoolsAmongUs 3 ай бұрын

I saw it as well at the same time, I just remember it was cold outside, so I think it was in March.

@brianmeen2158 Ай бұрын

@@edpowers443yeah when I watch Over the Edge it gives me powerful nostalgia - the kids hanging out walking around and the music . It really hits my soul

@searchindex3438 Жыл бұрын

“Times Square”, “Rich Kids”, “Over the Edge”, Endless Love”, and “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” … I loved those coming of age movies because I was coming of age in those times and places or places like them too

@etmeyutub Жыл бұрын

Matt Dillon as the dirtbag kid n My Bodyguard too.

@ericbutler739 2 ай бұрын

Most iconically in Outsiders, but also rumblefish. I grew up with his brothers in the same town, Matt was older and not around, he was famous by the time I even knew the family. Really good people, not from the bottom of society by a long stretch and very relatable people overall who everyone knew and liked. Their dad was a local legend too and just a sweetheart of a guy, I really admired him growing up.

@brianmeen2158 Ай бұрын

Dillon plays an excellent dirtbag or bully.. then I remember his career just died sometime in the late 80s then he came back in like 2000

@chrisgrove7829 Жыл бұрын

Haha. Love this film. Used to live in Denver and Aurora when I was a kid, so I’ve ridden my bike past many of the filming locations. Love the sound track and thanks for covering it:)

@sherimoldenhauer2463 Жыл бұрын

My brother was an extra in this movie, he is in many scenes, he is the blonde who hands the star a joint walking up the stairs in the party scene.

@chrisgrove7829 Жыл бұрын

@@sherimoldenhauer2463 Oh wow. That is so awesome. I’ve seen this film so many times, I know that scene well. I ended up moving to Reno, so every time the party host says his parents are in Reno, I always get a kick out of that:) Good times:)

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 10 ай бұрын

Yep! I'm from southern Wyoming, so I've been to Denver plenty and these towns you cited are pretty much in my backyard. I swear this movie was modeled after my town. Even Claude Zachary saying to his brother, "Stuffed peppers for dinner tonight! We don't wanna miss that, do we, Johnny?!" My mom's stuffed bell peppers are a childhood favorite. Most people just give me a weird look when I say that.

@chrisgrove7829 10 ай бұрын

@@Skank_and_Gutterboy I love stuffed peppers they are amazing. But yeah, Aurora Colorado was basically just track houses and prairie back then. It’s grown up a lot since the late 70’s, but I love that era. Just riding your bike around these winding suburban streets. I’m sure there’s a song about that somewhere:)

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 10 ай бұрын

@@chrisgrove7829 Very true!

@JoeyP322 6 ай бұрын

I was in high school in 1979 and this was pretty spot on how things were. Good times! Awesome movie and great tunes.

@MrCtsSteve 6 ай бұрын

Yep I was 13 back then . It was pretty realistic

@FoolsAmongUs 3 ай бұрын

HS Grad '84 Sadly, it does not grab My attention anymore. Growing Up isn't all it is cracked up to be.

@edpowers443 2 ай бұрын

I was 14 when it first came on HBO. It was also very close to my life at the time.

@brianmeen2158 Ай бұрын

@@FoolsAmongUs damn it should still give you certain vibes and memories of your youth. I hear you though - I’d love to go back and hang out with the buddies I had back then for a weekend

@FoolsAmongUs Ай бұрын

@@edpowers443 We are a special group of kids. At that time, we needed something in common. Our Parents moved us from the city to the country. That movie was roughly the emotion I was going through. You're right, it was an HBO Movie, I remember seeing it in the afternoon. This is like one of those moments, when people talk about going to a concert, and someone else joins in, and some moment is mentioned, and you know they went to the same concert. I haven't had that feeling in a long time. Now, I am a Grandfather, with a home, and Retired. LONG LIVE THE EARLY '80'S. *USN(RET)*

@epicgravyfilms Жыл бұрын

An intelligent informative discussion on one of my favorite films. Growing up a latchkey dirtbag in early 80s suburbia, this film continues to speak to me while making me nostalgic for a gone era. Subscribing.

@OneFuckingHour Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

@brianmeen2158 9 ай бұрын

The nostalgia is so powerful when I watch scenes from this movie

@miketaylor2083 4 ай бұрын

I’m a Canadian kid,born in 1975 and saw this movie on A&E back in 92

@SearchIndex 9 ай бұрын

I checked out the inspired over the edge play list and noticed you had STYX on it -Tommy Shaw’s family actually lived around the bend from me

@lindafina1 Жыл бұрын

Great show guys my favorite movie 🎬 love the music especially 🎵 Foxes is another good one I loved from that Era. Real estate development! Reminded me of Poltergeist scene Questa verde.

@user-pb2fj3pg6w 4 ай бұрын

foxes is amazing so true to the times

@6-Iron Жыл бұрын

Gen X here. The film was based on true events but it completely over amplified the culture of the time. Sure there were a few wasted punks in every neighborhood but to portray literally every kid in a community as useless druggie delinquents was absurd.

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 10 ай бұрын

I agree. I lived in an apartment complex and there were abandoned half-constructed apartments like 100 yards away. The owner ran out of money during construction, they sat there for a few years before the property was bought by the city and the building demolished. There were a couple dozen kids (including me, I was 12) in and out of there all the time. We each had "our own" apartment and everybody respected it, you don't go into somebody else's apartment without being invited. I never saw any vandalism. There was a little bit of smoking, no drinking or drugs that I saw. We were the junior high crowd and made fun of the high school kids that smoked and drank (not to their face, of course). So you're right, not every kid is some raving junkie looking to get high and trash everything.

@jeremysmetana8583 4 ай бұрын

Gen X also... uh... speak for your own experience. It's a movie, yes, and exaggerated a bit for dramatic reasons, but alarmingly accurate. I grew up one town over from Foster City. I don't think the film portrays every kid in town as being this way. It simply centers on the crowds that are this way, since they are the subjects. In a highly populated area like the San Francisco Peninsula, that meant a very large population over a wide area. You should have seen the parties up in Emerald Hills during the late '80s. Bunch of over-sexed, over-privileged scumbag stoner rich kids with zero supervision. I remember parties of up to fifty people at a time, insane behavior, incredible pressure to drink and get stoned, guys freaking out on acid, runaway girls everywhere and cops showing up constantly to break things up. It's all relative to where you're from.

@edpowers443 2 ай бұрын

It did a great job of portraying the late 70s.

@brianmeen2158 Ай бұрын

Agree I tried to find the supposed “riot” that this film was based on but there really wasn’t one. It was just a few kids vandalizing cars and pulling their antennas off. That’s it. No cars lit on fire or riot

@Horror-Man Жыл бұрын

This movie was fine, but River's Edge (1986) is easily one of my favorite films of all time. Effortlessly dark and disturbing without even the slightest hint of having 'edgelord' vibes.

@brianmeen2158 Ай бұрын

Rivers Edge was great and I could also relate to those kids as well. They really don’t make movies like that anymore - high school movies these days are awful

@zombweed4821 Жыл бұрын

I was also one of those who saw Over the Edge for the first time on mid-80’s HBO and was blown away by it. Characters that were so damn familiar. Like I knew them. Plus the OTE soundtrack is still at a god tier level. I’ve been enjoying the content here and the solid picks that have been chosen for discussion. Well timed clip inserts and stills. Loads of key and interesting points brought up. As well. It’s like you’re cherry picking through my DVD/Blu/hard drive collection. I dig your style fellas. Shit banquet next week? Looking forward to it. Count me in.

@paulstanley9436 7 ай бұрын

"KISS Meets The Phantom" should be your next one!!!! 🤘😝👍

@SearchIndex 9 ай бұрын

It was like watching home movies because so many of these kids looked so similar to kids I knew

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

Exactly. It was a really unusual movie because casting the kids wasn't a beauty contest, they picked kids that looked and acted as Joe/Jane-average as possible.

@DarkAngel1985Mike Жыл бұрын

This movie definitely inspired Richard Linklatter and Dazed and Confused

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

I swear it had to, now that you mention it.

@Sheabonez Жыл бұрын

“Rainbows ARE ‘ludes!” 🌈💊

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

OMG, I remember about 1982 when the media was just nuts over quaaludes and were just positive that that particular drug was going to be the end of us all. That and the "fact" that kids were all becoming devil worshippers, the parents and the media couldn't figure out that kids were using lightning bolt and pentagram pins and earrings to get back at their parents because they were a hell of a lot more religious than we ever were. Grandparents were losing their minds.

@nathancoleman7235 Жыл бұрын

the funeral service held at the graveside of the surburban dream as Roger Ebert said of this film

@MCRAIDER40 Жыл бұрын

Matt Dillon wasn’t a real actor at this time I don’t think… I believe it was his first and they basically drug him out of NYC

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

A story I heard behind that is that he showed up expecting exactly nothing to come of it, he did it only because it got him out of school. That probably really helped him, he was a lot more natural and himself.

@jeremysmetana8583 4 ай бұрын

"Sprawling on the fringes of the city in geometric order... an insulated border... In-between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown 'Growing up, it all seems so one-sided, opinions all provided, the future pre-decided... detached and subdivided in the mass-production zone... 'Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone"

@michaelmacaulay7808 Жыл бұрын

Kaplan had an amazing career - to think he made both Truck Turner and The Accused. Fantastic discussion (as always) and great to see talented people get their due.

@OneFuckingHour Жыл бұрын

Accused fan over here 🙋🏼‍♂️

@jamesferry1523 Жыл бұрын

Have you guys done The Wanderers yet? If not, that's gotta get on the list.

@johnlad2198 Жыл бұрын

The best film review show on You Tube. True cinephiles - insightful and entertaining. Agree with the comments regarding Kaplan's underrated film career. I kind of see this film as a companion piece to Dennis Hopper's 'Out of the Blue' which stars Linda Manz which came out a year later (rather than say 'The Warriors') 1970s American cinema is proving to be unbeatable in terms of nuance and overall quality.

@OneFuckingHour Жыл бұрын

Wow that’s for the complement sir! 😄

@johnlad2198 Жыл бұрын

@@OneFuckingHour You guys are great and are extending my film knowledge with films I'd never heard of. Love the content

@mattgilbert7347 9 ай бұрын

Out of the Blue is great!!

@VanderpumpRHOB 19 күн бұрын

Grew up in Fort Collins Colorado. Huge movie nerd too. Moved to Aurora 4 years ago. Had no idea it was it was filmed in Evan’s jr high in Greeley where I went for summer school, lived 2 blocks from the now demolished building in 2016. Then moved across the street to Cherry Creek Reservoir where many scenes take place, my husband drives on dam road where the police chase leads to the park tower where Richie was shot 4 times a day and we never knew! Nothing ever gets filmed in Colorado. So now I’m seeing crazy synchronicities towards me and this film. Aurora has grown so much since 1978 and other than the Cherry Creek Reservoir none of the locations look the same. New Granola took over. I never equated columbine with this movie as those guys would never watch OTE. Oh, I love what you said about influenced films like Pump Up The Volume and Dawn of the Dead. Two of my favorites. Bravo episode guys.

@clintonorman2859 Жыл бұрын

The planned community thing is DEFINITELY still happening... my Mom and brother lived in such a place for about three years in Tennessee, up until 2020. They ordered their houses to spec online.. choosing one module for the front, one for the upstairs, one for the interior etc. Walking through it is bizarre...everything is like toy houses made from the same set in different combinations. It's like a 15-minute drive to the strip malls and 40 minutes to Nashville. When you hit the edge of it you can see where they're blasting away bedrock and building the next expansion. All I could think about when I walked around there was MOVIE SET! Of course now with everybody hypnotized by their phones, there's not much danger of vandalism.

@searchindex3438 Жыл бұрын

I felt the same way when watching it over and over on cable when I was about 12 because I was a military brat who had grown up on and around the shittier military bases which are essentially the same as these ‘planned condo communities’ …we literally had a quonset hut rec center too …and there were certain kids in the movie that looked and acted EXACTLY like that

@cmsmith1973 Жыл бұрын

It sounds like you're describing where I live. We have new neighborhoods going up everywhere and I'm also 40 min from Nashville in Christiana

@clintonorman2859 Жыл бұрын

@@cmsmith1973 It was Mt. Juliet... home of Mr. Adrian Belew!!

@user-tf4mx3bv3m Жыл бұрын

Get ready for the mandatory smart cities coming soon. The world economic forum calls them 15 minute cities. Look it up!

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 10 ай бұрын

The town (about half an hour out of Denver) for this movie is a spitting image of my town in southern Wyoming. My town had oil money. Problem is, 98% of the entertainment was geared toward adults. In the early 80s, the town doubled in size and population but the stuff for kids didn't. The expansion in entertainment only happened with bars, restaurants, and a horse track was built 10 miles out of town. Kids can't gamble (horse racing is major boring shit if you got no money on it), kids can't get into bars, kids only go to nice restaurants if their parents take them, the 3-4 fast food places were all small and dirty. The one movie theater in town was small, dirty, and old/run-down. The new rec center was nice but cost-prohibitive, it was $8 every time to go (crazy expensive, that's equal to $25 today). So not only was there very little for kids to do, the nice stuff built and priced for adults generated considerable animosity. That drove vandalism way up, the newest nicest bar kept getting windows shot out with a pellet gun.

@sgc4271 Жыл бұрын

I think Claude was planning on reselling the headphones for hash money

@sagedrummer 5 ай бұрын

Great discussion on the most under appreciated film of all time. A classic

@anthonyodenbaugh2692 9 ай бұрын

We would walk around this same area as kids we grew up going to this school and the surrounding community me and my friend would listen to nirvana on a battery powered radio and walk around listening to nirvana so huge coincidence of us listening to his music walking the dirt trails that are in this movie and going to same school wow 😳😲

@searchindex3438 Жыл бұрын

I lived in the Bay Area when the Milpitas Murder in Rivers Edge happened

@lizsample7236 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic discussion, so many facets I never thought of in this film esp. Ballard. Saw this in the 80s in DC in a double feature w Out of the Blue

@OneFuckingHour Жыл бұрын

Wow that’s a heavy double bill

@David-dt3ge Жыл бұрын

I’m 52 years old I blame this movie for the 11 consecutive years I spent in prison !!

@searchindex3438 Жыл бұрын

Wow!

@David-dt3ge Жыл бұрын

@@searchindex3438 This movie made being bad or criminal minded in general was cool and acceptable to your peers. Just my opinion I can’t really blame the movie for my wrong doings I take full responsibility.

@mitch6969123 Жыл бұрын

This was a great movie. Had the biggest crush of Cory. I remember looking up this movie every bunch of years since the internet started and at one time didn’t think we would remember this movie….

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 10 ай бұрын

I was hot for the rec center lady when I was 12. Seeing her in the beginning scenes in well-fitting white pants, yowza! I used to pause the VHS tape to look at her. But Cory was a close 2nd, I'd be a total sap around her, too.

@johnm.withersiv4352 Жыл бұрын

Ya'll should cover Pump Up the Volume, but only if you three could be in the back of a jeep broadcasting from open WiFi as pirate radio as you could possibly be these days.

@kittykixbootie Жыл бұрын

I was thinking about this movie today. I was just going into high school in 1979 so it was totally geared to my age group. It's one of my all time favorites. A little trivia fact; it was also one of Kurt Cobains favorite films. Edit: OK you just mentioned it, my bad.

@krabisvalis Жыл бұрын

didnt expect comments to be so new

@kittykixbootie Жыл бұрын

@Downer I actually bought this DVD off the internet just a couple years ago lol

@Jeffrey-rn6ts Жыл бұрын

Teen spirit

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

I was in junior high in 1982 when this movie was getting played on HBO a lot and I taped it on VHS. My friends and I watched this movie repeatedly and all our parents didn't like that one bit but knew there was no way to stop it. If they confiscated my tape, I could tape the show again in the middle of the night. If they killed the HBO subscription, I'd just watch it at my friend's house. If you forbid something, it'll just drive a kid to it 100 times harder. They knew there was no way to put the genie back in the bottle.

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

@@kittykixbootie Me too, another excellent $5 grocery store find!

@jackz3288 Жыл бұрын

Great episode. Thoughts on the 1979 Street Gang film The Wanderers?

@justinmoore7938 9 ай бұрын

Those open space scenes were shot at Cherry Creek reservoir State Park. My parents still live there. My dad worked as a fireman in explosion scenes in the car crashes so I was on set when they shot a lot of that movie and I couldn't wait to see it. I was didn't get to see it until the pandemic but I do remember I'm shooting it

@davidscott8956 10 ай бұрын

That wasn't Carl's Father, that was Jerry Cole, a friend of Carl's Dad. He drove that NICE ass convertible.

@DarkAngel1985Mike Жыл бұрын

Love this movie

@americandespot6520 Жыл бұрын

Hey you guys should do 1984's:Repo man, or Sid and Nancy from 1986!

@clintonorman2859 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking Sid and Nancy too, it's brilliant and highly underrated.

@BadWolf762 5 ай бұрын

Did you do a lot of acid Miller, back in the hippie days.

@RageTVHTX 3 ай бұрын

I saw it on cable in 1984 when I was 14. Lots of kids my age saw it on cable that year. It blows my mind to think Kurt was watching it when I was. This movie did have an affect on me also. It also influenced me to do things I saw in the movie

@SearchIndex 9 ай бұрын

Can you do “Times Square”? And Christian F.?

@rickyredhookbk9048 Жыл бұрын

I first saw it in 80-81 on what was called STAR CHANNEL. Before it was called THE MOVIE CHANNEL

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

This movie did crap at the box office but really cleaned up on video. I first saw it on HBO in the early 80s. Parents across the country were horrified and upset that the movie wasn't buried after doing poorly at the box office.

@bootsandflicks7507 Жыл бұрын

Hello guys Great channel, great insights (and some fresh insights to old classics as well) This is an easily liked, subscribed and commented channel. Thanks for your hard work. AND as was commented by Liz sample, Out of the Blue makes a perfect double bill with Over the Edge. Finally, being a Brit, the other classic double bill from the same time period was in UK cinemas "Quadrophenia" followed by Allan Clark's "Scum"

@OneFuckingHour Жыл бұрын

We will def cover Alan Clarke! Big fans, and thanks for the subscription!

@Ash-gl5lj 4 ай бұрын

We did see that movie many many times. Matt Dillon was sooo cute then. I hope someone put it on youtube someday.

@johnm.withersiv4352 Жыл бұрын

Cheap overplay on early cable did make some cool cult hits. I'm generally #TeamMarcus but thought Tom's "Cable Baby" term was apt.

@donnymas1405 2 ай бұрын

I’m glad one of these guys checked out the directors Wikipedia page beforehand.

@vedadalsette1453 6 ай бұрын

I'd never heard of this film (and I'm old), but your clip here got me to watch it on You Tube. I was really surprised at how good it was. It was a real story with a great climax, not just some stupid tough-guy talk from kids for 90 minutes. Thanks.

@user-pb2fj3pg6w 4 ай бұрын

this movie played on HBO before 1981 we all watched it endlessly basically because...matt dillon btw this was his first movie

@texasville1971 4 ай бұрын

So I went to John Evans Jr High back in ‘83 to ‘85 and I never heard about Over The Edge movie until like early’90 when it played on tv one time and I started recognizing the school in the movie.

@ciscopuentes4924 11 күн бұрын

Loved this flick since I stumbled on it on "On TV" at the tender age of 13.

@SearchIndex 9 ай бұрын

The tuba --back then band instruments were expensive and kids usually couldn’t afford them snd sometimes had to rent them

@nkwhite 6 ай бұрын

I may need to watch this tonight. I bought it, because of course I had to; but I haven't watched it in decades

@nkwhite 6 ай бұрын

SHIT - I haven't even removed the shrink wrap!

@edpowers443 2 ай бұрын

I was 14 when I first watched this movie. It reminded me of my life at the time. Have watched it over 100 times since. If you watched it when it first came on HBO you could probably relate to it.

@rachellleeroth Жыл бұрын

Love this movie. One of my faves of all times. I really like the scene when they creep up on the rat drug dealer and he sounds like a stock broker on the phone. tcb. then they throw him in the lake and his mom freaks out. Was that kid an actor or one of the randos they hired? Also love the little flag on richies banana seat bike that says "Richie"😆classic

@MCRAIDER40 Жыл бұрын

Subscribed

@clintonorman2859 Жыл бұрын

After the real estate guy says basically the point of the film, about how they were in such a hurry to get away from the city they turned their kids into what they were running from as they're driving away in the cab the other guy says, "That was very well put, Roy." and he says "heh heh... I thought so." I don't know why but that exchange cracks me up to no end.

@D-Fens_1632 26 күн бұрын

These movies about parental oppression and disconnect through the 80's were a last gasp of the generational conflict trope, the 80s is really when the "won't someone think of the children," participation trophy era of child worship and overprotection started to begin. But in the 80s adults in teens movies were either monsters, goofs, or completely absent (almost every one of those movies always had the parents out of town party). I like the ones where they were monsters the best, like this one. While it's essentially one of the first 80s teen movies, it's also one of the last of the gritty 70s movies. Great movie.

@Sarahbuildsstepsequencers Жыл бұрын

It was shown on HBO (Home Blow Off) around ‘82 or ‘83.

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

That's where I first saw it. My parents were dismayed the my friends and I watched it a lot.

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

A funny story about HBO: I'm 11 years old and losing interest in the Saturday morning cartoons, I pretty much just watched Bugs Bunny & the Road Runner anymore. One Saturday morning I'm flipping around the dial and Heavy Metal is on HBO. Hmmm, cool music, sci-fi cartoon, I'll check this out. When I'm in the kitchen getting cereal for breakfast, my mom walks in during a sex scene and loses her shit. She is chewing me out and I'm telling her truthfully, "I had no idea! I saw sci-fi cartoon and heavy metal music, so that's where I stopped turning the dial." That is the truth but she wasn't buying it. She also wasn't impressed when I said, "It's only cartoon sex. All you really see are hand-drawn boobs!" So now it's my fault that somebody at HBO has a sadistic sense of humor. Showing Heavy Metal during the Saturday morning cartoons, well-played! I still think my mom was mainly getting jacked-up over the fact that I was 11 and just getting interested in girls--outwardly anyway. When I was 8, I fell hard for Olivia Newton John. When I was 9, Erin Gray, Princess Ardalla, and a parade of beautiful guest-stars in spandex on Buck Rogers put me on the moon. I wasn't watching Wonder Woman and Buck Rogers for the sparkling conversation.

@anthonyodenbaugh2692 9 ай бұрын

I went to this school actually and walked those halls and had a locker in those same halls John Evans Jr high Greeley Colorado aka new Granada

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

On the side of the building, one of the O's in "school" was gone. The movie producers knew irony when they saw it, well done.

@bgarri8001 Жыл бұрын

This is the fourth movie I watched because of your guy's show where, A: I never heard of before, and B: I ended up loving. The other three being Star 80, All that Jazz, and Straight Time. Now I highly doubt I'll be watching 120 Days of Sodom for next week's discussion, however, I'm totally looking forward to the episode, totally! Ha

@clintonorman2859 Жыл бұрын

Actually I didn't think Salo was all that hard to watch... Like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" the title is more lurid than the content. It's not like there's 120 scenes of sodomy!!

@bgarri8001 Жыл бұрын

@@clintonorman2859 lol fair enough haha, but yeah I realized I do want to watch it. I'm going to order it from the Criterion collection.

@user-fr2hh1rx4k 11 ай бұрын

I totally lived the fact it was a weird cult classic on cable TV. My family got Cable TV in 85 and this was one of the 1st movies I remember watching. The first movie that I saw on the cable television first came on the TV was Popeye with Robbin Williams and this was a memory too. This movie played a bunch. I feel like I saw it as much as I saw the karate kid. It was way cooler. It was KIDS before KIDS. I actually was the age of all the actors from the movie KIDS. I related to that lifestyle I was a skateboarder from the DC area, from 89 to 96.

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 10 ай бұрын

That's just like my home town. We had 3 channels from the antenna on the roof--CBS, NBC, and PBS. We didn't even get ABC! We got cable TV in 1983. The 13 channels that we got was a dream, HBO was just incredible. That's where I saw this movie, HBO. I taped it on VHS and didn't even need to, HBO showed it nearly daily.

@phillipwilliams1124 Жыл бұрын

43 25 Actors name Tyger Thomson young mute boy.

@searchindex3438 Жыл бұрын

He was AWESOME 😎

@edpowers443 2 ай бұрын

The most accurate portrayal of life at the time.

@MrCtsSteve 6 ай бұрын

I was 13 in 79 . Loved this movie . Sex , drugs and rock and roll. Me and my friends could definitely relate to this one

@robsalisbury4217 19 күн бұрын

This played on Turner Classic Movies today.

@NightBrEedzZ123 Жыл бұрын

what movie was playing at 0:31 ? is that over the edge?

@searchindex3438 Жыл бұрын

I was wondering too…I don’t remember that scene being in that movie

@Scotty-P 8 ай бұрын

I discovered it in 1989.

@SearchIndex 9 ай бұрын

Pamela Ludwig was ‘Cory’

@coloradochris3952 11 ай бұрын

South Park kids as teenagers

@dollasignmic18344 9 ай бұрын

😂

@americandespot6520 Жыл бұрын

Hey that gunshot sound you guys use to start the clock. Is it from Dirty Harry?

@OneFuckingHour Жыл бұрын

It’s from PERSONAL BEST actually 😂

@americandespot6520 Жыл бұрын

@@OneFuckingHour Ahh yes, I knew it had to be something from that era! That quintessential 1970's-'80s stock gunshot sound effect is unmistakable... The only thing cooler was that old-school silencer sound effect.Too bad they don't sound like that in real life!😉

@Romelefty Ай бұрын

The only sympathetic adult I agree was the rec center head but then she ends up getting Johnny to get the phone for her to call for help.

@SearchIndex 9 ай бұрын

City planning is now a college degree with classes on annex matrices …it’s that way because of the history of Dept of Transportation evolved rural first aid …and city budgets for taxation to support X number of licensed and unlicensed first responder pay and retirement packages

@blueyedmule 2 ай бұрын

I saw it on HBO sometime in the very early 80s or network tv, not sure which, but it confirmed to me the evil of "urban planning" and that I never ever wanted to live anywhere there are McMansions with 10 ft eves. Also confirmed the greatness that is Cheap Trick. Killer band.

@SearchIndex 9 ай бұрын

It was just like growing up on the more shitty military bases … we even had a quonset hut rec room just like that were we did the same kinds of stuff you were expected to act one way with military peer groups …then daal with the various peer groups off base We cruised Atlanta Hwy …and hung out in the Krystal Hamburger and Kmart parking lots And we had big expensive houses under construction that never got finished that we hung out in … and we had fields to go walking in where ‘whack shacks’ would be (porn lined shacks) The long haired thug ‘outlaw’ was a Jeff Flury a local Denver metalhead lead singer of the band MetalStorm who passed in 2015 He was also in Tex

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

When I was in the Navy in the late 80s and early 90s, our facilities were like that, they just sucked. Norfolk Navy Base was just a pit. That's why I lived next to Langley AFB and went there to use their gyms and other facilities. Fort Eustis was pretty dumpy but had the best bars. Meanwhile, Norfolk NB was a ghost-town after work-hours, I'm sure the cheap-ass Navy was more than happy to have their sailors go to the other bases in the area to use their facilities and services. That meant they could put even less money into their stuff. That's the Navy, never pass up an opportunity to cheap-out on the enlisted guys, and they wonder why retention is so bad.

@SearchIndex 5 ай бұрын

@@Skank_and_Gutterboy I lived in some barracks on Norfolk in 84 …Fleet ASW A school …Cold War sonar tech we used to eat at the marine base because they got surf and turf more often than the navy I grew up as an Air Force brat and had a rude awakening when I joined the navy …I thought all branches of the service were treated the same …I was blown away by the lack of support for navy family and recreational facilities I had seen lower end Air Force stations and bases but even the worst Air Force Stations were better than Navy stations and bases

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 ай бұрын

@@SearchIndex No doubt. I was in nuclear power, so my enlistment was 6 years. I left ASAP and used my college money to become an aerospace engineer. The way I describe being an Air Force civilian is: it's everything they told me being a Navy nuke would be when they LIED to me. I won't have anything to do with the Navy unless my job absolutely demands it. The way they treat their people is absolutely abysmal. When my carrier was in the shipyard, we worked a murderous rotating shift-work schedule that was markedly worse than being at-sea. My sleep could never catch up, so I was dead tired all the time. We kept having people die in crashes by falling asleep at the wheel on the way home from mid-shift (0000-0800). The Navy kept saying, "Off-base, off-duty accident, not our problem!" When that started happening, I had been in 2.5 years and KNEW I wasn't re-enlisting. The Navy made it crystal clear that they didn't give a crap about us, there's no way I'm making a career there.

@finalascent 7 ай бұрын

This was a very well shot movie - Andrew Davis was the D.P, ended up directing some pretty good films. Always wondered if that's how he met Andy Romano, since he's been in a lot of Davis' films.

@searchindex3438 Жыл бұрын

Another good movie is “On the Edge” with Cillian Murphy about teens in re-hab

@lauriemartin9255 11 ай бұрын

Best soundtrack ever!!!!!

@FoolsAmongUs 3 ай бұрын

I saw this movie when it hit hbo (early 1980). Graduated HS in '84. The movie does not mean anything to me anymore. Growing up isn't all it's cracked up to be. USN(RET)

@nrnoble 2 ай бұрын

This is great movie and is my movie collection. There is YT reunion video with some the cast and director. They talk about casting Matt Dillion. He had no acting experience prior to the movie.

@brianmeen2158 Ай бұрын

Love this movie and review! 20:00 they are talking about growing up in a small town and just hanging around being bored - ahh yes we did that too.. lots of bike rides and walks around town and hanging out in the woods. Thing is, today’s youth no longer does this. You don’t see them Just hanging out at night or in parks or stores - I rarely see them outside at all even on nice summer days .. they have tech so they are all inter-connected without having to leave their room. So this addition of tech has really changed things

@revelationvideoproductions1168 5 ай бұрын

You can watch this movie for free right here on KZfaq of course with commercials

@edwardarcos5040 6 ай бұрын

This movie 🎬 is a classic saw it when I was little jst showed it to my friend yesterday he loved Now time to play your Piano 🎹 😆 🤣 😂

@davidscott8956 10 ай бұрын

Pamela Ludwig's characters name was Cory, her Partner's name was Abby.

@EddietheHead32 6 ай бұрын

Saw this on HBO in 1988. Great movie and I had a crush on Pamela Ludwig.

@brgreg8725 2 ай бұрын

I feel like this might be the first Gen X movie

@jackieagd7722 Ай бұрын

I was 13 in 1979. I feel like I knew these kids. The house party was very on point. And yes, it all changed in 1980 when Reagan was elected.

@timbogillenwater2307 6 ай бұрын

I was a teen in 1979 I did a lot of agist the law in my town not proud of it the law was always after me

@blueyedmule 2 ай бұрын

Matt Dillon could have launched again off of Wayward Pines. Maybe he doesn't want to work that much.

@brianmeen2158 Ай бұрын

The only thing I can’t find are reports of the actual riots this movie is based on.. foster city ? I can’t find anything about hundreds of cars being vandalized or set on fire. I did find a few articles about minor vandalism and drug use in a certain community that was concerning parents - they hold a meeting and that’s that. Nothing bigger than that from what I can see

@blueyedmule 2 ай бұрын

Suburbia (1983) probably was Over the Edge for punks.

@blueyedmule 2 ай бұрын

This is a great primer for other generations to learn about GenX. This movie is about us waaaay more than any John Hughes movie, which couldn't help but be colored by Boomer values and sensibility.

@Stanley-xc4yc 2 ай бұрын

This film is free on KZfaq now 😊

@zeitgeistyreport 6 ай бұрын

love your channel… one slight thing. the parents of gen x are largely not boomers, and certainly aren’t in over the edge… they’re what’s called the silent generation, the gen. before boomers.