Fast Times At Ridgemont High in theaters
 

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IN THEATERS JUL 30, AUG 2

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
A Special 35th Anniversary Event

Follow a group of Southern California high school students as they explore their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Directed by Amy Heckerling (Clueless) and written by Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous), this hilarious portrait of 1980s American teen life features film debuts of future stars Nicolas Cage and Forest Whitaker, plus decade-defining music from The Go-Go's, Oingo Boingo and The Cars.

Hiii brad

what are you people....ON DOPE?!

Doesn't anybody ****ing knock anymore?

"My dad has an awesome set of tools...I can fix this."

Phoebe Cates still makes me all warm and gooey inside. Kevin Kline is a lucky lucky man.

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Hey Bud! What's your problem?

People on ludes should not drive

"My brother's gonna shit! He's gonna kill us!"

"Well, which is it, dude? Is he gonna shit or is he gonna kill us?"

"First he's gonna shit, then he's gonna kill us!"

Show that scene in IMAX!

Over the past 5 years or so I re-watched a bunch of teen flicks from when I was a teen.

The two best, by far, were Fast Times and Heathers.

Better Off Dead belongs up there with the very best.

I really can't come with another movie with it's particular sense of humor. It didn't ALWAYS work, but when it did it was wonderful.

Isn't it really OUR time Mr. Hand?

Did you like Sixteen Candles? Man, I love that one. My coworkers will give me shit about that when I mention it..."DERP a CHICK FLICK is one of your favorite movies?!?" I'm always like, "wut...chick flick? Have you actually seen the movie?" Funny as hell.

Heathers and Fast Times, both really cool as well.

"can I ask you a question"?

"...yes, you're a total pillowbiter".



Anthony Michael Hall as Farmer Ted is so great.
(Dragnet Theme) "aaaaaalllright. I knew you'd come around".....

Donger opens the door to the party. Ted's friends look worried. Ted calmy reassures them "...relax. The guys' from out of town"...

The scene that has launched millions of ropes over the years

If I ever win the lottery I'm going to walk by the men's room on my last day of work pound the door and shout hope you had a hell of a piss Arnold.

So you wanna work at All American Burger... just let me talk to Dennis Taylor

I used that line all the time. Today, actually, when I attended a conference call with our client about the status of the project, and really was only there as a courtesy to speak to any financial questions. Well, the other guy who normally attends from our company from a schedule standpoint, forgot about the weekly meeting (same time every week) because he was bullshitting with another guy in the break room. So I get tasked with a ton if action items to follow up with him on.

HOPE YOU HAD A HELL OF A PISS ARNOLD!

Phoebe! Ahhhhhh........

Love the football game....

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I was 18 in 1982. Hell of a summer.

I was 16/17. That was definitely one of my favorites from that time.

I ****ed everything in sight. Drank and smoked constantly. Delivered pizzas at night. Seems like I never slept.

The 80's movies rocked.

The 90's movies were a bummer.

Sixteen Candles was still really good as was Breakfast Club and I remember really liking them both when they came out.

Fast Times is just simply a great film.

Sixteen works as a really fun romantic comedy. Nothing wrong with that.

Fast Times covers similar ground but I think it is both funnier and also a more serious social commentary.

I didn't see it when it came out so I didn't add to my watch list but maybe I should.

Mr. Hand: Am I hallucinating here? Just what in the hell do you think you're doing?
Jeff Spicoli: Learning about Cuba, and having some food.

Danger is my business.

Ha! Those guys are pillowbiters!

Better Off Dead is freaking awesome.

I didn't see it until it went to the $1 showing but I must have seen it half a dozen times after.

I own it on DVD.

Gotcha! is another of my 80's favs.

No, I don't have any Blue Oyster Cult.

Real Smooth Cliff.

LMAO


Jeff Spicoli: What Jefferson was saying was, Hey! You know, we left this England place 'cause it was bogus; so if we don't get some cool rules ourselves - pronto - we'll just be bogus too.

LMAO


I like when Farmer Ted's friends (Cusak and the other guy) are being returned home after being kidnapped (apparently) from the party, and the big jock removes John Cusak first, then the other guy, skootches over in the trunk of the car because he's next in line to be lifted out of the car. That little nuance always cracked me up.

lol

My fav part is when Long Duck Dong is riding on that exercise bike with that Butch lookin' chick and she gets up to lift the weights and one falls through the ceiling and into the wine cellar and the jocks act like they found gold.

Donger dancing with Noreen (or whatever her name is).

Donger: I bet your a real teaser. i bet all the boys chase you.
Noreen: nah. they haven't caught me yet. i run the 40 in 5.0 flat
Donger: "Flat"? (as his head is in her large chest)

"No more yanky my wanky, Donger need food."

The kid who's parents kept having to bring him back to the dance. ROFL

Every time we mow the lawn at my parents, either me or my sister warn, 'don't let the lawn mowing machine disturb your hyena!!'

Lookit Frank, she's gotten her boobies!!

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I better get my magnifying glass!

"I have to sleep under some Chinamen named after a Duck's Dork."

Better Off Dead is one of my favorites. So good they made it again and called it One Crazy Summer.

Two others that haven't received love in this thread are Weird Science and Revenge of the Nerds.

Damn shame....folks around here will throw away a perfectly good white boy.

The three things that stand out as continuing to tickle me over the years.

The aardvark coat [and the neighbor with another aardvark coat in particular].
The Cosell brothers
The way the kids in class hang on the teacher's every word and are bummed out when the bell rings.

ROFL ROFL

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I've been going to this school for 7 and a half years, I'm no dummy.

Definitely one of my all time favorites. Supposedly John Cusack hates "Better Off Dead" which is unfortunate.

Jesus Christ I remember that movie yes it is a good one.

Do you remember FX? With Brian Brown and Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora was hot
I loved this ****ing movie

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Yes! Fantastic movie.

The sequel was blah, IIRC.

I've never seen the original.

Worth it?

Fast Times or FX?

absolutely. so many nuances that are just brilliant.

so, I always use a term when I see a cool bike or car and it comes from the scene in Better Off Dead.

"you borrowed $200 to purchase the car, because your girlfriend Beth said it was...1 I believe the term was "tasty". Since then, that "tasty" car has slept in an auto-cocoon"

also the father son talk where he dad is trying to get him to date other girls. Dad is reading some sort of "Guide to Teenagers" handbook. uses terms like "Mellow off" (instead of mellow out), and "you're really bringing me over man" (instead of bringing me down)

One of the Cosell brothers was the villain in Karate Kid 2 and Cusack's boss at the fast food place was Porky. And let's not forget Booger sniffing snow and pondering what the street value of the mountain was.

Speaking of classic 80's flicks I watched "Bachelor Party" for the first time in years last night. The Donkey snorting the blow still makes me LMFAO.

"I don't know about you guys but i don't usually like my filth this clean."

"Boy George has a yeast infection?"

Mmmmm.. Tawny Kittaen

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John Cusack was the man...

Gotcha...was that the one with the fake shooting game? I remember it on HBO alot back in the 80s..


A few of my teen faves from the 80s..... Real Genius, The Sure Thing, and Back to School

When Goose had hair.

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I really hate hate 80's music, but The Cars with the Cates scene and Van Halen in better off dead. Mag Na fleek

I still love that movie and bought it on DVD probably 10 years ago. The casting was excellent. Alex Rocco was awesome as his dad.

I don't remember Gotcha! being on HBO in the 80's but I first saw the film in theaters in 1985.

Real Genius was and still is one of my favorites. The Sure Thing had to grow on me a bit and it was good but I prefer Better Of Dead, Sixteen Candles and One Crazy Summer to it, although I do own all of them on DVD.

It's difficult for me to put Back To School in the same category, as it was more about Rodney than 80's teens. I liked the film and still do, but it doesn't have any "nostalgia" factor for me, unlike Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and many of the others listed in this thread.

back to school and fletch were funny but not time stampers.

The first 80's movie I ever saw in theaters was "Beetlejuice".

Fast Times.

Revenge of the Nerds for me!!

I keep hearing it every time I see the thread title -

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Can't embed but this song comes to mind when I think of Fast Times.

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You may be able to see it through a different lens, but I never connected with or liked Fast Times.

Besides the fact that I was in high school in metropolitan KC, which had zero in common with the Sherman Oaks Galleria or life in the San Fernando Valley, none of the characters, IMO, were likable. Not only were they unlikeable, I couldn't relate to any of them, as their personalities and lifestyle choices were completely different than me and my friends as teenagers in Kansas.

Also, they seemed so much more mature than any of the kids I went to school with, which of course, was due to the fact that all of them, outside of Phoebe Cates (19 at the time), where into their 20's or well into their 20's (Forrest Whitaker was 26, Brian Backer and Robert Romanus 27 and Judge Reinhold 25). That maturity constantly took me out of the moment.

Also, it was too realistic and felt like a drama to me and not a comedy. Cameron Crowe, the young and excellent Rolling Stone writer, enrolled in a San Fernando Valley high school and the stories and characters are composites of those he met at the time. He adapted the book into the screenplay and had a large role in choosing the music for each scene (even though he's not listed as the Music Supervisor), which at times, eerily supported certain scenes.

Even though it was set a nearly a decade before I was in high school, Dazed and Confused was much, much closer to my experiences in junior high and high school.

I saw it this afternoon. It was fun. Although I was the only one in the theater.

It's an 80s classic for sure. But I alway thought the abrupt shifts in tone were strange. They go from the hilarious Spicoli stuff to the super serious Jennifer Jason Lee abortion stuff. Like they couldn't decide what they wanted 100%??

It was just too dark for me. Abortion, ticket scalping, drug use, football players being paid off, dating old guys at the mall, etc.

If those are the way things were in the Valley back in the 80's, I'm glad I didn't grow up there.

I'd be even more jaded and skeptical of people than I am now.

Happened in Kansas City as well.

Man, not in my junior high or high school

I was only in KC for my Junior and Senior year of high school. I knew a few girls that got abortions, I bought tickets from a scalper, a girl I knew dated some 21+ year old guy that worked at Fun Factory, and I knew a few people that did drugs. Plus the 2 idiots that were killed driving drunk over on Santa Fe trail.

Fast Times has a more serious side. It isn't just a frivolous teen comedy. (Not that there is anything wrong with frivolous teen comedies.)

If Fast Times only had the serious parts without the comedy, it would have been a heavy film and probably not commercially successful.

I didn't mind how they jumped around, but I can see the point.

I don't think they were trying to pretend that that was exactly what American high schools were like at the time. The characters were mostly stereotypes and a bit over the top at that. But I think you could find people similar to those stereotypes at many high schools. And high school wasn't all funny, Spicoli stuff. I thought the abortion stuff was treated seriously in an appropriate manner without making the film a downer.

I'll throw the movie Heathers out again. Dark but very funny.

It was a good role for Winona Ryder and it was a great role for Christian Slater.

Given the general freakout over school violence/guns at schools, I doubt you could get a Hollywood studio to make a film like that today...

"I love my dead gay son."