Posted on 07/25/2017 8:58:17 AM PDT by Skooz
Upon its release in 1982, no one would have expected Fast Times at Ridgemont High ever to receive the imprimatur of classic.
The movie was engineered to make a quick buck at a moment when Hollywood was giddy about its latest easy-money formula: Take some horny teens, put them in a broad, dumb comedy that invited teen boys to ogle bare breasts, and load the soundtrack with hit rock songs. Low-budget movies like Private Lessons (1981), The Last American Virgin (1982), Goin’ All the Way (1982), Private School (1983), Losin’ It (1983), Spring Break (1983), Bachelor Party (1984), and especially Porky’s (1982), which cost almost nothing but earned the equivalent of $320 million in today’s dollars at the North American box office, promised sexcapades in their titles and delivered.
Theater managers were often happy to look the other way as underage kids scrambled to get into these R-rated films.
Most of these efforts are too moronic to interest anyone who has weathered the teen-hormone tsunami, but despite its salacious title, Fast Times at Ridgemont High was different: a genuinely thoughtful and well-drawn collection of character portraits that stands on a higher plane than virtually any other teen movie of the era, including The Breakfast Club. Moreover, it concludes with a conservative message about the emotional perils of casual sex.
As part of the ongoing TCM Big Screen Classics series, which brings movies most of us know from TV back to multiplexes, Fast Times will screen in theaters on July 30 and August 2 to observe its 35th anniversary. It can also be streamed on HBO.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449793/fast-times-ridgemont-high-35th-anniversary-conservative-sex-comedy
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And any movie with that Commie douche, Sean Penn, can’t be considered Conservative.
She didn’t look bad from the back either.
True dat...
Spicolis stoner buddies both became pretty famous actors. Can you name them? I don’t think it’s a conservative movie necessarily, but i always saw the abortion scene as kind of a warning against just hopping in the hay with any guy.
It was certainly bad without a doubt, but Battlefield Earth cured my constipation.
Aloha, Mr. Hand.
Nic Cage is one.
Especially Porky's. The Porly's movies were fun.
I know Eric Stolz was one of them.
IMHO, Bachelor Party was Tom Hanks’ greatest role.
It’s good in the sense that it provides a now historical social commentary on youths in the 80’s.
It was all about “The Mall”. Going to the mall.
Now? Now young kids don’t socialize. Except via Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and other social media sites.
Nope not nic cage
Eric stoltz was one
ping
Classic film. Good article that few posting here bothered to read to the end.
“Make up you mind dude” Is he going to $#!+ or kill us/”
“First he’s gonna $#!+, then he’s gonna kill us!”
All this began in 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was murdered and anti-violence hysteria swept the USA.
The movie industry took a hit but claimed they would police themselves with a joke of a “ratings” system. GMRX was the first.
Movie companies now freed from the Hays Code immediately began to reshoot scenes to turn out the most violent and sex laden movies they could to get the coveted R on the posters.
Gene Siskel and Ebert, movie critics, in a summary of sex in movies, Siskel wondered why so many girls were willing to bare it all for the screen. Ebert mentioned that if some girl did not want to bare it all, there were hundreds in the wings just waiting to take her spot in the films.
To be honest, I went to some of them so I could be offended! I actually set through them a second time so I could be re-offended! Then caught them on HBO so I could be re-re-offended! Then my wife caught me.
"AWOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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