In the beginning of October of this year, I made myself a promise that I would make time for this infamous "must watch" movie. On the night of Saturday, October 27, I searched and found only one option via On Demand, knowing that this was my rare opportunity to make it happen before the end of the month.
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Welcome dear reader to a new Banzai Retro Club crossover collaboration. This month we are looking at our top 5 retro soundtrack songs. I am lucky enough to provide 10 this month as I had an entirely different set of picks on our podcast and you will just need to check that out to hear about those choices.
For a young kid of the 1970s this song signals when this movie actually got really good. Charlie had a tough life and the movie sets that up really well, but the movie wasn't fun until Gene Wilder, playing Mr. Willy Wonka appears on screen. The movie gets fun and goofy from that point on. "Pure Imagination" is sung by Gene Wilder as the kids and their guardians explore the first actual candy room in which everything is edible. "If you want to view paradise. Simply look around and view it." Sage advice Mr. Wonka and thank you for the scrumdillyumptious bars of chocolate.
In my adult life I have been paying a bit closer attention to the movies of my youth and the Karate Kid is no different. What I have noticed is there are some real musical gems peppered in our great 80s movies that should have been way more popular that they ever became. The song Young Hearts starts as Daniel goes to the Golf N' Stuff to get his beloved Allie back in his life. We learned a beat earlier from Mr. Myagi that karate and life are about balance and what better way than a song about young love dying if we are all alone.
Ok, this list needed a good happy montage song, didn't it? Together in Electric Dreams snappy beat comes on during the movie as a final sequence as the computer artificial intelligence sends himself away before initiating a self destruction. Boy gets girl in the end and they go away for a vacation with no technology, on the drive there a familiar friendly computer automated voice (Edgar the computer) comes over the radio and reminds us that we will always be "Together in Electric Dreams". Cue the end credits.
Enter Mrs. Mia Wallace as she expertly stops a reel to reel tape player at the exact spot to play this kick ass song. She dances and enjoys the music as Vince is in the bathroom talking to himself. The scene continues as Mia finds heroine in Vince's jacket and assume it is a little nose candy. While the song plays out we are at the start of a dark journey to see how Vince will deal with this new emergency in his life. Don't tell Marsellus.
Thanks to this song in this movie I think a ton of people start head banging at the appropriate moment to this awesome song. This movie was a wonderful mish mash of random stuff much like a podcast that I am a proud member of. Even before this movie, the song was a fantastic piece of musical art by Queen, but Wayne and Garth was able to take it to the next level with the right blend of mirth and sarcasm. Party on Wayne. Party on Garth.
So our good buddy, Mick over at Retro Ramblings, threw a curve ball at me when he reminded me that these had to be action figures I had. I was going to pepper in some of those I wanted but never had, but he told me to cool my jets on that as that topic in on the horizon.
Read MoreI purposely told myself on this one that I was going to try not to add too much "on the nose" type content. Meaning I would not pick the DeLorean (Back to the Future) , Black Trans Am (Smokey and the Bandit), Ecto-1 (Ghostbusters), and KITT (Knight Rider) but as I said those are obvious choices and definitely worthy of a Top 5 List
Read MoreLet's start with Stompers, I did have a few of these little trucks outside of the benefit of McDonalds and loved to take them "off roading" in my neighbors yard. Just wish those batteries lasted longer in them.
Read MoreOur good friend Mickey over Retro Ramblings is running with this kick ass concept about top 5 things to post about weekly and I just wanted to be a part of it.
Read MoreDuring my viewing, my two youngest kids look up from their electronic device appendages and ask the very important question, "Dad, what are you watching?" My answer with a bit of matter of fact type influence as if to impress them with the name alone "The Six Million Dollar Man".
Read MoreAnother cool factor for the show was the use of technology to imply magical elements that bled into those that had a love for both computers and fantasy. In short, I understand why this was a big thing in the 1980s, not for me personally, but I wouldn't blame you for being a fan back then.
Read MoreI start up Asteroids and get into a bit of a groove and soon have my son (13 years old) watching and commenting that he could beat me. In my head Vince McMahon's WWF summer slam announcer voice saying "Are you ready to RUMBLE?!?!"
Read MoreI was about to watch one of the more popular main stream movies when I saw a movie trailer for a B
movie called Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. It had a great ring to it. I decided to go to see it.
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The Banzai Retro Club TeePublic storefront is now open for business with our first iconic #80Something design. This one commemorates the super awesome characters of our beloved Thundercats.
Read MoreFast forward 2 years to 1987..... I found out that “The Running Man” would be released as a movie! I was so excited!! However, I saw the preview and was confused. It said it was Stephen Kings story but it didn’t look right in the 2 min preview I saw.....I was still excited and anticipated it to be a great movie.
Read MoreSo as a bit of a Grease groupie I entered the 80s… The 80s of course was the age I was more into the doings of J.R. Ewing and his family and feuding in TV’s Dallas than the cinema. Possibly as a very wee (small) girl for 15, I couldn’t get into those 15 rated films. So I thought about the films I saw and their memories with one standing out from the rest.
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