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Does anyone remember Eddie and the Cruisers?


Just watched it for the first time as an adult, I watched it as a kid with my mom, who first saw it on HBO in the 80s, like most people, and liked it, but man, now I really enjoyed it. It has a lot of flaws, and could https://omegle.onl/ https://xender.vip/ definitely be considered a type of B movie, but the soundtrack, especially season in hell, is excellent, and the whole premise is actually really good in my opinion.

What did you guys think of it?

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ONE OF MY FAVORITE NON FAVORITES...THE SEQUEL IS ASO A REALLY GOOD,BUT MUCH DIFFERENT...I OWN BOTH ON BLU RAY AND BOTH SOUNDTRACKS...AMAZING MUSIC...THE ORIGINAL HAS THE MYSTERIOUS VIBE TO IT THOUGH...LONG LIVE THE WORDMAN!

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I never watched the film, but heard "On the Dark side" numerous times in the radio.

It is also very strange that the song is much more well known then the actual movie in which it originated. (It happened a few times with Madonna, but that's Madonna!)

The fact that the song was top 10 didn't make people want to see it.

I think the public just thought that it was Bruce Springsteen.

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Most people were introduced to John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band through that film.
I, on the other hand, first heard of Beaver Brown (as the band was originally known) while listening to Scott Muni on WNEW-FM in New York back in 1980.
Beaver Brown was basically a bar band from Rhode Island, and they had just released a single titled Wild Summer Nights.
That was definitely a good tune, so I bought it, but I actually liked the B side of the single more, for that was Tender Years.

I got to see Beaver Brown in concert at The Bottom Line in NYC's Greenwich Village four times before I moved to Miami in February 1982.
I liked their shows a lot, and it did not bother me that John's voice was very similar to Bruce Springsteen's.
Granted, no one could top Bruce & The E Street Band live, but Beaver Brown was nonetheless a fun show.

I was quite pleased the following year when Eddie and The Cruisers was released and found that the band's music was used as the music that the Cruisers played in the film. I had previously heard a lot of the songs in the film at the Beaver Brown concerts I had attended a few years before, but On the Dark Side was a new one that had been written and recorded for the film. Since I was a fan of the band, I most definitely became a fan of the film. Furthermore, like JuanMaddox, I liked the premise of the film a lot.

I also became a fan of the sequel, Eddie and The Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!, which was released six years later in 1989.
Part of my appreciation of the sequel was because it contained new songs from John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band, songs that I had not heard before.
I own both films on a dual-sided DVD; the original is on one side of the disc and the sequel is on the other.

I also own another "rock n' roll film" with Michael Pare (who played Eddie), and that is Streets of Fire, which I own on Blu-ray.
While SoF is a more visually entertaining film (it had great production values, not to mention a stunning Diane Lane), I like the music in the two Eddie and the Cruisers films more.

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It's a fun film but could have been done better but from what I read they were more interested in promoting the soundtrack.

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It's definitely a B-movie, but it's a solid & really enjoyable B-movie that stands up to re-watching over the years. For me, it manages to capture that feeling of idealistic youthful dreams that somehow slip away, and that sense of bittersweet loss at what might have been. And it has a great soundtrack as well! Flaws & all, it's still better than a lot of A-list movies, to my mind.

I've read that Tom Berenger considers frank/Wordman his favorite role, as he's simultaneously the POV character for the viewer, the lead in a way, but he has to play it as an observer, not a catalyst—letting the other characters take the stage while he listens to them. Yet he makes us care about him.

My late Dad loved this movie, so that's another reason for my loving it as well.

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I like the movie, but I LOVE the soundtrack. It's so good.

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Yes, good movie and a really good soundtrack

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