And chokes up at the very THOUGHT of a yellow bug traveling Route 1 as "Ready to Take a Chance Again" plays in the background?
Show of hands, please.
There, daddy, do I get a gold star?
Count me in!
I saw this in the theater back in 1979 (when I was 10 years old) with my sister.
I remember the albino frightened me so much...I was almost too scared to get out of my seat, and use the bathroom. But Billy Barty rolling down the staircase cracked us both up!
Now, thirty years later...my sister and I re-watch this movie, and as much as we still like the film...it is a bittersweet experience. I can't help but shed tears, as I enjoy it!
Cheers!
Wow, I was watching this on TCM yesterday and felt the same way about the opening.
share Definitely; I saw this when it first came out, and the Barry Manilow song is
great--I wish they played that on the oldies stations instead of most of his
other songs. The Scrabble ladies were great, along with the elderly Japanese
couple in the back of the cab ("Kojak! Bang, bang!")
If the film were made today, would the scene in which Chevy Chase casually
suggests sharing a joint with Goldie Hawn ("Cops have the best pot!") qualify
the film for an R rating? Drug references in '70s films were regarded as much
more innocent back then.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
I know what you mean. The movie as a whole makes me feel sad, but I can't watch the opening credits (Gloria driving down the freeway in her yellow car, and the Barry Manilow tune playing) without breaking down.
A ton of memories flood my mind (seeing the movie for the first time in the movie theater, all the actors who are in it, but are no longer with us, the innocence of growing up in the 1970's, etc.), and my reaction is always sadness.
Our society has changed so much since the '70's. Our American culture has also changed a lot in the past 30 years. Life seemed so much more simple back then.
Cheers!
your last line reminded me of the very thing my parents said(a long time ago).
shareOMG! I thought I was the only one!!!!! I was all prepared to go to bed early the other night and turned the TV on and saw that Foul Play was on TCM. The part where she walks into the police station all wet, with only 1 shoe on. Needless to say I ended up watching the rest of it! I remember sneaking downstairs when I was 10 years old and supposed to be in bed and seeing my parents watching this when it 1st came to HBO. I've loved it ever since and totally reminds me of my childhood. Sentimental? Hell YES!
shareWho can forget having to rearrange your social schedule and/or wait until your parents were in bed, in order to watch movies, back in the day! Now we can pop in DVD's, and watch movies on "Netflix" and "You Tube", any time we want to.
Things are not quite the same, as they were back in the 1970's and 1980's, are they?
Cheers!
This is the quintessential late 70's movie and reminds me of everything good about that time.
LOVE it. And I do not say that very often about movies.
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I have to admit that I really enjoyed seeing this movie more than I expected. The yellow VW convertable driving down the coast with Manlow's song in the background always gets me!
This came out while I was in college - a time when everything seemed possible - so it takes me back to those days.
There is so much stuff in here typical of the 70's in here... (No CDs - record players!) Goldie's lack of underwear, Chevy's easy attitude toward pot...
Not a bad film at all if you came of age in the era...
What a great scene! After the first time I saw it, I imagined myself driving down the Pacific Coast Highway in my VW Bug just like her...blasting Barry Manilow...even though I wasn't old enough to drive when this film came out.
shareI get sentimental about this film for several reasons. I just rewatched it today on TCM and it brought me back to a nicer time in my life (and the world).
I was a junior in high school when this film first came out. I still remember seeing it with my friends one night in our local (second run) movie theater. I remember a packed house on a Friday literally screaming with laughter.
It sounds corny to say it, but they really don't make films like this anymore. Funny, suspenseful, romantic...so many likeable performances...crowd pleasing...and, yes, unabashedly silly at times too.
Sure, it's no masterpece and it has plot holes you could drive a truck through but that wasn't the point of these type of movies which were, more than anything, just slick, escapist entertainment.
I miss the days when popular films would run for weeks and sometimes months in the theaters. Where it wasn't all about huge opening weekends and then the race to see how fast you can get it to dvd and cable.
In those days, people actually enjoyed leaving their houses and sharing experiences with the rest of the outside world.
Yeah,skohl,to quote you:
"...and it brought me back to a nicer time in my life (and the world)."
ditto that
I do. This is the first movie my husband and I saw together when we were dating. We also lived in northern California at the time. This is our movie, as "What a Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers is our song.
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I do! My sister and I watched this on HBO dozens of times in the early 80s, to the point where we knew every line and knew what was cut when we saw it on "regular" TV. I noticed it was available On Demand last night at 3 am when I couldn't sleep and of course stayed up to watch it, work this morning be damned! Love this movie!
shareThanks for all the responses everybody!
Maybe we should organize our own online "Memories of Foul Play" fan club!
Cheers!
Movies don't have to be in any sense 'perfect' to land on my personal list of favorites. And I have no problem admitting that Foul Play is one I never tire of seeing. It's just utterly charming.
share^^^^^ This entire thread.
I love everything about this movie, but especially the line, "You gotta drag yourself into the Seventies, Gloria!"
"Falling feels like flying... until you hit the ground."-Tom McRae
"Amen!" to everything everybody said!
I agree 100 percent!
Cheers!
I wholeheartedly agree. To all the die-hard fans of Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Foul Play, and Seems Like Old Times, let's start our own online fan club. Today, we can take this on Facebook and Twitter, but I am on neither. I can blog on and on and on about this movie. In my other blogs, I am a very wordy blogger when it comes to Goldie and Chevy since I know so much about them, perhaps more than the average fan. That just shows my deep-set passion towards both of them.
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