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Cult Classic for me back in 1987

posted 11 years ago by NotSlowScott
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This is one of those quotable movies that all my friends in high school adored, and we were all from Connecticut. We even buried a bottle of booze in the local Audubon Society woods and dug it up a few years later. My overly confident friend, who thought he was like Kevin Costner, even started to quote the movie's line: You ever been in love Phillip? --After we dug up the bottle. The funny thing is, none of us were going to Vietnam and the first Gulf War didn't have a draft. Maybe that is the reason why they don't make coming of age movies anymore. Everyone is too consumed with themselves or something like that.

Other friend: Gee, I don't know.
Friend: It's all thoughts.

I love the movie and I think Kevin Costner was at his coolest in that movie; however, I might've cut the parachute scene by a couple of minutes, but that is a small criticism.

Classic film!

[–] Hawk4570 11 years ago

This is one of my favorites from the 80's too.

"Way to go, Mister Hicks! That was a great recovery, man! I wanna shake your hand...Hey, he's got a pretty good grip on that thing, doesn't he?"

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distan..."
General John Sedgwick, battle of Spotsylvania.

[–] NotSlowScott 11 years ago

You have good taste my friend.

"Kevin Reynolds is going to be the Stanley Kubrick of this decade. Fandango is one of the best directorial debuts in the history of cinema. I saw Fandango five times at the movie theater and it only played for a f-ing week, all right?"

Quentin Tarantino

I am going to declare it right now. Fandango is the most poetic coming of age movie ever made.

[–] Nikon11 11 years ago

Yup, I discovered this film back in college, and loved it immediately. I then showed it to my friends, and it became a classic with us. We were constantly quoting it, annoying girlfriends and others who didn't know it or get it.

[–] Blueghost 8 years ago

It's got some good messages in it, and ... all that other artistic jive. You know, I could write a riff on your most excellent post, but this is one of those films that I don't want to dissect and write another critique on.

It's just a darn good film that think everyone should see at least once.

I remember guys like the pilot with the head black lamp posters, women like his girlfriend, and the bride to be. It seems like such a far away world and time back then. All those people were older than myself, and really seemed to enjoy life as much as they could. I'm a better man for having known them.

I remember those times. The Coke commercial with "I'd like to teach the world to sing", the Big Mac attack, Colonel Sanders and Elvis were still alive, bell bottom pants, paisley shirts, Town & Country malls, long hair, portable bulky cassette players (before walkmans, before ghetto blasters, and certainly before ipods), and a host of other things ... lazy summer days like this one, only I was rafting down the river and not taking sky diving lessons out in the middle of the desert (though my pilot was high ... and later arrested).

Yeah, it's funny, because not until I wrote this post did I ever think of those things and how well this film captured the period. It was all so long ago. Still, a decent era in spite of the turmoils.