Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Soul Man (1986), Thursday, Feb 18, 8:30 PM ET

bapo! · Post by **bapo!** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:41 pm

I hope that Hoopla isn't like YouTube, or else my future recommended videos are going to be horrible.

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:41 pm

An Arye Gross movie that I think about way too often relative to its merits is The Experts.

Honestly, might be a good candidate for one of these movie nights. If you want to see Travolta as his absolute nadir, but on the movie where he met his future wife, have I got the movie for you.

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:42 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:41 pm It might get worse, but I could conceivably see this as something a wannabe "woke" white person would think would work today. The only difference is that someone along the way would try to stop them.

In that case, if you hated the first half of this movie, you're really gonna hate the second half of this movie.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:44 pm

brian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:41 pm An Arye Gross movie that I think about way too often relative to its merits is The Experts.

Honestly, might be a good candidate for one of these movie nights. If you want to see Travolta as his absolute nadir, but on the movie where he met his future wife, have I got the movie for you.

Holy shit totally forgot about that movie!

What about One Crazy Summer. Was he in that?

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:44 pm

We're under 30 seconds away from, uh, yeah...

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:45 pm

We're back.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:45 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:41 pm It might get worse, but I could conceivably see this as something a wannabe "woke" white person would think would work today. The only difference is that someone along the way would try to stop them.

Yeah. This is pretty clearly the work of well-meaning people who had no idea what they were actually producing and what it would look like to anyone who wasn’t them.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:46 pm

Good things from this venture:

1. Giff laughed again at the basketball scene.

2. I apparently picked a good pause point.

bapo! · Post by **bapo!** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:46 pm

I've always loved this song. I've always loved Louis Armstrong.

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:46 pm

One of the only redeeming things about this movie is the estates of some great Black musicians got some royalties. (Though honestly white people probably ended up stealing those too.)

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:47 pm

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:46 pm Good things from this venture:

1. Giff laughed again at the basketball scene.

2. I apparently picked a good pause point.

Perfectly identifiable pause point. Great work.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:47 pm

The pause point was actually genius.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:47 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:44 pm What about One Crazy Summer. Was he in that?

No. Because young me saw it 10,000 times.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:48 pm

Harvard guys don't know what "impotent" actually means.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:48 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:47 pm The pause point was actually genius.

I owe it all to completely dumb fucking luck.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:49 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:47 pm
Giff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:44 pm What about One Crazy Summer. Was he in that?
No. Because young me saw it 10,000 times.

Oh yeah, it's Bill Murray's brother. I love that movie.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:50 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:49 pm
Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:47 pm
Giff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:44 pm What about One Crazy Summer. Was he in that?
No. Because young me saw it 10,000 times.
Oh yeah, it's Bill Murray's brother. I love that movie.

That movie and Better Off Dead are awesome but I don't think they'd work for this because they're more enjoyable to actually watch normally.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:52 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:47 pm
Giff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:44 pm What about One Crazy Summer. Was he in that?
No. Because young me saw it 10,000 times.

Just hit google to verify he wasn’t Chainsaw from Summer School and learned that Summer School was directed by Carl Reiner!

bapo! · Post by **bapo!** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:52 pm

Study montage!

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:53 pm

Summer School is up there on my most-watched movie of the 80s.

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:53 pm

rass wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:52 pm
Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:47 pm
Giff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:44 pm What about One Crazy Summer. Was he in that?
No. Because young me saw it 10,000 times.
Just hit google to verify he wasn’t Chainsaw from Summer School and learned that Summer School was directed by Carl Reiner!

Holy shit. I had no idea.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:54 pm

bapo! wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:52 pmStudy montage!

Has anyone (The Ringer??) done a worst 80s montage list. Because...

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:55 pm

Raise your hand if you had that same Transformer (Slag).

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:55 pm

I'm not saying this movie set civil rights back a half-decade but I'm not saying it didn't.

duff · Post by **duff** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:56 pm

Why does Rae Dawn Chong look so familiar? IMDB didn't have anything pop out that I would have seen her in.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:57 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:55 pm Raise your hand if you had that same Transformer (Slag).

I'm a Grimlock guy

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:57 pm

"Whitney" was actually about as white a name as there was until Whitney Houston.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:57 pm

duff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:56 pm Why does Rae Dawn Chong look so familiar? IMDB didn't have anything pop out that I would have seen her in.

Commando.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:57 pm

duff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:56 pm Why does Rae Dawn Chong look so familiar? IMDB didn't have anything pop out that I would have seen her in.

Were you alive in the 80s?

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:58 pm

Should we do The Principal to complete the Rae Dawn Chong trilogy?

duff · Post by **duff** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:59 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:57 pm
duff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:56 pm Why does Rae Dawn Chong look so familiar? IMDB didn't have anything pop out that I would have seen her in.
Were you alive in the 80s?

Very much.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:59 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:58 pm Should we do The Principal to complete the Rae Dawn Chong trilogy?

There's one from the early 80s where she plays a stripper.

bapo! · Post by **bapo!** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:00 pm

Rae Dawn Chong is from Edmonton.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:01 pm

Holy shit, she married C. Thomas Howell after this? Isn't her Dad Tommy Chong?

duff · Post by **duff** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:01 pm

It is.

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:02 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:01 pm Holy shit, she married C. Thomas Howell after this? Isn't her Dad Tommy Chong?

What the fuck? I'm glad I didn't Wikipedia that before the movie. I'm even more grossed out now.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:02 pm

Commando -> The Color Purple -> this movie is something

bapo! · Post by **bapo!** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:03 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:01 pm Holy shit, she married C. Thomas Howell after this?

Can you blame her? (Don't answer that, carwash.)

duff · Post by **duff** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:03 pm

brian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:02 pm
Giff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:01 pm Holy shit, she married C. Thomas Howell after this? Isn't her Dad Tommy Chong?
What the fuck? I'm glad I didn't Wikipedia that before the movie. I'm even more grossed out now.

What's wrong with Tommy?

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:03 pm

Arye Gross is easily the best thing about this movie by the way.