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I must be getting old

posted 17 years ago by BAcker5150
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When i first saw this movie in the 80's I was thinking that woman Rick was after looks kind of old.

I am watching the movie right now and I am thinking "she is kind of cute."

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[–] ca_skunk 15 years ago

The movie has two good parts: When he hires the Tony Bennett look-alike to sing outside of her window (that's the kind of stuff I would have done when I was young and still hopelessly romantic in 1984), and when he throws the rock through her window after she discards him like an empty pizza box after a roll in the hay ("Is this realistic enough for you?").

"Love Somebody" is a terrific song - I still listen to it - and I thought his haircut looked so cool that the day after I saw the movie, I went to The Haircut Store and told the woman I wanted "a Rick Springfield haircut" (she knew what I meant).

[–] HarlowMGM 15 years ago

When i first saw this movie in the 80's I was thinking that woman Rick was after looks kind of old.

I am watching the movie right now and I am thinking "she is kind of cute."

I was surprised to see several others make this remark about Janet Eilber in the IMDB reviews. She's actually two years younger than Rick but she does have this arch, aloof quality that seems too mature for someone her age(according to IMDB she's a ballet dancer) but then her character was written this way as well. I think the character is just too haughty to be appealing to audiences and it is hard to see why Rick's character is so determine to romance her given her attitude.

[–] cincykid07 14 years ago

Yeah her character was too stuffy for him. I don't know if they wrote it that way, or it was performance related. They could have gotten someone a couple of years younger too ( she was 33 when the movie was released), maybe someone 27-28 ish. It failed because it missed the teen girl demographic.

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[–] cincykid07 12 years ago

What are you talking about? He peaked in 1974? Rick had one hit (Speak to the Sky) and several failed records in the 70's. There was no "Working Class Dog makeover", that was who Rick always was. If anything the teen magazines killed his music credibility throughout the 70's as he was lumped into the Leif Garrett, David Cassidy hearthrob aura. For years record companies wouldn't play his music due to a nasty rumor that his record company (Columbia I think) was paying teenage girls to buy his records. Working Class Dog and his acting stint on General Hospital finally broke him through to the big time. Dog was such a good album the dj's couldn't not play it for failure of losing ratings. He was never hotter than the first half of the 80's. Teens was a bad way of putting it. More like early 20's college girls/ stay at home mothers watching soaps were his key demographics. That and guys who like great music.

[–] gluserty 12 years ago

I give Rick Springfield credit: his songs were pretty solid ("Love Somebody" is my favorite) and he is a decent actor. "Hard To Hold" was terrible, but the kind of terrible that one can be comfortable with. None of the acting was bad, it's just that the story didn't have many places to go.