This movie was so cartoonishly serio-comic, with such "out there" lines and gags, that it really ought to be a cult favorite by now. I could watch this movie many more times and still get a warm chuckle out of all the crazy stuff going on in it.
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me too. i love it and always have. and it has a pretty good plot too, with good twists
i saw it the year it was out, 1986, and never forgot. (not in theaters but at home on vcr. we had just bought one and this was one of the first tapes i ever rented. i remember liking it a lot)
then i rented it several times again in the late 80s, then it was lots and lots of years later i was thinking about it, remember it. 'what ever happened with that judd nelson film i saw back in the 80s?'
so when i came on the boards it was like empty, and like nobody knew about it. i was the only one, it seemed.
but now they are playing it on starz so i am sure more people will see it and like it.
but this movie alwas reminds me of the mid 80s and how such a tiny little film can be so much fun. it also reminds me of being a teenager in the 80s and what that was like (not that i ran around blowing up casinos lol) ...but hanging with friends we were always up to something, kinda like judd and david caruso did.
btw there were several vhs tapes i rented in those days that were good and which i remember as representiing that time period for me. i was in tallahassee and vcr's were new on the market and we used to rent our titles at the convenience store near the house. some of the others i remember:
TUFF TURF
RUNNING SCARED
THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW
THE SLUGGERS WIFE
CREATOR
HARRY & SON
VISION QUEST
AT CLOSE RANGE
FIRSTBORN
FOOTLOOSE
GUNG HO
HOOSIERS
MURPHYS ROMANCE
THE RIVER
WITNESS
YEAR OF THE DRAGON
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behold, sublime genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXRYA1dxP_0
a better director and some tweaks with the cast and it could have been an 80's action classic. as it stands it's a decent movie with some amusing scenes.
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Don't forget:
48 HOURS
BREATHLESS
JOHNNY HANDSOME
I've been going through your package sergeant. Do you mind my looking over your package?
Wait, one post talks about movies so bad they're good, and then one list has 48 HOURS. 48 is a very good movie. It has cult status but more of the same status as when it first came: a good movie. Very good. One of Walter Hill's best. And this movie, Hill production, is, to me, much better than STREETS OF FIRE, which is basically THE WARRIORS SIDE STORY, and even boring.
As for Blue City. I never got what's so bad about it. I find it more entertaining and less cartoony and contrived than DIE HARD or movies like that. I mean, it's a reach, to say the least, that a spoiled rebel with a basketball can turn the tables on professional killers (back by a powerful person) like he does, but I just don't understand why BLUE CITY is considered the kind of movie that sweeps the Razzie noms. If it were made today with Seth Rogen or one of those other one-dimensional actors doing an action with comic lines, it'd be taken seriously as ever. I think it's just that it followed THE B-CLUB, and for some reason the "Brat Pack" was so big, everyone wanted them to crash and burn. An action programmer like BLUE CITY isn't enough to ruin their ride... time and many more choices, or turning down the right movies, would do that in due time.
I don't know. I don't think this movie is great but, it's just... not that bad.
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