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wow this was terrible (no trolling)


Now I know Bogdanovich made some really heavy dark ape**** movies but this was downright bad. Corny and cheesy to the max as expected from the time when mullets were considered hip and Bon Jovi was an idol of the generation. Now, my hate for an older time aside, this was about as predictable and unnatural as it gets. I saw it on the big screen a few days ago expecting at least a heartwarming laugh and a coherent plot. It turned out the gags were repetitive and dull, the plot is incredibly loose and badly put together and unrealistic and Lowe is downright irritating to the point it made me think he was trying too hard to outcomicrelief the comic reliefs of his helium-junkie brother and uncle Freddie. And what's with those two stoned bimbos to whom stunt driving is a second nature (like Keanu and his plane diving malarkey). Final nail in the coffin would have been Joe Pesci narrating I guess, so we got away with it

Not trying to troll a fanbase here, maybe i'm just too old for this sort of thing or maybe I just expect the highest standard from a director like this. Not even worth watching for the sake of nostalgia trip as it would just bring back the age of cheesy post-Nam moralizing.

But hey, at least it wasn't Patrick Swayze dancing or Keanu trying to do an accent

Mondale to Hart: "Where's the beef?"

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I caught this on video back in 1988 or 1989 (it had virtually no theatrical play). Now I like Rob Lowe a lot and think Bogdanovich is a great director but this was terrible! Lowe was trying but the script wasn't there for him. The plot was predictable and the jokes were just terrible! I think I smiled once--that was it. Surprisingly it was even badly directed! This was a total misfire and pretty remains forgotten--for good reason!

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I've never seen it before, but I just read the trivia section and even Peter Bogdanovich said it was the worst movie he ever made.

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Half way through and it's fun. Cheezy but some funny parts.

The way he grubs off his mom.
Those 2 girls.

I have no idea what's going on

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