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The columns don't match the drapes

posted 15 years ago by craigoprego
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So many movies use exterior shots that don't match up with the interior ones, but nothing has ever been this blatantly mismatched in the history of film.
The girls are staying overnight at a very ritzy-titzy mansion-like home (belonging to a doctor who appears in scrubs or a lab coat in every scene--even when he's just buying some OJ at the local convience store--so it can never slip the viewer's mind that he's a man of medicine and wealth). But once inside, the viewer is quick to realize that it's shot entirly in a 70's split-level home. There's:
-thread-bare shag carpet
-awful faux-wood panneling
-sheer little curtians
-a "dining table" that's really just a card table with some fold-up chairs
-a stained-glass Budweiser beer light over said table
-and green linolium flooring and trashy wallpaper as far as they eye can see
This is supposed to be taking place in a doctor's manse with large greek columns out front? Anyway, it made to move for me.

[–] smerd_70 15 years ago

"-thread-bare shag carpet
-awful faux-wood panneling
-sheer little curtians
-a "dining table" that's really just a card table with some fold-up chairs
-a stained-glass Budweiser beer light over said table
-and green linolium flooring and trashy wallpaper as far as they eye can see "

Wow! You perfectly described the basement of my family's home growing up back in the 70's and 80's. All that was missing was the huge top-loading VCR with wood paneling, and bean bag chair.

I collect dead pigeons then I press them between the pages of a book.

[–] craigoprego 15 years ago

It's pretty much how my parents' basement looked too; repleat with beanbag chair (brown corduory slip-cover) and top-loading VCR. I wish someone would put out a coffee-table book with a pictorial history of the rec-rooms of the 70'/80's.

[–] badfish-3 14 years ago

Yeah, and every teen girl in 1988 had a Bee Gees poster on her bedroom wall.

[–] smerd_70 14 years ago

I think the film was filmed in the early 80's, then shelved then finally released in the late 80's. Look at the clothes and the hair, the furniture, and they even still had the old style ring-tabs on the Bud cans.

I collect dead pigeons then I press them between the pages of a book.

[–] maulrat-1 12 years ago

I have to agree here, just looking at their clothes (a nod to fran tarkenton's number 10 minnesota vikings jersey) and hair styles (feathered hair and bad perms) it looks like the transitional period from the 70's to the 80's, much like watching Threes Company episodes, theres just so much of the 70's items in this flick (Bee Gees poster, the god awful wallpaper, the kitchen tiles ... and some of the terminology like "queerbait" is rather 70's as well ... I definitely would say this was shot in '80 or '81 at the very latest

[–] philoj 8 years ago

Don't forget the peeling wallpaper in the shower and just about every linoleum, formica, and plastic surface being stained.

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