11/14/2006 4:02 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Welcome new members!
The eighties were awesome. I don't care, we were all unabashed capitalists back then. I was always wanting what someone else had back in the eighties, everything from Intellavision to those wierd asymmetrical sunglasses Hollywood wore in Mannequin. The closest I got was Atari 2600 and some strange plastic knockoff nonsense they sold with personal pan pizzas at Pizza Hut. We couldn't even share a pizza!!
Anywho, I loved Richard Pryor in Superman III. I thought he was the funniest thing going back in the day, but really I didn't pay much attention to Richard before then. My family was very much interested in watching bad Rodney Dangerfield movies and Magnum PI. Thankfully after helping my parents through the ugly choice of VHS or Beta(and fronting half of the money from my allowance) I quickly gained control of my family's VCR. Instead of Jem on saturday morning (2 sisters) we probably watched Superman III too many times to count. Sadly all I seem to remember is a giant computer swallowing an old woman whole and turning her into some kind of Videodrome freak. That was probably all it took back then to keep me watching; when viewing that scene the first time it almost made me piss my pants.
I am hesitant to re-visit Superman III. I think that it will stay preserved with a better rating in my mind if I don't watch it again now, but I'd be interested to see how cheesy those effects were.
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