#Starcrossed 1985 review movie#
#Starcrossed 1985 review series#

This whole montage is either fucking atrocious or super awesome, depending on how ironic you are feeling. is drumming with no shirt on, everyone is doing those 80s dances, the place is packed and extremely well lit вЂ¦ oh вЂ¦ and overrated poet/singer/drug addict Jim Carroll is the lead singer in the band. Flash forward to what is perhaps one of the best 80s dance/concert displays on film. Oh, and if youвЂ™re so inclined this actress is Kim Richards who is/was on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. To make it more confusing, her name is Frankie, and to make it even more confusing, she is played by that girl that was in вЂњEscape from Witch Mountain,вЂќ and also had a reoccuring role on DiffrвЂ™nt Strokes, so her nude scene in this must have been some coming out or something. It is made apparent the main The Cast from Beat It guyвЂ™s girlfriend has the hots for Spader. Keep in mind everyone looks like they are 25 or 30, except Robert Downey Jr., who must have not started doing drugs at this point and looks like a baby-faced future drug addict. The Cast from Beat It and their token girlfriends spot the new kid and decide to get revenge. The next morning it is revealed that Spader has just transferred to the public school from out of state, is a good student and seems wealthy, but is also a loner. The Cast from Beat It are easily defeated and Spader rides off. These guys are really tough (tuff?) and yet, inexplicably, their heist of a lecherous businessman is interrupted by what, you ask? ThatвЂ™s right, James Spader вЂ¦ on a bicycle вЂ¦ with a shaken-up can of beer. We are introduced to a gang who are obviously вЂњthe bad kids.вЂќ They have no name so I am going to name them вЂњThe Cast From Beat It.вЂќ Herein, anytime the gang is seen, thatвЂ™s what IвЂ™m going to call them. Tuff Turf opens almost exactly like The Warriors.

IвЂ™m glad with todays fashions we seem to have worked it out. Summary: Pants in the 80s made all chicks asses look like big messy sacs of potatoes. Of course, there is a whole undercurrent and sporadic mention of gangs and violence, even though it is portrayed in a comical way.

#Starcrossed 1985 review movie#

Certain parts of this movie seem to reflect that whole вЂone individual can do anythingвЂ™ vibe that was popular in the 80s, but thatвЂ™s sort of negated by the fact that the main character is also wealthy. ItвЂ™s a mystery to be lived.вЂќ In tough gang member voice вЂњSo, you guys feel like picking up some dust or what?вЂќ Everything from the plot, the music, the style of dress, the language, the slow-motion gunshot, the James Spader, all of it 100% dated 80s reference.Д«est Line: In stressed-out dad voice: вЂњLook son, life isnвЂ™t a problem ought be solved. We'll expect thank-you letters in the morning.Interesting Dated References: The 80s as a whole.

And if a young Daniel Day-Lewis is the carrot at the end of the programming stick (or film blurb) that gets your butt in a seat at the Paramount for this film, so be it. Greater, more palpable differences animate the relationship between Johnny and Omar sexuality is the least interesting of them.

Presaging the more American-oriented New Queer Cinema, My Beautiful Laundrette does something its successors across the pond rarely do вЂ“ catch the relationship between its two central characters mid-sentence. But that sink-washing scene is hella cute, amirite? Such is the evidence of the talent of screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, who builds a narrative that never fully coheres to fit a particular generic mold it's not really a coming-out story, nor a tragic love story, nor a screed on the politics of identity, although elements of all three dot the film. The romance between Johnny and upwardly mobile Omar (an equally stunning and subtle Gordon Warnecke), whose Uncle Nasser challenges him to flip a washateria into the black, is a complex coupling вЂ“ one structurally informed by the tug-of-war quadrumvirate of class, race, nationality, and sexuality. Although he looks like Vanilla Ice's doppelganger, his affect is anything but as he slides from a bouncer-like stone-cold imperviousness to an impish-yet-wounded flirt in about a second flat.

#Starcrossed 1985 review series#

My Beautiful Laundrette is sneaking into the Paramount's Summer Classic Film Series alongside a slew of films starring Daniel Day-Lewis, and before you gee-whiz at this decorated, taciturn actor's onscreen transformations into a ponderous Abe or an insane prospector who drinks up other people's milkshakes (rude), we advise you to take a moment to revel in his queer, punkish, tough, lower-class character named, what else (?), Johnny.