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Originally Posted by FryeDwight
BACK TO SCHOOL (1986). This Rodney Dangerfield comedy of a Self Made man attending college to be closer to his son, further his education and party hard after divorcing his wife has aged quite well. Honestly, the funniest bits are Rodney just being Rodney.
He really was one of the greats-good support by Ned Beatty, Keith Gordon and lovely Sally Kellerman. ***1/2
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Well said! Back to School was a very nice surprise. Had a great mix of comedy and seriousness. Excellent casting. Helped put Morton Downey Jr back on the map, who had a mesmerizing bit part.
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Originally Posted by FryeDwight
FLASH GORDON (1981). Very cheesy and campy film, but quite a bit of fun and certainly worth seeing. Sam Jones is kind of wooden as Flash, but He gets great support from Max Von Sydow (Ming The Merciless), Topol, the lovely Melody Anderson AND Ornella Muti as well as the extremely hammy Brian Blessed (Prince Vultan of the Hawkmen. A lot of the silliness comes from the script by Lorenzo Semple Jr (TV's BATMAN and King Kong 1976) and the bombastic score from Queen-see if You don't find yourself shouting out "FLASH! Ahh-AAAH!" ***
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Agreed on all that; that's exactly how I remember it.
On the big screen it zipped along at a fast pace. Definitely wacky, but gratefully didn't seem self-aware at all. It's all very familiar but doesn't linger.
I think I tried watching once more on the small screen, and it felt like a film you might only want to see once.