Cinco DeNio

Rentable on Vudu as well

In that case, Paint Your Wagon is going on my possibilities list.

It's also rentable on Amazon.

Cool! I've never seen this.

@Cam Bert's Letterboxd review is spot on as this being "One part Rocky Horror", since Richard O'Brien wrote three songs for this movie.

I'm getting into The Boys now. I liked the first episode but wasn't sure about the second. However the third really picked up and I'm ready to watch the next one.

See kids?!? Gang signs are cool! Captain Invicible flashes them so you can too!

I actually liked this overall. I was wondering if it was an Australian production but I can't confirm that. It had bigger names in it than would be normal. I did like they got Bill Hunter, my favorite Australian character actor, in there as the trainer to get Captain Invicible back in shape. (He played Barry Fife, the evil dance association head, in Strictly Ballroom. He was also the voice of the dentist in Finding Nemo.) I did wonder if the songwriters were about to go on break so they said "Hey! Let's make a song out of only one word!"

I was so disappointed. I thought they had made this book into a movie.

Instead of Eddie & The Cruisers they should have called the movie Jersey Boys.

One other thing about Joey Pants' character. He says how he's never gotten a break all his life. It's why Joanne gives him the tapes. Then he makes all kinds of statements about how he's going to make the sweetest deal ever, how they're all set, etc. Yeah, right! He hasn't gotten it done in his life so far and he thinks he's going to take the corporation and their lawyers for a ride? (Also IIRC, Tom Berenger didn't even look in the wooden box at the dump just to make sure the tapes were in there and in good condition. I imagine being somewhat exposed to the elements in a wooden box for 18 years didn't do the tapes any favors.)

Apologies but I just finished watching this. Someone mentioned the ending being a copout. I just am wondering which part they are referring to? Joey Pants being the "mysterian" behind the search for the tapes? Or the bearded stranger in the TV store window? Overall I am glad I watched this but am disappointed Frank and Joanne didn't get together until almost 20 years later. Frank said he wanted to call her so many times. 1) Why didn't he? 2) What if she had moved? (Granted he didn't seem to have any trouble tracking down the others but still. He himself had moved.)

This is what Star Wars movies like Rogue One wanted to be. Movies with a very tenuous link to the source material but are still entertaining on their own.

OK, what have you got for us?

I saw Michael Pate in the credits and misread Michael Pare. I thought "Oh, no."

I'm planning to see it this afternoon if I can get in to the only showing I can make today.

Paging @theworstbuddhist! @theworstbuddhist, please answer the white courtesy phone.

Especially since Tom Berenger was the first credited! It would make him seem like the star.

How much singing did Michael Pare do? The opening song looked and sounded like they played the Springsteen track. Other moments I wasn’t as sure about.

I apologize that my tongue wasn't planted well enough in my cheek to be obvious.

Sure, but that means he was recording Born in the USA in 1983 (or even 1982!) so the filmmakers could have been aware of the songs.

Berenger is over two years older than Joey Pants. Tom was 34 in 1983 and Joe Pantoliano was 32.

Speaking of blown timelines I was expecting to justify Joey Pants' villain turn in The Matrix as justified by that bad gray wig. Yet The Matrix was 16 years later. That's a long time to hold a grudge. For Tom Berenger I thought sure his role in this prepped him for The Substitute. Yet that was 13 years later so he could be out of touch with teaching. Maybe that's why he was only a substitute in 1996.

I thought the lady in the bar where they go "Tell so-and-so Eddie and the Cruisers are here" was Deborah Van Valkenburg. I looked up the timelines to see how long it was before she dumped Michael Beck and went to Michael Pare. She's not in EatC so that theory is down the drain. I guess that lady is the backup singer?

I admit I haven't finished it yet because the Dailymotion app on my TV crashed so I will watch it on my PC. However I will say that watching it after knowing they made a sequel subtitled "Eddie Lives!" makes the first one questionable.