I’d say anything the time travelers brought with them is fine— they’re (p)remembering BREAKFAST CLUB, CHOPPING MALL, etc and it doesn’t matter that it’s only 1983. “Swayze’s” is only consistent as a reference if Deke is the one who named it, but as I said, it’s allowed anyway.

1983 is way too early for a ROADHOUSE reference but I’ll allow it.

“Exterminate!” was definitely Dalek.

Think of all the times you’ve seen a character in TV or movies or even kids’ cartoons quote “You talkin’ to me?” unironically. Like, face-to-face with another character instead of practicing in a mirror.

On the whole, I think STAGE DOOR is the better film. But between these two you’ve got peak performances from just about every major actress of the 1930s.

Shearer had already won the Best Actress Oscar for THE DIVORCEE, nine years earlier.

Left to right: Norma Shearer, Joan Fontaine, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, and Mary Boland.

Wasn’t that intentional? Cast the most absurdly plastic-pretty 90210-adjacent people and then gleefully put them all though a meat grinder?

Misreading Travis Bickle as a hero is, I think, the norm. At least for viewers in their formative years.

“The movie’s ubiquitous visual effects aren’t convincing in its depiction of the crew...”

I feel like Cindy’s mom has to be at least human, or the goggles would have ID’d her as artificial.

Five years late to the party but whatever.

ETA, nevermind

Just me, or was he doing a light Christopher Walken impersonation? Say, about 70%?

Well, there’s at least one.

You left out the most important element connecting this film to the classic 70s disaster epics: the theme song, performed by Donna Summer.

That’s wonderful.

Did you SEE the last three episodes of Penny Dreadful? Talk about eradicating audience goodwill.

His line, “There is no book so bad it has not some good in it.” is a quote from ‘Don Quixote,’ if that’s worth anything.

Ah, gotcha.