Yes, laughter about Pamela Anderson being a serious actress was the correct response. She had shown absolutely no ability to come even remotely close to anything resembling serious acting. And still hasn’t.

One of the things that hit me on rewatch (and why older me views the movie as far weaker than when I watched it as a teen all those years back) is that they start with the tract housing shot - and then almost ignore the suburban setting besides the occasional happily disconnected adult having a glass of wine. It’s one…

Should have capped it off with actually watching “Altered State” to really give you a case of the mindfucks

One thing that I realized years later about Pump Up the Volume is how it’s the last movie that shows a 1980s (-ish given its release date) high school. Almost immediately afterwards, you had two simultaneous, very brief flashes in the pan: grunge and the neo-African look made popular by Public Enemy and on In Living…

Go watch Gotcha!. There are scenes where people are running around with paintball guns and real guns on a college campus and nobody cares or reacts. It would be international news today. Also a cute movie. 

Yea but he is best known as Magnificent Muraco in his prime. The Rock was his last gasp. 

It’s always going to be a niche movie, but let’s not act like there isn’t genuine appreciation and passion for the movie. Box office is only part of the story.

Not nitpicky at all. The old AV Club knew their shit, and had the editors to correct it if required. Also could cite the phrase “mise-en-scène” without Pavlovian snarkback.

That’s a legend. She attended the premiere and the film itself. 

I was surprised at the dismissal of Hussey’s subsequent career. I feel like I see her pretty regularly, and I always go "hey, it's Olivia Hussey". Certainly she's Michael Caine compared to Whiting. 

So, to be clear, the AV Club is anti-“nepo baby,” but throwing your weight around to try to get your unqualified wife hired as a producer is an act of “spousal solidarity.”

In 2018 (for the 50th anniversary), Hussey gave multiple interviews about this movie and directly addressed how the nude scenes were no big deal for her. I find the timing of this to suggest more likely that they’ve got an opportunistic lawyer rather than they were actually traumatized by the experience. Not that the…

Wait, you mean you never finished Romeo & Juliet?

Norms on this sort of thing changed a lot more recent than you might think. 

This was filmed in Rome and there was no exploitation. It was brief and tasteful.  

They weren’t traumatized at the time by this event and it’s been over 40 years since they both reached the age of majority. Hope this gets thrown out of court. The criminalization of the human body is outrageous.

I mean...please. $500 million in damages? For acting in a film from 50+ years ago?

I’m sorry this is just … odd. I mean, yes standards have obviously changed over time, as evidenced by the fact that all us Gen Xers on here watched this in 9th grade English. (My teacher, a white Christian lady, preemptively admonished us to grow up and not giggle, this was Zeffirelli and Shakespeare for crying out…

The comparison to Knives Out is interesting to me, because I clearly didn’t experience it as a rah-rah-eat-the-rich fest like so many others. The family is like any other—it’s got more obnoxious people and less obnoxious, people who feel smug about their political views without having them tested—and for as much as…