WHAT WOULD YOU WATCH?

_{BACHELOR PARTY (1984)}

What would be of more interest to you?  A Belly-Dancing Stripper or a Drug-Using Donkey?

This is a tough one as we delve deeper into the psychology and moral progression of ‘wild and crazy’ party scenes from the 80s.

The party scene in Weird Science (1985) was reserved for high-schoolers and represented more of a soiree feel with its use of a fully-stocked buffet table.

Risky Business (1983) had some light drinking, but was more memorable for its deviant display of suburban teenage hormones fused with hookers, certainly upping the ante versus Weird Science.

With a film titled Bachelor Party, the viewer expects to see a stripper do their bit at some point.  A donkey doing copious amounts of pills and blow takes the party up a notch.  It’s subversive and yet honest, as there is always a guest at the party bogarting someone else’s drugs.

We at Nitflix find humor in this and beseech the producers of the film for a re-edit.  Give us more of the Drug-Using Donkey.

REST IN PEACE: SONNY LANDHAM (1941-2017)

Hollywood lost one its perennial ‘bad-asses’ this past week in actor Sonny Landham.  He was 76 years old.

 

Sinister, scowling, black-hearted film roles are what we’ll remember about him the most, namely with 48 Hrs. and Predator.

However, one of Hollywood’s elite gave Landham his due (thank you,Daily Mirror UK).  

Sylvester Stallone touted the late actor as his co-star in Lock Up (1989), which is arguably Landham’s most dramatically-centered role.  He portrays a prisoner who is commissioned by the warden (Donald Sutherland) to make life a living hell for prisoner Frank Leoni (Stallone).

This is evident in the prison yard-football game scene (watch it here).  

The editors wanted to thank Stallone for his acknowledgement of his co-star, as we salute Landham’s performance and his contributions to the silver screen. 

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING

_{OVER THE EDGE (1979)}

Any self-respecting Gen-X’er has seen the film Over the Edge (trailer here).

The film featured a young, Matt Dillon exuding the long-haired teenage outcast and displayed the precursor to his role in The Outsiders.

The editors at Nitflix has seen this movie on more than one occasion and have always been curious to the character of Tip.  For those that need a refresher course, Tip sells some hash to Claude and rats him out to the cops to take some heat off themselves.

 

Matt Dillon holds Tip at gunpoint attempting frontier justice and exclaims, “A kid who tells on another kid is a dead kid.”  Has anyone figured out if Tip is a boy or a girl?  Their high, raspy voice and bangs are reminiscent of Peppermint Patty, but they have the build of a boy.

The clip is here between 7:21 and 7:46

We urge you to do your research on this, for we have already done ours and know the answer.  

THE SIMPLE PLEASURES OF FLOYD GONDOLLI

_{BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997)}

The line stands on its own.

“I like simple pleasures like, butter in my ass, lollipops in my mouth.  That’s just me.”

It’s delivered so eloquently by Floyd Gondolli (Philip Baker Hall), pleading the case for video as the future of pornography and not celluloid.  The thought of Gondolli submitting himself to such kink keeps the focus on him, or so we think. 

Click the quote to check out The Colonel (Robert Ridgely) on the couch and out of focus in the background; dying of laughter and trying hard not to fudge the scene.  It’s a hard, quiet chortle and a true cinematic moment caught for posterity; the line between art and real life now blurred, leaving us in wonderment.

 

Is the Colonel or Ridgely trying to hold it together?

CUT AWAY! CUT AWAY!

The Ampipe High School locker room from All the Right Moves (1983) exemplifies the sacred yet malodourous, bacteria-ridden home of men.  We find the Bulldogs gearing up for practice, readying for their rival, Walnut Heights.

Gearing up in Ampipe apparently means a dance scene amongst the players; the only scene in the movie tailored for the female audience.  It’s cheesy, but not solely for its absurdity.

The real violation occurs over 14 seconds of a meat-titted, beer body with graying chest hair doing their best locker room jig.  That's 14 seconds of Tank! 

An eternity for a single shot.  An eternity of screen time for that guy.

We, at Nitflix, are not asking for too much when we beseech a re-edit!  3 seconds is the maximum elapsed time we are requesting.  The editors can fill with whatever they want with that remaining 11 seconds.  

NITFLIX PROFILE: JACKIE EARLE HALEY

As the punkish, little league slugger Kelly Leak in the irreverent (and original) Bad News Bears (1976) and the quick-fisted, soft-hearted Moocher in the Serio-comedy Breaking Away (1979), Jackie Earle Haley defined the young, modern American outlaw.  

As Haley got older, he resigned to B-movie jobs and bits on TV, as father time prevented casting into younger roles.  Between 1993 and 2006 Haley found himself directing commercials and corporate videos, until his returning to the screen as a child molester in Little Children (2006).

Since then, he’s been credited with 18 films. 

A transformation from freckles and a toothy grin to a scowl and sinister look, Haley’s professional acting range is evident, with a career renaissance rivaling John Travolta and Robert Downey Jr.  

Any actor worth Haley's salt will always have a job in Hollywood.  

A 13-year layoff doesn’t erase that sort of talent.