http://80smoviemama.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/you-better-love-somebody/ 80's movie reviews and some other fun things. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:40:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://80smoviemama.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/you-better-love-somebody/#comment-60 nibbles Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:33:01 +0000 http://80smoviemama.wordpress.com/?p=41#comment-60 I saw it in the theater when it came out. I was the teen-aged female target demographic. All I remember is his butt. He was running away from someone while wearing a towel and there was the gratuitous <i>oops</i> moment in which the towel fell off. Apparently there were three or four more butt-shots that I don't even remember. It's quite the thing for me to not remember up to four opportunities to see this majestic butt plastered across the big silvery screen just for me. I must have nodded off. Rick Springfield is a torrent of contradictions. On the one hand, he's wanted to be taken seriously as a musician and to get past the pretty-boy-teen-idol image ever since he got out of the gate in the early 1970s, but then he signs up to star in a movie in which he has to display his wares multiple times for no good reason. How does that help? And even now, as he's pushing 60, he regularly removes his shirt on stage. He is in freakishly great shape, but this isn't doing a thing for his credibility. You don't see Radiohead or Eric Clapton removing their shirts. There are other contradictions, like how his lyrics are still sexist and stalkerish to this day despite having his bread generously buttered for almost 40 years by a fan-base that's about 90% female, but we only have so much time for considering such matters. I just know I was over him when that creepy "Don't Talk To Strangers" video came out and that all his later stuff covers pretty much the same material. I saw it in the theater when it came out. I was the teen-aged female target demographic. All I remember is his butt. He was running away from someone while wearing a towel and there was the gratuitous oops moment in which the towel fell off. Apparently there were three or four more butt-shots that I don’t even remember. It’s quite the thing for me to not remember up to four opportunities to see this majestic butt plastered across the big silvery screen just for me. I must have nodded off.
Rick Springfield is a torrent of contradictions. On the one hand, he’s wanted to be taken seriously as a musician and to get past the pretty-boy-teen-idol image ever since he got out of the gate in the early 1970s, but then he signs up to star in a movie in which he has to display his wares multiple times for no good reason. How does that help? And even now, as he’s pushing 60, he regularly removes his shirt on stage. He is in freakishly great shape, but this isn’t doing a thing for his credibility. You don’t see Radiohead or Eric Clapton removing their shirts.
There are other contradictions, like how his lyrics are still sexist and stalkerish to this day despite having his bread generously buttered for almost 40 years by a fan-base that’s about 90% female, but we only have so much time for considering such matters. I just know I was over him when that creepy “Don’t Talk To Strangers” video came out and that all his later stuff covers pretty much the same material.

]]> http://80smoviemama.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/you-better-love-somebody/#comment-46 ckd Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:04:37 +0000 http://80smoviemama.wordpress.com/?p=41#comment-46 I have seen this movie..though I dont remember it in this detail...but meaner than a run over dog?...ummm where did that come from..lol I have seen this movie..though I dont remember it in this detail…but meaner than a run over dog?…ummm where did that come from..lol

]]> http://80smoviemama.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/you-better-love-somebody/#comment-37 Only Daughter Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:01:38 +0000 http://80smoviemama.wordpress.com/?p=41#comment-37 All I can say is I've never seen this movie.... and now I know why. LOL All I can say is I’ve never seen this movie…. and now I know why. LOL

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