When I praised Adventureland the other day in part because it reminded me of the kind of 80s movies no one makes anymore, I was thinking of Ferris Bueller or One Crazy Summer. Gooby here is the flip-side of that coin, evoking a genre that rightfully died out 20 years ago. It’s about a kid who befriends a teddy-bear like monster and they go on adventures - like a seriously ill-advised mashup of Mac & Me and Harry and the Hendersons. The conflict of course is that he has to keep his monster a secret, because in the 80s it was always bad news when people found out you had a robot, alien, monster, or doll come-to-life for a friend, or when your wife the witch wouldn’t stop using her magical powers. It’s creepy both because of the bizarreness of the plot, and because it just doesn’t seem like a good idea for your kids to watch movies about a special best friend who you can’t tell your parents about because he’s weird.
Believe it or not, this is a real movie, it’s playing at Cannes, it cost $6.5 million to make, and the director’s name is the impossible-to-make-up “Wilson Coneybeare.” I need a drink.
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I don’t usually post mash-ups, because the concept’s a bit stale, and because most people will just take sound from one thing and put it over another and call that a mash up, and there’s nothing interesting about that. Unless you’re watching Wizard of Oz and listening to Pink Floyd while tripping balls on angel dust (it also works with ether, Mac & Me, and “99 Luftballoons” - it’s uncanny). Where was I? Oh yeah. This is Star Wars, recut to look like Dallas, set to the Dallas theme music (which is pretty awesome, far as 80s theme music goes). Two different things! Together! Science, I could take you in the mouth right now.
[thanks to liveforfilms]
Paul Rudd was on Conan last night, which was apparently a re-run, to promote his not new movie Role Models. He introduces a scene from the movie, only to show a random clip from the 1988 kid-in-wheelchair-meets-alien classic, Mac & Me. Conan then pretends to act surprised because it’s important that people believe that none of Conan’s bits are in any way contrived. The point of all this is that it led us to another clip from Mac & Me (attached below) which is one of the most bizarre and amazing clips of all time. It includes:
Sweet Jesus the 80s were retarded.
