Ok, we will be the first to admit that this has been a little delayed. This last year has been our year personally, but we have fallen a little behind in this artistic side project.
If you can read this, you are loved.
In this episode we answer the questions that nobody thought to ask about our coverage of Beetlejuice. As usual, Zack delves deep into what was going on in pop culture at the time and deep dives local newspapers and men's magazines.
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Forbidden Cinema 129 - Beetlejuice
Join us as we continue through our coverage of movies that were forbidden (or in this case, maybe should have been) that have had recent upgrades, remakes, or sequels.
Ok, we have made some recommendations in the past, but this is top 3 one of the best movies we have covered. If you haven't seen it in 35 years (like both of us), go out and immediately watch it. We will wait for you. Then join us as we go full nostalgia and revel in this masterpiece.
Welcome back as we answer the questions that nobody bothered to ask about our our episode covering the 1984 classic buddy cop action comedy, Beverly Hills Cop.
Zack tries to figure out who Eddie Murphy was and how big of a star he was in 1984 (spoiler alert: HUGE). We dig into the numbers and discuss how this is one of the most successful movies ever made. We also look at the very limited number of roles for women in this film.
We talk about how Mythbusters ripped this movie a new tailpipe and go over the reviews of the time.
Zack digs into newspapers and men's magazines from December of 1984 to discover a Christmas shrimp sale at the Holiday Motel, the Supreme Court hearing a case about the morning moment of silence at schools, a nude pictorial of Suzanne Somers, an article by Steve Martin, Alec Guinness as the spokes model for a tuxedo designer, a 4 color graphing typewriter, a 2-inch flat-screen TV, and pictorials of Lee Major's wife and daughter.
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Forbidden Cinema 127 - Beverly Hills Cop
We are all hearing the theme in our head, right?
We watched Beverly Hills Cop from 1984 and had a blast doing it. Thanks for bearing with us during our unplanned hiatus. Life has really caught up with us. We are going to try to get back to a regular release schedule. Stay tuned.
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Forbidden Cinema 126 - Young Guns - Going Deeper
Welcome back as we tackle the questions nobody bothered to ask about our episode on Young Guns starring Emilio Estevez and everyone else who was hot in 1988.
Zack gives us a brief history lesson about the Lincoln County War and how this film is surprisingly probably the most accurate representation ever put on film. We go in detail about which of the Young "Buns" actors has showed his buns the most on screen and can't even believe the number that Charlie Sheen puts on the scoreboard. Side note, one of the actresses in an early sex scene with LDP is someone Zack knows very well from Battlestar Galactica / Jenny from Pretty in Pink (and is apparently the daughter of the bad guy from Ernest Goes to Camp, small world).
We play a brief game to see if Jenny can name a single current celebrity that is the age of the Young Guns cast. Zack hits up more numbers than you would ever care to know about the box office and release schedule.
In print, we see the issue of Hustler magazine that started The People vs Larry Flynt was on the news stands when this movie was released. In Playboy we are introduced to Cooper Hefner, who seems to be much less of a creep than his father. Zack also realizes that he was lied to when he was told he was in the Guinness record holding conga line. Jerry Seinfeld makes a very poor prediction about his future.
In the Washington PA Observer Reporter we cover a few current events, but much more riveting was the Friday Night TV schedule and an article about the ladies boxing competition at the local fair getting much more spicy than the children in the audience were prepared for.
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