Teen Wolf
I’m at my parents house right now. I am relaxed and drinking from a can of Coca-Cola, a carbonated beverage of some repute.
In what is believed to be the greatest development in human history since the invention of books about Abraham Lincoln, AMC is showing the 1985 smash hit Teen Wolf.
In case you’re unfamiliar with it, this feature film is loaded with Stiles’ welcome comedic mugging, Michael J. Fox’s utterly inept basketball dribbling, and this scene - perhaps the greatest expression of teenage angst and vulnerability ever captured:
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July 1st, 2008 at 10:57 am
I much prefer the sequel which, in addition to being shot at my college, features a young Jason Bateman plying his werewares at NCAA boxing.
July 1st, 2008 at 11:04 am
Gosh I haven’t seen that movie in about 20 years!
I’ll have to watch it again. Love the Fox….. one fo my favorite scenes of his is in the first Back to the Future movie where he turns up the giant amp and strikes the first note on one of the smallest guitars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9MJwldQBYo
July 1st, 2008 at 11:13 am
omg i was so going to quote that scene before i saw the youtube clip you posted! GENIUS!
also, the delivery truck roof surfing they did changed a generation!
BOOF!
July 1st, 2008 at 11:46 am
brought back memories. not of that movie, i never saw it. but i had the dumbest fake ID… it was my Senior High Boys Bowling League membership card. i simply typed a fake birthdate on it, which was so stupid because it was a high school bowling league, and to be old enough to buy alcohol and still be in the league, i would have had to flunk about 4 years straight. but it worked most every time; kids drinking and smoking pot wasn’t as evil as it is nowadays. things were much more laid back in the late 70’s. school shootings hadn’t even been invented yet.
July 1st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I like Marty’s response to the destruction he has wraught…
“Well, rock and roll.”
This will forever be my line whenever I am responsible for ruining something.
Khris: Honey you smashed the car.
Me: Well, rock and roll.
July 1st, 2008 at 3:03 pm
i was at a “birthday” party once long ago, in the wee hours of the morning. it was around someone’s pool, and the booze was flowing heavily enough that people started skinny dipping. there were people running around naked, hollering in drunken revelry, and someone took an electric drill and drilled about a hundred holes into the birthday cake (i am blamed to this day but it wasn’t me). so me and my buddy bill are up on the deck above the pool surveying the scene below, and he says, almost in reverence, “this is SO rock and roll!”
July 1st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
one other thing, and i wonder if peter noticed this: in that scene in “Future” where MJ Fox blows that amp, there’s a glaring error. he turns on the amp, turns it all the way up, then plugs the cord into the amp. THEN he plugs the other end of the cord into the guitar. that would have made a huge POW!! sound. any guitar player knows you plug into the guitar jack first, THEN into the amp.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:46 am
You know, Tom…the only thing missing from you life is being a were-wolf…or a cyborg.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 am
And I have to say, this is was makes AMC (American Movie Classics) such an awesome network. Instead of bogging us down with that old black and white crap (such as Casablanca or Citizen Kane) like Turner Classic Movies does…they play the real classics, like Teen Wolf and Motel Hell.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
MJF also taught America that it’s ok to steal skateboards and bikes from youth is being chased by a bunch of bad guys.
Maybe that’s what happened to your car. Doraggers were being chased by some other doraggers.
It’s all MJF’s fault about theft in society today.