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Stripes
1981 · Film · 106 min
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, enlists in the U.S. Army with his close pal, Russell Ziskey. After his barely satisfactory performance in basic training, the irreverent Winger emerges as the figurehead for a ragtag band of misfits. However, his hijinks threaten to cause an international scandal when he inadvertently commandeers a military assault vehicle behind enemy lines.
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When I was a kid, VHS home recording was a thing... so my sisters and I watched a few movies wayyyyy too many times.
The Blues Brothers Stripes Ferris Bueller's Day Off Footloose Dirty Dancing Amadeus These days, everything comes and goes from streaming. I'll watch these when they pop up again
The Expanse Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Ministry of Time Groundhog Day Dirty Harry Apocalypse Now About Time Time Bandits
The movie is strong enough that we all forgot about the dogs. I feel like this is not very uncommon, for example, the second half of Stripes was mediocre but the movie is overall good.
I think a really strong premise and first half can overshadow some weaknesses, including an even a bad ending.
It might sound odd, but it is not abnormal for a movie to be rewritten deep into production. Some infamous movies for this include Die Hard and Stripes, the endings for which were not written until after filming had begun. Given the much longer process for animated movies I'm not surprised this happens at Disney too.
To be fair, you didn't seem to be bothered with inferring my state of mind in your original comment. Nor did your inference, even if true, change the meaning of what I said, either.
I was going to say "Calm down, Francis," as per the old movie Stripes, and then changed it, but neither would have been helpful. I apologize too.
Contrast that with the utter fragmentation of Christianity in the West. Pope Francis needs a Sgt. Hulka to encourage him to lighten up[1].
Lord have mercy on anyone who takes temporal leaders more seriously than those absolute truths to which those leaders (purportedly) point.
[1] Reference to the movie "Stripes".
"Federal pound me in the ass prison" is a quote from the movie Office Space.
If you already knew this, then I guess the applicable movie quote this time is "Lighten up, Francis" from Stripes.
I was just thinking that they recently got some good content added.
These were all added this month: Batman Begins, Clerks, Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, No Reservations, Stripes, The Aviator, and The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire Comedians in Cars series is a lot of fun. Heat, The Godfather, Gangs of New York, Casino, and Seven.
Maybe you're bored of all that, but it's not like the films on Netflix are universally terrible.
"modest success"
Yes, because Caddyshack, Stripes, and Tootsie were small, modestly successful, movies that only a few people have heard of.
I mean it's not like Ghostbusters was one of the most successful comedy movies of all time.
It's not like Groundhog Day from 1993 was was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" or anything.
No, clearly he just had "modest" success in just those 13 years post-SNL. I mean we'd better not even mention his award winning turns in movies starting the late 90s had we?
Yikes, I take it back - it's not your youth, it's your smug ignorance that's showing.
I'm more interested in what those 20 movies are. I found:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1981
1 Raiders of the Lost Ark 2 On Golden Pond 3 Superman II 4 Arthur 5 Stripes 6 The Cannonball Run 7 Chariots of Fire 8 For Your Eyes Only 9 The Four Seasons 10 Time Bandits
Of which I guess 2, 3, 8 isn't original.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2:w014
1 American Sniper 2 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 3 Guardians of the Galaxy 4 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 5 The LEGO Movie 6 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 7 Transformers: Age of Extinction 8 Maleficent 9 X-Men: Days of Future Past 10 Big Hero 6
Of which only 10 is original.
This man was a legend! He wrote/directed/produced/started in some of the most icon comedy films every (love me some Stripes). Its strange that he was able to slip under the radar. I think he liked it that way.
Harold seemed like a great guy. Always smiling. Always willing to give the funny lines to everyone else.
I hope he gets the coverage that he deserves. He truly was one of the greats!
I know this sounds a bit selfish of me, but I kinda wish there was a third Ghostbusters movie (ya ya ya, the game was the "3rd" movie). It would've been great to see him in a suit again and to be praised for the amazing films he brought to us.
R.I.P. Mr. Ramis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igfRYtwpQyU
"We have been kicking ass for 200 years. We are 10 and 1." [1]
[1] http://movieclips.com/Qy2V-stripes-movie-were-mutants/
If you watch only one Bill Murray movie, it should be Stripes.
Downmodders are presumably missing the references to the movie "Stripes."