Mark: Now remember, people, don't try looking us up in the phone book. And if Mr. Kincaid answers the phone, don't say anything about buying our movies on eBay. You got it? We'll get to today's featured item in a minute. Anyway, my point. They're still making sequels to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Tobe Hooper was nobody when he shot that film.
Stanley: So what's the deal, do you see a franchise for Night Of The Silly Toilets?
Mark, Emma & Jonah (simultaneously): Night Of The Sinister Toilets!
Stanley: Whatever. Part II - The Toilets Overflow? I don't see it. But it's your dream, man. Just promise me one thing.
Mark: What's that?
Stanley: Just don't turn out like Mark Lester.
Jonah: I know that name. Who is that guy?
Stanley: Mark L. Lester, the dude who directed Firestarter.
Jonah: Yeah, yeah, and a bunch of trashy 70's flicks! That's the guy who made Roller Boogie, with Linda Blair!
Emma: You mean they're gonna tear down the roller rink? Let's stage a disco protest! On wheels!
Stanley: Mark L. Lester will be forever remembered as yet another clown whose taste of success curdled the creative urge that made him great to begin with.
Jonah: Preach on, man.
Stanley: His big score was Class Of 1984. Then they hired him to do Firestarter, and it was all downhill from there. A few years later, he blows the reality cover completely and comes out with this doo-doo called Class of 1999.
Mark: Killer robot humanoids hired as teachers to control unruly student gangs. I love that movie!
Stanley: Man, it was a sordid re-hash of his one original idea! You can't even compare the two! Pam Grier's in this flick, and it still sucks!
Emma: Maybe you're being too hard on this guy. Maybe he's a producer in the Roger Corman mold, y'know, product first, production values later.
Jonah: Yeah, Class of 1984 was the bomb. Roddy McDowell holding his class hostage at gunpoint? Michael J. Fox on acid, taking a nose dive off the school flagpole? Far out!
Stanley: It was his friend who died. MJ was the goody two-shoes who ratted out the evil hoodlums.
Jonah: Yo, but Stan, I don't think this guy's retired. Didn't he do that Running Man movie?
Mark: The latest in a long series of Stephen King masterpieces turned celluloid travesties by people who just don't understand.
Emma: You've got to be kidding, Jonah, that movie was so wack. The story it's based on was ultra-political, heavy duty revolution against the media industrial complex type shit and they turned it into a fucking gladiator film.
Jonah: Night of the Running Man, kids. With Andrew McCarthy.
Stanley: Oh yeah, he's like, a normal dude who finds some gangsters' cash, and they're straight after him. Lester did that?
Jonah: I think so, dude.
Stanley: Well shit, maybe the cat wised up when his mid-life crisis hit.
Mark: Look, the movie under discussion here is Class Of 1984. You'll see the ultimate updating of The Blackboard Jungle. Theme song by Alice Cooper, We Are The Future. Perry King, who was in Mandingo and Andy Warhol's Bad as the hero. The most vicious gang of thugs ever to terrorize a high school, led by a baby-faced Chris Van Patten - crazed punks running out of control, committing ultra-nasty acts of wanton violence! Roddy McDowell flipping so far out he never comes back! Michael J. Fox falling victim to the gang during an over the top school lunchroom riot! And best of all, the gruesome vengeance that befalls each member of this hated teenage wild bunch! So start bidding!
You are bidding on a previous rental, used VHS videotape of Class Of 1984 (1982), pictured below. Tape comes with original box, is in good condition, and guaranteed to play. High bidder pays $3.50 S&H. Credit cards accepted using PayPal.
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