Planes Trains and Automobiles was made for adults. 
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I’ve never seen 16 Candles, never saw Pretty in Pink until years later. Remember liking Some Kind of Wonderful but never revisited it.
I’ll always watch Uncle Buck again though.
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Actually, From Russia With Love is better, but that’s about it.
Film Crit Hulk’s James Bond review is worth a read, if you have the time and inclination.
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2014/07/14/hulk-vs.-james-bond-staring-into-the-id-of-a-boner-incarnate
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Game of Thrones (books or TV)
Breaking Bad (and I got real tired of hearing about it all the time)
any live action TV series since Firefly, except Agents of SHIELD (but I’m behind by at least one season) and sorta-watching Stranger Things (my spouse was watching it, I kept getting semi-pulled-in)
Any Hulk solo movies
Dune (books – I did see the movie and the more recent miniseries)
The Star Trek reboot with lens flare and stuff
post-Christopher Reeve Superman movies
Gargoyles (I’m told it was a good series, but it wasn’t on when I could see it)
Deadpool (movie or comics)
probably a lot of other stuff
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I think the one you’re thinking of is ‘Days of Thunder’. That or the cocktails one. Or the naval court-martial one.
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Timothy Dalton was the best Bond - and Ian Fleming concurred, I believe.
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Ian Fleming had been dead for 23 years before the first Timothy Dalton Bond film cam out.
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Fuck knows where I got that from then…Read it somewhere.
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He’s often considered to be the truest to the book Bond.
Got a bit of a rough deal, he was wanted instead of Moore but they decided he was too young. Goldeneye was written for him, too.
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Well, that explains it then; if he was in the running G when Roger got the job, that must’ve been in Fleming’s lifetime.
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A Few Good Men is one of Tom Cruise’s best movies. It’s mostly due to a great screenplay by Aaron Sorkin (based upon his play), an excellent supporting cast (Kevin Pollack, Kevin Bacon, JT Walsh, Christopher Guest, and Kiefer Sutherland at their very best plus many others who took small roles for this film), and great direction by Rob Reiner. Tom is kind of Tom in it, but it works for this movie.
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I concur, and it’s a shame Lazenby only had one crack at it.
In general I love the Bond movies up to the end of Moore’s run. Their silly, campy sense of humour seems integral to the whole enterprise. These are movies that just don’t take themselves even a little bit seriously. The Moore years were probably the campiest, and some of the films were utterly awful (Moonraker, anyone?), but they’re still a lot of fun. The Dalton and Brosnan movies were OK, I guess, but I found them almost entirely forgettable.
I haven’t seen any of the Daniel Craig movies except about half of Casino Royale. Some time ago I saw a quote from Craig to the effect that they simply had to go all serious with Bond because Austin Powers had made the traditional Bond campiness redundant. I think that’s preposterous, and a poor excuse for turning the franchise into a series of generic, humorless blockbusters. Hey Dan, ever heard of Get Smart or the 1967 Casino Royale? Why don’t you tell us how those successful parodies made camp untenable for Bond?
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
There are plenty of others, but this is the one that I think really stands out as an almost-impossible-to-have-missed bit of pop culture.
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I’ve seen it, but only up to the point at which I fell asleep.
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The recent Jurassic World film was also good like this. Ticks all the boxes you want in a “bunch of dinosaurs fighting” movie.
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I don’t think I’ve ever read any Agatha Christie…
I thought Jurassic World was dire. But then I also thought that of JPs 2 and 3, and haven’t really had a great desire to go back and watch the first one again either…
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When I talk to people my age who were kids in the early 80s, I’m extremely weirded out if they admit they’ve never seen E.T., the Star Wars movies, or any Indiana Jones. Doubly so if they have zero interest in ever seeing them.
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Agreed. All though that maybe being generous.
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I was 16 in 1982 and away from the city when ET fever was at its peak. By the time I came home, most of my friends had seen it weeks earlier and moved on, so there was no urgency to see it to be able to talk about it. 34 years later I just don’t feel any need to patch this hole in my viewing history.
I saw the first Star Wars movie in first-run. I liked it but, somehow, didn’t become a fan. The second one had been out for more than 30 years before I saw it (and my main takeaway was that no matter what voice Frank Oz does, it’s always going to sound like Fozzie Bear and/or Miss Piggy). I saw The Force Awakens and as a non-fan, found it a capable formulaic blockbuster with a familiar aesthetic and a few familiar characters. Re-watchability… zero.
Indiana Jones… I’ve seen at least two of them, but again not a big fan.
I don’t know, something about George Lucas and/or Steven Spielberg popcorn movies doesn’t really do it for me, at least not reliably. (Notable exception: I loved Close Encounters.)
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