The smell of popcorn and Coppertone
May 5, 2011 6:09 PM Subscribe
The House Next Door has kicked off this year's installment of the "Summer of..." series, where they look back at the summer movies from 25 years ago. For the next few months they'll be revisiting the summer movies from 1986, and you can check out the previous installments to relive the glories of 1985 (Weird Science, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, St. Elmo's Fire), and 1984 (including the magical day Gremlins, Ghostbusters, and Top Secret! opened simultaneously).
Boy, if you'd asked me which grossed higher, The Golden Child or Ferris Bueller, I would not have guessed correctly.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:47 PM on May 5, 2011
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:47 PM on May 5, 2011
The fact that I am turning 43 in less than 2 hours wasn't quite real enough already, so you have helpfully given me this post with a retrospective of my Senior year of high school. Thanks. /hamburger
posted by thebrokedown at 8:24 PM on May 5, 2011
posted by thebrokedown at 8:24 PM on May 5, 2011
Boy, if you'd asked me which grossed higher, The Golden Child or Ferris Bueller, I would not have guessed correctly.
I would have. I guess that makes me a cynic.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 10:09 PM on May 5, 2011
I would have. I guess that makes me a cynic.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 10:09 PM on May 5, 2011
(including the magical day Gremlins, Ghostbusters, and Top Secret! opened simultaneously).
Considering how vigorously Hollywood has been strip-mining the past, we might see this exact situation happen again in a few years.
posted by codswallop at 12:32 AM on May 6, 2011
Considering how vigorously Hollywood has been strip-mining the past, we might see this exact situation happen again in a few years.
posted by codswallop at 12:32 AM on May 6, 2011
codswallop: "Considering how vigorously Hollywood has been strip-mining the past, we might see this exact situation happen again in a few years."
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this.
posted by namewithoutwords at 5:16 AM on May 6, 2011
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this.
posted by namewithoutwords at 5:16 AM on May 6, 2011
If you haven't, definitely take a stroll through the Attic section of the House Next Door, it's been a great, thoughtful blog for a long time.
posted by HumanComplex at 8:04 AM on May 6, 2011
posted by HumanComplex at 8:04 AM on May 6, 2011
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