Word: 80s
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...long time, I thought I was the first member of any Blockbuster. Then I found out through further research - actually someone called me out on it - that I was the first member of the second Blockbuster. I grew up in the late '80s in a suburb of Dallas that evolved from this cool, multicultural community to a testing ground for massive franchises. And when I heard 10,000 movies were coming to town - an eighth grade movie nut just starting his education of movie history - I was waiting at the door banging on the glass so they could open...
...there's a guy getting his foot shot off. We didn't exactly have a specific role-model film. We were just looking at great reference points all over the place - from something deeply embedded in my tastes, like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot to the more tongue-in-cheek, trashy '80s action movies that I enjoy for their camp value...
...movie does seem reminiscent of the '80s, from the bad guys' clothing to the synthesizers on the sound track. Was that intentional...
...McCain's repetition of any joke he first told in the '80s...
...notion of performers being mistaken for cutthroat adventurers has served movie comedies from the 1940s (Gene Kelly's The Pirate and a bunch of Hope-Crosby Road pictures) to the '80s (¡Three Amigos!). It speaks to the bluster and resilience of show people; when in mortal peril, they do improv and survive. The difference in Tropic Thunder is that the main characters are more eccentric than likable. That's just what you'd expect in a Stiller movie...