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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pineapple Express Director David Gordon Green | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pineapple Express Director David Gordon Green | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...movie does seem reminiscent of the '80s, from the bad guys' clothing to the synthesizers on the sound track. Was that intentional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pineapple Express Director David Gordon Green | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...McCain's repetition of any joke he first told in the '80s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tropic Thunder Brings Jungle Fever | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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