That wasn’t an awful film, but someone other than Selleck would have pushed it a lot higher on the charts.
Oh, thanks, you made me think of another Crichton film – Looker. Not really bad, at all, it just needed something I can’t quite put my finger on. Still watchable. Great end credits tune.
By all means
Thanks. I posted an image of The Terminator on the Turner Classic Movies Fan Site Facebook group with your text above it. I added ’ [NB: Somebody else wrote that, and gave me permission to steal it. 
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Watched this yesterday after I saw you call it out. Well-acted, but I found the direction a bit self-conscious. Also, the story arc of his decline into obsession and madness seemed to be missing some transition. The climactic scene was a bit WTF for me.
That said, it was an ambitious, thoughtful film.
Not forgotten by the crowd at Disney/Pixar, who regard it as a cult classic. They included a “Condorman” “Happy Meal” toy in the Pixar short Small Fry
If you saw Tom Selleck on the big screen back then, the assumption was that Burt Reynolds was busy.
IIRC, Tom Selleck would make a movie during the filming hiatus of Magnum PI, on the possibility that he’d break through as a big-screen star. In the meantime he trusted his brother to build the wealth with real estate; mostly strip malls.
Hm. In the '90s there was a ‘Cajun’ restaurant (excellent catfish) in a strip mall in Lancaster, CA at 25th St W. and Ave. I. ISTR being told it was owned by Tom Selleck. Maybe he owned the whole strip mall? Or maybe it was a different celebrity.
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I was just looking at a list of my 100 favorite movies (which I’ve put together over many years). I suddenly realized that there’s one film on that list which I can’t remember anyone other than me calling it one of their favorite films. That the movie The Last American Virgin (1982, U.S., dir. Boaz Davidson). It’s 42 years old, and I guess that’s long enough to say that it’s forgotten. To see why it’s so good, you need to stick around till the last scene.
Yeah, I remember that movie. I think I would want to see it as an actual adult before I could put it on a “best movie” list.
There was a TV movie that my dad and I caught in a hotel when we took a vacation in the Carolinas once when I was in my early 20’s (1983), *The Last Ninja*. White kid faces off against corrupt creeps, after having been trained from a young age in ninjitsu. Alas I was on an antidepressant at the time which put me to sleep like a light, and I conked out halfway through. He mentioned the final scene where the hero managed to sneak the bullets out the bad guy’s gun, showing them to him when the villian tried to fire it.
A failed pilot, as it turned out.
I mentioned this one in another thread about unexpected endings or the good guy losing. I forget exactly what the thread was about. For me, this one would be totally forgotten if it weren’t for the unexpectedly devastating ending.
Someone mentioned it in this thread:
The Last American Virgin is stranger than the other films mentioned in that thread. It’s not a horror film. It’s not about the end of the world. It doesn’t have the protagonist killed. It seems to be like a lot of romance films (both comedic and dramatic ones). You expect to have the couple together at the end. Instead, the girl chooses to stick with a guy who has hurt her instead of the hero who has helped her.
This sentence I wrote wasn’t clear. I didn’t mean that it was like them all through the movie. I meant that it seemed like it was until the last scene.