Remember that nice little Eddie Murphy/ Dan Aykroyd/Jamie Lee Curtis comedy Trading Places? Did pretty well in the theaters, good for some laughs?
Well, I rented the video for my kids and some of their friends last weekend. I was going to show them a “really funny” movie from my youth.
The movie went along pretty much as I remembered until Jamie Lee Curtis takes off her top and flashes her tits.
That scene hadn’t stuck in the old memory banks.
It did grab the attention of the 12-year-old boys in the room.
There were 3 scenes in the movie that had bare breasted Jamie Lee or other women. For no reason particularly relevent to the story line. Then it all came back - the 1980’s, a time when every movie that wasn’t a cartoon had some nudity or a sex scene thrown in.
So now I’m at a loss - what 1980’s comedy would you show to teenagers and pre-teens today?
Don’t go with Sixteen Candles starring Molly Ringworm and Anthony Michael Hall either. I rewatched that recently and it also has gratuitous breasts thrown in for no reason.
Funny you should mention – I watched this the other week with my wife (who had not seen it before) on some US cable network in a hotel. The movie was uncut as near as I could tell, but the cheesecake scenes had been computer altered (brassieres, a well placed blanket etc.) So like a dope I said, “Heey, there’s supposed to be boobies there…!”
::smack:: from Ms.'vark
As far as which 80s comedy to watch:
the Back to the Future ones?
sixteen candles? [I just remembered this has one very brief boobie shot....what can I tell you, I was a young teen when these came out...]
breakfast club?
pretty in pink?
From the hip? (Judd Nelson)
Hiding out? (John Cryer)