the iceman cometh
Our buddy Jwan was over last night and the husband mentioned that until the other night, I had never seen Top Gun. Jwan was flabbergasted. When the husband told him that I haven’t seen Wall Street either, Jwan gave me a rather disgusted look. The two of them started going down a mental list of classic 80s and 90s movies and soon everyone in the room was questioning just what the hell I was doing during my formative years.
“Well, I was really busy with ballet and stuff. Plus, my mom would get sporadically restrictive about what I watched. Like Madonna’s Blonde Ambition tour? I taped that and then for some reason after a few weeks my mom decided it was vulgar and made me tape over it.”
And this is weird, because my parents weren’t overly concerned with vulgarity or about me watching movies that were beyond my MPAA-rating zone. But I really would like to know what happened and why I haven’t seen all of Heathers or Platoon and why I haven’t seen An Officer and a Gentleman or Heat or Risky Business.
Jwan volunteered to see to it that I round out my cinematic arsenal, then we got back to talking about Top Gun. I did really like it in all of its cheesy 80s glory. Then Jwan said, “Plus, it’s like the most homoerotic thing ever.”
“Dude, seriously!” I said. “That volleyball scene? My god! I loved that about it. So cheeky!”
“I really don’t see the homoeroticism,” said the husband.
Jwan and I both shrieked at the husband and then I closed the case.
“Dude, Jwan and I are definitely not the only ones who think this. Let me show what comes up FIRST when you search for Top Gun on YouTube.”
Anyway, I will be chilling with the fam upstate over the next few days so this space will be lonely since internet access is sparse (eep!). Don’t have too much fun without me.
July 18th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
what’s really weird is that just the other day me and a bunch of my completely straight coworkers were all commenting on how much we love top gun despite how totally homo it is.
i can’t watch the video, but i’m guessing it has something to do with the beach volleyball scene.
July 18th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
interesting. maybe that’s the homosexual agenda in action!?!?!?
July 19th, 2008 at 12:54 am
um…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW9YutYlUHo
July 19th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I’ve never heard of this Sleep With Me movie. I’ll have to check it out.
July 19th, 2008 at 8:05 am
I remain so excited for/jealous of you that you’re getting to see all these things for the first time. Please god tell me when you’ve seen Heathers! is Less Than Zero on the list? It’s not exactly a mainstream classic but it is all 80s awesome.
July 19th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Less Than Zero is on the list, which is pretty extensive. 🙂
July 19th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Yes it’s on the list, we have so much work to do and so little time. The goal from here on out will be a conservative one, one movie a week, and kdiddy will report back to you folks. Cinema 101 (80s edition) in now in session.
July 19th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
word.
July 19th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
This will come as no surprise, but Top Gun and Heathers are the only two of those movies that I’ve seen. The rest of them are in my netflix queue though. I’ve also never seen Friday the 13th nor Nightmare on Elm Street the whole way through. Look at it this way, Kel: it’s not our fault our parents cared about us enough to keep us (relatively) innocent for as long as possible. 😛
July 19th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
but they didn’t, though. that’s why it’s so silly. like, I watched Child’s Play 8 billion times. it’s like they arbitrarily doled out the censorship.
July 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
also required 80s viewing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JX1h3FuMc4
July 26th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
LOL. I never really paid attention to the whole homoerotic theme of the movie until i watched that youtube vid! That’s fabulous!