“Too close for missles, I’m switching to guns.”
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Last night for our Catch Up Movie Night, Kristin and I rented Top Gun. Again, it’s probably been at least ten years since I had seen it and I feel like I actually understood more of what was going on. Like what actually happened to Maverick’s dad, and why seeing a MiG was such a big deal. A lot of that slipped passed me when I was a kid.
We didn’t fast forward the volleyball scene, so Kristin may have stumbled a little, but spent most of the scene making fun of the fact that the song in the background was called “Playing With The Boys”. Another thing that went unnoticed when I saw this as a kid.
Has anyone ever noticed how many times throughout the movie, the song “Take My Breath Away” starts? It must have been six or seven times. And while we are talking about soundtracks so much, (or maybe just I am talking about soundtracks so much) how come movies that are coming out now don’t have that anthem song that causes you to instantly think about that movie. In my opinion, that’s what made these movies so memorable. You can be sitting in some Chinese food place and hear a certain song, and your brain automatically goes to The Breakfast Club, or Goonies.
Which happens to be our next Catch Up Movie Night choice. Goonies. Who’s ready?
Hey, did you and Kristin ever ride the Top Gun at Great America? They had the whole Top Gun motif throughout the queue area, with movie sound bytes and pieces of the soundtrack playing.
You’re right about having a great soundtrack to accompany a movie, but I seem to recall that when Top Gun was out, the radio overplayed a few of the songs pretty badly, to the point that people were sort of sick of them — Danger Zone and Take My Breath Away, in particular.
Speaking of movies with memorable soundtracks, I don’t think anybody listed Chariots of Fire on your original Catch-Up Movie Night post, which has quite a long list of movies now, in case you didn’t notice. Chariots of Fire is earlier 80′s, but still a great movie if you guys haven’t seen it (at least, I remember it being great — haven’t seen it in many years now).
What song do associate with Goonies??
now … the goonies is definitely a movie that i will whole heartedly support you watching!
Shaun… How about this little ditty?
I love Goonies!
Is that Joe Satriani?
What about that “love” scene huh? That was the first time I ever saw a french kiss… Among other things.
Goonies, I love. Spielberg can really direct funny kid stuff. I wish he would do the last two potter movies.
Shaun…Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough by Cyndi Lauper. If I remember the video correctly, it’s got Rowdy Roddy Piper, Captain Lou Albano, The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, along with several other former wrestlers from back in the day.
aw YEAH! Goonies! Baby Ruth?
Fun movie… and my favorite goonie is Data!
Goonies Rock! On the commentary of the DVD the cast talks about a sequal that is in the works with all of them… apparently that didn’t pan out…