1982 Movie Reviews – Hey Good Lookin’ and My Favorite Year

Welcome to an thrilling year-long challenge right here at The Nerdy. 1982 was an thrilling yr for movies giving us a variety of movies that will go on to be beloved favorites and cult classics. It was additionally the begin to a serious shift in cultural and societal norms, and a few of these nonetheless reverberate to this present day.

We’re going to choose and select which films we hit, however proper now the record stands at almost 4 dozen.

Sure, we’re insane, however 1982 was that nice of a yr for movie.

The articles will come out – most often – on the identical day the movies hit theaters in 1982 in order that it’s their true fortieth anniversary. All movies are additionally watched once more for the needs of those evaluations and should not being carried out from reminiscence. In some instances, it actually would be the first time we’ve seen them.

This time round, it’s October 1, 1982, and we’re off to see Hey Good Lookin’ and My Favourite 12 months!

Fast facet notice: Since we launched this collection this yr, we’ve found that Classic Video Podcast is doing the very same challenge with two variations: First, it’s audio (naturally), and second, they’re doing each main movie. We’ve listened to quite a few episodes and it’s enjoyable checking off their ideas in opposition to my very own. Verify them out over at Classic Video Podcast.

Hey Good Lookin’

Ralph Bakshi was a really busy man within the late Seventies and early Nineteen Eighties. Thus far on this challenge, we’ve got reviewed three films from him with American Pop & Heavy Steel, and now it’s on to Hey Good Lookin’.

This movie feels smaller and like a glance into a private story as we comply with Vinnie Genzianna (Richard Romanus), the chief of a Fifties greaser gang in Brooklyn known as The Stompers. Along with his greatest good friend Loopy Shapiro (David Proval), the 2 discover themselves in hassle with a rival gang, The Chaplains. Vinnie has to persuade the remainder of the Stompers this combat is for everybody’s good, regardless of the actual fact it actually took place out of his personal stupidity and massive mouth.

It appears this film had a protracted highway to launch and was initially accomplished in 1975 as a live-action and animation hybrid. The live-action scenes have been later changed with animation and elements of the dialogue have been re-edited ensuing within the movie that finally hit theaters. And it’s odd origin story actually appears to affect it at occasions.

The place Bakshi’s different movies felt daring and ingenious, this one feels prefer it was launched simply to be launched. The story is straightforward, however superb, however technically there may be nothing superb occurring right here. And Bakshi’s marriage to racial stereotypes positively haven’t aged properly.

In the event you’re a Bakshi completist, it’s value seeing, however in any other case you’ll be higher served by testing his different movies from this period.

My Favourite 12 months

My Favourite 12 months is that sort of comedy we simply don’t appear to get anymore: The fish-out-of-water, coping with conditions which can be utterly international to them whereas somebody desperately tries to carry every little thing collectively.

Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) is past thrilled his favourite movie actor, Alan Swann (Peter O’Toole), is coming to star on the present he works on, Comedy Cavalcade. Regardless of engaged on a TV present, Benjy can’t appear to comprehend that Swann is only a man, and never the swashbuckling character he has performed in his films.

He’s rapidly introduced all the way down to Earth as he’s assigned to creating certain Swann will get to each place he must go, and discovers he’s a womanizing drunkard. However via every little thing he places up with over their week collectively, he can nonetheless discover one thing to like about Swann.

On the finish of the day, My Favourite 12 months is only a good, enjoyable, buddy comedy, with a wholesome dose of that fish-out-of-water facet to it that the 80s appeared to like a lot.

The leisure business was once an excellent odder beast, and My Favourite 12 months actually sums that up. When you’ve got any curiosity in that, or simply having a great chuckle or two, that is positively a great wager to entertain you.

1982 Film Opinions will return on Oct. 15 with Love Baby!

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