1983 Movie Reviews – Heart Like a Wheel and Screwballs

Welcome to an thrilling year-long venture right here at The Nerdy. 1983 was an thrilling yr for movies giving us lots of movies that might go on to be beloved favorites and cult classics. It was additionally the begin to a significant shift in cultural and societal norms, and a few of these nonetheless reverberate to today.

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

Sure, we’re insane, however 1983 was that nice of a yr for movie.

The articles will come out – typically – on the identical day the movies hit theaters in 1983 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 accomplished from reminiscence. In some instances, it really would be the first time we’ve seen them.

This time round, it’s April 1st, 1983, and we’re off to see Coronary heart Like a Wheel and Screwballs!

Fast facet be aware: Since we launched this sequence this yr, we’ve found that Classic Video Podcast is doing the very same venture 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 towards my very own. Examine them out over at Classic Video Podcast.

Coronary heart Like a Wheel

That is a kind of tales that I’m stunned I had nearly forgotten about. I keep in mind seeing this film years in the past, however lots of it got here again as quickly as I noticed I used to be going to be watching it this yr.

Shirley Muldowney (Bonnie Bedelia) turned not solely the most-winning feminine in drag race historical past, but additionally considered one of its most-winning drivers. Byt as with nearly any story like this, it wasn’t a straight line or straightforward highway to haul. Contemplating she began her skilled racing profession within the Nineteen Sixties, it goes with out saying that the male-dominated sport was not essentially the most welcoming.

Whereas Muldowney’s story is an intriguing one, the film is, sadly, simply flat. Nothing is groundbreaking right here. It feels paint-by-numbers in its construction, and simply leaves you chilly. It’s no marvel I forgot in regards to the story because the film is simply fully forgettable. Bedelia is ok within the lead position, and I actually had no complaints with anybody within the movie.

It actually comes right down to there’s by no means any sense of pace or energy. You’re coping with automobiles constructed for the quarter mile, and whereas they didn’t have the filming tech we do right this moment, there would have nonetheless been methods to drag this off. Moreover, Muldowney modified courses of automobiles a number of instances all through her profession, however but the movie by no means explains why. It got here off as, “I noticed a shiny new automotive, now that’s what I need to drive.” We didn’t want schematics of the automobiles, however just a few common information would have gone a protracted method to giving us extra perception into her as an individual.

Look ahead to the broad strokes of the story, however you positively don’t need to pay lots of consideration.

Screwballs

Final week I talked about how dangerous Spring Break was. Properly, I simply hadn’t seen Screwballs but.

5 ‘youngsters’ at Taft and Adams Excessive Faculty (T&A Excessive Faculty… get it?!?) got down to see the breasts of Purity Bush, the purest lady in class.

I actually can’t go on. This film needed to Porky’s within the worst doable manner and it simply failed miserably. That movie a minimum of made you giggle, and this was simply absolute dreck. Nothing was humorous about it, it was simply unhappy and felt excruciatingly lengthy, however but it was solely 80 minutes.

I’ll quote myself from final week, “Even by teen intercourse comedies of the Nineteen Eighties requirements, this one was fairly dangerous. I’m glad I by no means have to think about it once more.”

1983 Film Opinions will return on April 8, 2023 with Flashdance!

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