Class of 1999 (1990)

The principles daughter is in a movie called “my boyfriends back”. Highly recommend. Also Stacey missing his mouth with the banana multiple times makes more sense knowing he couldn’t see lol

My disinterested partner asked if this was ""schoolarary."

This was a good ep. but was seriously lacking (there was some but not enough) school puns.

Wonder if Rogers is thinking of the NBC show Amazing Stories and the Episode “Hell Toupe”?

Saw this movie way too young. The gang members threatening the kid and his nuts in the classroom with Pam Grier kinda fucked me up lol

Two school movies back to back? Loving Teacheruary!

The boys should play cyberpunk 2077. BD’s are SCUIDs

Jack Goff what a great fantasy football team name

I second Rodgers and his repeated recommendation to read all the Willeford books. I’ve gone through them (well, mostly the Hoke Moseley series and his later works—none of his early pulp ) a few times now. Entertaining plots with well sketched out characters. When Criterion Channel first had Miami Blues, I was disappointed by the movie because, I hate to be that kind of guy, but the book was much better. The movie lacked some of the fucked up details that made the book a fun, gritty read. All that said, I struggle to picture Hole in my mind, which makes me wonder whether Rodgers has an actor in mind who would be a better Hoke than Fred Ward.

Hell yeah

“Even the banana once it’s peeled” Holy shit they just blew this whole movie wide open

Surprised to hear Nine Inch Nails "Head Like A Hole" playing in a scene. I had to rewatch to make sure.

I wish there were more comments about AI under this post tbh

Lifelong Washington guy here so I'll add some sauna. - All the stereotypes still have weight in Seattle: Grunge, Starbucks, Salmon, Trees, rain but now with just way too much tech trash. Entire locations of this movie have been razed to make huge buildings. - The map at the opening puts the school location in North Seattle in a place called Wallingford. Basically at Lincoln High School where they shot it. - The ramp the teachers drive off was the notorious "Road to nowhere" and I have no idea where it was even intended to go. It was just a big dead end road. Also the big cement freeway they drive under was the Alaskan Way Viaduct that has been removed. The Teachers go underwater basically downtown but emerge in West Seattle, meaning they crossed the entire Elliot bay. Thank you for your time on this matter.

Heads up that in addition to being free with ads on Prime, this movie is also on YouTube in its entirety. I think the Dolph Lundgren alien movie with two names was the last ABZ flick to get “Whole movie on YouTube under its full, searchable name, because nobody cares” treatment

The action boys brought up Mail Chimp but doesn't even shout out captain podcast (read in the voice)

Bit funny that The Substitute had that gym rope death scene where it would have fit much better in this movie.

"This robot is too Stacked" this is the greatest podcast in the world

These teachers look like the guy from FX

Speaking of movie legnth tales from the crypt knock offs. That new freaky tales movie is a pretty fun watch.

I weirdly watched Class of 1999 Part 2 several times before checking this out a few years ago. Part 2 was a dollar rental at our Mom & Pop video store when I was in high school and me and my buddy were obsessed with Cody from Step by Step being a direct to VHS action star.

There's a Robin Williams movie about implanting memories I remember randomly watching once. It was during his dark period.

Rodgers has mentioned Milonakis a few times, googled him today… moved to Austin Jan 2025! Ruh roh Shaggy

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I went to high school south of Seattle and in our senior year (1999) our Journalism teacher showed us this movie.

Been a couple years but as a Seattle person I definitely remember being impressed by how much they shot in Seattle and bored my friends telling everyone about it. If you wanna see Seattle pre-grunge, pre-tech boom, Streetwise is an amazing doc on homeless kids in Seattle in the 80’s. Should still be on Criterion

The "Hair" segment from Body Bags is fucking hilarious and features Stacy Keach at his finest, I've rewatched it a bunch apart from the full movie. https://youtu.be/6a-kIRMo2Po?si=zpAqiWWwVFnTi97l

The scene where Robo Pam Grier blows up sure had some great robotic sound effects. She must have been made in the same factory as StangerBot.

Seattleite here, yeah tons of hometown pride, love to see it represented in films. I think especially because of how often Vancouver doubles for it, we appreciate things actually shot here and properly show it off. Chuck's The Hitman was shot here but barely looked like it was. Assassins was and it looked great in it. For me Scorchy is still the high watermark for action films shot in and around Seattle, can't wait till y'all do that one. The big car chase is like a tourism video.

The robotic stare on John Nolan while he’s spanking the kids is so funny.

Fun movie. Re Hard Knocks how about Dion Dawkins asking his little daughters if they wanna go drift on his off day? Cut to his personal drifting compound complete w murals of him and his car and he’s just whipping around this parking lot size track w his daughters in passenger seat. Pretty cool

I thought this was a prequel to Streets of Fire for the first 20 mins. Got my Cody’s mixed up

Feeling very pandered-to by the defense of It’s a Wonderful Life because those are the exact things I say in my head when I’m having an imaginary conversation defending my Letterboxd 4 favs

Usually, you're lucky if a b-movie like this has a capable slumming character actor. But this one is stacked with them. The great Stacey Keach with his insane wig and ponytail was my personal favourite. That was a hell of a look. And Action Boyz regular John P. Ryan is always good value playing a smirking psycho. I liked the fact that even though the teachers were basically Terminator knock-offs, they were not emotionless automatons. No story concept could stop Ryan from malevolent grinning. Although it's a shame that Malcolm McDowell was wasted in a thankless small part. I guess that there was no scenery left to chew after Keach and Ryan were finished.

First scene with Stacy Keach having a white mullet rat-tail I said now we got ourselves a movie

The science behind why pipe tobacco is so bad for you is that it’s just loaded with sugar (and unfiltered). That’s also why it smells good. If you are a pipe smoker reading this, Latakia is the worst of the worst. From a toxicology standpoint, never burn / inhale things that are already smoke cured. It’s just a festival of toxic smoke constituents. Yes I worked at a company that made pipe tobacco.

I can't find it on the schedule yet, but I thought they were serious about the date. I'm on the dynasty mailing list, so hopefully will get a heads up when it's officially booked.

I think we all got tense when it sounded like Rodgers was about to hear Stone eats a bowl of candy every night.

Rogers said the mustaches have already come and gone, in LA, I assume. Here in MN I think they're just cresting.

Glad the boys are doing this one! I found it after watching class of ‘84 and loving it. This one I loved in a very different way.

Am I losing it or did the boyz announce a live show in October? I’m coming up dry after searching the databases.

Back to school!

Distinctly remember this movie being part of a weird HBO campaign to push Friday night action movies, and me quickly realizing all the movies were shitty.

My year 8/9 English teacher had an incredibly strange bald head/haircut. His name was Mr Pusey, got called Mr Pubesy/Mr Pussy. Was a renfare and larping guy. He once showed my class the original Alien movie and during the chest burst scene asked the class of girls and boys (we were 14) if we thought the alien “looked like a penis.”

pleased that they are covering one of my most-watched films!

I pulled a Stanger and watched Class of 1984 :/