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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFriday Night Movie - The Outsiders (1983)
My daughter has read the book so we figured why not. PG.
Francis Ford Coppola
Incredible cast
This came out when I was in high school so Im sure its been on a TV in the same room as I have before. If Ive seen it before I dont remember seeing the whole thing. And now I know why.
That was horrible. One of the worst movies Ive ever seen. The acting was bad and there was almost no chemistry at all. The music didnt match the movie at all. Stevie Wonder??? Where the hell did that come from? Even the opening credits (enlarged) were odd.
My family tells me the weird almost soundstage sunset visuals were a tie-in to Gone With The Wind. Okay....I guess since the book is in the film.
I was sitting watching it almost thinking my family was prancing me with some weird alternative version or something.
Ohiogal
(32,122 posts)Because although I absolutely loved the book as a teenager and must have read it 5 times, I never saw the movie.
My advice anyway
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)Wes Gonna have to disagree baby. Not as good as the book but close enough. One of my very favorite flicks. What a gut punch man...
underpants
(182,958 posts)I had a friend who used to say that and I think thats what its in reference to.
That music. Oh my God. It was like a middle aged romantic comedy.
I think this was the scene I almost did a spit take
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)We gonna have to agree to disagree pants. Just do one thing for me, yeah? Stay Gold!
underpants
(182,958 posts)Trip Advisor
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)Im raising a shot to you just for getting my blood up over something ridiculous....
You know I loves you baby!
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)Swayze, Cruise, Estevez, Sheen, DiMacciio, C. Thomas Howell...Great fucking film! Oh and the girl of my teenage dreams, Diane Lane! Great great flick. As good as the book? Course not, still totally worth seeing.
So hows you been?
Ohiogal
(32,122 posts)That sure is an all star cast....
Were OK here I guess ... hope you are as well ...
Such crazy and awful times these are.
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)What can you do. Im looking for silver in the clouds ya know. Me n the misses is hangin out with the fur family. All is good!
Ohiogal
(32,122 posts)Glamrock
(11,803 posts)Vet put him on pheno barbital. Hes kinda Tommy Chogd out. Not cool. Were gonna change him over to another drug. I dont like how the pheno is affecting him. Vet told me today that I need to be open to the fact that the severity of his last few siezures, he may have some damage that isnt attributed to the pheno...
Ohiogal
(32,122 posts)Mr. O had a dog years ago, same thing happened. Black Lab. Its tough... so hard to see them acting peculiar. Seizures are so scary, our last dog had them, too. 🙁
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)On the plus side little Steviewonder is becoming daddys boy. Hes kinda pissing off Mrs. Glam🤣
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)As my junior high girlfriends would say...Rohr! LoL!
Ohiogal
(32,122 posts)crushed on musicians more so than actors back in those days....
I always knowed you was damaged!
Much love my musical sistah!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)I saw it inside a movie theater as a kid, a few years after an elementary school teacher had made it assigned reading.
Liked the book at the time, disappointed by the movie.
Ohiogal
(32,122 posts)I can still remember the first sentence of the book ... When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie theatre, I had two things on my mind .... Paul Newman and a ride home. At least I think thats pretty close. 🙂
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)Mostly left with emotional memories of it after many years.
Read it in 5th grade*, I think.
The teacher read some of it aloud during class as we followed along with our own copies, then assigned other parts at home.
Seemed like an edgy story at that age, with the gangs and characters dying, and everyone seemed to like it.
The movie mightve help ruin my earlier, fonder memories of it. Lol.
* 4th grade... a teacher named Mrs. Healey.