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You know what's in desperate need of a re-watch? Weird Science. And not just because Bill Paxton struts around half naked in it a lot (although that surely is a plus). I loved this movie when I was a kid, I remember it playing on HBO all the time; I'm pretty sure I haven't seen it since I was like 10, which in case you don't know was quite some time ago - I wonder how it will play to my more mature (ha!) sensibilities now. Yeah, Bill Paxton taking off his towel will probably still be the highlight.
There was so much strange homoeroticism back in the teen flicks of the Eighties, wasn't there? It was all very gay panicky - I guess it was maybe something to do with gayness really starting to seep into the mainstream consciousness? Men were just starting to see themselves as sexualized objects too - at least on a large scale level, with the advertising turning its eyes towards their pecs and thighs finally.
What the hell am I even rambling about? It's too early for this. Anyway hello! I will be back up and running all day today, no movies premieres to go to or anything.
One last thing though - I always confuse Weird Science with this movie or TV show (it might've been on Amazing Stories or something like that, maybe?) from the same period where this kid invents this paste that he spreads on a picture of a hot girl in a magazine and it makes the girl in the magazine come to life. I think the episode ends with too much paste getting put on something and that something coming to life, only enormous? My memory is vague. Anybody have any idea what I'm talking about?
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Yes, I remember that. He makes a shar pei puppy from a magazine cover by accident and gives it to a classmate. I don't remember how it ends, but I recall a flaw in his duplication goo was that if the picture of the woman was only from the waist up, the duplicate, apparently alive and functional, was only from the waist up. He ended up with half a vogue-style model on his end table.
How many full-figure photos of your favorite celebrities do you have?
You're a big boy now. So if you do re-watch it, make sure to take the bra off your head when the movie ends! :o)
Bill Paxton looks good in that scene ;)
You're thinking of the story "Miscalculation" from the TV series "Amazing Stories" starring Jon Cryer. The episode ended with the magic potion dripping onto horror poster or video box.
-matthew davis
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