Caddyshack vs. Can't Buy Me Love -- Caddyshack (all one word btw) is woefully overrated to the point of being one of those movies that everyone just fallls in line and is SUPPOSED to love because everybody else claims they do. That said there were funny moments and getting matched up against a generic teen room com starring nobody in particular is a free pass to the 2nd round. As an aside, how is it something like Can't Buy Me Love makes this bracket while mega-hits like Dirty Dancing or When Harry Met Sally do not? Caddy Shack.
Trading Places v. Back to School -- this might be the most brutal matchup of the first round. Two big 80s comedies very worthy of advancing (much more so than many of the movies that actualy have), but banging heads in the first round. Hate to do this as Trading Places is a bit overrated and Back to School was Rodney's finest moment, but I am going to break the tie here by asking one simple question: who would you rather see topless? Rodney Dangerfield? Or Jamie Lee Curtis? Right. Trading Places moves on.
Parenthood v. Beetlejuice -- and this is a matchup that makes me mad about the good one above -- two movies I loathe going head to head. I would have voted for Ishtar before these overrated turkeys. But somebody's got to move on here, and so I reluctantly annoint the terminally annoying Beetlejuice over the origin of 20 straight years of unfunny dad movies by Steve Martin. Beetlejuice.
Fletch v. Karate Kid -- another tough matchup in the Trading Places/Back to School way rather than the Parenthood/Beetlejuice way. Fletch is like Caddy Shack, a movie you were supposed to love because everyone said so, and wax on wax off is big time 80s iconic. Nonetheless, Fletch does get in its laughs, and Danielsan really needed to get his annoying scrawny little *** kicked a few more times for me to be happy. So, Fletch.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure v. Bachelor Party -- this should be renanmed the "oh my" matchup. So annoying childish pervert in a children's movie anyone? Anyone? Which leaves...Bachelor Party. As I said, oh my. However Bachelor Party does have several things going for it -- first, watching Tom Hanks back in his early days when he was still considered a comic before his Jim Carreyesque transformation into serious actor/Oscar Winner is always amusing -- its like two totally different people. I actually used to confuse him with the untalented annoying lead from the Police Academy movies (probably the curly hair). Two, Tawny Kitaen pops up in the movie...and does not take her clothes off. What was up with that? And finally, in a scene that left a deep impression on my young mind, Tom is hustled off to a bedroom where an absolute goddess steps out nude from behind a curtain and offers herself to him. Woman's name was Monique Gabrielle, and her body was ridiculous (she went on to a career in soft core porn I believe -- I'm sure Pee Wee could confirm). Reason enough to vote Bachelor Party.
Airplane v. Hollywood Shuffle -- and in an ouch matchup, we get a token sleeper matched up against a classic. Now if Shuffle had gotten the right early matchup, maybe against a different type of movie ala Wall Street or Goonies or some such, it might build underground appeal. But matched up straight across one of the classic of its own genre...Airplane all the way.
Ghostbusters v. St. Elmo's Fire -- this is a great bracket for overrated movies. Ghostbusters is another one. nto nearly as great as its rep would make you believe. But St. Elmo's Fire was really not much of a movie. Just a brat pack vehicle to annoy. Did have a great theme song though (much better than the incredibly annoying Ghsotbusters theme). But no other reason to vote for it in this matchup. Ghostbusters.
Goonies v. Wildcats -- I'm sniffing setup here. Not only do we somehow get a kids movie as a #2 seed, it then gets matched up with a generic nothing in Wildcats. It has to advance just on the power of being matched up against a completely average opponent (one note: Wildcats might have been the onscreen debut of the Woody Harrelson/Wesley Snipes pairing of later years -- Woody even still had hair!). Goldie Hawn could be fitfully amusing (and preternaturally preserved untilthe last decade or so), but Goonies takes this.
Trading Places v. Back to School -- this might be the most brutal matchup of the first round. Two big 80s comedies very worthy of advancing (much more so than many of the movies that actualy have), but banging heads in the first round. Hate to do this as Trading Places is a bit overrated and Back to School was Rodney's finest moment, but I am going to break the tie here by asking one simple question: who would you rather see topless? Rodney Dangerfield? Or Jamie Lee Curtis? Right. Trading Places moves on.
Parenthood v. Beetlejuice -- and this is a matchup that makes me mad about the good one above -- two movies I loathe going head to head. I would have voted for Ishtar before these overrated turkeys. But somebody's got to move on here, and so I reluctantly annoint the terminally annoying Beetlejuice over the origin of 20 straight years of unfunny dad movies by Steve Martin. Beetlejuice.
Fletch v. Karate Kid -- another tough matchup in the Trading Places/Back to School way rather than the Parenthood/Beetlejuice way. Fletch is like Caddy Shack, a movie you were supposed to love because everyone said so, and wax on wax off is big time 80s iconic. Nonetheless, Fletch does get in its laughs, and Danielsan really needed to get his annoying scrawny little *** kicked a few more times for me to be happy. So, Fletch.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure v. Bachelor Party -- this should be renanmed the "oh my" matchup. So annoying childish pervert in a children's movie anyone? Anyone? Which leaves...Bachelor Party. As I said, oh my. However Bachelor Party does have several things going for it -- first, watching Tom Hanks back in his early days when he was still considered a comic before his Jim Carreyesque transformation into serious actor/Oscar Winner is always amusing -- its like two totally different people. I actually used to confuse him with the untalented annoying lead from the Police Academy movies (probably the curly hair). Two, Tawny Kitaen pops up in the movie...and does not take her clothes off. What was up with that? And finally, in a scene that left a deep impression on my young mind, Tom is hustled off to a bedroom where an absolute goddess steps out nude from behind a curtain and offers herself to him. Woman's name was Monique Gabrielle, and her body was ridiculous (she went on to a career in soft core porn I believe -- I'm sure Pee Wee could confirm). Reason enough to vote Bachelor Party.
Airplane v. Hollywood Shuffle -- and in an ouch matchup, we get a token sleeper matched up against a classic. Now if Shuffle had gotten the right early matchup, maybe against a different type of movie ala Wall Street or Goonies or some such, it might build underground appeal. But matched up straight across one of the classic of its own genre...Airplane all the way.
Ghostbusters v. St. Elmo's Fire -- this is a great bracket for overrated movies. Ghostbusters is another one. nto nearly as great as its rep would make you believe. But St. Elmo's Fire was really not much of a movie. Just a brat pack vehicle to annoy. Did have a great theme song though (much better than the incredibly annoying Ghsotbusters theme). But no other reason to vote for it in this matchup. Ghostbusters.
Goonies v. Wildcats -- I'm sniffing setup here. Not only do we somehow get a kids movie as a #2 seed, it then gets matched up with a generic nothing in Wildcats. It has to advance just on the power of being matched up against a completely average opponent (one note: Wildcats might have been the onscreen debut of the Woody Harrelson/Wesley Snipes pairing of later years -- Woody even still had hair!). Goldie Hawn could be fitfully amusing (and preternaturally preserved untilthe last decade or so), but Goonies takes this.
