While long held in wide esteem for it’s quotable dialogue (“I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubble gum…”, “Life’s a bitch… and it’s back in heat… “) and one of the most ridiculously lengthy fist fights in cinema history, we often times overlook the dramatic performance of “Rowdy” Roddy Piper – He brings to life a character that can only be described as the not-so-bright but brawny homeless Canadian lumberjack bastard son of Robert Redford and Kurt Russell.
Posts Tagged ‘Canadian’
Movie Review: They Live
February 20th, 2010
A Quick Commentary on the film: “Teen Wolf”
January 7th, 2010For those of you unfamiliar with the 80’s film “Teen Wolf“, I point to the ever-useful Wikipedia:
Teen Wolf is an American film released on August 23, 1985 by Atlantic Releasing Corporation starring Michael J. Fox as Scott Howard, a high school student who discovers that his family has an unusual pedigree when he finds himself transforming into a werewolf.
Michael J. Fox “… is back from the future in a NEW COMEDY …” where he’s a seventeen year old high school kid on his basketball team “… sick of being average and wishing he were special …” So he turns into a werewolf…
What makes this tragic tale of high school romance and body hair so unbelievable is not, as you might suspect, that a high school student transforms into a mythical creature at inopportune times. No. What makes this tale so unbelievable is that any basketball team in history – from professional to the lowliest high school team – would ever in a million years choose a four foot tall Canadian to play on their team.