Wha'Happened? http://www.ronnussey.com It's @ron_n's house Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:31:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 8 great forgotten films of the 1980s http://www.ronnussey.com/2011/12/10/8-great-forgotten-films-of-the-1980s/ http://www.ronnussey.com/2011/12/10/8-great-forgotten-films-of-the-1980s/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:32:18 +0000 Ronny http://www.ronnussey.com/?p=1018 It turns out the 80s wasn’t all sexist cocktails and coke-snorting donkeys – these are eight ’80s films that are still (mostly) acceptable today:

  1. Cutter’s Way, starring Jeff Bridges as a Vietnam vet still fighting the man (in ’81)
  2. Sidney Lumet’s Running on Empty (1988) with River Phoenix, about a family on the run from the FBI
  3. The Hidden (1987) has Kyle MacLachlan playing the Dale Cooper role from Twin Peaks before time. He’s on the track of an all too 80s body-snatching alien with a penchant for Ferraris and bad music (pretty much as brilliant as it sounds.)
  4. **British film alert** – Stephen Frears’ the Hit
  5. Dreamscape, where Dennis Quaid can enter people’s dreams. And meets a snake man (…paging Doctor Freud)
  6. If you’re a fan of Nic Cage losing it (and believe me, I am) see Vampire’s Kiss. Think Nosferatu meets Wall Street. And you thought Gordon Gekko was a bad ‘un?
  7. Kathryn Bigelow’s directorial debut Near Dark (1987) is a deeply unpleasant vampire film. But in a good way.
  8. If Near Dark mixes the cowboy with the vampire, Night of the Comet = high school film + zombies. Why did no-one think of this before?

Any I’ve missed?

 

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Walking Lavern, Knoydart, W Scotland – August 2011 from Ron Nussey on Vimeo.

My legs hurt for days after this, but was worth it – one of the most beautiful walks in Scotland.

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