Also check out the awards the Razzies gave it....

Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1988  Won Razzie Award Worst Visual Effects
Henry Millar (special effects supervisor)


Nominated Razzie Award Worst Actor
"Bruce the shark"


Worst Actress
Lorraine Gary


Worst Director
Joseph Sargent


Worst Picture
Joseph Sargent


Worst Screenplay
Michael De Guzman


Worst Supporting Actor
Michael Caine 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093300/awards

P.S.  I "promise" that this is the last time I make fun of the movie.  ::)  ;D

I think Michael Caine said it best....

"I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."

Richard Jeni also did a stand routine about the film, that pretty much sums it up.....

;D

"You know what the title should have been? Here's a Fish, You're a Moron."

http://www.grudge-match.com/History/jaws4.shtml


ROTFLMAO!!!!  Thanks Jamie....that sent me off to bed laughing like an idiot HA! Jeni had a good take on it  ;D That was great!

Dan Quayle becoming vice-president ;D
ahhh....the p-o-t-a-t-o-e debacle....I wonder how many spelling tests Quayle flunked..or cheated on!

80's fashion and that big big BIG hair

ROTFLMAO!!!!  Thanks Jamie....that sent me off to bed laughing like an idiot HA! Jeni had a good take on it  ;D That was great!


I liked it too....  ;D

ahhh....the p-o-t-a-t-o-e debacle....I wonder how many spelling tests Quayle flunked..or cheated on!


And he was the vice president too, hard to take a guy seriously when his biggest fight was with a fictional charecter!  ;D

Cujo
Children of the Corn
Nightmare on Elm Street
The Jackson's "Torture" video

thinking I had a crush on Harrison Ford at 4 years old is kinda scary/weird... man, I still think he's hot.. but not quite as hot in his Indy days

scariest thing about the 80s fro me wasn't from movies or songs.

The scariest thing was an escaped seriel killer that was on the loose in my city. He is from this area and when he escaped he came here to get revenge on the people who helped put him in prison.

These songs:

Land of Confusion-Genesis (the ronald reagan mask thing was freaky)
Thriller-Michael Jackson (umm hello dead bodies walking around!)
Abracadabra-Steve Miller Band (i have no idea why)
Amadeus-Falcon (the part where they talk about that Mozart had dies scared me)
Like a Surgeon-Weird AL (creepy beeping sound and the video was in a hospital)
Hello again-The Cars (another creepy sound)

These movies:

Children of the corn
Freddy movies
An american werewolf

Ronald Reagan getting shot in 1981.  :o

Hello again-The Cars (another creepy sound)


You mean that "Aow" synth?  What makes that so creepy?  I thought it was a really cool synth.  That song is what inspired me to possibly buy whatever synthesizer makes that sound.  It's a really catchy melody too.  When I first heard that song I actually started vocally imitating it for a couple of days.  I kept beatboxing it and doing the melody.  ;D

Ronald Reagan getting shot in 1981. :o
His would be assassin JOHN HINCKLEY creeps me out...and same for John Lennon's murderer Mark Chapman...

My first day on my first REAL job..Bally's Park Place Casino Hotel in Atlantic City..I was a kitchen utility worker,a glamourous name for a dishwasher,mopper,kitchen cleaner..

and Michael Matthews becoming (the worst and most crooked)Mayor of Atlantic City...

http://www.shortarmguy.com/neverlandwrestlingcamp.jpg

I am scared.....  :o  ::)  ;D

Actually now that i think about it there was an escaped criminal aswell in my hometown (at the time) in Noble Park in Australia in the mid 80s. The radio, police, & kids at school  were calling him Mad Max. I remember being absolutely terrified at night lying in my bed. 

http://www.shortarmguy.com/neverlandwrestlingcamp.jpg


YIKES! That's scary! :o ;)

LMFAO ;D, i think that's hilarious. The photo i mean, the idea of the wrestling camp sends shivers done my spine though.
Hey remember that joke that goes: "Did you hear Elton John & Micheal Jackson did a song together. It's called Don't Let Your Son Go Down On Me" LOL

Too much cheesy sitcoms  ::)

Too much cheesy sitcoms  ::)


I agree

Hurricane Gloria on September 22nd,1985.

The Aliens from V.

Corrected the Subject: line for ya. 

Diana, you were the awt, even though I'm drunk and you were really a lizard :)

Doing it with a human half lizard alien?  Now that's scary....  ::)  ;D

Quadafi of Libya attacking our Navy in the Gulf of Sidra....

but I'd love to know when we retaliated if he S**T himself with fear...!!

Hands down, the scariest thing about the 80s is that they ended and left us with the rancid 90s and the recycled 00s.

I MISS YOU 80s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :\'(

Hands down, the scariest thing about the 80s is that they ended and left us with the rancid 90s and the recycled 00s.

I MISS YOU 80s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :\'(


Agreed!!!

:-\\  MY EYES! MY EYES! Lol..That pic it hilarious!  I have to say the AIDS epidemic scared the crap outta me..being newly graduated in 85 and hittin the BARS ...then you find out theres some scary desease that there is no cure for and you could die...Put a lid on my S E X life..well almost..just had to be real careful!!..What was that really long movie that came out about AIDS? Alan Alda was in it and..I think A male flight attendant spread it throu unprotected sex.... That freaked me out soooo bad..scary..

Actually here in Australia we had a pretty scary AIDS TV comercial that used to scare the sh!t out of my little brother. The scenario was all these people lined up & standing in a row in a bowling alley like pins & the Grim Reaper bowling & picking them off slowly.

8) Still tryin to think of that AIDS movie..Richerd Gere was in it too..Broadway producer or something ..HELP ME!!! Also scary...Colored Reeboks!! remember the movie"Jumpin Jack Flash"?...WHOOPI wore sneakers to match ev outfit..I had the pink ones..High Tops!!..I was the cross between hippie..then some days I went into total...well..80s...tight jordaches and well.. colored Reeboks!!

8) Still tryin to think of that AIDS movie..Richerd Gere was in it too..Broadway producer or something ..HELP ME!!! Also scary...Colored Reeboks!! remember the movie"Jumpin Jack Flash"?...WHOOPI wore sneakers to match ev outfit..I had the pink ones..High Tops!!..I was the cross between hippie..then some days I went into total...well..80s...tight jordaches and well.. colored Reeboks!!

Can't remember the AIDS movie but i remember Jumpin Jack Flash & those Reeboks though. I've always loved my Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars personally & i still wear them to this very day. I've had them in just about every color you can think of but pink & i never buy any other shoe except Dr. Martens. It's cool because those Converse are timeless & never go out of style, hell they're more popular now than ever before even after 80 years or so. They were featured in many an 80s flick aswell, one that comes to mind immediatly is the BMX movie called Rad. I still wear my tight stovepipe stretch jeans aswell, they've just come back into fashion here in Australia & you can easily buy them now. Before that it was near impossible to get a pair since 1990. Levis & Lee Jeans are both making a pair of the old biker/heavy metal/rocker style tight stovepipe stretch jeans. I went & grabbed a black pair as soon as they came out. I noticed they seem to be popular among the Emo kids now aswell as old farts like myself.

:D  I love the converse shoes as well..Ive got a special pair that have taz on a motorcycle on the side..too cool..And yet another movie..since you are from Down Under,..cafe..Didnt Crockadile Dundee come out in the 80s?  The first one was pretty good..Course I love anything to do with Australia..Gonna come there someday!

:o  OK Whats really scary is that for a minute I forgot was this post was about!...Im gettin old timers desease I think

The AIDS epidemic commercials.

:D  I love the converse shoes as well..Ive got a special pair that have taz on a motorcycle on the side..too cool..And yet another movie..since you are from Down Under,..cafe..Didnt Crockadile Dundee come out in the 80s?  The first one was pretty good..Course I love anything to do with Australia..Gonna come there someday!

Cool, i have the standard black canvas ones at the moment & a pair of plaid traditional Scottish tartan pair that are made of this really fuzzy fabric.
Yep that's right Crocodile Dundee came out in the mid or late 80s. On behalf of all Australians though i'd like to add that noone down here actually talks or acts like that guy or Steve Erwin The Crocodile Hunter unless they live in The Northern Territorry up in Darwin LOL.
Another great Australian movie that came out in the 80s is BMX Bandits with a very very young Nicole Kidman in it. Don't know if it's been released in the U.S. but you can get it on ebay on DVD for about $12 Australian dollars which is not much at all in U.S. dollars. Anyway i'm getting off the topic now.

Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer

:o  Sorry Cafe..I think I got you sidetracked..lol..Another scary thing was the guy from Flock of Seagulls..The Hair..shiver..

Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer

How about Richard Remirez The Night Stalker or The Night Prowler as he wanted the media to call him after an AC/DC song he loved.

??? He def gave me the creeps...and There was A guy at the time in the Mid South that was picking up girls after school and raping them..That scared me..I walked alot cause the school was close by..

Yeah he was pretty odd looking & very imp like in all the crime photos i've seen of him. Hmmm that rapist guy sounds like he was a little too close for comfort. We had an escaped crim in suburb (i mean very local) in the 80s that everyone called Mad Max. I had trouble sleeping around that time. I think i might have mentioned it in a previous post on this thread.

Yea Cafe you mentioned it but Im curious..was crime a big thing in Australia in the 80s??I dont know much about it but seems like we never hear about Murders and stuff over there..

Neon coloured spandex pants and the hair do's

neon coloured spandex pants and the Hair do's.

Nah man. What are you talkin about a lot of the the hair dos were were sweet. I'd go a Robert Smith Cure style do if i could be bothered spending all that time teasing my hair up. I had a mohawk for a while though & they're still more popular now than ever. What's with the lame hair styles now or no styles as i like to call 'em. Guys with short blonde tipped hair & then there's those fake half a*sed mohawks where they have short hair all over & stick it up in the middle like a mohawk & then some dye the strip sticking up in the middle blonde *puke*. It's the designer boutique yuppie look, so clean cut & "proper" it makes me sick. Even their own mothers won't be able to tell them apart from a K-Mart department store maniquine LOL. I totally agree on the spandex though that should never be alowed to see the light of day again.

Yea Cafe you mentioned it but Im curious..was crime a big thing in Australia in the 80s??I dont know much about it but seems like we never hear about Murders and stuff over there..

Oh yeah, crime is everywhere. It's universal. Although we never had anywere quite as bad as the bad parts of L.A. etc. but it was bad in some places & probably worse now then ever especially with the gangsta subculture being glorified the way it is. Crime & drug dealing are now in vogue LOL, how revolutionary ::). The thing that makes me laugh my as* off though is the middle class Australian white kids & black kids acting, walking, & talkin like & basically emulating the U.S. gangstas. I'm like oh please how lame, this ain't the United States Of Australia LOL. Such limited imaginations LOL.
 

Gangsta gangsta, it's not about reality it's all about a salary. LMFAO
A little NWA parody there LOL

Yea Cafe you mentioned it but Im curious..was crime a big thing in Australia in the 80s??I dont know much about it but seems like we never hear about Murders and stuff over there..

Yeah anyhow, people get murdered here all the time. It's on the local news all the time. Hell have you seen the movie Chopper. Then there's the mobster type king pins in the ethnic parts of Melbourne who are always knockin each other off aswell. It's everywhere in every country you go to. In Frankston (a train ride away from me) in the 80s there was a serial killer named Paul Denyer. I think he's still serving time now. Also in 1991 near were my girlfriend lives there was an Asian school girl called Carmen Chan who was abducted. Some years down the track they found her remains. It was a huge thing & i remember it was on the news for years & you'd hear stuff like police are closer to solving the case of missing school girl Carmen Chan etc. I think that one is still unsolved though & the killer is probably still at large, unless they're serving time for another crime they commited. There's plenty more, but it would take me forever to list it all.

:-\\  WOW..it is EVERYWHERE..

Neon coloured spandex pants and the hair do's 

i have to agree with the above! LOL

also REBOOK PUMPS!!! (gosh i can't believe people went for this!)

and one more..this one gives me the creeps!!!! BIG HAIR!!!!

check out the 80's page on this website...  http://www.thebusinessmovie.co.uk/ ..go to #7.. they said it's one of the best things in the 80s.. and i aint buying it.

R

No way. Big hair is sweet, just depends what kind of big hair & how it's worn. Some of the hair metal bands had pretty apaling big hair. Short fringe & teased at the top & the bottom half was long & hanging down, yikes. It looked hot on girls aswell just not that hair metal style i just mentioned.

and one more..this one gives me the creeps!!!! BIG HAIR!!!!

What gives me the creeps is boring & ordinary hairstyles usualy found on those with no sense of fun, style, individuality or identity & clone fashion victims that follow the boring changing trends & do what's expected of them in the here & now. It's sad how if a standard is set by a majority & something is deemed as daggy after a long period of time, everyone chooses to follow like sheep & agree with that standard or stereo type. It's called conditioning which is easy avoid, just don't watch too much crass TV & let yourself get exposed to too much of the media among other things unless you're strong willed & you might actually be able to form your own ideas & opinions rarther than having the same one as about a hundred million other people which is based on what everyone else thinks. I never hear anything original it's usually yeah the 80s had the daggiest hair & what was with those clothes. Helloooo, a lot of you probably thought it was cool &/or trendy at one stage, what changed your mind, hmmmmm i wonder.

Defender of the 80s LOL

Defender of the 80s LOL


I just had a conversation with my Canadian friend. Her grandchildren have started with their hair. She said her grandson put some type of red streak in it (he's 13 I think) and his mother went absolutely nuts. "He had such nice hair and had to go ruin it." Ruin what? It'll grow out. Or use Prell-that would strip the chromoe off a bumper. It took Manic Panic out of my hair in 2 days.

Then she was upset because her granddaughter dyed her hair jet black. "She looks just awful. It's too dark for her complexion." I smiled and said "You've got a  little goth on your hands. Cool!" She was not amused.

She was all upset over it. I told her to take  breath and relax. They're entering their teens and now is the time they're going to start pushing buttons and testing limits. If colouring their hair is thebiggest thing they do throughout their teens, consider yourselves very very lucky!  It's just hair-it grows back!

DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF! ;)

I just had a conversation with my Canadian friend. Her grandchildren have started with their hair. She said her grandson put some type of red streak in it (he's 13 I think) and his mother went absolutely nuts. "He had such nice hair and had to go ruin it." Ruin what? It'll grow out. Or use Prell-that would strip the chromoe off a bumper. It took Manic Panic out of my hair in 2 days.

Then she was upset because her granddaughter dyed her hair jet black. "She looks just awful. It's too dark for her complexion." I smiled and said "You've got a  little goth on your hands. Cool!" She was not amused.

She was all upset over it. I told her to take  breath and relax. They're entering their teens and now is the time they're going to start pushing buttons and testing limits. If colouring their hair is thebiggest thing they do throughout their teens, consider yourselves very very lucky!  It's just hair-it grows back!

DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF! ;)

It's pretty sad though how you've got all these baby goths that do it just to look like their favourite MTV icons or to get attention from their peers & have no idea what gothic really is or the origins. If you ask them who Christian Death or 45 Grave are they have no idea & those 2 bands alone practically pioneered the scene. All they know is Marilyn Manson & HIM which are cheap imitations & are by no means goth but rather a corperate paletable MTV wank for the "supposedly" rebelious kids. A perfect example, i was talking to a girl about half my age in a Misfits shirt & i asked her "so your into punk ?" she said "yep" so i asked "do you like Fear, D.I., Exploited, Crass, Subhumans or an old Aussie underground Melbourne band called Depression?" She just looked at me blankly & said i've never heard of any of those bands. I just rolled my eyes & said "i thought you said you were into punk?" Anyhow the gothic scene was born in the early 80s which branched off punk & bands like Christian Death & 45 Grave were commonly called death rock at the time. I think most of the people in the early beginnings just wanted to look like The Dambed or something. It's the sadest thing ever how it's all been turned into meaningless fashionable sh!t now rather than a movement. Not that the goth scene was really a movement like punk though but rather a spin off. Seems to me though everything now is just a clean cut half as*ed version of what it used to be. You can even buy the bondage pants & carefully packaged & marketed Joey Ramone tight black stretch jeans & all that sort of stuff at Hot Topic store for the corperate baby wannabe mall punks. A real punk would just buy a sh!tty pair of jeans from some thrift store & do it all them selves like badge & stud their jacket. Not buy some pre packaged brand new pair. As far as i'm concerened there's nothing scary about the 80s, it's this era that scares the hell out of me.

:o  Im at a loss for words..JUST.. Well said Cafe!..Very Well SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL, oops i was getting on my soapbox again. ;D

:o I just remembered another flick that really scared ..and moved me..1987..Less Than Zero..If you saw it and STILL did Crack..you were stupid!!...Robert Downey Jr was great in his role..( Whats scary is that he prob was high when he filmed it! )...I freaked when I saw it...

Just got back from a weekend of fun in New Jersey's Great Adventure amusemnt park so I'm catching up but I'll echo Green...VERY WELL SAID DUDE!!!!!

I think I have 2 or 3 Christian Death albums...I should tape them for her grandkids and tell them to do it right :-)

Yeah Green.....Less Than Zero was  a great movie....couldn't believe Downey Jr. was doing what he was doing after taking that role. I haven't seen that one in ages either.

reaganomics

ALL MY FAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS.

  In particular, I was really scared of these two entertainers, one of their names start with a " P " the other entertainer name starts with a " M ". I was scared of them because they dress strange to me. I was only a young child at the time.