I could've swore I posted that Von Erich movie trailer in this thread or in the movies/music section when it came out. It's gone now.

Anyways...

Reviews are coming in. It's getting good reviews but my worst fears have come true...

They fictionalized it. Chris doesn't even exist and they've fucked with the timeline.

Mind blown they would leave out the most dramatic suicide of the bunch. It could've been an incredibly dramatic scene....

Kevin goes out looking for Chris on their family estate. Sees him sitting by the water. Chris asks him if he read the note. Kevin says no. He leaves Chris and goes back to the house. Goes to Chris's room to read the note and tell his mom. As the note is being read, they hear the gunshot. He runs out there and Chris is laying there dead with blood gushing.

Now that doesn't even exist.

I hate Hollywood.

In their defense, the trailer does look really good....

Absolutely. Clueless is a great example of this. If you weren't around in the summer of 95, it would mean nothing to you.

It never had staying power and obviously no sequels to keep it moving along.

A lot of those 80s teen comedies would fall into this category. The youth of today cannot relate to hours of detention, buying tickets from actual scalpers, malls as the center of the universe, etc.

I blame Elastica's slip through the cracks of history on this same thing. If you weren't a teenager in 94-95 while they were briefly on the scene, you don't know or care of their existence.

I could never get into this. Too wacky.

I should give it another chance...if only for Winona Ryder and Geena Davis.

They're doing a sequel. I smell a bomb... should've happened 30 years ago.

It's sad that movies like this can't really be made anymore. Youth culture is simply too different now. A world of meaningless hook ups and 24/7 access to internet porn surrounded by a bleak dystopia makes such stories null and void.

Rarely talked about anymore. Never should've had sequels. One and done.

God I loved Jobeth Williams in this. That scene where her and Craig T. Nelson are watching TV in bed and she's laughing while smoking a joint really got my juices flowing.

One of the few adult actresses I fantasized about as a kid.

Kinda sad and funny that Tobe Hooper was the director but Spielberg took over the production. They tried walking this back years later but I remember that crap...it's a Spielberg film.

My grandma used to watch The Color Purple constantly. It is a good movie...so bleak.

That has to be the most unique and unexpected top 10 entry EVER.

My aunt took me and my uncle to see Breakin' 2.

I can't imagine how cheesy both films are now. Stuff like that and Krush Groove a virtual time capsule of the era.

I should watch one of them for shits and giggles.

These almost made my list. Apollo 13 really is amazing.

I liked it back in the day. I gotta watch this again and see how it holds up...it's in a dystopic, slightly  futuristic 2000.

I think this would be held in higher regard had it never had all those sequels. It really was mind blowing at the time.

It's unfortunate that the horror genre was in the dark age at the time.  Other than something in the late 90s like Scream, Blair Witch, or Sixth Sense, there's just nothing to represent the genre in a list.