@SWog617 I'm class of 85 as well. Honestly, very few films from the 80s "hold up" for new audiences of young adults all born after 2000. The thing that does hold up is the soundtrack, and the music from the 80s in general.
KROQ was such an influential station..Depeche Mode played to 90,000 at the Rose Bowl while they still played clubs in New York..Thanks to the heavy airplay on the ROQ
One of my favorite movies of all time! This movie perfectly encapsulates my life in the 80’s on so many levels not to mention the soundtrack is amazing!🧐
Wow, that blows my mind. Very cool. I just looked him up, and it further blew my mind that he's Jack the Nazi meth gang leader in Breaking Bad! I have seen him in so many things over the years & didn't connect the dots to him being Tommy. It's crazy because I love Valley Girl but just didn't connect his very recognizable face from when he got older to his young Valley Girl face. Thanks!
The movie travelled well too. I was on the east coast and loved it. Didn't really know about the Valley but the movie's two lead actors, the music, and the Romeo and Juliet variation all resonated.
Obsessed with this movie when it came out since I grew up in LA. I still remember the movie poster "He's Cool, She's Hot. She's from the Valley, He's Not". The music, the dialog, even the hippy parents were relatable.
I spent many years living in the valley. However, I always have to tell people the San Gabriel Valley. Not the San Fernando Valley. We were exposed to more diversity and culture in East L.A.
Spot on review. I used to work at a movie theater and also spent 4 years managing a video store. Valley girl is an intelligent movie that speaks to its audience in an intelligent manner. A lot of the customers would look to you for recommendations and this is one movie that I recommended quite often. Repo Man too. Still holds up.
@hollylynn9322 I framed the green tinged movie poster with Otto posing in front of the aliens glowing in the partially opened car trunk Tagline: "It's 4:00 AM. Do you know where your car is?" My favorite line: " The life of a Repo Man is always intense" and when his friend he beats up is singing the old 7-up chingle while stacking them for display. So many obscure funny people live in Edge City.
I love this movie. Saw it back in the 80s & we used to rent it over and over, lol. Watched it in the last year & still loved it. There's just something special about it.
17 and on the verge of graduating high school, for me, the movie and music was on point. Sure the vernacular was a bit cheesy, but still loved the movie - enough to see it a few times in the theater. Watched it a few years ago. As others have stated, it still holds up
I remember seeing this when it came out and liking it. Mostly, because of a group I had never heard of before called the Pilmsouls. I thank Valley Girl for that for sure.
I was about 15 that year, still love this movie! I first found punk/new wave between 1977 and 1979, thanks to SNL, still love all that music. New Wave, got pretty big here in KY, of course Cali, London and NY were the epicenter of New Wave and Punk, but oh boy did we get our share! Such magical times.
His words demonstrate how a story and experience in a voice is called Primary History. He was there to experience what was happening in a specific place at a specific time. I just love stories like this one. And he is not short of them.
That movie came out when I was a sophomore in high school. It had the soundtrack of my life. It was made when The SF Valley was still nice, a slice of paradise. It's not a dump now but it just isn't what it used to be. Josie Cotton playing a live seen was very cool.
I was in elementary school when it came out and I lived in a small Oklahoma town where the elementary, junior high and high school was in the same compound. I was the only Johnny at my school and the Monday after Valley Girl came out, these senior age cheerleaders saw me walking down the hall and said, “Hey Johnny! Are you queer, boy?” I had no idea what that word was or what they were on about, but a bunch of senior jocks(with mullets & mustaches)hadn’t seen the flick and thought the cheerleaders were being literal and immediately went phobic d-bag alert coz I was now “gay” and must be vanquished. They made my life hell. These were 18 year old receding hairline men spitting and hitting and bullying a 4th grade boy. I had no recourse and had to take it until we moved and I went to a different school. Goddamn that song for ruining my life, but I still love the movie.
You know a movie is a real popcorn classic when there's an entire house full of popcorn in it. I give it 640,000 bags of popcorn and two sodas because you're probably going to be really thirsty after eating all that popcorn.
I never knew this movie existed, I will check it out! It really feels like a classic "hanging out" flick. Also Deborah Foreman and Elizabeth Daily, two of my childhood crushes!
Me too I was 11 playing with the Star Wars figures Then one day I saw this and fast times Put down the toys and got a skateboard Snd started putting my money toward records and tapes instead of toys
@gambit85 Oh I’m not making fun of him, I’m just pointing out the nostalgia. Not a phrase you would hear these days. Kind of encapsulates the whole movie and scene in one sentence. Pretty rad
This movie really exposed me to this type of music. Being a St. Louis kid, where KSHEA Real Rock Radio was king, there was nothing like this. Liked the movie, loved the soundtrack that helped me be more musically adventurous!
I like the fact they didn't run valley girl acting into the wall! Yeah it was valley girl but they didn't go off too much on the way that she spoke in the song.
4:23 - The summer of my senior year of high school 97, I saw the film "I Know What You Did Last Summer" 5 times. Two dates, and three other times with groups of girls and guys. There was something about that movie that made it re-watchable; that being Jennifer Love Hewitt. In the way that Valley Girl is about a place in time, IKWYDLS is that for me...
kroq had such great talent that went through there. adam carolla, jimmy kimmel, drew pinsky, carson daly, kennedy and more i can't think of at the moment
I think he's a creep and his movies are a childish fantasy filled with his nuanced perversions.. been around him before and he is a creep. And I lived in New Orleans, everyone who lived in the quarter saw him around. I lived in French Quarter…. The feet thing.. yeah.. what do we gotta just accept this guys obsession and sexualizing of feet just because some people are amused with his ways of expressing his own fears and feelings of inferiority, made known through violence and ridiculous subject matter???? Really???? Once upon a time in hollwood?? Sucked so bad I was like why??? Nobody needed this… sharon tate, this poor woman… the what if?? Scenario’s he chooses are this idiosyncratic trope that is IMO insulting and disrespectful and insufferable. Sure, we want to champion destroying these “bad” people who in history did deplorable acts. But truth is there… and its such a poor reflection of humanity, which I believe he sees in himself and in turn tries to destroy it. Yeah.. so, he also talks to much, is a wackjob, and needs a reality check. I am Italian! I live Italian film, Italian cinema, Directors, etc.. Argento, Coppola.. Scorsese.. you name it I am in.. I am also a girl, and even more offended by his lack of respect towards women in general. The misogyny is also, IMO, a gel like substance used to glaze over everyones third eye and tops of their head, because nobody seems to care about it. Odd… One more thing, watch four rooms. He wrote it. The children and the feet.. yeah, then tell me, that this is not simply for the kabal to enjoy and himself… I totally believe there is a sick 🤢 just sick in hollywood and this was in the time of Weinstein which Q will gleefully mention openly still in the gloaming of his financial backer and sugar daddy. Wake up, watch it, then you can assess the current situation in hollywood.
I remember this from way back when. The funny thing is I had a friend who went to college in California and when he came back he had a val accent. Funniest stuff ever. I thought they just talked like that for the film, but the val accent was a real thing.
A total period piece, like Fast Times. Even though I grew up in OC and not The San Fernando Valley in the 80's there was some definite crossover with those two places at that particular time so it resonated with me. I suspect a lot of teens of that time were drawn to the film, even if they didn't live in So CA. I still think it's one of Cage's best roles.
I remember when the plimsols lp dropped, you couldn't walk 20 yards on the beach in orange county without hearing them, same as the knack the year before
It’s fun to listen to Quentin evaluate a movie, because his brain works 100 times faster than his mouth. So he has ten thoughts going at a time and is barely able to get one of them out. I completely understood what he was saying, but I don’t think he actually made one complete sentence during his review. And yes, this movie rules.
i made people in their 20's who say the word "like" 200 times in a sentence watch this film and they couldn't get passed the opening mall escalator scene and were saying "oh my god like why do they you know, like talk like that"?! and I said "you hear yourself right"?. I was 14 when this movie came out and I mimicked all of them and thought I was so cool, it took years of practice to stop sounding like an idiot when I spoke to people, now I hear the word "like" used more than once by someone and I get in a fighting stance.
Just realised there was another film from about the same time, also made in LA, that featured a (slightly older) rich girl/bad boy couple - Breathless. The characters in Valley Girl are somewhat more appealing but Breathless has a far better soundtrack. (Saw them both in Sydney, Australia when they came out.)
Wasn't that Richard Gere? If I remember it correctly it took itself way too seriously, as Gere films always do. Like it had something important it wanted to say... While Valley Girl was just a quirky fun movie that captured the moment for high school kids.
QT is on top of it. It is a just good movie, but it used music and speech to hit the kids. It had documentary elements, and it was just fun to watch. Loved the bands!
@@dabroncobabe The official/original release of the soundtrack in1983 by Roadshow Records in the US did not have the aforementioned song nor did the one released in the UK in 1984 on Avatar Communications. Both of those releases garner over $100 for a copy in the secondary market. Rhino Records released a tribute/compilation disc in 1994 with the Pat Travers song, which must be the version you have. TLDR: Sorry I blew up.😃
@ maybe I do have the Rhino Records release of it! Totally worth it for the Pat Travers!! I remember searching for the soundtrack in 1983/1984 and being unable to find it. Great soundtrack!! (Nah, you didn’t blow up.)
I’m convinced, to this day, that Loren was helping Randy and Fred get Julie back. How else would they know her schedule? She wanted her friend to be happy while getting revenge on Tommy.
Sixteen Candles did the same thing with the music which was picked by Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald who knew their shit about what kids their age were into. That's why you heard lesser known bands instead of top 40 hits.
He's very very very soft on rotten / bland / boring movies. He would say "I liked Ishtar enough to see it once". . He's seems AFRAID to give any movie a really bad review . Am I the ONLY ONE that noticed this ?
Valley Girl still holds up to this day
It does for me... because i was in the class of '85. But do you think the kids of today would agree?
We had a lot more fun than kids today do IMO.
Total classic
The original does for sure. The remake was not so good.
@SWog617 I'm class of 85 as well. Honestly, very few films from the 80s "hold up" for new audiences of young adults all born after 2000. The thing that does hold up is the soundtrack, and the music from the 80s in general.
A masterpiece. One of my all time favourites. Nicholas Cage's performance as randy being crucial to me as I was getting into Punk in 1985.
He's right, the soundtrack was the shit. 'A Million Miles Away' by The Plimsouls, 'Eyes Of A Stranger" by Payolas etc. So underrated.
Both amazing, plus Plimsouls other song Oldest Story in the World.
They could make another movie about trying to find the soundtrack LP.
they played live at the viper room (now)
@ That’s cool. I had no idea they were still around.
Were the Payolas big in the States? They were a staple on radio in Canada growing up. Then again so we're other Canadian bands like Loverboy
Tarantino is pretty much the only critic that takes movies like this seriously. Which is kinda cool.
The mall scenes were shot at the Del Amo Fashion Center, where Tarantino would shoot the mall scenes for Jackie Brown.
Interesting! I live 2 blocks away from there & did not know this.
KROQ was such an influential station..Depeche Mode played to 90,000 at the Rose Bowl while they still played clubs in New York..Thanks to the heavy airplay on the ROQ
One of my favorite movies of all time! This movie perfectly encapsulates my life in the 80’s on so many levels not to mention the soundtrack is amazing!🧐
"Is this in 3D?"
"No, but your face is."
LOL
isnt everyones
The best line ever!! 😂😂
I love the awkward hand shake between Tommy and Julie’s dad
Fredrick forest
Who was In apocalypse now
Who was directed by Nicolas cage uncle
@@steviezappa1065Julie’s mom was also in Apocalypse Now
Micheal Bowen, who played Tommy the rich snob, ended up in 4 Tarantino movies
Wow, that blows my mind. Very cool. I just looked him up, and it further blew my mind that he's Jack the Nazi meth gang leader in Breaking Bad! I have seen him in so many things over the years & didn't connect the dots to him being Tommy. It's crazy because I love Valley Girl but just didn't connect his very recognizable face from when he got older to his young Valley Girl face. Thanks!
He’s Buck and he likes to F..k !
The movie travelled well too. I was on the east coast and loved it. Didn't really know about the Valley but the movie's two lead actors, the music, and the Romeo and Juliet variation all resonated.
I lived in the midwest and it resonated there. More Grease than Shakespeare, though
Thing was it was nothing like the Valley.
@@hipsville then what was it like
Obsessed with this movie when it came out since I grew up in LA. I still remember the movie poster "He's Cool, She's Hot. She's from the Valley, He's Not". The music, the dialog, even the hippy parents were relatable.
I spent many years living in the valley. However, I always have to tell people the San Gabriel Valley. Not the San Fernando Valley. We were exposed to more diversity and culture in East L.A.
Still laugh when they play "johnny are you queer" at the prom.
I heard that song playing over a grocery store PA!
Loved Valley Girl, when I went to college to study design, one of my teachers had designed the Plimsouls album cover.
I watched it and I did not like the implication the much older mother was having an affair with a high school student.
Spot on review. I used to work at a movie theater and also spent 4 years managing a video store.
Valley girl is an intelligent movie that speaks to its audience in an intelligent manner. A lot of the customers would look to you for recommendations and this is one movie that I recommended quite often. Repo Man too. Still holds up.
Omg luv you for mentioning Repo Man too, both my favs of the 80's!!
@hollylynn9322 I framed the green tinged movie poster with Otto posing in front of the aliens glowing in the partially opened car trunk
Tagline:
"It's 4:00 AM. Do you know where your car is?"
My favorite line: " The life of a Repo Man is always intense" and when his friend he beats up is singing the old 7-up chingle while stacking them for display. So many obscure funny people live in Edge City.
We would get suburbia directed by p spheeris
And last American virgin also
A Repo Man is always intense.
KROQ. Rock of the 80’s
The world famous....KROQ.
"is this in 3D?"
"no, but your face is!"
Love Valley Girl❤
If they attack the car save the radio.
I love this movie. Saw it back in the 80s & we used to rent it over and over, lol. Watched it in the last year & still loved it. There's just something special about it.
17 and on the verge of graduating high school, for me, the movie and music was on point. Sure the vernacular was a bit cheesy, but still loved the movie - enough to see it a few times in the theater. Watched it a few years ago. As others have stated, it still holds up
literally is the new totally
Totally
For sure
Like... Gag me with a teaspoon
Later bruh
Seriously…like, seriously?
@@erikanderson123 Totally. Totally Awesome.
I remember seeing this when it came out and liking it. Mostly, because of a group I had never heard of before called the Pilmsouls. I thank Valley Girl for that for sure.
Million miles away
Everywhere at once
I was 15 yrs old living in Southern California and he’s right, we were right in the midst. Kroq days. I still have the original soundtrack CD!
I was about 15 that year, still love this movie! I first found punk/new wave between 1977 and 1979, thanks to SNL, still love all that music. New Wave, got pretty big here in KY, of course Cali, London and NY were the epicenter of New Wave and Punk, but oh boy did we get our share! Such magical times.
His words demonstrate how a story and experience in a voice is called Primary History. He was there to experience what was happening in a specific place at a specific time. I just love stories like this one. And he is not short of them.
Dude like i 've totally watched Valley Girl so many times. I don't love it as much as i used to but still watch it for the music and nostalgia value.
Absolutely LOVE Valley Girl!!!
That movie came out when I was a sophomore in high school. It had the soundtrack of my life. It was made when The SF Valley was still nice, a slice of paradise. It's not a dump now but it just isn't what it used to be. Josie Cotton playing a live seen was very cool.
Hi I'm Fred, I like tacos and '71 Cabernet and my favorite colors magenta
One of my fav lines in the movie❤ Fred was soo cute, Stacy missed out!!
@@hollylynn9322Stacy was too stuck up for her own good!
This! One of my favorite lines from this movie!!!
Valley Girl and Fast Times both stand out and are memorable because they are A-grade treatments of what is typically a B-grade genre.
Valley Girl is the best movie n soundtrack of the 80's, like totally for sure💘💋
I was in elementary school when it came out and I lived in a small Oklahoma town where the elementary, junior high and high school was in the same compound. I was the only Johnny at my school and the Monday after Valley Girl came out, these senior age cheerleaders saw me walking down the hall and said, “Hey Johnny! Are you queer, boy?” I had no idea what that word was or what they were on about, but a bunch of senior jocks(with mullets & mustaches)hadn’t seen the flick and thought the cheerleaders were being literal and immediately went phobic d-bag alert coz I was now “gay” and must be vanquished. They made my life hell. These were 18 year old receding hairline men spitting and hitting and bullying a 4th grade boy. I had no recourse and had to take it until we moved and I went to a different school. Goddamn that song for ruining my life, but I still love the movie.
Directed by Martha Coolidge of "Real Genius" (1985) fame.
Real genius is the best movie!!!
You know a movie is a real popcorn classic when there's an entire house full of popcorn in it. I give it 640,000 bags of popcorn and two sodas because you're probably going to be really thirsty after eating all that popcorn.
@@ThomasRoiloup 1,280,000 bags of popcorn given that half of them burned up. I love that movie so much.
Huh... Directed by Martha Coolidge of Valley Girl fame
Ah, that explains why Michelle Meyrink is in both films, aside from her talent
Elisabeth Daily.❤❤
Short and compact and cute as could be; yummy!
one of the best soundtracks for a film ever.
These videos should always be titled tarantino on tarantino
The worst actor in every Quentin Tarantino movie is always Quentin Tarantino.
'Shut up, black!'
Tarantino reminds me of a hamster on a hamster wheel. He talks like nobody's giving him enough time to talk.
@mikegarrens5286 to be fair, there isn't enough time for Quentin to speak.
But he's such a good director he makes it work
Destiny Turns on the Radio isn't a Quentin Tarantino movie
I never knew this movie existed, I will check it out! It really feels like a classic "hanging out" flick. Also Deborah Foreman and Elizabeth Daily, two of my childhood crushes!
“Who else is there? What other Val dude can touch me?”
One of my all-time favorite movies. Top 5.
It's a great movie.
Not sure why but, the song played and the B roll showed as the credits began to roll, will be forever etched in my mind...
E.G. Daily was really good in the movie, and she's a terrific singer, too.
EG Daily ❤
LOOOVE Valley Girl ❤
Valley Girl encapsulates the drama/romance necessary for the time.
I was too young when it came out but i wached it on VHS and was obsessed. The best!! ❤❤
Quentin rules!!!! Top three directors in my book.
I always appreciate quintins critique on movies.
he's almost too earnest about everything, the same way kevin smith cries over every comic ip no matter how godawful it is.... bless him
Movie, and soundtrack, are fucking eternal.
Yes the magic was in fact the music which was 1983. The best year for dance/new music.
That movie changed the trajectory of my life. And lifelong love for Nicolas cage
Me too
I was 11 playing with the Star Wars figures
Then one day I saw this and fast times
Put down the toys and got a skateboard
Snd started putting my money toward records and tapes instead of toys
“I dropped out of junior high in 9th grade…”
Back in the day, Jr High was 6 to 9 and High School 10 to 12
@gambit85 Oh I’m not making fun of him, I’m just pointing out the nostalgia. Not a phrase you would hear these days. Kind of encapsulates the whole movie and scene in one sentence. Pretty rad
Really eh? It was always 7 and 8 in my part of Canada Canada but we also had grade 13 back then (if you planned on going to university).
Yep I dropped out in 10th...I have a chance
@@gambit85 Depends. In my HS in the 80s my JR high was 6-8. HS was 9-12. And this was in SoCal.
A kick-ass movie. Holds up perfectly. Love it. Perfectly locks in the time 1983.
This movie really exposed me to this type of music. Being a St. Louis kid, where KSHEA Real Rock Radio was king, there was nothing like this. Liked the movie, loved the soundtrack that helped me be more musically adventurous!
Everytime the movie Valley Girl comes up, I can't watch it. Brings way too many memories of how I really miss LA during those times.
The plimsouls❤
Valley girl better then fast times
Was an awesome awesome soundtrack
I. Was watching this movie the nightvof december 23rd ! Interesting!
I like the fact they didn't run valley girl acting into the wall! Yeah it was valley girl but they didn't go off too much on the way that she spoke in the song.
They didn't over "teensploitation" it too much.
We need Nic Cage in a Tarantino movie!
I love Valley Girl then and now! I remember when it came out, but I did not see it until it came on TV or cable. I can not remember. It was great!
valley girl was insane soundtrack. plimsouls played on stage at the now viper room.
the central
Million Miles Away, The Plimsouls
Whom ever did the soundtrack to this Valley Girl, put their whole moviesountrack-dussy into it. It's incredible
The Plimsouls were awesome. Totally tubular.
This was a great movie
4:23 - The summer of my senior year of high school 97, I saw the film "I Know What You Did Last Summer" 5 times. Two dates, and three other times with groups of girls and guys. There was something about that movie that made it re-watchable; that being Jennifer Love Hewitt. In the way that Valley Girl is about a place in time, IKWYDLS is that for me...
kroq had such great talent that went through there. adam carolla, jimmy kimmel, drew pinsky, carson daly, kennedy and more i can't think of at the moment
convinced this man will only discuss films he feels aren't better than his
I think he's a creep and his movies are a childish fantasy filled with his nuanced perversions.. been around him before and he is a creep. And I lived in New Orleans, everyone who lived in the quarter saw him around. I lived in French Quarter….
The feet thing.. yeah.. what do we gotta just accept this guys obsession and sexualizing of feet just because some people are amused with his ways of expressing his own fears and feelings of inferiority, made known through violence and ridiculous subject matter???? Really???? Once upon a time in hollwood?? Sucked so bad I was like why??? Nobody needed this… sharon tate, this poor woman… the what if?? Scenario’s he chooses are this idiosyncratic trope that is IMO insulting and disrespectful and insufferable. Sure, we want to champion destroying these “bad” people who in history did deplorable acts. But truth is there… and its such a poor reflection of humanity, which I believe he sees in himself and in turn tries to destroy it.
Yeah.. so, he also talks to much, is a wackjob, and needs a reality check.
I am Italian! I live Italian film, Italian cinema, Directors, etc.. Argento, Coppola.. Scorsese.. you name it I am in.. I am also a girl, and even more offended by his lack of respect towards women in general. The misogyny is also, IMO, a gel like substance used to glaze over everyones third eye and tops of their head, because nobody seems to care about it. Odd…
One more thing, watch four rooms. He wrote it. The children and the feet.. yeah, then tell me, that this is not simply for the kabal to enjoy and himself… I totally believe there is a sick 🤢 just sick in hollywood and this was in the time of Weinstein which Q will gleefully mention openly still in the gloaming of his financial backer and sugar daddy.
Wake up, watch it, then you can assess the current situation in hollywood.
I remember this from way back when. The funny thing is I had a friend who went to college in California and when he came back he had a val accent. Funniest stuff ever. I thought they just talked like that for the film, but the val accent was a real thing.
A total period piece, like Fast Times. Even though I grew up in OC and not The San Fernando Valley in the 80's there was some definite crossover with those two places at that particular time so it resonated with me. I suspect a lot of teens of that time were drawn to the film, even if they didn't live in So CA. I still think it's one of Cage's best roles.
What made the movie special is that one of the lead's friends was played by the actress who played Dotty on Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
nah...what made it "special" was that the parents were played by actors who both appeared in Apocalypse Now...a subtle nod to a bygone decade
Quentin Tarantino on Night Of The Comet 1984
Not a great movie, but I'll watch it if it's on. I rewatched it a couple years and was surprised I remembered most of it.
Quentin's early remarks about Nic Cage makes one wonder if Film #10 could star Nic....🤔
🙏
I remember when the plimsols lp dropped, you couldn't walk 20 yards on the beach in orange county without hearing them, same as the knack the year before
Like, totally.
It’s fun to listen to Quentin evaluate a movie, because his brain works 100 times faster than his mouth. So he has ten thoughts going at a time and is barely able to get one of them out. I completely understood what he was saying, but I don’t think he actually made one complete sentence during his review. And yes, this movie rules.
i made people in their 20's who say the word "like" 200 times in a sentence watch this film and they couldn't get passed the opening mall escalator scene and were saying "oh my god like why do they you know, like talk like that"?! and I said "you hear yourself right"?. I was 14 when this movie came out and I mimicked all of them and thought I was so cool, it took years of practice to stop sounding like an idiot when I spoke to people, now I hear the word "like" used more than once by someone and I get in a fighting stance.
The Plimsouls were paid zero to do this movie but thank God they did!
Just realised there was another film from about the same time, also made in LA, that featured a (slightly older) rich girl/bad boy couple - Breathless. The characters in Valley Girl are somewhat more appealing but Breathless has a far better soundtrack. (Saw them both in Sydney, Australia when they came out.)
"Breathless" the song is from the quintessential L.A. band X.
@@gbru And The Pretenders' "Message of Love" (I'm a big Pretenders fan) and Phillip Glass's "Openings".
Wasn't that Richard Gere? If I remember it correctly it took itself way too seriously, as Gere films always do. Like it had something important it wanted to say... While Valley Girl was just a quirky fun movie that captured the moment for high school kids.
Breathless is an underrated classic. It was a movie that took a lot of flack when it came out. Today fans appreciate it more.
I've seen films set in places I have no experience with and appreciated them.
QT is on top of it. It is a just good movie, but it used music and speech to hit the kids. It had documentary elements, and it was just fun to watch. Loved the bands!
The best song in the movie didn't make the soundtrack: I La La La Love You by Pat Travers. It appeared on his Black Pearl album.
That’s really odd - it’s on the version of the soundtrack that I have.
@@dabroncobabe The official/original release of the soundtrack in1983 by Roadshow Records in the US did not have the aforementioned song nor did the one released in the UK in 1984 on Avatar Communications. Both of those releases garner over $100 for a copy in the secondary market. Rhino Records released a tribute/compilation disc in 1994 with the Pat Travers song, which must be the version you have.
TLDR: Sorry I blew up.😃
@ maybe I do have the Rhino Records release of it! Totally worth it for the Pat Travers!! I remember searching for the soundtrack in 1983/1984 and being unable to find it. Great soundtrack!! (Nah, you didn’t blow up.)
I'd love to hear Quentin's thoughts on "Modern Girls," which I've always thought of as a sister film to "Valley Girl."
I’m convinced, to this day, that Loren was helping Randy and Fred get Julie back. How else would they know her schedule?
She wanted her friend to be happy while getting revenge on Tommy.
KROQ, Roq of the 80’s defined So. Cal in the 80’s. Anyone else remember when KROQ was located in Pasadena on Los Robles?
"A girl's gotta have her standards."
your comment was "real genius"
"I'm sorry but, have you ever seen a body like this before in your life?"
i remember roger ebert giving a favorable rating for this movie so i had my doubts about it. after watching it, i changed my mind about him
“I saw everything…”
Except The Wall.
It didn't have enough 70s motown for him, very sad!
I never saw the movie but kids in school would say the valley speak phrases.
Sparks!!!
I would love to hear QT's take on Deep Cover with Laurence Fishburne. He loves LF.
That club Randy always hung out at was bought by Johnny Depp and became The Viper Room....
KROQ shoutout 👍🏽
I never went to school in CA, and it was just well liked all over the country. Not my favorite high school/teen movie but it's a good movie.
Sixteen Candles did the same thing with the music which was picked by Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald who knew their shit about what kids their age were into. That's why you heard lesser known bands instead of top 40 hits.
"Know when to get down!!"
It talked to the teenage subculture, it certainly didn't talk to any kind of alternative or counterculture group
Yes. A teenage movie from a subculture that avant-mainstream.
Quentin Tarantino on Ishtar
He is a fan.
He's very very very soft on rotten / bland / boring movies. He would say "I liked Ishtar enough to see it once". . He's seems AFRAID to give any movie a really bad review . Am I the ONLY ONE that noticed this ?
Tony Montanas right hand man from scar face is one of Tommy’s preppy friends at the house party
I believe he’s wearing a pink izod with the collar up