Thanks for this info. I have never heard of Astoria, OR before so I find it amazing that some well known movies were actually set there!


Considering its large size, a surprisingly low number of movies have been set in Miami. The ones that always come to my mind are Ace Ventura, Bad Boys, True Lies and Holy Man.

Just not living in the South for once in my life should be an adventure, and I feel like I've got at least one more big adventure left in me.



Not a movie but cue up the Jan Hammer. Maybe they should make a Miami Vice movie? But should it be serious or parody? "Beverly Hillbillies", "Dukes of Hazzard", "Starsky and Hutch", "The Brady Bunch" ("She's [Marsha] harder to get into than a Pearl Jam concert." - lol), I enjoy them all (despite the hate some of them get).

LOL I guess this fell under your radar?


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430357/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

Well, crap. Guess I should have looked.

Will be watching for bargain DVD or Bluray, thanks for the heads up.

That Miami Vice movie was sorry.

I thought it was decent but it was certainly a box office flop.

The Road Warrior. Both sequels do not come close to it.

The third one with Tina Turner is completely forgettable. In fact, the only two things I remember about that movie is her and the line "two men enter, one man leaves". I have not seen the most recent one with Tom Hardy and Charleze Theron.

1985, when music mattered...I bet you remember the main theme.

TINA TURNER ★ We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)【music video】...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcm-tOGiva0

Yes unfortunately I do remember it. The 80's had some great music but also plenty of cheese.

The Thing (1982). A perfect film.

Wait, you dissin' Tina's theme? I've always liked it.

Point is that music was important as it helped to sell the movie. As you remember, with no internet or MP3 players, movie advertising was limited to newspaper and TV ads, and pre-movie theater trailers. But also music. You got into your car and unless you bothered with cassette, you turned on the radio to Tina's song, or one from Huey Lewis or ZZ Top ("Back to the Future" themes), or "Footloose", or any number of charting movie themes (including of course, all of the James Bonds). Maybe it's the same today and I've lost touch, but at the time, it's all there was so it was important.

Bingo. Music back then was much more important in selling a movie since there was no internet and no social media. It also helps explain why movies with very memorable soundtracks are much less common today than they were in the past.

Yeah, I can hum two three songs off the top of my head from 1986's "Top Gun". I wonder if "Maverick" will have any memorable tunes. I doubt it.

Coincidence you mention Top Gun because I just order this this morning.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Top-Gun-4K-Blu-ray/265018/

I need the speed feel in 4K!

Top Gun is another film that can't never be exceeded.

The sequel title of Maverick is wrong. Old Guns is more appropriate.

Harold Faltermeyer and Hans Zimmer did the music for the new film but I agree that it will be VERY difficult to make lightning strike twice.

One of the few cases where the remake is arguably better than the original.

And no, not the 2011 one. The 1982 one was better than the 1951 one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/
Then again, you can consider the 1982 version either a sequel or an homage to the original.
The 1951 version is still worth a watch.

The one from 2011 was a waste of time and effort. It was completely forgettable even though it was a prequel to the events in "The Thing" and not a remake.


While the original 1951 film is a classic, the John Carpenter remake is by far the best adaptation and will stand the test of time the longest. Only serious film buffs still watch the original from 1951 while the 1982 version is still being discovered by younger sci-fi fans today.

What's wrong with the 2011 one? It's nice to know what happen before the 1982 film.

I just felt it was unnecessary to have to explain everything and the cast was pretty blah. There was none of that on-screen chemistry that the cast from the 1982 film had. I'll put it this way: I've seen the 1982 film at least 20 times and I will be seeing it many more times before I die. I watched the 2011 movie one time and have not felt any desire to see it again.