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    WAYNE’S WORLD 2 (1993)


    This sequel didn’t make as much money as the first, nor is it as funny.
    I liked it nonetheless. As Ebert said, you can’t hate Wayne and Garth.
    Wayne has a dream of a “weird naked Indian” & Jim Morrison, who tells him to put on a concert.
    “Book them and they will come” is the sage advice.
    They want Aerosmith, Van Halen and others to play, but prospects aren’t good.
    “WAYNESTOCK” might be a bust…
    This time around they have quite a few cameos: Kim Basinger, Christopher Walken, Rip Taylor, “Del” from Withnail and I, Chris Farley, Charlton Heston, and Aerosmith, among others.
    I liked their token hang-out where Ed O’Neill works: Stan Mikita Donuts, a spoof of Tim Horton’s donuts.
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    TED(2012)


    This is the directorial debut of Seth MacFarlane.
    I watched the Unrated version and man, it’s crude.
    This humour isn’t for everybody, like Family Guy.
    A boy gets a large teddy bear for Christmas, and he wishes for the bear to be real,
    So that they’ll be forever friends, “Thunder buddies”, pals for life.
    Well sure enough, the wish comes true with the help of a shooting star.
    The bear is voiced by Seth, and he sounds a lot like Peter Griffin…
    Mark Wahlberg (as Johnny Bennett) must contend with foul-mouthed Ted as an adult, and the results are crazy.
    You have to suspend disbelief to enjoy this movie, and I felt it was redeemed by the heartfelt
    Love given to Sam Jones and Flash Gordon, a seminal movie in my life and Johnny’s.
    There is sex, drugs, rock and roll, Tom Skeritt, Ryan Reynolds, Mila Kunis and Giovanni Ribisi.
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    TED 2 (2015)


    This sequel is not very good. Whatever “bar” the first Ted sets, it’s lowered here.
    It’s set three years after the first movie, with Ted trying to legally establish himself as a person and not property.
    Patrick Stewart narrates both films, Michael Dorn has a cameo in this one, and there’s more love for Sam Jones and Flash Gordon. Seth hired Morgan Freeman and gave cameos to Liam Neeson and Tom Brady.
    The story just never gets a foothold.
    I like the pop culture references and enjoyed the New York Comic Con sequences/fight.
    It’s the crude humour that rankles- is it really necessary?
    There will probably be a third Ted, it’s a popular franchise.
    Mark Wahlberg was good in the first one. Here he’s just hanging on.
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    THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)


    80’s Gold.
    This very basic and simple film defined a generation.
    John Hughes directs Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson in THE coming-of-age movie.
    5 students are sent to detention on a Saturday.
    They have unique personalities and outlooks. They are thrown together, and by day’s end they bond.
    Part of the fun of the movie is the vice-principal, who’s a dick.
    The kids manage to avoid their essay assignment, smoke pot, and generally skirt their punishments.
    Eminently watchable classic film.
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    Rewatched recently because a new movie inspired by it was coming out, Nicholas Celozzi's The Class (2022). Nothing compares with Hughes. Peter and I share the taste.

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    Yes, John Hughes is special.
    I read that John Cusack was going to play Bender, but Hughes felt he didn’t look menacing enough.
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    Good decision.

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