![]() Cue another music montage with Spader, Downey, Frankie, and another girl, in which Spader drags them to a country club. I keep getting fucking distracted by this hot scene where the three girlfriends of The Cast from Beat It sit and eat fast food and look all hot and 80s. These dangerous kids movies from the 80s all follow the same goddamn plot, so it gets a little tough to discern if I’ve seen this movie, but I think this is the movie responsible for all my James Spader disdain. The Cast from Beat It is initiating some type of choreographed fight thing that never actually happens. Spader dances with Frankie (the girl) and then all hell breaks loose. This whole montage is either fucking atrocious or super awesome, depending on how ironic you are feeling. is drumming with no shirt on, everyone is doing those 80s dances, the place is packed and extremely well lit … oh … and overrated poet/singer/drug addict Jim Carroll is the lead singer in the band. Flash forward to what is perhaps one of the best 80s dance/concert displays on film. ![]() Oh, and if you’re so inclined this actress is Kim Richards who is/was on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. To make it more confusing, her name is Frankie, and to make it even more confusing, she is played by that girl that was in “Escape from Witch Mountain,” and also had a reoccuring role on Diffr’nt Strokes, so her nude scene in this must have been some coming out or something. It is made apparent the main The Cast from Beat It guy’s girlfriend has the hots for Spader. Keep in mind everyone looks like they are 25 or 30, except Robert Downey Jr., who must have not started doing drugs at this point and looks like a baby-faced future drug addict. The Cast from Beat It and their token girlfriends spot the new kid and decide to get revenge. The next morning it is revealed that Spader has just transferred to the public school from out of state, is a good student and seems wealthy, but is also a loner. The Cast from Beat It are easily defeated and Spader rides off. These guys are really tough (tuff?) and yet, inexplicably, their heist of a lecherous businessman is interrupted by what, you ask? That’s right, James Spader … on a bicycle … with a shaken-up can of beer. We are introduced to a gang who are obviously “the bad kids.” They have no name so I am going to name them “The Cast From Beat It.” Herein, anytime the gang is seen, that’s what I’m going to call them. Tuff Turf opens almost exactly like The Warriors. I’m glad with todays fashions we seem to have worked it out. Summary: Pants in the 80s made all chicks asses look like big messy sacs of potatoes. Of course, there is a whole undercurrent and sporadic mention of gangs and violence, even though it is portrayed in a comical way. Certain parts of this movie seem to reflect that whole ‘one individual can do anything’ vibe that was popular in the 80s, but that’s sort of negated by the fact that the main character is also wealthy. It’s a mystery to be lived.” In tough gang member voice “So, you guys feel like picking up some dust or what?” Everything from the plot, the music, the style of dress, the language, the slow-motion gunshot, the James Spader, all of it 100% dated 80s reference.īest Line: In stressed-out dad voice: “Look son, life isn’t a problem ought be solved. ![]() ![]() ![]() Interesting Dated References: The 80s as a whole. ![]()
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