Do you want some wine with that cheese?

One musical movie that I remember really enjoying when I was a teenager was “Eddie and the Cruisers“.  Through Netflix I took a little trip back in time to the 80′s and rented this film and it’s sequel on the flip side of the disc.  I finally got around to watching it the other day and I realized how what I once thought was a great film was in reality a totally cheesy 80′s formula film with an ok soundtrack.  The biggest problem I had beyond the stiff acting, bad lip-synching and giant plot holes was the fact that this music that was supposed to take place in 1964 sounded like a lost Bruce Springsteen album from the late 70′s.  I’m shocked the John Cafferty didn’t get sued for the blatant rip-off job.

Since I was committed to this 80′s cheese festival I had started, I decided to watch the sequel, “Eddie Lives“.  Let me tell you, that film was a complete and total train wreck to watch.  Plot holes you could drive a air craft carrier through.  The cast had enough mullets and 80′s ‘roid boys as his band members that it looked like a scene from “Mad Max: Beyond thunderdome”.  Seriously, I kept waiting for Tina Turner to show up and sing “We don’t need another hero”.  Wow, what a bad film.  Save yourself the trouble and watch this three minute video somebody put together with the key song and a slide show of the main plot points.  It’s much better than the painful 90 minutes of actual film.

Sometimes memories from the past should not be revisited I guess…