Teen Wolf

Teen Wolf
Dir. Rob Daniel
53/300

This was a fun movie that I had somehow missed in my childhood.  It did come out about 2 years before I was born.  So, that kind of explains it.  I knew generally the story of the movie, but finally sat down and watched it.

What makes this movie so great?  Well, first off, it's classically 80s.  The wardrobe and the lingo of the 80s will forever be entertaining to those who did and didn't live in the decade.  Along with this, movies featuring scary creatures were being made for kids at the time.  We've got Monster Squad, Ghost Busters, Little Shop of Horrors, The Goonies, My Best Friend is a Vampire, Troll, Gremlins, Scooby-Doo, ET, and Beetle Juice all having come to the screen for the first time.  It's a prime era of really big, original movies that have taken sometimes already created and well-known monsters and villains and humanized them or made them more accessible.  And the hollywood system was capitalizing on this almost as much as their feasting on comic book characters now.

Again, I'm not saying this process they had created then got nearly as out of hand as it has now, just that it happens. And sometimes the result isn't half bad.

Back to Teen Wolf (terrible transition), I really enjoyed Michael J. Fox in this roll.  He always seems to play a really good nervous guy that tries to be cool.  I feel like this movie had to have been a good stepping stone for him into the role of Marty McFly.  Seriously, he's too cool.  It seems like in both rolls, everyone watching the movie would have been his friend, because he's mildly popular, has cool hobbies, wants a girl, and can smoothly wiggle his way out of trouble.  Who doesn't wan to be Michael J. Fox?

Yeah, I found the Dolorean outside a Ron Jon in Myrtle Beach a little while back.  This thing is put on display to collect money for Parkinson's disease, and the $ is deposited in the same place you'd put trash to make it go back to the future.  :)

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