Weekend Movie Watching
Thanks to Netflix Watch Instantly, my holiday weekend was a blur of 1980′s nostalgia (with a brief side-trip to 1992). I’d recommend all of these, with the possible exception of Chevy Chase’s ‘Modern Problems’ – go watch Vacation or Fletch instead.
WarGames
1983 – After cracking the security of an Air Force supercomputer, young hacker David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) moves his piece in a seemingly innocent video game and accidentally tells the computer to start preparing a preemptive nuclear strike.
Housesitter
1992 – After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis (Steve Martin) proposes marriage to his girlfriend (Dana Delany), only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress (Goldie Hawn), never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as his wife
Modern Problems
1981 – A jealous air traffic controller (Chevy Chase) is imbued with some wacky telekinetic powers after a collision with a nuclear-waste truck. This one didn’t age so well.
Feds
1988 – Gritty ex-Marine Ellie De Witt (Rebecca De Mornay) and cerebral Janis Zuckerman (Mary Gross) set out to become hard-nosed FBI agents in this satiric comedy (also starring Ken Marshall and Fred Dalton Thompson).
Wise Guys
1986 – When petty crooks Harry Valentini (Danny DeVito) and Moe Dickstein (Joe Piscopo) “borrow” a large sum of cash from a Mafia boss (Dan Hedaya), they head to the track to multiply their stolen gains. But when their bets go belly-up, they’re at the mercy of hit men hired to make them pay.
Armed and Dangerous
1986 – A slapstick comedy about two down-and-out men, ex-cop Frank Dooley (John Candy) and disbarred lawyer Norman Kane (Eugene Levy), who try their bungling hands at private security. Co-starring the adorable Meg Ryan.
Innerspace
1987 – A hell-raising Navy test pilot (Dennis Quaid) is miniaturized for a top-secret exploratory journey inside a laboratory rabbit — but is instead injected into the body of a high-strung nebbish (Martin Short) who works as a supermarket clerk. Also Co-starring the still-adorable Meg Ryan.
