Anyone else have this one on their top 10 list of near perfect 80s films?

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OldHead1776@reddit

Slow, but beautiful film. Truman Sparks was amazing.

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moopet@reddit

It's far, far from perfect. But it is a good film.

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two_wheels_west@reddit

Absolutely! I need to watch that again.

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dave_stolte@reddit

“ANGELS!!”

Such a great, unappreciated, weird movie. Here’s a playlist of the soundtrack. A couple tracks aren’t available streaming so I fudged approximations “in the spirit of”

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/fandango/pl.u-KVXBgl1tZrqmN

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A_Tom_McWedgie@reddit

Thank you.

I always wondered what the song was that Costner and the bride danced to.

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beagles4ever@reddit (OP)

Sick! They never put out a soundtrack album - but should have! Thanks for the playlist.

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sleepy-alligator66@reddit

The scene where they are dancing to Pat Metheny is classic.

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jebediah1800@reddit

I remember having film-maker tendencies and watching this thinking: How did they get that spider performance in the opening shot? I haven't seen it since, but maybe I should: Dom waits for no man.

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MovieSock@reddit

Quentin Tarantino says he saw this film a dozen times during its first week and still says it's one of the best directoral debuts he's ever seen.

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FaustusRedux@reddit

Absolutely love this movie. The skydiving scene is an all time great

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A_Tom_McWedgie@reddit

I’m going to go with the fireworks fight in the graveyard scene.

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brinehart-cincy@reddit

I always wanted to replicate that scene in the graveyard, but couldn't get any takers.

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brinehart-cincy@reddit

"How we gonna stop?"

"Turn north at Band Aid. Band Aid?"

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zalurker@reddit

Everything about it is perfect. https://youtu.be/pQLTWyvRLyM?si=V1EeQ5v59kG7nG_C

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phunny-words@reddit

Not top 10 but definitely a must watch

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10202632@reddit

I remember liking it 30y ago but after reading the recent bit in Texas Monthly it tops the list for a rewatch.

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Comedywriter1@reddit

Love this film!

Kevin Reynolds has worked with Costner several times (though they have a weird on-off relationship. At a film festival I went to last year, Reynolds mentioned they’d fallen out yet again 😂).

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beagles4ever@reddit (OP)

Bitter sweet story about the loss of privileges of youth, the responsibility of joining society as an adult, and the kinds of bonds forge when you're young.

It's also a love story - a kind of triangle between two best friends, and the lost love of a woman.

All set in a fairly hilarious road trip out to West Texas in pursuit of unearthing Dom who they buried on a previous adventure. Hijinks ensue.

It has one of the best endings I've ever seen, not flashy, not overly sentimental. . .but so heartfelt and it cuts deep.

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poppinwheelies@reddit

Haha, “GO ON (NO GO)” is what they spelled out in laundry on the runway 😉

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Just posted about this the other day. This is a very emotional movie for me. I lived something very similar and it mirrors a lot of what I went through in college. Same group, similar love story and the pain, the absolute pain of it coming to an end. All of it. Still hurts when I think about it to this day. If I could go back I would. And I would appreciate the time and people so much more.

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GenerAsianX1992@reddit

Greasers!

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Lightningstruckagain@reddit

Groovers

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GenerAsianX1992@reddit

Ah, yes. Been a while.

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Lightningstruckagain@reddit

“You fellas drink beer?”

“Well, on occasion”

Still Costner’s best work. When it first came out you just knew he was gonna be huge really soon. End credits rolling to Can’t Find My Way home are perfect.

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legion4it@reddit

Wow, didnt think anyone else thought this. Made my day. Always been in my top 10. Along with fightclub, the fountain, inception, children of men, to name a few.

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Detrois8080@reddit

I certainly do, and convinced my high school senior committee that it was meant to be our class movie. It worked, second place was Friday. Class of 1998. Still can’t find my way home.

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Taekwonmoe@reddit

I love this movie, I feel like I was the only kid watching this whenever it came on HBO. No one I know, ever knows what I am talking about. I remember it being so goddamn good. Haven't seen it since my childhood home really. Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson were great in it. Everyone was from what I can recall.

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shawncollins512@reddit

Loved it - what a cast. I have thought about driving it to where they buried Dom.

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beagles4ever@reddit (OP)

Been there.

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shawncollins512@reddit

Did you check out other spots? I saw it the first time as I was graduating college and loved it.

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thisquietreverie@reddit

The Sonic and cemetery are still in Marfa (from memory). And if you go see DOM you are also not too far from the Andromeda Strain town.

Rattlesnake Base was torn down though.

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shawncollins512@reddit

I haven’t thought about Andromeda Strain in so long - I need to watch that again.

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beagles4ever@reddit (OP)

That’s the only location I’ve seen from Fandango.

Oh, I forgot, I also saw the remnants of the Giant set in Marfa once before they finally cleared it.

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DrJTrotter@reddit

It is a great movie. I think about the scene where they’re dancing at the party everyone “fades away” a lot. Makes me tear up for some reason. I guess it’s a story of lost love that gets me.

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OkHat2630@reddit

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as hard as I did during the skydiving scene…

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zyglack@reddit

no go to go on. Really the only part of the movie I remember

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SteveLivingroomCO@reddit

My friends created a tradition around this movie.

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OtakuTacos@reddit

If you find yourself in Lajitas, TX, you ain’t far from DOM rock.

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beagles4ever@reddit (OP)

Been there. It's on the top of a long hill between Terlingua and Lajitas, over a low stone wall, then scramble up over some boulders to find Dom. Great views over the Rio Grande.

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Crivens999@reddit

Yeah loved it. We buried a bottle of wine (not champagne!), on a drunken camping trip, just to be like the film back around 1989. Of course couldn’t find it about 10 years later. Not sure the area now. So if, on the slightest chance, you happen to be camping in Anglesey, right next to the sea, then dig up an area in front of a tree. You might find some cheap almost 40 year old plonk. Actually it might be on the North Wales coast (mainland). Grief, memory is a terrifying thing…

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Kitchen-Bus9048@reddit

definitely one that's not usually in the conversation and should be, this was the last VHS watch i had with my college friends before we all left, the ending song from blind faith was great reflective goodbye as credits rolled

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beagles4ever@reddit (OP)

That song with Costner ruefully looking down at the wedding - one of my favorite film endings ever.

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