Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Stay gold Ponyboy, stay gold.

Last night I rediscovered the magic of "The Outsiders," the movie based on the book by S.E. Hinton. A classic movie for anyone who loves movies about gangs and rumbles (i.e. West Side Story) as much as I do. It doesn't hurt that the cast of the movie would later go on to collectively earn $2 billion in collected film and television credit.

Hot! Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio (The Karate Kid!), Tom Cruise, Diane Lane... this movie is packed with superstars! The acting is quasi-B rate; but it's as Kelly (The Office would say), totally awesome. The specials on the DVD featured the casting tapes of the then 16 and 17 year old boys. Fantastic.

This movie really is a classic. How could a movie with the tagline They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong not be fantastic? I dare you to watch it.

Then, let's rumble.

4 comments:

kendall said...

i love sixteen and seventeen year old boys.

Anonymous said...

okay, I'll rent from the library. I'm convinced. kinobud

Unknown said...

You know, i've been promoting fights for a long time now and you've never shown any interest other than to make jokes about my manhood, or my geographical location. Now that it includes underaged now-famous movie stars you're all about it. Lets just cut the chase, and meet up at celebrity deathmatch, no?

NatAttack said...

Wah wah wah. I like fake fights. Especially fake fights in the 80's when fake blood looked fake.

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If NatA! posted a photo with this blog, here it is!