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This is the kind of movie I'd see at 3 in the morning and try to tell my friends about the next day. Then it sounds like a fever dream and they don't believe it's real. And I only find it 6 years later on some rabbit hole search and no one remembers me going on about it.
I had a film like that with Ryan Reynolds but I found it recently. It's call the Nines and it is basically fever dream with god taking crack with hooker.
This is how I saw Rocky Horror the first time. I tried to tell my friends about a singing crossdresser movie, but they were like "that's not a real thing."
I’m late to the party, but I saw this in a theater in 1983 with my first boyfriend. Our short relationship consisted of going to see lots of bad movies, but we’re still friends all these years later.
I saw this in theaters when it first came out. Some people left the screening. The rest of us stayed watching in a perverse fascination. We were the survivors of the Titanic, truly.
So, this will date me, but I found myself surprised you'd never heard of this movie, because I remember the PR blitz for this film. Honestly can clearly remember their interview on Good Morning America, the clip of them dancing they showed, cutting back to the studio, and Olivia saying it was "sexy". They were promoting it as a reunion between "Danny and Sandy", but more "adult". Yeah. lol
The pet food dispenser gets me because now every pet owner is like "yooooooo automatic dispensers are the best thing tho!". If dude put a timer on that thing he woulda been set for life lol
Automatic pet food dispensers also feature in Back to the Future and Honey I Shrunk the Kids (made by genius inventors, of course), but this movie pre-dates both of those! I wonder if this is the first appearance of an automatic pet food dispenser invention in a film?
@@amityislandchum Hmm I wonder - for my chickens I have a thing that isn't automatic, it's just a gravitational feeder. They're quite common for poultry, but I suppose poultry are fine with eating however much they need rather than scarfing down too much food in one go. Unfortunately rats got into the gravitational feeder and started eating most of the grain, which is expensive because grain is expensive so now I just give the chickens exactly how much they'll eat each day and no more so that I'm not feeding the neighbourhood rats :/
In the early 90s, we had a cat food/water bowl (like 2:22) with a place to install a 2 liter bottle. You'd wash out an old soda bottle, and refill it with drinking water, then screw it into the bowl. If you did it right, the bottle would refill the water when it got low. If you did it wrong, the water would fly out of the bowl and you'd have over a liter of water on your floor. Fun times.
Life has been really hard since my sister passed suddenly and unexpectedly a year and a half ago. Pushing Up Roses’ channel/content have made the hard times more bearable. I love the videos she puts out, and how strong and outspoken she is! Your videos make me feel a little closer to my sister, and make me reminisce of her. She was a strong person like you are, and once her daughter is old enough I’ll tell her to check out your channel!
I had to put my dog down yesterday. This video was probably the first time I've smiled in over 24 hours, so I can (sort of) relate. I'm really sorry about your sister. I don't know how you feel or what you believe but I think a part of her will always be with you. The ones we love are never truly gone. That's the power of love... _Puts on sunglasses, cues up Huey Lewis and the News while skateboarding out of frame._
I do happen to remember this movie because I loved the two of them in Grease. 1:15 He's untwisting the phone cord--they tended to do that if you talked on a corded phone and walked in circles, turned around, etc. The devil is basically Evil Hercule Poirot...?
I knew exactly what was happening with the phone and it made me feel hella old that the voice over didn't know what was going on because the action is being lost to the mists of time.
I remember when this came out. My friend and I were HUGE fans of ON-J (we saw Xanadu in the theaters 3 times ☺️). She went to see this movie and REALLY didn't like it, so I never saw it. She passed from cancer 2 years ago. Watching this makes me think of her. Thank you! ❤️
I think it's really sweet that this video essay based on a terrible movie reminds you of your friend. Sorry for your loss, hope you're doing alright! :)
I mean, the most unbelievable parts of this whole thing are: he only asked for $15k when robbing a bank, and she is acting like she's a millionaire with it. In today's USD, that would be just under $42,000. A nice chunk of change, for sure, but every American here knows at least a dozen Americans with that much (or more) in student debt alone.
After doing Grease, John and Olivia wanted to do another movie together, but they couldn't find one they both liked. Until this. I really wonder what movies she turned down, or maybe wasn't offered the part. I'd love to see a movie, I guess Grease 3: Danny and Sandy, that tells what happens to Danny and Sandy. If they had cast Olivia in the Punisher as the wife of the mob boss, that could have been the sequel.
Olivia was rockin' the Markie Post "Night Court" hairdo. Almost the exact same hairstyle to the point I thought Markie Post was in the movie for certain shots.
If you're looking for an excellent, completely unhinged movie, I cannot recommend The Butcher's Wife enough - it's exactly the kind of batshit we all need
Totally second this! XD As an adult I thought this movie might have been a fever dream of my childhood. But it's actually real and just as whacky as I remember.
I LOVE this movie! I remember asking my mom to take me to see it in the theatre because John Travolta is in it. She said no because I could just watch John Travolta in Grease on Cable for free. Thanks Mom 😊❣️
I was just thinking this week that I hadn't seen a new video from PushingUpRoses for a while. This is great timing! It's been a long week and I need something fun. :D
My dad was an electrician and got paid once with random vhs tapes from a rental store. This was one of the movies we owned when I was a kid. Back then most people didn’t have a home video library. I recommend another film we had: Yor Hunter From the Future.
My god, the THEME SONG. 😂 Such an epic musical setup for... whatever that movie was. I watched it no more than three months ago and I still don't know what I saw.
I lost it at the scene with them having booze in a bag and fried chicken on a boat, lol! That's so random and weird! I wonder who came up with that scene, and if it was intended to be funny and absurd. How does one even come up with that?!
I'd bet that a writer actually went on that date. High school buds and I had a bucket-of-chicken party on the top floor of a(n otherwise) empty parking garage, and I can see it coming out of me in some brainstorming session.
This movie was on constant rotation on HBO when I was a tween, and I LOVED it. 😂 Her screaming "THERE HE IS!!!" lives rent-free in my head to this day. Well, it's in the basement, but the moment I saw the thumbnail, it popped out.
Ditto! It wasn't until years later that I discovered Rain was a Beatles song (thought it was just something from the movie), and I got stupid-excited when I heard Twist of Fate in Stranger Things.
...is that Oliver Reed as the devil? *One IMDB later* yes, yes it is. I thought I heard some Bill Sykes in his speech pattern XD Also I love how ONJ just keeps her Aussie accent in whatever movie she's in XD
Do you think that Oliver Reed's stardom had fallen enough by '83 that he was (internationally) less famous than the 2 leads? 'Cause he feels like a massive get for a film that stars the lead actors from grease.
ONJ is one of the few Australian actors to make it internationally who couldn't do another accent :p (She specifically asked to be an Australian transfer student in Grease because she didn't feel confident doing an American accent.)The other would be...Paul Hogan and I guess that's it (although I haven't heard Rebel Wilson be anything other than Australian so maybe she's the new generation of this specific trend)
We need to prove that there’s still good in humanity. Should we check in with Nelson Mandela? Mother Theresa? The Dalai Lama? No, let’s get John Travolta!
I have a vague recollection of stumbling upon this movie on tv when I was a kid and thinking it was Grease. I saw the scene where they were walking down the street eating the sunglasses before turning it off, disgusted. I honestly thought I hallucinated this movie!
The Beasley-Beatles connection may also be a reference to finding satanic message backmasked in music as the technique of backmasking was also popularized by The Beatles first used in the album's released around the time of Rain.
I would sincerely love it if you made a commentary on The Bad Seed (1956), a melodrama about a mother whom suspects her young daughter is a sociopathic murderer. It is not quite in the "So-Bad-It's-Good" pile, but it achieves high levels of camp from intense line delivery and inorganic pacing.
@@83croissant it was filmed that way to help tone down the blowback from groups that thought a movie with a child villian shouldn't be made. I don't think people get it though...
The old lady who owned the video store I worked at in h.s. loved this one (and Heaven Can't Wait and Defending Your Life; heaven movies had a moment in the 80s). I wish they'd cast Nic Cage instead of Travolta, it might've ended up a cult classic.
My mom has a recording of this movie from when it was on TV once in the 90s. I watched it once and have spent the last 10 years thinking about the ending. Great job Roses!
Not enough people know about that completely insane movie. I first came into it during the car chase where Holly Hunter terrifyingly breaks into the car and I thought I was watching a thriller movie only to discover it was apparently a romcom? Drama? I still don’t know how to classify that mess.
Ok, "Chances Are", not a badly acted movie (Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Downey Jr., and Mary Stuart Masterson), BUT an extremely bizarre premise with reincarnation, and unknowingly being attracted to your daughter (while being in another body, of course). The Cher/Peter Cetera theme song is great, and I buy the chemistry between RDJ and Cybill. Such a guilty pleasure for me.
I remember this movie, but I honestly couldn't remember the name. Chances Are is such a strange gem of a movie. Thank you for enlightening me on the name
"I'm guessing you've also never heard of this film." Guess again, youngster. Saw it in the theater. Also, Newton-John's song "Twist of Fate" from the soundtrack was a big hit. A much bigger hit than the movie.
Wow! The sheer number of high calibre actors and stars in this movie elevates this from a regular B movie to an all-out...um..."A" class B movie. Oliver Reed as the Devil is perfect! Thanks for introducing me to this!
Hey PushingUpRoses, I've been re-watching Goosebumps lately and I came across 2 episodes I think you should cover: The Cuckoo Clock Of Doom and The Ghost Next Door. They're both some of my favorite Goosebumps episodes, and I'd love to hear your take on them!
Not only have I heard of this movie I actually saw this in the theater when it was first released! A friend and I went to see it because we were big fans of Grease. We were innocent, naive 15 year olds.
The only thing I can say about this film is that I really liked the Journey song "Asked The Lonely," which for years, was only available on this sound track.
OH MY GOD!!!! I haven't seen or thought about this movie in DECADES!!! Thank you so much for this walk down memory lane. And yes, I have seen this. Next do "Something Wicked This Way Comes" from 1983
The 80's were an odd time for Travolta. He had this movie, Perfect( which is also crazy ) and Staying Alive. I don't know if he made a good film[ in the 80's] until Look Who's Talking in 89. He was a big star by this time it is not like he had to take these movies to pay his dues, but Scientology is expensive.
Blowout! Made in 1981, brilliant thriller where he plays a sound guy who hears a bang and a woman gets blamed for a murderer. It also has John Lithgow as a superb serial killer.
@@jeremyfrost2636 Q ruined so many celebrities for me. ☹️ Scientology too. Movies used to be an escape but maybe we know too much about our celebrities now a days. It is fun to know more about them but also harder to have that escapism. I guess it goes back to that is it better to know and if knowing too much ruins one’s ability to appreciate that person art. Kevin Spacey was my favorite actor for years and it sucks now that it is hard to enjoy K-PAX knowing he was such a pervy creep.
There was a time when Travolta was considered to be the best way to ruin a movie. If Kirstie Alley hadn't some how got him the roll in look who's talking he would just be another long forgotten actor now.
As I was enjoying the breakdown of the movie by Roses, I noticed, almost everyone in the movie is a known character actor I can name. Great overview, and thank you for the exposure to this movie that I never knew existed.
I saw this in the theatre in 1983, I loved it. While it was in the theatre we heard twist of fate on the radio a hundred times a day. I bought the soundtrack and still have the vinyl to this day. I have it on DVD, I wish they would put it on blu ray. The part where the cat jumped out of nowhere, it scared the shit out of me in the theatre. Hopefully someday it will be on blu ray.
This movie seems absolutely bonkers and I need to watch it ASAP. I had no clue those two were in another movie together. Feels like knowledge I should have had at some point.
Have you ever seen a movie then half forgot it/convinced yourself it was a fever dream? Yeah I saw this FOREVER ago off of cable. Wow, my brain is reeling.
I'm a huge Olivia Newton-John fan and love the songs she sings in this movie. Amazing. Her 80s music is the best. Sure, the movie is so-so but it's 80s galore so I'm happy. ;)
There is nothing better than reviewing a "Bad" movie. You do a good job as a truthful reviewer. would like to see your review of The Bad Seed & Black Narcisses (not bad films but weird) and Flowers (Bill Murray at hid most boring). Thanks.
Yep. I saw this movie *when it came out.* As a kid, I LOVED Olivia so just had to see it. And yeah, even then it was terrible. You should do a review of Xanadu!
This movie seems painfully 80's lol Normally, I would be cringing the whole time watching a film like this but you definitely made it a fun experience!
I remember seeing this on VHS when it came out I have to confess, I owned the soundtrack. The movie still isn't as weird as Xanadu, though Xanadu had a much better soundtrack, though even that hasn't aged well.
I'd recommend Mr. Vampire, one of my favourite comedy horrors. I really like the traditional Chinese hopping zombie/vampires and all the crazy ways to deal with the supernatural. There are 3 sequels but really it's just the first one that's the best. What's interesting is 5 of the actors return 21 years later in the 2013 Rigor Mortis... which could be seen as a much MUCH more serious spiritual successor to the Mr. Vampire series. Anyways... Mr. Vampire, good stuff.
It's so good. It's hilarious that the characters are given random English names that have nothing to do with their actual names. I also actually find the side story with the ghost lady kind of sad.
Satan always struck me as being more of a cat person if I'm being perfectly honest. Also, a video on either The Mangler or Lifeforce would be great. Both are Tobe Hooper directed films with The Mangler being a weird adaptation of a Stephen King short story and Lifeforce just being awesomely bat shit insane (it's got space vampires and boobs). Anyone else get the impression that Travolta is a weird dude? Maybe he should get a series on this channel haha.
@@moralityisnotsubjective5 He did more than join Scientology; he became their space-pope. But OMG Roses, please give us a breakdown of Battlefield: Earth one day! :D
I definitely remember this movie from when I was a kid, haven’t thought of it since. I don’t remember it being so dumb. Just remember John Travola being fine af. But…..God couldn’t find anybody on the whole earth that was selfless or made a sacrifice for another person? Really? Nobody saving a drowning person? Running in a house on fire to save people inside? Nothing heroic going on anywhere on the whole damn planet? 🤔
This movie's interpretation of God is pretty suspect, honestly. Roses mentions that He was on a 25 year "vacation" before the movie started, which would roughly be from 1958 to 1983. That implies that this version of God was around and involved for at least everything that happened in the first half of the 20th century, and *none of that* made Him think humanity wasn't worth saving. And yet it's the first few years of the 80's that He suddenly wants to pack it in. Methinks His values are the thing that's beyond saving.
Yeah the concept would've been a little more believable if it had just been a bet between an angel and Satan over this one specific guy and not God being like "wow the whole earth sucks, Imma reset it" with the angels being like "no wait, what about John Travolta?!" It would've just made more sense if it had just been Satan being like "hey I bet you these two super selfish people can't make personal sacrifices for the other one" and some angel being all "Okay, you're on. Winner gets their souls."
@@Iamafishproductions i mean ... It Kind of Checks Out with the old Testament. Where god has to Show every single animal on earth to Adam until He finally goes "oh, the cow isnt a good Help meet? What about a human with s squishy chest?" Adam must have been so awkward throughout the whole thing. Then the big man in heaven goes on to completely destroy human cooperation because He thinks humans could get too full of themselves If they are able to Talk to each other, so He invents languages. The purpose is literally to stop humans working with each other. And the flood is pretty random too, especially since after Said flood he Just as randomly decides "Well now that everyone is dead except my Boy Noah and His Family, now i swear that i will never do this again. Pinky swear." So ...yh, god has had some weird random Standards in His time, chances are He Just got bored in this movies universe
Yes, like in the time of Noah, who was the only righteous man found on the planet. In fact, it was so bad, that God flooded the Earth and saved only Noah, his family, and representative animals. God also said he would never again destroy Earth by flood again. But I guess this movie didn't have the budget to hire someone with knowledge of the Bible to advise the writers.
Woah, watching this review was so weird... I couldn't help but think of "A Life less ordinary" when you were talking about it. You can't deny the similarities! "A Life less ordinary" is probably my favorite bad movie. I just love it.
This was unironically one of my favourite movies as a kid - I adored Olivia and wanted to be her sooooo badly that my other favourite movie was Xanadu, lol! I still love Xanadu and have a special edition copy of it but couldn't remember the name of this movie for the life of me so thank you!! I'm shopping for this even as I watch your video, I can't wait to watch this again, I remember so many scenes but couldn't remember the title, LOL!
Sassy 80s business woman’s power suit 😂 I love your videos. Normally I’d be really proud to see a fellow Australian on a movie but this time I’ll let that pass.
Ah one of THOSE movies where you actually wishing for the End of The World to happen so you wouldn't have to watch or listen these incredibly boring and annoying characters any longer. Also I like how one of the angels is Danny's mentor from Stanley Kubrik's The Shining.
I saw this as a kid when it came out and was fully convinced it was somehow the sequel to Grease. I was disappointed as an adult and discovered it was not.
Bonus points for "Love Potion #9" being one of the three movies advertised on the DVD--it's a horrible example of the "Protagonist commits sexual assault for laughs" genre so popular in the late 80s and early 90s. (I can't recommend it, unless you're looking for some truly skeevy behavior by Tate Donovan and Sandra Bullock.) Also, as a side-note: I actually saw this movie. On TV, I think, or maybe as a VHS rental. Amusingly enough, I couldn't actually remember any of it past the bank robbery.
1:15 LOL! Some historical context to what he was most likely trying to do: Back in the day, the cord connecting the receiver and the phone base had to be routinely 'untwisted' by hanging the receiver down, and letting the coil untwist itself. However, that does not explain why he was holding the entire phone (base) aloft to achieve this simple task..?! Also, OMG, Oliver Reed...! That man has had one of the strangest careers in film, and seeing him in this added an extra little pocket of surrealism to this movie... :D
I honestly had no idea they did another movie together, but after some quick Googling it seems like they got on well and wanted to do another project after Grease. The more you know!
Suggestion idea! I was watching season 6 of MSW and I noticed a bunch of murders she didn't write. So maybe a series where you talk about them and their spin-offability?
"Rain" contains vocal parts played backwards. One of the earliest examples of backmasking in rock music (and popular music in general). Hysteric conservative opinion-mongers started obsessing over "hidden satanic messages" on rock records almost immediately. This escalated through the 1970s to the point that by the early 1980s, around the time this movie was made, conservative politicians tried to pass "anti backmasking laws" with pseudoscientists and "social psychologists" like William Yarroll as "expert witnesses". This dovetailed with the start of the manufactured "Satanic Panic" getting coverage in the media, basically the QAnon bullshit for the 1980s. And very similarly to QAnon, the paranoid obsession over invented SRA (Satanic Ritual Abuse) crimes and alleged "satanic propaganda" in music, films, and literature totally overshadowed and took attention away from actual child abuse. Among many other bad things, like outright witch hunts on certain artists and their fans, it helped keep the mass abuse of children in the Catholic Church hidden for at least another decade. I'm sure the writers of this movie just wanted to make a somewhat "edgy" joke, though. Too bad that the actual cultural, societal, and political phenomena it came from turned out to be anything but funny and damaged thousands of lives.
Funny how it used to be the church going conservative types who would get their panties in a twist about edgy jokes and humor, including calls for censorship of content that they found unsuitable and offensive; but here you are getting offended by an edgy joke from some like 40+ year old movie that no one even remembers, while ranting about conservatives; ironic.
I saw this in theaters when it came out and I remember two things. One, the audience was into it back in 1983. It definitely was a crowd pleaser. And two, the moment God speaks and it's immediately apparent that the voice is Gene Hackman. That gave the film instant clout and street cred. Plus, I know I was only ten years old, but I remember his delivery being hilarious. I'm willing to bet his parts hold up.
Have you seen "Under the Rainbow" starring Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher and a bunch of little people? I remember it playing all the time on cable when I was like 10. So many things about it make it go sideways, including much that was "acceptable" in the 1980's, but problematic now. Still though, it does have Carrie Fisher wandering around in a bra, back when she was mostly known for being covered up in Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back.
At least, Carrie Fisher bounces back with Return of the Jedi while Chevy Chase made an great comeback with National Lampoon's Vacation and its sequels.
wow, this movie looks atrocious... though it reminds me why I used to have a crush on Olivia Newton John. also, this might be something only I noticed, but I was surprised when you called Travolta's character a "goof." I don't know if there's any connotation with the word in Illinois, but in Eastern Canada (or at least Ontario), a goof can be either a paedophile or a backstabber, and is essentially the worst insult you can say to a person. but, considering he ratted out Olivia to the cops, calling him a goof was actually accurate 👍 sorry, this really has nothing to do with anything, I just wanted to point that out
Holy WHAT, like, seriously? In the US it's just the noun counterpart of goofy if you call someone that. Is SpongeBob adults-only in CA when they say Goofy Goober?
@@pennygadget7328 haha no, "Goofy" is still G-rated, though I don't know anyone who actually says that in day-to-day life. I don't know how the whole "goof" thing started; I think it originated out of the prison system
I remember watching this movie as a kid back in the 80’s. Olivia and John where so big back then . I know the movie didn’t do well but I remember always hearing the songs on Kasey’s Top 40 every weekend.
Omg. I have seen this movie probably 100 times. Middle school, after school, HBO reran this movie so much. I loved it. I also highly recommend Rhinestone and The Heavenly Kid. I love them all, just brace yourself for the montages. Oh! And Just One of the Guys, while possibly problematic is also pretty great.. ish. I miss a good dressing up montage. :)
I have a vague memory of watching this as a kid in the early 90s, when I first saw Grease and became obsessed with it. I remember almost nothing about it, other than the titles and the fact that John Travolta and ONJ starred. Had no idea idea it was so nuts!
Ahahaha! I remember the cat throwing scene,I saw it on a site about bad movies. the funniest part(at least in the french dub) was that our leading lady tells the cat "I told you you're not allowed to climb here."
Ok so don't know who's going to see this but So seeing this the 1st time so glad Roess channel came up on recommend list laughing so head...but the devil's theme music sounds like one of the neighbors are upset in Animal Crossing 😂😂 keep it up girl!!!
