Posts Tagged ‘police academy’
Movie of the Year: 1984 – Our Sweet 16
Movie of the Year: 1984 Our Sweet 16 We choose our sweet 16; which 16 movies will make our 1984 season? It is time to pick the movies we will be covering in our 1984 season! Yes, it’s our sweet 16. Which movies will make up this year? A weary world demands to know. Well,…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1984 – A New Season Begins
Movie of the Year: 1984 A New Season Begins A new season begins, which movie of 1984 will be our Movie of the Year? 1984 is here, and folks, this might be the biggest year of blockbusters we’ve ever covered. None of us were really very aware in the actual year 1984—we are young, and…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 – State of the Franchise
Movie of the Year: 1985 State of the Franchise The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s franchises! 1985 had its fair share of franchises, not all of them great: looking at you, Rambo. Others had been the peak of cinema and yet had fallen to new lows: that’s you, Police Academy. But no matter how good or bad the…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1997 – State of the Franchise
Movie of the Year: 1997 State of the Franchise Franchises, where would this country be without them? I tremble at a hypothetical so awesome in its utter enormity. I cannot gaze with my mind’s eye long upon the imagined hellscape that is an America Cinema devoid of prequels, sequels, and even squeak -quels. No, do…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1988 – Genreblast
Movie of the Year 1988: Genreblast The Taste Budz–and two of their favorites from the Unnatural 20s podcast–have genre fever and the only prescription is more genre. That can’t be right. Why would genres cure genre fever? If anything they probably cause it, right? I bet the real prescription would be something like antibiotics. I…
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