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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 24, 2017 15:53:07 GMT
 "Last year there were 280, 000 incidents of violence by students against their teachers and classmates in our high schools. Unfortunately, this film is partially based on true evenets. Fortunately very few schools are like Lincoln High...yet!"Andy Norris (Perry King) is the newly arrived musical teacher at Lincoln High.
He is a rather optimistic and kind man who doesn't take to the warnings and the bad reputation of his new workplace very serious, instead he sees it as an challange.
But when one of his own students are the latest victim of a brutal attack, his "utopian" dream begins to fall to pieces.
After a failed attempt by reaching out to the high school's number one troublemaker, Peter Stegman (Timothy Van Patten), Andy then decides to have a chat with his parents. But the only thing he gets in return by going personal, is a violent power struggle between a desperate teacher and a highly cunning student who knows every trick in the book on how to get away with his crimes without being prosecuted.Maybe a bit of a cult-classic/vigilante kind of a film more than your oridnary action movie, but it sure does pick up in the second half. Directed by Mark L. Lester (Commando) the film takes aim of what goes on in a possible, and very bleak future were the kids are running the show, and their teachers can only watch on without doing much to interfere with their daily life. Perry King did a good job as Andy Norris, and what a talent Tim Van Patten was back then, not really sure what happened to his acting career, but for the past 10-15 years or more, he is probably more famous for writing and directing several episode of shows like The Wire, The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire. Roddy McDowall always delivers, even in the smallest of parts, and here he is brilliant as a teacher on the edge of a nervous breakdown as he takes his own class as hostages: Learn or DIE!Also the film made great use of Alice Cooper and his I Am The Future. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 16:07:14 GMT
One of the great cult films of the 1980s. A film that seemed outrageous at the time, but turned out to be prophetic. Slick visceral entertainment, with Van Patten dominating the proceedings as the unhinged villain.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 24, 2017 16:11:13 GMT
One of the great cult films of the 1980s. A film that seemed outrageous at the time, but turned out to be prophetic. Slick visceral entertainment, with Van Patten dominating the proceedings as the unhinged villain. Yeah, that's the scary part. Back then it was ridiculed by the critics, now this stuff and real life Stegman's seems to be happening every week. The "sequel" is not bad either, but much more of goofy plot added with robot teachers and all, but still worth a watch for the entertaining value alone. |
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Post by izon on Feb 24, 2017 18:15:32 GMT
This has been on my watchlist for ages. I'm a fan of Lester's other movies, and I really enjoyed Class of 1999.
Apparently the Blu-Ray is a pretty good transfer, another on my huge list of shout-factory movies to pick up over time...
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Post by socalboy83 on Feb 24, 2017 19:16:22 GMT
Loved that Alice Cooper song.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 24, 2017 23:40:39 GMT
Loved that Alice Cooper song. Got me into the great mans music, but the album it is taken off was really not that impressive, but still worth to have, just for that one song. |
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 24, 2017 23:45:51 GMT
This has been on my watchlist for ages. I'm a fan of Lester's other movies, and I really enjoyed Class of 1999. Apparently the Blu-Ray is a pretty good transfer, another on my huge list of shout-factory movies to pick up over time... I don't know why Mark never became a bigger director within the action/horror/comedy genres, as he released several solid films during the 80s and early 90s, and beside Class of 1984 and Commando he put out titles such as Firestarter (1984), Armed and Dangerous (1986), Class of 1999 (1990), Showdown in little Tokyo (1991) and Night of the Running Man (1996), also I remember him doing a great little b-movie later on with Craig Sheffer as a writer being caught in some mystery/crime plot, but I don't remember its name. |
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Post by schizkebab on Feb 27, 2017 14:40:50 GMT
Awesome, awesome, awesome movie; so much fun! Probably one of my favorite cult films.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Mar 11, 2017 1:45:25 GMT
What do you get when you cross The Blackboard Jungle, Clockwork Orange, and Straw Dogs? This bona fide cult classic! A searing commentary on the public school system and yet at the same time unapologetic exploitation fare. Perry King is perfectly cast as the naive, mild-mannered Andy Norris and Timothy Van Patten's Peter Stegman is absolutely terrifying. One of the best scenes is Roddy McDowell losing his mind while teaching his class at gunpoint.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 12, 2017 4:14:38 GMT
Awesome movie. I love Lisa Langlois.
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