TheBez

OMG . . . I went roller skating at Fame City when they were at MCM. That was back in the day when they still had Monkey Wards (which always looked like a tornado hit it) and all the fountains that made the mall stinky

Hey . . . they have these at the San Antonio Zoo :-) I ALWAYS burn my hand on them.

I still can't believe that this film was made. I am only glad as the years pass that this film starts to fade away from my memory at least. Maybe it was the timing it was made?

I was in high school and every guy I knew simply hated John Revolta. Even some of the smarter girls thought he was just tooo fruity. He was so type cast as Vinny Barbarino as a hip NYC high school Sweathog, I mean come on. Not to mention Saturday Night Fever. Yuk! So now he is put in a macho image tough-cowboy in Paserdener? They may as well had Richard Simmons play the part.

His Texas swagger has to have been one of the worse ever. In some of the scenes he even forgets he is from Texas and the Brookyn dialects is clearly heard.LOL We used to check out Gilley's only out of pure curiousity and this was BEFORE the movie was made. It was just a ramshackle tin roofed beer joint and had numerous additions to the main bldg. Basically it was just a oversized beer dive. Rarely did you ever see any minorities in there. The Klan was still running most of Pasadena at the time. Texas proud huh?

Any how, this film has to be one of the main one that stereotyped Houston for ages, and the TV show Dallas. Ok, Iv'e vented. Much better now. Talk amongst yourselves. Any old subject will do.

Oh by the way, the only thing that was cool about Gilleys was the big sign out front. I think Mickey G saved it somewhere. Yeahahhh! Time for a Lone Star!

It is a terrible film . . . . and did people really dress like that ?

I know reverting it to a movie theatre prolly wouldn't be a profitable move, even if it was a unique like the RO or a quirky concept like alamo drafthouse...

What they need to do is find a company like what they have up here in PDX; McMenamins. $3 movies, good food and cheap beer http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=57...tion%20Homepage

I know for a fact they are packed just about every night. You have to get there early to get one of the good couches in the gym. The Draft house is a little tooo posh for me, I like my couches and cheap beer.

I hate to say it, but this is the one area that PDX has bested H-town. Well that and Beavers baseball.