A Look at The Biggest Box Office Stories from 1972-present (THABOS: The History of Amazing Box Office Stories) | IT'S FINALLY COMPLETE!!!!!!!

[baumer]

Sorry guys...tonight 1985 will be done.

[baumer]

I'll get to this tomorrow and Wednesday.  I'll have 85-88 done.

[BOOYAH SUCKAS]

I can't wait to hear what you have to say about back to the future! It's my all time favorite movie 

[baumer]

1985

 

This was a huge year at the box office and although Back to the Future finished in first spot, 1985 belonged to Sylvester Stallone.  He took the number two and three spots with sequels to his immensely popular Rambo and Rocky character.  And while the top ten didn't make more than 1984, 1985 did set a record with 22 films (including a rerelease of E.T.) making more than 40 million.  Steven Spielberg also had a huge year with three films in the top ten and although his direction did not get nominated for The Color Purple, the film did manage 11 Oscar nominations.  

 

 

Finishing first was he Amblin produced, Robert Zemekis directed Back to the Future.  Back to the Future's original script was finished in 1981 and it was done by Zemekis and Bob Gale and they shopped it around to most studios and they all passed because they found the film to be cute and nice but not sexy enough.  At the time, the raunchy teen sex comedy was very popular.  Fast Times, Porky's and a slew of others were making bank at the box office.  The two were tempted to ally themselves with Steven Spielberg, who produced Used Cars and I Wanna Hold Your Hand, which were both box office bombs. Zemeckis and Gale initially had shown the screenplay to Spielberg, who had "loved" it.  Spielberg, however, was absent from the project during development because Zemeckis felt if he produced another flop under him, he would never be able to make another film. Gale said "we were afraid that we would get the reputation that we were two guys who could only get a job because we were pals with Steven Spielberg."  Zemeckis chose to direct Romancing the Stone instead, which was a box office success. Now a high-profile director, Zemeckis reapproached Spielberg with the concept. Agreeing to produce Back to the Future, Spielberg set the project up at his production company, Amblin Entertainment, with Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall joining Spielberg as executive producers on the film.

 

Originally Michael J. Fox was the first choice to play Marty.  He could not get the blessing of Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties creator) to do the film because of the busy schedule, so they turned to their next two choices, which were C. Thomas Howell (who I think would have done a terrific job in BTTF.....his character in Secret Admirer has a lot of similarities with McFly) and Eric stoltz.  They chopse Stoltz based on his work in MASK.  Four weeks in, stoltz was replaced by Fox, who's schedule now allowed him to do the film and the TV show.  

 

Now this is when you know you are driven to make a name for yourself in the business......  Following Stoltz's departure, Fox's schedule during weekdays consisted of filming Family Ties during the day, and Back to the Future from 6:30 pm to 2:30 am. He averaged five hours of sleep each night. During Fridays, he shot from 10 pm to 6 or 7 am, and then moved on to film exterior scenes throughout the weekend, as only then was he available during daytime hours. Fox found it exhausting, but "it was my dream to be in the film and television business, although I didn't know I'd be in them simultaneously. It was just this weird ride and I got on."

 

 

Back to the Future grossed almost 400 million WW and made household names of Fox and even Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F. Wilson and of course, Crispin Glover.  

 

Rambo First Blood Part II came in second with 150 million domestic and a WW total of 300 million.  It was also a massive hit on home video.  Stallone commented that "I didn't know if I was picking up a machine gun or boxing gloves" as he scrambled to get both Rambo and Rocky in on time for the 1985 release date.  Rambo was written by James Cameron and Stallone.  Cameron had a much different screenplay and Stallone found that it lacked action and there wasn't enough political intrigue.  So Stallone changed and added his own touches to it.  

 

 

I think that James Cameron is a brilliant talent, but I thought the politics were important, such as a right-wing stance coming from Trautman and his nemesis, Murdock, contrasted by Rambo’s obvious neutrality, which I believe is explained in Rambo’s final speech. I realize his speech at the end may have caused millions of viewers to burst veins in their eyeballs by rolling them excessively, but the sentiment stated was conveyed to me by many veterans.... [Also] in his original draft it took nearly 30-40 pages to have any action initiated and Rambo was partnered with a tech-y sidekick. So it was more than just politics that were put into the script. There was also a simpler story line. If James Cameron says anything more than that, then he realizes he’s now doing the backstroke badly in a pool of lies    Stallone in 2006

 

Rambo not only made bank at the box office, it also transcended film and pop culture and it even had president Ronald Reagan singing it's praises and mentioning it in several speeches.

 

Number three for the year was Stallone's other mega hit; Rocky IV.  Stallone directed, wrote and starred in it.  The film co-stars Dolph Lundgren, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers, Tony Burton, Brigitte Nielsen, and Michael Pataki. Rocky IV remained the highest grossing sports movie for 24 years before it was overtaken by The Blind Side..

Critical reception was mixed, but the film earned $300 million at the box office. This gave Stallone two 300 million dollar hits in one year.  

 

Sylvester Stallone has stated that the original punching scenes filmed between him and Dolph Lundgren in the first portion of the fight are completely authentic. Stallone wanted to capture a realistic scene and Lundgren agreed that they would engage in legitimate sparring. One particularly forceful Lundgren punch to Stallone's chest slammed his heart against his breastbone, causing the heart to swell. Stallone, suffering from labored breathing and a blood pressure over 200, was flown from the set in Canada to Saint John's Regional Medical Center in Santa Monica and was forced into intensive care for eight days. Stallone later commented that he believed Lundgren had the athletic ability and talent to fight in the professional heavyweight division of boxing.

 

 

Additionally, Stallone claimed that Lundgren nearly forced Carl Weathers to quit in the middle of filming the Apollo-vs.-Drago "exhibition" fight. At one point in the filming of the scene, Lundgren tossed Weathers into the corner of the boxing ring. Weathers shouted profanities at Lundgren while leaving the ring and announcing that he was calling his agent and quitting the movie. Only after Stallone forced the two actors to reconcile did the movie continue. This event caused a four-day work stoppage while Weathers was talked back into the part and Lundgren agreed to tone down his aggressiveness.  This also seems to be the last time Stallone and Weathers were on good terms.  In later years, Stallone has publicly slammed Weathers for being greedy with unrealistic demands and it's also understandable why Weathers never got to be in an Expendables film.  

 

Rocky IV is one of the few sport movies that applies genuine sound effects from actual punches, bona fide training methods created by boxing consultants, and a bevy of other new special effects. The film is recognized as being ahead of its time in its demonstration of groundbreaking high-tech sporting equipment, some of which was experimental and twenty years from public use. In 2012, Olympians Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte noted that the training sequences in Rocky IV inspired them to use a cabin similar to what the resourceful Balboa utilized in the film.

 

@Tele Came Back hates this film, I love it.  

 

Coming in at number four and five were the two Oscar front runners in 1985.  The Color Purple and Out of Africa both did extremely well.  They grossed 94 and 87 million respectively.  

 

The Color Purple was praised by many and loathed by seemingly just as many.  Too many arm chair critics didn't like the fact that Spielberg changed some of the book.  Fellow director, Oliver Stone defended him vociferously saying,  "it's an excellent movie, and it was an attempt to deal with an issue that had been overlooked, and it wouldn't have been done if it hadn't been Spielberg. And it's not like everyone says, that he ruined the book. That's horseshit. Nobody was going to do the book. He made the book live again."

 

Out of Africa is directed and produced by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937. This film received 28 film awards, including seven Academy Awards.

 

It's intersting that in the 80's so many high grossing films win best pictures.  That trend seemed to die down into the 2000's and beyond.  Now you have films like Moonlight and the Artist that most people don't care about, winning best picture.  It's no wonder there is a disconnect between the academy and the paying customer.

 

Cocoon came in at number 6 with 76 million and the sequel to Romancing the Stone, Jewel of The Nile came in at number 7 with 75.9 million.  Both were distributed by 20th Century Fox.

 

Coming in at number 9 was the final Spielberg film in the top 10, the iconic film, The Goonies.  Grossing 61 million in the domestic market and much more overseas, The Goonies tells the story of a bunch of 12 year olds who go on an adventure to find buried pirate treasure in hopes of saving their community, which is being bought by evil investors.  

 

 

In The Making of The Goonies, director Richard Donner notes the difficulties and pleasures of working with so many child actors. Donner praises them for their energy and excitement, but says that they were unruly when brought together. The documentary frequently shows him coaching the young actors and reveals some techniques he used to get realistic performances.  In his book There and Back Again, Sean Astin claims that Richard Donner and Steven Spielberg were "like codirectors" on the film as he compares and contrasts their styles when directing scenes.

 

Number 11 was the sequel to Police Academy, which once again was critically panned but made a massive 55 million domestically.

 

Number 12 was another Bond, A View to a Kill.  This also had Dolph Lundgren in a small role which gave him two massive hits in 1985.  This one grossed 50 million.

 

Coming in at number 16 was The Breakfast Club with 45 million.  This is considered to be the seminal teen film about high-school.  It accurately portrayed the trials and tribulations of kids in that era.  It dealt with drugs, peer pressure, parents, school and dating and social paradigms perhaps better than any film before it.  It's my favourite John Hughes film.  

 

 

And finally, Commando, one of the best films for one liners, came in at 25 with 35 million. LET OF SOME STEAM BENNETT!

 

 

This was 1985.

  

[baumer]

Will get 1986 up this afternoon.

[baumer]

1986 will cover:

 

Danger Zone

Real pretty shit now man

Muffy meet Adolph.  Adolph, eat Muffy!

Les Jou sons fait

Sick Balls

 

And a few others

[baumer]

Going to work on 1986 now

[Jake Gittes]

I hope I live long enough to see unsuspecting people from many future generations react to Rocky IV. 

[baumer]

Half way through 1986 and now something came up....I'll have to finish it tomorrow.....

[baumer]

1986

 

1986 was the first year in film history where the top ten films all grossed more than 70 million dollars.  The top 5 films all broke 100 million and the top two films both cleared 300 million WW.  

 

#1......I feel the need....the need for speed!  1986 saw the donning of a new box office giant, that being Tom Cruise.  Before he did Top Gun, he had some minor success with films like The Outsiders and Risky Business.  But his career jumped into a different stratosphere with Top Gun.  Top Gun was released on May 16, 1986. Upon its release, the film received generally mixed reviews from film critics but many particularly praised the action sequences, the effects, the aerial stunts, and the acting performances with Cruise and McGillis receiving the most praise. Despite its mixed critical reaction, the film was a huge commercial hit with grossing $356 million against production budget of only $15 million.  Additionally, the film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Take My Breath Away" performed by Berlin.

 

 

In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

 

Also benefiting from this were now super producers, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer who were now rolling after the successes of Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop and now Top Gun.  They were now in a position to make pretty much any movie this chose to.  

 

Kenny Loggins, fresh off his massive hit from Footloose, recorded Danger Zone for the film and it along with many other hit songs, helped Top Gun become one of the biggest selling movie soundtracks of all time.  

 

Coming in at number two for 1986, also from Paramount (which gave them the top two spots for the year) was one of the biggest sleeper hits of all time, Crocodile Dundee.  Crocodile Dundee is Australian-American comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee. Hogan's future wife Linda Kozlowski portrayed Sue Charlton.

 

 

 

Inspired by the true life exploits of Rod Ansell, the film was made on a budget of under $10 million as a deliberate attempt to make a commercial Australian film that would appeal to a mainstream American audience, but proved to be a worldwide phenomenon. Released on 30 April 1986 in Australia, and on 26 September 1986 in the United States, it was the second-highest-grossing film in the United States in that year and went on to become the second-highest grossing film worldwide at the box office as well, with an estimated 46 million tickets sold in the US.

There are two versions of the film: the Australian version, and an international version, which had much of the Australian slang replaced with more commonly understood terms, and was slightly shorter.  Crocodile Dundee remains one of the biggest surprises in film history.

 

Coming in at number three was best picture winner, Platoon.  Platoon was written and directed by Oliver Stone and he used his experiences as a soldier in the Vietnam War as inspiration for the script.  He recalled how he had killed a Viet Cong soldier once, during his tour of duty and it was something that changed his life forever.  He used that experience and many others to get the authenticity of the war to come alive.  Stone said he wrote this script to counter the Hollywoodized bullshit of films like John Wayne's Green Beret.  Platoon had a who's who cast of young actors, including Charlie Sheen, Johnny Depp, Wilem Dafoe, John C. McGinley, Kevin Dillon, Tony Todd (Candyman), Forrest Whitaker and the veteran of the group, Tom Berenger.  This was Dale Dye's first acting job.  Dye, who many of you should know from films like Saving Private Ryan, Casualties of War and Starship Troopers, is the real life drill sargeant who first became a technical adviser and a mean SOB responsible for training actors to behave like soldiers.  That story you read about where the cast of Saving Private Ryan didn't want to complete the 5 day training, only to have Hanks talk them into it, that was Dale Dye doing their training.  

 

 

For Platoon, once the cast arrived in the Philippines, the cast was sent on an intensive training course, during which they had to dig foxholes and were subject to forced marches and nighttime "ambushes," which used special-effects explosions. Led by Dale Dye, training put the principal actors—including Sheen, Dafoe, Depp and Whitaker —through an immersive 30-day military-style training regimen. They limited how much food and water they could drink and eat and when the actors slept, fired blanks to keep the tired actors awake. Dye also had a small role as Captain Harris. Stone said that he was trying to break them down, "to mess with their heads so we could get that dog-tired, don't give a damn attitude, the anger, the irritation... the casual approach to death". Willem Dafoe said "the training was very important to the making of the film," adding to its authenticity and strengthening the camaraderie developed among the cast: "By the time you got through the training and through the film, you had a relationship to the weapon. It wasn’t going to kill people, but you felt comfortable with it."

 

Everything worked as Platoon grossed a massive 138 milliobn in North America off a budget of 6 million.

 

Number four was the sequel to the Karate Kid.  The film grossed even more than the original with 115 million.  It had one of the highest opening weekends of the year as well, with more than 12 million.  

 

Coming in at number five was another Star Trek, this time titled, The Voyage Home.  

 

The Voyage Home opened theatrically in North America on Thanksgiving weekend, November 26, 1986.  Since Star Trek had traditionally performed poorly internationally, the producers created a special trailer for foreign markets that de-emphasized the Star Trek part of the title, as well as retelling the events of The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock.

In its first week, The Voyage Home ended "Crocodile" Dundee's 8-week reign of the American box office. The Star Trek film made $39.6 million in its first five days of release. Ultimately, the film grossed a global total of $133,000,000 against its $21 million cost.   In six weeks, The Voyage Home sold $81.3 million in tickets, more than the franchise's second or third film, and almost as much as Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

 

Number six was Rodney Dangerfield's highest grossing film, Back to School.  Co-starring Robert Downy Jr, Billy Zabka and Burt Young, the film received mainly positive reviews from critics, and is the second highest grossing comedy film of the year, behind "Crocodile Dundee.  Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times noted that "Dangerfield seems to be setting the film's brisk pace and flawless timing himself." Nina Darnton wrote in The New York Times that "the film is a good-natured potpourri of gags, funny bits, populist sentiment and anti-intellectualism." Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer shows that 84% of 31 critics' reviews were positive. Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times review read: "This is exactly the sort of plot Marx or Fields could have appeared in. Dangerfield brings it something they might also have brought along: a certain pathos."  Back To School grossed 91.25 million dollars against a budget of 11 million.

 

 

Coming in at number seven is one of the most influential films of all time and perhaps even more than Terminator, cemented James Cameron as a person of immense talent.  Aliens grossed $180 million worldwide. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver, winning both Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects. It won eight Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Actress for Weaver and Best Direction and Best Writing for Cameron.  Bill Paxton also was best supporting actor for the Saturn Awards.  Aliens was the film that Cameron was commissioned to direct, at the same time he was editing The Terminator, writing the screenplay for Rambo First Blood Part II.  Cameron wrote Aliens at the same time he wrote Rambo.  

 

 

 

Aliens has a terrific cast that includes Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, Jeanette Goldstein, Lance Henriksen...all who worked with Cameron on numerous occasions.  Paul Reiser rounds out the incredible cast.  

 

 

 Sigourney Weaver had doubts about the project, but after meeting Cameron she expressed interest in revisiting her character. 20th Century Fox, however, refused to sign a contract with Weaver over a payment dispute and asked Cameron to write a story excluding Ripley.  He refused on the grounds that Fox had indicated that Weaver had signed on when he began writing the script. With Cameron's persistence, Fox signed the contract and Weaver obtained a salary of $1 million, a sum 30 times what she was paid for the first film.   Weaver nicknamed her role in the Alien sequel "Rambolina", referring to John Rambo of the Rambo series, and stated that she approached the role as akin to the titular role in Henry V or women warriors in Chinese classical literature.

 

Cameron drew inspiration for the Aliens story from the Vietnam War, a situation in which a technologically superior force was mired in a hostile foreign environment: "Their training and technology are inappropriate for the specifics, and that can be seen as analogous to the inability of superior American firepower to conquer the unseen enemy in Vietnam: a lot of firepower and very little wisdom, and it didn't work."  The attitude of the space marines was influenced by the Vietnam War; they are portrayed as cocky and confident of their inevitable victory, but when they find themselves facing a technologically inferior but more determined enemy, the outcome is not what they expect. Cameron listed Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers as a major influence that led to the incorporation of various themes and phrases, such as the terms "the drop" and "bug hunt", as well as the cargo-loader exoskeleton.

 

 

Aliens was filmed over ten months on a budget of $18 million at Pinewood Studios in England.  Cameron, bound by a low budget and a deadline, found it difficult to adjust to what Paxton called the "really indentured" working practices of the British crew, such as the tea breaks that brought production to a halt. The crew were admirers of Ridley Scott, and many of them believed Cameron was too young and inexperienced to direct, despite Cameron's attempts to show them his previous film, The Terminator, which had not yet been released in the UK. They mocked producer Gale Anne Hurd, insisting that she was only receiving the producer credit because she was married to Cameron. Cameron clashed with the original director of photography, Dick Bush, when Bush started production saying the schedule couldn't be met, and when he insisted on lighting the Alien nest set brightly; Cameron insisted on a dark, foreboding nest, relying on the lights from the Marines' armor. After Bush was fired, the crew walked out. Hurd managed to coax the team back to work and Adrian Biddle was hired as Bush's replacement.

 

Even after all of this drama and strife and tension, Aliens was a masterpiece and in my opinion is not only the best film of 1986 but one of the top ten films ever made.  Cameron has never been better and that is extremely high praise from me as I consider most of his films to be 10/10.

 

Eddie Murphy continued to show his drawing power with The Golden Child which came in at number 8.  It grossed just under 80 million dollars.  

 

Number nine was one of the funniest films every created, Ruthless People.  It took in 71 million.

 

Number ten was the iconic John Hughes film, Ferris Buller's Day Off.  It took in 70 million dollars and is one of the most revered 80's comedies of all time.  As he was writing the film in 1985, John Hughes kept track of his progress in a spiral-bound logbook. He noted that the basic storyline was developed on February 25. It was successfully pitched the following day to Paramount Studios chief Ned Tanen. Tanen was intrigued by the concept, but wary that the Writers Guild of America was hours away from picketing the studio. Hughes wrote the screenplay in less than a week. Editor Paul Hirsch explained that Hughes had a trance-like concentration to his script-writing process, working for hours on end, and would later shoot the film on essentially what was his first draft of the script. "The first cut of Ferris Bueller's Day Off ended up at two hours, 45 minutes. The shortening of the script had to come in the cutting room", said Hirsch.  "Having the story episodic and taking place in one day...meant the characters were wearing the same clothes. I suspect that Hughes writes his scripts with few, if any costume changes just so he can have that kind of freedom in the editing." Hughes intended the movie to be more focused on the characters rather than the plot. "I know how the movie begins, I know how it ends", said Hughes. "I don't ever know the rest, but that doesn't seem to matter. It's not the events that are important, it's the characters going through the event. Therefore, I make them as full and real as I can. This time around, I wanted to create a character who could handle everyone and everything."  

 

 

Ferris Bueller's Day Off was made for less than 6 million.

 

Coming at number twelve is another of my favourite films, Rob Reiner's Stand By Me.  Reiner adapted Stephen King's story, The Body into a touching coming of age story with a terrific cast of young actors.  

In a 2011 interview with NPR, Wil Wheaton attributed the film's success to the director's casting choices:

 

Rob Reiner found four young boys who basically were the characters we played. I was awkward and nerdy and shy and uncomfortable in my own skin and really, really sensitive, and River was cool and really smart and passionate and even at that age kind of like a father figure to some of us, Jerry was one of the funniest people I had ever seen in my life, either before or since, and Corey was unbelievably angry and in an incredible amount of pain and had an absolutely terrible relationship with his parents.

 

Feldman recalled how his home life translated into his onscreen character: "[Most kids aren't] thinking they're going to get hit by their parents because they're not doing well enough in school, which will prevent them from getting a work permit, which will prevent them from being an actor."

 

 

 O'Connell agreed that he was cast based on how his personality fit the role, saying "Rob really wanted us to understand our characters. He interviewed our characters.  I tried to stay like Vern and say the stupid things Vern would. I think I was Vern that summer." Reiner and the producers interviewed more than 70 boys for the four main roles, out of more than 300 who auditioned; Phoenix originally read for the part of Gordie Lachance.

 

Rather than start shooting right away, Reiner put the four main actors together for two weeks to play games from Viola Spolin's Improvisation for the Theater (which Reiner called "the bible" of theater games) and build camaraderie, which led to a real friendship between them and several one-shot takes, where the young actors hit their cues perfectly. Wheaton would recall "When you saw the four of us being comrades, that was real life, not acting."

 

Coming in at number 22 was another John Hughes Classic, Pretty in Pink, which has one of the all time greatest supporting performances of all time.  Jon Cryer played Ducky and one minute you kind of hate him, another you love him and then you are crying with him.  Pretty In Pink also has one of the most recognizable ballads created for the film, OMD's mellifluous If You Leave.  It's really a shame that John Hughes died so young, the man was such a talent.  

 

 

 

This was 1986

[baumer]

I keep saying I'm going to make the write ups shorter, but then every time I get to it, there's just too much to say.  

[Plain Old Tele]

I'm late to this, but ROCKY IV is one of the worst (studio) movies of the 80s.  

[baumer]

3 hours ago, Tele Came Back said:

I'm late to this, but ROCKY IV is one of the worst (studio) movies of the 80s.  

 

You've mentioned that twice now.

 

Looks like we might have to thread ban you.

[Plain Old Tele]

Just now, baumer said:

 

You've mentioned that twice now.

 

Looks like we might have to thread ban you.

 

Dammit, you baited me with your tag! 

 

 

[baumer]

@Tele Came Back....you have been thread banned for 2 minutes....if you are to post here in the next 120 seconds, you could be temporarily banned from the sight for two weeks.  

[vc2002]

1 hour ago, baumer said:

Aliens was filmed over ten months on a budget of $18 million at Pinewood Studios in England.  Cameron, bound by a low budget and a deadline, found it difficult to adjust to what Paxton called the "really indentured" working practices of the British crew, such as the tea breaks that brought production to a halt. The crew were admirers of Ridley Scott, and many of them believed Cameron was too young and inexperienced to direct, despite Cameron's attempts to show them his previous film, The Terminator, which had not yet been released in the UK. They mocked producer Gale Anne Hurd, insisting that she was only receiving the producer credit because she was married to Cameron. Cameron clashed with the original director of photography, Dick Bush, when Bush started production saying the schedule couldn't be met, and when he insisted on lighting the Alien nest set brightly; Cameron insisted on a dark, foreboding nest, relying on the lights from the Marines' armor. After Bush was fired, the crew walked out. Hurd managed to coax the team back to work and Adrian Biddle was hired as Bush's replacement.

 

 

http://www.slashfilm.com/how-james-cameron-put-down-a-mutiny-on-the-set-of-aliens/

 

When he finally wrapped at Pinewood, Cameron stood up again to address them. “This has been a long and difficult shoot, fraught by many problems,” he said. “But the one thing that kept me going, through it all, was the certain knowledge that one day I would drive out the gate of Pinewood and never come back, and that you sorry bastards would still be here.” He never did return.

[That One Girl]

@baumer Since you're a lower ranked mod than Tele and have given him a thread ban, you are hereby thread banned from this thread for a year.  You may not post in this thread until 5/20/18.  In other words, you'll be able to post in here when Han Solo is tracking worse than John Carter on a 400M budget.

[baumer]

I consulted with Shawnmr before thread banning tele. 

[The Stingray]

7 hours ago, Tele Came Back said:

I'm late to this, but ROCKY IV is one of the worst (studio) movies of the 80s.  

 

http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/24003-sunshine-light-and-joy-bring-fun-to-the-forums/

[Walt Disney]

Another interesting thing about Crocodile Dundee is that Paul Hogan financed the film himself through his own company, RimFire Films. For distribution in the U.S., they met with all of the big studios, but felt that Paramount treated them with the most respect, so they agreed to use Paramount as their foreign (U.S.) distributor. Crocodile Dundee is the most successful domestic grossing foreign film ever adjusted for inflation.