Watched The Blue Lagoon yesterday, i donīt remember seeing it before. Itīs nice to watch some beach movies when itīs freezing cold winter outside.
This was a pretty entertaining flick directed by Randal Kleiser (Grease) Starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins.
Sometimes the story is a bit silly (like after the shipwreck they lost the others, itīs a daytime, no storm, just some smoke in the air) But i can live with that.
Of course thereīs some nudity in the movie but it was pretty natural, no sleazy stuff here. I just read that Brooke Shields used a body double on some scenes and sometimes her hair was glued to her boobs. You can tell those things easily when you watch the flick.
The short original featurette was a nice bonus.
When did you guys watch The Blue Lagoon the first time and what are your thoughts about it?
[ 23. February 2012, 02:53: Message edited by: aTomiK ]
Posted by P a u l (Member # 1022) on :
Can't watch this as a serious movie since watching Top Secret.....
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Just watched that scene again Paul, hilarious stuff! Such a fantastic movie.
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
Atomik this was the taboo movie I watched as a little girl.....it seemed so sexual to me. Funny huh?
It is very stylish and visually beautiful....The sequel has a young Milla Jovovich right and Brian Krause (from Charmed haha) it's actually not bad......but really the same story right?
Posted by warriorwoman73 (Member # 9316) on :
I read that they wanted Matt Dillon for Christopher Atkins' role but he didn't want to do it because of the nudity. Funny, huh?
In a "20 Years Later - Where are They Now?" feature they did on "The Blue Lagoon" in 1980, Christopher Atkins said that his kids' favorite scene in the movie is when Brooke Shields hits him in the head with a coconut. LOL
Posted by logan5 (Member # 1467) on :
Watched it as a kid (not sure when) on video. Liked it. Brooke was a bit of a childhood crush for me via movies like this and 'Endless Love'.
quote:It is very stylish and visually beautiful....The sequel has a young Milla Jovovich right and Brian Krause (from Charmed haha) it's actually not bad......but really the same story right?
Agreed.
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
i have never seen this version, but i have seen the one with milla jovovich.
speaking of brooke, i saw endless love several years back for the first time and thought it was very weird haha. i remember posting about it here, after i had seen it.
does anyone remember the movie Paradise with phoebe cates & willie aames (who was buddy in charles in charge)? it's an early 80s movie which some considered a blue lagoon rip-off. it also had sexual scenes... and phoebe sang the title theme for the movie. Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I remember Paradise, the Blue Lagoon ripoff. It was set in the desert, and Phoebe got kidnapped by bedouins or desert hobos or something, and they were going to sell her to a sheik before pre-coke-addicted Aames with perm comes to her rescue. That theme song is dreadful, beating even The Gems' theme to Flashpoint as worst 80s movie song. Don't get me wrong. I could watch Phoebe read the yellow pages, but Paradise is howlingly bad. The producers of Blue Lagoon sued for copyright infringement. They shouldn't have bothered. Paradise sank with nary a trace, just memories from those endless late-night showings on Cinemax years ago.
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Paradise is howlingly bad.
it is....as i would assume phoebe is the only reason anyone would pay an ounce of attention to it. i never saw it on cable, but probably on usa's up all night or something like it.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Heck, it was too crummy even for the low standards of USA's Up All Night. If you enjoy le bad cinema, this is a must. :-)
Posted by skatexedge (Member # 5712) on :
I wanted to be stranded on an island with Brooke after seeing this movie. We snuck in cause they wouldn't sell us tickets...me and my friends were 14! LOL
Paradise was stupid but it had Phoebe Cates....end of story! =)
Posted by P a u l (Member # 1022) on :
quote:Originally posted by skatexedge: Paradise was stupid but it had Phoebe Cates....end of story! =)
This....
I've not seen it, but no matter how bad it is, the cover art alone makes me want to give it a go...
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I also own Paradise on dvd. Iīm going to watch it right after Return to the Blue Lagoon.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
That pretty much sums it up, skatexedge--"stupid but it had Phoebe Cates." Actually, it had an occassionally naked Phoebe Cates. I can fast forward through it because life doesn't really get much better than that. :-)
Posted by Bamersy (Member # 8808) on :
Blue Lagoon was pretty, but don't need to see it again. My only memory of Paradise is seeing a "willy" while swimming
I would like to see the sequel-I think it was Milla's first movie after having mostly a modeling career. Huge Resident Evil fan!
Posted by logan5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Huge Resident Evil fan!
Even 3, where they airbrushed Milla's face?
Posted by Bamersy (Member # 8808) on :
I like/have 1, 2 & 3-have not seen the latest though.
Posted by logan5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bamersy: I like/have 1, 2 & 3-have not seen the latest though.
I found them to be diminishing in plot quality throughout the series. The third had Milla's face digitally 'fixed' throughout and it looked really odd to me.
Posted by Bamersy (Member # 8808) on :
The first one was incredibly good-and much better then I think anyone expected. Knowing friends and family who played the game/s, and helping with the collecting/puzzles-I was very familiar with the characters/story/monsters.
The second one was great-waking up in a hospital to total zombie destruction and desolation-very cool. Alice as a total badass, the Nemesis (formerly Matt) and Carlos (Oded Fehr from The Mummy).
The third was good and very watchable, but not my favorite. Liked the Alice clones idea and the ending which made for some interesting sequel possibilities.
I wish I had tried harder to see the most recent one in the theater-on a big screen.
Posted by logan5 (Member # 1467) on :
I was also familiar with the games, and found the first movie to be a good adaptation. This was before we became inundated with Zombie movies.
I think my issue with the series is how 'invincible' Alice seems to be throughout. I can't invest in her as much because I know she'll be fine, so I invest in the surrounding characters. In 3 there wasn't much to care about at all. Still... I have some hope for 4 being entertaining. I don't even know if it got good reviews or not.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Paradise would be worth a watch if I got to see some full frontal nudity from Phoebe. She is hot. Have not seen this though, but I remember seeing her topless in Fast Times. Oohhh good old days.
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