This category started for me back in college after a Halloween party. We all woke up completely hungover, half in our costumes and could barely think. Somehow the tv got turned on and Footloose had just begun. No one had bothered to change the channel. All we could do was lay there and laugh and make comments about the 80’s ridiculousness on the screen. Over the next couple of years, on hungover Sundays, a few other movies happen to be on tv or were intentionally put on because there was nothing else to do. Below are five movies that have helped me during a hangover on a Sunday.
(You’ll notice one common theme. None of them are extremely high-rated. These aren’t Oscar-worthy movies. Just thoroughly entertaining when you are too weak and dehydrated to stand.)
Footloose (58%) This is the one that started it all. Classic fish-out-of-water story. The premise alone is fantastic: trying to bring dancing back to a danceless community. It’s got everything, 80’s music, multiple fist fights, anger-dancing, one-liners while dropkicking the villain, two little kids randomly punching each other.
Point Break (67%) - Mindless action in a sunny location. Surfing, guns, chases, “speak into the microphone squid brain”, parachuting fighting. I like it because its two guys trying to out-do each other at crazier stunts. BTW Keanu wins when he jumps out of the plane with no parachute….until…Bodhi rides the ultimate wave and goes out on his own terms.
Roadhouse (42%) Oh boy, where to begin. “You’re my Saturday night thing”? Tough-guy philosopher? Nah, it has to be when Swayze rips the guys throat out by the river…and then the 25 interspersed bar fights.
Rocky 4 (n/a) Not sure why this doesn’t have a rating. But I guess it should be in the high 100’s. Great soundtrack, even though the songs are only known because they were in this movie. Stallone knows how to hype up a villain and then chop him down. And it subtly addresses some steroid use – which I never caught onto as a kid. And there are four montage sequences. It’s amazing. The actually movie is only like 20 minutes long without them.
Office Space (79%) This is mostly in here because it makes me feel better about going to work on Monday. I usually get deep Sunday night blues but when I watch this I realize we’re all in it together. But not caring about your job is one of the great freedoms of the world.
(You’ll notice one common theme. None of them are extremely high-rated. These aren’t Oscar-worthy movies. Just thoroughly entertaining when you are too weak and dehydrated to stand.)
Footloose (58%) This is the one that started it all. Classic fish-out-of-water story. The premise alone is fantastic: trying to bring dancing back to a danceless community. It’s got everything, 80’s music, multiple fist fights, anger-dancing, one-liners while dropkicking the villain, two little kids randomly punching each other.
Point Break (67%) - Mindless action in a sunny location. Surfing, guns, chases, “speak into the microphone squid brain”, parachuting fighting. I like it because its two guys trying to out-do each other at crazier stunts. BTW Keanu wins when he jumps out of the plane with no parachute….until…Bodhi rides the ultimate wave and goes out on his own terms.
Roadhouse (42%) Oh boy, where to begin. “You’re my Saturday night thing”? Tough-guy philosopher? Nah, it has to be when Swayze rips the guys throat out by the river…and then the 25 interspersed bar fights.
Rocky 4 (n/a) Not sure why this doesn’t have a rating. But I guess it should be in the high 100’s. Great soundtrack, even though the songs are only known because they were in this movie. Stallone knows how to hype up a villain and then chop him down. And it subtly addresses some steroid use – which I never caught onto as a kid. And there are four montage sequences. It’s amazing. The actually movie is only like 20 minutes long without them.
Office Space (79%) This is mostly in here because it makes me feel better about going to work on Monday. I usually get deep Sunday night blues but when I watch this I realize we’re all in it together. But not caring about your job is one of the great freedoms of the world.
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