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Hello all. Hope all is well. Anyone out there have any memories or comments on the 1983 film, Bad Boys? Not counting all the Prohibition era films, for me Bad Boys was the original gangster film.
Since I now go regularly to Chicago, I've seen some of the location sites. Kind of cool. Unfortunately I emulated some of the actors and lifestyle at a young age ( 12 or 13), but hey, I lived to tell the story.
Anyone else a fan of this movie?
I would consider it more of a jail movie than a gang movie.
jobaba, Hello. I had to look up Dog Pound. It appears to be a Canadian remake of a British film...
Sure, Bad Boys is about 75% filmed in the Correctional System. But they also show the lives of White, lack, and Hispanic "gangsters" and the grittiness of the urban life.
Actually, Chicago looks WAY more scarier in 1983 than in 2020! I've been to the neighborhoods shown in this film, and up until 1990-2000, they WERE some tough looking areas. Today they have changed (for the better)
This was a memorable film, it used a very successful theme for the day, underdogs fighting back against the bully. In Bad Boys, they do it with an exploding boom box and later, Penn takes them all on with a pillow case filled with unopened pop cans, and bashed some skulls.
Many other popular teen films used the same theme in different ways, because it's a winner. Over The Edge, My Bodyguard, Porky's, Christine, The Principal. Porky's had a lot more humor than the others I mentioned, but anchors itself on getting a well justified revenge on Porky at the end.
Bad Boys also had some decent music, if you're into music from that area. To this day, "In the dark" by Billy Squier is a favorite song of mine. It played in the scene when the drug deal gone bad occurs on Cermak near the Marshall Square ( I believe it's called Apollo, now). The Hispanic gets shot and crashes through the window of the barbershop. And last time I drove by, it is still a barbershop located there.
Bad Boys also had some decent music, if you're into music from that area. To this day, "In the dark" by Billy Squier is a favorite song of mine. It played in the scene when the drug deal gone bad occurs on Cermak near the Marshall Square ( I believe it's called Apollo, now). The Hispanic gets shot and crashes through the window of the barbershop. And last time I drove by, it is still a barbershop located there.
Wasn't there also another Billy Squier song? It was a brief scene where Sean Penn is playing a very cheap sounding electric guitar along to the music.
OzzyRules. You got it bro! That song is, "Everybody wants you." The mom asked him to turn down the volume. But he didn't.
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