1985

Movies, TV and Music

Back to the Future with Michael J. Fox was just a great movie, how could I not like teenager traveling in time in a DeLorean sports car and the paradoxes of time travel.  I enjoyed The Breakfast Club with Molly Ringwald my favorite character of the club.  For a movie with a bunch of old people, Cocoon was fun and made one think about what if you could rejuvenate your body but at the expense of an Alien life.  The Goonies was just a all around fun and comical movie about kids finding a lost pirate treasure.  I still like to watch it when it comes on TV.  The Jewel of the Nile takes up the story of Joan Wilder and Jack from Romancing the Stone. I really like a good adventure-love story.  Out of Africa with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford was just a beautiful movie and won and Oscar for Best Picture.  I thought Weird Science was great in which two nerdy boys in high school are inspired by the movie Frankenstein to use their computer create their perfect dream woman which comes to life with magical powers.  As much as I tried, I was never able to duplicate the experiment with my home computer. The post-apocalyptic movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with Mel Gibson and Tina Turner gave us a vision of what we hope the world will not become but with global warming we seem to be headed in the direction portrayed by the movie. Of course, I had to go see the fourteenth James Bond movie A View to a Kill with Roger Moore again playing Bond. Grace Jones was spectacular playing the Bond Girl May Day who, at first is an adversary, dies saving Bond.

Music

Music There wasn’t much new music from ’85 that I liked well enough to buy their albums. Julie liked REO Speedwagon whos "Can't Fight This Feeling" was popular. The James Bond theme song "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran was played a lot since the movie with the same name was out.  I liked Pat Benatar’s "We Belong" and would later buy a couple of her albums. I really liked "Smooth Operator" by Sade in would later buy some of her albums. 

TV

The Cosby Show was the number one TV show which I liked it well enough and would often watch it but not on a regular basis.  I watched pretty regularly the murder mystery show Murder, She Wrote. I liked Cheers about regulars at a bar in Boston but didn’t always watch it when it first came out.  Several years later I regularly watched all the reruns, often several times. 

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