The Importance of Rewatchability
For a year span in the 80’s, the date of June 8th was pretty impressive for movie releases. In 1983, Trading Places came out. Then a year later, Ghostbusters and Gremlins were released. That’s three classics for June 8th. Trading Places was a very smart, very funny movie about nature vs. nurture and how much opportunity has to do with success. And it also starred Jamie Lee Curtis, and more specifically her bare breasts, which when viewing the movie as a horny adolescent boy, was pretty monumental stuff. Eddie and Dan brought their A-Games and audiences were rewarded. Aykroyd wasn’t done--the next year he was in Ghostbusters , which if you don’t think is a classic movie then you probably poke puppies with sticks. Speaking of puppies, mogwais kind of looked like strange, cute puppies and Gizmo the mogwai was the star of another classic that came out on the same day as Ghostbusters--Gremlins. That’s three must-see movies on June 8th in a year. You've got humor, socio-economic expe...