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Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 08-22-2011, 08:53 AM:

Pump Up The Volume (1990)

And...
Night Of The Creeps (1986)
G.I. Jane (1997)
The House Bunny (2008)

Please share your memories of seeing or working with any of these films.

Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 08-22-2011, 01:06 PM:

Not much to say about any of these the past few days...end of August/early September are not the great times for memorable movies.

Anyway, PUMP UP THE VOLUME is one of Christian Slater's best performances, looking like a young Jack Nicholson. I really did like that Leonard Cohen song at the beginning.

Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 08-22-2011, 02:26 PM:

We were so hoping for the young hip crowd when we showed Pump Up The Volume, tanked miserably. A fun movie in the suburban white kids revolution genre. Yes, the version of Everybody Knows clicked.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-22-2011, 03:02 PM:

The poster artwork for Pump up the Volume drives me nuts over the way the lettering is treated -nearly all of it is intentionally distorted out of normal proportions. This kind of type abuse (what I sometimes call "font murder") was pretty common in the late 1980s and early 1990s when graphics applications like Adobe Illustrator, Aldus Freehand and CorelDRAW were new. It took a few years for professional graphics people to realize that although the vector graphics application tools would allow them to distort type in all sorts of funky, screwed up ways it was probably still best to keep the type in its normal, native proportions. These days it's pretty rare to see distorted type in any national ads or major publications. The practice has been reduced to the amateur oriented Microsoft Publisher crowd, not to mention badly designed signs where the hack -ahem, "designer" quickly picks Arial Bold and scales it to fit any space.