Three O'Clock High... FINALLY!
06-24-03 | 08:47 AM
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Three O'Clock High... FINALLY!
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I can't wait to finally pick up Three O'Clock High. 
Rob
Grab your acid-washed jeans and throw on your Frankie Goes to Hollywood T-shirt, because Universal Home Video is taking you on a trip back to the glorious years of John Hughes-dominated cinema. Finally due on September 2nd (already a monster of a release day) are new reissues of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science. The discs all come with new anamorphic widescreen transfers, DD 5.1 and DTS audio tracks, and extras yet to be announced. The three titles will also be available bundled together in a 3 Movie Brat Pack set. Also due on the same day is the cult hit Three O'Clock High. This disc arrives with an anamorphic transfer and DD 2.0 Surround audio. Retail is $19.98 apiece, $39.98 for the box set.
Rob
06-24-03 | 10:01 AM
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JUST saw this on DavisDVD as well. Unbelievable. Great great GREAT news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
06-24-03 | 01:14 PM
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"What were you going to do with the blade, Jerry?"
"Pain is temporary; Film is forever."
"Whoever did this should be plucked out of society like a burgeoning cancerous growth deep inside the colon."
I LOVE THIS FILM! I can't wait to get it. I bet Universal will just dump this out without any extras. A Phil Joanou/Barry Sonnenfeld commentary track would be cool. I guess if anyone wants to see a pseudo-mockumentary about how Joanou got his first break, they should watch "The Big Picture."
"Pain is temporary; Film is forever."
"Whoever did this should be plucked out of society like a burgeoning cancerous growth deep inside the colon."
I LOVE THIS FILM! I can't wait to get it. I bet Universal will just dump this out without any extras. A Phil Joanou/Barry Sonnenfeld commentary track would be cool. I guess if anyone wants to see a pseudo-mockumentary about how Joanou got his first break, they should watch "The Big Picture."
06-24-03 | 04:37 PM
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Oh, hell yes!!!!!! Three O'Clock High was on continuous loop at the video store I worked at back in the 80's. Love this film. I will definitely pick up all 4 DVDs on that day.
06-25-03 | 08:07 PM
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Also, Roger Eberts Review from 1987!
By Roger Ebert
At the time, I was never interested in getting into a fight with the toughest kid in high school. And now that I'm not in high school, I am even less interested in seeing a movie on the subject, particularly a bad one.
My strategy always was to outthink my enemies, to evade a bloody confrontation at all costs. One of the dreariest moments in "Three O'Clock High" comes when the puny hero not only does fight the vicious bully, but also actually uses brass knuckles to knock him out. Is this a warning sign of a national loss of innocence?
Hollywood teenage movies have been edging toward fascism for years. There once may have been a time when nice kids got ahead by being nice, but in today's Hollywood, muscle and brute strength count for everything.
If there is a pathological bully in the student body, no attempt is made to understand him, sympathize with him or encourage the audience in the difficult process of empathy.
It's too tough on today's teenage moviegoers, I guess, to ask them to hold two ideas in their mind at once: that a kid could be a bully and that he could also have some big problems and be in need of understanding.
"Three O'Clock High" opens with the hero (Casey Siemaszko) learning that the toughest kid in the world (Richard Tyson) is enrolling in his high school. From the stories we hear, this isn't a teenager, he's the Terminator. He broke a kid's neck. He beat up a coach. He has been thrown out of every school in town. And he doesn't like to be touched, so of course, Casey inadvertendly touches him, and the tough kid announces that at 3 o'clock they are going to have a fight.
Siemaszko has six hours. There are a million ways to get out of a fight, but not in the Hollywood of Rambo. Even a dumb teen movie such as this has to end with one of those fist fights where every blow sounds like the special effects guys are whacking bicycle seats with Ping-Pong paddles. Is that all life is? The vicious define the terms? They say we will fight them, and so we have to? And we win because someone slips us some brass knuckles so we can coldcock the guy? Come on.
The plot of this movie is pretty stupid, but that's because the filmmakers counted on the impending fight scene, I guess, to maintain suspense. There's nonsense about the hero robbing the student store in order to hire another tough kid to protect him. More nonsense about a sex-mad teacher who is turned on by the hero's book report. And a particularly distasteful scene at a pep rally, where cheerleaders use baseball bats to tear apart the other school's stuffed mascot.
The most interesting character is the bully. In a 1980 movie named "My Bodyguard," a character like this was turned into the hero's best friend because both kids learned to communicate. This time, not a chance.
I've been thinking a lot lately about a statement made by Adrian Lyne, the director of "Fatal Attraction." Defending his movie's inappropriate slice-and-dice ending, Lyne said he wasn't making a "French movie." By that I guess he meant that despite its many good qualities, "Fatal Attraction" wasn't intended to have a grown-up sensibility.
Why is it that the mass American movie audience isn't mature enough for movies made by and for adults? Could it be because Americans start out by looking at movies like "Three O'Clock High"?
By Roger Ebert
At the time, I was never interested in getting into a fight with the toughest kid in high school. And now that I'm not in high school, I am even less interested in seeing a movie on the subject, particularly a bad one.
My strategy always was to outthink my enemies, to evade a bloody confrontation at all costs. One of the dreariest moments in "Three O'Clock High" comes when the puny hero not only does fight the vicious bully, but also actually uses brass knuckles to knock him out. Is this a warning sign of a national loss of innocence?
Hollywood teenage movies have been edging toward fascism for years. There once may have been a time when nice kids got ahead by being nice, but in today's Hollywood, muscle and brute strength count for everything.
If there is a pathological bully in the student body, no attempt is made to understand him, sympathize with him or encourage the audience in the difficult process of empathy.
It's too tough on today's teenage moviegoers, I guess, to ask them to hold two ideas in their mind at once: that a kid could be a bully and that he could also have some big problems and be in need of understanding.
"Three O'Clock High" opens with the hero (Casey Siemaszko) learning that the toughest kid in the world (Richard Tyson) is enrolling in his high school. From the stories we hear, this isn't a teenager, he's the Terminator. He broke a kid's neck. He beat up a coach. He has been thrown out of every school in town. And he doesn't like to be touched, so of course, Casey inadvertendly touches him, and the tough kid announces that at 3 o'clock they are going to have a fight.
Siemaszko has six hours. There are a million ways to get out of a fight, but not in the Hollywood of Rambo. Even a dumb teen movie such as this has to end with one of those fist fights where every blow sounds like the special effects guys are whacking bicycle seats with Ping-Pong paddles. Is that all life is? The vicious define the terms? They say we will fight them, and so we have to? And we win because someone slips us some brass knuckles so we can coldcock the guy? Come on.
The plot of this movie is pretty stupid, but that's because the filmmakers counted on the impending fight scene, I guess, to maintain suspense. There's nonsense about the hero robbing the student store in order to hire another tough kid to protect him. More nonsense about a sex-mad teacher who is turned on by the hero's book report. And a particularly distasteful scene at a pep rally, where cheerleaders use baseball bats to tear apart the other school's stuffed mascot.
The most interesting character is the bully. In a 1980 movie named "My Bodyguard," a character like this was turned into the hero's best friend because both kids learned to communicate. This time, not a chance.
I've been thinking a lot lately about a statement made by Adrian Lyne, the director of "Fatal Attraction." Defending his movie's inappropriate slice-and-dice ending, Lyne said he wasn't making a "French movie." By that I guess he meant that despite its many good qualities, "Fatal Attraction" wasn't intended to have a grown-up sensibility.
Why is it that the mass American movie audience isn't mature enough for movies made by and for adults? Could it be because Americans start out by looking at movies like "Three O'Clock High"?