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A question for the purists: Where do your Hitchhiker’s Guide loyalties lie? The BBC Radio format, the stage shows, the books, the tv series, the computer game, the three-part comic book adaptations, or the movie?
No actor better exemplifies the sarcastic, lazy, too-cool-for-school 80’s protagonist than Bill Murray. Without Stripe’s John Winger, there would be no Volunteers, no Spies Like Us, and certainly no Private Benjamin. And comfortably sandwiched between classic roles in Caddyshack and Ghostbusters, Stripes is the apex of Murray’s extra-swaggery youthful rise to stardom, from which he gracefully descends into more serious, introspective films of the nineties, such as Groundhog Day.
The final drill when they erm, graduate(?) bootcamp makes us stand up and cheer. If this isn’t in your Netflix Cue, it really should be.
What adolescent boy didn’t see cartoons in a whole new light after watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit? All kinds of male misconceptions and fetishes can probably be attributed to this movie. “I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.”
Whiskey, booze, babes, and murder… It’s a shame Disney doesn’t let more movies like this slip out the door anymore. These days everything has to be sanitized and clean so it doesn’t corrupt the children, which is why modern-day adolescents skip the Disney flicks and go right to the internet.