Biloxi Blues/Johnny Be Good/A New Life/The Milagro Beanfield War/Dominick and Eugene

A comedy with some heart and a good message but gets hung up on frivolities

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Uma Thurman, Robert Downey Jr., and Anthony Michael Hall in Johnny Be Good (1988)

Dear Lord, we pray that we may win this game today. We ask that you give us the strength and the courage to win our 2nd straight state championship. We ask Lord that nobody on our side is seriously injured. We know that we are the best team. We ask that you allow us to win this game. The Lord wants you to put your foot on their balls and believe in it, because that's what wins football games. Not jumping offsides like a bunch of wimps and faggots. Alright lift your heads boys, prayers over. I talked to God. I'm thru talking to God, now I'm talking to you. You're gonna be out there in front of your families, the student body, every girl you ever had a hard on for is gonna be out there today but you will not be going to no sock-hop tonight boys, you will not get no honey on your stinger if you don't go out there and bust your ass. Because this is it. This is the big one. I want you to taste it. I want you to smell it son. There's winners and there's nothing else. I don't give a shit what those pinkos over in Russia say. You want to be a loser you go live in Russia. I'm not a loser. I'm a winner. I'm an American. Who wants to be John Wayne? Who wants to grab a root and hang on? Who wants to get a mean on? Get a mean on son. Let me see you get a mean on son. Now who wants it? I want to know, who wants this? Who wants to get a mean on? Who wants it? Let's go!

Robert Downey Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall in Johnny Be Good (1988)

Anthony Michael Hall in Johnny Be Good (1988)

Robert Downey Jr. and Paul Gleason in Johnny Be Good (1988)

Anthony Michael Hall and Jim McMahon in Johnny Be Good (1988)

Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Michael Hall, and Peter Koch in Johnny Be Good (1988)

Robert Downey Jr. in Johnny Be Good (1988)

Uma Thurman and Anthony Michael Hall in Johnny Be Good (1988)

Anthony Michael Hall

Robert Downey Jr.

Paul Gleason

Steve Zacharias

Jeff Buhai

David Obst

Johnny&apos;s the top high-school football player and many colleges want him. His girlfriend, coach and best friend want him in the college, serving themselves most.

Bud S. Smith

Johnny Be Good

Just Awful

Honestly, this is probably one of the worst movies I&apos;ve ever seen. It&apos;s certainly one of the least-competently made studio releases ever. There are entire scenes in this movie in which the sound is so poorly handled that you can barely hear what characters are saying. This isn&apos;t helped by Anthony Michael Hall&apos;s decision to mumble all of his lines. He seemed very unenthusiastic about this role--like he could barely work up the energy even to say the words.

There is a scene in the film in which Hall&apos;s character and some friends have an impromptu football game on his girlfriend&apos;s front lawn, against her father (who hates Hall for some reason that is never explained) and some other boobs, that is so badly edited that you simply cannot tell what is happening. Characters come in and out of that scene without rhyme or reason--continuity errors abound. There are also many scenes in which weird dialog was looped in during post-production to bridge awkward narrative gaps. This is a sure sign that the director didn&apos;t really know what he was doing, and just failed to capture footage that made sense on its own.

Also, Robert Downey, Jr. is unbelievably obnoxious in this movie. I mean really disgusting.

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Honestly, this is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It's certainly one of the least-competently made studio releases ever. There are entire scenes in this movie in which the sound is so poorly handled that you can barely hear what characters are saying. This isn't helped by Anthony Michael Hall's decision to mumble all of his lines. He seemed very unenthusiastic about this role--like he could barely work up the energy even to say the words.

There is a scene in the film in which Hall's character and some friends have an impromptu football game on his girlfriend's front lawn, against her father (who hates Hall for some reason that is never explained) and some other boobs, that is so badly edited that you simply cannot tell what is happening. Characters come in and out of that scene without rhyme or reason--continuity errors abound. There are also many scenes in which weird dialog was looped in during post-production to bridge awkward narrative gaps. This is a sure sign that the director didn't really know what he was doing, and just failed to capture footage that made sense on its own.

Also, Robert Downey, Jr. is unbelievably obnoxious in this movie. I mean really disgusting.

Johnny's the top high-school football player and many colleges want him. His girlfriend, coach and best friend want him in the college, serving themselves most.

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