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June 29, 2009

Computer Beach Party Looks Computer Beach Great!

Video Home Systems Dot Com has cut together this highlight reel from a forgotten '80s sex comedy called Computer Beach Party. Is this real life? AHHHHHHH.

Michael Bay's robo-farts break box office records and this movie falls into the dustbin of history? I'm sorry, but I find it far more believable that the head of NASA can be found in the stacks of the local public library than everything about John Turturro's character in the Transformers franchise. This movie just has heart! I wonder if that nerd ever gets the "beautiful" girl a glass of water! I wonder what happens to that mean man's highly esteemed personal wealth! Keyboard in the glove compartment! Enhance! Enhance! Beach party!

According to VHS.blog, you can still buy used copies of this movie for $5 on Amazon. Which I guess is fine if you live in a cave! In 1996! You're telling me that Hamburger America: a Film by George Motz is available on DVD, but I've got to build a time machine and (KILL HITLER, and then) go back to the Age of VHS to watch Computer Beach Party? Between this and the lack of a Chopping Mall DVD, I am beginning to think that there is a conspiracy against putting movies I want to enjoy semi-ironically on DVD! A conspiracy!

Hey look, the chicken car!

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I am the Earl of Sandwich!

Posted by: Godsauce profile link at 06/29/09 3:51 PM  | Reply
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at :33 it looks like your best friend snuck on camera to mouth the name of the movie for a goof. Except I'm sure that dudes the star and they did 20 takes of this to get it just right. Beach Partay!

Posted by: Ben (waiting for the perfect GIF) profile link at 06/29/09 3:52 PM  | Reply
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banjos are so 80's.

Posted by: Boris Grushenko profile link at 06/29/09 4:00 PM  | Reply
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"lets get on down to nasa guy and find out about those gold coins"
they could make a five movie series on this line and then four years after the last movie come out with a prequel and it still wouldn't be enough

Posted by: jac at 06/29/09 4:01 PM  | Reply
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm starting to get the impression that you'd like to build a time machine and KILL HITLER.

Posted by: MsQuinn profile link at 06/29/09 4:19 PM  | Reply
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but would he kill the Baby Hitler?

Posted by: practicallyinformation profile link  in reply to  MsQuinn's comment at 06/29/09 8:42 PM  | Reply
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Bro - you can download this, that, or any obscure 80's/90's gem you can imagine here:

http://cinemageddon.org/

Check it out.

Posted by: nightheat profile link at 06/29/09 4:31 PM  | Reply
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So I actually have a copy of Chopping Mall (or Killbots, if you chose) on DVD. It's legit too and not some shitty VHS transfer. Maybe you could come over and we could have a cheese-tastic viewing party. A double feature with Night of the Comet or Saturday the 14th, perhaps?

Posted by: MediaGay profile link at 06/29/09 4:32 PM  | Reply
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Night of the Comet totally bums me out all 80s style, except for the scene in the mall. That gang of mall workers is bananas.

Posted by: jacob666 profile link  in reply to  MediaGay's comment at 06/29/09 7:53 PM  | Reply
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Hey, I'm in the space business, too! That astronaut is right. And absolutely not a homeless man hoping to use the free bathroom.

Posted by: Trevor at 06/29/09 5:01 PM  | Reply
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Oh god, is that my dad?

Posted by: TalbainJ2: TalbainJ Harder profile link at 06/29/09 5:29 PM  | Reply
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Well! It's no Bikini Island, that's for sure!

Posted by: Nina at 06/29/09 6:46 PM  | Reply
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Whuddya mean Chopping Mall isn't on DVD? http://www.amazon.com/Chopping-Mall-Angela-Aames/dp/B0002DB5PO

Posted by: NunesMagician at 06/29/09 6:46 PM  | Reply
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It's on Netflix, too.

Park Plaza Mall is slashing prices...and its customers!

Posted by: apesofmath profile link  in reply to  NunesMagician's comment at 06/29/09 11:14 PM  | Reply
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OMG. I can remember seeing the video of Chopping Mall in my local shop as a kid. For some reason the image of the bag and the tag line of "Where shopping costs you an arm and a leg" have been stuck in my mind since then! I even tried to track it down a few years ago for old times sake, but didn't get anywhere. Thanks! Now I can actually watch it.... Although it will probably be a huge let down like Childsplay was when I eventually saw it....

Posted by: Megsmaw06 at 06/29/09 7:38 PM  | Reply
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"C'mon c'mon,
It's time to party,
Hot Pockets,
Beach Party!"

Posted by: blucheez at 06/29/09 8:37 PM  | Reply
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Hey look, the Chicken Car!

Posted by: moonmaster profile link at 06/30/09 1:30 AM  | Reply
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"And there you are, in the chariot... down, the beach... sand flying everywhere... YEAH!! YEAH!!!!" turned me on.

Posted by: Ugah profile link at 06/30/09 9:40 AM  | Reply
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This was the last project listed on imdb for Gary Troy (writer, director and editor of Computer Beach Party). A true swan song.

Posted by: leeuh profile link at 06/30/09 2:20 PM  | Reply
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That NASA guy is such a fake. Does the plot have something to do with how he broke out of prison and sewed space patches to his clothes? If not, it was my idea. I want royalties.

Posted by: Niamh profile link at 06/30/09 3:00 PM  | Reply
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I thought that comment from Niamh was the funniest thing I ever heardin my life. Sounds like she could be the love of my life. What's even funnier is that I wrote and performed the music for Computer Beach Party I also was the guitar player in the beach party scenes

Posted by: roger profile link at 07/12/09 2:50 AM  | Reply
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I thought that comment from Niamh was the funniest thing I ever heardin my life. Sounds like she could be the love of my life. What's even funnier is that I wrote and performed the music for Computer Beach Party I also was the guitar player in the beach party scenes

Posted by: roger profile link at 07/12/09 2:50 AM  | Reply
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I thought that comment from Niamh was the funniest thing I ever heardin my life. Sounds like she could be the love of my life. What's even funnier is that I wrote and performed the music for Computer Beach Party I also was the guitar player in the beach party scenes

Posted by: roger profile link at 07/12/09 2:50 AM  | Reply
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I thought that comment from Niamh was the funniest thing I ever heardin my life. Sounds like she could be the love of my life. What's even funnier is that I wrote and performed the music for Computer Beach Party I also was the guitar player in the beach party scenes

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