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04-07-2005, 08:21 AM
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OK, this was prompted because of last nights hilarious South Park episode of the boys playing on a little league team. The episode was using the song "You're the Best Around" from Karate Kid and Rocky's "Eye of the Tiger" to accompany the action montages. So my question is this, name your favorite cheesy 80's movie action montage music. Ya know, every time the protagonist is either "on a roll" or gearing up for action, a cheesy tough or positive song is played.
Jonathon
\"I\'m going to punch you in the ovary\"
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04-07-2005, 09:21 AM
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Bad To The Bone was used quite a bit after John Carpenter used it in Christine
Holding Out for a Hero - Bonnie Tyler
When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going - Billy Ocean
Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
I Can't Drive 55 - Sammy Hagar
Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder
Many many more.
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04-07-2005, 11:27 AM
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Quote:
Holding Out for a Hero - Bonnie Tyler
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Wow... just one response and we already have a winner!
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04-07-2005, 11:58 AM
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I think about 75 percent of the running time of Rocky IV is cheesy montage set to music. The rest is maybe 20 percent boxing and 5 percent of people actually talking to each other  |
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04-07-2005, 12:15 PM
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I only heard about this episode, didn't see it, but didn't South Park do an episode once where they used "Take it to the Limit" for a Scarface-style top-of-the-world montage?
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04-07-2005, 12:41 PM
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Best crappy 80's action montage music...
I don't know what will win, but I think Johnny 5 from the Short Circuit movies will be involved somehow.
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04-07-2005, 12:56 PM
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Tina Turner's "Beyond the Thunderdome" as an action-film crap moment is up there.
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04-07-2005, 01:13 PM
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I can't believe no one's mentioned this yet. How about the ultra-meta song called "Montage" from the Team America CD? Complete with cheesy 80s synth and lyrics explaining the cliches of a montage.
Danny Federici, we'll meet you in the land of hope and dreams
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04-07-2005, 01:32 PM
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"Brave Heart" from Ernest Goes To Camp (obviously an inspiration for Mel Gibson's later Oscar-winner)
Real Genius
The Wizard ("I Live By The Groove")
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04-07-2005, 01:55 PM
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The Breakfast Club
Beverly Hills Cop
Howard the Duck
Revenge of the Nerds
Breakin'
Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon
Basically any youth-market movie from 1983 - 1986 is suspect. I think there was a DeBarge number in Amadeus, a Thompson Twins number in The Right Stuff and a Bananarama number in The Killing Fields, but all were cut from release prints due to protests from Amnesty Intl.
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04-07-2005, 02:54 PM
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Definitely Push It To The Limit from Scarface.
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04-07-2005, 02:56 PM
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Ah, OK, I'd mis-remembered the title as "Take It to the Limit." Not a re-make of the Eagles song, to be sure.
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