Got 5 minutes? Here are your 5 movies

Lately, I find myself staying awake to all hours of the night to catch the first five minutes of the movie Caddyshack 2. (Pause for you to scream out in disgust and disapproval.)

The reason why just the first five minutes? Because Jackie Mason doesn't appear yet and because you get to hear the epic (and highly underappreciated) theme song by Kenny Loggins -- "Nobody's Fool."

Song ends, I flip the channel and continue my search for a better movie. Or at least one in which Dan Aykroyd doesn't talk in a strange pinched voice and wear camouflage. (Oddly enough, it's not an easy quest.)

Which 80s movies are worth turning on for just the first 5 minutes? Great question. And what do you know, I actually have a list.

FIVE MOVIES TO WATCH ONLY FOR THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES:

5. Club Paradise (1986): Robin Williams has an icicle hanging out of his noise, nearly dies in a fall from a high-rise and then suddenly is living large in the Caribbean. All in the first five minutes. The rest of the movie? A few good Peter O'Toole lines and little else.

4. A View To A Kill (1985): The worst James Bond movie of the entire franchise. But stay tuned just long enough for Duran Duran's title song. Then go hunt for "The Spy Who Loved Me" on a different channel.

3. The Jazz Singer (1980): Basically a music video (before such things really existed) for Neil Diamond's song "America," set in New York City. After that, you're forced to watch him actually act.

2. Caddyshack 2 (1988): Tune into next week's Stuck in the 80s podcast -- our interview with Kenny Loggins -- in which he actually sings a line or two of the theme song for us. No kidding.

1. Purple Rain (1984): You can figure out the entire plot of the movie from the moment Prince says "Dearly beloved..." to his final "Crazy!" on "Let's Go Crazy." But skip the rest of the movie and you miss the legendary Morris Day, who deserves to make enough royalties from this movie to never work another day in his life.

Comments

[GlennS.]

How about the first five or so minutes of Raising Arizona? I love how the directing, editing, music, and performances all come together to give it a rhythm that is different from (yet very much in tune with) the movie that follows. When the title finally appears on the screen, you say to yourself, "Wow, this thing is just getting started." But that first section is a movie all it's own.

[Chase]

Yay! You're back with the podcasts, got a long run coming up tomorrow, wear warm socks, there's still snow on the trail and y'all are coming along!

And HEY! Club Paradise is a GREAT Movie all the way through , "See those two girls over there? They said you weren't fit to sleep with pigs. I defended you."

"What'd you say?"

"I said you were."

C'mon, funny stuff.

Another great 80s movie, along a similar theme of Club Paradise is Water. Great flick.