Get your '80s fix ... for $3 a pop
Good news for DVD addicts like myself. Just received this important bulletin from Tampa-based Stuck in the '80s correspondent Dominic Casario:
"Steve -- I was in Big Lots today looking for some cheap crap when I came across the DVD bin. Instead of the usual rotten transfers of public domain movies like Night of the Living Dead it was filled with tons of '80s movies for $3! There was a mixture of good and bad (and some very bad) movies, including a few recently mentioned on Stuck in the '80s, including:"
- Bright Lights, Big City
- Red Dawn
- The Flamingo Kid
- The Rachel Papers
- Young Doctors In Love
- Valley Girl
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
- Johnny Be Good
- Beat Street
"And so many more I can't remember the titles. This was at the store on Florida and Bearss in Tampa. I don't know if this deal is available in every Big Lots, but I thought you might want to give the '80s Nation a heads up."
[Anybody up for a road trip to Big Lots today?]
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I remember watching "Desperately Seeking Susan" and thinking, "wow, Madonna is so skanky that I think I can smell her through the screen."
Posted by: Marissa | October 24, 2008 at 10:17 AM
"Desperately Seeking Susan" has been on the pay cable channels a lot lately. I so desperately want to like it, but still fall short each viewing. At least Madonna's not a total loon in it.
Posted by: Spears | October 24, 2008 at 10:14 AM
I've been searching Big Lots for lost of these MGM dvds. I actually picked up Desperately Seeking Susan for $3. I've been wanting it for a while. I can't be for certain, but I think I might have seen Do The Right THing at one Big Lots, but I could've gotten it mixed up with Mo' Money. I'm not sure.
Posted by: Jeff Nichols | October 24, 2008 at 02:37 AM
Huh, a quick search of IMDb revealed that apparently Bad Influence was released in 1990. Well, it's Rob Lowe and James Spader. And it was early 1990. I think it should be grandfathered in as an 80's movie.
Posted by: Kevy Metal | October 23, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Woo! I know where I'm going tomorrow! Thanks for the head's up, Dominic. I've purchased el cheapo DVDs from BIG LOTS in the past, but I haven't been there in a few months. Time to make a pilgrimage.
Posted by: Marissa | October 23, 2008 at 10:23 PM
I went to the Big Lots! down the street from me hoping to find Valley Girl for $3, but to no avail. I did though see some of the 80's titles mentioned by Dominic and a few others:
Bad Influence
Making the Grade
No Man's Land
I eventually walked out of there with a $3.27 copy of Thrashin'.
Posted by: Kevy Metal | October 23, 2008 at 10:17 PM
i know where i'm going saturday.
Posted by: don in tulsa | October 23, 2008 at 08:30 PM
I feel ripped off.
I paid $5 for my Copy of Body Double at wallmart.
Although i did pick up "Cutting Class" on netflix.
Really poor B grade '80s horror flick.
The kicker was a a young, pockmarked, insecure Brad Pitt. Looking at his "performance", who coulda predicted he'd be where he is today?
Posted by: Crockett | October 23, 2008 at 04:30 PM
I'm an extra in Johnny B Good (I was living in San Antonio at the time of filming), but it's so bad that I don't even own a copy! At $3, though, I might be tempted...
Posted by: Mark in East Texas | October 23, 2008 at 01:55 PM
I would not hesitate to pick-up "Young Doctors In Love". I'm not saying it's a great movie, but my friends and I loved that movie when it first was released.
Posted by: Ray | October 23, 2008 at 01:34 PM
Best price I've seen on Valley Girl, is $7.50 at Target.
Posted by: Bassnote | October 23, 2008 at 01:33 PM
I`ve been searching for Valley Girl for a long time here in Lisbon.Can`t find it in stores.That and Sixteen Candles.
Posted by: Miguel | October 23, 2008 at 01:25 PM