Monster Squad is on Netflix

[Iron Mego]

I know there's some fans here, so just wanted to put the word out.

[Iron Mego]

So is Master's of the Universe.

[Boy_Wonder_1978]

Only saw Monster Squad once as a youngster, but absolutely loved it. By the time I got round to buying it on blu-ray the price had gone up something crazy. Don't have Netflix myself (cancelled it. No one was using it), but can't see us getting it on the inferior UK offering.

[rchatlin]

It's getting some love and original art in the LA area

http://creaturefeatures.com

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[PNGwynne]

Love this film. It's amazing how frequently, when discussing this film with fans, someone says,"Wolfman's got nards." Not as oft-quoted as Young Frankenstein perhaps, but still memorable.

[Iron Mego]

I'd never watched it before, so I streamed it the day I posted this. I can see why it's a fave of that generation, but man, the writing is so cheesy I had a hard time sticking with it. The dialogue wasn't genuine, say like Goonies, and sounded like what a 45 year old man thinks a 12 years old would say. But I get the charm of it I guess.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^ I was 12 when this movie came out, and my friends and I REALLY talked like that...including saying some things that would get us in some serious trouble nowadays. The Goonies were far nicer and more sanitized than us.

But to each his own. I love it, and it's a staple for me and the boy at Halloween time. We talked about it on Super Mates last year.

http://supermatescomic.blogspot.com/2014/10/super-mates-episode-17-monster-squad.html

Chris

[Hedji]

Shouldn't the line have been "Wolf Man's got 'Nads"? As in short for gonads? That line, though beloved, always bugged me.

For me, this movie is a near miss. The kids aren't as endearing as the Goonies, and it doesn't quite know who its audience is. Some of it is juvenile, yet some of the language, like Dracula cursing at the little girl, is surprisingly nasty.

[cjefferys]

Hmmm, I might have to watch this with my kids this weekend.

Don't have Netflix myself (cancelled it. No one was using it), but can't see us getting it on the inferior UK offering.

Luckily there are ways around that, I can choose what country's version of Netflix I want to watch. Some countries have some great shows or movies on Netflix that aren't available in other territories.

[Iron Mego]

^ I was 12 when this movie came out, and my friends and I REALLY talked like that...including saying some things that would get us in some serious trouble nowadays. The Goonies were far nicer and more sanitized than us.

But to each his own. I love it, and it's a staple for me and the boy at Halloween time. We talked about it on Super Mates last year.

http://supermatescomic.blogspot.com/2014/10/super-mates-episode-17-monster-squad.html

Chris

I don't really mean the cussing. The dialogue is stilted. To me it came off as poorly written.

[Iron Mego]

Shouldn't the line have been "Wolf Man's got 'Nads"? As in short for gonads? That line, though beloved, always bugged me.

For me, this movie is a near miss. The kids aren't as endearing as the Goonies, and it doesn't quite know who its audience is. Some of it is juvenile, yet some of the language, like Dracula cursing at the little girl, is surprisingly nasty.

Yes, this is what I guess I'm getting at.

[Earth 2 Chris]

For me, this movie is a near miss. The kids aren't as endearing as the Goonies, and it doesn't quite know who its audience is. Some of it is juvenile, yet some of the language, like Dracula cursing at the little girl, is surprisingly nasty.

It would never be made that way nowadays, for sure. It'd either be a Disney Channel-style film, or the kids would all be older teens and it'd be full of sex and swearing.

The marketing of that film was bad...near John Carter bad. But I do agree it's a bit of a mixed bag on just who it was made for. You have to be willing to let your kids hear some salty language to watch it.

Chris

[Iron Mego]

I was watching it to see if I could show it to my daughter, and realized pretty quickly that that wouldn't be happening.

[El Hombre Nuclear]

It's funny, but even though I was roughly the target age (although probably on the older side) for these kinds of movies (Goonies, Monster Squad, Explorers, etc.) they've never really resonated with me. I find them sort of entertaining now, but at the time generally considered them "kiddie stuff" and avoided them. I think it was the whole "gee whiz guys let's all go to the secret clubhouse!" corniness of it all. As was previously mentioned here, they tended to feel like what some old guy who grew up in the '30s thought kids still acted like. And even though it seems to be considered a classic now, the absolute worst of the lot has to be "Big". I mean, they had those kids acting like they were 4 years old, not 12! When I was that age, me and my friends were listening to metal (I refused to even leave my house unless I was wearing a Slayer or Exodus t-shirt), hanging around in arcades and trying to smuggle copies of Penthouse out of the local Krauser's convenience store, not riding around on our bikes searching for buried treasure. We were a lot more like the kids from "River's Edge" than the Goonies...

[Hedji]

Explorers... Now THAT one resonated with me. Love that film. Great score.