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The 'I saw 'Cool as Ice' @ the movies confessional

posted 14 years ago by Fluke_Skywalker
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I know there aren't many of us out there [U.S. gross $1,193,062] but I thought I'd open up this thread as a confessional for those of us who actually saw this movie in a theater, first run.

I saw a Saturday matinee on it's opening weekend. I was the first to arrive, followed by two pre-teen girls and then a fifty year old man who made an already awkward situation thermonuclear awkward.

Me? I was seventeen. Old enough to know better. But you know what... I loved this movie. I did. And when I left the theater I went straight out and bought the soundtrack. And when I found out the soundtrack didn't have "Funk Boutique" on it I went back and bought the single of that.

Now I'm thirty six and you know what? In some strange way I... [Looks around] ...I still love this movie .

Please, share your private pain and or shame.

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[–] sillybilly77 14 years ago

at least you confessed your sins.. now the next step in the healing process is to throw out all your vanilla ice gear and apologize those that around you for paying money to watch a vanilla ice movie.

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[–] sepsism 13 years ago

Respect.

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[–] bj_arni 13 years ago

I wish I was old enough to see this in theaters. I did however eventually buy the VHS that I first rented.

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[–] Survivor147 13 years ago

I was 9-10 in 1991. I loved Vanilla Ice back then, however I was hoping to find a thread like this about this movie.

I NEVER heard of this when it came out? I did a little research and it only opened in 393 screens. I live in St. Louis MO and I checked. We did have it playing locally. I don't remember a single commercial or anything. I wish I went to the movies to see this now!

[–] TimBur77 12 years ago

My memory of this is trying to see it on a Saturday Matinee it's opening weekend with my friends only to have the showings be sold out. I guess Bakersfield California was where the film made most of that 1.2 million gross?

I still have never seen it all the way through. Everytime I attempt to watch it, I always check out during that Bike/Horse scene.

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[–] leermartinez 12 years ago

I remember seeing the trailers for this on tv and wanting to see this in theaters. It wasn't shown in any theaters where I live though. So when it showed up on vhs, I rented. My friends and I watched it several times and laughed every time Ice would say "yep yep, she likes me". Later my cousins from Houston came to visit and said they saw it in theaters. I was like "how could you, shame, shame on you". But they loved it, they thought it was great.

[–] alternatephase 12 years ago

Saw it when it hit the $1 theater (probably about one week after it opened). Me and my friends were 3 of the 10 people in the theater. We were big fans of Vanilla in the year prior and really wanted to see the movie because it had bikes in it. As much as we made fun of it then, I think we all enjoyed it and the memories of those times are still very special for me. For those that rip the movie for a bad plot and mediocre acting, I would agree - but to rip it for the stunts just sounds ridiculous these days. So he jumped his bike without a ramp - twice. So he went through a wall - ok. Compare that to the nonsense in any modern action movie where people drop from a skyscraper and live. Recently saw a re-run of Bad Boys II - all the car chase scenes in that movie are just crazy ridiculous, yet people love the movie. Just sayin' - give the movie a break, like it or not Vanilla was a short lived superstar in 1990 and the movie was just one of the bad ideas that ended his career. It deserves it's place in history.

[–] RequiredFields 9 years ago

I didn't see it in the theater, but I went to school with a guy who saw it in the theater when he was like six or seven.

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