Stripes
@teamfreak16 (43579)
Denver, Colorado
August 29, 2017 10:03pm CST
In director Ivan Reitman's 1981 comedy film, Stripes, John Winger (Bill Murray) decides to join the Army after losing his job and his girlfriend in one day. He talks his best friend, Russell Ziskey (Harold Ramis) into joining with him, and off they go to basic training, where Winger immediately gets on his Drill Instructor, Sgt. Hulka's (Warren Oates) bad side.
After Sgt. Hulka gets injured by a morter round, the platoon ends up completing boot camp on their own, impressing General Barnicke (Robert J. Wilke) enough that he sends the men to Europe to test the Army's new Urban Assault Vehicle.
After John and Russell borrow the vehicle to go to Germany and party with their girlfriend's (P.J. Soles, Sean Young,) the rest of the platoon ends up in Czechoslovakia, where they are captured. It's up to Winger and Ziskey to rescue them.
Stripes is quite funny, with a strong supporting cast that includes John Candy, John Larroquette, and Judge Reinhold (John Candy is particularly hilarious.)
Stripes is one of those movies that I've watched about a hundred times without getting tired of it. (And yes, I've used the Aunt Jemima treatment on a girl. It really does work!)
If, by chance, you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
Rated R for brief nudity.
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When Quick-Witted Slacker John Winger Loses His Apartment, Girlfriend And Job All In One Day, He Decides To Embark On a New Adventure: He Joins The US Army, ...
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@snowy22315 (208823)
• United States
30 Aug 17
I saw that movie back in the day. I think I liked Private Benjamin better though.
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@teamfreak16 (43579)
• Denver, Colorado
30 Aug 17
That wasn't a bad movie. I liked it.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
30 Aug 17
Now that movie I did see. Goldie Hawn was the main character I think. Yea. I rode my bike to the Redbird Theater one afternoon and went inside, bought pop corn and cola and enjoyed that movie. It is coming back to me now. I actually remember it. Been a long time since that day and have not seen much of Goldie Hawn except recently in a movie where she and her daughter, the characters that is, got kidnapped while on vacation in South America in the movie Snached.
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@FourWalls (86628)
• United States
30 Aug 17
Half of it was filmed not too far from where I live and in Ft. Knox. John Larroquette, who has gone on to win five Emmy awards and a Tony, said that he didn't remember filming Stripes because he was heavily drinking at the time. He broke his nose during the scene where he discovers the EM50 is missing but didn't even feel it because he was so, ahem, "medicated."
Love the stuffing out of this movie, but then I am a lean, mean fighting machine.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
30 Aug 17
Now you have me laughing!
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@teamfreak16 (43579)
• Denver, Colorado
30 Aug 17
He was hilarious in it. Too bad he doesn't remember it. I did not know this. Interesting.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
30 Aug 17
I might have seen this movie. I will check the trailer out. Thanks for the share.
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@teamfreak16 (43579)
• Denver, Colorado
30 Aug 17
It was a pretty popular movie at the time. You might very well have seen it at some point.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Sep 17
This was a good one and one I have to revisit. I''ll bet Anne never saw this one.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
30 Aug 17
Thumbs up! A funny boot camp movie. Murray was really on top of his game in the 80s.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
30 Aug 17
@teamfreak16 Let's not forget a little movie called Caddyshack.
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@teamfreak16 (43579)
• Denver, Colorado
30 Aug 17
@JohnRoberts - Another one I've seen like a hundred times. One of my favorites.
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@teamfreak16 (43579)
• Denver, Colorado
30 Aug 17
He could do no wrong in the 80's.
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