The Films of Christian Slater: A Poll

Shirtless, barefoot, mushroom haircut, cool mofo in Pump Up The Volume, listening to Peter Murphy's "I Got a Miniature Secret Camera Eye."

I should admit that this silly movie inspired a handful of us to start an "underground" paper in high school. Nothing happened.

aw!

I had a 10th grade English teacher who was constantly referencing Pump Up the Volume and Reality Bites. what was up with that dude.

amazing how much more distinguished Ethan Hawke's CV!! Hell even River Phoenix! Keanu!

All listenin' to Leonard Cohen AND the Descendents. All dick hoppin' around...

Billie Jean was very good. I hadn't thought of in a while until I started this stupid poll.

why is the Wizard not listed?

Churchill, the Hollyood years!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnhHCFiATQI

huh

latebloomer OTM. Slater has amazing "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" skills, although I think Beau Bridges could take him.

heathers is gonna walk with this, but i'm going to vote for 'untamed heart' which was kind of sweet

heathers may be a "better" movie but he serves a better role model for the children in Pump.

wtf is gleaming the cube, other than worst movie title ever???

gleaming the cube = dreadful skateboard movie i actually saw in the cinema.

Christian Slater plus John Woo = laffs. Broken Arrow has possibly the worst direction of any Major Motion Picture ever.

Where is this little slip?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Bed_of_roses.jpg

HE BUYS SOMEONE A WHOLE LOT OF ROSES, GUYS

ugh I have seen that movie. ugh ugh ugh

I voted for Gleaming the Cube.

Just to annoy you.

Gleaming the Cube also known as A Brother's Justice (aka Skate or Die according to IMDB but I've never seen it called that!)
Have to vote for PUTV, though. Soundtrack tape introduced me to Sonic Youth. TALK HARD

I would like if Xtian Slater bought Bat Masterson a rooftop full of roses. (I just saw the trailer for that movie but I think I caught the whole thing, really.)

Lets just note that The Legend of Billie Jean was pretty awesome, or at least it was when I was 10.

Gleaming the Cube.
just for the shot of them rolling down Harbor Blvd

I"m going with Name of the Rose, for nostalgic reasons. (Ok ok, cause I fancied him in it.) I never really "got" Heathers, I think I just saw that film a little too late. Pump? It was pretty good, but his Jack N schtick got to me.

haha I LOVED mobsters when I was like 12, it was the best movie ever.

Hey, you've missed all the B and C movie crap he's been forced to take since gaining the rep of a raging drunk. Popular stuff on Saturday night on the Sci-Fi channel: In the Dark, Mindhunters, Hollow Man II...

Which film had him and Tara Reid in it?

Very Bad Things was very bad, but Slater himself was OK. He's been the OK thing about a few lousy movies.

xpost re Tara Reid

In the Dark.

as someone who had never heard of the Legend of Billie Jean and had to sit through it as an adult when his wife insisted on salvaging it from the $1 bin somewhere... that movie is terrible. And I am usually a BIG fan of teensploitation/kids gone wrong movies. The funniest part is when her midget sidekick (future voice of Bart Simpson) gets her first period.

other than that... um, FAIR IS FAIR what a slogan

anyway Heathers in a walk. I love Pump up the Volume as a 15 yo but oof saw it a few years later in college and was appalled.

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Gleaming the Cube is only the greatest film of all time.

Tnotr and UH are marginally more presentable than Putv and especially Heathers, but it's probably easier to defend the former's scenery-chewing over the lumpen characters of the latter.

I forgot he was in tucker, a movie I liked lots at the time and haven't seen since

Tnotr and UH are marginally more presentable than Putv and especially Heathers, but it's probably easier to defend the former's scenery-chewing over the lumpen characters of the latter.

uh, switch those formers and latters (should be obv)

Gleaming the cube, def. What was the one where he had a monkey heart? That was about as spectacular as Bed of Roses.

Totally has to be Pump Up the Volume, tho a younger gother me would have said Heathers.

Monkey heart? This had to make things harder for every teenager who had to get heart surgery at the time. (The man was showing me some post-heart-surgery pamphlet that said "Your friends may ask if you have a monkey heart now." Yikes.)

Prince of Thieves FTW

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as someone who had never heard of the Legend of Billie Jean and had to sit through it as an adult when his wife insisted on salvaging it from the $1 bin somewhere... that movie is terrible. And I am usually a BIG fan of teensploitation/kids gone wrong movies. The funniest part is when her midget sidekick (future voice of Bart Simpson) gets her first period.

other than that... um, FAIR IS FAIR what a slogan

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, October 10, 2007 6:51 PM (2 years ago)

I WILL FITE YOU

Also, Yeardly Smith voices Lisa Simpson. You call yourself a Simpsons fan?! Anyway, I just watched it again last night for the 100th time or so and it's still as good as ever.

A documentary, I'd guess:

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17mzfvckdh3i3jpg/original.jpg