Post #42281 by Doctor Z on Wed, Jul 9, 2003 3:44 PM

On 2002-05-04 20:15, the75stingray wrote:

I'm almost embarassed to admit I sat and watched this (again) last weekend...

But have you seen "The Experts" with John Travolta like from the 80's?

Travolta & his friend are secretly sent to Russia to fix up an old Tiki bar in this 50's USA town (secret KGB experiment).

Naturally, they have to ruin the Polynesian establishment to create a "New York" style night club where Travolta and his wife show off their dancing techniques. It WAS dancing back then...I think.

If you HAVE seen this, don't be ashamed to post it here - it'd make me feel a helluva lot better about it.

I stumbled across this hideous excuse for a movie while channel surfing - just in time for the main characters (John Travolta, Arye Gross and Charles Martin Smith - a guy who looks amazingly like Sabu...) to buy a tiki bar called "The Polynesian Lounge".

I hadn't seen any of the movie prior to this, so, having no clue to the plot, I stuck around.

Bad idea.

The outside had the standard bamboo & thatch, but the inside was fully decked - palm trees, bamboo & lahala matting everywhere, nets, beachcomber lamps, masks, carved poles, even fish tanks and a wall-length mural. There were coconut mugs on the bar and I'll be damned if I didn't spot a few vintage ones in there, too! It was a great lookin' place!

However, a few scenes later THEY TORE IT ALL DOWN, carted it all out and THREW IT ALL AWAY, all to the sounds of a really crappy cover version of "Back in the U.S.S.R." They proceeded to turn it into a really bad, neon & chrome club called "So So Ho". I stopped watching shortly thereafter, my day having been ruined...

75 Stingray: sorry to resurrect the bad memory, but there's at least two of us in the same boat now!