Hardbodies - Exclusive Filming Locations - 40th Anniversary

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Komentáře • 137

  • @NemeanLion-
    @NemeanLion- Před měsícem +36

    Hardbodies and Spring Break were just pure fun. Thanks for the flashback.

  • @williamoleary1410
    @williamoleary1410 Před měsícem +12

    I watched this many times on HBO when i was young. Courtney Gaines was my neighbor for 3 years back in the early 2000's

  • @angelalinderman9985
    @angelalinderman9985 Před měsícem +9

    This movie SCREAMS 🙀 80's 🍿🥤👍😁🤣 love it!

  • @marklechman2225
    @marklechman2225 Před 18 dny

    Hardbodies is the gold standard for 80s T&A comedies. Absolutely perfect movie with a killer soundtrack and an excellent cast.

  • @koreancardboard
    @koreancardboard Před měsícem +3

    Another impeccable movie location video done by the best. Thanks, Kurt! 80sLife!

  • @RIO-..
    @RIO-.. Před měsícem +18

    Love Everything 80's.......

  • @williammcnulty4031
    @williammcnulty4031 Před měsícem +16

    You are probably the first and last person to ever do these filming locations that's why I love your channel. I remember being 13ish watching this movie over and over

  • @surfshack2
    @surfshack2 Před měsícem +7

    Dude such memories of the 80’s. I remember catching this movie late night a bunch of nights on HBO or Cinemax. Amazing time , it was like the whole country was partying and having a good time. 🎈Thanks Kurt.
    Hey , I haven’t seen this movie since the 80’s but I remember the part where Southern Comfort broke his guitar strings. 😝

  • @mjwbulich
    @mjwbulich Před měsícem +12

    I love anything with Courtney Gains in it. My favorite red headed character actor from the 1980s.

    • @mindthedrift.
      @mindthedrift. Před měsícem +3

      He has range!

    • @Ori0n1975
      @Ori0n1975 Před měsícem +3

      Malachi from Children of the Corn.

    • @crush41gb
      @crush41gb Před měsícem +2

      Scram McFly. I'm cutting in. 😀

    • @natehall36
      @natehall36 Před 28 dny

      Hans "It came with da frame" Klopek

  • @frankwafer6919
    @frankwafer6919 Před měsícem +12

    ...gotta luv❤them 80's baby, I missed this one - but thanks for the wonderful memories!😎🔥💯💥👍✌!

  • @bradsmith9919
    @bradsmith9919 Před měsícem +9

    Just watched it this week on Tubi!

    • @jerrysanders9101
      @jerrysanders9101 Před měsícem

      Dude I heard tubi is pretty sick I gotta check i out

  • @nunorocks100
    @nunorocks100 Před měsícem +5

    Thanks for doing this movie! I mentioned it to you and you came through. One of the best 80's movies. How about My Tutor, Beach Balls and Beach Girls next. Thanks for all the great filming locations videos!

  • @NickL951
    @NickL951 Před měsícem +5

    One of my faves! The rotating bed with the disco lights was the best! lol

  • @chadcolomb4260
    @chadcolomb4260 Před měsícem +10

    Love your content. You are by far the best filming locations creator around. “Hardbodies” has always been a 80’s guilty pleasure. I was a sophomore in high school when this film came out. It’s been 40 years? Ouch!

    • @80sLife
      @80sLife  Před měsícem +3

      Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. The time she does fly, doesn't it?

    • @chadcolomb4260
      @chadcolomb4260 Před měsícem +2

      @@80sLife Did you notice the gal the gang picks up at the hot dog stand, and later bangs Rounder in the limo is Darcy DeMoss, Patty from “Can’t Buy Me Love?”

    • @koreancardboard
      @koreancardboard Před měsícem

      @@chadcolomb4260 Darcy was smokin' hot.

  • @Buzzode
    @Buzzode Před měsícem +3

    Brings back some 80’s memories for me .. USA Up all Night ! Wow I forgot about that . And of course HBO and Cinemax . Always liked this movie and made me think of Summer Time .. I still have it on DVD with some other classics from the Glorious 80’s .. great job as always with the Locations

  • @joker3092
    @joker3092 Před měsícem +6

    I can remember seeing the video box for this in video stores in the 80s everywhere. I also recognize the actor who plays Hunter, Gary Wood. Apparently he had some kind of heart surgery a few years back and there's a video on youtube/Facebook of him talking about how it saved his life.

  • @lunarmodule6419
    @lunarmodule6419 Před měsícem +9

    Love your show, the sun, the beach... It's friggin' 50F in Canada right now :-)

  • @MamboKing215
    @MamboKing215 Před měsícem +4

    Awesome, perfect timing; just watched this for the 1st time a few weeks ago on Tubi.

  • @rythehorrorguy2851
    @rythehorrorguy2851 Před měsícem +5

    I love this movie! Can you do filming locations for Secret Admirer (1985)? Such an underrated 80s gem.

    • @80sLife
      @80sLife  Před měsícem +2

      I did it already. Enjoy!

  • @presto111man
    @presto111man Před 26 dny +1

    Love your channel. In the mid 80s I went to a friend's, and we watched Hardbodies and Breakin II back to back. A month later I went to Atlantic City, and at a surf shop bought several Jimmy Z, Gotcha, and Catchit T shirts. Still have them

  • @yinzer9397
    @yinzer9397 Před měsícem +2

    One of the movies, that made me (a midwestern kid) want to live in California as a teen.

  • @billstrikesback
    @billstrikesback Před měsícem +2

    Even when i've not seen the film, i still love your location videos!!! Can't wait for the next one!!! :)

  • @SirenBandUS
    @SirenBandUS Před měsícem +4

    Hardbodies captures a slice of the fun and spirit of the 80s. As always, your work is fantastic and extremely thorough and entertaining. Thanks for making these great pieces for us.

  • @halloweennerd4076
    @halloweennerd4076 Před 26 dny

    Just lucked up and found this on a Blu-ray 2 disc set with Spring Break, Private Resort and Perfect all for around 5 bucks at a Dollar General. 😎Awesome!👍

  • @selbyjohnson5986
    @selbyjohnson5986 Před měsícem +3

    USA Up All Night was the best. Rhonda every Friday night. Miss those days.

  • @bennetfox
    @bennetfox Před měsícem +8

    Cinemax turned into Skinemax after 9pm.

  • @jaytee6586
    @jaytee6586 Před měsícem +2

    The female band that Scotty asked to play in the party is Vixen, who became a part of the hair metal era of the 80s.

  • @frankietorres8596
    @frankietorres8596 Před měsícem +2

    It’s funny, seeing Kane hodder a.k.a. Jason Voorhees playing a beach punk and dancing to return of the living dead’s do you want to party on a boom box 😆

  • @MrBigdavehd97
    @MrBigdavehd97 Před měsícem +5

    Dude this was a must warch for my teenage self !wow!

  • @finaljesus
    @finaljesus Před měsícem +4

    i love this movie thank you Kurt

  • @amanster724
    @amanster724 Před měsícem +3

    Love this movie. I have it in a box set called 80's Overdose 6 Movie collection. It has The Legend of Billie Jean, Spring Break, Perfect, Private Resort and Little Nikita.

  • @prescottlange
    @prescottlange Před měsícem +6

    God, I love this movie...

  • @MetalEd.
    @MetalEd. Před měsícem

    This movie was classic 80's cheese and we all loved it 🤘🤘🤘

  • @christianboyd4635
    @christianboyd4635 Před měsícem

    This is so cool, I used to go down to Hermosa every year for the beach volleyball championships and we stayed at the Sea Spray motel. Old school.

  • @Tr0nzoid
    @Tr0nzoid Před měsícem

    I remember this coming out in the summer of 1984. It and "Bachelor Party" seemed to be the T&A highjinks movies of the year. I wouldn't see them until at least a decade later.

  • @mindthedrift.
    @mindthedrift. Před měsícem +4

    I guessed this on one of your live streams! 🙌 didn't expect it

  • @bones642
    @bones642 Před měsícem +4

    Never heard of it. This is going to be a fun one.

    • @johnphantom
      @johnphantom Před měsícem +1

      It was on Cinemax every few nights in the late 1980s.

  • @seemoretoys5944
    @seemoretoys5944 Před měsícem

    This was originally a short story in Penthouse magazine and was set in Newport Beach, Ca were I lived at the time. It described then present day (and nights) right on target.

  • @marcofreitas3844
    @marcofreitas3844 Před měsícem

    Loved the video...Hardbodies star Grant Cramer-running hot at the time due to the success of the film (it was such a hit all over the globe it spawned a popular sequel)-histed a bikini contest held next to a World Surfing Contest in Huntington Beach in either 1987...I know for sure (i was on the fourth row next to a few drunkards).

  • @VeniceBeach1987
    @VeniceBeach1987 Před měsícem

    This is so Awesome !!!

  • @SISU_LIFE
    @SISU_LIFE Před měsícem +3

    Many fond memories of the ladies in this movie… Surprised you didn’t mention that the 80s band Vixen was in it

    • @HandleBarr-vb4um
      @HandleBarr-vb4um Před měsícem

      Lazy work at best

    • @doubledown8229
      @doubledown8229 Před měsícem

      @@HandleBarr-vb4um
      This is filming locations, not who was featured in it.

    • @HandleBarr-vb4um
      @HandleBarr-vb4um Před měsícem

      You're right. I was thrown off by all the name dropping

  • @markd4926
    @markd4926 Před měsícem +7

    Anyone remember select tv?

    • @mjwbulich
      @mjwbulich Před měsícem +4

      We had ON TV but I remember Select. Select just played movies if I remember right. We had ON TV because they had baseball games and boxing. ON also had late night porn if you paid extra.

    • @Ori0n1975
      @Ori0n1975 Před měsícem +1

      Yep. That’s where I first saw this. It was what we had up until late 87 when we got regular cable in Sacramento.

  • @v2vroth
    @v2vroth Před měsícem +2

    I remember this movie thanks for another great video. The bassist for the girl band on the beach is Guitar god Steve Vai's wife Pia and the band is Vixen.

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 Před měsícem +2

    the father from THE GOLBERGS. his first movie was SPRING BREAK from 1983

  • @anthonytincher1593
    @anthonytincher1593 Před měsícem +1

    Lots of tissues were missing when I was a 14 year old watching this

  • @deco983
    @deco983 Před měsícem

    Love it!

  • @Ori0n1975
    @Ori0n1975 Před měsícem +1

    I can’t believe you finally did this one. This us one of my favorite 80’s movies. I remember watching it on OnTV or SelecTV when it first started showing on there in 84.

  • @seibervideo
    @seibervideo Před měsícem +1

    Totally saw this on HBO late at night and thought I was being super naughty watching it. 😅
    Haven’t seen it since like 1987. 😅

  • @markbass7145
    @markbass7145 Před měsícem +19

    Skinimax...

  • @LizzyTexBorden
    @LizzyTexBorden Před měsícem

    And such a great theme song opens this movie up.

  • @mattbpatterson
    @mattbpatterson Před měsícem

    I just watched this movie on Tubi and it’s pretty fun. Yes there’s lot of nudity but it’s a pretty funny story and the characters are likable . SoCal in the 80s was a happening place

  • @vistalite-ph4zw
    @vistalite-ph4zw Před měsícem +1

    They also did a Hardbodies 2, I believe it was in Greece??🤔

  • @ronaldmiller673
    @ronaldmiller673 Před měsícem +4

    Hi Kurt 👋👋,, Great video 🎥🚶👍 Awesome 💯😎,,My Son Max 9 years old 🙋🧔 and I love the Video 🎥 this week that you put out of your favorite 80s music 🎶🎶🎶🥇💽📀,,We would like to see more of these Videos.. ✌️ and out..

    • @Shawn-1971
      @Shawn-1971 Před měsícem

      Are you and Cindy still together?

    • @ronaldmiller673
      @ronaldmiller673 Před měsícem

      pass on

    • @Shawn-1971
      @Shawn-1971 Před měsícem

      @ronaldmiller673 Just joking around. Did you get the reference?

    • @ronaldmiller673
      @ronaldmiller673 Před měsícem +1

      Amanda was a Great person..No Joke.

    • @Shawn-1971
      @Shawn-1971 Před měsícem

      @@ronaldmiller673 I didn't know she died.

  • @DJPenguino51
    @DJPenguino51 Před měsícem

    Scotty Palmer Mr. Dialogue!!

  • @editboy09
    @editboy09 Před měsícem

    Indefinitely recognize Redondo Beach during a montage scene. Majority filmed in Hermosa but I know Redondo when I see it

  • @stevenevans2295
    @stevenevans2295 Před měsícem

    How many drive-ins did we watch this and actually picked up on the local sweethearts? Aw man!

  • @digitalarkham
    @digitalarkham Před měsícem

    Have you ever done a video or thought of doing a video of some of the weird and memorable things that have happened while making these videos? Good/bad/funny/scary etc. I think it would be fantastic

  • @davidgoodman6924
    @davidgoodman6924 Před měsícem

    Remember having to sneak at my house, late at night to watch Hardbodies on HBO. lol

  • @coolhrv
    @coolhrv Před měsícem

    Great video, Kurt. Is TEQUILA SUNRISE coming up soon by any chance? I've been looking for some of those locations myself.

  • @ToyotaGuy1971
    @ToyotaGuy1971 Před měsícem

    Nice one, bro! I watched this and Spring Break religeously. Corinne Alphen was so hot and gorgeous in Spring Break.

  • @chrisparker4940
    @chrisparker4940 Před měsícem +1

    I was always in love with Rhonda with USA up all night

  • @KellyC12070
    @KellyC12070 Před měsícem +1

    Ever watch Side Out 1990 (C. Thomas Howell, Peter Horton)? Locations?

  • @SamIIs
    @SamIIs Před měsícem +1

    I went to high school with the blond in the black bikini that drops the towel on the beach in the opening of the movie. She actually in a couple of scenes in this movie. Infact it's our fortieth high school reunion this year.

  • @JohnQPublic345
    @JohnQPublic345 Před měsícem

    The internet, and cell phones destroyed that Era. I remember having to actually go meet people and talk to them. Up until the early 2000s maybe.

  • @windshart
    @windshart Před měsícem +3

    “ I don’t fuck fossils for free “.
    Loved this movie growing up
    Glad you did this one.
    Awesome 😎

  • @jcs737c7
    @jcs737c7 Před měsícem

    I love Hardbodies!

  • @thegoodcrap2424
    @thegoodcrap2424 Před měsícem +2

    I always thought that the Encino Town Center was the same mall as in "Body Double"

    • @tomhext1229
      @tomhext1229 Před měsícem +1

      I believe the Mall scene in Body Double was in Beverly Hills.

  • @RoeVenturesLLC
    @RoeVenturesLLC Před měsícem +2

    1:41 should’ve reached out to Courtney Gaines

  • @Raydawg
    @Raydawg Před měsícem

    Love this movie and If memory serves I do believe I originally seen it on USA up all night friday with Rhonda and Saturday with Gilbert, Love that back then. hey you should do a filming location for Fraternity Vacation in Palm Springs

  • @doubledown8229
    @doubledown8229 Před měsícem +4

    The beach is so dead and lifeless. It's sad so many stores all across LA are closed or going to be closed soon.

    • @Jacob-nu4nd
      @Jacob-nu4nd Před měsícem +1

      People shop online. Go to the beach on a June beautiful day. It will be packed people gotta work.

    • @doubledown8229
      @doubledown8229 Před měsícem

      @@Jacob-nu4nd
      It won't be packed. Even several shops on the Venice boardwalk are closing. Check out 'German in Venice.' Go check out 'Metal Leo'. Stores closing in Beverly Hills. Look up reports at how many jobs were lost with the new minimum rate hike, and trickling effects it has on other fields besides fast food. Oakland, SF, Downtown LA are becoming ghost towns. I use to go to this beach all the time from the late 80's to the mid 2000's, and it's a shell of it's former self. CA has become a failed state.

  • @GEORGIACONSTITUIONMEDIA
    @GEORGIACONSTITUIONMEDIA Před měsícem +3

    Anyone find THE HOUSE YET??

  • @jameskett5241
    @jameskett5241 Před měsícem

    Old Tony's, the round building. I have a bunch of glasses from there. They gave them away with Mia Tias.

  • @mitchd949
    @mitchd949 Před měsícem

    I'm somewhat ashamed to say I saw this in the theater when I was a kid growing up in PA. Who'd have known I'd end up living in Hermosa Beach now?!

  • @BKDDY
    @BKDDY Před měsícem

    Malibu Summer & the Bikini Summer series are some of my fave movies like this.

  • @fmminformation
    @fmminformation Před měsícem +1

    Amazing! Best movie ever.

  • @canamrider07
    @canamrider07 Před měsícem

    I remember renting these movies from the video store. I wanted my $3 back.

  • @rodolfo1839
    @rodolfo1839 Před měsícem +2

    Hi i m from Brazil
    Please make locations of movie Bikini car wash Company of 1992 with kristi Ducati and neriah davis

  • @r000tbeer
    @r000tbeer Před měsícem +1

    Friday night video? I just got the BBD!

  • @porterhouse7260
    @porterhouse7260 Před měsícem

    Cro Mags 1980's!

  • @SatoshiHODL
    @SatoshiHODL Před měsícem +5

    Yasssss

  • @chrisparker4940
    @chrisparker4940 Před měsícem

    Scotty in the movie looks so familiar…was he in another 80s movie?

  • @Dman425
    @Dman425 Před měsícem +6

    I went through puberty watching this movie

  • @NicChannel08
    @NicChannel08 Před měsícem

    Just wandering what’s the title of the song that rag listening to the radio on the opening of the movie, thanks

  • @petelemoi373
    @petelemoi373 Před měsícem +1

    Any chance of seeing a Malibu beach location video?

  • @jerrysanders9101
    @jerrysanders9101 Před měsícem

    Great work Scotty 🎉👏👏👏
    Hey a good idea- remember classic SURF II (don’t think there was even a surf 1 which is funny af) but talk about a 80s classic filmed in southern California 🤙🤙🤙

  • @g-carsquad8262
    @g-carsquad8262 Před 15 dny

    Rewatch

  • @Wild1995
    @Wild1995 Před měsícem +2

    Please do Last American Virgin locations. You always do the best locations.

    • @80sLife
      @80sLife  Před měsícem

      I did it already. Enjoy! 😁 Thank you!

    • @Wild1995
      @Wild1995 Před měsícem

      @@80sLife Sorry. I will look for it

  • @fmminformation
    @fmminformation Před měsícem

    Omg I can’t believe the mall is in Encino! I’ve been trying to track down that location forever! & assumed it was in Hermosa or near there. Meanwhile it’s right near me in Encino! Thanks!

  • @g-carsquad8262
    @g-carsquad8262 Před měsícem +2

  • @DeflatingAtheism
    @DeflatingAtheism Před měsícem

    So wait, the “Boogie till you PUKE” guy ISN’T the hero!?!

  • @crosswalklarry
    @crosswalklarry Před měsícem

    Never understood the shorts over sweatpants. Unless you were trying to hide a small bulge. 😁 Looked like Powells 3's on that board.

  • @SleepyCupcakes-sy4fv
    @SleepyCupcakes-sy4fv Před měsícem +1

    Not a single BBL in sight 😂

  • @MisterMister5893
    @MisterMister5893 Před 25 dny

    After 40 years they’re not so hard anymore.

  • @ll7868
    @ll7868 Před měsícem +3

    I got into an argument with my older brother Ron over Blue Thunder vs Airwolf, I say Blue Thunder he says Airwolf. He's got this 6 foot Airwolf RC that he never lets anyone play with because everyone is stupid except him (I let him play my drums because I'm a good brother) and I said a Blue Thunder RC would be cooler. Anywho, that got me thinking, there should be a filming location video for Blue Thunder.

    • @surf101-
      @surf101- Před měsícem +1

      JAFO, my friend, JAFO!!!

  • @ericlopez9107
    @ericlopez9107 Před měsícem +1

    It looks like he's wearing underwear/boxer shorts at the beach.

  • @1bad02ceta
    @1bad02ceta Před měsícem +2

    Thts a badass shirt bro I had the spuds muscle shirt back in the day

  • @allenp3687
    @allenp3687 Před měsícem

    The band diaper rash.

  • @mghc7
    @mghc7 Před měsícem

    Pennywise land

  • @Bullet_1987
    @Bullet_1987 Před 26 dny

    why is it no people on the streets? Hoollywood makes every city great in movies but in real life you cant see people on the streets.
    LA looks soo boring