"Less Than Zero (1987)" Theatrical Trailer #1
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- Original theatrical trailer for the 1987 film "Less Than Zero." Starring Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr., James Spader. Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Directed by Marek Kanievska.
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Prophetic Downey..."I'm Going to Make a serious comeback."
Prophetic Downey: *plays a drug addict*
WOW. Great catch
And so he did in real life. Prophecy fulfilled.
Yes! That line right there!
@@shereeralph4222 indeed 😂
"Sometimes you can have anything your heart desires, except the way it used to be"...how true.
Yep. 1987 is when I got out of high school and into coke at 18. I didn't see the movie till decades later and my circumstances were similar but significantly different in ways.
So true
1:20 Robert Downey, Jr. predicts future 20 years before it happens.
Essess Nine His character, not so much...
I'm so glad he turned his life around no matter how long it took...and he still looks sex c
The Novelist Jackie Collins was like that as well. In her Bestselling Novel Hollywood Wives (1983) she wrote about The "Real Life Housewives" when the "Current" Cast were still in High School, then she wrote about Pedophelia when a minor character was introduced to Cocaine in the 1970's and got raped and murdered. Then in Rock Star in 1987 she writes about how one of the Minor Characters Sharleen dies of a Drug Overdose and lo and behold Whitney Houston dies.
Seems the director/casting could predict a character portrayal when they saw one. Bonus points for the real-life return though.
Essess Nine he was addicted to drugs before this movie. But he got help and is fine now
Clay: "You don't look happy" Blair: "But do i look GOOOOD?! .......greatest line
That was the 80's in a nutshell!
Nina it relates to the young people all over again today
that was All of us back then
What a mood
As Fernando from SNL stated "Remember, it is better to look good, than to feel good"! -Fernando, Fernando's Hideaway, played by Billy Crystal
Damn the 80s was a good time. That trailer made me smell movie theater popcorn.
Lol
The 80 wasn’t a good time your tripping
@@nuralove4471 Uhhhh it's clear who's trippin'...
Never did drugs, and was far from a rich kid in the 80s, but this movie captures the mood of the time period so well. It's a feeling I had in those days, a feeling I can only experience flashes of when I watch this movie, especially the scenes between Blair and Clay....the intensity of young love...makes your head spin. Its always bittersweet though, because those days are gone forever. I've probably watched this movie 15 times or more.
I wasn’t born till 99. I still get a feeling of nostalgia for the 80s and I wasn’t even born yet. Can’t Imagine having lived through it. Really think 70-80s was the best time to have been born. It’s sad I won’t ever get to experience a period of time like that. 😊
I was living in L.A. the summer this film was made, and worked as an extra on it.
I'm in the party scene at the warehouse with all the TV screens when a fight breaks out between James Spader & Andrew McCarthy characters. I saw the young up & coming RDJR too who had a real life drug problem back then. It was a very interesting experience....
Interesting, you must’ve had a fun experience then! Wow :D
It was indeed a unique memorable experience for me....
Wow,
How Fortunate For You.
Great Film.
Yeah, RDJR really had a drug problem back then; and that role he played was SOOOOO realistic. I literally cried every time I watched the movie.
And to see those 2 actors come so far: RDJR & James Spader, it's amazing!!!
wait, that was you?
One of my favorite 80s movies. Tragic and well acted but true to the times. Though I never personally did drugs, I was in a noted New Wave band performing all over the Southland and was fortunate to be making a lot of money. I remember many nights with my partner dancing the night away at Videopolis, hotel party trips to Palm Springs, Dancing at the Beverly Wilshire and clubs in LA, and hanging out with celebs. James Spader occasionally came into Westin Bonaventure the years I used to entertain there. I met Robert Downey Jr. once when I was about 18 right after the movie came out . Great free times but often crazy . I was class mates in high school with Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots and several others noted artists .. .. The 80s were a wild trip. And I so miss the money, the fashions and the glamour. The 2020s and the fucked up Covid Epidemic makes many of us Gen Xers long to the return to the fun of the 80s.
I was born in 1990 and I miss the 80's for likely many of the reasons that you do. While many many things are better now than they were then, there are many things good, bad, neutral and ugly that have come about and shaped our society's trajectory. Much has been lost, especially in terms of hope and enthusiasm and our environmental health.
You should read the book of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis of which the film was loosely based on. He is the highly controversial author of books such as: “American Psycho,” “The Rules of Attraction,” and “The Informers” to name a few. The book was much better in my opinion, and the author actually disavowed the film for along time, but he eventually “came around” to it. His book “Imperial Bedrooms” is a sequel to the novel “Less Than Zero” and it references the original novel and it’s film adaptation as if they were created in the semi-fictional universe of “Imperial Bedrooms,” and this intrigued me a whole lot!
@@mbackmsn1510 Yes thanks of course I have read Bret Easton Ellis.
@@caitlinhs9670 nothing Is better. We are at end of times
@@pablomalaga4676 Agreed, everything is worse than before. Need a huge reset.
Ultron asking Iron Man for his money back.
And then, explored him. Sexuallly!
yesss XD
Ha ha
Awww, I wanted to make that comment...but I'm four years too late...still, LOL!
"check me out, I'm going to make a serious come back"
Indeed you did Mr RDJ.
Indeed you did
This film made me realize Downey Jr.'s talent. It’s one of those excellent films that may be too depressing for me to rewatch. Very underrated, if you ask me!
One of the greatest tales of decadence and debauchery . Robert Downey Jr had a Oscar winning performance .
Yes. I’d make argument it was his best performance. It was like he wasn’t even acting. It was haunting
@@brettfrimmer6567 All his older roles are Oscar worthy.
"Check me out, I'm gonna make a serious comeback..." OH YES YOU DID, SIR!
Damn, James Spader was also excellent in this!
Spader was excellent in everything! He was “it” in the 80s!
It was no surprise to see Spader cast as the villain in "Avengers 2," because he was one of the great villains of the 1980s, in this and "Pretty In Pink."
You forgot The New Kids! He was creepy as hell in this!
Bruce Jackson And in another movie with Andrew McCarthy, the classic for all the wrong reasons Mannequin. Slicked back hair, ugly eyeglasses.
He is...he's the perfect a-hole.
Bruce Jackson he plays a really good villain though.
Don’t forget WOLF also with Jack Nicholson
Hazy shade of winter - the Bangles ... Saw this in 1987 when I was in Highscool and it was a bomb, it is really a worth a view even today ... No spoilers for anyone who haven't seen it, but its griddy grim and hardcore
At least there are no dead babies (ie: Trainspotting)
My favorite L.A. Christmas movie. I watch it every year around this time. In fact, I'm going to see it on the big screen, today, in DTLA. 🎄 💊
This movie still touches my heart and soul. It brings back so many great mid 80’s memories. The score alone is Untouchable til this day. Movies like this will NEVER EVER be made again.🍿🍅 It’s %100 pure 80’s Gold despite what the critics gave it back in the day. And it only gets better with time. 🎥✨✨✨✨
Ok lol
This movie was devastating.
I think it was a wake up call for alot of people as well.
also see "welcome to the boomtown" song
My thoughts is not ENOUGH
This was a damn good movie for its time, hard hitting and doesn't pull any punches. Addiction wrecks your life, period. Even when you have friends willing to risk it all, ultimately it's up to YOU to make the change. No one can do it for you. Hard hitting.
amazing flick.... and seeing the shape that downey was in during the making, it's such a positive spin to see him up on his feet and shining brighter than ever now. god, i love that guy.
Holy shit never expected to see a Converge fan in the comments
@@AdolfStalinfrfr
Bret Easton Ellis wrote American Psycho based on his father.
Lunar Park was also amazing.
"Check me out, I am going to make a serious comeback......" Freaking amazing..... Yes, you did Mr. Stark
RDJr got that line spot on!!!
This movie really exemplifies the 80s club seen. The absolute best time for the disco/dance club scene was the late 70s thru 87/88. You cannot get that feeling back...you had to be there. Getting to the club was everything...The glamour was real ....no matter how much money you had. No cell phones, no texting no emailing. The connections you made were real and memorable. Today is toxic attitude mixed with Madonna and Kardashian(s)..
🤣🤣🤣
@Alonzo L Alonzo yes.50s.. But damn I look good. Honestly...the world has changed. Because of technology ...the clubs have changed. Nothing is real nostalgic about the 2000s. Look on youtube...all over I see teens and 20 somethings say over and over again they wish they could have experienced the 80s on DOWN. There is nothing sentimental about the 2000s.
The 80s club scene was the absolute best time of my life !! I’m glad I got to experience it! 🎊🥳
Yup the 60s 70s 80s and 90s was The best time for California and America in the Rock and Roll culture...
@@michaelglenn367 there’s a lot nostalgic about the 2000s especially for 20 year olds who grew up during it. you just wouldn’t understand it because you’re too old and stuck in the past detached from the current world. I’m surprised you even knew how to leave a CZcams comment 🤣
Funny how McCarthy and Spader both starred in Pretty in Pink, this, and Mannequin back to back to back.
Great movie from back in the day.
This trailer undersells the movie.
One of my favorite movies ever
This movie just shows how fast drugs will mess up everything you might’ve had going for you
I was 14 when the movie came out! I saw it in the theater and THAT was MY teenage years with the drugs, drinking, party lifestyle minus the MONEY and living in Beverly Hills! I of course own the Blu-Ray and just watched it for the trillionth time today, I STILL tear up at the END as the movie NOW gives me a feeling of reflection of my own life and people I've lost, friends, my sister to addiction to even my own parents who didn't pass to addiction! Great chemistry with the 4 main cast members, but the standout performance is EASILY HANDS DOWN Robert Downey Jr who played "Julian" a little "TOO REAL" if you know Robert Downey Jr's PAST battles with addiction you'll know what I mean! I LOVE the on-screen chemistry between Downey Jr & Spader's characters! It's simply incredible! The movie was and is incredible to me! I LOVE IT!🙂
Well said.
@@jasonkessler7321 Thank you my friend!👊🙏
You know what's crazy is this movie is not on any format it's totally unavailable to watch you only have to buy the DVD in order to see it and that's a shame... it's probably one of the most intense roles Robert Downey Jr ever played mostly because it's truly himself as an addict he said that he was doing drugs while making the movie. Some format needs to pick this up so people can watch it!
Ok lol
Incredible film indeed. Made an edit using the weeknds song. Hope you like it! czcams.com/video/w3x2kvfOFTY/video.html
Loved this movie and the book is amazing too~
everybody out here in the comments talking about robert downey jr... but i've always had a thing for young andrew mccarthy lol, he was cute in a kind of rich white boy way (see pretty in pink)
Very!
Hellllllllll yeah!!
Andrew McCarthy. 😍 Honestly the only reason why I watched this movie.
He's cute, period!
Life imitates art...great film.
As I remember this was one of those movies that that came and went from the movies (I was 17 and chasing girls at the time so didn't really care). But when I watched it again last week I came away thinking this is an absolutely criminally underrated movie. This movie is just that good. Every teenager should watch it. If you have a teen ask, trick or bribe them into watching it. This ad barely scratches the surface of the life altering things that happen in your teens/early 20s & how the decisions you make shape your life.
Defines and screams the 80’s. the good ole days!
This movie always scared me in an unexplained way. I was 17 years old when this movie was released.
LITERALLY THE ONE 80'S MOVIE I DIDN'T SEE. Life was changing. It was the year I graduated High School... It was time to grow up!
The most iconic piece of dialog in a movie, " You don't look happy. .." But do I look good?". I used to say that all the time and smile. Iconic movie. First time I saw it was with my boyfriend when it first came out, who would be my future husband. He died on his birthday. I miss him alot🙏😔
Clay: You don't look happy.
Blair: But do I look good?
A line that fit thev 1980s but is even now more suited for social media age.
The music is Giorgio Moroder - To The Bridge, from the soundtrack of the movie Cat People.
RDJ is one of THE greatest actors of our lifetime. Even back then when he was always stoned, he was greatness. 👏🏾
Best movie of 1987!
Red Reddington pimpin in the 80's
Nothing changes
Is crazy to think James Spader and RDJ were in age of Ultron together two decades later
3 decades
Who's here after The Weeknd dropped Dawn FM
felt like there could be a connection since he loves films
I've never watched the movie, but numerous times reading the book, and always pictured Blake Lively as Blair.
Mickey Rouke as Julian in Imperial Bedrooms
And The Beek in everything!
Such a great movie.
He really did make a serious comeback. Now he's an Oscar winner.
The moment you realize it’s Robert Downey jr. and James Spader (Iron Man and Ultron) are in this.
Glad I found it on HBO great movie fitting Robert played this role.
This the old time line when ultron and ironman have a good moment back in 80s
Emotionally draining but awesome film
This movie looks good. I saw some of "The Brat Pack" at a convention this weekend including Andrew McCarthy and I've seen some of his movies including Weekend at Bernie's which I used to watch a lot when I was a kid. I went to his booth and saw a lot of photos from his movies including a "Less Than Zero" poster and I liked the look of it so I searched it when I got home. The music in this trailer is great and I like the 80's lighting and style. Also seeing James Spader and Robert Downey Jr. together makes me think maybe RDJ recommended him to play Ultron in Age of Ultron.
”Check me out, I'm gonna make a serious comeback."
trailers were so hilarious back then.
Great Film.
Did anyone notice the trailer has scenes that were cut from the movie?
What a cast!!!!! Where is Andrew McCarthy? Amazing actor.
0:34 Iron Man meets Ultron
Of course the geeks have to chime in.
@@elbob17 stfu
Awesome soundtrack
its a good film. iron man is already a good actor in the 80s in his younger years. the friendship and drug campaign is the highlight of the movie.
Sorry, but Iron Man was much more better actor in his younger years IMHO.
My dad rented this movie [late 1980s], and he said the star actor [Robert Downey Jr] was something special, and that I should watch it with him; I vaguely remember the ending the most, because somehow that's what the world I grew up in felt like, a world of desperate reckless people [drug addict BIG*BROTHER] behavior.
My [best] friends in high school [seemed to] always had a BIG SISTER [and Irish/English NAMES], and the worse my life became the more this phenomenon occurred. they were the only_ones who ACCOMMODATED ME, everyone else was too busy.
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my father grew up near Chicago, and his family had a condo in Florida throughout the 1950s, when he was 16 they drove a convertible Jaguar from the UK factory down to Italy with his mother and little brother, my grandma, and uncle. and with my grandfather, they flew around the world visiting everywhere.
I grew up in "little Mexico" near Steve Jobs secretary, my sister was their long-term babysitter shortly after this movie was released, and my brother was in a
very serious accident right around this time, 2 months induced coma; he left the hospital 99lbs and READY TO PARTY [#Beetlejuice rings a bell, Mr mom]
The music here is great
Check out a movie called Less Than Zero for the more serious acting side of Robert Downey Jr. It came out a year after Back to School.
never would have guessed that maybe possibly the weeknds song less than zero could have some correlation w this song
Hmmmm next movie during the quarantine
Watched this years ago, just bought the book but needed to see the trailer to put faces to the characters lol.
0:08 a 50's corvette turns instantly into
0:10 a red/ tan SL mercedes
Good spotting, it's a 1959 c1 corvette, I fell in love with this car in the movie when I was in my early 20''s and then bought one 30 years later to fulfill my dream of owning one
WOW 👌
Raymond Reddington The Early Years
girls in the 80s were the BEST, now not so much
I can’t find this movie anywhere :/
me neither! I really want to see it
It was often on HBO; You can get it on CZcams, and other digital platforms.
❤️
Cool movie
Iron-Man and Ultron unmasked in the 80s
I read this 22 years ago. The movie is so awesome but the book is brilliantly disturbing. Very much like American Psycho
Just reading the book. Probably little to do with the film, but still looks like an interesting 80s time capsule
Depressing then, depressing now
Cool
So, Julian, how was the party?
the book was amazing (and better) but james spader carries the film i think
Spader is quality!
80s and so true
I have never seen this. I should
The irony is absolutely ironical! 😂
I Came to see Robert Downey Jr. in his Prime go watch Dr. Dolittle 2020 know (1987)
SWEEEEEET
Anyone else think that Robert Downey, Jr sounds a little bit like Peter Griffen at 0:20?
I saw “Less than Zero” (LTZ) a long time ago, maybe not long after it released. I think the actors do a good job in it, but I will write it’s one of the most dismal films I’ve ever seen. Now that doesn’t mean I didn’t appreciate it but it is one very tough watch. I don’t think I’d want to sit through it again though as it will bring you down, probably as the title hints at.
Weird how Robert was never able to make a comeback.
Does anyone know the name of the song/music playing throughout the trailer?
People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.
I don't remember the scenes at : 015, 0:24 0:57 1:02- 1:08, 1:13 Did they cut em away?
1:21 prophetic
Where can i watch this always wanted see this
What's the song on the trailer?
Tony Stark vs Ultron, 36 years ago. You cant make this up.
lesser than zero movie link i want
1:04 THE LIZARD KING
*Where i can watch this film?*
Hulu
that movie was really Robert's downfall that was when he fell into that trap🤦 but he got out of it some way and stopped it now he's been clean ever since kudos to him👍 but such a sad ending and the drug dealer didn't care kept pushing it to make the guy feel worse so sad and the guy was getting sicker and sicker because of the drugs in his system made it hard to control awful🤦