12 Reasons 1985 Was The Most Important Movie Year Ever
7. All Hail King Chevy Chase
If youd come to film and TV fandom in the noughties, or even at the tail end of the 90s, you could probably be forgiven for thinking that Chevy Chase was a irrelevant husk of a comedian, who had no reason to be so bloody nasty to everyone (ALLEGEDLY). Theres no hiding from the fact that hes a distinctly, painfully unlikeable actor when you start to read around the backstories of his fame, but his comedy in the early 80s was a thing of absolute beauty. His smugness, his snark and his dark charisma were at peak level in 1985, when he released the genius Fletch and cult gems Spies Like Us (shut up, its great) and National Lampoons European Vacation. Okay, so maybe theyre not brilliant, but theres something astonishing about watching Chase smugly steal three movies, while you suspect that absolutely nobody around him can stand having to be in a room with him.
