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Class of 1999
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Class of 1999 is a 1990 American science fiction action thriller horror film directed by Mark L. Lester (Commando), featuring Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach, and Pam Grier. In the film, set in the year 1999, school violence has reached the point where humanoid robots originally designed as soldiers had to be reprogrammed to become teachers that would administer discipline unto the unruly students set to do harm unto others at Seattle's John F. Kennedy High School. Cody Culp (Bradley Gregg), a gang member, teams up with Christie, the principal's daughter, to find out the secret behind the new teachers and to destroy them before they do harm unto all the students.It is the thematic sequel to Class of 1984, and was followed by the 1994 direct-to-video sequel Class of 1999 II: The Substitute, also known as Class of 2001: The Substitute. | |
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Playing with Fire | |
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Playing with Fire: Miss Conners uses a flamethrower in the climax. Cody and Christie use this ability against her when they lure her into the Chemistry lab and turn on the gas nozzles to flood the room with flammable gas, causing Miss Conners to set herself on fire. | |
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Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off! | |
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Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: Hardin delivers painful "corporate punishment" on two unruly students in his classroom right in front of the other students. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: The 1999 as depicted in the film's setting looks rather bleak, although it is most likely the case for the underclass who have to resort to being in gangs in order to get by, with drugs and violence being a way of life. | |
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Forklift Fu | |
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Forklift Fu: Cody kills Bryles by chaining him to a forklift and pulling his head off from his body. | |
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Sucky School | |
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Sucky School: Screw "sucky" and replace with "warzone". The schools are surrounded by "free fire zones", they are prisons with guards carrying assault rifles and metal detectors that still are unable to catch every little bit of contraband drugs and guns, the United States Department of Education had to develop a militarized arm just to try to put any type of order in them, and this is before Dr. Forrest arrives with the bright idea of using kill-bot infiltrators as teachers. | |
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Fantastic Drug | |
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Fantastic Drug: Edge, which is used by most of the gang members. Cody refuses to have any part in using it. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: The robot teachers once their military programming kicks in, especially Bryles, who is the first one to actually kill a student with a Neck Snap. | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
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Agony of the Feet: Miss Connors, the Chemistry teacher (who is a robot), crushes a student's foot with one of her heels. | |
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Teenage Wasteland | |
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Teenage Wasteland: The Crapsack World cyberpunk ghettoes are worse around the schools of America — as in the government established a defense force to try to keep order in them and perimeter of about ten miles around them is considered a "free-fire zone" (read:"cops aren't coming, you're on your own"). | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The robots have been destroyed and Dr. Forrest has been killed before he could expand his project to other Free-Fire Zone schools throughout the country, but the school has been completely wrecked and the only characters who made it to the end credits were Cody, Christie and Cody's mom. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Although the humanoid robots have been reprogrammed to work within a civilian population as teachers and disciplinarians, it doesn't take long before their original programming kicks in and they become lethal killing machines unto the students. Of course, it turns out that Dr. Forest expected that to happen. | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: Dr. Bob Forrest has "backstabbing, murderous scumbag" written in every action he makes and does them all with a smile on his face. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: The robot teachers' modus operandi. Even before they begin killing students, mind. | |
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Swords to Plowshares | |
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Swords to Plowshares: Technically this is what the robot project is about: recycling military-grade robotics to supplement the Department of Educational Defense. In reality, Dr. Forrester is planning on killing as many kids on Free-Fire Zones as it takes for him to get greater funding. | |
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Force Feeding | |
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Force Feeding: Hardin kills a drugged-up student by force-feeding him with Edge. | |
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BlackAndGreyMorality | |
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Black-and-Grey Morality: A bunch of morally ambiguous students against killer robots. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: Once the Razorheads and the Blackhearts realize that the teachers are robots and were using each other's hatred for the other gang to destroy themselves, they team together to put an end to the teachers once and for all. | |
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Gang Initiation Fight | |
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Gang Initiation Fight: The Blackhearts have the "get the shit pummeled out if you by every member" variant. Angel and Cody both endure it, or in Cody's case reendures it, so he can take part of the gang fight and take revenge on his brother's death. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
Class of 1999 / int_7e6c0522 | comment |
Off with His Head!: Mr. Bryles is defeated when Cody wraps a chain around his neck and uses a machine to rip his robotic head off his body. | |
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Sinister Spy Agency | |
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Sinister Spy Agency: It's mentioned at one point that the Department of Educational Defense and Dr. Forrest's robot teacher project is backed by the CIA. | |
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Fatal Family Photo | |
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Fatal Family Photo: In the scene after Cody and his brother Angel declare that, gang stuff aside, they still love each other, the Killer Robot teachers abduct Angel, kill him, and dump the body at the entrance of the Blackhearts' hideout, making it look like it's a declaration of war by the Razorheads. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Cody's mother disappears at approximately the halfway point of the film, after Cody gives her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech for her drug use and storms out of their house. She does not appears in other scenes that take place in the house or is talked about. | |
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Robo Cam | |
Class of 1999 / int_a2f0fea0 | comment |
Robo Cam: Whenever the film jumps into the POV of the robots, we see visual displays featuring Terminator-style information such as the proper form of action to take. In Teacher mode, the visual readouts are in white, but in Military mode, they become red, indicating a threat that must be eradicated. | |
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Junkie Parent | |
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Junkie Parent: Cody and Angel's mother turns out to be a junkie getting high on Edge. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: They are useless at keeping safety in the Free-Fire Zone schools (and they just let things get that bad to begin with), the only benevolent member of the Department of Education Defense we see (Principal Langford) is powerless (read: gets killed) when the chips come down, and Cody's mom is a strung-out junkie that may as well have been killed by an overdose in a cut scene for all that she is useful (and non-appearing) once the plot kicks up. | |
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And Show It to You | |
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And Show It to You: This how Bryles kills Dr. Forrest. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: Cody Culp. | |
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Neck Snap | |
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Neck Snap: The teachers off a few of the gang members this way. It's also how Cody finds out about their murderous nature when he sees one such incident happen in front of him. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Dr. Bob Forrest. He is the head of Megatech and willing to see countless teens killed so he can profit. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: No one in either gang initially buys into Cody's warnings that the teachers are robots and out to kill them. It isn't until the teachers interfere with their shootout and kill several members from both gangs that they soon believe him. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Dr. Forrest gets killed by the very robots he sent into a high school to do the killing for him. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Christie, the daughter of the principal and perfectly law-abiding student, befriends and later falls in love with Cody, a former gang member on parole. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Miles Langford, the principal of John F. Kennedy High School, tries his best to be this even in the face of accusations about the new robotic teachers committing murder upon the students. When Langford tries to pull the plug on the project, Dr. Forrest has his robots kill him. | |
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Targeted to Hurt the Hero | |
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Targeted to Hurt the Hero: Cody's brother Angel is murdered by the robots as bait to make both gangs kill each other, and they chose him for the most part because they happened to see him and Cody doing brotherly stuff. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: Filmed in 1987, released in 1990, the movie is set in the future world of 1999. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: A few students try to rape Christie, but Cody comes to her rescue and protects her from her would-be assailants. Unfortunately for him, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, as he gets the crap beaten out of him by Mr. Bryles, the Phys Ed teacher. | |
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Deceptively Human Robots | |
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Deceptively Human Robots: The robots introduced by Dr. Forrest as replacement teachers for a high school where violence has become a common everyday thing. Mr. Bryles does reveal their robotic insides to a group of people by stretching his mouth open. | |
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This Is a Drill | |
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This Is a Drill: Hardin has a grip with a drill attached to it hidden under one of his arms, which he uses to bore into a student's head to kill him near the end of the film. | |
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