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[Raytrace]

Speaking of which: What's this Jimmy Bennett connection? Obviously, you made me think of Commando and its character there. Revenge flick?

well the only connection was that I want people to watch that film hahah - although Jimmy Bennett is definitely massively influenced by JCVD, so there is that connection.

[options]

ah man I can't help it, I fuckin love that film lol.

Bloodsport will forever be one of my favorite martial flicks and I don't care who knows it.

Even as a kid I thought it was the closest and best thing we ever got to an actual Street Fighter (II) movie. No unnecessarily convoluted plot, just a bunch of dudes fighting. There was an 'American' army dude, a Thai kickboxer, a sumo, a weird 'darkie' character with an unorthodox fighting style, some white dude in a red karate gi (who, if I remember correctly, was shown squaring off with someone of roughly equal build and skill level)... There was even a 'bonus level' ("NO! Bottom one!").

I mean, c'mon! What else has come that close?

In other news, I just watched Guardians of the Galaxy
Um, what was the big deal about this movie? Don't get me wrong--I enjoyed it and I'm glad it was successful cuz I like seeing studios take chances on less well-known properties (I'd never heard of them prior to this). But seriously, what was the big deal? I liked the soundtrack more than the film itself.

[dspoonrt]

In other news, I just watched Guardians of the Galaxy
Um, what was the big deal about this movie? Don't get me wrong--I enjoyed it and I'm glad it was successful cuz I like seeing studios take chances on less well-known properties (I'd never heard of them prior to this). But seriously, what was the big deal? I liked the soundtrack more than the film itself.

The soundtrack was indeed excellent. I thought Guardians of the Galaxy was quite funny and well-paced, with great effects/action sequences, good character development, and terrific casting. To summarize, it was pretty much everything I hope a blockbuster will be: well-made and entertaining throughout.

To keep with the current theme, it's no Bloodsport, though. That's one of my all-time favorites.

[Mischief Maker]

And yes: the T-1000 is still very, very cool, to this very day. Kind of makes you wonder what happened to Cameron.

The improvement of computer special effects is what happened. Period. I say the reason the T-1000 was so cool was because there were serious limitations to what they could do with computers, so for the most part they were still making do with practical effects, and the T-1000 still felt grounded in reality.

But let's be honest, Cameron wanting to do more with that "water tentacle" tech from The Abyss is the whole reason they made a terminator made from magic in the first place.

I also recently got Sugar Hill. No not that one, the one where Not Pam Grier commands a horde of black zombies against gangsters to avenge her strip club!

Actually it's Marki Bey.

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Boo! Hiss!

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/27/entertain ... -cast-thr/

[drauch]

Boo! Hiss!

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/27/entertain ... -cast-thr/

That is seriously the worst cast I've seen in a long time. I hate reboots in general, but the original all girl lineup was so much better; or, at least more tolerable.

[Xyga]

Ghostbusties ?
...
Well, not even close.

[JBC]

Not Pam Grier

[drauch]

Ghostbusties ?
...
Well, not even close.

Pretty sure there was a Ghostbusters porno. Wish I wasn't at work, otherwise I'd verify that.

[Xyga]

Pretty sure there was a Ghostbusters porno.

Who you gonna grope ?

[Mortificator]

Pretty sure there was a Ghostbusters porno.

Who you gonna grope ?

He slimed me.

[JBC]

Pretty sure there was a Ghostbusters porno.

Who you gonna grope ?

He slimed me.

I have a radical idea. We cross the streams.

[BIL]

BUSTIN MAKES ME FEEL GOOD

[Ed Oscuro]

Are you guys talking about that '90 Razzie for The Donald, "Ghosts Can't Do It?"

I always thought the joke was there with "I was a dog once" or "Don't cross the streams!" If you don't cross the streams, it's...kosher.

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Boo! Hiss!

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/27/entertain ... -cast-thr/

That is seriously the worst cast I've seen in a long time. I hate reboots in general, but the original all girl lineup was so much better; or, at least more tolerable.

On the flipside, if you have any Ghostbusters junk laying around it will probably sell really well once the hype machine for the new movie starts.

[GaijinPunch]

I have a radical idea. We cross the streams.

Okay, who brought the dog?

[JBC]

Transcendence.

Surprisingly enjoyable, but aggravating. The Neo Luddite crew aggravate me because I know that if anything like it were to actually happen there totally would be activists doing everything they could to screw it up for us. In the end it comes off as anti-technophobe, which is good, but the movie spends a lot of time making progress look scary. It won't change anyone's mind on the matter.

The tone & progression of the movie comes off like one of those 90's Steven King made for TV adaptations with higher production value. Not necessarily a bad thing, but not a good thing either.

Johnny Depp isn't as distracting as usual with this character, but Morgan Freeman will remind you that you are watching a movie everytime. That's a personal nitpick of mine about big stars. Faces so famous you can't suspend your disbelief as strongly as you could something with an unknown cast.

The CG is prevalent but mild so as to not be too distracting. Computers still do more in film than what they can in real life. I'm just gonna pretend all that processing was being handled by an unexplained source & not the household tablets & office PC's you see flashing a hundred windows a second. Uhm, he was streaming video of what he was doing so peeps could see it?

[drauch]

Boo! Hiss!

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/27/entertain ... -cast-thr/

That is seriously the worst cast I've seen in a long time. I hate reboots in general, but the original all girl lineup was so much better; or, at least more tolerable.

On the flipside, if you have any Ghostbusters junk laying around it will probably sell really well once the hype machine for the new movie starts.

The hype machine has already been chugging these last few years. It's strange, but Ghostbusters has had this insane revival between 30-40 year olds. I feel like I see Ghostbusters crap every day now. Even in my little shithole city there's a big group of dudes that just dress up as them and drive around. It's odd that a two film franchise (not counting the cartoons) could spawn such an insane amount of crap. Love the movies, but I don't understand obsession over single works of fiction when the word has so much to offer.

[JBC]

The Wicker Man (original)

After watching this I'm not sure what they were thinking with the remake. Pretty good & very surreal. Lots of nice ladies to look at. Edward Woodward makes for a pretty entertaining crusader. Lots of cheesy moments by today's standards but they are endearing. Really dig the music.

[drauch]

Oh yeah, totally forgot:

[Satan]

ahaha film quotes

[Acid King]

BTW, this Chris Rock interview is fantastic. Reminds me that I've gotta watch New Jack City still - I only ever got 10 minutes in.

As far as anti-drugsploitation flicks go, New Jack City is an all time great. From the Inferno-esque depiction of the projects, to the feel-good montage where Pookie gets clean, to Judd Nelson and Ice-T as hard-boiled cops who will stop at nothing to get their man, and the final message of there being Nino Brown's in EVERY CITY, I can't recommend it enough.

[DEL]

Interstellar - nothing special.
McConaughey sporting an unhealthy orange tan.
Anne Hathaway looking terrible and at only 32
Matt Damon looking fat and almost unrecognizable.
Otherwise....nothing to say on the film itself. Drab.

[Ixmucane2]

Nightcrawler
After the shock of watching Exodus: Gods and Kings, an opportunity to reconcile myself with the good side of Hollywood cinema.
High production values and good acting (Jake Gyllenhaal) serve a meaningful story and a great main character, stereotypes and standard narrative developments reinforce the sense of realism and inevitability, the familiar backdrop of Los Angeles underlines the pervasive evil (different things happen in the same places in other films), violence and action scenes are limited to what's really needed.
Well-researched and often astonishing dialogue and great discipline at cutting and editing are the main strengths of the film.

It's just sad that having something to tell, applying care and effort and artistic integrity to tell it, and not being significantly damaged by "executive meddling" are a praiseworthy exception rather than a standard.

[Stevens]

Er....a friend made me watch Friday the 13th part VII. I think it was called Jason kills everyone.

Mediocre slasher fare. Anyone have anything decent they recommend? I do like slasher movies but it has been ages since I've been impressed by one. Well as much as one can impress:D

[Sinful]

Wasn't feeling well & in the mood for gaming this past week, so I actually watched nothing but movies this whole time. I never watch anything for the longest time.

Started with the latest comic book adaptation flicks I missed from Marvel & DC, like Thor, Captain America, Avengers, Amazing Spiderman, Man of Steel, Dark Night Rises (still hate the new Batman/X-Men flicks with a passion, lol), etc. Captain America 2 & Thor 2 seemed like the best out of the bunch I've seen, which surprised me a bit considering how bad comic book adaptation flicks are (got to turn to animation for way better representation), then when I checked these two were both done by the same team. No wonder, I guess... And enough of rebooting these dam franchises. We all know by now the dam Spiderman and Batman origin stories for crying out. How may times we have to see the same story? Stop wasting our time with very well known stories.

Then I switched to all out science fiction movies;

Enjoyed Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise very much. Another Tom Cruise flick I enjoyed very much was Oblivion. Love sci-fi flicks like these.

Promethius didn't meet my expectations, since I seen the Ridely Scott name, lol. But was good enough. I totally forgot the alien connection that this movie was supposed to be an Alien prequel, so the ending was like "Oh yeah."

Yesterday I finally seen the final Matrix. Of course it didn't live anywhere near up to the first just like the second one, but this was even worse then the second. Sigh... yesterday also seen Red Planet with Val Kilmer. Was good enough. Just wish there was more to it with being longer and with more stuff happening. Too short for such an interesting theme.

Finally seen the second Star Trek flick. It was great. Loved the first one too. But the second one is better and more re-watchable.

Lucy was pretty cool too.

Pacific Rim sucked. Ditto for Red Steel which I had to stop watching because it was so cheesy & embarrassing, lol.

Predestination with Ethan Hawk actually had me glued to watch it from the very beginning till end the way the story was told.

Repo-man was pretty different & interesting. But not sure a bout the ending... but I know why they had to do it that way. Would of been to unrealistic otherwise, lol.

EDIT - the Tron reboot I enjoyed very much too.

[Sinful]

And yes: the T-1000 is still very, very cool, to this very day. Kind of makes you wonder what happened to Cameron.

The improvement of computer special effects is what happened. Period. I say the reason the T-1000 was so cool was because there were serious limitations to what they could do with computers, so for the most part they were still making do with practical effects, and the T-1000 still felt grounded in reality.

But let's be honest, Cameron wanting to do more with that "water tentacle" tech from The Abyss is the whole reason they made a terminator made from magic in the first place.

Cameron said the liquid metal terminator was the original burning terminator in his dream during the T2 director & co-writer commentary (he says it when the T1000 comes out of the fire of the crashed truck).

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Er....a friend made me watch Friday the 13th part VII. I think it was called Jason kills everyone.

Mediocre slasher fare. Anyone have anything decent they recommend? I do like slasher movies but it has been ages since I've been impressed by one. Well as much as one can impress:D

Check out the modern-day remake of Maniac and you'll be pleasantly surprised with the slick 1st person viewpoints in some scenes. Then be sure to check out the "behind the scenes" of Maniac to see how they shot some of the 1st person viewpoint scenes -- it's on both the DVD & Blu-Ray versions, indeed.

T2: Judgement Day Film Factoid: Not to mention that T2: Judgement Day was hyped with an overall $100 million dollar production budget (and a very tight schedule to get it done in one year tops and released into the movie theaters during the initial July 4th, 1991 opening weekend). Plus the fact that Williams Electronics released both a dedicated T2 arcade light gun game & pinball machine which were both already in the American arcades (during that point in time). There was to be a live-action Time Field Generator scene shot but that was scrapped at the last minute (complete with rotating rings) -- the rotating rings scene shown in the 1997 sci-fi flick, Contact, gives you an idea of how the TFG scene was to look like if it was given the "green light" and proper budget to shoot as originally intended.

Should be interesting to see how the newfangled reboot of Terminator: Genisys will fare out during it's upcoming July 1st opening debut weekend.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[EmperorIng]

The Last Shark/L'Ultimo Squalo

Great poster!

Spoiler

The movie is entirely on youtube, and it's a pretty fun watch. It's fun to see James Franciscus and Vic Morrow do as much as they can with a pretty cheesy movie. Watching with friends is recommended so you can share the enjoyment of rubber bathtub sharks, helicopter battles, and unfitting italo soundtracks. It was directed by Enzo Castellari, and directed well, I'd say. Competently, the action kept moving, and there were enough shark attack scenes to keep interest. The pervading atmosphere of weirdness (e.g. quarter-operated country music singers) makes for an enjoyable time-waster.

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pics

I ordered the Retrovision DVD, and for being made by a high-school kid (!), this is a good job. The dvd case has poster artwork, instead of USA's boring "floating actor heads" bullshit, the disc is printed with poster artwork, and for a low-grade Italian b-movie the care of getting a good print is commendable. The "30 years later" retrospective is kind of funny because it is basically a youtube vlog and you can imagine the guy's mom ready to burst into his bedroom at any moment while he talks about the movie.

I talked about Cruel Jaws earlier, which steals roughly 1/3 of its own footage from Last Shark. They are both entertaining for different reasons. Cruel Jaws is completely incompetent and nearly incomprehensible, which is fun. Last Shark is good cheesy fun.

[Sinful]

Should be interesting to see how the newfangled reboot of Terminator: Genisys will fare out during it's upcoming July 1st opening debut weekend.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Yes. Genisys & the new Star War movies are the only flicks I absolutely cannot wait to finally see. Man. The wait it a killer.