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  1. 25 minutes ago, Zathras said:

    Another must-see is Yor Hunter From the Future!  So terrible it is awesome.   It's like what if you crossed Conan with Turkish Star Wars.  And if you see that, you also have to see Beastmaster.   Another cool cheese flick is  Time Rider the Adventures of Lyle Swann.

     

    Never heard of Yor! I'm pretty sure I have seen Beastmaster but I was little, so don't really remember it. I remember ferrets...it looks like there are three of them, too. And I have Time Rider on my list already!

  2. 56 minutes ago, Lord Darth Hunter said:

    That was part of what made the early slasher films good. The characters actually acted like regular people and made for likeable groups.

    Alice did try to jump in the jeep but Annie's body was there. It made her hysterical and caused her to not want to get in it.

    Oh yeah, Annie was in it. Still, no body would keep my from hauling ass out of there. I'd be like, move over bacon, I need to go!

  3. Both of these Hawk movies are added to my list!

     

    Friday the 13th, the OG! This movie was surprisingly tame. Half the deaths are offscreen and you just see their body later. Kevin Bacon's death is the worst since you see it and also because it was pretty slow. Axe to the head is probably less painful than an arrow through the back of the neck.

    I felt bad for a lot of it since all the characters were all really innocent and likable. Felt especially bad for the goofball dude since he's obviously internally lamenting about not having a girlfriend and then he gets offed.

    This movie also has the most unintimidating killer in a horror movie, getting attacked by someone's middle aged mom doesn't seem that scary. At least she had the element of surprise for all the others but then gives up her game to the Final Girl, I guess since she was the only one and thought she would be easy.

    FG also made some dumb decisions but that's pretty standard for horror movies. Like, you knocked her out, take her keys and use her jeep! Then after beheading her, she...jumps in a boat to float out in the lake? But it sets up a nice jump scare there!

    I've seen the original Halloween and that was a much better slasher movie than F13 but from what I understand, the F13 series is overall more entertaining.

  4. Good episode, I liked the callback to ANH with Sabine's training and that they're alluding to anyone can learn to use the Force. To heck with midichlorians! But someone should should really let the villains know when a force user is on the hull of the ship blocking shots, you should probably aim for other parts of it. :P

  5. Mr Mom! Just randomly threw it on even though I have some other movies higher on my list. It's an okay 80s comedy but wow is it dated. Was the average guy really that inept at housework in the 80s? Even I was able to figure out laundry the first time I did it, it wasn't that hard. And cooking, c'mon! Throw some pasta in hot water for ten minutes and throw sauce on it after, done! I guess ramen wasn't a thing in the 80s, either? :P

     And this movie is an HR nightmare! From the offices filled with smoke and the comments towards women, these guys wouldn't last a day in an office now. Well, maybe some offices...and then there is the boss trying to talk the wife into leaving Keaton and marrying him near the end. Like WTF, dude. This movie would definitely not be made today or at least not without some major changes.

    Still, worth seeing for early Keaton as he is pretty funny throughout it.

  6. On 7/3/2023 at 2:02 PM, Tank said:

     The only explanation ever given was on Hoth when they said the speeders hasn't yet been adapted to the cold (even though they clearly could fly other craft, otherwise how did they land their entire organization there?

    Isn't it also, like...really cold in space, too? Or is that a different type of cold? I'm not up on my space facts!

  7. On 8/26/2023 at 12:58 AM, Lord Darth Hunter said:

    Speaking of Aliens, anyone watch the 1983 Alien spoof, The Creature Wasn’t Nice (which was later renamed Spaceship and then Naked Space)? Starred Leslie Nielsen and Cindy Williams.

    I also loved:

    Moving Violations

    D.C. Cab

    1980’s comedies were something else. Even the bad ones are rewatchable.
     

     

     

     

    Just looked it up, the whole movie is on Youtube for viewing convenience! 80s comedies are some of the the best. That reminds me I need to add the Porky's movies to my list.

  8. 15 minutes ago, captainbleh said:

    Some less well known 80s movies I watched often:

    Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)

    Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985)

    Eliminators (1986)

    These are all getting added! Spacehunter looks especially good.

    Regarding Horner, I do like the track from Aliens when they first encounter them and Ripley is heading the rescue. That track is great! So he's repetitive but he does put out good ones.

  9. Krull! Special effects are super dated but the movie itself is awesome! The main guy was really likable, even for a young prince turned king, they made him a pretty caring guy. It was nice to have a character like that, willing to throw himself into danger for people he barely knew, like when he tried saving the drowning guy in the swamp.

     And can I mention how bad some of the deaths are? For a fun, light-hearted adventure movie, there were some gruesome deaths. From getting finger-nailed in the neck, drowning in quicksand, getting crushed between walls, eaten by a giant spider, getting slowly impaled, some characters got it really bad.

    Funny thing about the deaths is the characters always move on fast, it's like well they're dead, we have to keep moving LOL. The main guy didn't even bury his dad! Him and the Obi-Wan guy just up and leave the castle with a ton of bodies lying around. Even Qui-Gon didn't get a good death scene, just shot and is like tell my 7th wife I loved her.

    Best characters were the cyclops and the bandit leader, they were both fun. Oh, and it had Hagrid! It took me a while to realize that was the same actor.

    It was weird to me that all the characters acknowledge other worlds even though they appear to be a fairly primitive society, like medieval. They took the whole being invaded by aliens thing in stride. And the king and princess's son is going to rule an entire galaxy? I'd like to know how that works!

    Glave is an awesome weapon! Too bad it got used once and then is just lost while stuck to the head bad guy. But who needs it when you have flame hands?

    Last thing, the soundtrack! I had to check the composer because I swear this had very similar music to Star Trek II and sure enough, James Horner did both! Seriously, listen to the opening themes to both and tell me they don't sound alike!

  10. 20 hours ago, Zathras said:

    Here are some old films that you might also like:

    Battle Beyond the Stars - Added to the list!

    The Black Hole - Know of it but never seen it! Probably on D+, too.

    The Last Starfighter - Added to the list!

    Big Trouble in Little China - Already on my list!

    Clash of the Titans (original) - Added!

    Cobra - Added!

    Commando - Added! Haven't seen a ton of Arnie movies, saw Red Heat a few months ago but it was not good.

    Escape from New York - Already on there!

    Event Horizon - Added! Think I've heard of this one.

    Flash Gordon - Seen it! It was required viewing because my dad loves it LOL.

    Forbidden Planet - Added!

    Labyrinth - Seen it! Required viewing per both of my parents.

    Legend - Also seen because my parents introduced it.

    Life Force - Added! Looks...interesting.

    Logans Run - Added!

    Ninja II the Domination - Added! Looks like it would make a good double feature with Samurai Cop.

    Princess Bride - Another required viewing per my parents!

    Red Sonja (original) - Added!

    Repo Man - Added!

    Rollerball (original) - Added!

    Soylent Green - Added! I've heard the jokes so I know what it's about

    The Fog (original) - Added

    The Howling - Added!

    The Hunger - Added!

    The Never Ending Story - Another fave of my parents, seen a few times!

    The Warrirors - Added!

    They Live - Added!

    Time Bandits - Seen because it's one of my dad's favorites!

    Time Machine (original) - Added! I might have seen this when I was little and I have read the book.

    Tron - Definitely required viewing per my dad! Seen both of them and the Uprising series.

    War of the Worlds (original) - Only seen the remake with Tom Cruise. Added!

     

     

     

  11. I've been to Arizona to visit relatives and it was awful in the summer. I think it was hotter at night than the daytime, it was like the heat just emanated off the pavement! Dry heat, my butt! Doesn't matter if it's like 100+. It's finally cooled off here, only in the 70s and not humid finally.

  12. 10 hours ago, Rogue 3 said:

    Did you ever watch Krull? Those of us of a certain age will definitely have caught it I’m sure.

    Be interested in your thoughts as I recently caught it again while channel hopping (even though I have it on Blu-ray).  It’s a funny one - clearly targets the OT Star Wars audience of the time (I was one of them in 1983! Would have been between 6 & 7 years old at the time!), but there are just some odd story elements in there that don’t suit that target (gruesome-ish deaths, a nastily described act of revenge from the widow in the web for example).

    A great cast (Liam Neeson & Robbie Coltrane in early roles and the lead Ken Marshall went on to have a recurring role in DS9, plus a number of other actors more well known to a UK audience maybe), giving it their all and soundtrack is very enjoyable (lots of Wrath of Khan moments as Horner had just done that films score the previous year). But just a few bits that stopped it breaking away from being just a cult film.

    That one is on my list! I have a bunch of 80s movies queued up, amazing how many I have heard of but never seen. I just got crap from some older co-workers that I haven't even seen the old Friday the 13 movies. I think I only saw the Freddy vs Jason movie and the outer space one. Was deciding on a few at the moment, thinking of the OG F13, Rocky and Dead Heat. Might do Krull instead, now I have to add Excalibur because that looks good, too! I'll take all recommendations, no matter how bad!

  13. Dragonslayer! This movie was old but is amazeballs! I really enjoyed that it seems like a typical fantasy movie but subverts a lot of what you might expect from one. Like the princess offering herself up after she discovers her name wasn't included in the lottery and that the hero doesn't save her in time. The boy who is revealed to be a girl in disguise to avoid the lottery. Also, it was nice that instead of other villagers being pissed about finding that out that they were all like "Damn, that was smart of her dad". Plus, the wizard! The way he says at the beginning that he isn't worried about traveling so far but it's revealed he let himself be Obi-Waned so he could be brought back to help later. That was great! And then the king takes all the credit for the kill LOL.

     Effects weren't great for the dragon flying scenes but they were good for the fight in the cave and when it would rise up in front of someone. Highly recommended if you have never seen it!

  14. 6 hours ago, Tank said:

    Cobweb fell apart after a strong open. Feel like there was a lot of studio interference. I could tell some scenes were order of order, and they really needed more money to sell the monster. Great Halloweeny vibes though.

    And what's the deal with these mutant kids being super strong when they grow up? The Barbarian movie had the same thing. I think in real life they would have all kinds of health issues LOL.

  15. Added to the list!

     

    So Miracle Mile...it wasn't bad! It's from 1988 but it feels like something that came out around 1982 to me. About a guy who randomly finds out from a phone call that nukes are about to start dropping and as more people find out, the city starts descending into chaos! So he spends the movie trying to save himself and a woman he just met. Overall I liked it but it's not a movie with a happy ending as they both end up in the La Brea tar pits after the helicopter they were in crashes.

  16. So I've decided to check out some older movies that I've never seen but have heard of or at least seen a poster for. First up, Nightmares (1983)!

     

    Sooo...I like horror anthologies but this one was really bad. First one is just a woman goes out for cigarettes while a serial killer is on the loose and of course comes across him. But she didn't know as he was hiding in her back seat while she was driving! At least the gas station attendant was nice enough to shoot him for her. Also, she now no longer smokes LOL.

     

    Next story has Emilio Estevez as a kid obsessed with getting to the mythical level 13 of an arcade game, Bishop of Battle. He's so obsessed he breaks into the mall in the middle of the night to play it. Unfortunately for him, getting to level 13 means the game characters leave it and try to kill him for real. He blasts a bunch of them before getting away only to be caught in the garage by the Bishop himself! His friend, looking for him the next day, finds he is now stuck in the game to play it forever! Or until someone unplugs the game.

     

    Next is Lance Henrikson as a priest who has lost his faith! He leaves his parish with just his car, $100 and a can of holy tap water. This ends up being a good choice as the devil, driving a black pick up, runs him off the road and tries to kill him! Luckily, throwing a canister of holy water is enough to vaporize the truck. He ends up getting his faith back and heads back to the parish.

     

    Last we have the other woman from the first Alien movie as a wife with a jerk husband and a daughter in danger of being eaten by a giant rat living under their house. Major LOL at the "giant rat" effects, BTW. Anyway, the rat is terrorizing them since the dad set a trap that killed it's baby but fortunately all is cool after the dad gives the dead baby rat back to momma rat as it just up and leaves with it, presumably to now terrorize another house in the neighborhood. Hope they get the word out!

     

    Next up...Miracle Mile! I'll also take recommendations. No movie is too bad or cheesy for me!

  17. 13 hours ago, Quetzalcoatl said:

     

    Really?!?  Where?  I had no idea.

    In the maze arena scene! You see them quick in the background when they all first rise up, then again later in the maze. They were the ones stuck in the cage. Honestly, I did not know this as I never saw the cartoon but one of the people I watched it with recognized them.

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