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Arriving from Netflix: THE HAND. Love this goofy movie, and the weird little run Michael Caine was on (if I'm up for it, might follow it up with THE ISLAND on Amazon).

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Originally Posted by felix 

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It's Disaster: The Movie! the series. Starring unlikable bitch and unrepentant asshole!  Written by the guys who liked Lost.

The Hand is awesome. I've got the dvd in one of my bins. I might actually cave and rent The Island from Amazon Instant Video before I get the Blu-ray this fall.

Watching a double feature Shout Factory set of The Terror Within/Dead Space. I've seen The Terror Within before, and it's still a decent little B-movie with George Kennedy and Andrew Stevens. Now I'm onto Dead Space. It's got MARC SINGER and BRYAN CRANSTON in the film! Marc Singer is a security expert that answers a distress signal that a scientist turned on at a remote station because of a virus the scientists were trying manipulate. There's quite a few scientists in the place, and Bryan Cranston plays the one who of course, doesn't want the creature destroyed.

Maybe this is the real reason Walter White was fired from the company he worked to create?

Watched the Jackie Chan/Sammo Hung comedy Winners & Sinners.  Can't say I like Hong Kong comedy a lot, but I did chuckle at a few of the gags.  Yuen Biao's cameo was pretty damn cool.  And while Jackie gets a great little stunt sequence where he chases after a sports car while on roller skates, it's Sammo who ultimately steals the movie.

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Originally Posted by felix 
Speaking as the resident TASM apologist, i've to say it really isn't that bad.

 

The reboot isn't really neccesary per see. And the story is basically a retread of the Raimi film.

 

But you know what? It doesn't really bother me. Emma Stone and Garfield work extremely well together. Their chemistry and the new Spidey costume ultimately make the film work for me.

Well, it's OK if you dig it. There are plenty of people around who liked it too.

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Originally Posted by Jox 
PS re Dolph's projects and SKIN TRADE: should get into production as soon as he can (this fall or winter), Dolph is producing it with his manager and UNISOL producer Craig Baumgarten and (co)starring in it, but he has ultimately decided not to direct it  and is looking for a director. He doesn't want to block a full year for it and as far as directing go, Lundgren wants to focus on a more personal project, NORDIC LIGHT, his ambitious World War I project about a German soldier and a Swedish spy woman (or the reverse don't remember), an ambiguous chamber period piece set in a lighthouse with flashbacks of the war (doesn't it remind you of SILENT TRIGGER?). Wish he'd get ahead with that one sooner than later but I'm afraid it's not gonna happen before 2013 or 14...

That does sound pretty cool, the World War I movie. It will be nice as something different in general, and especially for old Dolph.

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Originally Posted by wadew1 
Best thing about Expendables 2 is that Van Damme ees back in de limelight and acting weird!

Of course I dig the title of the film that applies to Spain, which is LOS MERCENARIOS 2.

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Originally Posted by Moltisanti 
Bummer news about Bob Hoskins. Tons of great roles from him, but he doesn't get enough credit for being a terrifc scumbag in UNLEASHED.

It was rather sad news to hear today. I hadn't seen enough of his movies but the ones I've seen I've enjoyed his performance... even in the terrible Super Mario Bros. He was good in Doomsday and pretty awesome in Who Frames Roger Rabbit, a movie that I enjoyed as a kid and as an adult I finally realized how noir and cool it was.

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Originally Posted by Rene (Mr.Eko) 
I also saw Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies earlier since I rented it from the Redbox yesterday. It's an Asylum production, but it looks well done and the lead actor does indeed give a great performance as Lincoln. The costume design is great, which I wouldn't doubt is due to them hiring Civil War re-enactment groups to be in the film. PLUS, Lincoln wields a collapsible scythe that he can hide in his coat! Definitely one of the better Asylum films I've seen, and I'd rank it up there with Zombie Apocalypse and that MILF movie as top notch Asylum productions, which isn't saying much, since most of their movies are crap.

I suppose that since I plugged the movie just from hearing a positive review of it, I better get my ass to the local Blockbuster to rent it so I will be able to see it.

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Originally Posted by kain424 

It's Disaster: The Movie! the series. Starring unlikable bitch and unrepentant asshole!  Written by the guys who liked Lost.

Ha. Harsh, but from reading about the plot it doesn't sound like something for me.

By the way, tonight I ate at a place I've been at a handful of times before: Logan's Roadhouse, one of those themed places which is all-wood and they have peanuts in buckets on your table and you throw the shells on the floor. It's pretty good stuff, as are most of those really similar places that are easy to find, such as Texas Roadhouse or the Santa Fe Cattle Co. It seems like the type of place that manly men like us would enjoy.

If I were in Los Angeles, I'm pretty sure how the latter part of this month would be booked, with the Everything Is Festival series at CineFamily, with some irresistable sounding programming:

An Evening With CYNTHIA ROTHROCK

As well as what looks like a very B Action thread represented 100 Most Outrageous Action Scenes:

RIP, Bob!

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Originally Posted by Twitch Reflex 
If I were in Los Angeles, I'm pretty sure how the latter part of this month would be booked, with the Everything Is Festival series at CineFamily, with some irresistable sounding programming:

 

An Evening With CYNTHIA ROTHROCK

 

As well as what looks like a very B Action thread represented 100 Most Outrageous Action Scenes:

 

Looking at their website, the entire non for profit group sounds great. It's awesome to have such a wild place for the strangest and most indie sort of programming.

From their site, I must NOW see the late 80's film Miami Connection, which despite its title is actually set in my neck of the woods of Orlando.

It looks incredible.

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Originally Posted by Fat Elvis 

RIP, Bob!

I hope you mean "Retire In Peace". I guess it hasn't been explained yet in this thread, but he's still alive; it's just that today he announced his retirement from acting as unfortunately he has Parkinson's.

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Originally Posted by The Perfect Weapon 

 

Well, it's OK if you dig it. There are plenty of people around who liked it too.

 

 

That does sound pretty cool, the World War I movie. It will be nice as something different in general, and especially for old Dolph.

 

 

Of course I dig the title of the film that applies to Spain, which is LOS MERCENARIOS 2.

 

 

It was rather sad news to hear today. I hadn't seen enough of his movies but the ones I've seen I've enjoyed his performance... even in the terrible Super Mario Bros. He was good in Doomsday and pretty awesome in Who Frames Roger Rabbit, a movie that I enjoyed as a kid and as an adult I finally realized how noir and cool it was.

 

 

I suppose that since I plugged the movie just from hearing a positive review of it, I better get my ass to the local Blockbuster to rent it so I will be able to see it.

 

 

Ha. Harsh, but from reading about the plot it doesn't sound like something for me.

 

By the way, tonight I ate at a place I've been at a handful of times before: Logan's Roadhouse, one of those themed places which is all-wood and they have peanuts in buckets on your table and you throw the shells on the floor. It's pretty good stuff, as are most of those really similar places that are easy to find, such as Texas Roadhouse or the Santa Fe Cattle Co. It seems like the type of place that manly men like us would enjoy.

Check it out. I'd be interested to hear what you thought of Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies.

Of course I've talked many a time on here about Texas Roadhouse and my borderline lust for the place. Borderline lust that also extends to several Chinese restaurants, and The Olive Garden, along with 2 taco places. It is a manly place for the likes of us, and there's plenty of girls there to put a crick in the neck.

My friend Rolando and I did a double feature today of The Amazing Spider-Man, and Dark Shadows. I enjoyed The Amazing Spider-Man a lot more than The Dark Knight Rises, but it still had some glaring editing problems. Overall it had great performances, and Garfield did a great job as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. I'm surprised I liked it, as I was expecting crap.

Dark Shadows was the clear winner of the night, as it was hilarious and Depp's performance had me laughing at just about everything he said and did. Loved the part when he hypnotizes the kid to "Go see that Cooper woman." I loved it so much, I'm pretty sure the film will make my Top 5 of the year when I do my list.

The thing about The Amazing Spider Man is that i suspect they're a lot of scenes cut out from the final product. You notice that they're quite a few scenes and lines from the Trailers that are missing in it.

I am a little surprised that you liked TASM more than TDKR, Rene. Despite its faults, TDKR is a more coherant package and its score is amazing.

After seeing this chinese bootleg's horrible subtitles for The Avengers, I can't help but imagine what The Expendables 2 will be like. I saw a graffiti tag on a light post earlier this month: "The Importance of Explosions" and immediately thought "This would be a kickass Engrish title for EX2."

Another fun shot from the Madrid premiere of EX2.  I was hoping for a Dolph vs JC rematch from their Cannes Unisol premiere.  Maybe in LA...

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Originally Posted by felix 

The thing about The Amazing Spider Man is that i suspect they're a lot of scenes cut out from the final product. You notice that they're quite a few scenes and lines from the Trailers that are missing in it.

 

I am a little surprised that you liked TASM more than TDKR, Rene. Despite its faults, TDKR is a more coherant package and its score is amazing.

I really wanted to like The Dark Knight Rises, but I just had too many problems with it. The shoddy editing in The Amazing Spider-Man is about the only problem I had with the film. Well, that and Spider-Man abandoning his search for Uncle Ben's killer. I did like how they devoted the majority of his "beginnings as Spider-Man" to finding him. I also wish that THE LIZARD SQUAD would have done something. I mean, they were exposed to the gas, and nothing happened?

Still, as I said, those are minor quibbles versus the ones I had with Rises. Although I'm open to revisiting it on Blu-ray, and maybe I'll enjoy it a tad bit better.

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Originally Posted by Bluelouboyle 

Another fun shot from the Madrid premiere of EX2.  I was hoping for a Dolph vs JC rematch from their Cannes Unisol premiere.  Maybe in LA...

 

 

Van Damme showing us he can still do the kick at 50. Yet another awesome shot that makes up for him not being at the Comic Con.

Van Damme is so awesome!

Here's to hoping that TE2 gets to No 1 at the Box Office next week.

THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN Blu Ray Features

Another great JCVD interview!

Here he talks about his love for Sly: ""I love the man,- the Belgian continues. "I truly love the man, the way he is. He taught me about film, how to get my love back for the business, how to be more confident with my intelligence. He also taught me how to behave outside of movies, with the audience, and how not to be too open, like he was in the old times, and then he was hurt."

Man, august 17 can't come soon enough. Say what you will, but that's a helluva publicity tour Sly and the boys are pulling off. I'm pumped!

I'm trying to resist watching some of these clips, and I'm doing a bad job of it. Here's Arnold and Willis in the Smart car:

http://www.fandango.com/movie-trailer/exclusive:theexpendables2smartcar-trailer/146690/2265064642

I like how they're going more over the top and SUPERHUMAN with this

Love them picking up the spare guns off the ground.

The Paris premiere is going on right now, with Sly and Arnold in attendance. Probably some good pics and clips from that later today.

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Originally Posted by Rene (Mr.Eko) 
Check it out. I'd be interested to hear what you thought of Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies.

 

Of course I've talked many a time on here about Texas Roadhouse and my borderline lust for the place. Borderline lust that also extends to several Chinese restaurants, and The Olive Garden, along with 2 taco places. It is a manly place for the likes of us, and there's plenty of girls there to put a crick in the neck.

 

Dark Shadows was the clear winner of the night, as it was hilarious and Depp's performance had me laughing at just about everything he said and did. Loved the part when he hypnotizes the kid to "Go see that Cooper woman." I loved it so much, I'm pretty sure the film will make my Top 5 of the year when I do my list.

Yeah I'll have to do that sooner rather than later.

Oh shit I actually did forget about you enjoying the Texas Roadhouse and the hot tamales who work at that joint.

Well, I am glad you enjoyed Dark Shadows, even if it looks like something I never want to check out.

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Originally Posted by Twitch Reflex 
After seeing this chinese bootleg's horrible subtitles for The Avengers, I can't help but imagine what The Expendables 2 will be like. I saw a graffiti tag on a light post earlier this month: "The Importance of Explosions" and immediately thought "This would be a kickass Engrish title for EX2."

Yes, yes it does sound like a good title in general.

Today had its ups and downs for me already. I am in for the rest of the day as it's hotter than the Dickens out. I went to one location to look for some items and had no luck there. I then decided to stop by a place I've been past a handful of times in the past but never stopped in... a ghetto-ass thrift store. It turns out, it was a wise decision for me. Not only did they have a decent-sized collection of old VHS tapes, but some of them were old tapes that people appeared to record off of pay cable TV; I know the news of that will produce a TEN INCH HERO amongst some of the thread regulars. I'll eventually go through those recorded tapes (I got a few of them; I did not get all of them as they had plenty of commercially released VHS tapes for me to pick up) and report on them in the future. Hopefully I'll find solid gold on them like I did when I finally went through those few random blank tapes I got years ago either from relatives or from a flea market.

I can tell you that right now I am going through a tape hilariously only labeled "The Outlaw Josi Wales" and right away I know it was recorded off of HBO. Indeed it's the full The Outlaw Josie Wales and now... Winter Olympics speed skating! Dammit, I think I need to go back to that ghetto place soon to get the rest of the blank tapes, even if only one film is listed as being on them. I now know it is from the '88 Calgary Olympics, which is hilarious as it's 24 years ago.

Don't worry, I'll go through the rest of the tape real late at night as I have crap to watch in the evening. Already, I am happy I spent 50 cent on that tape (as all those VHS tapes are worth) as I heard talk about "The Soviets", the cross-country race is announced by future American Gladiators commentator Mike Adamle, and I saw ads for MCI and some ABC sitcom even I don't remember, called SLAP MAXWELL, starring Dabney Coleman. But wow, I just came across WILLIAM DEVANE... shilling for such Chrysler cars as the New Yorker Turbo and the Plymouth Reliant America. Holy shit am I so glad now I stopped by that place. Like I said, the rest of that tape will come later tonight.

As if that isn't amazing enough, listen to the commercially released VHS tapes... Dragnet, Miami Blues, the original release of Into The Night, the original release of Streets of Fire, Blue Steel, Michael Keaton's One Good Cop, and two films I've never heard of before. The first one is 1988's Search and Destroy, featuring exactly zero people I've ever heard of, and the second is Fatal Skies, which stars Dr. Timothy Leary (!!) and is about skydiving teenagers who land in an industrial center that is producing toxic waste! That sounds like it could be amazing.

So yep, today has been good.

The new RED DAWN Poster looks fucking awlful.

It's my Dad's birthday this week, hit the video store and got one of his favorite movies to watch with him - HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.

Also want to take him to see THE EXPENDABLES 2 when it comes out, since he got me into Action movies when i was a kid, but right now he's more excited about the new BOURNE, despite me telling him he can expect more Willis and Arnold. And a villainous Van Damme. He'll come around.

Read "The Special Edition" this week, a nice write up on GROSSE POINT BLANK.

Plus I hear BOURNE is weak.

That EX2 clip is incredible. I've been going around saying "My shoe is biggah dan dis cah." for the past several weeks.

Sucks if that's true about the new Bourne, as I've been looking forward to it.

Got in The Slumber Party Massacre Collection from Amazon. Apparently there was some recalled versions that had unedited commentaries, and I happened to get my hands on one of those, as any others that are now available have the edited commentaries. I've seen all 3 films before, and the first one is still a great parody of the then booming slasher boom.

Saw Never Back Down 2 last night. It's WAY WAY superior to the first film.

Michael Jai White is great as a Sensei. I've always been interested in the teaching process in Martial Arts and they did a good job in depicting it here.

Oh my! Friedkin's infamous CRUISING is up on Instant. I've been kind of fiending for a revisit.

Also of interest, a something that's been up for a while: ZULU DAWN. Never seen it, but I think QT prefered it to the original, even using part of the score for BASTERDS.

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Originally Posted by Fat Elvis 

Oh my! Friedkin's infamous CRUISING is up on Instant. I've been kind of fiending for a revisit.

Just watched that last week. One of both Friedkin's and Pacino's most underrated. It's always great seeing seedy New York and the ending is haunting .

Tonight I'm probably gonna check out a few Action flicks I haven't seen yet. The Stone Killer, Brannigan, and This Park is Mine. Expecting good things out of all of them but rented This Park is Mine simply for the awesome VHS cover.

THE PARK IS MINE is awesome! A definite favorite of mine. Tommy Lee Jones is great, as is the Tangerine Dream soundtrack. A cool 80's B.

<Not sure if it still is, but it was available on Amazon Instant>

THE PARK IS MINE never quite hits the heights I was hoping it would.

THE STONE KILLER is an enjoyable yarn though. Wait until you see Bronson remain stone-faced while a bunch of hippies dance directly behind him.

The Park Is Mine is still up on Amazon Instant. Thanks for the heads up on that, Elvis, as I rented the vhs back in 2004, and I've been wanting to revisit the movie.

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Originally Posted by Fat Elvis 

Read "The Special Edition" this week, a nice write up on GROSSE POINT BLANK.

I picked this up earlier today along with High Fidelity. $8 each after the $5 coupon. What grabbed me more, however, was that I got 48 Hrs. and Red Heat on Blu-ray for $5 each.

Anyone check out my Eye of the Tiger writeup this week?

I feel bad that I haven't been as on top of my viewings lately, but luckily, my Facebook log has been continuing, so here's some thoughts on a couple thread-friendly choices I watched recently:

The Big Racket: Another grand slam in the Italian crime pantheon! Obviously influenced by era favorites from Dirty Harry to Mean Streets, vigilante cop Fabio Testi takes on an anarchic racketeering empire terrorizing suburban businesses. When he loses the police's support and employment, he recruits crime boss Vincent Gardenia and those who have been bullied by the crimina

The Final Countdown: Time-travel cheese gets an expert A-list makeover with this cult favorite that's easy to catch on to. Government engineer Martin Sheen gets assigned to observe protocol on an aircraft carrier at modern-day Pearl Harbor. A strange hurricane zaps it back to December 7, 1941, leading Sheen and captain Kirk Douglas to comprehend a way back home or become lost in history when the Japanese attack. As exciting in its execution as it is fascinating in its premise and historical background, this is a great, great, great hidden gem that successfully fuses its thrills and tension with a reflexive sense of era-appropriate paranoia.

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Originally Posted by HunterTarantino 

Anyone check out my Eye of the Tiger writeup this week?

 

Oh yeah, really dug it. Gotta give the film a second chance sooner or later.

Some shots from the Paris premiere:

I believe the silver car to the right of that giant black truck is Mad Max's INTERCEPTOR.

It's good to see Sly out and about.

Yeah, it is good. Saw some pictures of him, his wife, and their daughters shooting the breeze on a yacht and Sly on a jetski, there in France, so it makes sense he'd be there at the Paris premiere. Good to know he's keeping strong.

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Originally Posted by Fat Elvis 

I throw this out to the good people of this thread: to DVR or not to DVR - the John Woo produced THE BIG HIT

 

I didn't like it at the time, but then again I didn't like DOUBLE TEAM either (and now its my favorite VanDamme).

I'll be The Big Hit's sole defender on the board. If you liked Double Team it's certainly as good as that. You gotta love Bokeem Woodbine's obsession with masturbation, the nerdy kid from National Lampoon's Senior Trip playing an annoyingly obsessive video store employee, Lou Diamond Phillips chewing scenery like a chimichanga, the Asian businessman's "Taste the Golden Spray" standee and the opening and closing action beats. It's no classic but a guilty pleasure to be sure ... well worth DVR'ing.

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Originally Posted by felix 

Saw Never Back Down 2 last night. It's WAY WAY superior to the first film.

 

Michael Jai White is great as a Sensei. I've always been interested in the teaching process in Martial Arts and they did a good job in depicting it here.

I dug them both ... God bless you, Amber Heard. It'd be cool to see Jai White direct more as he did a nice job with the flick ... especially the fight sequences.

That's enough to sell me on at least checking out The Big Hit via Netflix, or possibly finding it for 3 bucks at Big Lots. I probably won't love it, as I'm not that interested in it, but why not?

Vanessa and I are watching Hard Target right now, because this feels like an evening to see Van Damme versus Lance Henriksen, Arnold Vosloo, and their thugs, including Sven Ole-Thorsen!

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Originally Posted by felix 
The new RED DAWN Poster looks fucking awlful.

Yep, yep it does. Talk about lazy.

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Originally Posted by Moltisanti 
Plus I hear BOURNE is weak.

That seems to be a common opinion, which is unfortunate. It at least looked fine in the previews and Renner is pretty cool.

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Originally Posted by nagboy92 
Tonight I'm probably gonna check out a few Action flicks I haven't seen yet. The Stone Killer, Brannigan, and This Park is Mine.

I can say that Brannigan is pretty cool. It's pretty wacky seeing a chubby guy in his 60's play a badass but it's still an entertaining lark, the different setting (for him) is a nice change of pace and there's a great bar fight.

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Originally Posted by HunterTarantino 
Anyone check out my Eye of the Tiger writeup this week?

Yep. Speaking of that, when I started up that Outlaw Josy Wales tape the first thing on it was a preview for what was coming up after the film, which was a Jackie Mason special and then that Busey-starring film. Instead, the rest of it was of the '88 Calgary Olympics and then part of a local news broadcast of the ABC station in Philadelphia. Besides the coverage of a few different events there, here are the ads I saw:

As it was on ABC, there were ads for such things as Hooperman (starring John Ritter), Perfect Strangers, and a show about to debut known as The Wonder Years.

* Chrysler had several different famous spokesmen at the time. Ricardo Montalban was still talking about rich Corinthian leather, and there was... Yakov Smirnoff!

* There was a caffeine-free Diet Coke ad that starred-no shit-Demi Moore.

* James Garner was shilling for the beef industry.

* Fred Willard was shilling for something known as Bendix Brakes.

* I saw a Hertz ad that featured the bizarre trio of O.J. Simpson (whoops), Arnold Palmer, and... Jamie Lee Curtis!

* Max Headroom was plugging Coca-Cola, while I was happy to see a Spuds MacKenzie commercial.

* During the news broadcast, they were plugging upcoming showings of Oh God! Book Too and Prince of the City.

Sometime in the future (as in, I won't be going through all those recorded tapes this upcoming weekend or anything like that) I'll watch the rest and hopefully they'll have hilarious randomness such as what I unexpectedly saw today.

The Perfect Weapon:  That's what I miss more than anything about the old-school video experience.  That random discovery of those recorded moments during the breaks and at the ends of videotapes.  I used to let friends borrow my VHS recordings of Late Night with David Letterman (NBC) back in the mid-to-late 80's and they used to comment about how I'd channel surf during the commercials.  When I told them it was just a habit, they'd comment that it was okay and that "it was interesting to see how I'd flip through the commercials," as in what I'd stay on, what I'd zip through, how I always knew just when to return to the right show.  Ah, the old days.

I reconnected with a favorite flick tonight.  Jake Kasdan's ZERO EFFECT (1998).  Bill Pullman plays Daryl Zero, the "world's most private detective."  Part Sherlock and part Nero Wolfe, he''s agoraphobic, abrasive, a genius and he knows it.  His colleague (Ben Stiller) has issues with the man but together they investigate a case involving blackmail, murder and a wealthy and secretive businessman played by Ryan O'Neal.  Pullman gives one of his best performances (in a three-in a-row run that included THE END OF VIOLENCE and LOST HIGHWAY) and we get a look at the career Stiller should've had as a real actor instead of chasing CGI monkeys through museums for the last decade.  Also stars the sweetly-intense Kim Dickens, features a score by The Greyboy All-Stars and a smart, emotional and funny script as surefire tight as a great detective story should be.  A highly unexpected pleasure on the first viewing and a continually rewarding experience upon further ones.  Dig it...

You know whose performance always cracks me up in RED OCTOBER? Tim Curry's. "The Captain is fighting the Americans!"

A great female friend of mine mentioned THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER the other night.  We were talking about THE NOTEBOOK and how it's one of those movies "that all women love."  And then she brought up RED OCTOBER saying she noticed that "it doesn't matter if you're a jock or a geek, single or married, blue or white collar... every guy loves that movie."  She turned to me and asked, "How about you?"   I smiled, "I have the special edition DVD, the one-sheet, the original novel and two different versions of the soundtrack."  And then got high-fives from the other two guys in the room.  :)

Reason 1,377 I wish I lived in L.A.:

Beaks is programming a Summer of '82 series for the New Bev. and on 8/15 he's pairing up POLTERGEIST with ROCKY III !

Oh, to see Sly fight Mr. T on the big screen in what Beaks himself called "One of the most entertaining movies ever made. Seriously."

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Originally Posted by The Perfect Weapon 

 

Yep. Speaking of that, when I started up that Outlaw Josy Wales tape the first thing on it was a preview for what was coming up after the film, which was a Jackie Mason special and then that Busey-starring film. Instead, the rest of it was of the '88 Calgary Olympics and then part of a local news broadcast of the ABC station in Philadelphia. Besides the coverage of a few different events there, here are the ads I saw:

 

As it was on ABC, there were ads for such things as Hooperman (starring John Ritter), Perfect Strangers, and a show about to debut known as The Wonder Years.

 

* Chrysler had several different famous spokesmen at the time. Ricardo Montalban was still talking about rich Corinthian leather, and there was... Yakov Smirnoff!

 

* There was a caffeine-free Diet Coke ad that starred-no shit-Demi Moore.

 

* James Garner was shilling for the beef industry.

 

* Fred Willard was shilling for something known as Bendix Brakes.

 

* I saw a Hertz ad that featured the bizarre trio of O.J. Simpson (whoops), Arnold Palmer, and... Jamie Lee Curtis!

 

* Max Headroom was plugging Coca-Cola, while I was happy to see a Spuds MacKenzie commercial.

 

* During the news broadcast, they were plugging upcoming showings of Oh God! Book Too and Prince of the City.

 

Sometime in the future (as in, I won't be going through all those recorded tapes this upcoming weekend or anything like that) I'll watch the rest and hopefully they'll have hilarious randomness such as what I unexpectedly saw today.

I am requisitioning this VHS from you. I may even come to Florida looking for you, or I'll send my man Huell after you.

Originally Posted by Fat Elvis 

Reason 1,377 I wish I lived in L.A.:  Beaks is programming a Summer of '82 series for the New Bev. and on 8/15 he's pairing up POLTERGEIST with ROCKY III !

Just found out my corner cinema is adding POLTERGEIST and CHINATOWN to their fall schedule, which already included GHOSTBUSTERS.  And the next few weeks will bring us GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH, CRITTERS 2, BRONSON, LIFEFORCE, TEXAS CHAINSAW 2 and POINT BREAK.  I would love a full-on ROCKYFEST, though.  Haven't seen ROCKY III since it was first released!  And coming up in the spring: BUCKAROO BANZAI!!!

The EX2 Paris premiere was mad (even more than the first one which already crazy, more than THE LORD OF THE RINGS)!!! Had "reserved for cast and crew" VIP seats (their guests really) and me and my dates were right next to JCVD's parents, when we were watching the stars walking the red carpets and signing autographs, a guy who was them then told us not to comment anything bad about JC haha...