tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29466587295012775882024-03-22T00:43:11.383-04:00I Saw Mommy Kissing Greydon ClarkGreydon Clark made JOYSTICKS, SATAN'S CHEERLEADERS, THE UNINVITED, FINAL JUSTICE, AND WITHOUT WARNING. What have you done with YOUR life???Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07121778261270980845noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2946658729501277588.post-41984330129024266312017-10-19T00:07:00.000-04:002017-10-19T00:07:51.509-04:00Let Those Bricks Fly! My Hall of Shame<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gang, it is time for me to enter the confessional and spill out all of my deepest and darkest sins. I've called myself a movie fanatic, a movie nerd, and a film freak over and over, but it's time to face facts:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I watch conversations go on between you all, and people I know, and people I don't know but I eavesdrop on anyways, I'm starting to put a puzzle together slowly but surely-- there are movies that I have never watched that EVERYONE else seems to have by this point in time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We aren't talking blind spots either. We're not mentioning the "I never really got into Italian romance films" phases or the "I really should be watching more martial arts films" situations. We are talking about big-time, either commercial or cult classics that for one reason or another I've just neglected to watch. I'll also limit it to films that I would've watched during the time they originally came out. Although there are many classics from the 30's, 40's and 50's I haven't seen, I won't punish myself for not having the time to go so far back to catch them. This list will be egregious errors I made in real time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You'll recognize most of the films on the list, if not all. You'll realize that you've watched most of the films on the list, if not all. And you'll realize that there is really no productive, ethical, or legal reason that I've never watched a single minute of ANY of these films.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You'll also realize that I suck. Get your rotten vegetables and bricks ready. I'll stand silently as you pelt me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'll group these into categories, then I'll try to make a brief defense as to why I haven't watched them, and I'll give a score of 1 to 10 on the possibility that I ever WILL watch them (10 being "yep, real soon!" to 1 being "hell and freezing over and shit like that." Even though I can admit my mistakes, it doesn't mean I won't be stubborn and ignore my past indiscretions.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Yes, technically MALCOLM X didn't win any Oscars, but it's included in here for the same reasoning.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Too long. Too damn long. This is college me, circa 1987-1992ish (okay a little long on the time frame but still the same mindset). Any movie over two hours will not be placed in this VCR, not even if it shall be watched over two or three nights. My attention span was for shit back then, and I just wasn't about to spend an entire evening with a long historical drama about ANYTHING. I think I broke that spell in 1994 with GETTYSBURG, but I've never been good at going back to catch long movies (I still have the 4 hour version of ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA on my shelf, ready to have the shrink wrap torn off -- and yes, I did see that one back in the mid-80's). I was working full-time, going to school full-time, and movies just needed to be a quick, fun release for me at that point in my life. I apologize for nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I think EMPEROR and WOLVES have lost some of their luster in the decades after their Best Picture triumphs, the 1990 winner especially. MALCOLM X seems to hold up better in revisionist lists and has a more interesting topic for me, personally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Spielberg, obviously, is one of our national treasures. I've not only seen most of his films, but have loved and adored many. HOWEVER.... there is always room for me to suck. Not counting a few of the more recent family-oriented films, I do believe these are the only three of Spielberg's output that I have not watched.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Two of them (EMPIRE and SCHINDLER'S) honestly fall into my explanation for category number one. Just too long for me at that point in my movie going. Universally acclaimed, yes, but.... can't we get it done in 115 minutes, guys? Just to show where my priorities were back then, here are some films that I DID manage to watch in 1993 (the year that SCHINDLER'S LIST won Best Picture): HEXED, EXCESSIVE FORCE, WHO'S THE MAN?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No accounting for taste in a young man's formative years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As for HOOK, didn't have an interest in seeing it then, and may have less of an interest in seeing it now. Those be the breaks, gang.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">However, I definitely had my skips. I didn't see THE GOONIES until I was in my thirties, and it was only because a co-worker won a bet with me. Musicals weren't my forte, so I didn't check out films like XANADU till much later, and even though I own it now, I actually never saw THE LAST DRAGON until the mid-2000's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Although I've covered most bases, there are still a few noticeable "misses" in the 80's catalog. BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS was strangely a tough film for me to find during the 80's (my local video stores never had it-- what?) so it has kind of fallen through the cracks. GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN was for.... well, girls... so I never ventured out to look for it. EXPLORERS, despite being directed by Joe Fuckin' Dante, was, along with THE GOONIES another 80's film I missed simply because I was a senior in high school and just too damn cool to be watching films about little kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">As for THE KARATE KID 2, the story was a bit different. I was more of an R-rated "ninja film" guy than a PG-rated family martial arts guy when both part one and two came out, in 1984 and 1986, respectively. At a high school party thrown by one of my friends over graduation in '86, I made a drunken vow that I'd NEVER watch either of the KARATE KID films... EVER. That vow lasted until the spring of 1988, when I got the hugest crush on Elisabeth Shue in ADVENTURES OF BABYSITTING on video and decided I simply MUST watch the original KARATE KID as soon as possible (I probably returned BABYSITTING to the video store and rented KARATE KID in the same trip). But part two? Still never has been seen by these eyes. And I sang along with the damn "Glory of Love" song by Peter Cetera three and a half million times in the summer of '86. So there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Again, my viewing habits for the early and mid-1980's are pretty damn solid. I've seen almost all of the films between 1981 and 1984, and a ton of '85, '86 and '87, too. It was just how I was back then. Need a recommendation about EXPOSED, HEART LIKE A WHEEL, OR BEYOND THE REEF? I'm your guy. But there were a few acclaimed films that did slip past my radar for one reason or another.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">CUTTER'S WAY was just damned impossible to find for the longest time, and the name switching (is it CUTTER'S WAY? is it CUTTER AND BONE?) always made me think it may even be two different movies back in the day. Then it completely vanished for a while, and for some reason, when MGM issued the DVD in the early 2000's, and my video store carried it, I never made the effort. Strong positive mentions by the 80's All Over Podcast and the Pure Cinema Podcast have made me certain to right this wrong, as soon as I possibly can. This might even be a blu-ray blind buy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">SOMEWHERE IN TIME looked wayyyyy too girly for me in the 1980's, and in some ways, it still does. I just don't know if this is the kind of plot that does it for me, even coming from Richard Matheson. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE looked as appealing to teenaged me as I'm sure it did to every other teenaged filmgoer when it came out, meaning absolutely not at all. I'm nearing fifty, and I'm still not 100% I'm ready for this one, no matter how many people speak so wonderfully of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">CUTTER'S WAY: 14</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Yep, start getting mad at me now. I haven't watched a single minute of any one of the eight films in the series. I haven't even been in the room while someone else was watching them. Say what you will. If you enjoy them, and I know that most of you do, that's more than fine. I salute you. To me, a wizard is Merlin in EXCALIBUR. Knowing that I'd have to go through eight films of children learning potions and spells was never going to be my cup of tea, no matter how beloved the films were/are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Any film in the series: 2 (if I end up having a small child down the road that wants to watch them)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">I just saw the 4K restoration of SUSPIRIA in a theatre two weeks back, and I loved it. Driving home, I realized that, although I've seen that Argento classic four times and had even seen MOTHER OF TEARS (a not good but still gory and over the top sequel) twice, I had never taken the time to watch the middle film in the series, INFERNO. Italian films to younger me were just the super gory Fulci and Umberto Lenzi horror titles. It was easy for me, at the time, to pass over a bunch of the Argento and Bava titles. After just watching SUSPIRIA again, the time is right to make INFERNO my destination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">JUST BEFORE DAWN may be the only early 80's slasher film that never played on the cable channels I had back when I was younger. I saw PRANKS (DORM THAT DRIPPED BLOOD). I saw DEADLY GAMES. I saw FATAL GAMES, for cryin' out loud. If JUST BEFORE DAWN had been on at any point of any day in any month in any year while I was in high school or college, I would have seen it. For the longest time, not my fault.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Up until recently, I don't think I had EVER seen a good clean copy of BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER (or NIGHT WARNING) available to watch. Crappy dark VHS copies, shitty pirated YouTube versions, etc... with everyone (including Stephen King) raving about how good this one was, I wasn't going to blow it on a subpar version.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Code Red Bill might be getting some of my money very soon on a blind buy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Cronenberg, Hooper, DePalma, Carpenter... the rock stars of my youth. These four directors were must sees for me every time they released a film during my formative years. And yet.... AND YET... I've still missed at least one contribution from each.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">We played DEAD RINGERS opening weekend in 1988 at my theatre. I was excited to see it, especially since it was Cronenberg's follow-up to THE FLY. I came in early on a Saturday morning, before we opened, and ran the film for myself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">I fell asleep twelve minutes in. Not sure if I got there too early, or if I truly wasn't made to enjoy the film, but once I woke up, I left the theatre and let the film finish playing to a non-existent audience. I've never went back to it. Shame on me. Might not like it still to this day, but why have I never tried it again?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">EATEN ALIVE was an availability issue for me when I was younger, and it then became a "there's no good clean copy to watch" when I got older and snobbier. There ARE good copies out there nowadays, so do I really have an excuse?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">I saw a couple of short clips of DARK STAR when I was younger and the look of it always turned me off. I wouldn't allow myself to understand that it was a college project of Carpenter's and that it was made on the super cheap. I did watch DePalma's HOME MOVIES, though.... twice. So I've got that going for me...which is nice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">There's a good possibility I'll catch more shit from you guys and gals about not seeing PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE than any other film I list here. I never recognized the true love for it until I started hanging around on Film Twitter, to be honest. Before that, it just reminded me of ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW... which I used to enjoy... when I was drunk as hell and with a group. Once I saw ROCKY sober, I hated it, and I figured I'd feel the same about PHANTOM. Guess I may be wrong about that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">And yet these three damned films escaped me for one reason or another. I have a valid excuse for one; I have nothing but utter shame for the other two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">I was a 3-D fanatic when Hollywood (and non-Hollywood, I'm looking at you, Gene Anthony!) studios started putting films out again with the dual lenses and the blue and red or tinted or whatever colored cardboard glasses. I saw every single 3-D film that came out in theatres near me during this time period (and I own almost every one that has been put out on blu-ray, too!). Every one, that is, besides TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This film played for one single solitary week in my area theatres... and I was sick all week. I missed days of school, and I honestly sat at home thinking of only one thing-- I was going to miss TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS in 3-D! And I did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I refuse to ever watch this in any 2-D version. It's not made for it (same with if you ever tried to watch COMIN' AT YA without the extra dimension-- worthless). I missed a screening this summer at Exhumed Films in Philadelphia because I was out of town, so until this hits a retro-screening again, or comes out on 3-D blu-ray (Scream Factory???), this film stays unwatched.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ROCKULA didn't get theatrical release in my area (didn't get much of one at all), and being a musical, didn't hold much sway for me during college and my twenties and thirties, to be honest. Now, however, as a Cannon true believer, I WILL make this Dean Cameron/Toni Basil film strike my eye sockets and ear holes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I will put up no excuse or reason. This is borderline felonious. I give myself 30 days to watch it or I'm turning myself in. Shame on me for all eternity if I let this evade my grasp for one month longer. Hold me to the promise, people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, there are my dark, dirty secrets? I'm feeling appropriately ashamed for that list, and I'm not even sure if I feel better for coming clean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's okay. You're good. If you didn't know it before now, you were going to find out eventually. All of us do at some point. I have been obsessed with movies since 1981, but it took me until this year to "find my voice" and start seeking out others who shared my affliction, or gift. I joined Twitter and found one account after another that had the same passion as me (or more!), and it was very fun to engage these new acquaintances and discuss the movies that we loved and didn't love so much. I found myself spending hours on end talking about the best films of 1981 and what's wrong with the newest ALIEN film (a lot!) and putting up hypothetical scenarios for films that will never exist. It was fun, it was fresh, and I found that I was finding my voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Scroll through "Film Twitter," and you learn something quickly. Every one, and I mean EVERYONE, has either a film-based podcast, a film-based blog, or they may even have both. The quality is wildly varying. Some blogs put out long, well-researched posts about single films, or a series of films, or a director, and you find yourself standing and applauding when you finish reading. Others exist only for clickbait and do whatever they can to make you jump through hoops to move through "lists" that are generated over 50 different screens. You'll want to throw your laptop through the window after those (one such site... unnamed... used to be one of my favorite but has gone SOOOOOO far to the listicle/clickbaity stuff that the site is utterly unreadable now.) Some blogs don't contain the best and most-prepared and edited pieces of work, but they come from such a point of love and enthusiasm for their topics that you can't help to smile while reading and eagerly await their next post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love being on Film Twitter, but 140 characters is never enough for some topics. I want to get into solid debates on some subjects and I want to go on and on and on about films that I'm nostalgic about from my youth that still hold a special place in my heart-hole today. Even when you make a properly designed "thread" on Twitter, it just doesn't help you give a full expression of how you feel about movies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I started in April, and when I did, I tried to write long detailed articles about films I liked. I found several things. Not being as good as other writers (which I wasn't) gave me a very defeatist attitude; also, I hated writing plot synopsis and character descriptions, which quickly made my "reviews" utterly worthless to people who hadn't seen the films I was talking about in any particular post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stopped posting very quickly and let the blog die a slow, quiet death. However, I got a brainstorm at the end of August. I still wanted to write, but I found it easier if I wrote quickly about things and films that were on my mind rather than trying to prepare longer, more detailed articles. I'd write fast and simple, and I'd post anytime the feeling hit me rather than trying to hit a weekly/monthly goal. Since I "rebooted" on the 23rd of August, I've posted ten articles (about 2.5 a week) and I have plenty more ideas in mind. Sometimes I post write after watching a film (like I did with 1981's "True Confessions" or 1985's "The Last Dragon") and sometimes the feeling just seems right, as it was for my tribute to Bernie Casey. If I want to write that day, I write. Sho' 'nuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Again, if you're reading this, you've probably interacted with me on Twitter. And if you've interacted with me on Twitter, I've done it because I trust, value and appreciate your opinions and your thoughts on film. I don't care who you are-- you should be sharing your opinions and thoughts. I don't care if you think your writing is shoddy and that it doesn't compare to everyone else you read. If you've read all my posts, you probably realize that I only know about 64 words total. At best. And yet here I am. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Post in comments sections of the stuff you read. If you agree with the author, tell them. If you disagree, be civilized and make a good counter-argument. If they have a list of films they love, try and add to the list or recommend something they may not have seen. Engage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. Schizocinema (<a href="http://schizocinema.blogspot.com/">http://schizocinema.blogspot.com/</a>) which is run by Chris Chaka (<a href="https://twitter.com/chris_chaka">https://twitter.com/chris_chaka</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. VHS Revival (<a href="https://vhsrevival.com/">https://vhsrevival.com/</a> ) - their Twitter is <a href="https://twitter.com/VHSRevival">https://twitter.com/VHSRevival</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7. The Farsighted Blog (<a href="http://farsightedblog.com/">http://farsightedblog.com/</a> ) - you can find reviews there by Rachel, who you can find on Twitter at: <a href="https://twitter.com/maxfischers">https://twitter.com/maxfischers</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">9. The Mike ( <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMike31">https://twitter.com/TheMike31</a> ) is a turkey but he's my favorite turkey of all. Check out his stuff at: <a href="http://tmdfps.blogspot.com/">http://tmdfps.blogspot.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whether you are a film nerd, a music afficioanado, or a sports fanatic, it is simply inevitable that, as celebrated names in those professions pass away, you will be overcome to varying degrees of emotion and sorrow over their passing. Even if you don't get teary eyed over the death of someone you've respected but never met, it is still a natural occurrence to feel at least a small ounce of sadness when a death is announced to the public. And obviously it goes without saying that some announcements sting more than others. Your mind wouldn't be functioning properly if you took every loss equally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've never been the type to get too worked up over celebrity deaths, because, in reality, we HAVEN'T met them and gotten to know them for the most part (and yes, I know that some of you have and that makes it completely acceptable for you to feel more emotion than others might. For example, you've been to a convention or ten and met George A. Romero several times and gotten to talk with him, I totally understand the higher level of personal sorrow.) But for me, I can't find myself truly getting too worked up over any singular celebrity's passing over another. I have bonded with their characters, or their songs, or their great games, more than I have with the man or woman themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I started really getting into movies, as I've stated previously, I wasn't your normal pre-teen that only was interested in movies that pre-teens would be. I was as much into Scorsese and Lumet as I was ROCKY movies, HALLOWEEN films, and STAR WARS sequels. I also found myself getting more attached to actors that weren't big stars, performers that others around me never seemed to notice. To me, they were "MY actors," guys who never got discussed in normal movie conversation because they weren't the stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">R.G. Armstrong was my actor. Bert Remsen was my actor. Albert Popwell was my actor (he was in ALL of the first four DIRTY HARRY movies, for cryin' out loud-- in different parts even!!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bernie Casey started out as an All-American athlet</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">e in track and field. He almost made the U.S. Olympic Team in 1960. He was then drafted in the first round by the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL in 1961 and played for eight years. I wasn't born yet, but if I had, Casey would have probably been one of MY guys, even if he never went into acting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After making his debut in 1969's GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, Casey made a long and productive career for himself in Hollywood, crossing over into many genres and back over and over again. I'm not going to go over all of the films, but I do want to single out some of my favorite Casey films and performances. (I do not have HIT MAN and DR. BLACK, MR. HYDE listed here, which mean that 1) I'm an idiot because I haven't seen them, and 2) Since I'm digging deeper and deeper into Blaxploitation at the moment, they have both shot up to the top of my "need to see" films list. Seriously, shame on me, but keep reading anyways.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. This is a BRIAN'S SONG knock off, made by a small independent company two years after that groundbreaking "male tearjerker" film came out for television. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to themselves. And yet, I saw MAURIE first, by more than a few years. It played in a Friday night network movie slot probably in 1977 or 1978, and back then, I loved sports probably a hundred times more than I loved movies. I'd sit up and listen to a baseball game with teams I didn't like most nights before I'd watch a movie. But a sports movie? Sign me up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Casey plays real-life basketball player Maurice Stokes, who suffered a brain injury and later became paralyzed as a result of hitting his head on the floor during a game. Bo Svenson plays Jack Twyman, his teammate and best friend, who never gave up on Stokes and cared and supported him right up until his eventual death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If for nothing else, I write about Bernie Casey because of Arch. Casey's vice squad detective is big, tough, loyal, and has several WONDERFUL scenes, including two with Burt Reynolds (about 45 mins in and about 5 minutes before the ending) which seem like they were written specifically to be showcases for the character AND the actor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not a ton to say here (this is still one of the Bond films I have a tough time fully embracing. It's more than competent but strangely not compelling, and it DOES feel weird having Connery back during the Roger Moore era). But Casey's presence as an actor is important enough for the producers to give him the key role of Felix Leiter. Always nice to have a Bond film on your resume-- unless it's WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. (So sorry... low blow.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tolerance and acceptance is the message of this great 80's comedy, but it takes a while to come for the poor misunderstood nerds of our title. When it does come, it comes in the form of U.N. Jefferson, the fraternity president of Lambda Lambda Lambda, an all-black fraternity. In all honesty, it takes a some charter technicalities and a little bit of (or a lotta bit?) of weed to make the Lambdas accept their new pledges, but when they do, U.N. Jefferson accepts them in with open arms, and when things look the bleakest in the last act, Casey's powerful leader comes to save the day. There's a reason why the most powerful part of the "We are the Champions" cover plays over his name in the end credits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Man, were the 80's good to Bernie! I still adore this film and enjoy it from start to finish, but I can fully admit that the funniest stretch of the film is the short montage of training scenes as our two leads (Chevy Chase and Dan Akyroyd) are put through the motions by a no-nonsense Colonel Rhombus to get them ready to become field agents. Casey is monotone and deadpan hysterical in his short bit as the colonel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Casey was in two action films in 1987; he reteamed with Burt Reynolds in RENT-A-COP, and he made STEELE JUSTICE with the immortal Martin Kove. In full honesty, despite being the cheesier and lower budgeted of the two, STEELE JUSTICE is by far the more entertaining of the two (RENT-A-COP is at best misguided and at worst an unholy mess of a film). Casey even plays an undercover cop whose very close in nature to SHARKY'S MACHINE's Arch (although without the ceasing to exist capability). It's not a huge showcase for Casey, but he's fine in it, and it's a really fun B-actioner to seek out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is probably THE one for a lot of people, and if not for Arch, it might be for me, too. The film is a wonderful bawdy parody of the Blaxploitation flicks of the early 70's, and it features many of the stars from that era as well. You get Jim Brown. You get Isaac Hayes. You get Antonio Fargas. And you get Bernie Casey as John Slade, who plays the big hero from the past who comes back to help a younger do-gooder (Keenan Ivory Wayans) clean up the streets and get rid of drug kingpin Mr. Big (John Vernon). Filled with AIRPLANE-like sight gags by the second, an amazing cast of recognizable faces that never quits, and an energy that never stops (and that Wayans possibly never matched again in films), right in the middle stands John Slade, the biggest, baddest, and most righteous dude who ever lived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Man, how many big films was Bernie Casey in during the 1980's? Again, a small role but a key one. He plays Mr. Ryan, the high school history teacher who gets Bill and Ted on their way to learning. His assignment (and a telephone booth time machine) are the key components for getting our two wild and crazy goofballs to finally understand all of the main points of world history. God Bless Mr. Ryan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are many, many other roles in a career that stretched over close to forty years and over seventy-five movies and television projects. But these to me are my essential Bernie Casey, and these are what made him one of "my guys."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can read the first part of the article by clicking <a href="https://isawmommykissinggreydonclark.blogspot.com/2017/09/camp-redemption-not-every-friday-13th.html">here</a>, or just by scrolling down. Don't be lazy.... go do it. I'll wait. Seriously... I have a pizza in the microwave (with bacon bits!). I have </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the time. Go! (Seriously don't scroll down.... by doing that you'll spoil the list of 10. Click that link up there).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* It's Katharine Isabelle. She's making my list any time she qualifies for a list I'm making. Damnit if you guys keep forgetting-- my list, my rules.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* Cute girls in baseball caps are almost automatic entries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* On a serious note, this may be the biggest bullshit kill in the series. Am I reading this right? A girl, who just lost her boyfriend, decides to wash away her sorrows with alcohol at a cornfield rave. She passes out and goes into Freddy's dream land. At the same time, some fat fuck gets on top of her in the corn field and may/may not be getting ready to rape her. While she's having the Freddy nightmare AND while she's got a guy on top of her against her will, Jason comes through the cornfield and impales her (as well as said fat fuck). I have the most fun with almost every kill in the entire series, but this one almost made this topic un-fun. I call foul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* Back to fun on the list - Brodski's my favorite badass in the series. Forget Tommy Jarvis. Forget Tina the Mind Control loser. And Julius from JASON TAKES MANHATTAN only went one round with Jason, so he's out, too. You tell me that every film has Brodski trying to kill Jason RIGHT after Crazy Ralph shows up to tell the cast they are going to die. At least give me a damn JASON VS BRODSKI follow-up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* Love his lines when he finally meets his demise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="style14">AND THEN HE STILL COMES BACK TO LIFE! (Where he continues to survive until he grabs Jason, flies into space and supposedly burns up on re-entry to Earth.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="style14">* He makes one big mistake. He doesn't believe Tommy Jarvis. If he just sorta believes him with an ounce of necessary skepticism, or even does more thorough investigating, who knows how many of JASON LIVES' characters see another day? After that, he does the decent things, the noble things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="style14">* Much like "It's Katharine Isabelle," this one is, "It's Crispin Glover." Every scene that Glover would have been in past his death would have been interesting at the very least.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* You want to talk unfair death? I've got your unfair death right here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Young boy with special needs drowns at summer camp while two asshole snotty camp counselors run off to make out. His mother, who works hard at the camp to support her AND her young son, finds out her son has died in an accident and it mentally scars her for life. If we heard this story in real life, we'd all be crying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And yet.... Jason's the fuckin' bad guy. Shame on all of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Young Voorhees is the PERFECT recipient of this second chance. He didn't have sex or do drugs or act like a jerk or go into the woods alone or anything. He was a damn child who got dealt a shitty hand. Let's rectify that now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh, what is it you say? If Jason ends up being saved, he doesn't get all mangled up and pissed off, and he never comes back to kill all of the other counselors and none of the other films ever happen? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. THE MAKING OF FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE LEGEND OF CAMP BLOOD by David Grove - a used copy, but over 430 pages of behind the scenes stories and pictures of the entire series (through FREDDY VS JASON).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If we've all learned one thing through our existence, it is that life can truly, simply, and cruelly be unfair. You lose out on that big promotion you wanted. You proclaim your love to another to find out that that love is not returned. You get your chance to make the big play to win the championship, and you slip and fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or, you get skewered by a fire poker at a summer camp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you start looking at people who have been dealt a shitty, unfair hand, no one has a better claim to being upset than the camp counselors and locals who have populated Camp Crystal Lake (yes, the residents of Haddonfield, Elm Street, and a certain portion of Texas may disagree, but the numbers speak for themselves. Crystal Lake delivers the bad luck in MUCH higher numbers). And yes, over the course of twelve films (including pairing films and reboots) there have been MANY people who deserved to be on the wrong end of a spear gun or weed whacker, there have a been a small distinct group of people who were either seriously "in the wrong place at the wrong time," or were just plain done wrong by lazy plotting and misunderstood characterization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've been inundated over the past two decades with reality show after reality show. There's no end in sight; people just eat them up. Some are dating shows; some are cooking programs. And no reality trope has shown to be as time-tested and steadily popular as the put a group of people together and let them survive the elements to win a big cash prize. You've got your "SURVIVOR," your "AMAZING RACE," and your "BIG BROTHER." Now, I am proud to bring you the newest, and most revolutionary of all of these reality "survival" shows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yup. We're gonna take a bunch of people and dump them at Camp Crystal Lake. Last one surviving wins.... well, hell.... survival. So straightforward and simple. Make alliances or go lone wolf. Try to run or hunker down in a cabin with handmade weapons. We don't care; it's up to the contestant to figure it out. The stuff practically writes itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But how do we find contestants? It can't possibly be easy to get people to VOLUNTEER to head to a camp where over a hundred people have been killed over the course of a dozen movies (and yes, damnit, I know there is Camp Forest Green and the trip to Alice's house to put a knife in her ear and the trip to the hospital when Jason was dead but wasn't really dead and the graveyard and Elm Street and outer space and I guess what I'm saying is shut the fuck up and let me finish.) So, after much hand-wringing, we decided on our favorite method of casting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We decided to scroll through every minute of every FRIDAY THE 13TH movie (a lot of carnage, to say the least) and find the ten characters who most deserved a second lease on life. We determined the winners based on a very specific set of criteria (haha, no... we definitely just thought of some people who we liked and would like to see again if we had the chance. You seriously fell for the criteria line? What a maroon.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was never a big fan of the "Fast and the Furious" series during what we'll call Act One (the first three films, also known as the "Look how fast my car is!" group). My affection for the films came during Act Two, the "Holy Shit, we're James Bond movies now!" phase. Starting slowly with "episode" four and working consistently since, the Universal series has become steadily more bizarre, more preposterous, and somehow....more fun. FAST AND FURIOUS 6 may be the peak of the series. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sadly, I'm here to report that installment eight, FATE OF THE FURIOUS, might be the first one in the second phase to bring us diminished returns. This is the first of the series where new cast additions just feel to be too much (nowhere near enough for everyone to do), and no matter how psyched I was that she had been cast, Charlize Theron just ends up being a mid-level villain. I expected too much. No matter who they end up casting, the performances have never been more than caricatures and they never will be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oooooh, I REALLY wanted to like this one. I saw the preview during the winter and it looked like it was right up my alley. Small-scale, big-stakes, filled with tension and with a lean running time of around 85 minutes. Yet, this tale of two American soldiers pinned down by a playful and dangerous sniper in Iraq starts to sputter about halfway in and never builds up to the highs that I was hoping for when I started it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I don't know if there is a single scare in THE DEVIL'S CANDY, yet I remained riveted and disturbed straight through. Finding it on Netflix last weekend (and having star Ethan Embry tell me in person at Monster Mania in August that I needed to see it!), I kicked back at 1:30 in the morning figuring it would take me a second viewing over the weekend to finish it, and I was thrown for a fast paced, utterly gripping little film.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Needless to say, the happiness doesn't last long. I won't spoil any of the fun of THE DEVIL'S CANDY, but instead of a simple film about one of the family members being possessed or the house being like the one in Amityville, the movie plays as a fun concoction of Satanist tract, home invasion film, and a heavy metal nightmare. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh, why could you not have been more trashy, movie?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Denise DiNovi, longtime producer (HEATHERS, BATMAN RETURNS, ED WOOD, SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS) chose this script to make her long-overdue feature directing debut. The plot, about a woman (Rosario Dawson) who's put a dark, secret life behind her only to be newly terrorized by the ex-wife (KATHERINE HEIGL) of the man she is now engaged to, screams out to be made as an overwrought Lifetime Network thriller. All of the elements are in place, but DiNovi plays it... straight. And quite competently; the film is well-acted and shot throughout. DiNovi has put together a very sharp crew that makes this film play way better than it has a right to... and that's the trouble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This should be fun. Yes, it would be need to be more ramshackle, have more plot contrivances and weird coincidences, and it would be need to be more than a little batshit crazy. Yet, those things would make this film all the more enjoyable to sit through. Heigl's character is mentally deranged, but the film introduces the character of her mother (Cheryl Ladd), who is just as tightly wound and ready to snap. We get the reason that Heigl has turned out the way she has, and this makes her character come off as... almost sympathetic. Wrong choice in a film like this, silly or not. My villain must be a good villain in a thriller like UNFORGETTABLE. She can't be looked upon as a potential symbol of pity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So many missed opportunities. Damn you, Denise DiNovi, for trying to do a good job. Be sloppier next time, and you might have an A-grade loony classic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After 2013's CHEAP THRILLS, I was excited to see what director E.L. Katz would do next. I had to wait four years for a follow-up, but SMALL CRIMES was absolutely worth the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, a million miles away from Jaime Lannister in GAME OF THRONES (and doing a very nice job as a seedy lowlife character; I can't wait to watch SHOT CALLER, which also places him in a tough con role and is supposed to be excellent), plays a man getting out of prison after serving a sentence for attempted murder. His Joe character simply wants to get on with his life and reunite with his children. The criminal world he left behind has other ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are absolutely many things in SMALL CRIMES that you've seen in similar films, so don't come looking for originality. The film, and its characters, have a true, lived-in feeling to them, that makes this film resonate quite a bit more than other crime thrillers that delve more into the action side of things. Joe wants to start anew and repair all of the damage, but everyone he returns to either wants the old Joe, or no Joe at all. Most of them have simply moved on without him. The rest need him to settle old scores.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And I can't let this capsule review end without mentioning the ending. Although it makes total sense afterward, it comes out of nowhere and floors you. I'm not sure if I'll see an ending more powerful and devastating in 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since just about everyone took their shots at reviewing this and making sense of it when it came out in May, I won't go long on this one. After watching it, I absolutely understand why everyone was so split on it. The movie is split on itself. Very rarely have I seen a film so schizophrenic in such an equal, 50/50 manner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are two distinct stories at work here, and they make only the mininum effort to try to intertwine. I can appreciate everything that Ridley Scott and the screenwriters are trying to say with the David character and creation. This could have been a fascinating "thinking man's" sci-fi film delving deep into that topic. Add on top of that the character that Billy Crudup plays, which is supposed to be devoutly religious, and you have the components for a very smart, very original film.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But you need the alien attacks. We must have the alien attacks in an ALIEN film. And they do happen, staged almost in the same timing patterns as the kill shots in a FRIDAY THE 13TH film. If you're getting bored, don't worry... Ridley's gonna have a chest burster in the next 3 minutes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So there we are. Everytime the religion/creation angle heats up, we have to get gory. And every time the action gets super tense and we are enjoying the roller coaster ride of a standard ALIEN sequel, slowwwww down! Time for some sermonizin'!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've been a fan of the series since the outset, and my feelings/rankings usually sit where the majority of viewers do. I love the first two and can rank them 1-2 or 2-1 depending on my mood. I can now appreciate ALIEN 3 as the flawed masterpiece that it is, rather than the botched follow-up by a novice music video director. And I rightly put the ALIEN vs PREDATOR films wayyyyyy down at the bottom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who knows where I'll finally come down on this one.... maybe I'll see this in the same kind of light I look at ALIEN 3 now. It's possible, but for now, I just see COVENANT as an ambitious mess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">My last blog post was about themes for movie viewing. The concept was that if you choose a theme for each month, you never hit that "wall" where you can't decide what to watch. Draw a blank, go back to the theme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">After writing the post, I saw a great theme that my Twitter film buddy Cinemonster is doing and has done before. It is HOOPTOBER!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I will provide you the beginning of what Cinemonster puts on his Hooptober page, and then I'll leave it for you to follow the links and see the rest for yourself. This is exactly what I was talking about with themes, and he has done an AMAZING job with this over the past few years. I strongly recommend participating!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's how he starts off:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Greetings from the home of George Romero, Tom Savini, Chilly Billy and the perpetually awesome Jeff GoldBlum. This is Hooptober 4.O. Sadly since last year we have lost both Billy and George, but we have become a popular place for Richard Linklater to hang out. (which makes this Austin boy happy)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last years version destroyed our first 2 years, and gave us a several hundred great lists and well over 1500 reviews, thoughts and impressions to read. The most enjoyable part for me, as always, was to see what everyone chose to watch, and the reactions to some of the stranger shit out there that people found."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To read more, go to Cinemonster's Hooptober page, which is located <a href="https://letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/the-night-hooptober-came-home-hoop-tober/">here</a>. You can also follow Cinemonster on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/ELCinemonster">here</a>. Check it out today!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While I'm on the subject of Film Twitter buddies, the awesome Albert Muller brought up the film, DIGGSTOWN, tonight. I love this 1992 STING-like film about boxing and con men, and Albert loves it fifty times more than I. While talking about it with him, I got the fine score by James Newton Howard in my head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can follow Albert to talk about DIGGSTOWN or lots of other movies on Twitter by clicking <a href="https://twitter.com/aj_macready">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"I've got x (x = how many movies the person owns or has access to on streaming, cable, etc) movies, and I have nooooooo idea what to watch!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've all been there. I used to work in a Blockbuster, and I would try to find a movie to put on while we opened the store first thing in the morning. There were no customers in the building for another hour to two hours, so the sky was the limit in terms of what I could watch. NOTHING was taboo (well, it WAS Blockbuster, so plenty was taboo...) so I could watch anything. But time would swiftly tick off of the clock as I just couldn't make up my mind. For every five times I went to pick something out, I either couldn't pick anything at all, or I went to a small group of standbys (more on that list at the bottom-- don't cheat and skip to it!) that I played when I couldn't come up with something new or better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, I get you, I do... I have about 400-450 blu-rays (maybe more, stopped counting), I have Netflix, I have Amazon Prime, I have Shudder, and I have friends, family members and co-workers who have plenty of movies that I don't have. So I get you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But, everyone.... stop it. S to the T to the OP it. You don't need to go through this headache. You don't need to drive yourself crazy. And you certainly do not have to drive everyone around you crazy with your craziness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's soooo simple. Pick a topic. Pick a decade. Pick an actor. Go nuts... pick whatever you please. But get yourself a theme for every week or month. If you hit "thinker's block" and you can't decide what to put on, activate said theme and voila! You instantly have a MUCH smaller catalog to choose from. (And you don't have to limit yourself to JUST the theme for that month-- use it as a fallback whenever you can't decide. Or be like me and go whole hog-- just how many films can I watch from that theme every month.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* JUNE - PICK MY VIEWS (I had Twitter followers choose movies for me that I hadn't ever seen)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* JULY - RUNNIN' TO REDBOX - take a month to catch up on all of the recent movies I may have missed (included several extra trips to the theatre as well)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* AUGUST - UNWRAP MY BLUS AUGUST - I had been buying more blu-rays than I had been watching. I unwrapped 32 that I had previously bought and watched them throughout the month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* SEPTEMBER - RUNNIN' TO REDBOX again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* OCTOBER - for the first time in years, I think I'm skipping a month of horror movies for Halloween, and instead I'll be focusing on the years 2000 to 2005. There are MANY films there I've only seen once, or, even worse, not at all. A weird blind spot for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's just me. But you can see that I've come up with areas and time periods that I've been weak on, and I've used those to complement my usual viewing patterns. I usually post my totals at the end of the month on Twitter to see how I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it's not just me... some websites/blogs/podcasts set up theme months of their own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Patrick Bromley at <a href="http://fthismovie.net/">fthismovie.net</a> does a fantastic service to the movie viewing community with his annual JUNESPLOITATION offering. He sets up a June calendar with daily subjects (slasher movies, sci-fi actioners, Italian gorefests) and then leaves it up to his followers and listeners to choose something within that particular topic. He sets up a #Junesploitation hashtag and it is simply marvelous to watch everyone chime in each day with their selections. Not only does it cure the "thinker's block" for a lot of people, but it is truly a blast. Check out Patrick's site when you are done here, and follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/fthismovie">@fthismovie</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/patrickbromley">@patrickbromley</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So... themes, people! It's still early in September. Develop a theme to do a test run. If you're using your collection, pull out a small stack of films that would fit under that particular theme. And whenever you can't decide on something specific, HIT THAT DAMN STACK! Your family will be proud of you, your friends will be proud of you, and for cryin' out loud, I'll be shit-on-a-stick proud of you myself! Go team!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (1979) - Love the movie. It absolutely wears it's liberal heart on its sleeve, and although not the most solid script of all time, it has something to say, and damnit to hell if it's not going to take the time to say it. Al Pacino gets several BIG moments in this one (we are starting to head into the "hoo-ahh" section of Pacino's career) and yes, the "You're out of order!!!" scene is here, too. Episodic but charming and audience-friendly as hell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. ARTHUR (1981) - Everyone talks about the job that the late Steve Gordon did here with his script and directorial effort. Everyone talks about the job that Dudley Moore, John Gielgud, Liza Minnelli and the rest of the cast did. Now, turn your head away from the screen, work on some morning paperwork and it is simply stunning how GOLDEN the dialogue is in this film. The one-liners and tear-jerking moments shine through equally, and the conclusion that I get is Steve Gordon (who died after this and never made another film) ends up being one of the saddest "What if...?" questions in movie history. His work is stunningly good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. PCU (1994) -- So underrated, and now that EVERY SINGLE COMEDY has to end with warm and fuzzy feelings (romance, etc.) it's almost shocking to go back and find films that just wanted to be funny from start to finish. Not even close to ANIMAL HOUSE, but the 90's closest attempt to capture the slobs vs snobs battles on college campuses, this film gives me THE perfect Jeremy Piven performance (don't @ me with your ENTOURAGE rebuttals), great foils in Jessica Walter and David Spade, and a VERY early performance by Jon Favreau ("Don't be that guy.") So much good comedy and at only 79 minutes, it was one of the few films that I could start AND finish before we opened for business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5. LET IT RIDE (1989) - I'm not going to go long on this one, because I have a TON to say about this film, and will be devoting a blog post at some point very soon to do just that. But although I'll never list it in my Top 5 movies of all-time, or my Top 10, or my Top 50.... I've probably seen LET IT RIDE about nine hundred and seventy one times. Of those times, I've actually been focused on the screen watching it for about five of them. This was my ALL-TIME "before opening" video, and I can't explain why. Actually, I will explain why in that upcoming post. So stay tuned. Seriously, you better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you haven't checked them out yet, do Drew and Scott a favor and give 'em a listen. Go to their Twitter account ( click <a href="https://twitter.com/80sallover">here</a>) and follow their links to find their show (and review them!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Anyhoo-- back to TRUE CONFESSIONS. I started my "film nerd" life with seeing DEER HUNTER uncut on broadcast television in early 1981. I then went on to seek out RAGING BULL at the discount houses (second run theatres charging $2.00 or less for admission) when it reached them, and I saw GODFATHER and GODFATHER PART II in the summer of 1981. 1981 was the year of Robert DeNiro/Robert Duvall utter nirvana for me. Please now... imagine what my face looked like when I found out that DeNiro AND Duvall would be in a new film together that fall... add some zits, wipe the pizza sauce off of my chin, and you have a good idea. This film was going to be my ENTIRE second half of the year! I couldn't be more excited for anything. And feel free to go back and see how well 13 year old me was doing with girls in 1981 and you'll find this to be true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I, and many people, originally took TRUE CONFESSIONS for a crime thriller with a both a family and a religious bent to it. If you did go in that way, the film can do nothing but ultimately disappoint, as the crime ends up being not all that captivating and the resolution to the mystery almost feels like a throwaway at the end. With that being the case, and my 13 year old self not being fully aware enough to understand what director Ulu Grosbard was going for, I walked out of the theatre completely deflated. I waited all this time for THIS???</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Repeat views when it came out on cable the next year or two didn't help matters anyway. I tried hard looking for clues that I had missed in the solving of the crime. Maybe I just hadn't been paying attention? But still... nothing. The performances were great. I was still obsessed with DeNiro and Duvall. Yet, I still could not get into TRUE CONFESSIONS one bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I had watched it once or twice as I had gotten older and appreciated it a tiny bit more, but after listening to "80's All Over" discuss it in detail during their September of 1980 show, became intrigued again. Kino Lorber was holding a sale for their blu-ray titles and TRUE CONFESSIONS was listed. So I went ahead and jumped in with both feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I still cannot profess undying love for the film, but I am now fully aware (I think!) of what the film is about and what it is trying to do. After looking at it for over 30 years as a crime thriller, I can now see it much clearer as the character study of two brothers who get along but whose works in life complicate their relationship to no end. TRUE CONFESSIONS is much more a film about corruption of one's morals than it is a film about a murder. In fact, just as a red herring is described as a clue in a mystery that is meant to be distracting, the red herring in TRUE CONFESSIONS is solving the murder itself. It does eventually have meaning in the film, but the crime is simply in the film to bring important characters together on-screen, not to find a smart, clear resolution to that crime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Instead, I now can get caught up in watching the two brothers movie in different directions on the moral compass. Duvall's detective wallows in the filth of the criminal element he deals with every day, but through trying to solve the murder, he becomes cleaner and more ethical as the film progresses. At the same time, DeNiro's monsignor begins the film literally as holy as one can be, but finds himself falling further and further from grace as he becomes more intertwined with Durning's evil character. TRUE CONFESSIONS best captures the brothers' storylines best in two scenes set in a confessional. DeNiro and Duvall sit on the same sides of the screen in both scenes, but there is a different character in need of confession in each one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also was able to appreciate quite a bit more the inner machinations within DeNiro's church. The Cardinal (Cyril Cusack) is more concerned with the money coming into the church than the quality of the service being provided to the parishioners. This plays within his conversations with DeNiro about land deals, but is more significant in a subplot where he tries to put an older monsignor (Burgess Meredith) out to pasture. The elder, despite gaining in years, still believes in spreading the gospel and helping his parish as his main work. Sadly, this time has passed for him, and DeNiro is in charge of moving him along. The most interesting parallel is between the Church's washing their hands of Meredith, and the eventual resolution for DeNiro's character. Although both went about their careers in vastly different ways, they both end up at the same tiny desert chapel to waste away their final days. The Catholic Church of Grosbard's film is going to chew you up and spit you out eventually, no matter how you went about your business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nuance, in the end, turns out to be the way in which TRUE CONFESSIONS finally works (or doesn't work, depending on your final evaluation) for the viewer. I truly feel the best way to handle the story (although not the most exciting) is to not get drawn in by the murder mystery at all. It is the least important part of the plot, and it is the least deftly handled. Instead, take the 105 minutes to watch DeNiro and Duvall put on a quiet yet dazzling display of understated acting, appreciate the supporting cast of Durning, Meredith, Cusack, Ed Flanders, Kenneth McMillan and Rose Gregorio, and let Ulu Grosbard place you in a leisurely paced but 100 percent wonderfully detailed 1940's moral drama. Watch TRUE CONFESSIONS the right way.... it has true staying power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This one stayed on the wall for a while. Eventually "the other guy" dressed up as a woman and tried to knife Nancy Allen. I didn't like that guy. He was a meanie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Enjoying the trip through 1981 here (and again, HUGE ups to 80's All Over, who have been covering the HELL out of this particular calendar year and have just done their 1981 recap-- you better be heading there after finishing here!) so why not keep it going? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are plenty of films that younger me liked that were critically panned and that I no longer enjoy as an adult. There are also several films that I still put in the "Like" column, whether because I've never rewatched or I'm just stubborn. I have no problem being a contrarian, so here are my:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">TOP 5 FILMS FROM 1981 THAT CRITICS SNUBBED BUT I STILL LIKE (or haven't rewatched since the 80's so don't smack me, please!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BUDDY BUDDY - Yep, I agree with everything you have to say about this one. Now...after having a long period of time to see all of the best films that put Lemmon, Matthau and Wilder together... this is wayyyyyyy down the list. In 1981, however, this was my very FIRST time seeing any of them at work together (I knew Matthau from BAD NEWS BEARS but that was it). Even at their sincere worst, Lemmon and (especially) Matthau will find ways to make you laugh. Well, okay, they do for me. I don't find it good, but as huge fans of all involved, I still do find it watchable any time it comes around.</span><br />
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Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07121778261270980845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2946658729501277588.post-6014274851527574102017-08-28T17:35:00.002-04:002017-08-28T17:35:32.782-04:00August 28th - Who's the Crankiest Captain of Them All?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, you know who really had had enough? You know who truly was one foot out the door to retirement and one foot in the grave? You know who was sick and friggin' tired of being abused by not only the system and their superiors, but by their own detectives? You know who absolutely, one hundred percent, were ALREADY too old for this shit?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, precinct captains. In one detective thriller/buddy cop caper/explosive police actioner after another, the hero get to fire the guns, flaunt the rules, beat the bad guys and sleep with all of the bad girls? What do the precinct captains get? Agita, pure and simple. They yell, they scream, they mutter under their breath. It's the only thing they can do. They're never allowed to truly suspend or fire their rule-breaking hero cops (and if they do, the hero only gets re-instated after blowing up half the city to get the bad guy). So being the precinct captain is ALMOST as bad as being the bad guy. Possibly worse. The bad guys at least still get to blow up some stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who are the crankiest of the captains? Which ones scream, throw, break and shatter shit better than the rest? Let's get into today's Top 5...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">TOP 5 PRECINCT CAPTAINS IN THE MOVIES</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(again, my list so my scoring is final. However, ABSOLUTELY add names in the Comments section below. I could have missed one. I'm pretty damn happy with my top five, and I'm amazingly ecstatic about my winner, but I know I'm missing a lot of good ones, too.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">FRANK MCRAE - (48 HOURS, LAST ACTION HERO) - McRae (who is one of my favorite character actors because of USED CARS and CANNERY ROW) gets on the list because he got to do it in two different films.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">BILLY BARTY - (NIGHT PATROL) - gets on the list because he solves all of his problems with excessive farting. And the cop he has to berate is the Unknown Comic of "The Gong Show" fame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ANDRE BRAUGHER - (BROOKLYN NINE NINE) - not allowed to be ranked (my rules) because it's a television show and because he often has the hand over his precinct rather than them over him, but Braugher gives the best performance as a precinct captain, and does it on a weekly basis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. MICHAEL KEATON - (THE OTHER GUYS) - This is one of my absolute favorite takes on how to handle the exasperated captain. Don't let him stew in a pool of alcohol and self-regret. Just give him a part time job at Bed, Bath and Beyond. I'm not a huge fan of the Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg action comedy, but I am a fan of Keaton's scene-stealing work in it, and I think that the recent Keaton renaissance can definitely be tied into this performance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. STEVE KAHAN - (LETHAL WEAPON series) - This could have been an easy throwaway role in the original 1987 film, but there was one important piece of information to remember. Steve Kahan is director Richard Donner's cousin, and he appears in most of Donner's film in some capacity. The upside of this family favor was that Kahan's role as Captain Murphy grew with each subsequent sequel with more scenes and more involvement in the action. Of course, he always had one big scene to spar with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover after their characters had destroyed half of Los Angeles. Kahan started as Donner family, but completely was part of the Riggs' and Murtaugh family by the end of the series. And if you have a problem with that, Murphy has an answer in LETHAL WEAPON 2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">And if you have a problem with Steve Kahan at #4... well, we don't give a fuck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Inspector Douglas Todd: You damn right, wise ass! The mayor called the Chief, the Chief called the Deputy Chief, the Deputy Chief just chewed my ass out! You see I don't have any bit of it left, don't you? Where in the fuck did you get a truckload of cigarettes from anyway?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. CHARLES DURNING - (SHARKY'S MACHINE) - Charles Durning is a national treasure. A man who was at home in so many parts and genres over a fifty year acting career, Durning was brilliant in basically everything he touched. To me, however, there was no better Durning than an exasperated Durning. Whether he was caught off-guard, confused, or downright villainous, watching Durning get played, get tricked or even get ignored was a sight to behold. For example, check out his work in the Mel Brooks 1983 remake of TO BE OR NOT TO BE to see how magically Durning essays the continually flustered Colonel Erhardt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Or, for the sake of this exercise, check out Durning's bravura turn as Friscoe in the 1981 Burt Reynolds' Dirty Harry-ish thriller, SHARKY'S MACHINE. Reynolds is the hero, Rachel Ward is the heart, but Durning provides a large dollop of comedy as the put-upon cop in charge of the Vice unit. He is trying to retain control of his men, but Friscoe constantly finds himself at odds with their decisions, and although you can tell that the men respect Friscoe, they love to disagree with him more, either for merit or for sport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To see why Durning is ranked second here, you can fast forward to a scene about halfway through the film, set at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (where the Atlanta Braves used to play baseball many moons ago), where Friscoe lines up his men and asks for a progress report on the case. Watch Durning build to a slow but steady boil as he walks up and down the line. The men make Friscoe pace back and forth, left and right as they talk. Durning dances a circle around them as he steals the scene effortlessly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. PEPE SERNA - (THE ROOKIE) - Yep, this one feels like it came out of left field. Between the ones that I've listed already and the ones that you've come up with on your own, I would not be surprised if NONE of you have the same #1 as I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pepe Serna has done fine work in many films before and after THE ROOKIE, but there is simply no way that I'll ever think of him but anything else but Raymond Garcia. He is boldly over the top in the first scene he plays, and it only increases from there. Then, to cap things off, we have the sequence that has made this performance stick in my brain for more than twenty-five years. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0XwxEpOp4">this</a>. Let me know if you still question the choice after watching THAT clip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have not come to knock Serna's work in THE ROOKIE at all. You were in a period where there were a dozen or more of these films every year, and every one of these films had someone playing the exasperated captain. If you were going to take one of these cliched roles, why not make it your own and stand out from the crowd? I loved Serna's performance in 1990, and I love it even more now. I will never let him be knocked off my perch in this ranking. Long live Raymond Garcia! Or... LONG LIVE RAYMOND GARCIA!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In New York City, a young martial arts student searches for his true master while facing battles on two fronts; trying to free his singer girlfriend from a vile music promoter and fighting a terrifying brute for the martial arts supremacy in the city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">THE LAST DRAGON was the first of this trio (followed by KRUSH GROOVE and DISORDERLIES) and it is a silly yet joyous mash-up of coming of age films, music videos, and Bruce Lee martial arts epics. Taimak plays the lead, Leroy, the young man trying to figure out his destiny. This puts him straight in the cross hairs of several baddies, most importantly Julius Carry as the immortally named Sho'Nuff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This. Movie. Is. Fun. Always was, still is. This was made back in the era when music-video style movies meant showing a DeBarge video behind the action in its entirety, not editing the film into frantic one second cuts. THE LAST DRAGON is supremely silly from the first frame, and there is never a moment when it should (or COULD) be taken seriously, but it fits beautifully in the canon of mid-80's films that are made to put a smile on your face (and sell soundtrack albums!) more than anything else. To quote the kids these days, it is adorbs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. How the hell did Taimak not build a career off of this? Not a great actor, but he had charisma, the looks and the martial arts chops. At the very least, Roger Corman could have given him a slate of low budget films ala Don "The Dragon" Wilson in the BLOODFIST series. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. How the HELL did Julius Carry not build a resume of larger than life bad guys off of Sho'Nuff???? Two of his next three film parts? A CIA agent and a track coach. Simply unforgivable. This man should have been Sho'Nuff in every single action film in 1987 and 1988. Does John McClane beat Sho'Nuff in the Nakatomi Building? I don't friggin' think so!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. Vanity - R.I.P. forever. Such a undeniable screen presence in all of her early films, and they always found ways to fit her singing into her parts. Check her out in ACTION JACKSON and 52 PICKUP (which we'll DEFINITELY be covering here later down the road) to see what I mean. Her career never prospered, she turned towards the church in the mid-90's and she was taken from us way too soon. No talk of the 80's would be complete without a hat tip to Vanity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We never give enough credit to the B-movies of the 90's because they mostly went straight to video instead of playing our 42nd Street joints and drive-ins like all the cool 70's and 80's ones did. We'd have a lot more love for Lou Bamba Phillips chasing Scott Glenn if this film had been made in 1982 instead of 1993.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A fantastic, versatile actress, Sternhagen was an acting teacher even before she ever started acting in projects herself. She has been nominated for 5 Tony Awards and won one. She has been in such films as MISERY, STARTING OVER, THE MIST, and RAISING CAIN, as well as having recurring roles in TV series such as ER and SEX AND THE CITY. To me, though, she is imminently crush-worthy due to two roles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sternhagen took on the role of Cliff Clavin's mother on CHEERS. She took a part that could have been written as nagging and shrill and instead (with no small help from the great team of writers) turned the character into a very lovable woman who you were always happy to see return when they would write episodes featuring her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More essentially, however, Sternhagen is the amazing Dr. Lazarus in the 1981 sci-fi actioner OUTLAND. Director Peter Hyams took a role written for a man and switched it up, giving it to Sternhagen. He also didn't reconfigure the part to be a romantic partner for star Sean Connery. Find a studio today that would cast as an action film's female lead a Broadway-trained actress in her early 50's. I'll go get a beer and come back in a few. I'm sure you'll come up with an answer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sternhagen is given a fantastic role, and she grabs onto it with all of her might. Her Lazarus is cranky, sarcastic, and not easy to get along with it at all. She is also smart, brave, and built with a moral compass that no one else even remotely close to Connery's character possesses. The role, and the performance, is phenomenal, and although not nominated for an award, there was at least discussion of a possible Supporting Actress nod for Sternhagen when the film was released. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. JFK 2 - Jim Garrison finds out that the conspiracy wasn't in who killed Kennedy. It was in the fact that the President wasn't killed at all. James Franco plays Garrison, and Rob Riggle takes on JFK in this gritty sequel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. BATMAN VS PIXELS - Kevin James goes crazy in this epic mash-up, playing the President character from Pixels, Batman, as well as directing the film and doing set design. Here comes the boom, indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. HAL HARTLEY'S "TRANSFORMERS" REBOOT - Hartley has promised a gentle and deadpan followup to TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT, with Robert John Burke picking up the mantle as Bumblebee. Expect fireworks.... very VERY low-key, low budget ($22,000 for the whole production!) fireworks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. DISNEY'S ANIMATED "ELLE" - Having converted ALL of their animated properties into live-action films, Disney strikes gold again converting OTHER studio's live-action films into animated treasures. First up, a musical re-do of Paul Verhoeven's 2016 film, ELLE. Featuring Selena Gomez providing the voice for the cartoon counterpart of Isabelle Huppert's Oscar-nominated role. Over a dozen songs! Bring the kids!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. DEATH'S EXPANDED UNIVERSE - Yep, you didn't see it coming, but Drew Barrymore's character in SCREAM, Faye Dunaway's in CHINATOWN, Bruce Willis's in THE SIXTH SENSE (is this still a spoiler?), and Bambi's mother in BAMBI (well, duh) were all just red herrings thrown in by studios as they secretly and stealthily built a new Marvel-style expanded universe of dead people. And next August, all four join forces to fight supervillains (and presumably, not DIE again) in the highly anticipated CORPSES: BACK IN ACTION.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Check Fandango to see when advance tickets go on sale for all of these fantastic-looking features!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alan Silvestri had already composed the BACK TO THE FUTURE score, a full-orchestra score that I did love. However, in the 80's, I was the biggest sucker for Silvestri's synth-and-sequencer heavy compositions. His theme for THE DELTA FORCE even was made into a dance remix in Europe. This title track from the '86 Richard Gere/Kim Basinger cop thriller hits all those synth notes perfectly in my opinion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm not going to do full slates of upcoming Blu-ray releases here, like the amazing Rupert Pupkin Speaks site does (and if you don't check that site out regularly... 1. I'm worried about you, and 2. Fix that now by clicking <a href="http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/">here</a>.) I will, however, spotlight a title here and there that I want in my collection RIGHT THIS DAMN SECOND, and I'll let you know when you can get it (for me, preferrably. I'm not really worried about YOU getting a copy of it. So let's think of what's important first... ME.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The movie I want today is MR. MOM, which comes out on Blu September 5th. You can order it through Amazon or wherever you dang well feel like it. Again, if it's not going to me... don't care. (But if you ARE buying it for me, do it through Amazon, and get me one of them neato Amazon gift cards. And some shaving cream. I'm getting a tad scruffy.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">MR. MOM came out in 1983 and it was a huge comedy hit that year. Michael Keaton, coming off of his amazing debut in NIGHT SHIFT the year before (I'll have PAGES to discuss about that one down the road), plays an executive who is laid off and, when his wife (TERI GARR), finds a chance to go back to work and earn money to replace his lost wages, he decides to be a stay-at-home dad. PG-rated hilarity ensues, and honestly, for a family film (and yes, my younger sisters ADORED this film when it came out), it is pretty damn funny. Keaton and Garr are great, and you get great supporting work from Martin Mull, Ann Jillian and Jeffrey Tambor. 90 minutes of 80's comedy perfection. If you haven't seen it, it'll feel mild to some compared to the raunchier fare now. If you have seen it, beware that renegade vacuum!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's it for now. See you in a couple of days with more crushes, needs, wants, and more. </span></div>
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Welcome to the first day of the regular format of this blog. Hope you find it 10% informative, 20% fun, 8% nutritious, and well I lost count of all those percentages.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What do you do if you think you've finally found the love of your life, but a random phone call may be telling you that your life only has about 80 minutes left? That is the concept behind Steve De Jarnatt's at times lovely, at times utterly harrowing film, MIRACLE MILE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Anthony Edwards has finally found his soul mate in waitress Mare Winningham. He promises to pick her up at work one night, but he oversleeps. When he finally wakes up and arrives at her diner, she is already gone but the pay phone outside is ringing. With no one else around, Harry (Edwards) answers it. It may be a practical joke, or it may be a soldier calling from a missile silo that the nuclear warheads have been launched, and that the retaliation is on the way from our enemy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Harry then must find his girl, Julie (Winningham), convince her and others that their lives might very well be on the verge of ending, and then try to figure out a way to escape before the bombs actually hit them in Los Angeles. The meat of the story takes place fully during the darkest of night and the very edges of dawn, when all but a few odd characters are deep in slumber. The plot almost unravels in real time, and you never know until the last five to ten minutes whether the bombs are actually on the way or not. Do Harry and Julie have a chance, or are all of their machinations truly futile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cool fun cast in support of Edwards and Winningham, too! You've got John Agar, Myketi Williamson, Robert DoQui, Denise Crosby, Kelly Jo Minter, Jenette Goldstein, and, in a small but rare good guy part, Brian Thompson. It's a cast made specifically for genre lovers. This was Steven De Jarnatt's second film (after 1987's CHERRY 2000) and although this film is wholly succesful, De Jarnatt spent the rest of his directorial career in television. Truly a shame, because he had a nice eye and could have found a sweet niche in science fiction-type films.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh, yeah.... TANGERINE DREAM! Another great 80's score from them. I'll hopefully touch on them a lot here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sadly, with our current political climate and talk of skirmishes with North Korea, the plot of MIRACLE MILE has taken on some unwanted relevance. If you've spent anytime worrying about a nuclear holocaust in the last few weeks, this miiiiight not be the film to make you feel better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can't lead off any better with a bio of Tom Skerritt than what is at the top of his IMDb page. "Lean, ruggedly handsome leading man and supporting actor whose "outdoor" looks have improved with age." He's also an actor who for the longest time looked quite a bit YOUNGER than his actual age. When he looked to be in his early to mid 40's, he was pushing 60. He's starting to look a little more like his 84 (84!!!) year old self now, but the dude always has been, and still is, totally badass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An actor with over 150 credits to his name, Skerritt started his career doing the usual weave between telvision roles and smaller film ones. He had M*A*S*H, THIEVES LIKE US and THE TURNING POINT on his resume, but Tom always had the time to show up in great genre films like BIG BAD MAMA and THE DEVIL'S RAIN or make people laugh in UP IN SMOKE. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Skerritt's peak years start with playing "Dallas" in the iconic sci-fi/horror film ALIEN in 1979 and run for about 15 years. He gets leads in films such as SILENCE OF THE NORTH, OPPOSING FORCE and FIGHTING BACK (more on that below), as well as snaring key supporting roles in huge hits like TOP GUN. Skerritt moved into a television lead in 1992 with the offbeat and wonderful PICKET FENCES (which I was obsessed with during its run and severely need to purchase and rewatch), which ran for four seasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Skerritt still puts in solid work on a couple of projects a year, including TED, WHITEOUT, A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING, and this year he still has LUCKY with fellow ALIEN alum Harry Dean Stanton on tap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">5. M*A*S*H - Skerritt is good in an early performance, but if the Duke character he played wasn't good enough for the television remake, how much higher could I rank it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">4. UP IN SMOKE - Skerritt plays funny. Skerritt plays a character named Strawberry. Skerritt gets this film ranked #4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">3. ALIEN - Yes, he's great as Dallas, but points off for not being smart enough to know DON'T STICK YOUR HEAD UP THERE!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">2. PICKET FENCES - I'm cheating with a television show, but you'll soon learn I cheat a lot, so get over it right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">And for my top Skerritt film, we shall tie in with a segment I like to call:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">True Story-- Just as I was really starting to geek out on movies, my dad let me buy a blank video tape that I could use to tape movies whenever he wasn't already recording something. FIGHTING BACK is the first film I ever taped in the wee hours of the morning. I got up and watched it at 6:15am. I was such a movie geek as a 15 year old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">This film ain't quite DEATH WISH. Let's call it INJURY WISH. Skerritt plays John D'Angelo, a Philadelphia store owner who gets fed up with the local crime element. When the street violence hits WAY too close to home, D'Angelo decides to organize a neighborhood watch to protect all of the local stores and homeowners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Get used to hearing this a lot from me.... this film isn't exactly great, but I love it. It's got great local flavor for this fella who lives 30 minutes outside of Philadelphia. It's got great supporting work from Yaphet Kotto, Patti Lupone, and Michael Sarrazin (who gets to be killed TWICE in 1982 -- here and THE SEDUCTION, which we will DEFINITELY cover at a later date in an I NEED IT!!! segment)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">And anchoring the whole thing is Skerritt, who gives a supercharged lead performance. He's likable as the store owner who loves his neighborhood and family, but he gets to snarl and yell and do mean things when everything he loves is threatened. Think Bronson with a lot more dialogue, and you have John D'Angelo. The film tries to look at what the media and police do when faced with vigilante violence, and that may be the thinnest, least impressive part of the plot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">There's tons of action, however, and the fight scenes and shootouts are well shot and choreographed by director Lewis Teague, who did this right after ALLIGATOR and right before CUJO. Teague had a really nice 80's run (JEWEL OF THE NILE, too!). The bad guys glare at and threaten Skerritt and family, and Skerritt glares at everyone. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">There's a great fight in a fast food chicken restaurant, and there is fantastic use of a balloon in the film's conclusion.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"> It's ninety minutes of B-movie badassery, and it is a glaring hole in my collection. Paramount seems to be reissuing a lot of their films in new Blu-ray packaging, and if that is successful, I sincerely hope that they drop FIGHTING BACK in my lap very, very soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Okay that's it for day one. If you read this far, I'd appreciate any constructive criticism you have. Some days will be shorter than this, and if I get the time or the motivation, I will go longer on other days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'll also be dropping an I HEARD THAT section each day, which will be separate and will highlight a selection from a movie soundtrack. Hopefully there will be some music that you have never heard before, or possibly there will be tracks you remember from scenes but hadn't heard in a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Jaws (1975)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yep, gang... it's not even close. This is by NO MEANS an attempt to say that SHAKEDOWN is a better movie than the other two. Not even close. But, rewatchability relies on so many things, and this shaggy little 97 minute mutt of an action film has it all in spades. Let's look at this wonderful creation one point at a time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Writer/director James Glickenhaus made 8 films between 1975 and 1995. The four he made during the 1980's, while not pure gold, contain some of the wildest, most inventive action choreography and stunt work that had ever been put on celluloid at that time. The creator of the grindhouse classic THE EXTERMINATOR, Glickenhaus then moved on to 1982's THE SOLDIER, which featured the amazing shootout chase on skiis, including the 360 degree spin and shoot stunt (I tried to find a good gif of it, to no avail. Sorry, readers). 1985's THE PROTECTOR contains speedboat chases, a stunt man falling down through a neon sign, and Jackie Chan. Which all leads us to SHAKEDOWN. Glickenhaus knew what he wanted, and he knew exactly how to film it. Pick on anything you want in these four films (and there are certainly quibbles to be made) but the action is top notch and lightning paced in all four. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Glickenhaus made a few more films after this, mostly to spotlight his son, Jesse, before retiring to move on to the world of endurance racing, which not only seems to be his life's passion but a natural direction for the man who gave us so many great action and stunt sequences. You can find his website <a href="http://www.scg003project.com/">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Buddy cop time, sort of-- SHAKEDOWN comes a year after LETHAL WEAPON, and can't help but feel borrowed at times. Now, we aren't dealing with two cops. But the pairing sure fits the buddy cop template. Weller and Elliott crack wise with one another, share stories, know each other's moves inside and out, and they know what they have to do might get messy, but they are the only men for the job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. Peter Weller makes this his first starring role after hitting it big the previous year with ROBOCOP. And, as with the dialogue in the film, Weller seems to play his character just a tiny bit off, like 30 degrees off of center. He delivers his lines with a little kick, almost like a musician improvising just the teeniest bit when playing with the band. It was obvious after this film that Weller was never going to be the quintessential hero or leading man, and was going to retain that off-center style throughout his career, both as a lead and as a supporting actor in other projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. Supporting cast-- Richard Brooks went on to be one of the original cast members of "LAW AND ORDER" after this, and he is great in what could of been a super-stereotypical drug dealer role. Brooks has a wonderful voice for delivering dialogue and he scores here in a small but vital part. Patricia Charbonneau, a fine actress from the mid-to-late 80's plays Weller's lawyer opponent and past (and possibly future) love interest. Actors who went on to better things much later such as Harold Perrineau and Holt McCallany show up in small roles. Blanche Baker comes from "SIXTEEN CANDLES" to this one. Genre and cult standouts like Paul Bartel, Shirley Stoler, Larry Joshua, David Proval, and Thomas G. Waites appear. PLUS you get key supporting work from both John McGinley and Antonio Fargas! This film is absolutely stacked with great casting choices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">RANKINGS OF THE DAY -- These will NEVER be your standard Top 5 lists ("best comedies," "best action directors," etc). These lists will ALWAYS be nonsensical. And sometimes, if I don't have a good subject to rank, I may just make a list of five items for no reason and let you try to figure out what the HELL I was thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After watching year after year as it looked like Hollywood was more than willing to let older catalog films die off during the DVD run of the 1990's and 2000's, I was ready to seek out the best emotional support groups and face the horrifying, depressing fact that most of my favorite films might never see a high quality disc made. And for some others, the DVD's that were made were either the wrong aspect ratio, bare bones (not even a trailer, guys????) or, even worse, shoddy third party and public domain releases that left the movies absolutely unwatchable. I'd go to my grave with my horrible Good Times DVD's of Universal films, wouldn't I? I held onto a small pile of VHS tapes that looked as if they'd be my only chance to ever watch a few genre and underappreciated titles again, and made sure my VCR ONLY got used for special occasions (no matter what family members tried to record NCIS episodes on it).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But Lordy O' Hallelujah! Blu-ray had me covered. The extra disc space allowed studios to make huge expanded editions with tons of extras. Collectors came out of the woodwork to buy catalog titles. And great third party companies (Scream Factory, Kino Lorber, Severin, Blue Underground, Twilight Time, Code Red, among other wonderful parties) scoured the vaults of every Hollywood studio of the 60's, 70's and 80's to seek out and print all of the great titles I thought I had lost forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But is it enough for me? Have I found enough 1980's genre goodness to last me awhile? If you've actually gotten to this point of the post, you're just as obsessed with collecting as I am, so you know that the answer is "NO DAMN WAY!" I'm a greedy bastard, and I want more and more and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just limiting myself to the 1980's decade for now, my list still is so vast and mountainous that I know it will never be full (although you-- yes YOU-- may be the one joining me in 2023 on my expedition to Nepal to see out the one printed copy of 1987's "My Demon Lover" on blu-ray... pack appropriately), but a man can dream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So here is Part 1 of my probably endless list of "Stuff I Want (and I want them now, damnit!). This is the 1980-only section. (The films are placed in a proper scientific order of whatever picture I post first from the folder).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Come on, Warner Brothers... how the hell is the 6th highest grossing film of 1980 NOT released on Blu-ray yet? You have box office success, you have Oscar nominations. I've never understood this one. (And yes, I know that Warners and Paramount are historically fidgety about catalog releases... but still...) The film is potently funny when it wants to be, but is really a much, much deeper character study than anyone saw coming. 1980 was right in the middle of when Goldie Hawn very well may have been the biggest female performer around (and she has another film located later down this list that I love even more), and this just seems like a natural to be released.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not the best reviewed film out there, and not even one of true favorites from this year, but one with a good personal story. We rented this film as one of our first choices when we got our first VCR (Beta!) in 1981. We got it as a weekend rental, and it was due back Monday afternoon before 5, but we had a storm during that time, and the roads were in no condition for driving for an emergency, much less doing it to avoid a $1.00 late fee. So we kept Steve McQueen and his portrayal of bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson for an extra day. Me, being a new movie obsessive, and my father, who loved his VCR, must have watched "The Hunter" seven times over three days. We both couldn't get enough, me of the action and him of the technology. I'm pretty sure my mother would have killed McQueen (or Thorson) after that weekend if she ever got the opportunity. Every time that film hit the television screen the next few years, my dad and I started laughing at the sight of it. I'd like to have it released now simply to give it to him as a joke. Who am I kidding? We'd probably watch it twice that day all the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I slept in, so did I miss the time when Goldie Hawn came out and made a speech comparing blu-ray discs to Hitler? Why are we not able to put together a quality collection of Hawn titles on Blu? I started with "Private Benjamin" and feel even more strongly about this one. Plus it has Chevy Chase! When I first saw it on tape in 1981 (over the holidays, with a full extended family of grandparents, cousins, etc in the room), it was screwball comedy done to perfection. Watching it on television a few years ago, it was screwball comedy done to perfection. This is tailor made for Twilight Time to knock out immediately. I'll have my $34.99 ready on release date.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'd kick up a fit, but this might very well be a rights issue. Producer Brandon Chase had his hands in two films in the 1980's, this one and 1982's "Sword and the Sorcerer" (which will ABSOULTELY be on my list that year-- shame on you if you're shaking your head at me now). Neither one is available, and they might be tied in to some kind of contractual situation. Either way, this film, written by John Sayles and directed by Lewis Teague (if you haven't before, check out Teague's work from 1979 to 1985 on IMDb-- that's a nice little run of action and horror you've got there, Lewis!), is beloved by many more people than I, and still towers tall over all of the Lake Placids and Sharknados of the past decade or two. Robert Forster at the top of his game, and a great list of supporting actors that goes for a mile on the credit list. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally saw it two years ago, figured it was standard 80's Bronson slop (which I still love). Much better than anticipated, and a great supporting cast including a very young Ed Harris as the bad guy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gary Busey before he became GARY BUSEY, and Annette O'Toole is one of the "it" girls for me in the 1980's. Don't care how middling this can be at times, I'll buy it for her alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We're probably close to a Warner Archive release of this (already out on DVD). Never have seen it, but would love to have a copy to show anyone who didn't have the opportunity to experience Radner at the peak of her game...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...which she definitely wasn't in this one. It's been 35 years since I laid my eyes on this one. It's been 35 years of me telling myself it wasn't as bad as I remember. I keep looking at that case, and I convince myself that it must've been me, not them. I will buy this, I will hate it, and I may smash it in the street afterwards. But I will buy this.</span></div>
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