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Henry Hill meets his demise.
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Oh, it's a classic. Very much in line with Campbell's original story and Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" - all done to great effect without any wonky CGI malarkey.. I managed to pick up an original movie poster around 1985 and it's still hanging in my basement.Originally posted by Hannibal View PostComment
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Who is better at being God - Morgan Freeman or George Burns?I don't watch Fox News for the same reason I don't eat out of a toilet.Comment
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FreemanShut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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I have seen it. Actually saw the remake first, heard the original was better and saw the original on some streaming service (Pluto?)."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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It's on youtube.Comment
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EXTERMINATOR 2 (1984)
d. Mark Buntzman
Starring: Robert Ginty, Mario van Peebles, Frankie Faison, Deborah Geffner
A sequel to a movie I've never seen, Exterminator 2 tells the heartbreaking story of a man who just wants to drive a garbage truck in peace, love life with his stripper girlfriend, and forget the horrors of Vietnam. But 'Nam (aka "The Shit") has been brought to the streets of 80's New York and it's time for war.
Basically this is a sequel to a Death Wish knock-off and by all accounts the original is a much grittier tale. Unlike the first movie, this was made by Cannon, who insisted on many goofy action scenes. From what I've read the production was extremely troubled. The original cut didn't have nearly enough action in it to please the Cannon bosses, and Robert Ginty was unavailable for re-shoots, so any scene where the character is wearing his trademark welder's helmet is likely his stunt double.
Mario Van Peebles acts the hell out of his role as the psychotic gang leader trying to be the crimelord of New York City. He's one of the only standout performances. Frankie Faison is also in this as Ginty's happy-go-lucky 'Nam buddy, long before he was on The Wire. Supposedly John Turturro also show up in his earliest roles but I couldn't spot him.
If you like 80's revenge/action flicks you should give this a try. A whole lot of thugs get set on fire. It's not great but it's not as tasteless and unpleasant as some of the Death Wish movies either.
And just a side note, some stuff in the below trailer didn't make it into the version of the movie I saw.
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Might be crap but I'm willing to give this a try
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Says every woman in Ohio who goes on a date with an OSU grad.Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View PostComment
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Two series I watched in the last few weeks.
Troppo - this is an Australian production but with Thomas Jane in the lead role. It debuted on ABC in Australian in February and is one of the flagship series on the relaunch of FreeVee, which is the IMDB streaming service rebranding by Amazon. A fairly paint by numbers procedural where a disgraced ex-detective Ted Concaffey (Jane) is setting up life in North Queensland and is dragged into a private investigation by an ex-con Amanda Pharrell, a girl who murdered the town sweetheart 13 years prior. The hook is two of the murders are death by crocodile. It's based on the 1st book of the Crimson Lake series. 10 episodes, it seems like there will be a second season. If you are a fan of Thomas Jane and like his role of Joe Miller in The Expanse, you will like his performance.
Counterpart - A cold war spy-fi series that ran on Starz for two seasons. It has cold war spy themes but based on a sci fi premise that evokes both Fringe and Lost. JK Simmons is the lead in an ensemble cast that chronicles Earth after a col dwar experiment gone wrong in East Berlin creates a mirror world that is accessible by a crossing in the lab where the experiment went wrong. Simmons is a low level worker drone at a UN agency deals with this and to his surprise his copy in the other world is a spy master trying to stop a war between the two worlds. It's pretty good and it has a coherent story that delivers over the two seasons. Fans of the show were disappointed that it wasn't renewed but the two seasons flesh most of the ideas the series wanted to tackle. In other words it does a much better job explaining what happened and ties up most of loose ends unlike Lost. Simmons is very good in the role doing JK Simmons.Comment
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third season of the boys is out
gotta say after 3 episodes this is gonna be the best seasonComment
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Found this series of videos today while bored (I think the channel itself is totally defunct at this point). In 1990 as a snot-nosed punk kid I really got into these Marvel trading cards. This was before I had read any comics, in fact. Every boy in 4th grade was obsessed with these fuckers. Anyways, It's a neat little time capsule if you know much about Marvel comics in general. The cards were clearly created to promote what the company considered important properties at the time and it's pretty different than the current Disney/MCU.
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Sometimes a bad idea comes along that is just so terrible that you cannot help but root for it
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Yeah, I’ll see that.Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View PostMight be crap but I'm willing to give this a try
Saw Maverick. If you liked the first one, you’ll like this one.
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