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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★ review of The Dead Zone (1983)

“You are either in possession of a very new human ability... or a very old one.” This film actually had quite the road to getting made. The rights to an adaptation of the Stephen King novel were purchased as far back as 1979 by Lorimar Film Productions, with Jeffrey Boam being asked to write a...

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[thebobmaster]

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[thebobmaster]

A ★½ review of The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006)

“It’s all good doggie, no bone.” This may shock you, but this direct-to-video sequel that basically no one was asking for doesn’t have much to note on production, other than this being the sole voice acting outing for Patrick Swayze, as well as one of his final roles before passing away from...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of Enter the Dragon (1973)

“Boards don’t hit back.” This film had a few issues in production. Bruce Lee did not get along with the writer of the film, Michael Allin, and it got to the point that producer Fred Weintraub falsely promised Bruce Lee that Allin would be fired. Part of the issue stems from the fact that as...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★ review of The Mask of Zorro (1998)

“Do you know how to use that thing?” “Si. The pointy end goes into the other man.” “This is going to take a lot of work.” This film had a fairly long road to getting made. As far back as 1992, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment and Tristar Pictures were making plans for a Zorro film, hiring...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of Collateral (2004)

“I didn’t throw him, he fell.” “But what did he do to you?” “What?” “What did he do to YOU?” “Nothing. I only met him tonight.” “You only met him once, and you just kill him like that?” “What, I should only kill people after I get to know them?” The idea for this film actually began when the...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★½ review of Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007)

“You think there’s only one woman in the entire kingdom who wears a size four and a half?” While the second Cinderella movie was not well received by critics, to the shock of basically no one who has actually seen the thing, it was still a Disney movie with a recognizable title, so it did quite...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★½ review of Starship Troopers (1997)

“You take that stroll down Washout Lane, you’re only proving one thing.” “What’s that, Dizz?” “That you don’t have what it takes to be a citizen.” This film was conceived around 1987 by producer Jon Davison, who had been wanting to work with Edward Neumeier and Phil Tippett after Robocop...

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[Thaluikhain]

A ★★★★½ review of Starship Troopers (1997)

“You take that stroll down Washout Lane, you’re only proving one thing.” “What’s that, Dizz?” “That you don’t have what it takes to be a citizen.” This film was conceived around 1987 by producer Jon Davison, who had been wanting to work with Edward Neumeier and Phil Tippett after Robocop...

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I've heard, but don't know for sure, that the film set a record for the number of blank rounds fired, and that afterwards CGI was generally used for that so it's likely to hold it indefinitely.

It's interesting, in that many people (myself included), totally did not see this as a satire when it came out, though it nominally being an adaptation of a book that wasn't one didn't help. In large part I think this is because so many action films of this sort are just very fascist anyway, so it was hard to see a difference. All good looking white people fight generic monsters, the government getting lots of things wrong? Par for the course.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Akira (1988)

For years, I've heard people praise this movie. I only saw short clips of it, and I always thought it was a bit overrated due to admittingly amazing animation, but doesn't offer much else in other aspects.

Well, I finally sat down to watch it. And animation is still god-tier level of work, especially violennce and gore. Someone getting shot repeatedly is super detailed, and every chase scene or motorbike scenes are fluidly animated. Oh and the layers....so much layers and depths.....

SFX is just as impressive. Especially when someone is horribly injured, and they are desperately trying to breathe. I can actually feel the pain in their voice.

But it's the story where I was most interested in when going in, because watching clips of it didn't give me the full picture. And color me impressed, the story was amazing too! Although I don't really understand what happened to Akira, the three kids, and Testuo at the end (did they die? transported to another dimension? turned into a living energy?)

I don't typically say this because I always tend to find flaws in highly-praised movies, but Akira is one of the rare exceptions where it tuly deserves the praises

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm watching Backrooms. I don't understand the hype for Backrooms. Feels like one of those Gen Z things that champions vibes and vague lore over anything of human interest or dramatic heft. Oh, and floppy disks. Can you imagine only being able to store 1.44 MB of data? So creepy!

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

I'm watching Backrooms. I don't understand the hype for Backrooms. Feels like one of those Gen Z things that champions vibes and vague lore over anything of human interest or dramatic heft. Oh, and floppy disks. Can you imagine only being able to store 1.44 MB of data? So creepy!

It's kind of like House of Leaves, if you took out the character study and the family drama and the allusions to the myth of the minotaur and the satire of media analysis and the post modern stylistic flourishes and just left "What if you got lost in an endless maze of corridors... wouldn't that really suck?"

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★½ review of The Land Before Time (1988)

“Yep yep yep.” This film had a slightly troubled production...but a VERY troubled post-production process. To begin with the former, Steven Spielberg and Don Bluth had a concept to do Bambi, but with dinosaurs, bringing George Lucas into the project as well. The trio convinced Judy Freudberg and...

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[Gordon_4]

A ★★★★½ review of The Land Before Time (1988)

“Yep yep yep.” This film had a slightly troubled production...but a VERY troubled post-production process. To begin with the former, Steven Spielberg and Don Bluth had a concept to do Bambi, but with dinosaurs, bringing George Lucas into the project as well. The trio convinced Judy Freudberg and...

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This movie has a stranglehold on my emotions, and I suspect it will for the rest of my life. It’s harder to watch now knowing what happened to Judith Barsi (fuck that guy; fuck him all the way down) but, and this is a big stinky but, I don’t think all the sequels were wastes of time. Most of them are; but I’d be lying if I didn’t say the fifth sequel’s song (one of the most genuine cases of Disneyfication that exists is these sequels: so many songs) about their parents marking the first time Littlefoot speaks about his mother isn’t nice, or the tenth one that answers the question of Littlefoot’s dad in a not totally shit way was good too. Plus hey, Keifier Sutherland voiced him.

Not a single one of the sequels is worthy of polishing the original’s shoes; but they managed more than once to do interesting things.

 

[thebobmaster]

This movie has a stranglehold on my emotions, and I suspect it will for the rest of my life. It’s harder to watch now knowing what happened to Judith Barsi (fuck that guy; fuck him all the way down) but, and this is a big stinky but, I don’t think all the sequels were wastes of time. Most of them are; but I’d be lying if I didn’t say the fifth sequel’s song (one of the most genuine cases of Disneyfication that exists is these sequels: so many songs) about their parents marking the first time Littlefoot speaks about his mother isn’t nice, or the tenth one that answers the question of Littlefoot’s dad in a not totally shit way was good too. Plus hey, Keifier Sutherland voiced him.

Not a single one of the sequels is worthy of polishing the original’s shoes; but they managed more than once to do interesting things.

Oh, I've heard there are some decent sequels. I even remember a couple vaguely. I'm just not going to watch 13 of them. I'm almost done doing the DisneyToon sequels, I need a break.

 

[thebobmaster]

One joke review, one full one, you decide which you like better.

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A ★★★★ review of Send Help (2026)

“I was just thinking. While you were sitting here like a bump on a log, little old me was bringing home the bacon.” Initially, this film was set to be produced by Columbia Pictures, but when Sam Raimi refused to allow it to be a streaming exclusive, it was instead picked up by 20th Century...

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[Gordon_4]

I'm just not going to watch 13 of them.

Oh fuck no. I wouldn't even suggest reviewing the two or three good ones.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I got Cat's Eye on blu-ray. One of the more obscure Stephen King adaptations. Also more in the lane of a PG-13 horror. It's three short stories which are all connected by a cat trying to find its way somewhere. The first involves a man played by James Woods calling in the help of a very questionable organisation to help him quite smoking, the second sees a tennis coach forced into a dangerous bet with a gangster, and the third has Drew Barrymore get creepy visits from Frank Welker. The highlight is Kenneth McMillan as the psychopathically giddy gangster.

I've seen this movie once or twice, but the main reason I bothered to talk about it here is because the blu-ray transfer is pretty acceptional. This movie isn't exactly popular, but they seemingly put a lot more effort into cleaning up the image quality of this film than I've seen with more well known movies.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★½ review of Scary Movie 4 (2006)

"This ain't a war, anymore than there's a war between men and maggots. Or dragons and wolves. Or men riding dragons, throwing wolves at maggots." There doesn’t seem to be much if anything noteworthy about the production of this film, so onto the review proper. Following up from the events of the...

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[gorfias]

I got Cat's Eye on blu-ray. One of the more obscure Stephen King adaptations. Also more in the lane of a PG-13 horror. It's three short stories which are all connected by a cat trying to find its way somewhere. The first involves a man played by James Woods calling in the help of a very questionable organisation to help him quite smoking, the second sees a tennis coach forced into a dangerous bet with a gangster, and the third has Drew Barrymore get creepy visits from Frank Welker. The highlight is Kenneth McMillan as the psychopathically giddy gangster.

I've seen this movie once or twice, but the main reason I bothered to talk about it here is because the blu-ray transfer is pretty acceptional. This movie isn't exactly popular, but they seemingly put a lot more effort into cleaning up the image quality of this film than I've seen with more well known movies.

The bet with that gangster played out in my life many times when doing network configuration live. Something can seem so simple but if you mess it up, your life is over.

War Machine, Netflix C+

Remember that time when Sylvester Stallone thought his next Rambo movie would take him into the arctic, to have a Rambo/The Thing/Predator mash-up? Kinda like that.

1980s style action war film with terrific if cliche set up of a perfectly serviceable boot camp training movie that goes Aliens about 1/3 of the way through. Does what it needs to do.