My favorite of the original Apes series. It's like a Rage Against the Machine song, but instead of black people overthrowing the white, patriarchal power structure, it's damn dirty apes sticking it to humanity in general. You haven't lived until you've seen a chimp gun down swat team members with an M-16.
Vindicates the existence of an otherwise worthless continent. Any movie in which the standard issue police weapon is a sawed off shotgun just straight up wins.
Best martial arts film I've ever seen. It starts with an old man committing suicide by head butting the top of a stone pillar and only gets better from there. See it in a crowded theater if you ever get the chance, it's a religious experience.
I love the post apocalypse. Just as good as the original due to national treasure Vernon Wells and a general excess of rad. The chick with the bow and arrow is smoking hot.
Clubber Lang is Rocky's finest nemesis by a factor of 2. The slow mo, beach running, half shirt, man-hug training sequence is one for the proverbial books.
James Spader smears chicken blood on Lori Loughlin's panties and earns my undying admiration. There's also a mid movie training montage and a good amount of gratuitous junk waggling. A dude also pees on another dude and there are some fantastic shotg...(read more)un heroics toward the end.
Badass. Sean Connery, space prostitutes, explosive decompression and shotguns. What more could one possibly want from a movie? I wish they'd release a decent DVD version.
Pretty much the best thing involving zombies to come out of Italy. Funny as hell. Rupert Everett is pretty awesome when he's not making shitnastical romantic comedies. I also like Anna Falchi's fake boobs.
If you asked me what the greatest movie of all time was between the years of say, 1988 and 1990 this would have been my answer. Well, this or Krull... The douche bag from Real Genius is in the dance club scene. Also,I've decided that Jap chick is slightly hotter than Liz Shue in the first one.
Six kinds of awesome. The helper monkey vacuming the floor with his little monkey vacume is one of the greatest things I've ever seen, and that's not even the best part of the movie.
Another stellar George P. Cosmatos masterpiece. Not as technically "well made" as the first flick, but makes up for it by adding retarded amounts of ridiculous action. The flick is, however, politically sound. I'd forgotten that the Cobra Kai sensei was in this.
Actually a really well made action movie. Shit gets blowed up even better than in #2. Richard Crenna actually fighting is probably the most ridiculous thing to happen in the series. Once again the political commentary is both astute and well reasoned. My only qualm is that Kurtwood Smith, being one of the best guys on the planet, should have had a bigger role.
Great, great movie. Martin Sheen gives the performance of his career, Warren Oates rules in his small part, and I'm fairly sure science can prove that early 70's Sissy Spacek is the cutest thing to ever exist. There's also a whole mess of awesome dialogue and breathtaking cinematography. I really can't think of a weakness.
It's like this thing was genetically designed tom appeal specifically to me. Warren Oates is outstanding. The hundreds of chickens killed during filming is a small price to pay for such awesomeness.
Good movie even if the message is a bit heavy handed at times. Nice depiction of dead end white trash America. Crispin Glover and Dennis Hopper deserve medals.
My personal favorite of the series has a messy, unfocused script, but it's all in the execution. The camerawork and direction give the proceedings a dreamy quality and the overall feel is more subdued and moody than the other installments. It also adds a bit of character depth to the titular lone wolf seems a bit more vulnerable. also this is the only flick in the series where he seems to feel bad about killing someone. The fact that it also features a hot tattooed topless swordfighter chick with blood spattered boobies has absolutely nothing to do with my enjoyment.
Wow. A cliche love story made amazing due to a thorough soaking in a righteous mixture of piss, shit, blood, cum and vomit. Rutger Hauer is awe inspiring. I have a whole new respect for the man.
Fan-fucking-tastic. McConaughey rules as a psycho redneck with a remote controlled robo-leg. Everyone else is pretty great too. Not so much a horror flick as it is a genius black comedy.
One of the finest comedies ever. Super sexy popular computer hackers that have lots of rave parties hack the Gibson (and the planet for that matter) with their bitchin' 28.8bps modems. Dr. Melfi and Bunk Moreland make appearances.
Pretty great. I hadn't seen this one since I was a kid. Aged pretty well. It helped that I get all the golden age Hollywood references now, and that early '90s Jennifer Connelly has a less, shall we say, ambiguous effect on me.
A heroically awful movie that commands the utmost respect for it's ridiculously baroque ineptitude. The highlander series is endlessly fascinating to me.
Note: I watched the extended/re-edited "Renegade Version" which, I understand, adds in some of my favorite "WTF?" moments.
You know when you have a really awesome dream that makes total sense while your having it, then you wake up and the more you think about it the less sense it makes. This is kinda like that but with more gay people and brutal beatings. Lots of interesting stylistic devices that I've never seen used anywhere else.
Arnie's one liner count is off the charts. An interesting combination of Commando style stupidity and Robocop style satire. Mostly it's just fun to see roided out man beasts destroy each other. Seriously, Buzzsaw constantly looks like his head is about to explode. And the bit where Arnie rips the camera out of the wall is the greatest thing he's ever done.
Lacks the balls of the first and the subversiveness of the second, but still a solid action movie. Holds a special place in my heart as it was one of the first movies I ever owned on VHS. Also, I dig how when the tank flies off the cliff you can see the guy getting smashed up in the wreckage.
One of my new favorites. A man in New Zealand awakes to find everyone on the planet has vanished except him. Goes to some wacky, but strangely logical places. Lots of fun.
Why had I not heard of this? A truly great movie that encompasses all that is good and horrible about the human experience. They even get the proportions right.