Past few days has been catching the movies from the good old days on Netflix

Jaws:
watched it as a kid, now watched again with me kids
Now they are same like me last time, refused to go to their fav beach when I offered them

First Blood:
It's funny to see the young "Detective Horatio" without his one liner and his signature sun glasses
I actually appreciated the movie more when re-watching it with more matured mind
It's actually has very decent plot and flow compared to the rest of boom boom pow movies of that era.

Conan the Barbarian:
The violence, the nudity, and Arnie's weird accent make it one of a kind movie.

Taps:
One of Tom Cruise earliest movie, came with kinda Bollywood's standard of sound effects. Took me wifey few minutes to recognize her idol from younger days


Too bad currently none of the Dead Wish series or Chuck Norris's iconic movies are on netflix

This post has been edited by greyshadow: Apr 25 2016, 04:28 PM

Enemy Below
IMO one of the greatest naval war movie of all time
Rivalry between 2 captains from opposing force, battle of wits and lucks
and it sends a clear message at the end, there's no winner in war
everyone is a loser.

When John WIlliam first played the Jaw music theme for Steven Spielberg, Steven burst out laughing, thinking that John was joking with him, and when he turned around to look at John, only to find him stoic face...

Kurt Russell was originally cast to play Colonel Sam Trautman. He decided not to go ahead with the movie after he failed to convince Sylvester that the Rambo character should die at the end.

I like this Conan. Too bad the second movie was tame down so some toy company could sell Conan's action figure to kids!!

Yes, Tom Cruise and his original teeth!!

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Apr 25 2016, 05:22 PM

Haha interesting classics

Speaking cruise rewatching top gun again

I say that his best action work in the 80s

First Blood : Part II
John Rambo return with a more classic 80s boom boom pow!
It's only good as a watch and forget action flicks, unlike the first one which actually has more depth. Part II doesn't age well, especially the sound effects, really LOLed hard at the sound effects of the bow and machine guns

Well... luckily Kurt Russell turn down the role for Col Trautman, can't imagine a younger version of the Col as young as Rambo.
Anyway, Richard Crenna nailed the character spot on, which in turn heavily influenced Hideo Kojima in his creation of Metal Gear series

Commando (1985)
Had very good memory of watching it repeatedly on VHS when I was a kid
But it doesn't age well when re-watching it 30 years later
It only can be classified as B-movie by today's standard.
Arnie as usual is a man of few words, and just kill kill and kill
And the kiddo Alyssa Milano, how much she has grown now
The BGM IMO is actually cringe worthy bad, even by 80s standard
and as usual, all sound effects are 80s goofy standard as well, a pistol sounds like a canon
and the action sequence, oh my... so much ridiculous in it
Arnie has 100% hip fire accuracy!

That shopping center they shot in went bankrupt and is now a disused building...

Well Sylvester and Kurt did eventually work together, in a little movie called Tango and Cash

best undersiege & best diehard movie:

die hard 1 (1988):



This post has been edited by dearhypocrite: Apr 29 2016, 11:03 PM

best anti-colonial & war movie:

lion of the desert (1981):

Harakiri (1962)

This kino is really great with its build up to the fight scene. It's a story about a ronin asking permission to commit seppuku at a daimyo's compound. It's mostly in flashback as you trace back the reason he wanted to commit suicide.

Yes it is.

For some odd reason, I also like the 4th one very much

Adds to the man of of time cliche

Hm... have not watch this yet

Will watch this soon!

Wah old 80s flashback party is here

Haha same here

There are hidden 80s action that i have not watched yet

Got so used 2 the good old arnie vs sly

And when you want 2 review it

This post has been edited by skylinelover: Apr 30 2016, 10:26 AM

... slave driver ...

try it

that war movie (based on true story) is about:

1) colonial (italy) vs freedom fighter (libya)

2) high tech (tank+ plane + artillery) vs tactical warfare (guerrilla tactic using cavalry units + foot soldier)

3) professional army general (italy) vs teacher turn war leader (libya)

This post has been edited by dearhypocrite: Apr 30 2016, 01:28 PM

Tango & Cash (1989)

The last "American movie" release in the 80s (Dec 1989).

Sylvester Stallone - Lt. Raymond Tango
Kurt Russell - Lt. Gabriel Cash
Teri Hatcher (gosh she was young) - Katherine 'Kiki' Tango

The same year Warner Brothers made a killing with Tim Burton's Batman (1989) in the summer.

I remember liking this movie when I first watched it. Probably on VHS (any kiddies remember what that is?? )

It is not until now after re-watching it and doing some research did I know that it was hit with massive production problems during film.

1) Script was not complete when shooting started.
2) Patrick Swayze, who was originally cast to play Lt. Gabriel Cash, backed out for the movie Road House.
3) The original Director of Photography, Barry Sonnenfeld (Adams Family, Men In Black), was fired (supposedly Slyvester pushed for that) and Donald E. Thorin took over.
4) Director, Andrei Konchalovsky also got fired two third through filming, replaced by Albert Magnoli.

According to imdb, the original budget was $55,000,000 and the movie made $63,000,000 (USA), and wikipedia mention that 20,000,000 was the original budget. which us surprising.

Batman (1989) had a budget $35,000,000 (I heard it was the most expensive movie at the time!!) and grossed $251,188,924 (USA)...

Okay this movie is a buddy cop comedy movie.

Surprisingly Sylvester play peppy and Kurt played the slob...

Fun movie. Nothing surprising, but fun movie.

Both Sylvester and Kurt were at the top of their game!

If you like cop comedy, go for it!

My Two Sen

P.S. This movie transfer to HD is far FAR superior compared to Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979). What the hey! (Paramount would spend money remastering Star Trek The Next Generation TV Series and not make a proper transfer for the movies!!!!)

P.P.S. Kurt Russell in drags... *Yikes*

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Apr 30 2016, 10:31 PM