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Red Dawn (1984)
Not a bad action movie at all.
This is an action flick. Pure and simple. A rather good one for the genre. There is only one single reason that people are giving it one star, their political leanings. I've heard it all before, the USA is the main problem with the world, other despotic rulers are just misunderstood.
Ho Chi Minh, Daniel Ortega and Fidel Castro were (are) hero's to their people and America has no right to intervene. Uncle Joe Stalin really didn't kill 20 million Ukrainians, Mao Zedong really didn't kill 100 million Chinese, and the Khmer Rough really didn't kill 2 million Cambodians. Oh, excuse me Kampucheans. The communists in Rhodesia were kind to the common people as well.
However, America exports revolution to the world to support it's vast Defense Contrators' bottom lines. GWB started the Afghan and Iraq war for the enrichment of Halliburton executives at the expense of innocent Iraqis. The USA systematically targets civilians, and has since Vietnam.
Hitler (the only despot these people claim to despise) was second in his evil only to "King George II." These same people are OK with killing 35+ million Americans since Roe V. Wade in 1973, but are (supposedly) against killing 7 million Jews from 1933 - 1945. I say supposedly because the left is fanatically anti-Semitic. Israel is at least as evil as America.
Back to the movie. If a foreign force invaded America, I would kill them until I was killed. Just like in Red Dawn. If you notice, everyone died or was dying at the end. Most people who have recently posted on this movie would have acted like the slim-ball mayor and turned in their own sons. Pathetic how people hate the thing that allows them to hate. They have NO APPRECIATION how good it is here in America. Ever wondered why Cuban in Florida are solidly Republican? The lived under socialism and want NO PARTS of it anymore. They escaped. They appreciate America. It's a shame you don't.
Six Pack (1982)
A very cute movie!
This is a nice movie. Is is Casablanca? No. But it isn't supposed to be. I am not sure that I would show this to a very young child, because at least one of the kids has some pretty raw language. No F bombs, but everything else. Kenny Rogers does get the kid to calm the language, though.
One other reviewer mentions that a kid holds a gun. Ohh, Ahh. Whatever.
So what? In the South where I am from, many if not most kids get their first guns at 8 - 10 years old. Kids are taught to hunt and fish here from a very early age. A 12 year old with a gun may look strange to a New Yorker, but it is NO BIG DEAL! All in all, not a bad rental if you see it on the $1 rack! Or catch it on that rare TV showing!
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Pathetic. Many spoilers!
OK,this franchise had SO MUCH POTENTIAL! Pathetic is what this turned out to be. All the Alien and Predator movies were R, so this SHOULD have been NC-17! Anyway, to start the pathetic story lines and complete disregard for both franchises, I will pick apart the movie piece by piece.
#1. Predators love it when the weather is sweltering. So the setting is in Antartica. Perfect.
#2. Aliens will not attack a host. So the queen does her best to off the impregnated Predator. Right on!
#3. Aliens generally take days if not a week or more to develop once implanted in the host. These take less than 10 minutes. Awesome!
#4. The Predators can tell if someone or something is a host. So they take it aboard their ship. Par for the course.
#5. The queen is kept chained under frozen water to survive for long periods of time. So what do they to "kill" her? They chain her under frozen water to a water tower. Now we have an opening for a crappy sequel. A V P 2 h e r e w e c o m e . I c a n ' t w a i t .
#6. It "explains" that humans are told to build the pyramids to use for the hunt. No humans live on Antartica, except by PURE chance and the Predators know that. So why on Earth build a pyramid there??? Brilliant.
#7. Weyland Industries travels millions of miles from earth hundreds of years in the future to get some Aliens when there are plenty right here in Antartica? Come on. The modern day setting was a complete waste.
Good points in the movie.
Only 1. The Predator "teamed" up with the chick to fight some Aliens because she was able to cap one, and got the Predator's respect. I can see that happening.
All in all, a totally wasted effort that had so much potential, yet was so horribly done. This could have been a movie for the ages, instead it was a big steaming pile.
Office Space (1999)
Truly a MUST OWN
My wife and I are two of the 6 people who actually watched this movie in its theatrical release. She was working in an office in a cubicle at the time and I had a dead end job with 8 (at least) managers as well. We never laughed so hard! Then when we got a DVD player, it was the 3rd DVD we purchased. I loaned it to a friend who lost it, so we bought it again. It really is that good. In a way, I really hope that they DON'T make a sequel, because I am afraid that they would ruin it. (very minor spoiler) And yes, I DO own a red Swingline stapler.
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
One word sums up this movie...
Painful. Period. This movie is so bad it is painful to watch. If the MST3K guys weren't cracking on it, I would have turned it off after the first "scene." Just Painful.