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Reviews
Miami Vice (1984)
Years of greatness...
Of course, this is THE favorite of all time for me.
My relationship with this series began in the early eighties when it ran for the first time. It was my older sister's favorite series and I got strung out immediately too.
I could go on and on about the great things about the series. The color scheme, the photography, the cast's chemistry...it's just great.
The big difference to many other police series is the thing about the episodes, when there's is rarely a happy ending. You get in to that feeling pretty deep and many of the episodes stay in your(at least in mine) head for days.
I have over ten four hour VHS-tapes recorded in half speed full of Miami Vice. It runs on a cable network once a week, I tape every episode and usually watch them when I get home from work(I do the graveyard shift), with 2 beers! It's great.
Just bought a DVD with the original 90 minute-pilot and the Calderone-episodes...
I predatori di Atlantide (1983)
Whew! A true B-classic.
I remember seeing this film many times as kid in the mid-eighties. As today, I can still remember certain scenes though I haven't seen it in over a decade.
The crazed motorcycle posse with nearly-comical characters try to wipe out the scientist group with many ways, and vice versa. There are many great death scenes with (maybe unintentional) black humor. For example, the jammed jukebox(playing "somebody" or something like that) with hanged body hitting it time after time.
The best death scene is the decapitation of the punk-rocker-biker. And I can still remember the gang leader waving his cane to command his troops to battle.
A true R-rated classic. You'll laugh and you'll be entertained.
Silent Running (1972)
A very versatile film
As I said, there's so much to this great film. A sci-fi film with a folk soundtrack and pro-environment point of view? In 1972? Awesome.
Bruce Dern is just great in this film. My favorite part is the poker-episode with the drones. "He had full house and he knew it!" Great screenplay(practically with Bruce Dern by himself, with his drones and the radio dispatcher). It all comes together with the great Joan Baez's soundtrack.
Of course one could complain about the roaring sounds of exploding cones in deep space, but who cares.
Just plain excellence, see it if you haven't yet.