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Pee Wee's Big Adventure - checked it out on Blu-ray, there's a lot of weird little detail that sort of gets lost in standard def. This movie is still really weird no matter how many times I see it. Hadn't watched it in ages, it holds up well.

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FORTRESS. Rachel Ward's one-room outback schoolhouse gets kidnapped and she gets borgnine on the bad guys. Really satisfying, and a fine Christmas movie, too. The Australian literary relationship to the wild works for Canadians, we have that same sense that the outdoors can kill you/save you. I'd like Everett De Roche to adapt Margaret Atwood's Survival, somehow. "There's no reason to keep anything from the children."

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Crank 2: I watched it because Lloyd Kaufman interviewed those guys for Direct Your Own Damn Movie and they seemed like cool guys who shot their films with handheld consumer cameras. I can't say it's well shot but it is chaotic and it does kinda' work I suppose. It fully knows it's a crazy, ott action flick and embraces this. It definitely has shades of Troma's War and Total Recall. Fun flick.

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FORTRESS. Rachel Ward's one-room outback schoolhouse gets kidnapped and she gets borgnine on the bad guys. Really satisfying, and a fine Christmas movie, too. The Australian literary relationship to the wild works for Canadians, we have that same sense that the outdoors can kill you/save you. I'd like Everett De Roche to adapt Margaret Atwood's Survival, somehow. "There's no reason to keep anything from the children."

I have loved this film since I first saw it on HBO years ago. Is it out on dvd or blu ray? I have a rip of the VHS release,but I would happily buy a legit DVD if it is out there.

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Since I was feeling down on Thursday. I decieded to watch two of my favorite comedies. First I watched "Porkys" with the Bob Clark commentary. And this film,no matter how many times I see it,never fails to make me laugh so hard and so much that my sides are aching when the film is over. Then I watched "Revenge of the Nerds" with the commentary with the directer,Robert Carradine,Curtis Armstrong,and Timothy Busfield. After this double feature of 80's comedy goodness my mood had improved.

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Scre4m/Scream 4 - A decent follow up. Not as good as the original but on par with 2 and better than 3. It was kind of fun seeing a bunch of the old characters back together again even if it was a bit contrived. Again, lots of self referential humor and an attempt to cater to today's teen audience, but I was fine with that, it entertained me and had a few decent kill scenes in it and some fun cameos.

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I have loved this film since I first saw it on HBO years ago. Is it out on dvd or blu ray? I have a rip of the VHS release,but I would happily buy a legit DVD if it is out there.

The HBO R1 disc is even widescreen: $8.70 at amazon.com; cheaper in the marketplace.



http://www.amazon.com/Fortress-Sean-.../dp/B000GAKDP6

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Puppet Master 4 and 5: The pacing just kills these movies. Something happens, then nothing happens for a good 5-10 minutes (shots of people walking around, shot of the Psychic chick, shots of the puppets wandering around), then something happens, then nothing happens again. I get the feeling that this was intended as one movie but Charles Band split it into two films.

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The HBO R1 disc is even widescreen: $8.70 at amazon.com; cheaper in the marketplace.



http://www.amazon.com/Fortress-Sean-.../dp/B000GAKDP6

I shall have to order it next week.

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Puppet Master 4 and 5: The pacing just kills these movies. Something happens, then nothing happens for a good 5-10 minutes (shots of people walking around, shot of the Psychic chick, shots of the puppets wandering around), then something happens, then nothing happens again. I get the feeling that this was intended as one movie but Charles Band split it into two films.

The story I have heard is they were made as one film,then padded out to make two films. Wanna say I heard that in an old issue of Fango.

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Frankenhooker - this is still a pretty rad movie no matter how many times I see it. Great effects and a great performance from the two leads.

French Shampoo - fun porn with Annie Sprinkle, Marc Stevens and Bobby Astyr, the later of whom plays a shiek and is hilarious.

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The story I have heard is they were made as one film,then padded out to make two films. Wanna say I heard that in an old issue of Fango.

Yeah, I'm not surprised. The only 'Jeff Burr moment' to be found is in part 5 where the Psychic chick is in a bathtub and having her head drilled (bad special effect) in a very sexual way by the Tunneler puppet.

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Dead Alive - still gooey and gory and fun and gross.

Six Swedes In Ibizia - Huh. Who knew this one was hardcore? It's not very good actually. There's no plot here at all.

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Six Swedes In Ibizia - Huh. Who knew this one was hardcore? It's not very good actually. There's no plot here at all.

Man, that stinks (probably did). How many of those are there?

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Four I think.