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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    in TV and Film Forum

    Posted · Edited by Paul Kersey

    Hollywood Vice Squad

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    The recent discussion on this thread about Cannon films reminded me of this 1986 movie. My local video rental store had a copy but my mum thought that I was too young to watch it. I googled it yesterday and found it in full on youtube. It's a typically trashy 80s straight to video feature starring Carrie Fisher and Joey Travolta as unorthodox cops investigating porn and prostitution. There's a fair mix of violence and slapstick. It's like it can't decide if it wants to be serious or a comedy. There's all the usual 80s L.A. cliches, like street punks, hookers, pimps and drag queens.

    Shite, but entertaining shite.

    6/10

     

     

     

     

     

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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    in TV and Film Forum

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    On 20/06/2021 at 12:23, BFTD said:

    The Exterminator 2 (Blu-Ray)  - sequel to one of the more memorable sadistic revenge films of the 70's/80's. The Vietnam vet from the first film continues murdering street thugs, before they discover who he is and take their revenge on him, leading him to seek vengeance against them...you get the picture.

    I vaguely remember finding the first film entertaining in that grim, prurient, exploitation fashion that makes you feel dirty afterwards - I think that's the film where a bad guy gets fed alive into a mincing machine feet first - but this is a pretty dull follow-up from those experts in wringing out pennies at the expense of quality, Cannon Films. It's as Eighties as an Eighties movie can get, with random (and poor) Flashdance sequences and breakdancing, to the kind of post-apocalyptic "street punks" that only existed in the fevered imaginations of wealthy movie producers. Mario Van Peebles hams it up as the gang leader who has a very ill-defined plan to sell lots of drugs to take over the city, and it's also some kind of cult? Very odd, and the set-pieces are generally pretty dire, especially the final showdown which consists of ten minutes of wandering around an abandoned factory for no good reason. Probably best avoided.

    Only one extra on the Blu-Ray, but it's a revealing one, as it's a brief interview with Cannon's "fixer", a guy they employed to salvage films that had been mishandled by the (often rookie) directors. This film was one of those - he would basically try to take the existing footage and turn it into a more interesting film, which explains the disjointed feel. He wasn't able to obtain the services of the leading actor, who'd already moved on to another film, so he just had a stuntman wear a welder's mask for half the film  :lol:

    I'd already seen the Cannon documentary, but the interview really gives even more of an glimpse into what a fly-by-night amateur organisation they were.

    Edit: forgot to mention that the score sounds remarkably like the MIDI soundtrack to a late-Eighties Sierra Online game performed on a Roland MT-32. Once I realised why it sounded familiar, any shreds of credibility disappeared oot the windae.

    I love Cannon films. They always remind me of trips to the video rental shop in the 80s.

    American Ninja and Delta Force are a couple to leap to mind. I think Cobra was Cannon too.

    Cannon films really should be watched on an old tube TV and a VHS toploader.

    The original Exterminator film is a classic.  Years since I saw it but I do recall a pretty sadistic scene where he exacts horrific vengeance on a perverted politician who had been abusing prostitutes.

    I've never seen the sequel.

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    Best Music Documentaries

    in The Music Forum

    Posted · Edited by Paul Kersey

    I just watched Gimme Shelter. I.e. the documentary about the infamous Rolling Stones gig at Altamont in 1969.

    This is kinda the antidote to Woodstock. It shows the dark side of the 60s counter culture scene. There's more than a few shots of people who appear to be on bad acid trips. There is also a fair amount of violence as the Hells Angels are squaring people right up at the front of the stage leading to the well documented death of some guy who pulled out a gun.

    Aside from that, I'm pretty sure that the guys behind Spinal Tap were fans of this film. Some of the scenes of the Stones sitting around in Hotel rooms looked very Tap-esque.

    Also, I had no idea until today that this film is where Shaun Ryder got his "You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous" shout that is on Bummed.

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    Horrific club photos

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    14 hours ago, speckled tangerine said:

    I can't quite see the holes on his hands. I believe Dominik shat out of getting crucified in a ridiculously bizarre and ill advised attempt to get back on the telly though.

    Unless that's an acid flashback.

     

    That's true. He went to the Philippines to take part in a traditional Easter ceremony that involved crucifying people, but taking them down before they die.

    He shat out at the last moment.

    He's originally from Arbroath, which speaks volumes about why he looks like a tramp and is an utter shitebag.

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    What Are You Drinking ?

    in The General Nonsense Forum

    Posted · Edited by Paul Kersey

    I'm still confident that we're going to win the Euros, and what better way to celebrate our impending victory than with McEwan's Champion?

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    It is full flavoured and it weighs in at a fairly hefty 7.3%.

    It's not for the faint hearted and I wouldn't drink more than one of these in an evening.

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