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  • Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

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    I like me some military action movies, and I liked the first Jack Reacher movie fine. The follow-up is pretty good too. Nothing earth-shatteringly good, but definitely entertaining. I wouldn’t mind getting another one.

  • Demolition

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    This was great. Sure, Jake Gyllenhaal is one of my favorite actors, so I already tend to like stuff he’s in (like last year’s Nocturnal Animals), but this was also a discovery for me of director Jean-Marc Vallée, and now I really need to watch his previous films, Wild and Dallas Buyers Club. But yeah,…

  • Something Wild

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    This is still such a fun movie. Kicking off with a theme song by Talking Heads, and then just a great soundtrack overall (and then The Feelies performing some great covers during the high-school reunion scene). Melanie Griffith was never better, and it’s fun seeing young Jeff Daniels like this. Definitely worth revisiting.

  • The Money Pit

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    There’s a lot of fun to be had with screwball comedies of the 80s like this one. I think it’s aged fairly well, and I had a pretty good time watching it again. It’s also fun to see young Tom Hanks in action, and to revisit good ol’ Shelley Long and Alexander Godunov. I miss those…

  • Stand by Me

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    Stand by Me is just as good now as it ever was. It’s aged incredibly well, and watching it again last night, I was so there again, following these boys on their little adventure, with that classic soundtrack perfectly accompanying the proceedings. Also, maybe it’s just because I watched it so many times back in…

  • Cobra

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    To my credit, I remember not really liking this movie even back then. Don’t get me wrong, I had a lot of fun watching it now, but oh my this is a terrible movie. In fact, it feels like a parody of an 80s action movie, except that it really is an 80s action movie. Seriously,…

  • Pretty in Pink

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    Oh the joys of re-watching classic John Hughes movies (he didn’t direct this one, but still wrote and produced it). It’s got the classic soundtrack, the great characters, and everything else I remember liking about it. Watching this also got me thinking how it’s a shame that there is no creator these days making cool…

  • Police Academy 3: Back in Training

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    The best thing about this movie is any scene Bobcat Goldthwait is in. The worst thing is the Japanese character, who is uncomfortably “oriental” in a Long Duk Dong kinda way. Overall, it’s silly fun, although I think I liked the second one more.

  • Big Trouble in Little China

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    I know I really liked this movie back in the day — I was a pretty big fan of John Carpenter films in general — but it had been so long since I’d watched it that I barely remembered the story at all, which made it that much more fun to watch. Yes, it’s incredibly silly,…

  • Highlander

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    I loved this movie so much back in the day, and watched it countless times. Watching it again now, it’s still pretty great, and features some really nicely shot fighting sequences — like the showdown at the end in front of blue-lit windows, with shadowy figures in combat, sorta like what we see in that…