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  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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    There’s a lot of love for this movie, that I could see from the comments when I shared that I was watching it. Me? I actually remember really hating this movie when it first came out — I was going in to watch a sci-fi film, and I couldn’t stand the fact that it’s basically…

  • Top Gun

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    It doesn’t get much more “1986” than Top Gun. The interesting thing to see here is that, even though it’s only Tony Scott’s second feature film, it already features the slick art direction pretty much all of his movies are known for. As far as this movies goes, sure, it’s pretty damn cheesy — especially…

  • Our Little Sister

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    Earlier today I got to talking about the films of Hirokazu Koreeda with a friend at work, and it’s only after looking him up that I realized he had directed Maboroshi, which not only was his first feature film, but also one of the first proper Japanese films I remember watching at a theater —…

  • Blue Velvet

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    You know when you remember really liking a movie, but then 20 years or so pass, and you wonder if you’ll still like it? I’ve always had fond memories of Blue Velvet, and I’m a fan of David Lynch’s work in general — and Twin Peaks is my favorite TV series of all time. So…

  • Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

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    I ended up doing a double bill of watching Underworld: Blood Wars and this back-to-back, and I felt that Resident Evil was the funner movie of the two to watch. I’m not a huge fan of the series, but I’ve seen them all, and so I figured I’d see how they “end” it. It had…

  • Underworld: Blood Wars

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    I used to enjoy watching these movies — slick gun-fu action with the lovely Kate Beckinsale kicking ass — but I think I’ve tired of the series, because I didn’t find much enjoyment in watching Blood Wars. The story was pretty boring, and the action sequences weren’t particularly interesting — save for the short battle…

  • Platoon

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    Next up for 1986 was Platoon. I’ll say this, I found the scenes in the village — that spark the riff between the sergeants — to be even more disturbing than I remembered. Might be that at this point in my life I can better appreciate the horror of the situation. It’s still a mesmerizing…

  • Aliens

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    I thought it would take longer before I embarked on another 80s movie marathon, but I already felt like diving back in, and decided to kick off 1986 with Aliens. I can’t really say if I prefer Alien or Aliens — I love them both for very different reasons. But I’ll say that watching Aliens again — it…