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Month: December 2019

  • The Abyss

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    A great and underrated film at the time, and it’s still great. It’s got the great tech/mech components we expect (and that I love) from James Cameron movies, with a terrific cast (Michael Biehn everyone), and interesting sci-fi/otherworldly happenings. I know we’re about to get a bunch of Avatar movies (which does feel more like…

  • Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

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    I’m writing this quite a few months after watching it (I watched the first half of my 1989 movies earlier in the year, and finished up recently, and noticed that I hadn’t written my posts like I usually do) and I honestly can’t even remember what happened in the movie. I’m sure it was dumb…

  • Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

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    As I go through my 80s movie marathons, I’ve been enjoying re-watching the old Halloween movies. Oh, don’t get me wrong, they’re cheesy as hell, but there’s something so fun about them, more than the Friday the 13th movies (which I enjoy as well, but not as much). That said, I still love what they’re…

  • Batman

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    When I decided to kick off my 1989 movie marathon, this was the movie that I started it with. I still remember seeing this at the theater — we were about to go on a family trip, but I insisted on seeing it opening night before we left. As with a lot of movies that…

  • Dead Poets Society

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    I end my 1989 movie marathon (at twenty movies) with certainly one of the best movies from that year. I was pleased to see that everything still resonates so strongly, thirty years later, and that the lessons from Keating still come off as exciting and inspiring (I was worried that they would now come off…

  • The Killer

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    The early films of John Woo (this, as well as Hard Boiled and Bullet in the Head) are what got me obsessed with HK cinema back in the day, and although I’ve barely seen any (HK films that is) in recent years, it’s fun to revisit that particular era. Sure, some bits haven’t aged particularly…

  • The Wizard

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    I’m sure I watched this back in the day, but I had zero memory of the story — other than it culminates in a tournament, and Super Mario Bros. 3 makes an appearance. Didn’t even remember that Christian Slater is in this! I really don’t get why they wanted to mix a pretty serious drama…

  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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    The Indy movies (with the exception of course of the 4th one, which I really do wish didn’t exist) continue to be amongst my favorite movies of all time, and so revisiting any of them is like entering familiar happy times. I do wonder how many times I’ve seen each of them — surely a…

  • Licence to Kill

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    I don’t usually include Bond films in the year-based movie marathons I do (since I tend to marathon Bond films separately), but I made an exception this time because I was in the mood to watch one, and since I’m going through 1989, Licence to Kill was a good candidate. It isn’t one of my…

  • Christmas Vacation

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    I had completely forgotten that the kids in this one are played by Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki! And Julia Louis-Dreyfus! This was pretty fun to watch (dumb fun in the best way) and I’m surprised I haven’t revisited sooner — it feels like I haven’t seen it in a couple of decades. As I…