Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
“Ninjas check in — but they don’t check out!” This was surprisingly enjoyable! And curiously one of the few martial arts movies I’ve seen with cursing. Entertaining but loose storyline, but some truly fantastic action. 👌🏼
Immensely better than the dischordant and boring remakes. This is practically a note-for-note remake of the Corman Classic, but that’s the funny thing about formula movies — if studios stuck to the formula that made the original successful, you wind up with a good movie. Deviate and try to put a grittier or more “real” spin on it and 9 times out of 10 and the filmmakers fail. This has all the camp and dark humor of the original, and updates some of the heavy-handed (but spot-on) social commentary for the 21st century. A midnight movie worth watching!
"Artoo, turn the ship from automatic pilot to manual! What? I just shot the reactor controlling all the droids? Yippie!!"
Parts of this film quite acceptably set the stage for the series yet to come, however, save roughly 15 minutes of podracing and roughly 5 minutes of Jedi dueling, "Thr Phantom Menace" is a sad, tortuous movie to watch. (I say torturous, since so many obviously horrendous decisions insofar as casting, characters, and story could have been avoided and this…