Suburban commando starring early 90s Hulk Hogan, best enjoyed on the original VHS .
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The need for speed movie. It's not bad. I feel like the game they chose to reference is the worst and best choice for it.
Das Millionenspiel.
It's The Running Man except twelve years earlier and a media satire instead of an action movie. It comments on TV phenomena that wouldn't exist in Germany until two decades later (like scripted "reality" TV). Also, it has early appearances of one of Germany's most famous TV hosts (as the show's host, fittingly) and one of Germany's most famous comedians of the 70s to 90s (in a completely serious role, unfittingly). And unlike the Schwarzenegger movie it doesn't construct a dystopian future to introduce public bloodsports but merely gives a terse reference to a "law on active recreation" dated three years after the movie first aired.
To make it even more odd, it's actually a good movie despite being from Germany and made for TV.
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Bunraku, easily. I don't even like noire movies normally.
That is a fantastic movie and I encourage anyone who has never seen it to watch it.
Every character and actor fit together so well that a cheesy, weird action movie ended up feeling so much cooler than it deserved to be. It also tapped into my enjoyment of tournament fighting movies from the days of Bloodsport and Kickboxer.
Three O'Clock High
It's like someone set it to make the stereotypical '80s movie. It has surprisingly good cinematography and a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
Like most '80s movies, it has some things that have not aged well culturally, so be warned. I don't think it's too egregious, but it's definitely of it's time.
George of the Jungle!
"George not even trying hard."
"They looked up at the mountain with aw."
Like? Yes, defend? Nahhh
I knew a guy who swore that Garbage Pail Kids The Movie was a goddamned masterpiece of cinema.
I can only watch it in 15 minute stints before the nausea takes effect.
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