I don’t know, I guess I’m indifferent to the cries of the moronic who want movie theaters to be multimedia factories where movies are only a third idea in the experience. I’ve always been a loyalist when it comes to movie theaters. When I go in to a movie, I want to sit down in the dark and share an experience with other movie goers. I want to absorb a film, I want to take it in, and I want to leave affected by it. The humongous screen staring down at a dark arena of movie seats has always been a familiar and beloved sight for me, because it’s where I spent a lot of my childhood.
Quicksilver (1986) [Blu-Ray]
In spite of my appreciation for actor Kevin Bacon, I never actually managed to see “Quicksilver.” Even when it was on television, I always actively made a point of not watching it. It just never interested me. Thankfully now with the advent of Kevin Bacon’s 1986 thriller now on Blu-Ray, I’m happy to discover that “Quicksilver” is an entertaining and somewhat underrated action thriller where Bacon thrives once again.
Mortal Kombat (1995)
After cribbing from the Cronenberg filmmaking handbook in “Event Horizon,” director Paul WS Anderson took the reins of the popular fighting game “Mortal Kombat.” A precursor to his handling of another popular genre game “Resident Evil,” director Anderson handles the adaptation of “Mortal Kombat” much in the way studios enjoy it. He takes a controversial, volatile, and violent video game, and transforms it in to a PG-13 action romp for teenage boys. With “Mortal Kombat” director Anderson almost gets it right. Close but no cigar.
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Monday Movie Pause: The Sci-Fi Channel Circa 1995
I don’t care if I sound like an old fart, but the Sci-Fi Channel In America was better back in 1995. Before they dropped the Science Fiction theme, they were a fun and unique channel that aired many incredible forms of science fiction entertainment. Hell, at one point they even played cartoons weekday mornings in the science fiction mold. Back before cable became a leader in entertainment, channels had to get creative in their entertainment, and the Sci-Fi Channel was creative, weird, and most times a lot of fun to experience.
This extended promo often ran on the Sci-Fi Channel in the nineties and encapsulated how fun the channel once was and will never be again.
Cockneys vs. Zombies (2013)
While we may not have a “Shaun of the Dead” sequel, I like to think of “Cockneys vs. Zombies” as the equally funny, and engaging story that occurred during Shaun’s trek to save his girlfriend. This time around, a construction crew accidentally unearths a mysterious tomb filled with corpses and skulls. When the workers are killed by the still re-animated denizens of the tombs, a zombie plague begins to spread across the East Side of London.
Street Fighter (1994)
1994’s “Street Fighter” represents the mentality of pretty much every studio head. Just throw a bunch of crap on screen and hope the audience doesn’t notice the movie sucks. In this instance “Street Fighter” throws a lot of the characters from the Street Fighter games on-screen and hopes no one notices that the movie is really damn awful. We noticed. Trust me. We noticed. Even at eleven years old I couldn’t understand why this was so bad while the games were so incredible.