Ten Favorite First-Time Viewings In 2018 by Nostromo87 10.
Cocktail (1988)
Doug Coughlin mentors Brian Flannigan as a frontman and bartender to work the show. Brian bolts for Jamaica when Doug gets in the middle of a fling between Flannigan and Gina Gershon, ... A fun time's set up with prize 80s headliners Elisabeth Shue, Tom Cruise, and hottstuff Kelly Lynch. All shook up.
Partways outrageous, mostways one cool flick from one badazz filmmaker. A 17-year-old pays $250 for a wrecked 1958 Plymouth Fury with an indestructible vengeance.
That's a piece of sh*t, Arnie.
She could be fixed up, boy should could be really tough.
Forget it, Arnie.
Pull a string, win a prize! Really charming and satisfying slice of Americana, it's not horror though. Gary Busey plays Bozo the clown in a dunking booth, who is good buddies with Robbie Robertson (The Band), young Jodie Foster's appears in a similar setup to her role in Taxi Driver. Glimpse at the inside of carnivals. A new genuine favorite. Love Busey's caged provocative trash talk to get the customers into the action.
Saw it getting kind of bashed by some members in the 80s teen flick get-together here on the site. Not as famous as the first, but that one's over-played. Made me want to bring back the big slick messy swoop 50s hairstyles and buy a motorcycle more than the first movie ever did!
In the getaway after robbing a Mexican bank, bandits Karl Malden and Marlon Brando have to split up... Malden gets the horse and the money, Brando's left abandoned in the desert where he's arrested and jailed in Sonora prison for five years. Once out, Rio (Brando) scans the taverns and barrooms for news of his old friend who double-crossed him. Quality kickass western flick. A man can't stay angry for five years, can he?
Wish it hadn't been chopped up by the MPAA Ratings board in 1988, as the gore shouldn't be ripped out of the Friday The 13th films. Still a lot of fun with characters I enjoy a lot. There are plenty of slashers that are pretty minimal on gore really anyways, the original Halloween being one of them.
Go inside the hidden Hong Kong arena where combatants clash in the Kumite, a little-known but hotly contested world championship of full-contact combat sport. The Kumite is dominated by Chong Li (Bolo Yeung), a ruthless powerhouse champion, until a Westerner shows up named Frank Dux (Jean Claude Van Damme)- who also gets involved with an American journalist there named Janice Kent (Leah Ayres). Tagline: The True Story Of An American Ninja!
A Paul Verhoeven (Starship Troopers, RoboCop, Total Recall, Showgirls, Basic Instinct) film starring Rutger Hauer as enlisted resistance courier Erik Lanshof in the German-occupied Netherlands during the Second World War. The story tracks a set of six friends from the town of Leiden, as the situation drives their lives in dissimilar directions. As a sincere enthusiast and college graduate in history, I am frequently let down when films focus too much on the personal while neglecting the crucial larger sweep of what is at stake. While Soldier Of Orange doesn't necessarily CRUSH that aspect of wonder and spectacle, it provides a lot that other productions from the period don't, and for that reason resembles a feel of a favorite-kind-of-film.
Great movie I found last year and watched really late one night. Lyon Gaultier, a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion stationed in North Africa, catches word his brother was burned alive in a drug-deal gone wrong and deserts his post. Lyon is drawn into a ring of illegal street fighting controlled by "The Lady," Cynthia (Deborah Rennard). Van Damme fights in the bare-knuckles underground circuit to support his sister-in-law and little niece who were left desolate in a small apartment in Los Angeles. There's big money side-betting as Cynthia sponsors him, who's surrounded by the rich and connected. Meanwhile, two Legionnaire security force men track down Lyon for deserting his post, leading to a big-stakes rigged fight between Attila and Lionheart. Sure you wanna mess up that face, handsome?
A criminal, a basket case, a princess, a dork, and a jock have Saturday confinement with Paul Gleason. Before they can leave, they've each got to describe who they think they are. Five strangers with nothing in common, except each other.