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The Great Santini (1979)

Iron Monkey: 8/10

Generally stupid but ridiculously entertaining. Some of the greatest action scenes ever put on film.

Murder by Death (1976)

I love Murder by Death. Are you familiar with the detectives who were spoofed in the movie?

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I watched this because it's one of the last I hadn't seen from the existing westerns list. Rod Steiger gives it his best shot as a disillusioned soldier on the losing side of the civil war who goes and joins the Sioux. Charles Bronson stands around looking strong and says a few words. It was ok for an 80 minute watch but I thought it was pretty dated.

That's like... the highest rating I've ever seen you give.

These are typical responses to the movie, and I must admit I felt the same way the first time I watched it too. It wasn't until my second watch that I actually payed attention to the dialogue and realised what the movie was actually about. It has surprisingly more depth that it seems if you're just looking for gore and aren't paying attention to the plot. For a violent movie about torture with really good gore effects it doesn't get much better than this in terms of actually having meaningful content.

If you were paying attention then you would know what the objective of torturing the women was (torturing them, not "keeping them as prisoners"), because there is a long conversation of dialogue spelling it out in detail, and it's the title of the movie. They also have a wall of art devoted to it.

I don't know what it is exactly, but I guess when you're anticipating gore it's hard to pay attention to dialogue. The second time I watched it I was much more interested in the movie itself as a whole, and that's why I started paying attention.

Tales that witness madness (1973)



One of those Horror Anthology films that has some good and some bad points. The production values are OK but some of the stories are rather thin (compared to, say, the "Tales from the Crypt...the Mr Tiger and Mel ones being particularly daft). Nice enough dated watching for an afternoon, the stories reminded me of the "Roald Dahls Tales of the Unexpected" that aired on UK TV in the 80s.

Re-watch of a terrific movie.

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Too over the top and occasionally silly for me normally, yet the constant mayhem was a lot of fun. Throw in some good characters and that was enough for me to like this one.

Windmere Children (2010) - 5/10. Not every holocaust story needs to be told, this was one of them. Doesn't have too much in it. Although the teen actors were better than most i guess. But this would have been better off as 30 mins on BBC Our World, not a whole movie. The ending was nicely done. But apart from that, offered very little.



The only upside was seeing Tim McInnery in something after Black Adder.

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Death Ship (1080) - 5.2/10. A wee bit tighter writing and this might have been a classic. The premise is great i have to say. But it lacks a bit in probably every department, except the production design. A little better acting here, a little better direction there and this would have great. Certainly not violent of anything. The directors completely fluffed the ending i think by not providing some info, just doesn't feel well-rounded.

I rarely ever revisit a movie. First i thought I understood the movie wrong. So I googled the explanation of the ending, and nope, read the movie right. If "finding out" was the only thing that the gang intended, especially about "that" thing, I still think its a little weird. I expected two women just picking of people one by one and litres and litres of blood. Yes, it is clever than most lame movies that just amp the gore level up to 11 and go for shock value. This is definitely more nuanced than that.

I'm surprised this has an IMDb rating of 6.6 rather than being a well known classic. It's an unusual western in that there's no gunfights or bad guys, and that's not because it's a comedy or musical. I'd say it features a moral dilemma and there's really not even any unlikable characters. I liked it a whole lot except for maybe the last minute when I thought the wrong guy got the girl.

Quest for Fire (1981)

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I'm sorry but I had to watch this. I grew up as an adult watching most of Kevin's films and I just realized it was 15 years between the two times I met Jason Mewes. First at WizardWorld Comicon in Chicago and Planet Comicon here in Kansas City. Jason is one of the coolest people I have ever met. I have a Chronic action figure signed by Jason. It did have some stupid funny scenes in it and some memorable quotes. Most are too dirty that I can't post here.

The Star Chamber (1983)