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Short Circuit (1986)
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"If you buy the kids only one new video release this week, make it Pinocchio. Obviously. But if you have enough spending money to buy two, pick up Howard the Duck as well. Finally on DVD in America (with a Special Edition no less), the infamous flop is anything but a great film. Yet it is hardly one of the worst films of the 1980s, despite its reputation. For the past 23 years, I’ve stood by my childhood love for Howard the Duck, constantly acknowledging that I even owned Ellis Weiner’s novelization of the film. Technically, the best reason to defend the movie’s existence is that it directly led to the creation of Pixar. But this reason doesn’t influence anyone to watch the thing. So, in order to defend the movie’s onscreen worth, I’ve come up with ten points for why you should pick up the new Howard the Duck disc and not feel at all guilty about doing so. < "
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"It’s no secret that I have a soft spot for all things science fiction-related, and when it involves robots of any kind (the odd exception being the actual movie Robots, which I avoided like the plague) then I’m in like Flynn. The more non-human looking the robot, the more I’ll love it. (Which is probably why Disney’s own The Black Hole has some of the coolest movie robots in it. V.I.N.C.E.N.T.? Maximillian? Great stuff. Where’s my Blu-ray, Disney?) One of the movies this past year that actually got me into the theaters more than once was Disney/Pixar’s WALL•E, which comes out on DVD today. They’ve added a ton of special features to the film, especially (of course) if you buy the "
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An Enduring (Albeit Dated) Classic
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"A childhood favorite, it seems to have lost little of its appeal as it passes the 20 year anniversary. Sure it's silly, sure it's far-fetched, sure it stars Steve Guttenberg, but the characters are so off-the-wall and loveable that you'd be hard pressed to walk away from this film and NOT be at least entertained. Particularly affable is "Johnny" Number 5, the naive robot-cum-humanoid at the center of the film. It's surprisingly easy to get lost in his world (Wall*E eat your heart out) AND it's fun for the whole family - and I mean everyone. "
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"Maybe this really is the year of “product suggestion”, a term coined recently by Risky Biz blogger Steven Zeitchik after noticing the subtle hint of a McDonalds logo on the driver’s helmet and race car in Speed Racer. Following that, we now have Pixar suggesting iPods and other Apple products through its new animated film Wall-E. If you take a good look at the sleek robot character Eve, you might be reminded of the typical Apple product design, and apparently it’s not so coincidental. Wall-E director Andrew Stanton told Fortune magazine of Eve’s development and the benefit of having Steve Jobs as your umbrella: “I wanted Eve to be high-end technology - no expense spared - and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to be sort of hidden and subcutaneous,” Andrew Stanton, Wall-E’s director, told Fortune. “The more I star "
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Short Circuit
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"Short CircuitHate me for growing up. I remember enjoying this movie to some extent when I was a kid. I even was surprised how many lines felt familiar when I just recently watched it again. But also upon watching it again I found the movie stupid and the experience painful. There's something so strange about some of these classic mainstream comedies that somehow seems like it took it's strongest hold in the 80's (but I know there have been and probably always will be films like this). Something about how throughout the whole movie you kind of feel both totally detached and this feeling like you should be engrossed. The movie does everything to keep you away by just giving you snippets of things, editing through ridiculous plot before you can really examine how stupid it all is, feeding you lines of dialogue that are simplified with Hollywood Squares type of humor and leads nowhere or tells you exactly what it wants you to feel. At the end of the movie you sense t ... "
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"Lieutenant Harris. Captain Felix Maxwell. Skroeder. Anyway you slice him, GW Bailey is the cop/security guard you love to hate. While each of these films deserves a more thorough examination for their many, many merits, the Curator once again takes time to devote a post to an overlooked co-star: GW Bailey, the embodiment of type-casting at its finest. The classic line, "Do you understand me numb-nuts??!!" in the original Police Academy pretty much nailed his career coffin shut, with Bailey preserved inside, permanently costumed in blue. And who benefits from such predictability in the comedy genre? Why we the viewer, of course! Let us celebrate the co-starring career of the first GW. The Films: Police Academy, Short Circuit, Mannequin Viewing order importance: As above. Watch the depth of GW Bai "
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