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Avenging Force
Avenging Force
Avenging Force
By tallquasimodo in tallquasimodo Blog
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 "This movie was not, in any sense of the word, good. It had a few entertaining moments, mainly lame attempts to be cool. Jacked up trucks jumping over stuff, and the overuse of crossbows. As unoriginal and unentertaining as it was, it neither picked my pocket nor broke my leg, and thus deserves slightly more than one star. " [More]
Desperado
Desperado
Tokyo Drifter
By tallquasimodo in tallquasimodo Blog
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. [What do you think?]
 "I really wanted to be impressed by this movie, and I was, in a sense. The color is fantastic, and the cinematography is nothing to sneeze at either. It even had what must have been some very cool gunfights for its time. Unfortunately the narrative itself was too hard to follow. Call me racist, but I had trouble differentiating the various bosses from each other due to the similarity of their names to my western ear. This left the majority of dialogue fairly difficult to comprehend. I wish I had seen this movie before being exposed to some of the better handgun-based action movies made since, such as A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Desperado, etc. Even The Wild Bunch could be included in that category. " [More]
Tokyo Drifter
Tokyo Drifter
Tokyo Drifter
By tallquasimodo in tallquasimodo Blog
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. [What do you think?]
 "I really wanted to be impressed by this movie, and I was, in a sense. The color is fantastic, and the cinematography is nothing to sneeze at either. It even had what must have been some very cool gunfights for its time. Unfortunately the narrative itself was too hard to follow. Call me racist, but I had trouble differentiating the various bosses from each other due to the similarity of their names to my western ear. This left the majority of dialogue fairly difficult to comprehend. I wish I had seen this movie before being exposed to some of the better handgun-based action movies made since, such as A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Desperado, etc. Even The Wild Bunch could be included in that category. " [More]
Cyborg
Cyborg
Cyborg!
By tallquasimodo in tallquasimodo Blog
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 "This is not a good movie, though I might call it entertainingly bad. Directed by Alber Pyun, notable B and exploitation movie director, it features Van Damme as a dude with unexplained martial ability, which leads to a lot of roundhouse kicks as he wistfully remembers the tragic experience that left his woman dead at the hands of the local evil gang leader. I watched this movie for the post-apocalyptic content, of which it has some fairly decent shots of ruin and destruction, but also 80s mannequin effects that don't hold up very well. The fight scenes are pretty rediculous in that way that few other than Van Damme can accomplish. Unfortunately it was also pretty short on one-liners, lessening my enjoyment. " [More]
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Re:Pick a Pair
By tallquasimodo in Movie Games
"I would nominate Le Samourai and Ghost Dog. Pretty interesting to see a couple of different takes on the bushido code for modern hitmen. Ghost Dog was a bit silly though. " [More]
The Dark Crystal
The Dark Crystal
The Dark Crystal
By tallquasimodo in tallquasimodo Blog
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. [What do you think?]
 "Somehow missed this one as a kid, though that's excusable merely because it was made before I was born. I enjoyed the fleshed-out fantasy world and the general lack of human actors. While I admire it for being incredible for the time in which it was made, it has not held up particularly well over the years. I hate to say it because I believe there is more artistry in puppet-work than in CGI, CGI has really spoiled me. All the puppets were wood and plastic, lacking even the facial emotion of the earliest Pixar movies. The guys in suits were really cool, but were still just guys in suits. The seams were just a little bit too visible. Not a bad movie, but I am niether the target audience nor close enough to the era in which it was made. " [More]

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