Archive for January, 1983
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
The Empire is more than halfway through construction of a new Death Star - almost twice as big, but more than twice as powerful. When completed, it will spell certain doom for Luke Skywalker and the Rebels. Han Solo is a prisoner of crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and Princess Leia soon finds herself in the gangster’s hands. Luke Skywalker, aided by C-3PO and R2-D2, makes his way into Jabba’s palace, hoping to secure his friends’ freedom. But the Hutt has no intention of doing so and tries to kill them all. After escaping from Jabba and the sands of Tatooine, they regroup with the Rebel fleet, which is massing for an attack against the new satellite battle station at Endor. Lando Calrissian is pressed into action to lead the Rebel fighter attack, while Han is put in charge of a group of soldiers to take out the shield generator protecting the Death Star. Luke, however, surrenders to Vader’s soldiers on Endor, and is taken in front of Vader’s boss - the Galactic Emperor - on the Death Star for final corruption to the Dark Side of the Force. The fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers ambushes the Rebels, cutting them off. Worse, the new Death Star begins turning its giant laser on the Rebel carriers. It appears that nothing will stop the Empire’s triumph - unless things start to change quickly…
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.20 out of 10 (98361 votes)
Director: Richard Marquand
Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Sebastian Shaw, Ian McDiarmid, Frank Oz, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, Alec Guinness, Kenny Baker, Michael Pennington, Kenneth Colley,
Tags: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action, alien, android, battle, bittersweet, blockbuster, bounty-hunter, brother-sister-relationship, chase, christ-allegory, compassion, cremation, cult-favorite, death-ray, death-star, desert, desert-planet, destiny, eaten-alive, emperor, empire, enslavement, epic, evil, ewoks, exotic-dancer, explosion, family-saga, famous-score, father-son-relationship, female-fighter, female-spy, forest, funeral-pyre, futuristic, giant-monster, good-versus-evil, hang-gliding, hologram, jedi-knight, katana-sword, kids-and-family, kindness, kissing, lightsaber, love, martial-arts, outrunning-explosion, part-of-trilogy, planet, poetic-justice, princess, promise, psychokinesis, puppet, rebel, rebellion, redemption, rescue, returning-character-killed-off, reverse-footage, robot, saga, samurai, sequel, severed-hand, slapstick, sorcerer, space, space-battle, space-opera, space-station, space-travel, spacecraft, star-wars, stop-motion, strangulation, sword-fight, swordplay, telekinesis, tongue, tragedy, tragic-villain, tyrant, vagina-dentata, warrior, x-rayed-skeleton
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Octopussy
Bond must investigate the murder of a fellow agent who was clutching a priceless Faberge egg at the time of his death. The trail leads to the mysterious Octopussy (Maud Adams), whose traveling circus features a company of luscious, athletic women. Bond and Octopussy share a passionate affection, but soon 007 disocvers that the elegant Kamal Khan (Loius Jourdan) is working with a mad Russian officer to hurl mankind into World War III! As Bond tries to stop the nightmarish scheme, his exploits will include a riveting chase through the streets of India, a deadly brawl on top of a speeding train, and a breathtaking midair knife fight on an airplane wing.
Octopussy DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.40 out of 10 (9675 votes)
Director: John Glen
Actors: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi, Steven Berkoff, David Meyer, Tony Meyer, Desmond Llewelyn, Robert Brown, Lois Maxwell, Michaela Clavell, Walter Gotell, Vijay Amritraj, Albert Moses,
Tags: Thriller, Adventure, Action, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, atomic-bomb, auction, backgammon, berlin, blockbuster, casual-sex, cavalry-saber, chase, chase-on-train-roof, chemnitz-germany, circus, clown, counterfeiting, crocodile, cuba, cult, east-berlin, egg, exiled-prince, fight-on-train-roof, germany, hot-air-balloon, hunting, identical-twins, india, iron-curtain, james-bond, jewel, knife-thrower, latin-america, loaded-dice, martial-arts, massage, octopus, official-james-bond-series, railway, sequel, sequel-mentioned-during-end-credits, smuggling, snake-charmer, spy, spy-hero, title-spoken-by-character, train, twins
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Scarface
When Castro opened the port at Mariel Harbor, thousands of Cubans fled to the United States. One is a young tough named Antonio (Tony) Montana, who, with his friend Manny Ray, starts in with Miami’s cocaine trade. He survives attack by chainsaw after a deal goes bad, and several other attempts by other dealers to eliminate him. Eventually the grandiose Montana becomes head of a cocaine cartel. But his enemies start coming after him, and his paranoia threatens to drive Montana’s empire into the ground…
Scarface DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.00 out of 10 (38403 votes)
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Miriam Colon, F. Murray Abraham, Paul Shenar, Harris Yulin, Ángel Salazar, Arnaldo Santana, Pepe Serna, Michael P. Moran, Al Israel, Dennis Holahan,
Tags: Drama, Crime, Thriller, Action, 1980s, addiction, anger, anti-hero, arrest, banker, based-on-novel, bathtub-scene, beach-resort, betrayal, bikini, black-comedy, blimp, blood, blood-splatter, bloody-violence, bolivia, brother-sister-relationship, brutality, car-bomb, car-dealer, chainsaw, chainsaw-murder, cocaine, colombia, controversy, corruption, crime-drama, crime-epic, cuban-american, cuban-mafia, cuban-refugee, cult-favorite, dancing, death, decadence, diplomat, dismemberment, drink-thrown-in-face, drug-addict, drug-dealing, drug-lord, drugs, epic, face-slap, fall-from-height, famous-line, female-nudity, fidel-castro, flirting, gangster, gore, hanging, helicopter, hidden-camera, immigrant, incestuous-desire, interracial-marriage, interracial-relationship, interrogation, jealousy, lawyer, loss-of-husband, loss-of-sister, love-at-first-sight, mafia, mansion, marriage, mass-murder, miami-florida, mob-hit, mob-violence, money-laundering, motel, mother-son-relationship, murder, neo-noir, new-york-city, nightclub, organized-crime, panic, pelican, political, political-corruption, porsche, power, premarital-sex, profanity, pulp, rampage, refugee, remake, respect, restaurant, restroom, revenge, self-destruction, shootout, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-back, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, showdown, slow-motion, spit-in-the-face, swimming-pool, talk-show, telephone-box, television-news, tension, tiger, title-spoken-by-character, topless, tragedy, tragic, tragic-ending, undercover, video-surveillance, violence, violent-movie, vulgarity, wedding, wrath
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Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder is a specially modified helicopter. It is for police work, but is armed and designed to counter street insurgencies. It’s makers want to show what it will do, but have to train a Los Angeles Police pilot Frank Murphy, to fly and use it in order to allow it to operate in the city. Murphy and the project pilot have differences going back to Vietnam. The conflict between them continues to heat up as Murphy begins to suspect that Blue Thunder is more than has been disclosed.
Blue Thunder DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.90 out of 10 (2692 votes)
Director: John Badham
Actors: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern, Paul Roebling, David Sheiner, Joe Santos, Malcolm McDowell, Ed Bernard, Jason Bernard, Mario Machado, James Murtaugh, Pat McNamara, Jack Murdock, Clifford A. Pellow,
Tags: Drama, Crime, Action, conspiracy, gatling-gun, helicopter, hit-by-train, los-angeles-storm-drain, police, security
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