Archive for January, 1984
Dune
Set in a distant future where life in the universe and space travel is dependent upon a spice found only on the planet Dune, this film tracks the rise of young Paul Atreides, son of good Duke Lito, from the time of his father’s betrayal and murder by a rival lord, Baron Harkonnen, to his discovery of the great secret behind the planet Dune and his own destiny, which is to free the planet and its denizens of the cruel rule of the Emperor.
Dune DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.40 out of 10 (19103 votes)
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Freddie Jones, Richard Jordan, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Silvana Mangano, Everett McGill, Kenneth McMillan, Jack Nance, Siân Phillips, Jürgen Prochnow,
Tags: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action, 102nd-century, baron, based-on-novel, blood, chosen-one, christ-figure, dead-boy, desert, desert-planet, drugs, duke, dune, emperor, epic, far-future, gene-manipulation, giant-animal, giant-worm, homophobic-overtones, homosexuality, inner-voice, men-in-underwear, messiah, mind-reading, monster, mutation, ornithopter, rebellion, religion, sandstorm, space, steampunk, telepathy, title-spoken-by-character, tooth, war, water, water-shortage, worm
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
After a frightening escape from death at the hands of Chinese gangster Lao Che in Shanghai, Indiana Jones & 2 companions, Short Round (Quan) and Willie Scott (Capshaw) board a freight plane to escape. Over the Himalayas, the pilots dump the fuel, and Indy discovers they are in serious trouble when the plane’s engines start to stall. Parachuting out of the plane in a life raft, they survive a 300-foot fall into a raging mountain river and its rapids. They are now in India, and as their raft heads down river they are met by an Indian shaman, who leads them to his village where people are starving, crops are blighted, and there is not a single child! Indy’s mastery of their language helps him learn that a sacred stone was taken by some strange men, which caused all the problems facing the villagers now. Short Round & Indy figure out that the missing stone is one of the Sankara stones, which are supposed to have a magical effect on whomever possesses them. The shaman sends them on a mission to Pankot Palace, which once housed the Thuggee cult. After a series of near-death encounters, Indy & the others discover the Temple of Doom, where the human sacrifices to Kali - the Thuggee goddess of death - are carried out, as well as a mine that has enslaved the children of the Shaman’s village. Indy must get the stone back and free the children from the Thuggees and their psychopathic high priest, Mola Ram (Puri). What follows are several spectacular fights, a frightening chase through a mine shaft in tiny mine cars, and a bridge collapse 100 feet above a river filled with crocodiles! Hang on - and enjoy!
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.20 out of 10 (40825 votes)
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Actors: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, Roy Chiao, David Yip, Rick Young, Chua Kahjoo, Rex Ngui, Philip Tan, Dan Aykroyd, Dr. Akio Mitamura, Michael Yama,
Tags: Thriller, Adventure, Action, 1930s, adventurer, airplane-accident, ancient-ritual, antidote, archeologist, archeology, argument, banquet, bizarre, blockbuster, blood, booby-trap, bravery, british-colonial, bugs, card-game, chase, child-driving-car, child-kidnapping, child-labor, children, chosen-one, christ-allegory, cliffhanging, compassion, controversial, cremated-remains, crocodile, cruelty, curse, danger, death, death-trap, diamond, disturbing, eaten-alive, eating-brains, eating-monkey-brains, elephant, escape, face-slap, fall, fall-from-height, famous-score, father-figure, father-son-relationship, fedora, fire, foreigner, friendship, gore, grindstone, hallucinogenic, hanging, heart-in-hand, hero, heroine, heroism, honor, human-sacrifice, india, indiana-jones, innocent-deaths-avenged, insect, jungle, justice, kidnapping, kindness, kiss, lava, leather-jacket, love, magic, maharajah, martial-arts, mine, mine-shaft, monkey, murder, nightclub, occult, palace, part-of-trilogy, poetic-justice, poison, prequel, prisoner, raft, redemption, rescue, reverse-footage, righteous-rage, river, river-rapids, roller-coaster, romance, rope-bridge, royal, sadism, sadist, secret-passage, sequel, shanghai-china, shrine, singer, skeleton, slavery, snake, spit-in-the-face, stop-motion, studio-logo-segues-into-film, sword, tap-dancing, thuggee, tommy-gun, torture, trap, tuxedo, tyranny, tyrant, village, villain, violence, voodoo, voodoo-doll, warrior, water, whip, young-boy
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Conan the Destroyer
Princess Jehnna has been captured by a sorcerer, so the evil queen Taramis (who wants to sacrifice Jehnna and take the throne for ever) asks from Conan to find her and bring her back to the castle. Conan accepts, because Taramis has magical powers and thus she is the only person who can bring his dead love back in life.
Conan the Destroyer DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.20 out of 10 (10697 votes)
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Mako, Tracey Walter, Sarah Douglas, Olivia d’Abo, Pat Roach, Jeff Corey, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Bruce Fleischer, Ferdy Mayne, André the Giant, Matt Conner, Angel Ashley,
Tags: Fantasy, Adventure, Action, barbarian, based-on-comic-book, based-on-pulp-magazine, camel, character-name-in-title, chosen-one, cult-favorite, destiny, female-warrior, hit-in-crotch, horn, independent-film, kingdom, princess, reverse-footage, sequel, sequel-to-cult-favorite, statue-comes-alive, sword-and-sorcery, sword-fight, thief, throat-slitting, wizard
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Once Upon a Time in America
Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson (Robert De Nero) and his lifelong partners in crime; Max (James Woods), Cockeye (William Forsythe) and Patsy (James Hayden) and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.
Once Upon a Time in America DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.20 out of 10 (23571 votes)
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld, James Hayden, Joe Pesci, Larry Rapp, Danny Aiello, William Forsythe, Burt Young, Darlanne Fluegel, Dutch Miller, Robert Harper, Richard Bright,
Tags: Drama, Crime, 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, actress, alley, arson, assault, backstage, based-on-novel, bathroom, beach, betrayal, blackmail, blood, bloody, bootlegging, boy, breasts, brooklyn-bridge, brothel, brother-sister-relationship, brutality, car, car-in-water, cemetery, chauffeur, chest, child-murder, child-nudity, chinese-american, cinema, clothes-ripping, cocktail-party, controversial, corrupt, corruption, crime, cruelty, dancer, dancing, danger, date-rape, death, decadence, degradation, disturbing, drive-by-shooting, drugs, dying-words, epic, erotic-scene, extortion, face-slap, faked-death, famous-score, fear, feather-factory, female-body, female-frontal-nudity, fire, flashback-sequence, fog, freight-elevator, friend, friends, friendship, frisbee, gang-warfare, gangster, garbage-truck, girl, guilt, gun, hearse, heist, hit-in-crotch, hospital, hotel, infant-nudity, jewel-robbery, jewish, jewish-mafia, juvenile-delinquent, key, killing, labor-leader, locker, loneliness, mafia, male-nudity, man, mansion, masturbation-reference, maternity-ward, menace, merciless, miami-florida, mirror, mob-hit, mob-violence, motorboat, movie-theater, murder, name-change, new-york, new-york-city, newsstand, nipple, nipples, nonlinear-timeline, nude-girl, nude-woman, nudity, opium, opium-den, organized-crime, pact, pastry, peep-hole, peeping-tom, pocket-watch, police, police-chief, police-corruption, political-corruption, political-scandal, prohibition, railway-station, rainstorm, rape, release-from-prison, reporter, restaurant, rooftop, sadism, sadist, sadistic, sadness, sex, sex-scene, sex-with-minor, sexual-assault, sexual-favor, sexual-joke, shadow-puppet, shooting, shot-in-the-eye, speakeasy, stairwell, strip, stripping, suitcase, surprise-ending, switchblade, teen, telephone-box, television-news, toilet, tomb, torture, twist-in-the-end, underage-sex, urination, urination-scene, vice, vicious, violence, violent-movie, voyeur, voyeurism, vulgarity
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Terminator, The
In the future, Skynet, a computer system fights a losing war against the humans who built it and who it nearly exterminated. Just before being destroyed, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah, the mother to be of John Connor, the Leader of the human resistance. The terminator can pass for human, is nearly indestructible, and has only one mission, killing Sarah Connor. One soldier is sent back to protect her from the killing machine. He must find Sarah before the Terminator can carry out it’s mission.
Terminator, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.90 out of 10 (69069 votes)
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Bien, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Bess Motta, Earl Boen, Rick Rossovich, Dick Miller, Shawn Schepps, Franco Columbu, Bill Paxton, Brad Rearden, Brian Thompson,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action, android, answering-machine, artificial-intelligence, automation, blood-splatter, breasts, car-trouble, chaos, chase, cop-killer, cult-favorite, cyborg, death, department-store, destruction, dog-killed, dystopic-future, explosion, factory, famous-line, female-nudity, first-of-series, flashback-sequence, gas-station, grand-theft-auto, gun, gun-dealer, homemade-explosive, hydraulic-press, independent-film, killer-robot, lasersight, los-angeles-california, love, male-nudity, mass-destruction, mass-murder, motel, motorcycle, murder, nipples, nuclear-war, parking-garage, patrol-car, plastic-explosive, police, police-station, post-apocalypse, post-apocalyptic, post-nuclear-war, robotics, roommate, sex, sex-scene, social-commentary, stop-motion, sunglasses, switchblade, telephone-booth, telephone-box, the-terminator, time-travel, title-spoken-by-character, tragic-love, truck, two-way-mirror, violence, voice-sampling, vulgarity, waitress, woman-on-top
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Bachelor Party
Tom Hanks is about to marry Tawny Kitaen. Her parents hate him. Her old boyfriend hates him. They all have money and he gets a cut of the crap games on the catholic school bus he drives. His friends decide to give him the bachelor party of all bachelor parties with an expensive hotel, booze, movies and hookers. As the players catch wind of the elements of the party, each adds a little monkey wrench so that one set of hookers ends up giving demos at the bride’s shower, the brides friends end up dressed as hookers in a room with a number of non English speaking Japanese business men, and so on as things get out of hand.
Bachelor Party DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.50 out of 10 (5678 votes)
Director: Neal Israel
Actors: Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Barbara Stuart, Robert Prescott, William Tepper, Wendie Jo Sperber, Barry Diamond, Gary Grossman, Michael Dudikoff, Bradford Bancroft, Martina Finch, Deborah Harmon, Tracy Smith,
Tags: Comedy, adult-humor, adultery, bachelor-party, bachelorette-party, bare-butt, bondage, dominatrix, female-nudity, fidelity, male-nudity, male-stripper, marriage, nudity, party, promiscuity, prostitution, rich-snob, stolen-car, tennis, transexual, whip
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Children of the Corn
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive.
Children of the Corn DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.00 out of 10 (4251 votes)
Director: Fritz Kiersch
Actors: R.G. Armstrong, Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, Courtney Gains, Robby Kiger, Anne Marie McEvoy, Julie Maddalena, Jonas Marlowe, John Franklin, Dan Snook, David Cowen, Suzy Southam, D.G. Johnson, Patrick Boylan,
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, back-from-the-dead, bloody-body-of-child, boy, boy-strangling, child-killing-child, child-murder, child-sacrifice, children, corn, cornfield, crucifixion, cult, cult-favorite, dead-child, death, desolation, evil, farm, first-of-series, hit-by-car, human-sacrifice, independent-film, iowa, killer-child, pagan-rituals, possession, psychotic-child, redhead, reverse-footage, supernatural, terror, throat-slitting, worship, young-boy
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Ewok Adventure, The
The Towani family civilian shuttlecraft crashes on the forest moon of Endor. The four Towani’s are separated. Jermitt and Catarine, the mother and father are captured by the giant Gorax, and Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing when they are captured. The next day, the Ewok Deej is looking for his two sons when they find Cindel all alone in the shuttle (Mace and Cindel were looking for the transmitter to send a distress call), when Mace appears with his emergency blaster. Eventually, the four-year old Cindel is able to convince the teenage Mace that the Ewoks are nice. Then, the Ewoks and the Towani’s go on an adventure to find the elder Towanis.
Ewok Adventure, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.20 out of 10 (1368 votes)
Director: John Korty
Actors: Burl Ives, Eric Walker, Warwick Davis, Fionnula Flanagan, Guy Boyd, Aubree Miller, Daniel Frishman, Debbie Lee Carrington, Tony Cox, Kevin Thompson, Margarita Fernández, Pam Grizz, Bobby Bell, Darryl Henriques, Sydney Walker,
Tags: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Family, Adventure, ewoks, giant-monster, giant-spider, magic, quest, star-wars, star-wars-spinoff, stop-motion
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