Archive for January, 1985
Back to the Future
Marty McFly is an aspiring musician, but he is not sure of what the future holds for him; first his band was rejected as the performing band for the school dance, and historically, no McFly has succeeded in anything. The only bright spots in his existence are his girlfriend and Emmett Brown, the town crackpot scientist, who is Marty’s good friend. Marty was helping brown with his latest invention a time machine, which is fitted into a Delorean. The time machine needs a tremendous amount of power to work, which he gets from plutonium. Now Brown got the plutonium from some Libyans who want him to build a bomb; they find Brown and shoot him, Marty gets into the Delorean and drives off and when he reaches the speed of 88 mph that activates the time machine, he finds himself in 1955, cause that was the date that Brown entered, which was when he first conceived the time machine. Now having already used up all the power of the plutonium, Marty must find a way to get it working, so he can go back to his own time. Marty looks for Brown but before he does, he runs into his father as a teenager, and accidentally interferes with his father’s first meeting of Lorraine, his future mother. Marty then goes to see Brown and convinces him that he is from the future and to help him. But when he learns of the amount of power that is needed to power the machine, he tells Marty that it’s hopeless cause the only other thing that can generate that much power is a bolt of lightning and it’s impossible to determine when and where they will strike, but Marty has with him an old newspaper cliping that states that the town clock tower will be struck by lightning, so they plan to draw the energy from the lightning so they can power the machine. But before they do, Marty must act as cupid for his parents cause it seems that because they never met they won’t fall in love and get married and Marty will not exist.
Back to the Future DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.10 out of 10 (79626 votes)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber, George Di Cenzo, Frances Lee McCain, James Tolkan, J.J. Cohen, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, Harry Waters Jr.,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Comedy, Adventure, Action, 1950s, alcohol, alternative-timeline, automobile, barn, battle-of-the-bands, blockbuster, breakfast-machine, bulletproof-vest, bully, bully-comeuppance, cafeteria, car-trouble, chase, clock, clock-tower, computer-cracker, crush, cult-favorite, delorean-dmc-12, destiny, diner, dog, dysfunctional-family, family, first-date, first-kiss, first-of-series, flying-car, guitar, helicopter, high-school, hit-by-car, inventor, irish-american-character, kids-and-family, lightning, love-at-first-sight, mad-scientist, malt-shop, manure, mistaken-identity, nuclear-power, parking-lot, peeping-tom, person-in-car-trunk, photograph, plutonium, political-campaign, product-placement, racial-slur, remote-control-car, reversal-of-fortune, rube-goldberg, scale-model-of-city, school-dance, sequel-mentioned-during-end-credits, shopping-mall, shotgun, skateboard, small-town, spit-take, teen, television-news, terrorist, thunderstorm, time-machine, time-travel, title-spoken-by-character, underwear, unwanted-kiss, video-camera
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Spies Like Us
Two totally incompetent applicants, Emmett Fitzhume and Austin Millbarge, are chosen from a CIA recruitment program. They are parachuted into Pakistan and eventually end up in Afghanistan, chased by the Russians, where they learn they are being used as decoys to draw out the Sovet defenses. Two real spies are sent in. Their mission is to Hijack a soviet Missile launcher, launch the Soviet missile and test the new US orbital defence laser. The missile is fired and while heading for an American City, the laser system misses it’s target. The contingency plan for this scenario, as set out by the Pentagon Nuts who planned it from deep within a secret underground bunker, is to let the 3rd World War happen anyway.
Spies Like Us DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.70 out of 10 (7361 votes)
Director: John Landis
Actors: Bob Hope, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison, Bernie Casey, William Prince, Tom Hatten, Frank Oz, Charles McKeown, James Daughton, Jim Staahl, Vanessa Angel, Svetlana Plotnikova, Bjarne Thomsen,
Tags: Comedy, blockbuster, crazy-general, farce, nuclear-weapons, rocket, soviet-union, spoof, spy, title-spoken-by-character
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.00 out of 10 (253 votes)
Director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Actors: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Biao Yuen, Jackie Chan, Charlie Chin, Richard Ng, Eric Tsang, John Sham, Sibelle Hu, Rosamund Kwan, Michelle Yeoh, Andy Lau, Fat Chung, Richard Norton,
Tags: Comedy, Action, martial-arts
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Brewster’s Millions
Montgomery “Monty” Brewster is a baseball player who has going back and forth from the minors to the majors for nearly 15 years. After getting into a brawl in a bar, he and his friend end up in jail, his team has not only decided not bail him out but to cut him. At his hearing Monty doesn’t know what to do but a man who has been following him for sometime appears in court and offers to pay his bail. Monty assumes that it’s a baseball scout but when they arrive at where they were going, Monty is taken to a law office and informed that he is the sole heir of a man who is one of the richest men in the country, who is also his long lost uncle. His uncle’s last will and testament is that Monty must spend 30 millions dollars in 30 days, if which he accomplishes, he will get 300 million. But at the end of 30 days he must not own anything. He also must not give the money away and must not destroy anything valuable and he also cannot tell anyone why he is spending all this money. He thinks that he’s on his way to doing that but Spike unwittingly invests some of the money and recoups everything that Monty has spent. And he also doesn’t exactly have the support of the lawyers, cause is he fails they take control of the estate and give themselves a healthy fee for ahndling it. And also a lot of people especially the woman he is attracted to, thinks he is jerk.
Brewster’s Millions DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.80 out of 10 (4570 votes)
Director: Walter Hill
Actors: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Jerry Orbach, Pat Hingle, Tovah Feldshuh, Hume Cronyn, Joe Grifasi, Peter Jason, David White, Jerome Dempsey, David Wohl, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Milt Kogan,
Tags: Comedy, baseball-player, based-on-novel, brewster's-millions, brooklyn-bridge, extravagance, get-rich-quick, inheritance, inheritance-challenge, millionaire, new-york-city, new-york-yankees, political-campaign, stamp, world-trade-center, world-trade-center-new-york
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Flesh & Blood
In 1501, in the Western Europe, in a period when the black plague is jeopardizing the populations, an army of mercenary peasants leaded by Martin (Rutger Hauer) fights side-by-side with the noble Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck) to retrieve his castle, with the promise of a huge reward. However, the band is betrayed by Arnolfini, and decides to pay him back, assaulting and stealing a caravan under the command of Arnolfini and his son and student, Steven (Tom Burlinson). In one of the wagon is traveling the fiancée of Steven, Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who is accidentally kidnapped and later raped by the group. Agnes becomes Martin’s mate, and the mercenaries decide to invade a castle, without knowing that the army of Arnolfini is chasing them.
Flesh & Blood DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.40 out of 10 (2434 votes)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Jack Thompson, Fernando Hilbeck, Susan Tyrrell, Ronald Lacey, Brion James, John Dennis Johnston, Simón Andreu, Bruno Kirby, Kitty Courbois, Marina Saura, Hans Veerman, Jake Wood,
Tags: History, War, Drama, Adventure, Action, betrayal, black-death, corpse, defloration, historical, independent-film, mercenary, nudity, plague, rape, revenge, sex
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007 View to a Kill, A
007 returns from the USSR with a new computer chip; one that is invulnerable to the magnetic pulse of a nuclear explosion. The chip is being manufactured by Zorin Industries, headed up by a sociopathic businessman named Max Zorin (Walken) who is planning to corner the world microchip market by using explosives to cause an earthquake in the San Andreas fault that will wipe out Silicon Valley - and the millions who live and work there! Bond must face not only Zorin himself, but the equally twisted May Day (Jones) and Scarpine, another one of Zorin’s henchmen. Assisted by San Francisco City employee Stacy (Roberts) Bond goes after the would-be computer magnate in a series of frightening confrontations - including fire in the SF City Hall, a wild chase through the city with Stacy at the wheel of a fire department ladder truck, and finally in a hand-to-hand fight atop San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
007 View to a Kill, A DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.00 out of 10 (9863 votes)
Director: John Glen
Actors: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee, Patrick Bauchau, David Yip, Fiona Fullerton, Manning Redwood, Alison Doody, Willoughby Gray, Desmond Llewelyn, Robert Brown, Lois Maxwell, Walter Gotell,
Tags: Thriller, Adventure, Action, axe, base-jumping, betrayal, blockbuster, boat, bridge, cane, cat, chandelier, chase, check, closed-mine, computer, earthquake, eiffel-tower, eiffel-tower-paris, electrocution, elevator, elevator-shaft, explosion, explosives, fall-from-height, fire, fire-hose, fire-truck, flooding, former-nazi-doctor, france, genetic-engineering, golden-gate-bridge, gun, helicopter, hitman, horse, horse-racing, horse-track, james-bond, jumper, kgb, laboratory, lake, malice, martial-arts, mass-murder, megalomaniac, microchip, mine, mine-shaft, molotov-cocktail, murder, official-james-bond-series, oil-well, paris, paris-france, pistol, poetic-justice, police, police-car, psychotic, redemption, sadism, sadist, safecracker, san-francisco-california, seismologist, sequel, silicon-valley, skiing, snowboard, snowmobile, spy, spy-hero, stable, steeplechase, steroids, strangulation, tape, timebomb, tire, title-spoken-by-character, tyrant, vase, villainess, winnebago, zeppelin
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Jewel of the Nile, The
This is the sequel to “Romancing the Stone” where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the “jewel”. Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another… What is the story of this “jewel”?
Jewel of the Nile, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.70 out of 10 (7573 votes)
Director: Lewis Teague
Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focás, Avner Eisenberg, Paul David Magid, Howard Jay Patterson, Randall Edwin Nelson, Samuel Ross Williams, Timothy Daniel Furst, Hamid Fillali, Holland Taylor, Guy Cuevas, Peter DePalma, Mark Daly Richards,
Tags: Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Action, arabian, author, blockbuster, boat-ride, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, camel, chase-on-train-roof, con-artist, dagger, desert, destiny, dictator, donkey, escape, exploding-airplane, exploding-boat, exploding-building, fall-from-height, female-nudity, fight-on-train-roof, fighter-jet, fire, fisticuffs, ghetto-blaster, greek-island, helicopter, holy-man, jogging, jump-from-height, knife-throwing, magician, middle-east, motorcycle, nomad, novelist, pirate, prisoner, reception, rescue, road, romance-novelist, sandstorm, sequel, sufi, swashbuckler, sword-fight, tank, title-spoken-by-character, train, train-ride, tribal-dance, typewriter, tyrant, water-skiing, wedding, wedding-party, writer, writer's-block, yacht
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Legend
A magical adventure which features elves, demons and other mythical creatures. Darkness, the personification of evil, plans to disperse eternal night in the land where this story takes place, by killing every unicorn in the world. Although he looks unbeatable, Jack and his friends are disposed to do everything to save the world and princess Lili (who Darkness intends to make his wife) from the hands of this evil monster.
Legend DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.00 out of 10 (11842 votes)
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert, Peter O’Farrell, Kiran Shah, Annabelle Lanyon, Robert Picardo, Tina Martin, Ian Longmur, Mike Crane, Liz Gilbert,
Tags: Fantasy, Romance, Adventure, atmospheric, beast, betrayal, black-magic, brain-washing, decapitation, demon, devil, elf, evil-god, fairy-tale, fantasy, goblin, good-versus-evil, hell, magic, miniature-people, mission, monster, mythical, mythology, paradise, princess, rescue, romance, seduction, seductive-dance, sorcerer, spiritual-redemption, stylized, sword-and-sorcery, sword-fight, temptation, underworld, unicorn, warrior
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