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Top 20 Johnny Depp Films.....so far!

2012-05-20T18:35:00.003-07:00

Being one of my most favourite actors of all time, it was just a matter of time before I did this list. A very hard list to compile since there are many great films in Johnny Depp's career, with a few stinkers (Secret Window, Cry Baby). Here is Depp's 20 best, so far.

The Top 20 Johnny Depp Films.....so far!!

#20 Finding Neverland (2004)

Plot Summary: The story of J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.

#19 Nick of Time (1995)

Plot Summary: Gene Watson arrives home in Los Angeles, after attending his ex-wife's funeral, with his daughter. Soon, his daughter is kidnapped. He is given a gun, and the picture and itinerary of a person, and told that if he hasn't killed that person in one hour and fifteen minutes, his daughter will be killed.

#18 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Plot Summary: The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

#17 Blow (2001)

Plot Summary: The story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970s.

#16 Dark Shadows (2012)

Plot Summary: An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.

#15 What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Plot Summary: Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.

#14 From Hell (2001)

Plot Summary: In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper.

#13 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Plot Summary: A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

#12 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

Plot Summary: Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.

#11 The Rum Diary (2011)

Plot Summary: American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1950s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there.

#10 Dead Man (1995)

Plot Summary: On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Indian named "Nobody" who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

#9 Benny & Joon (1993)

Plot Summary: A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

#8 Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

Plot Summary: Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.

#7 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Plot Summary: Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.

#6 Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Plot Summary: Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.

#5 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

Plot Summary: Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.

#4 Donnie Brasco (1997)

Plot Summary: An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life to the expense of his regular one.

#3 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

Plot Summary: Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.

#2 Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Plot Summary: An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl.

#1 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Plot Summary: An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.

The Top 10 Movies of 1975!

2012-05-18T19:26:00.002-07:00

For this list we go a long ways back. Even though '75 was 37 years ago, it still boasts a great list of great movies.

The Top 10 Movies of 1975

#10 French Connection 2

Plot Summary: "Popeye" Doyle travels to Marsailles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.

#9 Shivers

Plot Summary: The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.

#8 The Count of Monte Cristo

Plot Summary: A young officer, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friends," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.

#7 Jaws

Plot Summary: When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.

#6 The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Plot Summary: A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

#5 Rollerball

Plot Summary: In a corporate controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of it's powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.

#4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Plot Summary: King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.

#3 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Plot Summary: Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse.

#2 Dog Day Afternoon

Plot Summary: A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.

#1 Death Race 2000

Plot Summary: In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kills brutality.

The Top 20 Movies of 1987! (Fix #1)

2012-05-18T17:25:00.002-07:00

THE TOP 20 MOVIES OF 1987 (Fix #1)

#20 Wisdom

Plot Summary: Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend (Moore) embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.

#19 Garbage Pail Kids

Plot Summary: Seven disgusting kids, but nevertheless of interesting personality, start off as green slime from a garbage pail. Once alive their master gives them rules to obey although they think that life is funnier without following stupid regulations like no television or no candy. Naturally this will cause some conflicts

#18 Lethal Weapon

Plot Summary: A veteran cop, Murtough, is partnered with a young homicidal cop, Riggs. Both having one thing in common, hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one and other to stop a gang of drug smugglers.

#17 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Plot Summary: Survivors of undead serial killer Freddy Krueger - who stalks his victims in their dreams - learn to take control of their own dreams in order to fight back.

#16 The Hidden

Plot Summary: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI agent), lots of innocent people die in the chase.

#15 Adventures in Babysitting

Plot Summary: Chris Parker agrees to babysit after her "dread" date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV... and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures! Babysitter and kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city, never imagining how terrifyingly funny their expedition will become!

#14 Bad Taste

Plot Summary: The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain.

#13 Creepshow 2

Plot Summary: Three more bone-chilling tales that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge and will not die.

#12 The Principal

Plot Summary: A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violence and crime ridden high school.

#11 The Untouchables

Plot Summary: Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.

#10 Wall Street

Plot Summary: A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

#9 Near Dark

Plot Summary: A young man reluctantly joins a travelling "family" of evil vampires, when the girl he'd tried to seduce is part of that group.

#8 Spaceballs

Plot Summary: Planet Spaceball's President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal Planet Druidia's abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them.

#7 Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Plot Summary: A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.

#6 Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

Plot Summary: The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

#5 A Better Tomorrow 2

Plot Summary: A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.

#4 Predator

Plot Summary: A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.

#3 The Running Man

Plot Summary: A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show.

#2 The Brave Little Toaster

Plot Summary: A toaster, a blanket, a lamp, a radio, and a vacuum cleaner journey to the city to find their master after being abandoned in their cabin in the woods.

#1 Robocop

Plot Summary: In a dystopic & crime ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him.

Top 25 Movies of 1996! (Fix #1)

2012-05-18T17:11:00.002-07:00

Being an avid movie watcher, there will be many, new and old movies, added to my lists. Once I see a new movie and it is good enough to make it in my top "year" lists, then I will edit them and call them "FIX". As you can see here, in the first "fix" of 1996.

The Top 25 Movies of 1996 (Fix #1)

#25 Scream

Plot Summary: A killer known as "ghost face" begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the "Rules" of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.

#24 Ransom

Plot Summary: When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

#23 Last Man Standing

Plot Summary: A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

#22 The Adventures of Pinocchio

Plot Summary: One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you the adventures on which he learns valuable lessons.

#21 Set it Off

Plot Summary: Four Black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail. As the women add to the loot, their tastes and interests begin to change and their suspicions of each other increase on the way to a climactic robbery.

#20 Hellraiser: Bloodline

Plot Summary: In the 22nd century, a scientist attempts to right the wrong his ancestor created: the puzzle box that opens the gates of Hell and unleashes Pinhead and his Cenobite legions.

#19 Escape from L.A.

Plot Summary: Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.

#18 Beavis and Butthead do America

Plot Summary: Our intrepid adolescent heroes wake up to find their beloved television stolen, and embark on an epic journey across America to recover it, and, who knows, maybe even score. On the way they encounter a murderous smuggler of a deadly virus and his treacherous wife, an FBI agent with a predilection for cavity searches, a couple of rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Dreesen singing "Lesbian Seagull", a little old lady and of course Mr. Anderson and his trailer.

#17 James and the Giant Peach

Plot Summary: An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians, befriends human like bugs who live inside a giant peach, who take the boy on a journey to New York City.

#16 Daylight

Plot Summary: A runaway car hits a truck full of toxic waste causing an explosion that seals both exit of an underground tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey. It's up to Kit Latura, disgraced ex-chief of the city's Emergency Medical Services, to find a way in and bring out the survivors before air runs out or the Hudson river runs in.

#15 Joe's Apartment

Plot Summary: A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

#14 Fargo

Plot Summary: Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson.

#13 The Ghost and the Darkness

Plot Summary: Set in 1898, this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 130 people over a nine month period, while a bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter tried to kill them.

#12 Sling Blade

Plot Summary: Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

#11 Sleepers

Plot Summary: After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized; over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.

#10 Harriet the Spy

Plot Summary: Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her. Can she win her friends back and still keep on going with the spy business?

#9 The Cable Guy

Plot Summary: A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.

#8 Matilda

Plot Summary: Story of a wonderful little girl, who happens to be a genius, and her wonderful teacher vs. the worst parents ever and the worst school principal imaginable.

#7 D3: The Mighty Ducks

Plot Summary: In the third episode of this series, the Ducks get scholarships to Eden Hall Academy, a high ranking prep school. But as freshmen, they will have to face the snob varsity team.

#6 Happy Gilmore

Plot Summary: A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.

#5 The Frighteners

Plot Summary: After a car accident in which his wife, Debra, was killed and he was injured, Frank Bannister develops psychic abilities allowing him to see, hear, and communicate with ghosts. After losing his wife, he then gave up his job as an architect, letting his unfinished "dream house" sit incomplete for years, and put these skills to use by befriending a few ghosts and getting them to haunt houses in the area to drum up work for his ghostbusting business; Then Frank proceeds to "exorcise" the houses for a fee. But when he discovers that an entity resembling the Grim Reaper is killing people, marking numbers on their forehead beforehand, Frank tries to help the people whom the Reaper is after!

#4 The Quest

Plot Summary: Chris embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery that spans the globe. Kidnapped and enslaved by gun smugglers, sold by pirates and thrust into the murky underworld of gambling and kickboxing, Chris' journey takes him to forbidding Muay Thai Island where deadly martial arts are taught, the colonial splendor of British East Asia, the dank back alleys of Bangkok, desolate deserts once trod by the warriors of Genghis Khan and finally, the ancient Lost City. There he must face the ultimate test of his manhood in the fabled Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the world employ the most spectacular feats of martial arts skills ever displayed in order to win the prized Golden Dragon.

#3 Kingpin

Plot Summary: A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.

#2 Trainspotting

Plot Summary: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

#1 From Dusk till Dawn

Plot Summary: Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in an establishment populated by vampires, with chaotic results.

The Top 25 Movies of 1996!!

2012-05-05T17:16:00.002-07:00

1996 wasn't the biggest year for movies, but it was still an entertaining one. It seems like it was one of the biggest years for family orientated films. Even so, there is never a year that doesn't bring us 25 good quality films.

The Top 25 Movies of 1996

#25 Tremors 2: Aftershocks

Plot Summary: When an army of Graboids - giant, carnivorous underground worms - threaten the Petromaya oil refinery in Mexico, its owners call on Earl Bassett, who once helped kill four of the creatures in Perfection, Nevada. Having squandered the money that came from his resulting celebrity status, Earl is convinced by the $50,000-a-head bounty offered, as well as the enthusiasm of admirer Grady Hoover, who becomes his partner. At Petromaya, Earl and Grady meet geologist Kate Reilly, and begin Graboid hunting, tricking several Graboids into swallowing bomb-rigged, remote-controlled cars. When they find they're facing a lot more Graboids than they ever expected, Earl calls his friend Burt Gummer, a survivalist who arrives well-stocked with weapons.

#24 Scream

#23 Ransom

Plot Summary: When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

#22 Last Man Standing

Plot Summary: A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

#21 The Adventures of Pinocchio

#20 Set it Off

#19 Hellraiser: Bloodline

Plot Summary: In the 22nd century, a scientist attempts to right the wrong his ancestor created: the puzzle box that opens the gates of Hell and unleashes Pinhead and his Cenobite legions.

#18 Escape from L.A.

#17 Beavis and Butthead do America

#16 James and the Giant Peach

Plot Summary: An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians, befriends human like bugs who live inside a giant peach, who take the boy on a journey to New York City.

#15 Daylight

#14 Joe's Apartment

Plot Summary: A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

#13 The Ghost and the Darkness

#12 Sling Blade

Plot Summary: Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

#11 Sleepers

Plot Summary: After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized; over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.

#10 Harriet the Spy

#9 The Cable Guy

Plot Summary: A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.

#8 Matilda

Plot Summary: Story of a wonderful little girl, who happens to be a genius, and her wonderful teacher vs. the worst parents ever and the worst school principal imaginable.

#7 D3: The Mighty Ducks

Plot Summary: In the third episode of this series, the Ducks get scholarships to Eden Hall Academy, a high ranking prep school. But as freshmen, they will have to face the snob varsity team.

#6 Happy Gilmore

Plot Summary: A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.

#5 The Frighteners

#4 The Quest

#3 Kingpin

Plot Summary: A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.

#2 Trainspotting

Plot Summary: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

#1 From Dusk till Dawn

Plot Summary: Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in an establishment populated by vampires, with chaotic results.

THE TOP 100 SCI-FI FILMS EVER!!

2012-04-27T11:39:00.002-07:00

The most fun and most interesting genre of movies is and will always be, Science Fiction. This genre has brought us films that dazzled are our eyes and our minds and made us dream of the future to come. Sci-fi has also produced movies that became classics right away and that will stick with us for the rest of our lives. It's no doubt that 2 movies being released this year, Prometheus and Looper, would make this list no problem. But this is *only* for Sci-Fi movies that have already been released.

THE TOP 100 SCI-FI FILMS...EVER!

#100 The 6th Day (2000)

Plot Summary: A man meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.

#99 The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Plot Summary: A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

#98 Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

Plot Summary: A Marine Staff Sergeant who has just had his retirement approved goes back into the line of duty in order to assist a 2nd Lieutenant and his platoon as they fight to reclaim the city of Los Angeles from alien invaders.

#97 The Blob (1988)

Plot Summary: A strange lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.

#96 TimeCop (1994)

Plot Summary: An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.

#95 The Road (2010)

Plot Summary: A post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to survive by any means possible.

#94 Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)

Plot Summary: A batch of unhatched critter eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs by the country-folk inhabitants of Grover's Bend and, before long, the ferocious furballs are on the rampage again.

#93 Virus (1999)

Plot Summary: When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

#92 Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Plot Summary: Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.

#91 Doom (2005)

Plot Summary: Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.

#90 The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Plot Summary: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

#89 Tron: Legacy (2010)

Plot Summary: The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's creation turned bad and a unique ally who was born inside the digital domain of The Grid.

#88 Splice (2009)

Plot Summary: Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.

#87 Gattaca (1997)

Plot Summary: A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.

#86 Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Plot Summary: A data courier, carrying a data package literally inside his head too large to hold for long, must deliver it before he dies from it.

#85 Flight of the Navigator (1986)

Plot Summary: In 1978, a boy is moved 8 years into the future and has an adventure with the alien ship that is responsible for that.

#84 Minority Report (2002)

Plot Summary: In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.

#83 Back to the Future: Part 3 (1990)

Plot Summary: Enjoying a peaceful existence in 1885, Doctor Emmet Brown is about to be killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Marty McFly travels back in time to save his friend.

#82 Stargate (1994)

Plot Summary: An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.

#81 Logan's Run (1976)

Plot Summary: An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30.

#80 Chronicle (2012)

Plot Summary: Three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.

#79 Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

Plot Summary: A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way.

#78 Escape from L.A. (1996)

#77 THX 1138 (1971)

Plot Summary: Set in the 25th century, the story centers around a man and a woman who rebel against their rigidly controlled society.

#76 The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Plot Summary: Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine.

#75 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)

Plot Summary: A joint American-Soviet space expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery.

#74 RoboCop 2 (1990)

Plot Summary: After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer. But as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Kane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path uses Kane as the new subject for the Robocop 2 project.

#73 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Plot Summary: John Connor is now in his 20's, and a female terminator, called T-X or Terminatrix, is after him. Another T-101 is sent back through time to protect John once again on the verge of the rise of the machines.

#72 Body Snatchers: The Invasion Continues (1993)

Plot Summary: A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.

#71 The Hidden (1987)

#70 Scanners (1981)

Plot Summary: A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.

#69 In Time (2011)

Plot Summary: In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage - a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system.

#68 Equilibrium (2002)

Plot Summary: In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

#67 Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Plot Summary: Following the events in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo flee back through time to 20th Century Los Angeles, where they face fear and persecution similar to what Taylor and Brent suffered in the future, and discover the origins of the stream of events that will shape their world.

#66 Runaway (1984)

Plot Summary: In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.

#65 The Thing: Prequel (2011)

Plot Summary: At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.

#64 Terminator Salvation (2009)

Plot Summary: After Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, a group of survivors led by John Connor struggles to keep the machines from finishing the job.

#63 Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Plot Summary: Two Jedi Knights escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to reclaim their old glory.

#62 Predators (2010)

Plot Summary: A group of elite warriors are hunted by members of a merciless alien race known as Predators.

#61 Avatar (2009)

Plot Summary: A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

#60 Back to the Future (1985)

Plot Summary: In 1985, Doc Brown invents time travel; in 1955, Marty McFly accidentally prevents his parents from meeting, putting his own existence at stake.

#59 Star Trek (2009)

Plot Summary: The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

#58 Signs (2002)

Plot Summary: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

#57 Transformers (2007)

Plot Summary: An ancient struggle reerupts on Earth between two extraterrestrial clans, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a young teenager.

#56 Back to the Future: Part 2 (1989)

Plot Summary: After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985... without interfering with his first trip.

#55 Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

Plot Summary:

Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.

#54 Enemy Mine (1985)

Plot Summary: A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.

#53 Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope (1977)

Plot Summary: A spirited farm boy, Luke Skywalker, joins rebel forces to save the Princess from the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the Empire's planet-destroying Death Star.

#52 Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Plot Summary: The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.

#51 The Island (2005)

Plot Summary: A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvestable being", and is being kept as a source of replacement parts, along with others, in a Utopian facility.

#50 Repo Men (2010)

Plot Summary: Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.

#49 The Hunger Games (2012)

Plot Summary: Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.

#48 Star Wars: Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Plot Summary: After three years of fighting in the Clone Wars, Anakin Skywalker falls prey to the Sith Lord's lies and makes an enemy of the Jedi and those he loves, concluding his journey to the Dark Side.

#47 A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Plot Summary: In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan.

#46 Alien (1979)

Plot Summary: A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates.

#45 Westworld (1973)

Plot Summary: A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

#44 Red Planet (2000)

Plot Summary: Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.

#43 The Abyss (1989)

Plot Summary: A civilian diving team are enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

#42 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Plot Summary: After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

#41 Cube (1997)

Plot Summary: 7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.

#40 Rollerball (1975)

#39 Dark City (1998)

Plot Summary: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

#38 I Am Legend (2007)

Plot Summary: Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.

#37 Inception (2010)

Plot Summary: In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception.

#36 A.I. : Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Plot Summary:

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

#35 Blade Runner (1982)

Plot Summary: Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker.

#34 The Mist (2007)

Plot Summary: A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole-up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.

#33 Dreamcatcher (2003)

Plot Summary: Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in, is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.

#32 The Fifth Element (1997)

Plot Summary: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.

#31 Super 8 (2011)

Plot Summary: During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

#30 Primer (2004)

Plot Summary: Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.

#29 Pitch Black (2000)

Plot Summary: A group of marooned space travelers struggle for survival on a seemingly lifeless sun-scorched world.

#28 Death Race 2000 (1975)

Plot Summary: In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kills brutality.

#27 Pandorum (2009)

Plot Summary: A pair of crew members aboard a spaceship wake up with no knowledge of their mission or their identities.

#26 eXiztenZ (1999)

Plot Summary: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

#25 Cloverfield (2008)

Plot Summary: Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people.

#24 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Plot Summary: In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.

#23 Total Recall (1990)

Plot Summary: When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real, or does he?

#22 They Live (1988)

Plot Summary: A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.

#21 Sunshine (2007)

Plot Summary: A team of astronauts are sent to re-ignite the dying sun 50 years into the future.

#20 Planet of the Apes (1968)

Plot Summary: An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

#19 District 9 (2009)

Plot Summary: An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.

#18 Star Wars: Episode 6 - Return of the Jedi (1983)

Plot Summary: After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the Second Death Star, while Luke Skywalker tries to bring his father back to the Light Side of the Force.

#17 Soylent Green (1973)

Plot Summary: In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.

#16 Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Plot Summary: The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telekinetic humans.

#15 Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Plot Summary: In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

#14 The Running Man (1987)

Plot Summary: A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show.

#13 Brazil (1985)

Plot Summary: A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

#12 The Terminator (1994)

Plot Summary: A human-looking, apparently unstoppable cyborg is sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor; Kyle Reese is sent to stop it.

#11 Aliens (1986)

Plot Summary: The planet from "Alien" has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?

#10 The Matrix (1999)

Plot Summary: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

#9 Predator (1987)

Plot Summary: A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.

#8 RoboCop (1987)

Plot Summary: In a dystopic & crime ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him.

#7 The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Plot Summary: Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. During this, Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams.

#6 Escape from New York (1981)

Plot Summary: In 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant max. security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue.

#5 The Road Warrior (1981)

Plot Summary: In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.

#4 Star Wars: Episode 2 - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Plot Summary: As Luke trains with Master Yoda to become a Jedi, his friends evade the Imperial fleet under the command of Darth Vader who is obsessed with turning Skywalker to the Dark Side.

#3 E.T. : The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Plot Summary: A meek and alienated little boy finds a stranded extraterrestrial. He has to find the courage to defy the authorities to help the alien return to its home planet.

#2 Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

Plot Summary: The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced Terminator.

#1 The Thing (1982)

Plot Summary: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

The Top 20 Movies of 1987!

2012-04-26T17:33:00.000-07:00

List #4

87' was a great year for films and for movie lovers. Filled with tons of great Sci-fi movies and a few great action ones, as well. Here is the list of the best of 1987.

THE TOP 20 MOVIES OF 1987

#20 Full Metal Jacket

Plot Summary: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam.

#19 Wisdom

Plot Summary: Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend (Moore) embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.

#18 Garbage Pail Kids

#17 Lethal Weapon

#16 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Plot Summary: Survivors of undead serial killer Freddy Krueger - who stalks his victims in their dreams - learn to take control of their own dreams in order to fight back.

#15 The Hidden

#14 Adventures in Babysitting

#13 Creepshow 2

Plot Summary: Three more bone-chilling tales that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge and will not die.

#12 The Principal

Plot Summary: A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violence and crime ridden high school.

#11 The Untouchables

Plot Summary: Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.

#10 Wall Street

#9 Near Dark

Plot Summary: A young man reluctantly joins a travelling "family" of evil vampires, when the girl he'd tried to seduce is part of that group.

#8 Spaceballs

Plot Summary: Planet Spaceball's President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal Planet Druidia's abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them.

#7 Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Plot Summary: A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.

#6 Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

Plot Summary: The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

#5 A Better Tomorrow 2

Plot Summary: A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.

#4 Predator

Plot Summary: A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.

#3 The Running Man

Plot Summary: A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show.

#2 The Brave Little Toaster

Plot Summary: A toaster, a blanket, a lamp, a radio, and a vacuum cleaner journey to the city to find their master after being abandoned in their cabin in the woods.

#1 Robocop

Plot Summary: In a dystopic & crime ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him.

The Top 20 Bruce Willis Films!! (So Far)

2012-04-25T14:56:00.000-07:00

List #3

Bruce Willis is one of the kings of action movies. With a ton of great films and a resume of different roles, he is a perfect candidate for a Top 20 list. This list will only include movies that have already been released. It will not include surely good future movies like Looper and The Expendables 2, and possibly good flicks like G.I. Joe: Retaliation and A Good Day to Die Hard.

The Top 20 Bruce Willis Films!!!! (So Far)

#20 Mercury Rising (1998)

Plot Summary: Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who is the target for assassins after cracking a top secret government code.

#19 Armageddon (1998)

Plot Summary: When an asteroid the size of Texas is headed for Earth the world's best deep core drilling team is sent to nuke the rock from the inside.

#18 The Last Boy Scout (1991)

Plot Summary: A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.

#17 Cop Out (2010)

Plot Summary: A comedy about a veteran NYPD cop whose rare baseball card is stolen. Since it's his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, he recruits his partner to track down the thief, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster.

#16 Red (2010)

Plot Summary: When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.

#15 Last Man Standing (1996)

Plot Summary: A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

#14 Planet Terror (2007)

Plot Summary: After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.

#13 The Fifth Element (1997)

Plot Summary: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.

#12 The Sixth Sense (1999)

Plot Summary: A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

#11 Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)

Plot Summary: John McClane is forced to battle mercenaries who seize control of an airport's communications and threaten to cause plane crashes if their demands are not met.

#10 Unbreakable (2000)

Plot Summary: A suspense thriller with supernatural overtones that revolves around a man who learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.

#9 Alpha Dog (2006)

Plot Summary: A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list.

#8 Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Plot Summary: John McClane takes on an Internet-based terrorist organization who is systematically shutting down the United States.

#7 Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Plot Summary: In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

#6 Pulp Fiction (1994)

Plot Summary: The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

#5 Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)

Plot Summary: John McClane and a store owner must play a bomber's deadly game as they race around New York while trying to stop him.

#4 Sin City (2005)

Plot Summary: A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption.

#3 Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Plot Summary: A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him.

#2 Hostage (2005)

Plot Summary: A failed police negotiator turned small town cop, must save the lives of a family held hostage, which draws him into a much more dangerous situation.

#1 Die Hard (1988)

Plot Summary: New York cop, John McClane, gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building.

The Top 20 Movies of 1993

2012-04-21T18:35:00.003-07:00

List #2

Every year in film, there are certain movies that end up sticking with a person for life. Great films are made every year, and the next and the next. Since the 60's, there hasn't been a year, that hasn't produced at least 20 great or good movies. Here is a list for the best of 1993.

The Top 20 Movies of 1993!!!!!!!

# 20 In the Line of Fire

Plot Summary: Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.

# 19 Body Snatchers: The Invasion Continues

Plot Summary: A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.

# 18 Cool Runnings

Plot Summary: Based on the true story of the First Jamaican bobsled team trying to make it to the winter Olympics.

# 17 Philadelphia

Plot Summary: When a man with AIDS is fired by a conservative law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

# 16 What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Plot Summary: Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.

# 15 Benny & Joon

Plot Summary: A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

# 14 Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Plot Summary: A spoof of Robin Hood in general, and 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' in particular.

# 13 In the Name of the Father

Plot Summary: Man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he didn't do imprisons his father as well; a British lawyer helps fight for their freedom.

# 12 Hard Target

Plot Summary: A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her father, who has gone missing. They discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance in the process.

# 11 Loaded Weapon 1

Plot Summary: An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the "Wilderness Girls" cookie drive.

# 10 Hot Shots! Part Deux

Plot Summary: "Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.

# 9 Cliffhanger

Plot Summary: A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains.

# 8 Carlito's Way

Plot Summary: A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.

# 7 The Nightmare Before Christmas

Plot Summary: Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept.

# 6 Groundhog Day

Plot Summary: A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again.

# 5 Jurassic Park

Plot Summary: During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

# 4 Last Action Hero

Plot Summary: A young movie fan gets thrown into the movie world of his favorite action film character.

# 3 Dazed and Confused

Plot Summary: The adventures of incoming high school and junior high students on the last day of school, in May of 1976.

# 2 True Romance

Plot Summary: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

# 1 Tombstone

Plot Summary: A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.

The Top 50 Movies: That make you say "WTF?!"

2012-04-19T16:08:00.050-07:00

The first list, of my soon to be big series of movie lists, is: The Top 50 Movies; that make you say "WTF?!"

There are some movies that make our eyes widen, our mouths drop and our brains pretty well explode inside our skulls. This list will count down the best of; the gory, the twists, the shockers, the weird and the just plain screwed up.

#50 Leviathan (1989)

Plot Summary: Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. In a story owing a lot to _Alien_ and _The Thing_, the crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one.

#49 eXistenZ (1999)

Plot Summary: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

#48 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Plot Summary: A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.

#47 The Fly (1986)

Plot Summary: A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

#46 Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters

(2007)

Plot Summary: An action epic that explores the origins of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (better known as Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad,) who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment.

#45 Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Plot Summary: Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.

#44 Haywire (2012)

Plot Summary: A black ops super soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and set up during a mission.

#43 Scanners (1981)

Plot Summary: A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.

#41 Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

Plot Summary: Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, this is the story of samurai-sword-wielding Ruka and her mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad who's mission is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as "engineers" possessing the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.

#40 Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

Plot Summary: An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.

#39 Martyrs (2008)

Plot Summary: A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

#38 Teeth (2007)

Plot Summary: Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.

#37 Pandorum (2009)

Plot Summary: A pair of crew members aboard a spaceship wake up with no knowledge of their mission or their identities.

#36 The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Plot Summary: A mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to reassemble them into a new "pet"-- a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others' rectums.

#35 Wild at Heart (1990)

Plot Summary: Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

#34 Audition (1999)

Plot Summary: A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.

#33 Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003)

Plot Summary: When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.

#32 Primer (2004)

Plot Summary:Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.

#31 The Machine Girl (2008)

Plot Summary: Ami is a typical college girl. She's bright, friendly, popular and athletic, with nothing to set her apart from other girls her age other than the fact that she is an orphan, left to care for her younger brother after her father committed suicide after being falsely accused of murder. But while there is tragedy in their past, the siblings' future looks good, except for one thing. Ami's brother has racked up a considerable debt to another boy at school, and that boy just happens to be the heir to a clan of vicious ninja-yakuza. Ami's brother can't pay, violence breaks out and in the course of trying to avenge her brother, Ami is captured by the clan. They torture her and hack her arm right off. Ami escapes, barely alive, and is taken in by the owners of a machine shop who build her a customized, bullet-spewing arm. From that point, the quest for revenge is on in earnest.

#30 Blue Velvet (1986)

Plot Summary: After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town.

#29 The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011)

Plot Summary: Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.

#28 Hard Candy (2005)

Plot Summary: A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.

#27 Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Plot Summary: After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

#26 Dead Alive (1992)

Plot Summary: A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.

#25 The Protector (2005)

Plot Summary: A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards.

#24 Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)

Plot Summary: After experiencing what they think are a series of "break-ins", a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.

#23 Seven (1995)

Plot Summary: Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.

#22 Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Plot Summary: In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

#21 Splice (2009)

Plot Summary: Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.

#20 MacGruber (2010)

Plot Summary: Ex-special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, D.C.

#19 Naked Lunch (1991)

Plot Summary: After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.

#18 Story of Ricky (1991)

Plot Summary:A young man with superhuman strength is incarcerated at a prison run by corrupt officials and seeks to use his martial arts to clean up the system.

#17 Buried (2010)

Plot Summary: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

#16 The Crying Game (1992)

Plot Summary: A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world.

#15 The Usual Suspects (1995)

Plot Summary: A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.

#14 Videodrome (1983)

Plot Summary: A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.

#13 Dreamcatcher (2003)

Plot Summary: Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in, is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.

#12 I Saw the Devil (2010)

Plot Summary: When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, a secret agent blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge.

#11 The Thing (1982)

Plot Summary: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

#10 Saw (2004)

Plot Summary: With a dead body laying between them, two men wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw". The men must follow various rules and objectives if they wish to survive and win the deadly game set for them.

#9 Lost Highway (1997)

Plot Summary: After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.

#8 Insidious (2010)

Plot Summary: A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.

#7 Saw 4 (2007)

Plot Summary: Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.

#6 The Sixth Sense (1999)

Plot Summary: A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

#5 The Shining (1980)

Plot Summary: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

#4 Eraserhead (1977)

Plot Summary: Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

#3 Planet of the Apes (1968)

Plot Summary: An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

#2 The Mist (2007)

Plot Summary: A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole-up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.

#1 Oldboy (2003)

Plot Summary: After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days.

New Posts Coming Soon: Lists of the Best and Worst

2012-04-18T12:54:00.001-07:00

Starting soon, like, really soon! I will be creating lists of the Best and Worst movies, lines, actors, scenes and anything else that has to do with film. The lists will range from 10 to 15 to 25 to 50 and maybe even 100, so keep a look out for them. I will be most likely writing one within a few days. Comment if you have an idea for an interesting list.

"This car is 100% death proof. Only to get the benefit of it, honey, you REALLY need to be sitting in my seat."

2012-03-31T18:31:00.000-07:00

There is rarely a time, when Quentin Tarantino makes a bad film, unless you count Kill Bill. Then when you include other good directors like Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Edgar Wright and Rob Zombie, nothing bad can come from it. All of these directors brought us the extravaganza Grindhouse. This movie includes two movies in one, Planet Terror and Death Proof.
Planet Terror is about a lethal chemical that gets released into the air and turns people into zombies. El Wray (Freddy Rodriguez), a truck driver and outlaw, runs into his ex-girlfriend Cherry (Rose McGowan) and the two are attacked by zombies. Cherry gets her leg ripped off and El Wray brings her to the hospital, where there are tons of patients coming in with bites and infections. El Wray runs into Sheriff Hague (Michael Biehn), who's been looking for Wray. He's about to take Wray away, when all hell breaks loose. Wray saves Cherry and they and the police, all meet at Hague's brother J.T.'s (Jeff Fahey) restaurant. With a lot of people working together, they try and fend off the zombies. Wray makes a Cherry a new leg, which turns out to be a machine gun. As the group is escaping they are captured by the army. What El Wray and the others don't know is that the soldiers are infected too. They must all work together to infected army and the swarms of zombies.
This the perfect horror/action movie for a Saturday night or any night. The gore and effects on the zombies and infected people looks gross, but great. This movie is also filled with tons of cameos, including: Bruce Willis, Tom Savini, Josh Brolin, Naveen Andrews, Nicky Katt and Marley Shelton. This movie is super-fun to watch and has that kind of cheese, that is the best kind of cheesy.
The second film is Death Proof. The story is about a stuntman named Stuntman Mike, who kills five women after meeting them all at a bar. He does his killing with his "death proof" stunt car. Soon after his injuries heal, he is out stalking his next victims. They turn out to be three girls working on a film in town and their good friend professional stunt woman Zoe Bell. The girls: Abernathy (Rosario Dawson), Kim (Tracie Thoms), Lee (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Zoe, go looking for a 1970 Dodge Challenger, which is exactly like the one from the movie "Vanishing Point". When they get to the farm that has one, they leave Lee with the owner and take it for a test run. Zoe wants to play a stunt game called "Ship's Mast" and convinces Kim to do it. While driving down the back-roads with Zoe on the hood, Stuntman Mike and his Death Proof car come out of nowhere. He starts playing and scaring the girls, by smashing his car into them and nearly knocking Zoe off the hood. Mike thinks it's all fun and games, until the girls hit back. Soon enough it turns into Stuntman Mike being the hunted and he's scared, just as the girls were. It all ends in a big crash and the girls get their revenge.
This movie is my favourite of the two. Its car chases are amazing, they just don't make them like they used to, but this movie stays true to the old style. The final, long chase scene has no CGI used, just stunt-drivers. It looks so perfect, compared to watching something that has used CGI to enhance the chase. This movie has everything else a great movie needs. The perfect amount of comedy, sexy girls and great writing, which Tarantino, is always good for. This movie has the feel of all those 60's and 70's car movies and makes you brain have an overdose of nostalgia. Kurt Russell was definitely the right pick for the role of Stuntman Mike. He's got that half nice guy and half evil killer, down packed.
Other than the two films, this Dvd also has the fake trailers that were shown, during it's theatrical release. Those being; "Don't", directed by Edgar Wright, "Thanksgiving", directed by Eli Roth, "Werewolf Women of the S.S.", directed by Rob Zombie and "Machete", also directed by Robert Rodriguez. These are all hilarious and well made, for movies that weren't even real. The trailer for "Hobo with a Shotgun", that was shown in theatres, is not on the Dvd for some reason. Since Grindhouse was released, two of the trailers have been made into great films. Those being, Machete and Hobo with a Shotgun. This special edition is a treat to own for any Dvd collector.
Grindhouse was released in 2007 and directed by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Released by Alliance Films, Dimension Films and Troublemaker Studios.

Collection#:
Grindhouse: #407

"I think I ran over a wookie back there on the expressway..."

2012-03-26T15:35:00.000-07:00

Anyone, who is a fan of the Star Wars series, knows of the movies director, George Lucas. Those fans would know of the famous films he wrote, like Willow, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom. What most fans don't know is Lucas' first full length feature film was the cult classic sci-fi THX 1138. I only first heard of this movie about two years ago and bought it on Dvd last year. The movie is about society in the future, where everyone's mind and body are controlled by a government and everyone's names are composed of letters and numbers. Robert Duvall plays THX 1138 a man who works in a factory and lives with a woman, who he is not to become intimate with. Duvall begins to fee trapped in this life that he doesn't want and begins to rebel. He and a "hologram" escape from the city and try to find the way to freedom.
This movie is for a true sci-fi film lover. At first it is hard to get into, but after you see the beautiful visuals and how the story develops, it will get more and more interesting. The film includes other good performances by Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley and Maggie McOmie. Also my favourite characters have to be the robot police (who you can also see in Three Days Grace's video for "Just Like You". And the "wookies" that roam the outskirts of the city (who also appear in Star Wars.....everyone should know this). The Dvd is the "George Lucas Director's Cut" and is another one of my coolest looking Dvds. It has slide-in cover with Robert Duvalls bald head, and name tag, clipped to his ear. The director's cut is a double-disc and on the inside cover there is a little introduction written by Lucas himself. Definitely a film to own for any sci-fi geek, but hopefully in the future we won't all be bald, like they are in the film. "Extraordinary. Visually hypnotic," says Vincent Canby from The New York Times. THX 1138 was released in 1971 and directed by George Lucas. Released by Warner Bros. and American Zoetrope.

Collection#:
THX 1138: #381

My Cult Characters: #4 David Wooderson

2012-03-23T07:26:00.003-07:00

Today Matthew McConaughey is a household name. An actor on the A-list in hollywood and a favourite in the minds of many women. Even though is movie role choices aren't always the greatest, he still shines, once in a while. Dazed and Confused is where his career first blossomed, with the character David Wooderson. His character in Dazed and Confused became one of the most popular in the whole movie. Wooderson, an older guy, who has graduated years ago and still hangs with high school students. Wooderson also hits and dates younger high school girls, to him it's the perfect life.

Wooderson: "That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."

Even though the film didn't do that well at the box office, it was a hit with critics and fans. Roger Ebert gaves the movie 3 out of 4 stars and said the film was "art crossed with anthropology with a painful underside." This movie became a cult classic very quickly and highly ranked on some cult lists. It was ranked #17 on Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films" and #6 on their "The Cult 25: The Essential Left-Field Movie Hits Since '83" list.

McConaughhey's character became a popular cult fav among fans, this was proven in a few cases.

In the 2003 movie Grind, there is a character much like David Wooderson. Joey Kern plays Sweet Lou, a guy that has graduated already, but keeps coming back for the teenage girls. He acts and talks like Wooderson, this was an obvious tribute to McConaughey's character. Kern did a great job paying tribute the character and boosted the cult status of David Wooderson.

Another example Wooderson's popularity would be, when McConaughey was asked to reprise the role in a music video. The band, Butch Walker and the Black Widows released a song on January 20th, 2012 called "Synthesizers". The video featured McConaughey reprised his role as Wooderson in the video. He wore the same costume and hairstyle, as he did in the 1994 film. In the video, McConaughey shows up at a nightclub with some girls, obviously younger than him. He goes around the club smoking a joint, singing along with the song and at one plays a trumpet and mini-piano. The video is very comical and the song is actually pretty good.

All of this just shows how popular the David Wooderson character has become.

Wooderson: "Say, man, you got a joint?

Mitch: "No, not one me, man."

Wooderson: "It'd be a lot cooler if you did."

Grandma: "Who would want to rape me?"........Hesher: "Fucked if I know."

2012-03-19T21:53:00.000-07:00

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is slowly becoming one of the biggest actors in the movie bizz. His comeback started in movies like The Lookout and 500 Days of Summer. Then he started doing even bigger movies and even bogger roles, in films like Inception, 50/50 and this summers Looper and The Dark Knight Rises. A movie that flew under most peoples radar, that has become a hit among movie buffs is Hesher.
Hesher is about a boy named TJ (Devin Brochu), who has recently lost his mother in a car accident. It is hard for him to cope with life, and also hard for his dad, Paul (Rainn Wilson), who can't seem to get off the couch. They both live in TJ's grandma's house, who is played by Piper Laurie. On his way to school one day TJ has a run in with a squatter, who's name is Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). After their meeting, Hesher begins to follow TJ around and get him into trouble. Then all of sudden Hesher shows up in TJ's house and asks to use the laundry room. TJ asks him to leave, but Hesher chokes TJ and tells him to go along with it. Hesher begins living at the house and no one says much or does much about it.
Another problem of TJ's is a bully at school. Luckily, before TJ is about to be beaten up, a women named Nicole (Natalie Portman) comes to his aid. TJ begins to like Nicole, and follows her around and watches her at work. Hesher notices this and thinks he can make some fun out of it. The three of them have a strange hangout day in somebodies backyard. TJ and Nicole both notice that Hesher is a weird, but funny guy. One day Hesher finds grandma, dead, in her bedroom and then later that day TJ finds Nicole and Hesher in bed together. He snaps on both of them and runs away. He goes after the bully that's been picking on him and then goes to the junkyard, where his mom's car was taken. When he gets home the next morning him and his dad have to go to his Grandma's funeral. During the funeral, Hesher shows up and makes a speech about his left nut. From this speech Paul and TJ realize, why they can't seem to get their lives back in order. Hesher ends up being a blessing in disguise.
Before I had bought this movie, I had seen the trailer and had heard so many good things about it. I found it in the five dollar bin, some how, and knew I had to get it. I was glad I made that decision. It turned out to be a funny, dramatic and touching film. Hesher is one of, if not the best, role Joseph Gordon-Levitt has done so far in his career. The way his character acts, makes you think that Levitt acts like this on a regular basis. Pretty much every one, of the main characters in this film, did a fine job in their roles. From Rainn Wilson to Natalie Portman to Piper Laurie and the young even Devin Brochu. This movie has the right amount of comedy in between the right amount of drama. Also, the metaphors this movie uses are easy to understand and are presented in strange, but beautiful ways. Hesher is a great indie film for anyone who loves a great and enjoying watch.
The Dvd has Levitt, Wilson and Portman pictured on the front and the "Hesher" title is spelled out using Metallica font. (which I thought was cool. It also has a lot of great reviews, on the front and back. "HILARIOUS!," says Eric Vespe from Ain't It Cool News; "Refreshingly original," says Kyle Smith from the New York Post; " Raw destruction and aggro comedy punctuated with a blast of crunching metal," says Amy Nicholson from Boxoffice Magazine and "4 stars. Headbangs straight into your heart!," says Grae Drake from movies.com.
Hesher was released in 2010 and directed by Spencer Susser. Released by Alliance Films, Corner Store Entertainment, Lionsgate and The Last Picture Company.

Collection#:
Hesher: #533

My Cult Characters: #3 Karl Ruprecht Kroenen

2012-03-17T22:50:00.000-07:00

When people think of superhero movies, Spider-Man or Batman, usually come up. A superhero, that fell under the radar, but gain a major amount of cult fans, is Hellboy. There are two Hellboy films and both are top-notch superhero films, but it's the first film where this Cult Character comes from.
Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, a villain in the Hellboy comics and a surprise fan favourite, when the film was first released.
According to Dark Horse comics, Kroenen, is a German scientist working for the Nazis and a member of the Thule Society. He became one of the top scientists for Project Ragna Rok and a close disciple of Rasputin. He was present with Rasputin at the secret ritual that brought Hellboy to earth. He has many powers and abilities, including: a mystical clockwork heart which is mentally linked to his brain, which allows him to slow or speed up his heartbeat, fake his death and live longer than usual; Superhuman strength, which helps him lift over two tons and cut through steel or stone; Superhuman speed; Superhuman stamina; Superhuman reflexes; Superhuman Agility; Superhuman Durability; Superhuman longevity. His abilities, include: Inventive genius, Master surgeon, Master swordsman, Master martial artist, Weapons specialist and also, Kroenen revels in pain and can keep going long after pain would stop a normal human.
In the first Hellboy film, it was pure excitement to watch Kroenen. His moves were so fast and his attacks were so devastating. I loved the character and always thought he was the best bad guy, in any of the films. Many fans had the same feelings I did and his popularity has been noted to be higher than almost any character in the films. He wields a pair of Katara-like daggers, which he does most of his damage with. He meets his demise near the end of Hellboy, at the hands of Hellboy. Until after the credits, it shows a segment of Tom Manning (Jeffrey Tambor), in Kroenen's lair and there is a ear-piercing screech. Me and many fans thought and hoped this meant Kroenen, would be back from the dead in the second film. Unfortunately, this did not happen and fans weren't very happy with the movie maker's decision. Kroenen is still a fan favourite today and always will be.
Kroenen was played by Ladislav Beran, who has also played minor characters in Blade 2 and the newest Mission Impossible. His portrayal of Kroenen, was a ruthless and deadly one. His scenes and character will not soon be forgotten. I remember watching this movie in the theatre for the first time and I liked him almost instantly. I loved the fact that he just had to wind-down or up is heart, to slow is heartbeat or even revive his health. That night I gave him a nickname, for some reason, it was "The Nazi Nipple-Winder" (because of the placement of his winding key)

"Now, who wants to go home... and who wants to go with me?!"

2012-03-16T13:26:00.002-07:00

It is one of the best video game series of all time and then it was made into one of the best video game movies. Street Fighter has been given a bad rap, by most movie viewers, which doesn't make sense to me. It has a 3.4 out of 10 on IMDB, way too low of a score for this film. It may not have Oscar worthy acting, but this film is more fun to watch then most movies and has nostalgia through the roof.
The story is about a war in Thailand between the Allied Forces and M.Bision. The Allied Forces are lead by Colonel Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme), with his Lieutenant Cammy (Kylie Minogue), T.Hawk (Gregg Rainwater) and Captain Fei-Long Sawada (Kenya Sawada). They are trying to stop Bison and his men, and save the hostages they have taken. Bison (Raul Julia) has recruited many men to help him conquer the world, including: Zangief (Andrew Bryniarski), Dee Jay (Miguel A. Nunex Jr.) and Dr. Dhalsim (Roshan Seth), who is forced to work. Bison has also joined forces with Victor Sagat (Wes Studi) and his partner Vega (Jay Tavare).
While all this is going on, Ryu Hoshi (Byron Mann) and Ken Masters (Damian Chapa), are trying to get away from debts to Sagat and all the fighting going on. They get recruited by Guile, who says he will give them their freedom when they are finished helping. Also Chun-Li Zang (Ming-Na), Balrog (Grand L. Bush) and E. Honda (Peter Navy Tuiasosopo), are using their reporters disguise to infiltrate Bison's camp. The three of them are then caught, trying to blow up the camp, and brought to Bison's lair.
While Ken and Ryu are secretly undercover in Bison's lair, Guile and the rest of the Allied Forces are on their way with an attack. Guile is also worried about his best friend Carlos Blanka (Robert Mammone). Blanka is being changed into a wild monster, by Bison's scientists and Guile doesn't know it. The battle ensues, bullets and bodies are flying everywhere and final showdowns commence. Guile versus Bison, E.Honda versus Zangief and Ryu, and Ken versus Sagat, and Vega. Who will come out victorious?
For lovers of the Street Fighter franchise, this movie is awesome and so much fun to see your favourite characters come to life.The only let down in the character section, is Fei-Long. The character that is "supposed to be" him, is only in a few scenes and doesn't act like Fei-Long at all. Other than that, this movie has pretty much everything. The fight scenes, although not being as good as any kung-fu movie, are still well done. This is definitely one of Van Damme's best movies, he is no top-notch actor, but he can deliver a great line or kick someone's ass when he needs to. One line in this movie, is one of my favourite movie lines of all time (check the title). Raul Julia plays a perfect Bison, probably the best acting in the film and best portrayal of any of the characters. Pretty much every actor does a well thought out job on the characteristics of their character, Wes Studi being another that did an excellent job. Obviously, there are some cheesy or lame moments, but the action and overall excitement of this movie, overcome them. Sadly, Raul Julia died before the movie was released, but the movie was dedicated to him at the end credits.
My Dvd is the Collector's Edition, which is also Widescreen. It also comes with a nice foldout booklet. This has many pictures from the film, a chapter list and the films production notes. There is one review, "Street Fighter has the perfect combination of elements to put the magic back into Saturday matinees," says Joseph B. Mauceri, World of Fandom Magazine.
Street Fighter was released in 1994 and directed by Steven E. de Souza. Released by Universal Pictures and Capcom Co.

Collection#:
Street Fighter: #295

My Cult Characters: #2 Lois the Robot

2012-03-13T12:57:00.003-07:00

To know this character and love the movie, you have to be a big-time cult movie watcher or old enough to watch it in 1984. Runaway stars Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons, in a futuristic sci-fi, about robots that kill and the man that's out to stop them. Selleck plays Jack Ramsay, a police officer specializing in malfunctioning robots, who goes after Charles Luthor, the creator of these killer robots. The movie is a gem and a fun, action watch, but there's one character who stands out and probably wasn't meant to. In the movie, Ramsay has a nanny-like robot named Lois, who takes care of his son Bobby. She kinda looks like an 80's stereo system that was given arms and a voice-box. Voiced by Marilyn Schreffler, who has done voice work in movies like Explorers and The Golden Child. The thing that makes Lois so awesome is her scene stealing dialogue. The lines are obvious unintentionally hilarious, but that makes it even more funny. Take this back and forth between Ramsay and Lois:

Lois: "Bobby is eating a chocolate bar. His dinner, too, was nutritionally inadequate."

Ramsay: "Well what did you feed him?"

Lois: "Hot dogs!"

Ramsay: "Lois, you can't always give him hot dogs!"

Lois: "It was all he would accept!"

Lois is like ratting herself out. When you watch this scene you can tell shes not supposed to be funny, but she is. Pretty much every scene she is in, there is some kind of laughable moment. In one scene, Ramsay first brings his new partner, Thompson (Cynthia Rhodes), over to his house. When Thompson is leaving, Lois repeats the line "May I show you to the door?", and even this brings a few laughs out. There is not much info on the internet on Lois the Robot, but on the many blogs about Runaway, pretty much everyone talks about how funny and likeable her character is. I'm a big fan of this movie and I'll always remember Lois, especially when she was busted by Luthor.
"Bobby, Bobby, Bobbyyyyyyy"

"Who broke your balls?"

2012-03-12T15:00:00.000-07:00

If your into Asian movies, like me, then you have an acquired taste for film. Some can be so dramatic and take you to the edge of greatness and some can make you cry, while making you cringe at the fantastic gore. To me there is none better than Oldboy, but the movie that comes in a close second, is the powerful revenge tale I Saw the Devil.

The film stars Byung-hun Lee as Kim Soo-hyeon, a police detective, who's fiancee is killed by a notorious serial killer. Kyung-chul (Min-sik Choi), a violent and smart serial killer, has been killing girls for a long time, but this time he picked the wrong one. After finding out that his fiancee has been killed, Kim immediately takes two weeks vacation and goes after any suspect he can get his hands on. When he finally comes to the home of Kyung-chul, Kim does some looking around and finds a cabinet full of women's shoes, bras and other accessories. Then he finds a room that looks like a dungeon, which is the room where Kyung-chul does most of his killing. Kim finds his fiancee's engagement ring and knows that Kyung-chul is the man that killed her.
He wants revenge, but a different kind of revenge. When Kim locates Kyung-chul for the first time, they attack each other almost immediately. Kim beats Kyung-chul severely, but doesn't kill him, instead he just leaves him where he is and plants a bug on him. When Kyun-chul awakes he doesn't get what happened and why Kim didn't kill him. The two enemies get into many violent scuffles and Kyung-chul is left barely alive each time. Kyung-chul starts becoming very angry and realizes Kim is the fiancee of the one woman he killed.
Keeping Kyung-chul alive turns out to be a big mistake because he goes after Kim's fiancee's Father, who is the Chief of Police, and her sister. With two more people who were close to him, dead, Kim goes after Kyung-chul one last time. It all ends at Kyung-chul's house, with an ending that you won't believe and won't soon forget.
This movie packs a huge punch. It never lets up and keeps you interested in the madness, all the way through. Directed by a great Asian filmmaker Jee-woon Kim, this movie has it all. Gripping acting from Byung-hun Lee and Min-sik Choi, they take this film to levels that you wouldn't expect. Byung-hun lee makes you care for his character so much, that it can even bring on tears. Min-sik Choi plays such a great villain, so violent and genius, this role might even be better than his in Oldboy. The gore and violence aren't for noobs. This is definitely one of the more violent of the best Asian films, but that doesn't take away from the movie. It knows when to be gory and violent, and doesn't overdo at all. With the amazing twists thrown in, this movie is easily a 10 out of 10. If you haven't seen it yet, run and get it, before you miss out on its brilliance.
My Dvd, which I just recently got, is the Uncut version and has Byung-hun Lee pictured. The movie has great reviews, that cover the front and back of the Dvd. "A Masterpiece of its Genre....You Won't Soon Forget It," says The New York Post. "This is Film Making on a Whole New Level.....A Masterpiece," says CHUD. "Absolutely Fantastic," says Bloody Disgusting.
I Saw the Devil was released in 2010 and directed by Jee-woon Kim. Released by Showbox, Magnet Releasing, SoftBank Ventures Korea, Peppermint & Company, Finecut, D Films and Maple Pictures.

Collection#:
I Saw the Devil: #561

My Cult Characters: #1 Les Grossman

2012-03-11T20:52:00.000-07:00

In the comedy hit Tropic Thunder there were many hilarious performances. From Robert Downey Jr. to Ben Stiller to Jack Black, but one that stood out as an unexpected fav was Tom Cruise's character. Les Grossman is the studio executive in the film and is the tough and demanding boss of Damien Cockburn.
Tom Cruise hasn't been doing very well in popular lately. He hasn't had a better than decent film since Collateral in 2004. At first glace you might not even know it's Tom Cruise in that makeup and bodysuit. Then at second glance you might think "Tom Cruise? Oh god why is he in this movie? That is until he starts talking and acting like the total ass that Les Grossman is. That's when the hilarity begins. Pretty much every sentence Cruise spits out is comedy gold and makes you laugh constantly. Even when he dances to Get Back by Ludacris, it still is a really funny moment. Cruise played this character perfectly and was the second funniest character in the movie, next to Robert Downey Jr.'s Sergeant Lincoln Osiris.
Any fans of this movie will tell you that Les Grossman is one of their favourite characters in the movie. The characters popularity grew so much that he reprized his role at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. Also in 2010 it was announced that a spin-off film would be developed centering on Les Grossman.
Tom Cruise was initially set to cameo as Stiller's character's agent Rick Peck, but Cruise suggested instead they should add a studio head character. Stiller and Cruise worked together to create the new character, as a middle-aged businessman. The role required Cruise to wear a fatsuit , large prosthetic and a bald cap. Stiller's idea was to keep Cruise's character a secret until the release, but pictures appeared on Inside Edition. Cruise's attorneys made a lawsuit against anyone who published the photos.
Many people have speculated that Cruise based his performance of Les Grossman on Sumner Redstone, with whom Cruise had a public falling out after Redstone had Paramount terminate their development deal with Cruise. Grossman's physical appearance is more than likely based on Tropic Thunder producer Stuart Cornfeld.
The reason I believe Les Grossman is a Cult Character is because of how different the role is compared to Cruise's other roles. Usually Cruise is in some action movie or a drama role, but this shows that once in a while Tom Cruise can actually give us something really unique. Les Grossman was vulgar, mean, absurd and hysterically funny.
"Now I want you to take a step back... and literally fuck your own face"

New Posts Coming Soon: My Cult Characters

2012-03-09T06:55:00.000-08:00

Yesterday when I was looking around on Google I came across a different kind of blog, which intrigued me. It was on the website empireonline.com and was written by Nick de Semlyen. He wrote only four of them, but they were very interesting. They were blogs about characters from movies that were not meant to be popular, but have became "cult" favourites among himself and other fans. Unfortunately, he has not written any other blogs like since 2008, which saddens me, but there is a plus to this.
I have decided to continue what he started and start writing my own "My Cult Character" blogs that will appear on this blog page. So look out for these new blogs coming soon and also my regular Dvd collection blogs.

Mahina: "You know, I also have killed a lion."......Angus Starling: "How many shots did you need?".......Mahina: "I used my hands.".

2012-03-08T00:45:00.000-08:00

On Monday, I acquired a few new Dvds one of them being a great film, based on a true story, The Ghost and the Darkness. The story is about 2 African lions, who attacked and killed 130 people in a nine month period, in Tsavo, Africa.
The film stars Val Kilmer as John Patterson, who is a colonel and an engineer, sent to Africa to build a bridge across the Tsavo river. He is sent by Robert Beaumont (Tom Wilkinson) and leaves behind his pregnant wife Helena (Emily Mortimer). His job is supposed to take him five months, the perfect amount of time to get home when his baby is born.
When he arrives in Africa, he is met by Angus Starling (Brian McCardie) and they take a train ride to Tsavo. When they arrive they are greeted by Samuel (John Kani), who is in charge of most of the construction workers. They get to work almost immediately and things are going fine, until Dr. David Hawthorne (Bernard Hill) tells Patterson that someone has been attacked by a lion. Patterson decides he will kill it and that night he does kill a lion, but it was a lioness. A week goes by and everything has been moving along perfectly. Until another lion attack happens and then another. They realize it's two lions that have been attacking them and Starling gets killed in one of the attacks. When Beaumont shows up and isn't in a good mood, he says he is going to get ahold of the famous hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas).
After more attacks and deaths happen, the construction workers believe that it is because of Patterson that these lions are attacking. In the nick of time, Remington shows up, just as the workers were going to turn on Patterson.
Remington comes up with an idea to trick the lions. He gets the workers to build and new hospital, and then he and Patterson will hide in the old one, while its covered in the smell of blood. This plan backfires and the lions end up killing half of the people from the new hospital, even Dr. Hawthorne. The next day the rest of the workers leave and its only Samuel, Patterson and Remington left at the bridge camp. Patterson and Remington go after one of the lions, after they wound it and Remington shots it as it jumped right for him. That night the three men celebrate. Patterson wakes up to find Remington's tent a mess and Samuel finds his bloody body in a field.
Now it's up to Patterson and Samuel to kill the last lion, so the bridge can be finished, Patterson can see his new baby and they can keep their lives.
What a fun and thrilling watch this movie is. A top rate thriller/adventure flick, that actually gets you a little afraid of the "man-eater" lions. With lots of high-action scenes and great special effects, for 1996, during the lion attacks. The film also has adequate acting from Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas and even John Kani. This movie gives you the feeling and look of an adventure movie, with the terror and chills of a horror movie.
My Dvd has the original picture of Douglas and Kilmer on the front, with the shadow of a lion over top of them. The back has one good review: "Breathtaking.....Thrilling!," says Bob Thomas from the Associated Press.
The Ghost and the Darkness was released in 1996 and directed by Stephen Hopkins. Released by Constellation Films and Paramount Pictures.

Collection:#
The Ghost and the Darkness: #560

"Disturbing the peace? I got thrown out of a window! What's the fuckin' charge for getting pushed out of a moving car, huh? Jaywalking?"

2012-03-06T19:51:00.000-08:00

Eddie Murphy's career has been going downhill for a long time now and so far it doesn't seem to be getting better. When he was in his prime, he was always funny and always in good comedies. His best movie, by far, is the hilarious Beverly Hills Cop.
It stars Murphy as Axel Foley, a crafty Detroit cop, who's best friend is killed by drug dealers from Beverly Hills.
Foley tells his captain he's taking his vacation, but really he is going to Beverly Hills to investigate. When he gets there he meets up with his friend Jenny (Lisa Eilbacher) and tells her the bad news. He finds out that his friend worked for a man named Victor Maitland (Steven Berkoff). Foley goes over to his office, but is immediately thrown out and arrested.
At the police station he meets two cops named Taggart and Rosewood, and Lt. Bogomil. Foley is told not to bother Mr. Maitland anymore or he'll be sent back to Detroit. He continues to investigate Maitland, but is tailed by his new police friends. Foley finds ways to outsmart them and go on with his business. Soon enough Foley finds out that Maitland and his crew are smuggling drugs and other stuff. But when he and Jenny get caught snooping in Maitland's warehouse, Jenny is kidnapped and Foley is about to be killed. Rosewood comes in and saves Foley and they both call for backup, as they head to Maitland's house.
Taggart meets them there and they enter a warzone, between themselves and all of Victor Maitland's men. It's up to Axel, Taggart, Rosewood and the rest of the police force, to save Jenny and stop Victor Maitland.
It's a shame that Eddie Murphy doesn't make movies like this anymore. Instead we get horrible movies like Norbit and Meet Dave. This movie was hilarious when it was first released and still is today. Murphy uses his old style of comedic delivery, it's perfection. His delivery on his lines, the way he uses his voice in different tones, all this and more makes this a comedy classic. This movie even has some good action, with some good car chases and gun fight scenes. I think Eddie Murphy's problem nowadays is that he has been taking the easy and nice way out, making family friendly movies. He needs to swear and he needs to be crude, to be the old Eddie Murphy. One of the reasons why I wanna see Tower Heist because it seems in that movie, Eddie is back to his old ways.
I just recently acquired this movie, on Dvd and was glad to finally have it. The Dvd is part of Paramount's Widescreen Collection and is also a Special Collector's Edition. The cover features Eddie Murphy sitting on a Mercedes Benz and the back shows a list of the many special features. Surprisingly there are no reviews.
Beverly Hills Cop was released in 1984 and was directed by Martin Brest. Released by Paramount Pictures.

Collection#:
Beverly Hills Cop: #559

"Long live the new flesh!"

2012-03-03T21:45:00.000-08:00

My third favourite David Cronenberg film and a movie that reveals something different every time you watch it, is Videodrome. This movie makes you think and makes you love every minute of it.
The story is about Max Renn (James Woods), a cable-TV programmer, who is trying to find a new and fresh kind of program for his station. He looks for anything to do with sex, violence and anything to find new interest in viewers. When he and his hacker friend Harlan (Peter Dvorsky) finds a broadcast of snuff tv called "Videodrome", Max does what he can to find out information on it. Harlan finds out it's being broadcasted from Pittsburgh and after this Max meets a girl named Nikki Brand (Deborah Harry). They watch Videodrome together and both of them, especially Max, begin to hallucinate.
Soon it becomes apparent, to Max, that Videodrome is something that was created by a company called "Spectacular Optical". It was made as a mind control device and created by Barry Convex (Leslie Carlson), head of Spectacular Optical.
Max finds out that his friend Harlan isn't really his friend, but a spy sent in from Spectacular Optical and that Videodrome was never broadcasted, but Harlan played it for him on a tape. Everything then begins to spiral out of control, Max hallucinates more and it is hard for him to tell what's real and what isn't.
This movie is one of the smartest and one of the best "thinker" movies out there. For this reason, it is difficult to tell the whole synopsis and exactly what is going on. It is more fun and more interesting to let the viewer figure out the twists and turns in the film. When you do have a good grasp at the story, it makes the ending that much better.
James Woods does a fine job in this movie. To me he is an underrated actor, who never gets his dues.
A surprisingly decent role comes from Deborah Harry, not known for acting more for singing. She is another standout actor in this film.
It is surprising that Cronenberg made this movie with a budget just under 6 million. The special make-up effects and gore effects in this movie look amazing. Everything from Wood's open gut wound, to the TV that comes alive, to the flesh-videotape and the flesh-gun, look outstanding. All of this and more, done on a small budget. This movie is great from top to bottom, and is easily in my Top 100 movies.
My Dvd is the Widescreen edition and has a super-cool front cover. Weirdly there are no reviews, even though I've seen them on other editions of this movie, on Dvd. It does say that the Dvd is the "Complete Uncut Version, including footage never shown in theatres, which is usually a good thing.
Videodrome was released in 1983 and directed by David Cronenberg. Released by Universal Pictures.

Collection#:
Videodrome: #432

Cherie Currie: "I think I'm gonna wear it".....Joan Jett: "Where? To the strip club?"

2012-03-03T13:35:00.000-08:00

Biopics about bands and singers don't come around too often. There have been some well made films like The Doors, Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story and Great Balls of Fire. So far, from what I've seen, the best of these kind of Biopics has been The Runaways.
The Story is mainly about Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), the two leaders of the Punk-Rock group The Runaways. It starts off with showing both girls, before they even started the band. Cherie was in family, who seemed like they didn't want her. Her mom was moving away and her dad was a drunk, and never around. Joan was just trying to reinvent herself and wanted to start a band. Joan meets famous manager Kim Flowley (Michael Shannon) and tells him that she wants to start an all girl band. When Joan and Kim find Cherie, everything starts falling into place and the band starts to write songs. Joan and Kim come up with the song Cherry Bomb, which would be their first hit, and they started to play some shows.
Even though they weren't making much money and weren't playing very big gigs, they were still getting popular. Kim lands the girls a tour, and the band goes to Japan. The bigger the band gets, the bigger Cherie gets in popularity and it starts to overshadow the rest of the girls. Drugs and issues start to get in the way and Cherie begins to lose touch of everything. Just as soon as The Runaways became huge, that's just as fast as they split. Joan goes her separate way and starts her own solo career, Cherie tries to start acting, but it doesn't go well. The rest of the band goes and does their own thing, like Lita Ford, who became bigger than she was when she was in The Runaways.
For the main two actors in this film, to me, it is the best roles of their careers, so far. Kristen Stewart hasn't stepped up big, until this film. In the Twilight movies, she overacts and doesn't show much. In The Runaways she doesn't a near perfect job at playing Joan Jett. To research and get ready for the role Stewart followed the real Joan Jett around for a week, to get the feel of the woman she was gonna play.
To me, Dakota Fanning did an even better job then Stewart. She has been doing an on par job in her other roles before this, but this is a definite step up. Fanning played Cherie Currie amazingly and added extra dramatics to the film. Her part stood out above the rest and it makes this movie even more exciting to watch. Michael Shannon also did a good job in his role, as the weird and eccentric Kim Fowley. His portrayal is comedic and different, but is fun to watch.
The movie has all the famous music from The Runaways career, their great songs like Hollywood, Cherry Bomb, California Paradise, Queens of Noise, Dead End Justice, I Like Playing with Fire and I wanna be where the Boys Are. Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning even sing their own versions of 2 of the songs, Dead End Justice was really well done. (To me even better than the original).
My Dvd pictures Stewart and Fanning on the front and it also has some good reviews. "I love Rock n Roll and I love this Movie!," says Jan Wahl, KCBS AM/FM and KRON-TV, San Francisco. "Rock n Roll Fans Of Every Gender And Generation Will Identify With This," says A.O. Scott, The New York Times.
The Runaways was released in 2010 and directed by Floria Sigismondi. Released by Apparition, River Road Entertainment and E1 Entertainment.

Collection#:
The Runaways: #396

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