I seriously have a goldfish memory. I'll just get to what I've watched the last few days and do an life update when I get back in.
Recently purchased two great WWE DVDs- The Ultimate Hulk Hogan Anthology and Rowdy Roddy Piper: Born to Controversy. Both are excellent, Piper's probably in the top five greatest performers on the microphone and the three disc set as an excellent documentary on the first disc covering his career (including an interview with They Live director John Carpenter), a couple of matches also appear on the first disc, the second disc is Piper matches including his awful boxing match from Wrestlemania II against Mr. T, who Piper hated in reality and the third disc is chock full of awesome Piper's Pit segments. Highly recommended. Hogan's 4 disc DVD doesn't have a documentary per say, he and others comment in between matches. One of my favourites of the set is actually the first match, from 1980 with Hogan playing the heel against Andre the Giant, 7 years before their famous encounter, interesting because in 87 they built up would Hogan be able to slam Andre, and he does it here. I should also mention the Wrestlemania VI encounter against The Ultimate Warrior, the match is excellent and that is suprising considering the participants, Warrior couldn't wrestle a lick and Hogan was never a master of technical wrestling, 4 discs of goodies including AWA and WCW matches, comes highly recommended.
With all the talk of a Goonies sequel (animated it sounds) that a lot of people are cramming for and are likely going to hate it when it comes out. But to me (and others) in a lot of way's their is still a spirtiual sequel, almost as wonderful - The Monster Squad - (1987)
Now obviously the Monster Squad is not a sequel to Goonies at all, but it's got that wonderful charm about it that the Goonies also has. Both have likeable young leads, token fat kids, here in Monster Squad actually nicknamed Fat Kid, and the Monster Squad as it's very own Sloth in Frankenstein's Monster (The criminally underrated Tom Noonan), what's wonderful about this movie is things like the dialogue -seriously, the dialogue seems so natural, like real kids would talk- This was also Shane Black's first writing gig- he went out to write Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (which he also directed), so this man is completely cool in my book! On a note, this hasn't come out in the U.K as of yet (or been announced) and I was lucky enough to pick it up the 20th Anniversary set at a used DVD shop very cheap. Good find.
D.O.A.: Dead or Alive (2006) is a great movie, seriously. I'm judging the term great movie but how much fun I had watching it. Based on a computer game I've never played it's like the Charlie's Angels movies dumber cousin with a quartet of lovely ladies: Jaime Pressly, Neighbour's Holly Valance, Sarah Carter and Devon Aoki invited to a fighting tournament called the D.O.A.: Dead or Alive by the hammy Eric Roberts where there is a $10m prize well not Sarah Carter as she plays the daughter of the deceased creator of the tournament. The film seems to spend a lot of time on the girls wearing almost nothing. Wrestler Kevin Nash is great as Pressly's wrestling dad. Recommended.
I can't quite bring myself to call Black Snake Moan (2006), a romantic comedy, them words appear on the same line in the IMDB genre line, It's a bit hard to categorise, Christina Ricci is the town bicycle, who gets herself drugged up when her boy Justin Timberlake (who's a good actor) joins the service, getting drugged up she ends up beaten up, scantily clad on the side of the road, in the morning she's found by Samuel L. Jackson -here acting for a change- finds her on the side of the road, takes care of her, hears of her reputation, then ties her to a radiator with a big chain, A BIG CHAIN. If it is a romantic comedy it's certainly an unconventional one, both the leads are excellent, Christina Ricci spends the film mostly in little clothes and sometimes no clothes. Don't want to give too much away, but it's good film.
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