Tag: 1980s
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Robot Jox (1989)
Before Pacific Rim, before CGI, there was Robot Jox (1989). I remember seeing the ad for this on a lot of video rentals as a kid and thinking it looked like the coolest movie ever. Finally watching it now, I marvel at the old school special effects, stop motion puppets and clunky plastic sets to… Read.
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Bad Timing (1980)
Continuing to catch up on the films of Nicolas Roeg after his recent passing, I settled in to watch Bad Timing (1980), a film that failed financially on release and became very hard to see due to its explicit content. Infamously an executive at Rank Organization that released it, said it was “a sick film… Read.
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Thief Of Hearts (1984)
If a movie could only be judged on its Harold Faltermeyer soundtrack and its opening typeface, Thief Of Hearts (1984) would be a classic. However it is one Bruckheimer/Simpson production that isn’t really remembered, maybe because it is a soapy and trashy (wait, what Bruckheimer/Simpson production isn’t?). It’s about a hunky thief played by Scarface’s… Read.
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Lifeforce (1985)
I owned the BluRay for a year before finally having a player to watch it on. After hearing about it for so long, I finally watched Lifeforce (1985), director Tobe Hooper’s infamous flop for Cannon Pictures about nude space vampires plunging London into zombie apocalypse, a sci-fi throwback to Hammer Horror movies. This has quite… Read.
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Battletruck (1982)
While the original poster looks like an epic sci-fi novel painting, the actual movie Battletruck (1982) is a bit more low budget and muted in colours and dimension. It’s another Mad Max knock-off from the Eighties but shot in New Zealand, using that scenery well before LOTR ever did and also featuring a lot of… Read.
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