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  2. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    Radioactive Dreams. I'm not sure how to describe this movie. It's part post-apocalypse, part detective noir, with a comedy filter. I liked this movie the first time I saw it, but despite coming out in 1987, still isn't on DVD. Fortunately, someone broke it into 11 parts and slapped it up on YouTube.

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    I recently stumbled across Classic Cinema Online (http://www.classiccinemaonline.com/a/index.php), and have been watching some select films from their archive.

     

    Nice site. I watched _It! The Terror From Beyond Space_ (a decent movie and a forerunner of _Alien_), _Them!_ (possibly the definative giant atomic bug movie_. and the first half of _Go For Broke!_ (WWII movie about the 442nd combat regiment, composed almost entirely of Japanese-American volunteers).

     

    Unlike hulu.com, I have to resize my screen to watch the movies and you can't watch fullscreen. Oh well. At least unlike hulu.com, there aren't commercial breaks in the movies.

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    I'd have to rank Aliens as number one in that regard.

     

    Although I liked Aliens, the colonial marines were, for the most part, too undisciplined. The British troops in Dog Soldiers were much better in keeping to their training and discipline, which is enough for me to rank Dog Soldiers higher.

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    Still don't know what you mean by the comment: "Although it's no Last Boy Scout" in comparison to Hudson Hawk.

     

    :confused: (stil)

     

    It was a bit tongue-jn-cheek, saying that one not-well-regarded movie was notably better than another not-well-regarded movie. However, I did like LBS more than HH.

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    Hudson Hawk wasn't a Die Hard or a Unbreakable but it was way better than Ishtar and Waterworld. It was oscar material compared to either of those two movies.

     

    Perhaps it was because I saw it at a dollar theatre, I liked Hudson Hawk. I'd certainly watch it again.

     

    I also liked Waterworld, although it certainly wasn't great cinema.

     

    Now, Saving Private Ryan, there was a bad movie on the level of Ishtar, Unoriginal plot and characters, forgettable dialogue. Any two hours of Combat! or Rat Patrol would have been better.

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    Choice of Weapons: A British movie about some vigilante aristocrats who go Medieval on people who escape justice. Margianlly better than it deserves to be. With Donald Pleasance and David Birney), Worth the fifty cents I paid for it.

     

    The Girl Next Door: An entertaining comedy that many compare to Risky Buisness (a movie I ironically can't stand). Made me think more of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Weird Science. Even has Bill Paxton ERRR Timothy Olyphant in a nice supporting role. Watched this at hulu.com.

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    I picked up Airplane! and Reservior Dogs yesterday. Haven't gotten to Dogs, but I did watch the "long haul" version of Airplane! which occasionally stopped in places for interviews and deleted scenes. Tthe directors were right -- the deleteced scenes really weren't funny, but the interviews were quite good and informative (especially for a few mistakes that appear in the movie because they were missed until it was too late). One of the greatest comedies ever made.

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    They are now showing the first season of Dexter on CBS at 10:00 on Sundays... very dark' date=' but so far very good.[/quote']

     

    Yup, that's where I first saw it. Only took me one episode to get hooked and two episodes for me to order the season one DVDs ;)

     

    I may keep watching the show on CBS just to see how they work around nudity later in the series.

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    Nosferatu: The First Vampire

     

    Basically just the classic film with a new soundtrack, assembled by taking songs off of a thrash Goth band's first three albums 8Type-O Negative). In some parts, the music is perfect, in others, just doesn't fit. Also has a short intro by David Carradine. Another $1 DVD purchase.

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