Quality Entertainment

So I had originally set out to make this blog a launch pad for a podcast about movies. Not horror movies, but movies in general. However I tend to watch a fair amount of horror. Recently though I had a guys night with a buddy. We drank Jager, lots of beer and watched a few movies.


INSTANT JUSTICE

     One great thing about Netflix Instant as of late is that they have been releasing out of print and hard to find movies from the 70's and 80's. One of these title is Instant Justice aka Marine Issue.


What can I say about this movie? Plenty. It's like watching an extended A-Team episode. Michael Pare, who is not known for his acting skills takes point as U.S. Marine Sergeant Scott Youngblood who has arrived in Spain looking for his little sister. After finding out she has been murdered and was involved in a prostitution ring and aided by a limping photographer with ties to the king pimp and a prostitute played by Tawny Kitaen (and her hair) Scott exacts revenge on those responsible.

This film is pure cheese. Pare mumbles his way through the lead delivering lines like a punch drunk Rocky Balboa with Downs Syndrome. The action sequences are so poorly choreographed is make Mexican Wrestling look like a ballet. I've seen better gun play between 6 year olds.

See what I mean about the hair?

The acting is horrible. Tawny Kitaen is actually the best thing about this movie and SPOILER (not like anyone cares) after a car chase and the pimps vehicle being flipped by a plane and leaking gasoline Tanwy Kitaen arrives with Maj. Davis (Charles Napier). They congratulate Scott for defeating the bad guys and give Scott back his Desert Eagle that Maj. Davis confiscated earlier in the film. Scott hands it off to Kitaen who "accidently" fires the gun into the flipped over vehicle and BOOM! the car explodes killing the pimp. After a "oops, my bad" moment everyone is all smiles and chuckles and the film ends.

Would I watch this again. HELL YES!! It's pure 80's action cheese and bad fashion.

Updates and What Nots

     I was actually surprised by the fact that it's been almost a year to the day since I last updated this blog. How times flies. Well, I am going to have to put the podcast idea on the back burner for a while since I returned to college this fall and the possibility I may be loosing my job making which may make my meager finances even more strained. I'll know more about that in a about a week.

So let's get to the important stuff - What have I been watching?

Recently I revisited Elvira: Mistress of the Dark  the 1988 film by the lovely lady in black. So this will never be considered a horror classic but it's fun and a great way to waste time.

I also revisited Freddy vs. Jason again, another great time waster and well, it has some great kills.

I also had a chance to see the much talked about, maligned and censored Serbian Film. My gut reaction was typical, disgust and distaste and the feeling of needing to have my soul take an acid bath. However I think I might venture to watch this film again to get past the sexual violence and depravity and see if there really is a diamond in all this rough. I figure I watch Mum & Dad so watching this again can't be that bad.

For Christmas my girlfriend got me Chiefs the 1983 mini series based on Stuart Woods' novel of the same name. If you aren't familiar with this story it takes place in the deep south in the 20's and runs through the 60's as a serial killer preys on boys in the small town of Delano, Georgia. My dad had a crappy VHS copy of Chiefs recorded directly from TV when I was younger. What sticks out most of all in my mind is a scene where Wayne Rogers discovers his son playing with his service revolver. To teach the boy that the pistol is not a toy he shoots a watermelon, blowing it to pieces. My dad was in law enforcement and I always wished that he would do something as cool as this.

Well, that's about it for now. As I remember more of this past year I will post more.




I promise.