Videos I Have Seen

. This list was started on the 17th July 1997

• Reservoir Dogs - 7/10 - Monday 29th of December 1997 - Mr Pink is a legend.
• Swingers - 8/10 - Saturday 27th of December 1997 - See it!
• Blade Runner (Directors edition) - 7/10 - Friday 26th of December. I bought my brother this game for Christmas so I got the urge to see this movie again. A brief glimpse into a possible future, a dank dark gritty miserable place. The backdrops in this film were just amazing, lots of haze and lots of gigantic fans.
• Army of Darkness (Evil Dead III) - 9/10 - 4th week of December. This is a must see movie. Ash finds himself stuck in the past and I think that pissed him off, because he sure has a lot of attitude in this movie. More chaisaw weilding, sawnoff shotgun slinging, one armed action. "Hail to the king baby"
• Evil Dead II - 7/10 - 4th week of December. The Sticker on the box declared that this video was The horror/comedy of the Decayed and it wasn't far wrong. An absolute classic. The dude who plays Ash is a champion of an actor especially when his hand gets possessed and he has to chop it of with a chainsaw.
• Tank Girl - 7/10 - 4th week of December. Really cool movie. The rippers were legends. I really like the way the way they blended the comic stills in with the rest of the movie.
• Lost World - 6/10 - 4th week of December. I can't believe how different this movie was to the book. I mean the main character in the book doesn't even appear in the movie!!! The best bit about this movie was sitting next to Heidi. I know the dinosaurs look extremely life like but jeez!! I ended up with bruises.
• True Love and Chaos - 6/10 - November. A rather cool Aussie road movie (surprise surprise).
• The Fugitive (TV) - 7/10 - November. "A one arm man killed my wife". Whatever Richard kymbal. I love this movie.
• So I Married an Axe Murderer (TV) - 7/10 - November. Classic film. "His head (hid) is like a planetoid with its own weather patterns and sateloids", "He'll be crying himself to sleep on that massive pillow of his!".
• Howard the Duck - 4/10 - Friday the 14th of October 1997 - Not much to say here except that Heidi remembered thinking it was funny in about 1988. Its amazing how 9 years will affect your humour. The 4 is for the sight of a duck with a cigar in his beak.
• The Castle - 8/10 - Friday the 14th of October 1997 - I've been wanting to see this movie for along time and just never got around to it, but I'm glad to say it was worth the wait. The Castle is a real gem of a movie made by the same people who made The Late Show and the D Generation. What made The Castle so refreshing was its unique Australian perspective(Same goes for Idiot Box) , I mean could you imagine a film like that being made in Hollywood. I just can't believe it wasn't nominated for best film at the AFI (Australian Film Industry) awards.
• Just Cause (TV) - 7/10 - Sunday 9th of October 1997 - The most interesting part of this movie was the way in which my perceptions of the characters changed as the film progressed. Plus the fact that it was about the 11th Connery movie shown on Tele in 8 days.
• Star Wars (The Special Edition) - 9/10 - Saturday 8th October 1997 - Cool Cool Cool. New Scenes, New Sounds, New Special Effects. I'm still not 100% convinced about the new Jabba sequence, I mean its a bloody impressive technical feat (At the beginning of the video they show the original footage with this fat dude in a fur coat acting out the part that is now played by the digital Jabba) but I mean Jabba looks a little thin and he just doesn't seem as repugnant as he does in Return of The Jedi. But all in all this is a very slick version of a legendary film.
• Phenomenon - 8/10 - Friday 31st October 1997 - A very sad film that is also very uplifting. John Travolta stars in this movie about a simple farmer who on his 37th Birthday witnesses a bright light in the sky and hears a noise so loud that it knocks him off his feet. In the weeks and months that follow he surprises himself with his clarity of thought and a new found ability to absorb information. He no longer feels the need to sleep and spends his time thinking and reading. The local townsfolk are at first quite impressed by these parlour tricks but become quite distant and even hostile as Johns mental feats become more and more incredible. (At one stage in order to save the life of a little boy, he learns the Portuguese language in 20 minutes, he also has an ability to move small objects, such as a pencil, seemingly at will). So while at first he felt empowered by his ability to learn knew things, he then felt the public sting of being labelled a freak. Thankfully he had a few friends that stood by him, including the beautiful uncomfortable chair maker. It is with her that he finds inner piece once it is discovered that the strange Phenomenon that has stuck him is actually the result of a tumour eating into his brain. The tumour in its early life promoted brain activity and hence provided an increased mental capacity. Now however it is threatening his life. A brain surgeon makes a plea to perform an operation on his brain that will perhaps double human knowledge of the working brain, but will in the process most likely kill John. John then makes an incredible speech about the beauty of life and the triumph of the human spirit. He then returns to the beautiful chair maker and prepares to die. This movie while being extremely sad still leaves you with a very warm positive feeling inside.
• Mute Witness - 4/10 - Friday 31st October 1997 - Another one of Schneider's infamous movie picks. A movie so bad that it was entertaining. Story goes something like this...... An American film crew is in Russia making a Horror film. One of the crew is a mute who accidentally gets locked inside the studio after hours and witnesses the making of a Snuff movie. (Apparently a Snuff movie is a highly illegal black market movie where the actors thinking that they are taking part in a X-rated film are actually murdered on film. Gruesome indeed!) The mute Witness is chased around the studio and manages to escape the rogue film makers by hiding near the body that she had just witnessed being killed. From there the film twists and turns, Russian gangsters are everywhere and everyone is either undercover or being double-crossed. A very very Dodgy movie.
• Escape from Absolom (TV) - 7/10 - Sunday 26th October 1997 - Similar in name and concept to Escape From LA. This movie had a more serious edge to it and that was what kept my attention. Anyone know from where the quote "A society can be judged by the state of its prisoners." comes from? For that was what I was thinking about the whole time I was watching this movie.
• Daylight - 5/10 - Tuesday 30th September 1997 - A Sly Stalone Blockbuster special. Some tunnel under New York harbour has collapsed and its up to Sly to save everyone which of course he does with micro seconds to spare.
• Waynes World II (TV) - 7/10 - Sunday 28th of September 1997 - After coming back from 8 hours of Sega World with Benny and Trent, I was way to hyper to go to bed, so I was pleased to crash out in front of Wayne and Garth. Party time, Excellent. Classic moment was when they were in The ToolBox.
• Mars Attacks - 6/10 - Saturday 27th of September 1997 - This was one trippy movie. It was kind of like Attack of the Killer tomatoes but with Martians. I have to say that the Martians were a lot cooler as bad dudes then the tomatoes were!! The animation was incredible but not good enough to keep Heidi awake who to her defence had had a huge day out at the bush concert.
• Jaws - 7/10 - Thursday 18th of September - Der Da ..... - Der Da ..... - Der Da ..... - Der Da - Der Da - Der Da - Arrrggghhh. One hell of a tough fish - 12 bullets, 3 barrels and an exploding oxygen tank tough.
• Empire Strikes Back - 9/10 - Sunday arvo 14th of September - Seen it a thousand times will see it a thousand more.
• Aliens (TV) - 9/10 - Friday the 12th of September 1997 - One of the best Sci-fi movies of all time and one of the coolest settings for a movie ever.
• The People Vs Larry Flint - 7/10 - Friday the 5th of September 1997 - Larry Flint apart from being a very seedy dude is also very bloody funny. A courtroom drama with a high seed factor, The People Vs Larry Flint is an interesting movie that highlights the importance of freedom of speech. Woody is excellent as Flint, as is Courtney Love as Flints wife.
• True Romance - 8/10 - Tuesday 2nd of September 1997 - One of Heidi's favourite movies and for good reason. You're so cool. A big line up of well known actors, and a cool script make this a movie you can watch again and again.
• Last Man Standing - 6/10 - Sunday 31st of August 1997 - Bruce Willis in a mad gun slinging movie. Best shooting action in a movie since Desperado.
• From Dusk Till Dawn - 9/10 - Friday 29th of August 1997 - An absolute corker of a movie. A very original if not twisted script filled with classic lines and performed with style. The movie was chock filled with classic jokes and mindless violence, what else could you ask for.
• The Crow: City of Angels - 6/10 - Saturday 16th of August 1997 - The first time I saw The Crow I didn't get it. I thought it was a stupid concept for a movie, I just didn't get it. The second time I saw it I loved it, I really felt the depth of the movie and was stirred by the feelings of love displayed by the characters. With City of Angels I think I may have missed the main theme of the movie. While it had its moments City of Angels seemed more to be about revenge than about love. The main character in this film was no where near as cool as Eric Draven either (but then he didn't play guitar did he!)
• Escape from LA - 6/10 - Saturday 16th of August 1997 - Snake Plissken is one cool dude. A bizarre idea for a movie but Snake and the surreal ending made it watchable.
• Hype (Documentary about the Seattle Grunge Music Phenomenon) - 6/10 - Friday 1st of August 1997 - Hype is a movie that I have been quite keen to see for quite a while. It proved to be more an informative movie than an interesting one. Hype is a documentary about Seattle and the music it spawned between the years 1985? to 1993?. Hype was true to is cause and spent an even amount of time telling the story of lesser known bands such as The Melvins and Seven Year Bitch as it did about the bigger bands such as Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains etc as a result Hype didn't really do it for me. It seemed to be more of a documentary than a story. All that being said it did have a killer soundtrack an some really awesome footage.
• Scream - 8/10 - Friday 1st of August 1997 - What an awesome movie. I was never a real big fan at horror movies but this one was done with such style how could ya not love it. Scream is an apt title because this is one hell of a scary movie, luckily as the movie progress while the scares remain just as frequent the laughs increase as scream makes fun of its own genre. Classic quote "I've never been so glad to be a virgin" I highly recommend scream and it keeps your attention from the first minute through to the fantastic (I won't let on what happened) ending. Rent it.
• Pulp Fiction - 9/10 - Saturday 26th July 1997 - This was about my 8th viewing of Pulp Fiction. This time I was watching it on a fuzzy 10 inch screen after a day wandering around in the snow, and I still found it to be one of the best movies of all time. You just can't beat the way Vincent "My man in Amsterdam" Vega and Jules "My man from Englewood" ??Whatever his name is?? Interact with each other. Pork chops taste good!!!
• BattleStar Galactica - 6/10 -Wednesday 23rd July 1997 - Now this was a blast from the past. See if these names ring any bells Apollo, Starbuck, Boomer and some random robot dog like thing called Muppet. These are the heroes of BattleStar Galactica. They are involved in a fight to save humanity from destruction at the hands of the metallic CYLONS. Pretty cool flick, quite serious in parts. Well worth watching just for laughs, and just to hear that killer theme music again.
• Clerks - 9/10 -Saturday 19th July 1997 - Saw Chasing Amy at the movies this week so we thought we'd get clerks out again. Some interesting references to characters from Chasing Amy and Mall Rats. Once again J and Silent Bob are way cool but in this case I think Randall the lazy video store clerk steals the show. He has some of the best lines you could ever want to say as an actor. If you haven't seen this movie yet do yourself a favour and rent it!!!!!
• The Fan - 3/10 - Friday 18th July 1997 - Umm what can I say this movie just didn't do it for me. I ended up falling asleep before the end of it.
• Poltech?? Magna Video - 6/10 - Thursday 7th July 1997 - Damn I can't remember the name of this video. It was a really well drawn (Aren't they all) Magna film. Cool story about Robotech like worker robots called Labours. These big robots have been randomly been going beserk for what seems like no reason. Its up to our hero to work out why! Pretty Cool.
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes - 5/10 -Wednesday 6th July 1997 - Not nearly as good as the original but still entertaining.
• Planet of the Apes - 9/10 - Tuesday 5th July 1997 - I loved this movie. The Sojourner had just landed on mars and so I was in the mood for a SCI FI flick. I can't believe this movie was made before man had even landed on the moon. A really thought provoking film. Plus if you haven't seen it yet you've missing out on a heck of a lot of Simpson jokes! How can you mention Planets of the apes without mentioning that famous ending. "You Maniacs! You Blew it Up!!!"
• Desperado - 8/10 -Sunday 3rd July 1997 - Starring that Latin lover Antonio Banderras. Antonio appears to be living by the motto "If it moves shoot it, if it doesn't move shoot it till it does!". There is some awesome gun slinging action in this film along with some wicked guitar playing and a none to shabby script. Very entertaining.
• Six Degrees Of Separation - 7/10 -Sunday 3rd July 1997 - A lot different to how I thought it would be. A very arty type film that is exceptionally done. I liked this movie a lot.
• Spanking the Monkey - 1/10 - Sunday 3rd July 1997 - A very disturbed film. Do yourself a favour avoid this like the plague.
• Free Jack - 6/10 -Sunday 3rd July 1997 - Futuristic SCI Fi film with Emilio Estevaz and Mick Jagger. Better than average.
• Rumble in the Bronx - 8/10 - Saturday 2nd July 1997 - "Kung Fu do what you do to me, I haven't been the same since my teenage lobotomy" This is a line from the ASH song that features in this film. Jacky Chan movies are always good value and this one is no different. Jacky heads to America to attend his Uncles Wedding. While he's there he gets into trouble with a gang of biker hoods. Jacky gets into many awesome fights with the gang but then teams up with them to fight the greater fight a bunch of Jewel thieves. The final fight/chase seen involves a huge hover craft. Jacky is without a doubt a living legend.

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