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  King Kong 1933

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Dec 2021 8

  Several years before Citizen Kane, King Kong set a standard for the cinematic experience, opting for spectacle and breakthrough special effects. If Kane is a seminal film from an all-around quality point of view, then Kong is a seminal film that built the stage for future blockbusters like Jurassic Park. King Kong is the great grandaddy of the modern summer tent-pole action/adventure blockbuster.

  The special effects by Willis O'Brien were surprisingly sophisticated for 1933. He had shown off his work…

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  Cobra 1986

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Dec 2020 16

  Well, I know I teased a review of The Arena in my last review, and I still plan to unleash it upon you, but something caught my eye along the way. I read someone's review for Cobra, realized that I held Cobra among my favorites list in my profile, and yet *gasp*....I did not have a review for it. Heaven's to Betsy! Think of my credibility!! So let's take a sidetrip before I sit and watch half-naked female gladiators throw…

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  Hunter's Blood 1986

  ★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2023

  A little Deliverance, a dash of Southern Comfort and Hunter's Blood takes it's place in the city boys vs rednecks in the woods sub-genre. A pretty good cast with Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms, Ken Swofford and Joey Travolta playing the city boys, off to rural Arkansas for some hunting. They first run afoul of some good ol' boys at a local watering hole, led by Charles Cyphers. Somewhere in there is Billy Bob Thornton, but I blinked and ended up…

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  Transformers: Five Faces of Darkness 1986

  ★★ Watched 27 Sep 2023 2

  This is a collection of the first five episodes of Season 3 of the first gen Transformers series. It is an immediate follow-up to the happenings that occurred in Transformers: The Movie. Rodimus Prime is the new leader of the Autobots, while the Decepticons are in-fighting and disorganized without Galvatron, who disappeared in battle during the events of the movie. A new threat has arisen from the remnants of the movie also, the Quintessons. Apparently, the Quintessons were the original…

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  The Birds 1963

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Mar 2022 4

  Alfred Hitchcock has stated in the past that his film The Birds is about complacency. It contains characters that have varying degrees of self-absorption, like Melanie and how she goes extremely out of her way to attract the attention of Mitch; she buys the lovebirds, drives 60 miles up the California coast to Bodega Bay, rents a boat to cut across the bay just so she can arrive by surprise, then sneaks back out. When she knows that she's been…

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  RoboCop 1987

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Nov 2021 5

  Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop has several subtextual themes running through it; such as corporate greed, corruption, reprimanding Reagan's policies. But the one theme that hits home for me, the one that lingers with the final shot of the movie, is what it means to be human. Even after Murphy is violently slaughtered, his corporate masters claim his body, reconstitute him into a law enforcement machine, set him loose on society to help OCP clean up the streets so that their development…