What was the last movie you've seen?

[Xeogred]

I'm jelly.

[TSTR]

I WANT TO GO TO THERE

[Forlorn Drifter]

Here's the thing: somebody out there has to keep the records and access to the digital archives as well as keep tabs on numerous databases related to the content of all these films, the various edits that exist of them, the questionable material within them, the cast and crew, the ratings, the airing histories, and the actual films.

That person is me.

Do you guys know how excited I was when I found Turner's copy of Gymkata in the tape archive? You guys have no idea.

I have on any given day access to millions of records and potentially thousands of films, cartoons, and television programs from over a century of production. In the last six months alone, I've researched 1000+ movies, and those are just the ones I don't tell you guys about.

Man, stuff like this always reminds me why I liked the idea of getting some type of job in film work or a related field... but my classes taught me why this was a bad idea.

However, my super ranch/seed depositorium/rare vinyl and movie compound will be great as long as I can truly convince people its not one of those compounds.

But if you hear someone street preaching about "The Great Drifter, who drifts not in the physical realm, but the mental"... I didn't do it...

[TSTR]

Just don't end up like what happened at Spahn Ranch and you all good, mane.

[ExedExes]

Amazon Prime Video has added nearly all the movies from Shaw Brothers/Celestial Pictures for free viewing. This is awesome as I don't have to wait for El Rey to show them and of course no commercials/occasional cuts.

So I just saw The 36th Chamber of Shaolin again. I had no idea Lo Lieh was the evil general, but it makes sense since after King Boxer he shifted to more villainous roles.

It's also nice to see someone else is familiar with Eye Of The Tiger. Where I used to live, it was relegated to late movie territory on one of the big stations.

[TSTR]

Oh shit, Shaw catalog on Amazon? Nice, gonna have to hit that one up. Got rid of cable a little while ago, so no more El Rey kung fu fix for me.

[Ack]

Act of Piracy

Gary Busey is Ted Andrews, a formerly rich divorcee who "convinces" his ex-wife to let him take his kids on an ocean trip as he travels to Australia to sell off his yacht. Just one problem: Ted's new girlfriend is actually a terrorist agent working for a group of mercenaries, and they kidnap his children, murder everyone else on board, and shoot Ted, leaving him to die in the ocean. But he doesn't, so he teams up with his ex-wife to investigate and find his kids.

If you're expecting a lot of action in this movie...don't. There are a few kills at the beginning, a couple in the middle, and then the final showdown, but just about everything else is either talking or investigating. In one scene Gary Busey does run a gunman down in his car, which is entertaining, and he does get told by a police officer in Zanzibar, "There are some things the law can't do that you can," giving a sort of justification to his vigilantism. There's also a throw away line about him being some kind of Navy special forces soldier, but don't expect that to play too much into the film.

Once Ted and his ex-wife do finally find their missing yacht, they trick the mercenaries off of it, but the mercs then chase them down with a boatload of guns for a showdown on the high seas. It's not exactly epic, but here are some highlights:

1. The head terrorist uses an unloaded RPG launcher to blow a hole in the yacht.
2. All guns work even when dropped in the ocean.
3. Gary Busey gets stabbed in the leg, shot in the other leg, stabbed in the hand, and can still move just fine.
4. Gary Busey kills a man by shooting him with a flare gun...which causes the boat he is on to explode.
5. The main villain dies by being strangled with a wire cable, stabbed in the heart, and then stuck on the yacht as it sinks into the ocean, letting him live in terrible pain just long enough to drown.

The more important thing about this movie is that it came out in 1988, the year of Gary Busey's traumatic motorcycle accident that left him with brain damage and turned him into the crazy man he is today considered to be. As that accident was in December, that means Act of Piracy is the last movie in which Busey is wholly ok; after this, it's downhill from here as the after affects of his terrible accident begin to play out.

Of course, don't think that means Busey stopped acting. No, he made many, many more films after this.

[samsonlonghair]

I once rented a movie called "Man Eater" wherein Garey Busey plays a detective on the trail of...(drumroll)... a man eating tiger. I picked this movie hoping I would get to see Busey get eaten by a tiger. Ironically good ol' Gary is the only one who doesn't get eaten by the tiger.

[Fragems]

It Follows is now on Netflix for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. Pretty decent movie although not as scary as I expected it to be.

Sinister also popped up there as well. Wasn't super blown away by it though none of the jump scares really got me and I honestly found the trailer to be scarier then the movie .

[prfsnl_gmr]

It Follows

Nice. I love that movie, and I highly recommend it.