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If Your Time is Expendable, Watch this Movie
Haven't done a movie review in a real long time, and when I do it's always for something I liked, so here's to breaking the mold. (copied and pasted out of Flixster, which is why it's so short)
The Very Best There Ever Was?
Another in my first-of-the-trilogy series. Again, the review was originally written in the context of a Flixster post, so it may seem short as a blog entry.
Whatevs.
5/5 Stars
What can I say... if you want to absolutely DEFINE movie magic, this is it. Quite literally a (genuine) thrill a minute. Rolling boulders, snakes in pits, fights on tarmacs, sliding under moving trucks.
Re-watched it recently and confirmed that it's not in any way fond nostalgia that makes this movie great, it's just an eminently, completely, joyously watchable film.
The most exhilarating movie ever made, period.
Initial Hemoglobin
3.5/5 Stars
I recently went on a self-initiated 'reality tour' of sorts through the films of my youth. Even more specifically, I tried to watch the first movie of all the big 80 trilogies, and not the second or third.
So that means I saw Indiana Jones - Part 1, followed by Star Wars - Part 1, etc.
It was a lot of fun revisiting those films, especially when you consider that 90% of sequels are at least somewhat inferior to the film that begins the phenomenon. Dining out on first installments only was somewhat like eating only at the finest restaurants.
Anyway, below is my Flixster review of 'First Blood', a movie sometimes remembered as less than it was thanks to it's silly sequels.
I'll follow with others in the days ahead.
"The last scene in this movie, where Stallone does his monologue... I mean, I had forgotten that scene entirely... WHERE THE HELL DID THAT COME FROM?
I mean, Stallone rocks that scene, I mean he truly shows SERIOUS chops there. No joke!
I mean, I don't remember seeing anything like that the rest of his career. Wow.
Ok, that aside, I can't say enough how much I enjoyed the flick, and enjoyed even more the location they filmed it in. The Pacific Northwest must be the closest thing in the US to Vietnam, which I'm sure is why they chose it, but even without that it's just a stunning backdrop to the movie. To me the environment can be a character, and in this movie it was.
People don't realize just how expensive it is to go on location, which is why almost everything is shot in LA or TO. I just wish they'd do it more often, as movies just feel so much more real when they take place somewhere real.
Again, a total joy to reacquaint myself with this 80's gem."
