commando is easily and clearly the best. Anyone who thinks otherwise does not understand a country like valverde. it is a country that needs a president who has an understanding of discipline. Also it is borderline blasphemy to put terminator 1 in the same category and the sell out youngster version called terminator 2. I am a purist and have not ever seen terminator 3. The correct order is: 1. commando 2. terminator 1 (2 and 3 are at bottom of list somewhere around the twin, kindergarten cop area) 3. predator 4. running man 5. total recall 6. hercules in NY Huge drop off after that.
Total Recall. My older brother was going to see it with some friends, but he had some chores to do first. He told me if I did them for him, I'd get to go; but he just screwed me, as usual. What was weird was that it was the first summer after our parents' divorce was finalized; we stayed with Mom but she had gone back to TSU to get another bachelors, so rather than hitting the movies regularly, we spent most of the time watching Current Affair, Heathcliff and My Secret Identity on a five inch black and white, then going to the 9000 Fondren Stop-N-Go or whatever to play Strider. I think the only movie I might have watched that summer was Dick Tracy. When we went back home with Dad during the school year, we'd go to this small non-chain video rental store on Garth next to Randall's (Blockbuster might have just come to Baytown that year), and literally every week that entire year the single row or shelf with Total Recall cover boxes had nothing behind them. I even got to the point of asking the clerks regularly if they had the tape and they would just shake their head. This literally went on for a year until the next summer. I don't think I would have cared much more for that movie than Running Man, but it just took so long to finally see it. Runner up would be Terminator 2; Cameron had already used the technology in The Abyss; but I honestly thought Linda Hamilton and Robert Patrick were going to be stars after that, and that Guns N' Roses would be touring around for another 30 years, like Aerosmith or the Rolling Stones. And of course that Basic Instinct trailer: techno music, angry sex and hot lesbians (this is when Navratilova, K.D. Lang and Sandra Bernhardt were the keywords), all in the same two minutes.
hercules in NY is more of a classic pure arnold point of view. If you watch it hoping to learn something you will not. T2 was entertaining but it was a repeat of terminator 1 with arnold, the same guy all the sudden being funny? It just wasnt even trying. also the kid was annoying in general. The liquid dude pretty much carried the movie and linda hamilton becoming a badass when she could barely balance her own checkbook in terminator 1? If you were to watch terminator 2 on its own (not having seen or knowing about terminator 1) the concept of time travel and the ideas from terminator 1 would be pretty neat. In a vacuum. But the reality is that terminator 1 did exist and was so raw edgy and well done that it just makes terminator 2 look like doo doo and puts it out of the top 5. Terminator 1 was a great great movie and once arnie got famous after terminator 1 he made a decision to start to play the good guy roles. He should have been a bad ass bad dude in more movies. He was a great bad guy in terminator 1 and sadly that was pretty much the only role I can think of where he was a bad guy. Shame really. the special effects blowing up was well done in terminator 2 and overall not bad, but hercules in NY just has the right amount of cheese in it to put it ahead. Also when you watch hercules in ny you need to watch it in the dubbed version without arnies voice. It adds to the overall campyness of it all. Also wouldnt hurt to smoke a big fat joint right as hercules in NY starts.
We are from the same hood? I knew there was a reason I liked you. First saw total recall at meyer park. Total recall is good no doubt but it seems to have lots some of its appeal with time. It hasnt aged well. I dont know I can just watch commando or terminator 1 pretty much anytime and it still just classic purity. Total recall is right up there though.
No, that's just where my mom moved right after the divorce. They had a kooky custody arrangement where even though we all chose to live with her, she wanted to go back to school; so we still stayed with non-resentful dad for two years. She got an apartment in Fondren during that time, but then when the final custody terms set in she moved back to the family home and Dad went out to 9000 Richmond. Other than having to explain "why we chose her" more than once, the best part of that intercession was after Christmas in '90, when we stayed with Mom in her apartment and Dad went on a trip; then there was some weird deep freeze in the Houston area, and when we all came back the pipes had burst and flooded the house. So rather than stay at a hotel, Dad took us to the house of a lady friend, who he'd met at Kindercare a good two or three years before the divorce.
